Poetic Comnos er Chen Qigang

• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 2002,（12）
• 页码范围: 34-35
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: J605

摘要

ON visiting Chen Qigang’s web page(www.qigangchen.fr.st) and seeing his picture,the viewer knows immediately that this is noordinary person. Chen’s essential boldness,sensitivity and warmth show clearly in his face. Onreading his resume about his studies in France, and hiscompositions that were a departure from traditionalChinese music, this impression is endorsed. His tutor,Olivier Messiaen, a master of 20th century modernmusic, once remarked, "His compositions reveal truecreativeness, great talent, and a perfect assimilation ofEuropean musical concepts into Chinese thought."On his emergence into contemporary classical music, few of Chen’s peers acknowledged the originality of his work. Years later, his talent, unconventional-ity, and refusal to be constrained by contemporary Western musical mores have won him recognition. In January 2003, the UK record company EMI/Virgin is to release Chen Qigang’s CD (The Five Elements, Reflections on Years Past, and Butterfly in Love with Flowers).