Tickets $10 general, $8 BAM/PFA members, $6 students. Advance tickets recommended. This Shared Voices project is made possible through the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Museum Collections Accessibility Initiative.We are pleased to present composer-pianist Jon Jang in performance with a new composition commissioned by the Pacific Film Archive to accompany an important Soviet silent film in the PFA Collection, Alexander Dovzhenko's masterpiece, Arsenal. One of the foremost American jazz composers working in contemporary music, Jon Jang has been a pioneer in reexamining the interface of jazz and classical music by integrating Chinese folk songs into various contemporary music contexts. He is artistic director of the twelve-member Pan Asian Arkestra and the Jon Jang Sextet, which have performed at major jazz festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Among his recent commissions have been "Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 2" for the Kronos Quartet; the score for the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's production of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior; and "The Color of Reality" for Cal Performances. His newest album, for Europe's Soul Note jazz label, is "Two Flowers on a Stem." In the tradition of Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington, Jon Jang's compositions are frequently musical cries against injustice. So it is fitting and exciting that Jang has composed a new score for Alexander Dovzhenko's Arsenal, which was itself a poetic call for justice.