National Minority Business Council Chairman Has ‘Once in a Lifetime Experience’

Mr. Reid, an attorney and chairman of National Minority Business Council, attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
National Minority Business Council Chairman Has ‘Once in a Lifetime Experience’
The Shen Yun Performing Arts curtain call at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Feb. 13, 2010. (Dai Bing/The Epoch Times)
Charlotte Cuthbertson
2/13/2010
Updated:
10/2/2015
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The Shen Yun Performing Arts curtain call at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Feb. 13, 2010. (Dai Bing/The Epoch Times)

NEW YORK—Gregory Reid gained a real understanding of true Chinese beliefs for the first time on Saturday night. “How [Chinese] look at life and eternity,” Mr. Reid said. “I never really knew that. It’s been so enlightening to me in that respect.”

Mr. Reid, an attorney and chairman of National Minority Business Council, attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Shen Yun’s celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year captured the audience, who cheered on a curtain call.  

“It’s been an enriching experience,” Mr. Reid said. “I hope that more people come to this show because it’s really a once in a lifetime experience.”

The combination of music, dance, costumes, philosophy, and culture of China, impressed Mr. Reid. Shen Yun’s choreography ranges from grand imperial processions to legions of thunderous drums, with gorgeously costumed dancers moving in stunning synchronized patterns.

The New York-based performing arts company seeks to revive the true, five-millennium-old artistic tradition of China that thrived before decades of suppression by the Chinese communist state.

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National Minority Business Council Chairman Gregory Reid. (Joshua Philipp/The Epoch Times)
“It’s just really interesting how some of these philosophical concepts that I’m getting from the show are going to stay with me,” Mr. Reid said. The lyrics of the soloists resonated with him, and the description of how life is “kind of transient” stuck with him. “These lyrics are very meaningful to me,” he added.

One of the songs by soprano Min Jiang, “Your Own Choice” begins with the lines: “The river of time flows on, the years rush by. For what were the many reincarnations?”

Geng Haolan, the second soprano elicited an encore from the receptive audience.

“I love the music. I love the dance,” Mr. Reid said. “I’ve enjoyed myself tremendously tonight.”

Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company opened its first show of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Saturday. Shen Yun will perform at Radio City Music Hall in New York the weekends of Feb. 13-14 and Feb. 20-21.

With reporting by Joshua Philipp.

  For more information, please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org


Charlotte Cuthbertson is a senior reporter with The Epoch Times who primarily covers border security and the opioid crisis.
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