2021-02-14 06:05:42 GMT2021-02-14 14:05:42(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) The U.S.-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music here on Saturday evening staged its second annual concert of symphonic music to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
The concert, titled The Sound of Spring, featured a new performance at the Fisher Center at Bard by the conservatory s pre-professional orchestra and master s degree program The Orchestra Now, and was joined by special guests from the Central Conservatory of Music Chinese Chamber Orchestra, the China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
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Many believe children s intellectual abilities can be boosted by learning the instrument. Zhao Xinying reports.
Guo Yujing hasn t touched her piano for two years.
That would have been unimaginable when she was learning to play the instrument from the ages of 5 to 15.
At that time, Guo practiced for at least two hours a day. When an exam drew near, she spent all day－with the exceptions of mealtimes and sleeping－studying the black-and-white keys.
That lasted until 2010, when Guo passed the Grade 10 exam, the highest level for students.
Success of this type is a satisfying achievement in the eyes of many Chinese parents, and also a sign that they can temporarily call a halt to the piano studies of their often unenthusiastic children.
12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents
Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the
Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels to learn excerpts of the work; Dance for PD classes appropriate for anyone with mobility concerns. View here and on demand for one week.
Artists from prominent Chinese conservatories of music and their U.S. partners on Saturday presented a virtual concert to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival which marks a new start in life.