REGISTER NOW September 29 at 2:00 PM:  Bard College Conservatory Chinese Music Ensemble A concert of Chinese music performed on traditional Chinese instruments.  The US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music promotes the study, performance, and appreciation of music from contemporary China, and supports musical exchange between the United States and China. […]

REGISTER NOW Join us to experience the meditative sounds of the shakuhachi flute. The shakuhachi flute is tightly connected to Buddhism. During Japan’s Edo period (1603-1868), monks of the Fuke Zen Buddhist sect played this flute while begging for alms. The monks also used the flute for meditation, and the spiritual use of this flute […]