Music Consultant: ‘Very beautiful music, very different from what we usually hear in America’

Among those who witnessed the “Chinese New Year Spectacular” in Seattle were Chris, a music consultant and Gary, a CPA.
Music Consultant: ‘Very beautiful music, very different from what we usually hear in America’
Those who witnessed 'Chinese New Year Spectacular' realized the profundity of Chinese culture. (Youzhi Ma/The Epoch Times)
1/19/2009
Updated:
10/1/2015
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Those who witnessed 'Chinese New Year Spectacular' realized the profundity of Chinese culture.  (Youzhi Ma/The Epoch Times)

SEATTLE—In Seattle, on the evening of Jan. 18, Divine Performing Arts (DPA) brought onto the stage of the Paramount Theatre, a “stunning” show of traditional Chinese culture. Among those who witnessed the Chinese New Year Spectacular were Chris, a music consultant and Gary, a CPA.

Chris said, “Well, I’m more on the business side of things—music that means behind the stage—there is work going on that no one knows about. I advise how to do that for record labels.” He has had a lot of experience with many musicians, giving him a different perspective than that of most people. “Very beautiful music, very different from what we usually hear in America. I love it, especially the percussion part, the drums—that was some of my favorite stuff.”

Chris found learning a few new things about Chinese culture interesting. “I didn’t know that a lot of the dances are not allowed in China today, that they’re prohibited right? That was news to me.”

Gary felt a myriad of things while watching the show. He said, “Its quite stunning, some of it is unexpected. The dancing is exquisite, the colors are just stunning. I especially like the last number, the Tibetan number, I thought it was quite good and the opening scene, I thought it was quite breathtaking.”
 
There was one segment of the performance, which depicts the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Chris said, “That was one of my favorite acts of the show, the one where the family comes in and the father is starting to meditate and he was taken away.”

In this dance, several dancers were portrayed as Chinese police wearing the communist party symbol. Chris asked, “Why does he leave his family behind to go meditate at the end?”

Chris was surprised to learn that the father in the dance did not leave his family intentionally. He had actually been persecuted to death. So, when he left, it was a portrayal of his spirit ascending to heaven.

Gary said, “The going off to heaven part was unexpected to me [because] I thought those were some of our own Christian Western thoughts.” They both said, “I didn’t know there was a heaven and afterlife in Buddhism.”

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