NEW YORK
October 29, 2004
Hi Everyone,
We have a few cabins left for next May’s
Mediterranean cruise departing New York City on
May 26, 2004. There is still time to get your
reservations in.
If you have any interest, please contact me at
(718) 813-0721. Thank you.
Gladys Chin
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Dear Friends:
Transfiguration Education Assn. presents the Ninth
Annual Dinner Dance to benefit Transfiguration
Schools, 29 Mott St., New York, NY
Friday, November 5, 2004, 6:00 pm cocktail
reception, 7:00 pm dinner.
Masters of Ceremonies - David Frei, USA Networks
& NBC, Cindy Hsu, CBS News.
JING FONG RESTAURANT, 20 Elizabeth St.,
Chinatown, N.Y.
$100. per person. Dinner Program includes
entertainment and a silent auction.
Tell your friends. Come and help out a good cause
for the future of the young children.
Please let me know how many tickets you need.
Tickets are still available. Make check payable to:
Transfiguration School.
Thank you.
Elaine Hoo - Dinner Committee
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Please join us to fight to free David Wong! We
have made great progress but we are far from
being done.
David still faces three obstacles: the prospect of a
retrial for the 1986 murder, his original robbery
sentence, and the possibility of deportation. Until
all three are resolved, he will not be free.
1. The possible retrial: David's lawyers have asked
District Attorney Richard Cantwell in Plattsburgh,
NY whether he would agree to drop the murder
charge and not pursue a retrial. We will keep you
updated on what he says. If he agrees, it's a
simple process to ask the judge to drop the murder
indictment. If he does not agree, we will mount a
national letter-writing campaign to pressure him
not to go through what would surely be a futile
retrial.
2. The original robbery sentence: David is in the
process of asking for conditional release from the
robbery conviction. In rough terms, it's a type of
parole that New York offers to most inmates who
have served more than two-thirds of their
sentence.
3. The possibility of deportation: We will need
everyone's help to convince the federal immigration
officials to exercise their discretion and not deport
David Wong! Even if DA Cantwell drops the
murder charge and even if David gets conditional
release from the robbery conviction, we still have
to make sure federal immigration authorities don't
deport him. Please e-mail us to help organize our
coordinated campaign to urge officials not to
deport David.
Email us at freedavid@freedavidwong.org if you
are interested in attending one of our upcoming
meetings or can help! We could use everyone's
help!
Please visit the web site (www.freedavidwong.org)
for statements from David and the David Wong
Support Committee along with pictures from last
Saturday's press conference! Thanks for your
support!
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Music From China 20th Anniversary
Concert
Premiere Works XIV
Celebrating 20 Years of Performing
Contemporary Chinese Music
Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004 at 8 pm
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center
Goodman House
129 W. 67th Street, NYC
Tickets $15, $8 students/seniors
Reservations: (212) 941-8733,
muschina@echonyc.com
Musicians
Wang Guowei, erhu; Sun Li, pipa; Chen Yihan, pipa;
Ann Yao, zheng; Gao Renyang, dizi; Helen Yee,
yangqin; Susan Cheng, percussion
Guests
Carol To, soprano; Greg Hesselink, cello
Frank Cassara, percussion; John Hadfield,
percussion
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PROGRAM
Zhou Long, Mount a Long Wind (2004)
Erhu, dizi, pipa, zheng and percussion
20th anniversary commission written for a Chinese
quintet.
Chen Yi, Chinese Fables (2002)
Pipa, erhu, cello and percussion
Popular Chinese fables are interpreted musically with
fun, humor and imagination.
Wang Guowei, At the Sky's Edge (2002)
Erhu and 2 percussion players
Modern Chinese poetry provides the setting for a display
of virtuosity on the erhu.
Zhou Qinru, Two Shijing Poems (1994)
Soprano and zheng
A young girl's romantic images of love and courtship are
expressed in poems from the
ancient classic Book of Songs.
Wang Ning, Guo Feng (1989)
Erhu, dizi and zheng
Small gem for three traditional instruments interpreting
ancient Chinese musical form.
Zhou Long, The Moon Rising High (1986)
Pipa, erhu, dizi, yangqin, zheng, daruan and percussion
The elegant pipa solo with rich sonorities of the
ensemble enhance enjoyment of this
classical composition.
MISCELLANEOUS
The website for all reunion correspondence and
newsletters has been completed. If you missed
any of the past newsletters or want to refer back to
an article, you may now do so on the following
website that one of our “friends” so kindly put
together for all to use. If you can’t click on it, then
copy and paste to the address line.
http://aditl.com/chinatown-newsletter/index.html
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