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Classical Conditioning
2015-09-20 06:43:27
Suggested Listening: "Gada Meiren" by Xin Huguang
Some SUGGESTED LISTENING for the CLASSICAL MUSIC SKEPTIC for your weekend reading: Gada Meiren by Xin Huguang, a powerful symphonic poem performed below by the Central Philharmonic Society of China, Han Zhongjie conducting. About the Composer: Xin Huguang (1933-2011) was a genius composer and bold pioneer. Gada Meiren, which she wrote as her final graduation piece at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music , has been widely hailed by Western critics as one of the greatest symphonic works to come out of China — but at its premiere, few in the audience believed it could have been written by a twenty-three-year-old woman. While at the Central Conservatory, Xin was introduced to two great loves: Mongolian folk music, and the saxophonist who would become her husband. In the 1960s, China’s oppressive Communist government implemented the Cultural Revolution , a tumultuous decade of ideological purging. To escape, Xin and her husband moved […]
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Classical Conditioning
2014-01-05 04:50:17
Suggested Listening: "Larghetto" from Symphony No. 2 by Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa
This week’s SUGGESTED LISTENING for the CLASSICAL MUSIC SKEPTIC presents the third movement, larghetto, from Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa’s Second Symphony, performed below by the USSR Radio and TV Large Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Yesipov conducting. About the Composer: Sembiin Gonchigsumlaa (1915-1991) is the greatest Mongolian composer you’ve never heard of. Born in the aimag (province) of Bayankhongor , one of Mongolia’s largest provinces, Gonchigsumlaa left for the Siberian city of Irkutsk to study veterinary medicine. Upon returning to Mongolia, he found work as a veterinarian, but his lifelong love of music led him to take a job with the Mongolian State Circus band. Recognizing his musical talents, the Mongolian government sent Gonchigsumlaa to study classical composition at the Moscow Conservatory (training grounds for the likes of Khachaturian and Rachmaninov ). At the time, Mongolia was a socialist state that had just emerged from over a decade of conflict with China and […]
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