Word: musicalization
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...anymore. The artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Long spent this October the way he's spent all his recent Octobers, dashing from concert hall to concert hall around Beijing, joining the capacity crowds jamming into decidedly Chinese venues to hear some decidedly un-Chinese music: Puccini in the Forbidden City; Dido & Aeneas at the Beijing Concert Hall; Handl's Messiah at the Wang Fu Jing Church; Wagner's Tannhäuser at the downtown Poly Theater. People who order their tickets in advance get in; the rest get introduced to another Western tradition - scalpers...
...Fifty million Chinese children are now studying a classical instrument," says Long. "In 20 years, I believe China will be one of the biggest countries in the world for music...
...idea of China as the gravitational center of a globalized world is something most countries have gotten used to. But classical music hadn't seemed like it would be part of that mix, if only because Western opera and the Eastern world never made a natural fit. To outsiders, the traditional Peking opera seemed as much circus as song, with extraneous acrobatics and melodies that struck European ears as atonal and arhythmic. Western opera - with its volume and bombast - fell similarly flat in the East. But since Western ways were the planet's dominant ones, it was China that...
Maoism and the Cultural Revolution made that harder to do. Even indigenous opera was swept aside in favor of such turgid revolutionary works as The Red Detachment of Women and Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. Long experienced the suffocation of the musical arts in a more personal way than most when his grandfather, who had studied music in Paris, was sent to the country to work - but only after the Red Guards destroyed his musical library. "When I was five he started teaching me music anyway," Long says. "We were only allowed to learn revolutionary songs, but he taught them...
...battleground states targeted by his religious outreach staff were the results of just six weeks of activity leading up to the election. At the beginning of the summer, after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, his campaign announced an ambitious plan to engage young religious voters at Christian music festivals, at house parties, and through Evangelical and Catholic surrogates. But by the time fall arrived, the effort - originally called the Joshua Generation - had still not materialized. Finally, in the last week of September, the campaign set up a speaking tour for Miller and a few other Evangelical authors...