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Hosted by Asia Society of Northern California and moderated by author Sheila Melvin, this discussion with the filmmakers Jennifer Lin and Jindong Cai, and Ambassador Nicholas Platt, will look at the future of culture and diplomacy through classical music. Ryan Fleur, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Rachel Cooper, Director of Global Cultural Diplomacy Initiatives at Asia Society will give opening remarks.
NOTE: We will post the event video here as soon as it becomes available. Thank you to Asia Society of Northern California for hosing this wonderful evening!
Conductor Eugene Ormandy during the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1973 China Tour, from the film “Beethoven in Beijing”
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Beethoven in Beijing explores how the Philadelphia Orchestra began a relationship with China that flourishes to this day. Tonights’s discussion will take their story as a starting point and look forward to what may be to come. Certainly the power of music to connect across cultures, time and space is more relevant than ever in the historic moment we find ourselves in today.
The public vaguely assumes that classical music is in decline. But if you look closely, you’ll conclude that it’s more accurate to say that this 400-year-old art form has been disrupted by globalism and technology, and is emerging newly transformed.
-Sam Katz, producer
Beethoven in Beijing
