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Rodolfo Gramcko and his wife at the Broward Center for Performing Arts (Jada Yeung/The Epoch Times The Epoch Times)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The Shen Yun Performing Arts' opening night at the Broward Center for Performing Arts was another resounding success in a long string of shows staged worldwide.
Mr. Rodolfo Gramcko, a pianist who has played the piano since the age of 4, also plays the organ and teaches music. He was in the audience with members of his family, Grace, Angelique, and Kaye, and was so impressed with the show that he hopes to bring an Indonesian friend of Chinese decent to the St. Petersburg show on Jan. 29.
There were "a lot of things that moved my heart," he said.
"I love it. It was wonderful, emotional, and inspiring all throughout. Not only the music, I mean the message, the dancing, everything that has been conveyed with colors and the inner spirit … really touched my heart,” he said.
"All the scenes have a connection—one after the other. Color-wise, theme-wise, everything was connected. … I feel a lot of things, but I see the beauty, I see the honesty. There are so many things that are impossible to express with words. It was all perfectly balanced.”
Mr. Gramcko felt that Shen Yun was also sending a message of truth, "a truth that moves the spirit of the people, seeing that there is a plan, there is a salvation, there is another truth that has been blocking the real thing.” He said he was so glad that Shen Yun has spoken out this way, that it really moved him.
The Shen Yun Orchestra, with its combination of classical Western and traditional Chinese instruments, provides the original music that accompanies each performance and results in a very unique sound, which audiences find very pleasing to the ear. Mr. Gramcko was no exception.
"The orchestra—that was very well-balanced. It was amazingly balanced even with the bass. They were synchronized. Everything was at a highlight," he said.
Mr. Gramcko also commented on the erhu, a traditional two-stringed Chinese instrument with very rich sounds.
"It's a wonderful thing. I've been touched. The stringed instrument, the erhu—it really moved everything inside me because you can do so much with so little. It's just simple, but so beautiful."
In every Shen Yun performance, state-of-the-art digitally mastered backdrops play an important role in developing the scenery and mood of each act, something that Mr. Gramcko also enjoyed.
In summing up, Mr. Gramcko said: "I loved it very much, very, very much. I was very moved by it. The thing that struck me is the fact that it isn't just entertainment. It's beautiful entertainment, but it carries a very, very strong message and that was a huge surprise.
"I expected to see traditional Chinese dancing, which I love—Chinese music and dancing—but it was a real surprise that it carried such a very strong message, and I would encourage people to be very open to that message."
The Shen Yun shows in Ft. Lauderdale will be followed by shows in St. Petersburg, with two performances on Jan. 29 at the Mahaffey Theater, and in Jacksonville, Jan. 30 and 31, at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts.
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