China Now Music Festival
Presented in collaboration with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the China Now Music Festival is dedicated to promoting an understanding and appreciation of classical music from contemporary China through an annual series of concerts and lectures. Each year’s festival explores a singular theme.Men of Iron and the Golden Spike
This year’s festival featured the world premiere of Men of Iron and the Golden Spike, a symphonic oratorio by composer Zhou Long and lyricist Su Wei that was commissioned by the US-China Music Institute and the Center for East Asian Studies and Chinese Railroad Workers’ Project at Stanford University. Jindong Cai talks about the Bard–Stanford collaboration in an article for Stanford Live.
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