北の宿から (At Hotel Up North) by Sabrina Chen
June 01, 2009 EST | Recordings | Comments [评论] (0)
Please click the play button to listen to 北の宿から (At Hotel Up North) by Sabrina Chen (陈玉泉).
一片落叶 (A Fallen Leaf)
May 24, 2009 EST | Recordings | Comments [评论] (0)
Please click the play button to listen to 一片落叶 (A Fallen Leaf) by Sabrina Chen (陈玉泉).
Chopin Nocturne Op. 72 in E minor
January 24, 2009 EST | Recordings | Comments [评论] (1)
I love piano but never had a chance to learn it when I was young. I began to follow my daughter when she started her piano lesson. Although most of the time I was like "three-day fishing three-day drying the net" (if you know what I meant), I began to work hard after I fell in love with this Chopin piece. With couple of months of hard work, I have improved a lot, but those 10 stiff fingers just can't get me to where I wanted to be no matter what I try. I don't have a piano teacher, I learned this piece pretty much by listening to various versions online and by naturally blending in my own interpretations. As of now this is the best I can do in front of a camera. I enjoyed my play, I hope you would all like it too. Thanks for watching! Happy Chinese New Year!
恋人たちの神話 (Myth of Lovers)
January 24, 2009 EST | Recordings | Comments [评论] (0)
Please click the play button to listen to 恋人たちの神話 (Myth of Lovers)
*All the songs are recorded at home with minimal setup
Lyrics for Myth of lovers
When children in bed ride on the ark in their dream
the time flow puts away only (clothes of) sadness.
And by tomorrow, they change their clothes......but...
If I will be reborn and have a different life
I would try to be a bird flying freely in the blue sky...but...
Even though I've been loved, I've been hurt, and cried to the point of wanting to die.
It is enough reason that I was only given (birth) in this world.
To be fated with tears......There exists even such a kind of life.
When the soft sunlight of dawn shines onto the glass window
In the time flow, I would wake up and prepare for my little future...but...
If meeting by chance and then parting is the destiny of human
I can only leave in the past the times (memories) as beautiful like a flower
I have been loved, I have been hurt, and I have cried even to the point of wanting to die.
My heart and body cannot be cut apart (separated), but.....
I will give up yesterday (my past). There exists even such a kind of life.
It is enough reason that I was only given (birth) in this world.
To be fated with tears......There exists even such a kind of life.
旅愁 Melancholy On A Journey by Yuquan Chen
November 05, 2008 EST | Recordings | Comments [评论] (1)
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*All the songs are recorded at home with minimal setup
风儿雨儿 (The Wind & The Rain) by Yuquan Chen
September 20, 2008 EST | Recordings | Comments [评论] (1)
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*All the songs are recorded at home with minimal setup
Revels SummersDay Performance
July 02, 2008 EST | Performances | Comments [评论] (0)
After two and a half months weekly rehearsals and much intense daily rehearsals in the final week before the show time, I went on a two day weekend performance on June 21 and 22 with an America's high end performing group "Revels". I took on two short solos. One was in "Man Gave Names to the Animals" that I sang a verse about pig that I translated from English lyrics. Another one was a verse of "Tibetan Plateau". Everyone I had a chance to chat with, either someone I know or didn't, enjoyed my singing very much. They also loved the beautiful princess I played in a story telling "The Heavenly Lovers". I felt grateful to be an important part of this year's event of Revels.
The show was to celebrate the first weekend of summer featuring "a free 3-day event celebrating Boston's cultural diversity and the summer season, presented by Friends of Fort Point Channel". SummersDay Revels brought together talented traditional musicians and dancers (children, teens and adults) representing the neighborhoods of Boston, who performed in the late afternoon of June 21 and 22 (Saturday and Sunday) on multiple stages along Fort Point Channel before uniting each evening for an exciting inter-cultural SummersDay Revels performance on the Main Stage near Boston Children's Museum. Boston's Mayor Thomas M. Menino was on hand to open Saturday's events with opening remarks from the Mainstage.
I will post some photos and few video clips later when they become available.
I may join Revels again in the future.
