{"id":43400,"date":"2022-04-10T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/beethoven-in-beijing-concert-50-years-us-china-cultural-exchange"},"modified":"2022-04-10T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T15:00:04","slug":"how-beethoven-inspired-50-years-of-cultural-exchange-between-the-us-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43400","title":{"rendered":"How Beethoven inspired 50 years of cultural exchange between the US and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threat<\/p>\n<p>It was a big year for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2009\/apr\/17\/tan-dun-lang-lang-collaboration\" title=\"\">Tan Dun<\/a>, the Oscar-winning Chinese musician who would go on to compose the soundtrack for the film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/dec\/08\/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-at-20-a-rare-action-movie-with-heart\" title=\"\">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/a><\/em>. In the autumn of 1973, Tan, then a teenager, was sent to a rural commune in Hunan province to plant rice. China was at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, Tan heard a sound from a loudspeaker in the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want to hear some interesting music? This is called \u2018symphony\u2019. The Philadelphia Orchestra is in China,\u201d a friend said to Tan. It was the first time he had heard about a \u201csymphony orchestra\u201d, and it was striking. \u201cI think it was something by Beethoven \u2013 the Sixth or the Fifth symphony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/beethoven-in-beijing-concert-50-years-us-china-cultural-exchange\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threatIt was a big year for Tan Dun, the Oscar-winning Chinese musician who would go on to compose the soun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1635,71,695,425,2545,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-classical-music","category-culture","category-mao-zedong","category-music","category-richard-nixon","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43400\/revisions\/43401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}