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Fifteen smiling people posing for a group portrait outside the Harvard Music Building. The six women are wearing pantsuits, dresses, or skirt suits; the men are wearing jackets and ties, turtleneck sweaters, or open-collared shirts.

The Harvard Music Department in 1976

Front row (left to right): Rulan C. Pian, Patricia Zander, Luise Vosgerchian, Elliot Forbes, Eileen Southern, Louise Litterick, John M. Ward; Middle…

Three singing women gathered around a piano. One of the women is seated at the keyboard, and the other two are standing shoulder to shoulder on her right side, looking at the score spread across the piano.

Memory of childhood - the Chao sisters singing a work by their father at the Pian home, 1997. From left: Rulan Chao, Lensey Chao, Bella Chao

The spines of two blue plastic video tape boxes, with handwritten labels reading "Kathak by Birju Maharaj".

Kathak Dance 1/2-inch video recordings

Two DAT cassette cases with handwritten labels in black ink identifying them as part of the Rulan Pian Collection.

Peking Drum Song, DAT tape audio recordings

2 Sony 1/2 inch video reel boxes with typewritten labels listing Morris Dance selections.

Morris Dance, 1/2-inch video recordings

Front cover of record, with a painting of boats floating beneath a leafless willow tree.

Chun jiang hua yue ye

Front cover of the LP Taiwan Folk Songs, with drawings of farming scenes.

Taiwan folk songs, 10-inch LP

In an outdoor arena, a large crowd of people wearing red and white clothes circle around a set of colorful banners.

Images from the Saisiyat Pasta’ay ceremony

Square cardboard Scotch magnetic tape box for 7-inch reel to reel tape.

Dwarf Ceremony (Taiwan), November 1966

Typescript letter in English.

Translation by Professor Pian of a letter from Yen Mien regarding the recording of Pasta’ay Ceremony

Transcription:
Department of Archeology and Anthropology
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan, China

December 30, 1967

Mrs. Rulan…

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