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Wu Man is an internationally renowned pipa virtuoso and cited by the Los Angeles Times as 'the artist most responsible for bringing the pipa to the Western World.' Independent Producer Dmae Roberts produced this profile of Wu Man in her own words as she rehearses for a concert in Portland, OR.
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Born in Hangzhou, China, Wu Man studied with Lin, Shicheng, Kuang, Yuzhong, Chen, Zemin, and Liu, Dehai at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She currently lives in Boston where she was selected as a Bunting Fellow at Redcliffe Institute of Harvard University. Wu Man was selected by Yo-Yo Ma as the winner of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protege Prize in music and communication. She is also the first artist from China to have performed at the White House with the noted cellist with whom she now performs in the Silk Road Project.
Since moving to the USA, she has continued to champion new works and have inspired pipa literature from composers Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Tan Dun, Bright Sheng, Chen Yi, Zhou Long and many others.
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Wu Man is an internationally renowned pipa virtuoso and cited by the Los Angeles Times as 'the artist most responsible for bringing the pipa to the Western World.' Independent Producer Dmae Roberts produced this profile of Wu Man in her own words as she rehearses for a concert in Portland, OR. More Bio info: Born in Hangzhou, China, Wu Man studied with Lin, Shicheng, Kuang, Yuzhong, Chen, Zemin, and Liu, Dehai at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She currently lives in Boston where she was selected as a Bunting Fellow at Redcliffe Institute of Harvard University. Wu Man was selected by Yo-Yo Ma as the winner of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protege Prize in music and communication. She is also the first artist from China to have performed at the White House with the noted cellist with whom she now performs in the Silk Road Project. Since moving to the USA, she has continued to champion new works and have inspired pipa literature from composers Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Tan Dun, Bright Sheng, Chen Yi, Zhou Long and many others.
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Review of Wu Man - Pipa player
I came to this one from "Daily Segments" thinking perhaps this was going to be a daily pipa segment along the lines of a daily poetry reading or Astronomy Today. So, it might be a mis-classified there, but it is an excellent piece.
If Wu Man is doing a show in your area, this would be a great way to personalize Wu Man to your audience, especially if your station doesn't have the resources to go out and get the interview and edit it into a well done piece. I always like the un-narrated shows, I think they are among the most pure from a production standpoint, and take more thought and creativity to tell the story when the subject doesn't always _quite_ answer that question so as to establish what the question was. |
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Review of Wu Man - Pipa playerLovely portrait-in-brief of this musician, in her own words, scored with gorgeous examples of pipa music. Good refresh-the-senses piece. sl |
Transcript
y name is Wu Man, and I play the pipa for over 20 years. It's a pear-shaped lute kind of instrument with four strings. A-D-E-A - that's open-stringed tuning.
MUSIC
The pipa music has two styles. One is called lyrical. Slow and lot of vibratoo. The music always describes scenery, like water, moon, river. Kind of like Chinese painting. And the other one we call martial style, which is very dramatic and it?s kind of like story telling, imitating battles, we have a famous piece called "Shih Mien Mai Fu" - "Ambush From All Sides." That?s the two traditional styles, but the rhythm is very square which is always
she plays
You know, during 80s, early 80s, the Chinese government opened doors to the West and that time we? first time I heard pop music, first time I heard rock?n?roll, I heard jazz. All my schoolmates, they played violin, they played piano or they were all composers, t...
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Timing and Cues
Piece Title: Wu Man - Pipa Player
Piece Length: 5:00
In: My name is Wu Man...
Out: ...So that's the hope.
(30 second tail of Phillip Glass music)
Musical Works
Title: The Sound of a Voice
Artist: Phillip Glass
Concert recording,not published.
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Review of Wu Man - Pipa player
A lovely piece about an instrument and instrumentalist many listeners (myself included) don't know anything about. Music is beautifully mixed in, and Wu Man is an inviting speaker.