Bridging Cultures Through Music & Composition with BRIGHT SHENG - Highlights

Bridging Cultures Through Music & Composition with BRIGHT SHENG - Highlights

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MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

I try to preserve the Chinese music flavor. So, you imagine in Chinese band, the country music that people usually reserve for weddings or for big moments or for funerals. That kind of a feeling. Drums and music playing. I try to preserve it from my memory because what we have now is just a tune. You can probably recognize the tune, but the execution of translating that for a Western orchestra and make it sound like it’s a Chinese band playing Chinese instruments.

BRIGHT SHENG - MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

BRIGHT SHENG - MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

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MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

I try to preserve the Chinese music flavor. So, you imagine in Chinese band, the country music that people usually reserve for weddings or for big moments or for funerals. That kind of a feeling. Drums and music playing. I try to preserve it from my memory because what we have now is just a tune. You can probably recognize the tune, but the execution of translating that for a Western orchestra and make it sound like it’s a Chinese band playing Chinese instruments.

Chilean singer-songwriter & activist NANO STERN On Tradition, Innovation & the Power of Song - Highlights

Chilean singer-songwriter & activist NANO STERN On Tradition, Innovation & the Power of Song - Highlights

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Musician and Songwriter

There is a metaphor to every single word that we say, we're just not aware. But if we were aware, then it would become very interesting. And that's the quest for me to be constantly more and more aware because it's so beautiful. It's a quest for beauty as well.

The Intersection of Music, Culture & Activism with NANO STERN

The Intersection of Music, Culture & Activism with NANO STERN

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Musician and Songwriter

There is a metaphor to every single word that we say, we're just not aware. But if we were aware, then it would become very interesting. And that's the quest for me to be constantly more and more aware because it's so beautiful. It's a quest for beauty as well.

Creating Cultural Impact: VALLEJO GANTNER, Artistic Exec. Director, ONASSIS USA - Highlights

Creating Cultural Impact: VALLEJO GANTNER, Artistic Exec. Director, ONASSIS USA - Highlights

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Executive Artistic Director · Onassis USA

The Humanities Impact Program is something that Young Kim, who is director of education here in New York, really built. And it is, I think, a very impactful, thoughtful program of support and collaboration with a range of organizations that, again, is about trying to build some of these classical ideas into the kind of contemporary practice where historically they've been ignored.

From PS122 to Onassis USA: VALLEJO GANTNER's Journey in the Arts

From PS122 to Onassis USA: VALLEJO GANTNER's Journey in the Arts

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Executive Artistic Director · Onassis USA

The Humanities Impact Program is something that Young Kim, who is director of education here in New York, really built. And it is, I think, a very impactful, thoughtful program of support and collaboration with a range of organizations that, again, is about trying to build some of these classical ideas into the kind of contemporary practice where historically they've been ignored.

Curating Community: Behind the Scenes at GUILD HALL MUSEUM - Highlights

Curating Community: Behind the Scenes at GUILD HALL MUSEUM - Highlights

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Museum Director & Chief Curator · Guild Hall of East Hampton

I think that what you're doing is definitely offering a service to so many people and letting them explore various forms of creativity and how you can use that creativity to enhance the world. I don't mean it in a highfalutin way, but I think that art does influence the world on many different levels. On a daily level, but on a more global level.

Exploring the Artistic Landscape of the Hamptons w/ GUILD HALL MUSEUM's CHRISTINA MOSSAIDES STRASSFIELD

Exploring the Artistic Landscape of the Hamptons w/ GUILD HALL MUSEUM's CHRISTINA MOSSAIDES STRASSFIELD

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Museum Director & Chief Curator · Guild Hall of East Hampton

I think that what you're doing is definitely offering a service to so many people and letting them explore various forms of creativity and how you can use that creativity to enhance the world. I don't mean it in a highfalutin way, but I think that art does influence the world on many different levels. On a daily level, but on a more global level.

Shelter Songs with Singer, Songwriter TERRY RADIGAN

Shelter Songs with Singer, Songwriter TERRY RADIGAN

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Musician and Songwriter

So, I started the program called Shelter Songs. I'm in two shelters now and expanding to 4 or 5 throughout the city. It's a nice thing to just look at them and say, "I'm with you for an hour. I'm here to serve you. Whatever you want. I have no agenda on what we're going to write.

“As a child, music felt very natural for me" - LORENDA RAMOU - Pianist, Musicologist, Concert Curator at Onassis Cultural Ctr - Highlights

“As a child, music felt very natural for me" - LORENDA RAMOU - Pianist, Musicologist, Concert Curator at Onassis Cultural Ctr - Highlights

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Pianist, Musicologist & Concert Curator for Contemporary Music · Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens

As a child, music felt very natural for me. I didn’t feel I needed to put any effort into learning the piano. I wanted to find all the musical information that was there. What was the purpose of studying the piano? Suddenly the whole thing became so creative. I felt that the sound is something malleable and you can have an infinite number of possibilities and ways of phrasing and expressing, so that opened a whole new area of possibilities and I found this just fascinating.

What Secrets Does Greek Piano Repertoire Hold? LORENDA RAMOU - Pianist, Concert Curator at Onassis Cultural Center

What Secrets Does Greek Piano Repertoire Hold? LORENDA RAMOU - Pianist, Concert Curator at Onassis Cultural Center

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Pianist, Musicologist & Concert Curator for Contemporary Music · Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens

As a child, music felt very natural for me. I didn’t feel I needed to put any effort into learning the piano. I wanted to find all the musical information that was there. What was the purpose of studying the piano? Suddenly the whole thing became so creative. I felt that the sound is something malleable and you can have an infinite number of possibilities and ways of phrasing and expressing, so that opened a whole new area of possibilities and I found this just fascinating.

Breaking Boundaries in Classical and Jazz - ROBERT DICK - Flutist, Composer - Highlights

Breaking Boundaries in Classical and Jazz - ROBERT DICK - Flutist, Composer - Highlights

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Award-winning Flutist, Composer, Teacher & Author

I decided that I wanted to explore the flute. I mean really explore the flute. People had known a few multi-phonics where you could play two notes. But they had been basically “special effects”, sort of sprinkled into a traditional line to spice it up. And I thought, why not just go the whole way? So my concept that first of all music is made by people. All art is made by people. Music is not made by instruments. The sound of the flute is silence. The sound of the piano is silence. The mark of a brush is a white canvas until the person makes the mark. So music comes from people. We use instruments.

ROBERT DICK - Award-winning Flutist, Composer, Teacher & Author

ROBERT DICK - Award-winning Flutist, Composer, Teacher & Author

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Award-winning Flutist, Composer, Teacher & Author

I decided that I wanted to explore the flute. I mean really explore the flute. People had known a few multi-phonics where you could play two notes. But they had been basically “special effects”, sort of sprinkled into a traditional line to spice it up. And I thought, why not just go the whole way? So my concept that first of all music is made by people. All art is made by people. Music is not made by instruments. The sound of the flute is silence. The sound of the piano is silence. The mark of a brush is a white canvas until the person makes the mark. So music comes from people. We use instruments.