China’s first woman conductor shines at 93
NewsZheng Xiaoying is not talking of retirement. Moscow trained, she founded the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, survived three bouts of cancer and still keeps going.
See China Daily here.
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It speaks volumes about our extraordinary European art music that so many in the Asian nations want to play and hear it. Three cheers!!
This is not Chinese reverence for elders, this is Chinese old guard clinging on to power, not unlike the octogenarian iron grip of the Communist Party leadership that self-authorizes its own rule.
Nonagenarian conductors are not 9 decades better, and this is also true in Europe, they have simply accumulated decades of power and influence in the system to be able to cling on to power, prime example being Domingo even when he demonstrably can no longer sing and never had any stick technique whatsoever.
Why so sour? So sad.
Why bound this old lady’s extraordinary journey to other artists one’s?
Generalizing.
So sour. So sad