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Podcast: The Music Show
Episode: Rainbow Chan explores language through lament, and when George Gershwin met Arnold Schoenberg
Description: Rainbow Chan returns to The Music Show to discuss her latest audio-visual project, The Bridal Lament. In an attempt to preserve her mother's mother tongue, Rainbow has spent the last five years researching and learning the Weitou language, an endangered Cantonese dialect, through learning traditional bridal laments. Rainbow talks to Andy about the defiant tradition of performing these laments in the face of arranged marriages, and her process of learning the language through song from the 'grannies' preserving it. You might think Broadway composer George Gershwin and pioneer of 12-tone music Arnold Schoenberg would have had little in...