FolkTales set to Music from Around the Globe

China - The Dragon's Eye with Zhou Yi and Bill Gordh

World Music Institute Season 1 Episode 8

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Storyteller Bill Gordh and pipa master Zhou Yi improvise the Chinese folktale The Dragon's Eye which tells the story of a tinker who meets and befriends an orphaned dragon whom he raises in his home. Zhou Yi is a pipa (a four-string Chinese lute) soloist, educator, and the Artistic Director of the Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of NY.  She graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China.

Recording courtesy of George Wurzbach

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