ADELAIDE—With an elite company of dancers, singers, and musicians the New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts comes to the beautiful coastal city of Adelaide in South Australia. State of the art backdrops and groundbreaking music combine to give the best of Chinese and Western composition.
Mr. Taylor, former bandmaster and trumpeter in the Australian Army Band, enjoyed the pianist and the singers.
“It was all so flawless. They were just so perfect. The male tenor in the white suit was brilliant. His voice was absolutely stunning,”
Mr. Taylor has been playing since he was 11 years old. In addition to playing in the army band for 26 years, Mr. Taylor has also played in many bands and in various orchestras, including the Metropolitan Orchestra. He found the oriental style of the music quite different.
“I think a lot of it’s to do with the different tuning of the Western music to Eastern music. They seem to have a different style of tuning their instrument to Western.”
Mrs. Taylor is a cosmetic consultant and really appreciated the beauty and peacefulness of Shen Yun.
“We thought it was beautiful. The colour and the costumes were stunning. And the dancers were just so elegant, they really were. It was a beautiful show. It was really, really restful and beautiful,” said Mrs. Taylor.
She couldn’t decide which one she liked best.
“It was very hard to say. I liked the boys, the Tibetan dance [Dance of the Snow-Capped Mountain].They were very good,” she said.
Mr. Taylor felt it was very courageous to show how the spiritual practice of Falun gong is persecuted by the communist regime in China today.
“They had a little pantomime on Falun Gong. It was pretty gutsy I thought,” he said.
They both agreed that the Shen Yun performance gave the audience a feeling of peacefulness. “The serenity of the show came through.”
Shen Yun travels to Brisbane for six performances and to then neighbouring New Zealand, where they will perform from April 15 to17, and returns to Sydney for seven days from April 19 to 26.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of the Shen Yun Performing Arts 2009 World Tour. For more information please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
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