February 16, 2007
Spend Chinese New Year With The SF Symphony
If you're still recovering from the comment war over the Western-calendar New Year dance party with the Falun Gong, we've got a nice non-sectarian Chinese New Year musical performance with the SF Symphony to soothe your spirits!
The SF Symphony rings in the Year of the Pig with their annual East-meets-West lunar new year afternoon concert on Saturday, Feb. 24 -- this year's performances feature works by local Asian-American composer Gang Situ, a traditional "gong xi gong xi" (Happy New Year) singalong, the always-mellifluous performances of Chinese musical instruments, and a performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto by 14-year-old Asian child piano wunderkind Peng Peng. Carolyn Kuan will be conducting.
No, Peng Peng is not young-adult Chinese piano prodigy Lang Lang, and no, Peng Peng is not a panda name either (though we had a good-natured giggle when the head SFist classical reviewer said he was going to launch a second career as a Chinese pianist named Ced-Ced). Look at Peng Peng's sweet tweenage face! He's going to rock the romantica piano house!
Tickets here: $18-60. No pre-concert talk (but a reception with lion dancers afterwards!)
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You could not even pay me to go this performance . Anything that the Chinese communist regime is involved in would have to be devoid of any genuine Chinese culture.
I'm only interested in watching and hearing real Chinese culture.
Remember the Chinese cultural revolution in the 1960's, where all the places of worship and great works of art were destroyed. So what is this new so called art that has been coming from China now under the red blood flag??
Communism was imported from Russia and has nothing to do with the real Chinese people.
How is that some people are so forgetful? Don't you remember what happened to your Forefathers and mothers? How quickly you forget when the nations soul has been traded for by money.
See if these atrocities can help you remember what communism did (and continues to do but more covertly becasue the international community is watching very closely).
Communists commits genocide upon others, and its own countrymen.
Chinese Communism seems to be torturing and killing some group of people every decade.
1949 - Chinese Communism came to power in China. During World War II, they hung around villages, recruited members & ate for free. The communist only fought 2 battles; the rest of the fights were left to the Kuomintang. As a result, the number of Kuomintang soldiers decreased. When World War II ended, the communist came out in droves & chased the Kuomintang away.
1950s - The persecution of Tibetans began.
1966 - Cultural Revolution. All the good traditions and believes of ancient China were destroyed and trampled upon.
1989 - Tiananmen Massacre. Students were shot and rolled over by tanks for protesting.
1999 - Persecution of Falun Gong. Soon after, the communist started to make money from harvesting organs of Falun Gong people.
2007 - Shot an anti-satellite weapon into space...Every year, tens of thousands of protests happens in China and the number is getting larger.
I remembered the old "seem to be strong" communist Russia crumbled overnight, and it all began with the people losing faith in communism.That is exactly what is happening in China today.
Communist China is imploding.
Wake up and remember your roots, communism regime, dictatorship and evil have nothing to do with you wit the great Chinese people of the world,.
Lang Lang is quite a show, but his music making leaves me cold. Found an interesting interview with him on a quality European press site. They seem to like him a lot over there.
http://www.culturekiosque.com/klassik/intervie/lang_lang.html
Let's make it clear that "Jana" is none other than Jana Shearer, another well documented Falun Gong disciple and blogsphere operative.
(Just Google her name with the keyword "Dafa".)
Be warned that Jana will accuse people who disagree with her as "Chinese spy" without providing any proof.
And Jana's typical Epoch-Times-style slander against Chinese-American community is not suprising.
Peng Peng is obviousely not a Chinese spy, but Falun Gong disciples seem to believe targeting a 12 year old with their "Chinese spy everywhere" anti-China hysteria is okay.