A new musical of the East: a touch of Western and Divine Dash

The new musical fusion from New York and this is not the kind that can capture ten dollars at a club in the West Village. For thousands of Chinese immigrants trying to stay afloat in a new world and for those westerners who always want to understand Chinese, but refused for lack of in - for those who might wonder where the contact of civilizations, can answer is not in words, but in music.
Lisa Lee is a master of Pippa (Chinese lute) and is a graduate of the Chinese Institute of China. It is composed and produced in Europe, Asia and the United States, and was featured in his game the Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor. Now, as one of the greatest composers of new public television Tang Dynasty Chinese new amazing and the performance of the big dance singing traditional Chinese Lisa has created what it believes is a new type of sound - on the basis of ancient Chinese folk music and religious, but it has exceeded one of them.

"The music is alive, because the opinion of ancient China, each object in the world to life. Indeed, Chinese, when we refer to the musical note we call this" Note live, "explains- it. But according to Lisa, it must be composed and played from the heart, sometimes in ways that sound foreign to the Bank ear.

But far from random melodies. The music is based on Lisa as Chinese music, each consisting Traditionally, a series of five (5 - note) scales. This system has its roots in Taoism, which teaches that all equipment is made up of five basic elements of metal, earth, wood, fire and water. He knows that in order to resist being healthy, it must be all of these elements in balance. Therefore, from the standpoint of the Chinese, should be a song or piece of music also contains a unique balance to these elements. There are also tables that refer to note the Taoist symbol called eight Bagua, which is more commonly known in the West as part of the practice of fengshui, or sand.

An example of this is a piece written for dance "Dunhuang Dream." Dance is set against the backdrop of thousands of caves carved into the cliffs on either side as they are in the caves of Dunhuang Moago in the region in China. is located at the entrance of the cave all the deities of Buddhism or Taoism. Dancers as they appear, can be heard from the orchestra pit rings Arho (Chinese violin) and Jezzine (zither), but soon joined by the echo of more than identify cello, double bass, oboe, and brass. therefore strikes the ear and another world and painfully familiar, but strongly.

In fact, the specific points used in Yu Ya is the same as in early music Pippa written on scrolls that were discovered by archaeologists in the caves of Dunhuang actual number of years ago.

"I feel very strongly that music is the language of heaven, the divine language," says Lisa. "He is able to lift the hearts and spirits. It is good for the soul."