From Pittsburgh Tribune Review: Rockets aspire to pianist Lang Lang‘s rate of ascent. In just seven years, he has attained the popularity it took legendary pianists of the past — such as Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein — many decades to achieve. Although Lang’s picture adorns the covers of the season brochures of top American […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg (link): China said it will fine distributors of illegally copied music, movies and other material over the Internet by as much as 100,000 yuan ($12,500) from July 1, putting pressure on search engines such as Baidu.com Inc. Internet service providers, such as companies hosting Web sites on servers, must give authorities contact information […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily, via China Daily (link): THE organizer of the popular TV show “Super Girl” is being sued for allegedly violating the copyright of a former employee who wrote the hit show’s theme song, by allowing the song to be performed in public without paying any royalties to the writer. The Shanghai No. 1 […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei Blog (link): Shanghai Beach (‰∏äʵ∑ʪ©, aka The Bund). An epic tale of the 1930s Shanghai underworld, brimming with mobsters, their beautiful lovers, cool music, Godfather riffs, and tragic deaths. It was broadcast on mainland TV in 1985, turning Chow Yun-fat into a god. The old version of Shanghai Beach contained a large number […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (link): Famous rock singer Dou Wei made a formal statement through his lawyer on Wednesday to apologize for his aggressive behavior at the Beijing News office last week, reports Chinese website sohu.com. Dou is currently in custody after storming into the Beijing News newspaper’s editorial department on May 10, 2006. He […]
Read MoreMany thanks to Geremie R. Barmé for contributing the following essay to CDT: Let the Spiel Begin Zhang Yimou, the avant-garde film director turned populist will lead the group designing the opening and closing ceremonies of the...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link) The way it began, with a buffet laid out on deck and “Moon River” oozing from the loudspeakers, it could have been just about any Bangkok sundown cruise. But this one was unmistakably different. Before the boat even left the dock the food disappeared, right down to the last […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times (link): THE first fitting of “The First Emperor’s” new clothes was outsourced from New York to China last month in an unusual workshop for the most expensive and complex opera the Metropolitan Opera has ever commissioned. Workshops for new operas are typically held with singers around a piano, and there […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn (link): The rising of other cultural forms such as musicals, dramas and popular songs is affecting local operas across China. This is the case with local operas in Hubei Province. In an exclusive interview with china.org.cn, Yu Xiaoyu, an opera writer and director, gave his thoughts on the subject. Both the Han and […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard (link): Irish Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot, has been performed in China before, but never with elements taken from traditional Peking Opera – including dance, mime, music and song. Playing to a full house in Shanghai, one character wore a painted mask lifted straight from Peking Opera, a highly […]
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