From China Daily: To mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, top Chinese rock’n’roll bands and singers will gather in Beijing’s Workers Stadium tomorrow to perform a string of revolutionary songs. It will be the largest performance ever staged by Chinese rock stars…… Some accuse the performers of yielding to commercialism […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: From the earliest days, many have wondered how Tan Dun and the Metropolitan Opera would fit together. Met insiders affectionately, even proudly, refer to their institution as rigid, as schedule-bound as a railroad. But Mr. Tan is an intellectually restless composer and innovator who says he works with the aid […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Verdi’s “Macbeth” was never like this. Here, too, the story is Shakespeare’s, more or less, but the trappings are vintage Chinese. “The Kingdom of Desire,” which opened at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. on Thursday evening, is an adaptation of “Macbeth” in the style of Beijing opera by the Contemporary Legend […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: MACBETH does a back flip from a 10-foot-high city wall; his queen sings a lament as she wipes imaginary blood from her hands; and the courtiers enact their coup in Han dynasty dress. It is no typical production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” that Spoleto Festival U.S.A. is presenting on Thursday and […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: The former managing director of the Zomba record label will head a newly created office in Beijing, partly funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). UK Music Services will act as a point of contact for independent UK music companies wanting to break acts in China. The Government is keen […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: “Tan Dun Visual Music 2005” opened last month at the Shanghai Gallery of Art. Not many composers sell art. But Mr. Tan does. The solo exhibition features a collection of his old pianos (deconstructed and reconstructed by the composer), multimedia installations and nearly a dozen prints and manuscripts, including the […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: Outside this stark, but pastoral monument to the victims of Cambodia’s gory Khmer Rouge years southwest of Phnom Penh, a group of young men played cards recently and listened to Chinese pop music. Music from China seemed a bit incongruous, given that China, along with the United States and the Soviet Union, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: When Yo-Yo Ma began work on the Silk Road Project seven years ago, the music world stood by with a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. Why was Mr. Ma, known for his cello interpretations of Bach and Brahms, suddenly jumping on the world-music bandwagon? Would the involvement of musicians from […]
Read MoreThe Taipei Times has a review of The National Museum of History‘s (NMH) exhibition From the Forgotten Deserts: Centuries of Dazzling Dunhuang Art: Dunhuang is a name that resonates through the ages as one of the truly great treasure troves of art and culture… It would be nice to say that the exhibition, despite its […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: Undeterred by the cloud-swept Easter skies, thousands gathered in the square outside the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai’s Pudong area. Some had come from nearby cities like Nanjing and Hangzhou, and some from as far afield as Beijing. The Chinese Metropolitan Folk Music Festival, the first of its kind, […]
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