MUSICAL TREASURES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Friday, February 26, 1999
8:00 p.m.
Commons Cafeteria
University of California, Riverside

Featuring leading Hmong, Chinese, Persian, and Oaxacan musicians from the greater Los Angeles area

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Chinese opera singer TAIXUAN MA
Hmong kwv txhiaj singers MAI LE VANG and GER VANG
Hmong qeej master CHAO YANG with his students
Master of Persian classical music MORTEZA VARZI
Leading banda group BANDA SAN JERONIMO ZOOCHINA

Tickets $7/general, $4/students & seniors, available at the Fine Arts Box Office, University Theater
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music/UCR, the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences/UCR, Chicano Student Programs/UCR, the Southern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program, and the Public Corporation for the Arts Folk & Traditional Arts Program in Long Beach.

Photos: top left: Banda Xochixtepec (photo of Banda Zoochina unavailable), top right: Vatoua Xiong and son (photo of qeej player Chao Yang unavailable), second from top: Mai Le Vang, third from top: Taixuan Ma, bottom: Morteza Varzi. Photos courtesy of Terry Liu.