Celebrated piano teacher and producer William Daghlian talks about his extensive collection of Chinese art, in the days before it was donated to Queens College, CUNY.  The collection was an endeavor he developed over a period of 40 years– starting not long after he first arrived in New York City as a young student from São Paulo, Brazil– and grew to include more than 1600 items of Chinese antiquity, containing ceramics, clay figures, burial and ritual pieces, and sculpture spanning from the early Neolithic Cultures to the Qing Dynasty in the 20th century.

Documented at Daghlian’s Upper West Side apartment in New York City, in the summer and fall of 2012.