●Presented by National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts.
●Duration is 75 mins.
●Suitable for age 7+.
●Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- Applicable for Weiwuying Hero member
- Applicable for Weiwuying Unlimited member
Grand Tour - Impressions on Western and Eastern Early Music(Cancelled)
※The performance have been cancelled . For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.
This musical journey uses the well-known Nanguan Phó (notation) Grand Tour as the program music, starting a voyage from the West to the East. On the way, the journey goes through various kinds of music depictions of the Great Nature. Denis Raisin DADRE and WANG Xin-xin first-time co-production doesn't reproduce classics or follow traditions as its goals, but tries to find a common language through musical expressions. By arranging the form of this repertory, they refine the integration and the complementation between two kinds of Early Music, weaving harmonious chords that combine Western and Eastern images. Doulce Mémoire is supported by Région Centre-Val de Loire, l’Institut Français, le Bureau Français de Taiwan et la Spedidam.
WANG Xin-xin, Music Director of Xinxin Nanguan Ensemble
One of the most significant contemporary Nanguan musicians, WANG Xin-xin has been hailed as the leading figure in the innovation of the heritage of Nanguan music across the Strait.
Born in a family of Nanguan musicians in Quanzhou City of Fujian Province, WANG began learning Nanguan music at the age of four. Skilled in many musical instruments and most famous for her exceptional voice and singing skills, she is a rare all-round talent who “sits on all of the five golden chairs”. Since moving to Taiwan in the 1990s, she has been inspired by many contemporary artists in Taiwan, such as LIN Hwai-min, TONG Yang-tze, LO Man-fei, and WU Su-chun, and has been invited to perform at many important art festivals in Europe and America. She has been hailed as the leading figure in the innovation of the heritage of Nanguan music across the Strait. Since founding the Xinxin Nanguan Ensemble of Taiwan in 2003, she has been dedicated to the innovation and collaboration of Nanguan music and other artistic forms and has established a unique style of integrating Nanguan singing and classic Chinese poetry. Her classic works are excellent and impressive in both sound and expression, such as Elegy on a Funeral for Flowers, Song of the Pipa Lute, and Forlorn-a Rhyming Song for Lovers, an adaptation of poetry by LI Qing-zhao, a female poet in the Song Dynasty. In 2015, she tried for the first time to integrate modern poetry into Nanguan music in producing The Poetry of Nanguan based on YU Kwangchung’s free verses. Her “Zen Series” includes such works as Pu’an-zou in Nanguan, Temporality and Nirvana-The Heart Sutra and The Universal Gate Chapter on Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.
Renowned choreographer LIN Hwai-min has once said, “we waited in silence before she showed up; when she began to sing, we simply forgot where we were”.
Denis Raisin Dadre, Artistic Director of Doulce Memoire
After his musical studies – recorder, oboe and musicology – Denis Raisin Dadre formed the ensemble Doulce Mémoire in 1989. His keen interest in history, literature, and the arts in general, as well as music, leads him to devise programmes that are set in a historical context.
After twenty-five years of intense activity, with memorable achievements both in concert and on CD, his love for the Renaissance has never weakened. As Denis Raisin Dadre studies the material found in European libraries, transposes manuscript scores or tries out various instrumental possibilities, he questions preconceived ideas and sometimes even the vocabulary of music – and not only that of the Renaissance, for he often works with stage directors and choreographers on the creation of original types of performance.
He is regularly invited to take part in academies organised for the training of young musicians. Denis Raisin Dadre has taught, for example, at those of Gijon (Spain), Chiquitos (Bolivia), Prague (Czech Republic) and Havana (Cuba). He also teaches in the Department of Early Music at the Conservatoire in Tours, and since 2003 he has been director of the International Academy Le Droict Chemin de Musique for talented young singers.
Denis Raisin Dadre was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 1999.
Cast
Leading Performer｜WANG Xin-xin, Denis Raisin DADRE
Performance｜Xinxin Nanguan Ensemble, Doulce Mémoire
Photo by 盧建英
« Doulce Mémoire is supported by Région Centre-Val de Loire, l’Institut Français, le Bureau Français de Taiwan et la Spedidam. »
Grand Tour - Impressions on Western and Eastern Early Music(Cancelled)
※The performance have been cancelled . For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.
This musical journey uses the well-known Nanguan Phó (notation) Grand Tour as the program music, starting a voyage from the West to the East. On the way, the journey goes through various kinds of music depictions of the Great Nature. Denis Raisin DADRE and WANG Xin-xin first-time co-production doesn't reproduce classics or follow traditions as its goals, but tries to find a common language through musical expressions. By arranging the form of this repertory, they refine the integration and the complementation between two kinds of Early Music, weaving harmonious chords that combine Western and Eastern images. Doulce Mémoire is supported by Région Centre-Val de Loire, l’Institut Français, le Bureau Français de Taiwan et la Spedidam.
WANG Xin-xin, Music Director of Xinxin Nanguan Ensemble
One of the most significant contemporary Nanguan musicians, WANG Xin-xin has been hailed as the leading figure in the innovation of the heritage of Nanguan music across the Strait.
Born in a family of Nanguan musicians in Quanzhou City of Fujian Province, WANG began learning Nanguan music at the age of four. Skilled in many musical instruments and most famous for her exceptional voice and singing skills, she is a rare all-round talent who “sits on all of the five golden chairs”. Since moving to Taiwan in the 1990s, she has been inspired by many contemporary artists in Taiwan, such as LIN Hwai-min, TONG Yang-tze, LO Man-fei, and WU Su-chun, and has been invited to perform at many important art festivals in Europe and America. She has been hailed as the leading figure in the innovation of the heritage of Nanguan music across the Strait. Since founding the Xinxin Nanguan Ensemble of Taiwan in 2003, she has been dedicated to the innovation and collaboration of Nanguan music and other artistic forms and has established a unique style of integrating Nanguan singing and classic Chinese poetry. Her classic works are excellent and impressive in both sound and expression, such as Elegy on a Funeral for Flowers, Song of the Pipa Lute, and Forlorn-a Rhyming Song for Lovers, an adaptation of poetry by LI Qing-zhao, a female poet in the Song Dynasty. In 2015, she tried for the first time to integrate modern poetry into Nanguan music in producing The Poetry of Nanguan based on YU Kwangchung’s free verses. Her “Zen Series” includes such works as Pu’an-zou in Nanguan, Temporality and Nirvana-The Heart Sutra and The Universal Gate Chapter on Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.
Renowned choreographer LIN Hwai-min has once said, “we waited in silence before she showed up; when she began to sing, we simply forgot where we were”.
Denis Raisin Dadre, Artistic Director of Doulce Memoire
After his musical studies – recorder, oboe and musicology – Denis Raisin Dadre formed the ensemble Doulce Mémoire in 1989. His keen interest in history, literature, and the arts in general, as well as music, leads him to devise programmes that are set in a historical context.
After twenty-five years of intense activity, with memorable achievements both in concert and on CD, his love for the Renaissance has never weakened. As Denis Raisin Dadre studies the material found in European libraries, transposes manuscript scores or tries out various instrumental possibilities, he questions preconceived ideas and sometimes even the vocabulary of music – and not only that of the Renaissance, for he often works with stage directors and choreographers on the creation of original types of performance.
He is regularly invited to take part in academies organised for the training of young musicians. Denis Raisin Dadre has taught, for example, at those of Gijon (Spain), Chiquitos (Bolivia), Prague (Czech Republic) and Havana (Cuba). He also teaches in the Department of Early Music at the Conservatoire in Tours, and since 2003 he has been director of the International Academy Le Droict Chemin de Musique for talented young singers.
Denis Raisin Dadre was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 1999.
Cast
Leading Performer｜WANG Xin-xin, Denis Raisin DADRE
Performance｜Xinxin Nanguan Ensemble, Doulce Mémoire
Photo by 盧建英
« Doulce Mémoire is supported by Région Centre-Val de Loire, l’Institut Français, le Bureau Français de Taiwan et la Spedidam. »
●Presented by National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts.
●Duration is 75 mins.
●Suitable for age 7+.
●Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- Applicable for Weiwuying Hero member
- Applicable for Weiwuying Unlimited member
