Ge Gan-Ru is widely identified as the first Chinese composer to work in an avant-garde style, a Western conceit once completely prohibited in China, especially during China's Cultural Revolution, the era in which Ge grew up and served three years in an agricultural labor camp. Ge has lived in the United States since 1983; BIS' Super Audio CD ...
Chinese composer Ge Gan-Ru has experienced in his lifetime the full rite of passage in the bewildering and terrifying legacy of China's Cultural Revolution. In love with the violin from childhood, Ge was "re-educated" at 17 and served in a work camp where he nonetheless managed to study under a master violinist. After three years alternating ...
Dim Sum -- the Chinese brunch-like culinary practice of serving small portions of many different items -- may seem like an unusual choice for a title of a classical album. But in this case, the Ying Quartet's choice is perfectly apt and quite clever. The album features the works of eight different Chinese composers; the works selected are either ...
Cellist Madeleine Shapiro is a longstanding advocate of contemporary music, both as soloist and as co-founder of the New York-based new music ensemble ModernWorks. Electricity is not only the title of her solo debut disc for Albany Records, but also a program she plays in concerts centering on the voice of the cello interacting with tape and/or ...
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