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2015-09-20 06:43:27
Suggested Listening: "Gada Meiren" by Xin Huguang
Some SUGGESTED LISTENING for the CLASSICAL MUSIC SKEPTIC for your weekend reading: Gada Meiren by Xin Huguang, a powerful symphonic poem performed below by the Central Philharmonic Society of China, Han Zhongjie conducting. About the Composer: Xin Huguang (1933-2011) was a genius composer and bold pioneer. Gada Meiren, which she wrote as her final graduation piece at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music , has been widely hailed by Western critics as one of the greatest symphonic works to come out of China — but at its premiere, few in the audience believed it could have been written by a twenty-three-year-old woman. While at the Central Conservatory, Xin was introduced to two great loves: Mongolian folk music, and the saxophonist who would become her husband. In the 1960s, China’s oppressive Communist government implemented the Cultural Revolution , a tumultuous decade of ideological purging. To escape, Xin and her husband moved to […]
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