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...after watching a friend play the jinghu, which figures prominently in Peking opera orchestras, 22-year-old Zhou took up the instrument as well.When the Cultural Revolution began a few months later, modern revolutionary opera was promoted over the traditional forms of Chinese opera. According to Rulan C. Pian ’44, professor emerita of East Asian languages and civilizations and of music, the Communist Party replaced the heroism of traditional Chinese opera with nationalism.Zhou started out learning modern pieces, but with the revival of traditional opera after the Cultural Revolution ended, he returned to the music that...
...portraits are of former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans, former Bureau of Study Counsel Director Kiyo Morimoto, Professor Emerita Rulan C. Pian, Professor Eileen Jackson Southern, and Rabb Research Professor of Anthropology Stanley J. Tambiah...
...Pian joined the Harvard Music Department to teach Chinese Music in 1961, and then was appointed professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and professor of music in 1974. She was also Master of South House at Radcliffe College from...
...theater’s empty seats is perhaps understood only by those who had seen it in its heyday, like Tsai, and it is to get toward that spirit that he cites oldies music and films like Dragon Inn throughout his film. The original Dragon Inn was a wuxia pian (martial arts movies) 1966 bestseller in Chinese, which opened the door to a new wuxia genre with its simple melodies and lyrical setting in the old inn in contrast to the spectacular clamor of those which came before...
Topics in ethnomusicology will certainly continue (despite Ward's retirement and my own departure), taught by Professor Pian in the first semester and jointly by her and the new Assistant Professor, Graeme Boone, in the second semester. Several graduate students are pursuing doctoral dissertations in areas of ethnomusicology ranging from music of Oceania, to ancient Chinese music, to Afro-American songs of the 19th century. Undergraduate courses in Chinese music, American folk and popular genres, and Jazz will also continue to be offered. All of these courses are supported by the steadily expanding collections of the Archive of World Music...