Cornell Cinema welcomes Yat-Kha, an internationally acclaimed ensemble that combines traditional Tuvan throat-singing with Western-style rock, when it accompanies a restored print of the 1928 silent classic "Storm Over Asia." This event takes place Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre. Advance tickets ($10 general/$7 students and seniors) go on sale Monday, Sept. 24, at the following locations: the Willard Straight Hall ticket desk at Cornell (255-3430), the ticket center at the Clinton House downtown (273-4497) and the Dillingham Theatre box office at Ithaca College (274-3224).
The music of Yat-Kha is an extraordinary mix of Tuvan throat-singing, traditional instruments and rock-influenced electric guitar and bass. Throat-singing is an ancient art in which one singer produces two notes simultaneously, yielding complex, eerie tones.
Yat-Kha will accompany V.I. Pudovokin's 1928 silent epic "Storm Over Asia." Filmed in the Republic of Tuva, Buryatia and Mongolia by formalist Soviet director Vsevolod Pudovkin just after the civil war of the 1920s, it tells of the Mongolian uprising against the British occupation forces. The film focuses on Bair, a young hunter who is captured and exploited by the British until his rage breaks out.
The event is co-sponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts, the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, and the Department of Music.
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