Seattle Chinese Culture & Arts Festival Offers Music, Movement And Online Exploration
The event seeks to explore and promote 5,000 years of Chinese culture and heritage with live streaming music, martial arts and other Chinese traditions.by BWW News Desk
Seattle Center Festál:a??Glimpse of China-Seattle Chinese Culture & Arts Festival, seeks to explore and promote 5,000 years of Chinese culture and heritage with live streaming music, martial arts and other Chinese movement traditions, demonstrations and decorative arts.
The online festival highlights traditional Chinese music. Pipa players from Seattle Chinese Orchestra perform The Beautiful Spring on this short-neck Chinese lute-like instrument. The full orchestra offers an arrangement of Shepherdess Song on traditional instruments, and a percussion ensemble from the group presents a rhythmic Holiday Celebration. In addition, China s oldest musical instrument, the seven-stringed plucked Guqin, is featured in performance,