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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

June 3 - June 5, 2011

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(415) 978-2700

701 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103

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Kronos Quartet and Wu Man: A Chinese Home and Ghost Opera

700 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 – YBCA Novellus Theater Fri, June 3 & Sat, June 4, 8 p.m. $25 Reg/$20 YBCA Members, students, teachers, seniors The Kronos Quartet reunites with long–time collaborator Wu Man to present two important works from their repertoire: A Chinese Home and Ghost Opera, presented in conjunction with the YBCA exhibition Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well. A Chinese Home is inspired by the extraordinary story of a 300–year–old house from a southwestern Chinese village that was dismantled piece–by–piece at the turn of the millennium and rebuilt at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Drawing on Yin Yu Tang's metaphors of displacement and migration, rebirth and rebuilding, the work is a musical and dramatic construction in its own right, exploring China's evolving identity through contributions by multiple composers, enhanced with live staging and video elements by acclaimed stage and film director Chen Shi–Zheng (The Peony Pavilion, Dark Matter, The Bonesetter's Daughter). The program also includes Tan Dun's Ghost Opera, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "remarkable…a broad–minded, culture–bending opus." Since Ghost Opera's west coast premiere at YBCA in 1995, the work has been performed around the world in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Barbican in London, and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Tan describes the work as a reflection on human spirituality, which is too–often buried in the bombardment of urban culture and the rapid advances of technology. Public Info: 415-978-2787 or http://ybca.org/kronos-quartet-chinese-home Box Office Phone Hours: Tue – Sun: noon – 6:00 pm Enjoy same-day gallery admission with all YBCA presented performances! Become a YBCA Member today to enjoy ticket discounts on YBCA presented performances!