Exhibit

芳音如蘭 Sweet Sounds from Rulan Chao Pian

Rulan Chao Pian, sitting outside surrounded by lush greenery, and smiling at the photographer. She is wearing a black collared shirt and cream blazer, and her greying dark hair is pulled back.
Rulan Chao Pian (1992)
Credit: Courtesy Chinese University of Hong Kong, Rulan Chao Pian Collection
A woman crouching on a street and holding a handheld video camera. A man in a suit is crouching nearby, gesturing as if they've been photographed mid-conversation. The woman's focus is on what she's taping, not on him.
Rulan Chao Pian videotaping the Confucian Ceremony in Seoul, South Korea (1975)
Credit: Jean Provine
An outdoor commencement procession of faculty and administrators. Rulan Chao Pian, wearing Harvard's crimson doctoral regalia, is walking next to a male faculty member in black regalia, followed by several women in generic black robes.
Commencement at Radcliffe College, 1965
Credit: David H. Hunsberger. Radcliffe College Archives TC 91-11-9
An exhibit case filled with color photographs, magazines and letters, and a bulky handheld video camera.
1970s-era Sony video camera, documents, and photographs from Rulan Chao Pian's career.
Credit: Peter Laurence
Rulan Chao Pian, sitting outside surrounded by lush greenery, and smiling at the photographer. She is wearing a black collared shirt and cream blazer, and her greying dark hair is pulled back. A woman crouching on a street and holding a handheld video camera. A man in a suit is crouching nearby, gesturing as if they've been photographed mid-conversation. The woman's focus is on what she's taping, not on him. An outdoor commencement procession of faculty and administrators. Rulan Chao Pian, wearing Harvard's crimson doctoral regalia, is walking next to a male faculty member in black regalia, followed by several women in generic black robes. An exhibit case filled with color photographs, magazines and letters, and a bulky handheld video camera.

Apr 20, 2022 through Dec 18, 2022

Open to the public

Location

Richard F. French Gallery, 2nd Floor
Loeb Music Library
3 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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“Sweet Sounds from Rulan Chao Pian” honors the life and work of Rulan Chao Pian (April. 20, 1922 - November 30, 2013), professor, scholar, and ethnomusicologist. She was born into a family of Chinese scholars and musicians, studying both in China and in the United States. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Western music history from Radcliffe College in the 1940s, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960 ​in East Asian Languages and Music. She taught both Chinese language and music at Harvard, and in 1974 she was named tenured Professor, one of the first women to attain this rank and the very first Chinese American woman professor at the university.

The exhibit features material she collected throughout her life and donated to the Loeb Music Library after her retirement in 1992, including rare books and recordings, original ethnographic field recordings, and other material from her life, research and teaching. 

Sweet Sounds from Rulan Chao Pian is fully bilingual, with all exhibition signage available in English and Chinese.

Please note: For the most up-to-date access policies and visitor guidance, please visit Harvard Library Visitor Access.

2022年4月20日是前哈佛大學榮休教授、民族音樂學家趙如蘭教授的百年誕辰，值此之际，哈佛大學音樂圖書館将举办“芳音如蘭” 紀念展覧。

卞趙如蘭（1922.4.20—2013.11.30）出身于一个中國學者和音樂家的家庭，曾在中國和美國两地求學，先後獲得歐洲音樂史學士、碩士、中國音樂史博士等學位。1947年起在哈佛大學教授中文，1962年開始在音樂系開设中國音樂課程，1974年獲聘東亞、音樂两系終身教授，成为哈佛大學首位華裔女教授。

展覧将展出趙教授的一生精彩瞬間，古籍善本、书籍、樂谱等捐贈，以及她積累的部分田野采風錄音錄像。

展覧將于4月20日正式開幕，並将持續至2022年8月底。

芳音如蘭Sweet Sounds from Rulan Chao Pian為完全雙語展覧。除文獻記錄外，所有標牌均提供中英文說明。

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