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Classical music: In China, Western classical music has blossomed big since the Oscar-winning film “From Mao to Mozart”
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By Jacob Stockinger
Western classical music has really blossomed big-time in China in the past 35 years.
How and how much?
David Stern, the son of violinist Isaac Stern, returns to China and discusses the major advances made since his father’s trip to China to make the Oscar-winning 1979 movie “From Mao to Mozart.” (You can see an excerpt, of Isaac Stern teaching a young Chinese student, in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
That blossoming has affected the building of new state-of-the-art concert halls; more concerts with bigger audiences; major competitions; the formation of new chamber music, operatic and orchestral ensembles; and of course superior education and training for individual performers.
David Stern gives a blogger a detailed tour of the astonishing progress made after culture wars waged by Mao Zedong and since his father’s pioneering experience in post-Cultural Revolution China in the following story:
http://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20169/19738/
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