陳必先鋼琴獨奏會 1/27 喬丹廳

中華表演藝術基金會  Foundation For Chinese Performing Arts               3 Partridge Lane, Lincoln, MA 01773 ChinesePerformingArts.net Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net  " She takes a sparkling, crystalline view of the music" The New York Times  "Chen is a first-rate, penetrating musical intelligence." The Boston Globe Saturday, 1/27/2018, 8 PM NEC's Jordan Hall Pi-Hsien Chen 陳必先, piano    Ticket: $15, $30, $50 (VIP) 100 free student tickets available at www.ChinesePerformingArts.net (1 per request for age 14 and up)   Children under 6 not admitted Student/Senior rush tickets $10 6:30 PM at Box office Program: MOZART: Fantasie c-Minor KV 475 MOZART: Sonata c-Minor KV 457  SCHOENBERG: Five Piano Pieces Op. 23 BOULEZ: Third Sonata (1962) - intermission -- LIANG 梁雷: My Windows 我的窗 SCHUBERT: Sonata E-flat Major, D 568 Pi-hsien Chen was born in Taipei in 1950. When she was nine, she left Taiwan and one year later entered the University of Music in Cologne, Germany. She grew up in the home of her teacher, Hans-Otto Schmidt-Neuhaus, who was also the teacher of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christoph Eschenbach, and Péter Eötvös. She later studied with Hans Leygraf and also with Wilhelm Kempff, Claudio Arrau, Geza Anda, and Tatjana Nikolajewa. In 1972,  she won the First Prize at the International ARD Competition in Munich. Her special interest in Schoenberg and Bach also enabled her to win the Arnold Schoenberg Competition in Rotterdam and the Bach Competition in Washington, D.C. She has performed in most of the major concert halls and with many of the world's major orchestras, particularly almost every orchestra within the German radio system. Among the orchestras with whom she has appeared are the Royal Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the BBC Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Tonhalle Orchestra, as well as the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo. She has also been a partner in the Asko Ensemble in Amsterdam, Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, and Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris. She has appeared in the festivals in Lucerne, Schwetzingen, Hong Kong, and Osaka, as well as the Berliner Festspiele, the Wien Modern festival, the Festival d'Autumne in Paris, the Strasbourg Festival, the South Bank Festival in London, the Huddersfield Festival, the BBC Proms, the Ruhr Piano Festival, and the festival in Roque d'Antéron. She represented German music at EXPO 2000 in Hanover, appearing with Alfons Kontarsky. She has been a frequent guest at the Donaueschingen Festival, and was one of six piano soloists in the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's limited approximations in 2010. Her dedication to new piano music evolved out of her collaboration with composers such as John Cage, Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Kurtág, John Patrick Thomas, and Péter Eötvös, to whom she was married. An IRCAM documentary film by Walter Schels shows Boulez assisting Pi-hsien Chen as she prepares for the world premiere of his Douze Notations. In "Black and White", a documentary film about Elliott Carter, Pi-hsien Chen is the pianist in his Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano and Two Chamber Orchestras. She was a professor specializing in contemporary piano music Reviews: "Chen creates a masterful "Art of the Fugue". (Richard Buell, The Boston Globe) "...Ms Chen's recording of Jean Barraqué's Sonata is remarkable. She takes a sparkling, crystalline view of the music in a way that brings it near the music of Barraqué's principal French contemporary, Pierre Boulez...." (Paul Griffiths, The New York Times) "...Pi-hsien Chen's opening to Beethoven's Bagatelles announced that the audience would be treated to musical universes that were clear and clean, contained and carefully considered and phrased.... In the carefully curated and bigger-scope-than-normal Scarlatti sonatas, Chen wielded a rich palette while expressing an enlightening variety of characters, lines, and moods within each sonata ...."  www.classical-scene.com, 2004 "Pi-hsien Chen's playing was strikingly colorful and exciting, and the duo with Nicholas Kitchen played Mozart's Sonata with real Mozartian elegance...."   www.classical-scene.com 2016 UPCOMING EVENTS -----------------     Saturday, 1/27/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,  Pi-Hsien Chen  陳必先, pianist    Saturday, 3/31/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,                                                    Angelo Xiang Yu 于翔 violin    Andrew Hsu             徐鴻,piano    The 27th Annual  All-American Chinese  Brush Painting and Calligraphy Competition   (April 15, 2018)  全美青少年國畫書法比賽    Roger Wong 黃汝琛, age 13, Liu Xiaoyong Studi, MA麻州劉曉勇畫室 Kaden Chen 陳萬盛, age 11, Ichen Art Academy, CA 加州宜真美術學院 Saturday, 5/12/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,  Dang Thai-Son 鄧泰山, pianist   The 27th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill  胡桃山音樂營 July 19-August 12, 2018 Application before April 5 Concerto 2018: Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54   We Need Your Support Support us make a   Donation www. 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MAYOR WALSH ANNOUNCES 2018 DAY OF CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

MAYOR WALSH ANNOUNCES 2018 DAY OF CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Boston continues tradition of paying tribute to the life, legacy, and influence of Dr. King

BOSTON - Friday, January 12, 2018 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh, in partnership with the Museum of African American History, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras and Boston University, will present "A Day of Celebration in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.," on Monday, January 15, 2018 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Metcalf Hall on the second floor of George Sherman Union at Boston University located at 775 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.   This event celebrates Dr. King: the man, the minister and the humanitarian. Outstanding performances of classical music, spirituals and freedom songs by young Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras musicians complement readings of Dr. King's words by several distinguished community leaders. The event culminates with a keynote address by The Honorable Leslie E. Harris, former associate justice for the Suffolk Juvenile Court.   "The City of Boston has the great privilege of working with the Museum of African American History and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras for its Day of Celebration in Honor of Dr. King," said Mayor Walsh. "I am proud to continue this partnership that allows us to celebrate with purpose and reflection. With this day set aside to formally recognize Dr. King's enormous impact and legacy, I encourage us all reflect, and take action -- let's continue to live out the spirit of Dr. King's words, and work to achieve his dreams in all our communities."   "We are very pleased to provide the setting for this community celebration," said Boston University President Robert A. Brown. "Dr. King is Boston University's most famous alumnus; we have the honor of being the custodian of many of his papers. It is vitally important that we celebrate his teaching and his personal example of courage and leadership toward building inclusiveness in America."   "This year's program offers a moment of service, celebration and inspiration," said Marita Rivero, Executive Director at the Museum of African American History. "It is an honor to join with the City of Boston in celebrating this adopted son who was educated here, met his wife here, and spoke here as a civil rights leader. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is among Boston's great leaders, a champion of humanity."   "Dr. King cherished the values of community, justice and equality," said Catherine Weiskel, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO)'s Executive Director. "We at the BYSO also foster these ideals and are honored to celebrate Dr. King's legacy through sharing exceptional music-making with the City of Boston on this special day. " As part of Boston's effort to recognize the significance of Dr. King's legacy, the City in partnership with MLK Boston released a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) in December, calling for an artist to create a memorial dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King. The deadline to respond to the RFQ is Wednesday, February 28. For further information please visit boston.gov/tourism and boston.gov/visiting-boston, or follow the Mayor's Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment on social media @VisitBostonCity.

CAPAC Condemns Trump’s Racist Statement and Threats to Family Immigration

CAPAC Condemns Trump’s Racist Statement and Threats to Family Immigration

Washington, D.C.— Today, Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) released the following statement condemning President Trump’s racist comments and ongoing threats to the legal, family-based immigration system:

“The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus strongly condemns President Trump’s reprehensible statement about immigrants from African and other countries.  It is racist and reveals his thinking that he would like to ‘Make America White Again.’  President Trump would like to take this country backward and end immigration as we know it.

“With his statement, it is now clear why President Trump has moved to end the DACA program, decimate legal immigration, and to end the Temporary Protected Status of countries.

  

“CAPAC believes strongly that the most urgent business at hand is to pass a clean DREAM Act.  We must protect the lives of the 800,000 young people who fear deportation to a country they do not even know, and who not only come from Mexico, but also South Korea, the Philippines, India and many other countries from around the world.  We also believe, however that, such a solution should not be done on the back of our family-based immigration system.

“The family-based immigration system has contributed greatly to America, contrary to the pejorative term President Trump uses for it, ‘chain migration.’  Despite what he and his Republican allies claim, family migration is not a flaw in our immigration system – it is a great strength to our economy, our communities and our families.  Family-based immigration has often been the only mechanism for women to enter the United States.  Today, three quarters of all immigrants to the United States are women and children, and they contribute mightily to our economy, our communities and the stability of our families.  If Republicans want to claim to be the party of ‘family values,’ they should embrace this critical part of our system as many Republicans of old have done.  

“We should not trade one family’s pain for that of another. Therefore, CAPAC will not support a DACA deal that will make any changes to our family-based immigration system.”