The New York Times has published the second article in a series, “looking at China’s embrace of Western classical music”:
With stunning swiftness China’s surging ranks of classical musicians have found a home in Western concert halls, conservatories and opera houses, jolting a musical tradition born in the courts and churches of Europe.
Large solo fees, plush orchestra jobs, an established audience and the presence of teachers steeped in the tradition have lured them to American and European cities. The phenomenon, which has been building for at least a decade, has gathered steam in the last few years, injecting new vitality into the American classical music scene after historic influxes of Italians, Germans and Russian Jews, and more recently Japanese, Taiwanese and Koreans.[Full Text]
See also: “The Wow Factor: Lang Lang and Yundi Li at Carnegie Hall” from The New Yorker. Listen to audio clips of Yundi Li and Chu-Fang Huang, mentioned in this article.
