AnDa Union
10 a.m. Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Eisenhower Auditorium
50 minutes
AnDa Union, a group of young musicians from Inner Mongolia, preserves the essence of Mongolian music while forging a new genre by combining styles from throughout Inner Mongolia — an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China — and the independent country of Mongolia. The band’s instruments include the morin khuur (horse head fiddle), the maodun chaoer (three-holed flute), and Mongolian versions of the lute and mouth harp.
Suggested Grades
Pre-K to 12
Pennsylvania Academic Standards
Arts and humanities; geography; world languages
Key Learning Areas
Chinese musical instruments; human characteristics of places and regions (Mongolia, China)
Artist Website
AnDa Union
Educator Preparation Materials
- Bonus Features
- Curriculum Connections
- Explore More
- Show and Tell
- Role of the Audience K-5
- Role of the Audience 6-12
The 2011 national tour of AnDa Union is part of a major, multi-year cultural exchange with Minneapolis-based Arts Midwest, the Chinese Ministry of Culture, and the United States Major University Presenters consortium. Support for the tour has been provided by the Ministry of Culture, People’s Republic of China.
This performance is made possible, in part, with support from the Penn State Confucius Institute.