Imagination abounds as we wrap up our season. The performance begins with grammy-nominated Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian’s lush Broken Ink, which evokes the melodies and tones of Chinese poetry. We close the season with Jocelyn Hagen’s ingenious multimedia choral-orchestral work, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. This captivating piece uses the latest in video syncing technology to bring da Vinci’s work to life through his words and drawings in an unforgettable concert experience. CCS is thrilled to welcome our inspiring friends from Congressional Chorus as our partners in this performance.
Did you know?!
Since Chinese is a tonal language, with pitch impacting meaning, Chinese poetry is melodic. In the Song dynasty - the period from which Tian’s poetic inspiration comes - there was no system of notation, leaving current readers no insight into how to perform poetry of that era.