It was a
great pleasure to direct a world music concert (lecture-recital) last week, for the second
time in recent years for the music performance degree students at Beijing Language and Culture University.
While these
students normally focus on performance of Chinese songs on traditional Chinese
instruments, for this concert we performed original arrangements of songs from around
the world in many different languages and contrasting musical styles: Japan, India,
Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, Northern Ireland, Egypt, and Aotearoa/New
Zealand.
The audience
was quite enthusiastic with our public concert, which was at a modern theatre
in Guomao, near the heart of Beijing’s bustling central business district. It
is exciting to see how much the students learn from this kind of experience,
and I hope to see more projects of this kind in other countries over the coming
years.
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