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Page 24 Thursday, October 5, 2006 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION Chinese Artists Travel Anderson, 90, to Perform Between Cultures At VACNJ In Musical Club Concert By MARYLOU MORANO into Arabic, Hindi and Chinese char- WESTFIELD – The first perfor- ent in mood from his more well- Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times acters, which are displayed on panels. mance of the 91st season of the Mu- known symphonies. SUMMIT – “Travelers Between Zhang Hongtu takes the essence of sical Club of Westfield will be held The chairman for the program is Cultures,” a multimedia art exhibit fea- past masters of both Eastern and on Wednesday, October 11, at 1 p.m. Maryann Dolling, and hospitality will turing five contemporary Chinese art- Western art forms and combines them at the First Baptist Church, 170 Elm be provided by the club’s hospitality ists, is currently on display at the Visual into his own unique creations. In his Street, Westfield. Featured on the pro- committee, chaired by May Furstner, Arts Center of New Jersey (VACNJ). “Jing Hao-Van Gogh” he copies a gram will be music for solo piano, Edna Borchers and Maryann Dolling. The featured artists – Xu Bing, work of Jing-Hao, yet reproduces it flute and harp and two trios. The performance is free and open Wenda Gu, Zhang Hongtu, Lin Yan with elements of Vincent Van Gogh. Pianist Edith Anderson, who cel- to the public. Refreshments will be and Lin Yilin – are united by a com- Other Chinese masters whom Mr. ebrates her 90th birthday this year, served after the program, to give those mon life experience. All were born in Hongtu drenches in Van Gogh color will be a featured soloist. Ms. Ander- in attendance the opportunity to meet China, and all presently live in New are Fan Kuan, Xuang Xiangjian and son and the Musical Club, founded in the performers. York City. Wanda Yuangi. 1915, are approximately the same age. For information about membership The experience of being born into The seriousness of Mr. Hongtu’s Ms. Anderson’s and the club’s birth- in the club as a performer or associate one culture and living and working in oil paintings are balanced by his ir- days are not the only ones being cel- member, call the membership chair- another is uniquely expressed in the reverent “Chinese Zodiac Figures in Christie Storms for The Westfield Leader and The Times ebrated. This year also marks the 250th man at (908) 232-2173. pieces of art that comprise the exhibit. Tang Dynasty Three Colors,” which THAT 70’s ROOM...For the filming of Gracie, set decorators turned back time birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lin Yan, for example, uses the tra- depict the heads of the Chinese Zodi- with retro 1970’s decor in the interior of a Lawrence Ave. colonial home in and in his honor Ms. Anderson will Kiell’s Book Examines ditional Chinese art material of black acs perched on the body of Chairman Westfield. perform the composer’s Fantasy in D ink and xuan paper to produce mono- Mao Tse-tung. minor, K-397. She will also perform ‘The Kansas Flyer’ chromatic wall hangings. To create Zhijian Qian, the guest curator of Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy. WESTFIELD – The Town Book “Raining Inside #1” and “Echoes in “Travelers Between Cultures,” currently Flutist Clarissa Nolde and harpist Store of Westfield will host a meet- Silence,” she presses the xuan paper teaches art history at Parsons’ The New Andrew Shue on Gracie Beverly Thomson Shea will perform and-greet book signing this week- against metal floors and brick walls School of Design. He has previously CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Danse Lente No. 10” by Belgian end. On Saturday, October 7, from 2 to create her effects. taught Chinese and Asian Art at several Shue goes on to explain that be- afternoon, Shue remains behind the composer Joseph Jongen. Arguably to 4 p.m., New Jersey author Paul Lin Yilin sees the entire city of schools, colleges and universities in yond soccer, the movie is also about cameras while brother-in-law Davis Belgium’s second most well-known Kiell will be in the store to promote Guangzhou, his birthplace, as a can- New York and New Jersey. Prior to the strength of family ties. His own directs a soccer scene in the back- composer after Cesar Franck, Jongen his new book, “American Miler: The vas. His digital print “Future Relic, relocating to the United States in 1997, family had to deal with losing his yard. Here, Gracie is refining her is known for his symphonies, concerti Life & Times of Glenn Cunningham.” Guangzhou #2” incorporates the he was senior editor of Art Monthly, a brother, William, due to an accident soccer skills with help from her fa- and chamber music. Glenn Cunningham nearly died in artist’s vision of what the city will Beijing-based art magazine. in the 1980’s. A similar tragedy will ther, played by Dermot Mulroney, Soprano Cindy Brogan will per- a schoolhouse fire that claimed his look like as a result of rapid growth “In exhibitions and writings in dif- befall Gracie’s brother in the movie and her departed brother’s friend Pe- form Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (“Shep- brother’s life and left the then-seven- and expansion. ferent cultural contexts, these artists and serve as her inspiration. ter, portrayed by Joshua Caras. herd on the Rock”), D-965, by Franz year-old’s legs so badly burned that Xu Bing is a conceptual artist who are often presented and discussed very “That’s really what motivates Shue reports that more than 14,000 Schubert, accompanied by George his doctor wanted to amputate them. creates art from the juxtaposition of differently. In the West, they are dis- her…to want to both honor him and girls registered to audition to play Toenes, clarinet, and Mary Beth But Cunningham endured the incred- the English and Chinese languages cussed in relation to the tradition of keep his memory alive by playing on Gracie. McFall, piano. It is believed that this ible pain and horrible scars, and after by transforming one English word Chinese art and culture, while in China a boys’ team in his place,” Shue says. “It took over a year and was quite a was the last song Schubert composed nearly a year, he learned to walk into a Chinese character. they are referred to as artists from the “Then by the end of the movie, she process,” he says. “There were a lot before his death in 1828. This song again. He went on to become one of He has contributed a site-specific West,” Mr. Qian said. kind of wants to do it for herself, too.” of amazing soccer players who had stands apart from most of Schubert’s the greatest track stars of all time and installation entitled “New English Cal- Nancy Cohen, Alice Dillon and Several of Shue’s own family mem- some acting experience, and a lot of other lieder for solo voice not only a national hero. ligraphy.” It consists of desks, cush- Rasika Reddy of VACNJ were con- bers are working on the project, which amazing actresses who had some soc- because it is scored for a second in- “The Kansas Flyer” set world ions, brushes, ink and copy books. sulting curators. he is not only co-producing but also cer experience.” strument but also because of its multi- records in the mile in 1934 and 800m Mr. Bing’s “Tree,” a reproduction Mr. Qian will present an informal co-starring in as an assistant soccer The role was finally awarded to sectional, cantata-like character. in 1936. This comprehensive biogra- of a tree outside the Palmer Gallery one-hour lecture at noon on October coach and history teacher. His sister Carly Schroeder, who has appeared Toenes and McFall will be joined phy, with depth of detail and fascinat- window, was hand-stenciled on the 17 in the Main Gallery, where he will Elisabeth, an Oscar-nominated ac- on such TV shows as Lizzy McGuire, by flutist Jenny Cline in a perfor- ing anecdotes, was written with full gallery wall, then filled in with black discuss how the five artists whose work tress herself (for 1995’s Leaving Las Dawson’s Creek and Port Charles. mance of Four Waltzes for flute/pic- cooperation and archives from his Sharpe marker. comprises “Travelers Between Cul- Vegas) and co-producer, appears in “Carly really bridged the gap in colo, clarinet and piano, Op. 97c by widow. Wenda Gu’s artistic medium is hu- tures” deal with cross-cultural issues. the movie as Gracie’s mom. Their both (areas),” Shue explains. “She Dmitri Shostakovich. The waltzes, If unable to attend this event, feel man hair. His “united 7561 kilome- His lecture will address such topics as brother John is contributing on the had also wrestled against boys and titled “Spring Waltz,” “Joke Waltz,” free to call The Town Book Store at ters” is part of a United Nations project reinterpreting the Chinese art tradi- business end, and Elisabeth’s hus- played soccer as a kid and was really “Waltz” and “Barrel-Organ Waltz,” (908) 233-3535 and reserve an begun in 1993. ‘united 7561,” con- tion in a contemporary Western art band, Davis Guggenheim, directs. dedicated to working on it now.” are light and humorous, quite differ- autographed copy. sisting of more than 5,000 meters of world, the perception of art among “Davis really helped shape the In the Lawrence Avenue yard, as- braded human hair, has been exhib- audiences from different cultural back- story,” Shue says.