7/3/24

World Music Concert in Beijing

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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