Goin’ Home:

Verona Quartet + Wu Man, pipa

Touring November 2024

Project description:

This interdisciplinary collaboration between Wu Man and the Verona Quartet shines a light on the complex fabric of “what is home” and cultural identity in the modern age through a nostalgic and visionary exploration of both ancient and contemporary repertoire from traditions across the globe.

Program:

Dvorak - “Goin’ Home” (~6 min, everyone)
John Dowland - Lachrimae Antiquae
- M George White Head and His Almand (6 min, everyone)
Wu Man - Glimpses of Muqam for string quartet
I. Muqaddima
II. Third Dastan (9 min, Verona only)
Wynton Marsalis - At the Octoroon Balls
III. Creole Contradanzas (5min, Verona only)
Tsintsadze - I. Song
II. Sachidao. (4min total, everyone)
John Dowland - Mr. John Langton’s Pavane
- The Earle of Essex Galliard (6 min, everyone)
Boccherini - Introduction and Fandango (8 min, everyone)
**Intermission**
Wu Man Solo ( 5-10 min, Wu Man only)
Zhao Lin - Red Lantern for Pipa and String Quartet (22 min, everyone)

Review:

”Throughout the evening, the large audience was treated to a musical collaboration that never felt forced. As always, Wu Man’s innate sense of musicality proved that great virtuosity is not always about fast technical passages, it can also be found in the nuances of serenity. And the Verona, Oberlin’s Quartet-in-Residence, were unified partners, producing musically intelligent and technically flawless playing that seamlessly moved in and out of a spectrum of colors and stylistic emotions.”

- Mike Telin, Cleveland Classical, March 2023. Read more.