On October 19, the Presidio Theatre presents the Del Sol Quartet in their world premiere production "Facing the Moon: Songs of the Diaspora," celebrating the annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. The Del Sol Quartet and San Francisco Poet Laureate Genny Lim turn their gaze to the full moon in a journey to find harmony with our ancestors and within ourselves.
Voices of mothers and daughters across continents and generations anchor this multimedia performance, featuring new poetry by Lim interwoven with new music and interviews by Chinese diaspora composers Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, and Theresa Wong. The Del Sol Quartet centers this collaboration, building on their transformative Angel Island work, with a theatrical visual experience by Olivia Ting and Mark Hellar, and dancer Lynn Huang.
From the first time Del Sol founding violist & artistic director Charlton Lee saw Genny Lim perform her own poetry, he understood the potential synergy between her and the Del Sol Quartet. The "Facing the Moon" collaboration grew out of the desire to deepen the conversation between music and poetry, rather than doing a simple side-by-side curation, to create music specifically commissioned using Ms. Lim's text. With the initial funding from the Creative Work Fund, Del Sol was able to engage Chinese diaspora composers Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, and Theresa Wong. These composers all share an interest in Lim's poetry, but each has a distinct musical style and cultural background, despite the shared Chinese ancestry.
Ms. Lim is an emotionally powerful poet and performer, her qualities testament to her becoming the first Chinese-American to be San Francisco's poet laureate. Over the last several years, the Quartet and Ms. Lim have worked together on projects centered around their shared interest in ANGEL ISLAND, which included using her translations of the Angel Island Poetry from her publication "Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940," co-authored by Him Mark Lai and Judy Yung. The Quartet also has been performing regularly with Lim in partnership with poets Nellie Wong and Flo Oy Wong, under their collaboration "The Last Hoisan Poets," working to preserve their native Hoisan-wa dialect through new poetry.
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Voices of mothers and daughters across continents and generations anchor this multimedia performance, featuring new poetry by Lim interwoven with new music and interviews by Chinese diaspora composers Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, and Theresa Wong. The Del Sol Quartet centers this collaboration, building on their transformative Angel Island work, with a theatrical visual experience by Olivia Ting and Mark Hellar, and dancer Lynn Huang.
From the first time Del Sol founding violist & artistic director Charlton Lee saw Genny Lim perform her own poetry, he understood the potential synergy between her and the Del Sol Quartet. The "Facing the Moon" collaboration grew out of the desire to deepen the conversation between music and poetry, rather than doing a simple side-by-side curation, to create music specifically commissioned using Ms. Lim's text. With the initial funding from the Creative Work Fund, Del Sol was able to engage Chinese diaspora composers Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, and Theresa Wong. These composers all share an interest in Lim's poetry, but each has a distinct musical style and cultural background, despite the shared Chinese ancestry.
Ms. Lim is an emotionally powerful poet and performer, her qualities testament to her becoming the first Chinese-American to be San Francisco's poet laureate. Over the last several years, the Quartet and Ms. Lim have worked together on projects centered around their shared interest in ANGEL ISLAND, which included using her translations of the Angel Island Poetry from her publication "Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940," co-authored by Him Mark Lai and Judy Yung. The Quartet also has been performing regularly with Lim in partnership with poets Nellie Wong and Flo Oy Wong, under their collaboration "The Last Hoisan Poets," working to preserve their native Hoisan-wa dialect through new poetry.
On October 19, the Presidio Theatre presents the Del Sol Quartet in their world premiere production "Facing the Moon: Songs of the Diaspora," celebrating the annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. The Del Sol Quartet and San Francisco Poet Laureate Genny Lim turn their gaze to the full moon in a journey to find harmony with our ancestors and within ourselves.
Voices of mothers and daughters across continents and generations anchor this multimedia performance, featuring new poetry by Lim interwoven with new music and interviews by Chinese diaspora composers Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, and Theresa Wong. The Del Sol Quartet centers this collaboration, building on their transformative Angel Island work, with a theatrical visual experience by Olivia Ting and Mark Hellar, and dancer Lynn Huang.
From the first time Del Sol founding violist & artistic director Charlton Lee saw Genny Lim perform her own poetry, he understood the potential synergy between her and the Del Sol Quartet. The "Facing the Moon" collaboration grew out of the desire to deepen the conversation between music and poetry, rather than doing a simple side-by-side curation, to create music specifically commissioned using Ms. Lim's text. With the initial funding from the Creative Work Fund, Del Sol was able to engage Chinese diaspora composers Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, and Theresa Wong. These composers all share an interest in Lim's poetry, but each has a distinct musical style and cultural background, despite the shared Chinese ancestry.
Ms. Lim is an emotionally powerful poet and performer, her qualities testament to her becoming the first Chinese-American to be San Francisco's poet laureate. Over the last several years, the Quartet and Ms. Lim have worked together on projects centered around their shared interest in ANGEL ISLAND, which included using her translations of the Angel Island Poetry from her publication "Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940," co-authored by Him Mark Lai and Judy Yung. The Quartet also has been performing regularly with Lim in partnership with poets Nellie Wong and Flo Oy Wong, under their collaboration "The Last Hoisan Poets," working to preserve their native Hoisan-wa dialect through new poetry.
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Voices of mothers and daughters across continents and generations anchor this multimedia performance, featuring new poetry by Lim interwoven with new music and interviews by Chinese diaspora composers Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, and Theresa Wong. The Del Sol Quartet centers this collaboration, building on their transformative Angel Island work, with a theatrical visual experience by Olivia Ting and Mark Hellar, and dancer Lynn Huang.
From the first time Del Sol founding violist & artistic director Charlton Lee saw Genny Lim perform her own poetry, he understood the potential synergy between her and the Del Sol Quartet. The "Facing the Moon" collaboration grew out of the desire to deepen the conversation between music and poetry, rather than doing a simple side-by-side curation, to create music specifically commissioned using Ms. Lim's text. With the initial funding from the Creative Work Fund, Del Sol was able to engage Chinese diaspora composers Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, and Theresa Wong. These composers all share an interest in Lim's poetry, but each has a distinct musical style and cultural background, despite the shared Chinese ancestry.
Ms. Lim is an emotionally powerful poet and performer, her qualities testament to her becoming the first Chinese-American to be San Francisco's poet laureate. Over the last several years, the Quartet and Ms. Lim have worked together on projects centered around their shared interest in ANGEL ISLAND, which included using her translations of the Angel Island Poetry from her publication "Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940," co-authored by Him Mark Lai and Judy Yung. The Quartet also has been performing regularly with Lim in partnership with poets Nellie Wong and Flo Oy Wong, under their collaboration "The Last Hoisan Poets," working to preserve their native Hoisan-wa dialect through new poetry.
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