Featuring virtuoso masters of traditional Chinese and Chinese minority musical instruments performing some of the most revealing masterworks from thousands of years ago to the 21st century.

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The China National Orchestra rehearses for the night's exciting Chinese New Year's Eve concert - and children of all ages are invited to attend. This family concert is a collaboration with Stanford's Bing Nursery School and is open to the public.

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A concert spectacular on Chinese New Year's Eve by the most renowned Chinese music ensemble in the world, performing concertos and orchestral works on traditional Chinese instruments to celebrate the Year of the Snake.

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The relationship between Poetry and Music in Chinese tradition. By Professor Ronald Egan, Stanford University.

This panel discussion will focus on the role of Chinese culture in the world. The panel of four speakers will discuss the social, aesthetic, and international role of Chinese music, art, literature, and culture on the occasion of the visit by China National Orchestra at Stanford, and musicians of the orchestra will demonstrate their instruments during the symposium. Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival, the Confucius Institute, and East Asian Languages and Cultures.

This event is free, but an RSVP is required for admission by contacting pamfinfo@gmail.com. Update: Panel discussion is full.

The panel topics are:

• Sheila Melvin: "The Road to Revival: China's Quest to Become a Cultural Superpower"
• Barbara Mittler: "Wagner goes East (and back again): Opera between Europe and China"
• Haiyan Lee: "Mao's Two Bodies: On the Curious (Political) Art of Impersonating the Great Helmsman"
• Ban Wang: "The International Face of National Culture: Peking Opera and Ballet"

Of Pride and Prejudice: Transcultural Visions of Music and Power in China. By Dr. Barbara Mittler, Professor at the University of Heidelberg.

This workshop will feature musicians and scholars from Tibet. Professor Jiayong Qunpei of China's Minzu (Minority Nationalities) University will discuss music from Tibet, especially the Tibetan opera tradition. Reshi Tsering Tan, a popular and well-respected Tibetan recording artist, will share his experience as founder of the Shangri-La Folk Music Preservation Association (SFMPA). SFMPA is a non-profit organization devoted to making field recordings of traditional Tibetan music, especially fast-vanishing religious music. Select Tibetan musicians will demonstrate various types of Tibetan traditional and monastic music. This workshop anticipates the 2014 Pan-Asian Music Festival which will be dedicated to music from Tibet and Mongolia. This event is free and open to the public.