Friday, September 5, 2025

WELCOME TO OUR 2025-2026 MUSIC IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS SEASON

 Welcome back to our very special MUSIC in CULTURAL CONTEXTS SEASON (since 2013)

We invite you to join us for a chamber concert featuring Jillian Risigari-Gai and the Thai Ensemble

Jillian Risigari-Gai, harpist, Doctor of Musical Arts student
UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music
President - American HARP Society, Los Angeles Chapter
Artist Teacher of HARP - University of Redlands
Executive Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Music Company

Jillian and her ensemble will take us to the musical roots of the HARP: to the British Isles, and France. We will hear harp traditions of Southeast Asia: Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia: Souble Action Harp and Saung-Gauk (Myanmar)

Cambodian Boat Festival Song, arranged SASTRA  MOON with RANE PRAK (ethnomusicology Ph.D. student) on Wot and Mel Liu (UCLA alumna) on percussion. 
Where the Wind Covers the Sky, arranged SASTRA MOON with RANE PRAK on Wot and Mel Liu on percussion.

Bai Sri Su Khan, a traditional song from Thailand, arr. Christopher Adler with members of Sastra Moon.

Finally, we travel to China and listen to A Drunken Fisherman's Song at Sunset, Joan Huang, and close the music performance with Shere of Influence from SpaceSuite Galactique: Exosphere, with Caroline Lizotte.

This is a one-time opportunity to go around the world from the University Club Library (Faculty Club)
Wednesday, OCTOBER 15th 2025 at 12 Noon. The attendance is FREE.

RSVP: please email Zorana Ercegovac to let her know you are attending. 
THANK YOU.

Here is a map of our venue for the October 15th Music Concert
Located in the University Club LIBRARY



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