Sequel to NSO News: Plan for the current tour go back to a verbal invitation from the Ministry in the fall of 2006 in the wake of the Kennedy Center's China festival. "It is our way of giving back,"says NSO Executive Director Rita Shapiro. "by bringing our orchestra to China after all the fantastic art that the Chinese brought to the Kennedy Center."
The repertory will, therefore, include an American work: Daniel Kellogg's "Western Skies," which the orchestra will give its world premiere April 16 at the Kennedy Center. Indeed, the NSO's concerts set for April 16-18 will offer local audiences a nice preview of the China programs. Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, and Greek violinist Leonidas Iavakos soloing in the Mendelssohn E. Minor and Tchaikovsky violin concertos. In China, the orchestra will also offer Dvorak's Seventh Symphony and the Overture to Wagner's "Die Meisterssinger von Nurnberg," which Fischer has performed with the NSO on previous programs. Published by the Washington Post,March 12, 09 on page C3.
Here is the West meets the East or vice versa re Sino-American Economics of Human Capital apropos of the Division of Labor for cultural exchanges.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, a believer of borderless music for humanity.
March 13, 2009 at 6.18 a.m.
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