Classical music's great champion
By Raymond Zhou | China Daily | Updated: 2013-04-23 08:08
Zheng Xiaoying, 84, conducts the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra at a performance in Singapore on April 12. Hu Junxin / Xinhua |
Symphonic music is more revered than loved in most Chinese cities. But one musician is bent on changing that. With guileless sincerity and boundless energy, she has won over skeptics and added luster to a city whose music tradition was for a while disrupted, writes Raymond Zhou.
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