mOthertongue: Lived Experience in Asian America
Schedule
Fri, 28 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
The College of St. Scholastica Mitchell Auditorium | Duluth, MN
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Jennifer Lien, soprano and Lina Yoo-Min Lee, pianoImages of Asia have long sparked the European musical imagination. As described by European poets and composers, these images include exotic landscapes and fetishized female figures, stereotypes that remain even as the Asian diaspora has taken root and claimed citizenship all over the world.
With three newly-commissioned song cycles by Asian American composers Justine F. Chen, Melissa Dunphy, and Kamala Sankaram, this recital asserts Asian American lived experience from the perspective of those of us who live it. As contrasted with Maurice Ravel’s Asie, a prime example of European musical Orientalism, these new songs describe the joys, pains, contradictions, and pride we experience as Asians living in this land we call home. There will be a Q&A with the performers after the recital.
$12 general admission, free for students and Sisters of the St. Scholastica Monastery
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Where is it happening?
The College of St. Scholastica Mitchell Auditorium, CSS, Benedectine Loop, Duluth, MN 55811, United States,Duluth, MinnesotaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
