ZT: Among the most famous foreign were ..., and a 1973 tour of the People's Republic of China where the orchestra performed to enthusiastic audiences who had been isolated from Western classical music for many decades.
-eglispa(一呵呵);
2006-3-16(#2843258@0)
Like Richard Nixon, Eugene Ormandy is loved more by Chinese than by Americans.
-klassische(老音乐迷);
2006-3-16(#2843279@0)
What about Isaac Stern?
-eglispa(一呵呵);
2006-3-16(#2843292@0)
Stern's trip was much later, when China already started to open up, and the trip was more of a professional one, interacting mainly with professional musicians in China.
-klassische(老音乐迷);
2006-3-16{180}(#2843312@0)
But the trip of the Philadelphia Orchestra was part of the symbolic events (along with China's table tennis team visiting the US) during the honeymoon period between US and China.
ZT: The film From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China won the Academy Award for best full-length documentary of 1981 and received a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival.
-eglispa(一呵呵);
2006-3-16(#2843349@0)
ZT: The famed violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini’s favorite instrument Cannone Guarnerius was a Guarneri del Gesù violin of 1743,
-eglispa(一呵呵);
2006-3-16{247}(#2843637@0)
and the "Lord Wilton" Guarneri del Gesù violin made in 1742 was owned by Yehudi Menuhin. Twentieth-century players who used his instruments included Corey Cerovsek, Arthur Grumiaux, Jascha Heifetz, Leonid Kogan, Isaac Stern and Henryk Szeryng.
ZT: Ormandy's smooth approach to music, even modifying scores at will to make them sound "better," ....
-klassische(老音乐迷);
2006-3-16(#2843296@0)
ZT: Later on, as the classical audience became more stratified and more sophisticated, his popularity among critics and record buyers slipped, as they began to note a lack of depth in his work.
-klassische(老音乐迷);
2006-3-16(#2843299@0)
