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...Gergiev was great, the performance was immaculate, and the acoustic effect of the theater is truly amazing," says Liu Xuefeng, a music critic and editor at the Chinese publication Opera and the Chinese-language edition of Gramophone. But the hall was filled with more than music. "I could hear every word from the stage as well as from my fellow audience members 10 seats away from me," says Liu. "Chattering, eating, children crying, camera flashes going off here and there - it was the worst audience I have ever seen." By the end of the opera, only 60% of the full...
...renminbi, or $250, each). Liu believes that most of the seats in the best section were set aside for government and Communist Party officials, who he says were among the quickest to vacate them at the intermission. "I think only 10% of the audience are true music lovers," said a man surnamed Song, an amateur vocalist who hovered around the theater in freezing temperatures hoping to find a cheap ticket from the scalpers. "People think going to Western operas and classical-music concerts is a sign of a certain social status, and the National Grand Theater is also a novelty...
...philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is a bit famous in the U.S. Maybe Americans cannot cite French authors, but I don't think many French can cite more than three authors who are not thriller or detective-novel writers. There are many interesting original movies, plays, comics and music in France. Anne-Sarah Bouglé, CAEN, FRANCE...
...names Pierre Boulez or Ariane Mnouchkine in all four corners of the earth: those who love music or theater will tell you that they are outstandingly creative...
...TIME: Some specific [policy] proposals still haven't been fleshed out. If you are talking about arts and music education, for instance, or rehabilitating prisoners, or promoting preventative health care, are there budget numbers attached to that? Are those things you have begun to think through? I have started to think through. We have people that are beginning to develop some of the nuts and bolts. But the most important thing I needed to do at this point is to give people the conceptual ideas of where I would lead this country. It's really a bit premature to start...