The New York Times: If you keep a musician friend for over 50 years, as the experimental director Ping Chong has done with Meredith Monk, just maybe at your retirement celebration, that friend will sing you a song. And so on Wednesday night at the performance space Chelsea Factory, a luminous Monk sat down at a keyboard, reminisced about Chong when she first knew him — as a pony-tailed student in her dance class, wearing bell-bottom jeans — and played “Gotham Lullaby.”
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Congratulations to Ping Chong for such an incredible career. One thing I really love about this industry is how life long connections spring out of chance encounters, like Chong and Monk. It is endearing that Monk played at Chong’s retirement celebration. Chong has played such a key part in making this industry a more inclusive space.
When asked about if he ever considered leaving the industry, Chong talked about one particular moment from 1991 where he did consider leaving due to this fear of failure. Since being here at CMU, I have had many professors talk about the importance of trying and failing while in college where the consequences are much less severe. While I think this is absolutely true, I have noticed how the school does not seem to support students as they try to resolve these failures.
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