The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is set to present “Soundtracks: Calligraphy as Art and Inspiration,” in partnership with the Princeton Public Library on Wednesday, January 20, 2016. The event will take place at 7 p.m. in the library’s Community Room.
Caroline Harris, Associate Director for Education at the Princeton University Art Museum, will share her insight into the Museum’s superb collection of Chinese calligraphy while Jing Jing Luo, Music Alive: New Partnerships Composer-in-Residence, connects her passion for traditional calligraphy to the creation of her orchestral work Tsao Shu (Grass Scripts). The piece was inspired by the physical brush strokes of the calligraphic art form.
Caroline Harris has led the Education Department at the Princeton University Art Museum for over a decade. Prior to coming to Princeton, she served as staff lecturer in charge of academic affairs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A native of Beijing, Jing Jing Luo is a prolific composer and performer whose musical language connects East and West, transcending traditional boundaries. Also a visual artist of calligraphy and ink brush painting, recent compositions have merged her artistic pursuits in a fascinating blending of music and art.
Luo’s 2016 residency is made possible through Music Alive: New Partnerships, a residency program of New Music USA and the League of American Orchestras. This national program is designed to establish new relationships between composers and orchestras, and to help orchestras present new music to the public and build support for new music within their institutions. Leadership funding for Music Alive is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music and The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund.
The show is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served. Tsao Shu will also be featured in PSO’s January 31 classical concert Three Songs along with works by Zoltán Kodály, Osvaldo Golijov, and Mozart. For more information, visit princetonsymphony.org.
Jing Jing Luo connects her passion for traditional calligraphy to the creation of her orchestral work in Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s “Soundtracks: Calligraphy as Art and Inspiration.” The show will be held in the Princeton Public Library Community Room on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 and is free for community members.,
