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Twenty-five years ago, such a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 anywhere in Pacific Asia outside Japan would have been impossible. There simply weren't enough skilful players around, and the venues available to them were woefully inadequate. (The qualifier "outside Japan" is essential: the Japanese have been...
Ten years ago Asia's cities were all building cathedral-like airports; now, they must have their performing-arts palaces. Singapore has its two-year-old Esplanade complex, with a sonic environment created by the legendary American acoustician Russell Johnson, which is regarded by expert listeners as one of the...
The Dutch maestro's move East is a mirror image of a process that has been going on worldwide for more than a decade: the gradual Asianizing of Western classical music. Today, Asian-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma not only reigns supreme on his instrument but he is also probably...
How did East and West come to be so musically intertwined? After all, anyone who has listened to Asian classical music knows that it is rooted in an utterly different aesthetic. One explanation for Asia's increasing dominance of Western classical music is a perceived cultural difference in its approach...
When the German conductor Kurt Masur toured Asia with the London Philharmonic in 2002, he proclaimed: "The future of classical music is more in Asia than anywhere else." The new generation of artists, led by the likes of Yundi Li and Sumi Jo, may well prove him right. But as...