GREENSBORO, N.C.—Ms. LeGrand, a professional musician and flute teacher, could feel the energy of the dancers and musicians in the Shen Yun Performing Arts debut show in Greensboro on Friday night, Sept. 4.
“I really enjoyed the show,” she said. “The combination of expressive dancing and expressive singing, the beautiful music and original instruments, was really quite touching, and [so] much energy. You could just feel the energy going through the dancers and musicians. It was very powerful."
Ms. LeGrand said she enjoyed the entire performance held at the historic War Memorial Auditorium.
"The music created an ambience that permitted wonderful expression in the dance. I especially enjoyed hearing the authentic instruments and watching them being performed on the original instruments. It’s very interesting.”
The Shen Yun Performing Arts Orchestra brings together two of the world’s greatest classical music traditions, Chinese and Western, in a masterful fusion, and this professional musician liked it very much.
“It’s interesting to listen to when I am schooled in the classical Western style because [there’s] a lot of repetition, but that makes it calm in a way and brings the message very clearly.
“All of it together is quite an amazing picture. I particularly enjoyed the chopstick dance [Mongolian Chopsticks] because it was so rhythmic and precisely performed.
“I also enjoyed Welcoming Spring very much—very beautiful colors.” This fan dance performed by women celebrates the coming season, following a harsh, cold winter.
Ms. LeGrand summed up the evening's performance with a few words: “I could feel the soul in the music!”
‘It was perfection’
Also in the audience was Ms. Folwell, a church music director, who said she loved the show: “We don’t have shows like this in Greensboro very often, so it was really a treat and a thrill.
“The performance was perfect. I mean it was perfection. … It was beautiful! It was just wonderful,” she said.
Ms. Folwell also enjoyed the music. “The instruments were so unique—the drum and the two-stringed ... [ erhu]. ... That was a number that I just loved,” she said, referring to the erhu solo. The erhu is a two-stringed Chinese instrument known for its melancholic and hauntingly beautiful sound.
Ben Yang contributed to this article.
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts’ next performance will be in Portland, Maine, on Sept. 19 and 20.
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