{"id":108345,"date":"2023-11-13T12:13:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=108345"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T08:58:07","slug":"musical-belongings-iii","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/concert\/musical-belongings-iii-108345\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Belongings III"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What does it sound like when Italian Renaissance music is played on classical Chinese instruments – and conversely, how do the traditional Chinese pentatonic melodies transform on European viols?<\/p>\n

lautten compagney BERLIN welcomes five outstanding musicians from Shanghai, Taipeh, Taichung, and Nanjing for a joint exploration of classical Chinese music and contemporary poetry in dialogue with the Humboldt Forum. The programme is inspired by scroll paintings from the Museum f\u00fcr Asiatische Kunst and the current special exhibition To Boldly Go Where No Painter Has Gone Before<\/a>. It explores the musical exchange between China and Europe during the late Renaissance, in the transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasty. Jesuits from Venice, Milan and Rome sought early contact with China. This is exemplified by the life story of the Milanese painter Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), who became court painter to three Chinese emperors under the name L\u00e1ng Sh\u00ecn\u00edng and fused the painting styles of Europe and China. In this concert, the lautten compagney and the Chinese musicians will embark on a search for a musical equivalent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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On the one hand, the programme is dedicated to the tradition of Chinese court music and the Jesuit-influenced Renaissance music of Italy, but it also raises the question of which colonial aspects can be seen in the Jesuit missionary journeys and the politics of the Chinese emperors in the follow-up discussion with the artists and the audience. What role did music and poetry play in power politics? And what could this mean for the present day? The programme is therefore linked to poems by the contemporary poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, who, as a migrant worker, reports from the economic superpower China and from everyday life on the assembly line, but in her poems from the metal factories always invokes the beauty of Chinese poetry and music as an antidote: “time, a grey iron bird, flies against the window, \/ like a distant memory, the moon now creeps into the room.”<\/p>\n

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