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  • Lotus Flowers As You Have Never Seen Before

    By Mingwei Li, photographer


    		 Lotus flower has a special place in Chinese culture. An old Chinese saying states "it may have come from muddy water, but the lotus flower is so beautiful and pure." It's also one of the holiest symbols in Buddhism. I took these pictures in a small pond north of Boston in July 2011. I used Canon 5D II and 70-200mm and 100mm macro lens for these shots.
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  • 文協國樂團年度公演 觀衆如痴如醉

    【僑報周末特約記者李強波士頓報道，鄒新中攝影】 5月19日晩，可以容納500人的威斯頓鎮瑞吉斯學院藝術中心禮堂座無虛席，大波士頓中華文化協會（GBCCA）國樂團及靑少年國樂團爲觀衆們奉獻了一台精彩的國樂音樂會。難度極高的壓軸戲《酒歌》，也獲得最熱烈的掌聲。


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  • SAPA-NE’s 2012 Annual Conference Attracts Innovators in Biopharma, Entrepreneurs from China

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    The 14th Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association New England (SAPA-NE) Annual Conference will take place in MIT Sloan School of Management and Walker Memorial Morss Hall at MIT on June 16, 2012 (8.00 am -5.30 pm). A delegation of 100 entrepreneurs from China will join the afternoon talent recruitment event, and provide attendees with excellent job opportunities.

    Group picture at SAPA-NE’s career development conference at MIT on April 7, 2012.
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  • GBAAYSO To Present The Bufferfly Lover Concert at Lexington High on June 16

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    After the first public concert at National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass. in December 2011, the Asian Cultural Center Greater Boston Asian-American Youth Symphony Orchestra (GBAAYSO) has been active in local communities. A number of charity concerts have been presented by GBAAYSO at senior centers and other venues in Lexington and Waltham, including a Food for Music concert in Lexington on April 15 that raised about $2,000 for Lexington Food Bank.

    Conductor Jie Yang(right) and young musicians of GBAAYSO at end of the Food for Music concert on April 15.
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  • 李志波士顿演唱会带来中国新民谣

    李强， bostonese.com

    南京市政府代表团刚刚于5月底访问了波士顿，一位来自南京的中国歌手又将在波城举办演唱会，给喜爱中国新民谣的音乐迷带来惊喜。

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  • 首届亚文中心青少年中国曲目小提琴比赛圆满结束

    李强，于2011年12月

    12月18日晚，首届波士顿亚洲文化中心青少年中国曲目小提琴演奏比赛决赛于剑桥郞吉音乐学院（Longy School of Music）举办，12位入围选手经过2个多小时的角逐，3个年龄组的前三名由3位波士顿地区著名音乐家丁欣、魏莹峻、于翔评定。

    7岁及7岁以下组前3名是：尹浩扬（Alex Yin）、潘月（Michelle Pan）、曾天沂（Grace Zeng）。8到11岁组前3名是：David Shen、饶恩瑜（Enyu Rao）、沈远航（Emily Shen）。12到16岁组前三名是：陈凯琪（Katherine Chen）、牛牛（NiuNiu Zhang）、李羽蓝（Yulan Li）。每个年龄组的冠军获得400-800元奖金，第二名和第三名选手获得50元奖金。吴力伦（Leland Wu）获得50元的特别奖。


    比赛完后，陈凯琪露出轻松的微笑
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  • The Central Conservatory of Music Chorus, Beijing To Perform at Harvard Sanders Theatre


    中華表演藝術基金會
     Foundation For Chinese Performing Arts  
    3 Partridge Lane, Lincoln, MA 01773, Tel: (781) 259-8195 
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    Friday, June 22, 2012, 8pm
    Harvard Sanders Theatre

    The Central Conservatory of Music Chorus, Beijing

    中央音樂學院合唱團

     

    Admission is FREE

    Suggested donation $10 per person at door

     

    The Central Conservatory of Music Chorus is invited to the Inaugural Yale International Choral Festival, a new event produced by the Yale Glee Club in collaboration with the Yale School of Music, and the Yale Alumni Chorus. The festival will be held June 19-23, 2012 at Yale University.

    http://www.yaleinternationalchoralfest.org/Home 

    http://www.yaleinternationalchoralfest.org/Performing_Choirs

    The Central Conservatory of Music Chorus will also perform two concerts in New York on June 25  at the United Nations and the “New York Choral Festival” in Flushing, NY sponsored  by SAMA.

     

    Program

    1. Ga O Li Tai 嘎哦麗泰: Hasake Folk Song Arranged by Du Mingxin 杜鳴心
    2. Pastoral 牧歌: East Mongolia Folk Song Arranged by Qu Xixian 翟希賢
    3. The Youth Dance 青春舞曲: Xinjiang Folk Song
      arranged by Wang Shiguang 王洛賓記譜王世光編曲
    4. Double Echoes 翠谷雙迴聲: by Yang Hongnian 楊鴻年
    5. Introduction and Toccata 引子與託卡塔: by Yang Hongnian 楊鴻年
    6. Spring Waters 春潮: by Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff
    7. Sa Li Lo 撒里囉: Lyrics by Yangxiaoping, Music by Liu Xiaogen 曉耕and Liu Ye
      arranged by Yang Hongnian 楊鴻年, Piano Part by Wang Tianyang
    8. Lacrymosa 眼淚(From “Requiem” No.7): by MA Mozart
    9. Pizzicato Polk 撥弦波爾卡: Music by J* Strauss, Arranged by Yang Hongnian 楊鴻年
    10. Lux Aurumque 金色的光: by Eric Whitacre
    11. The Rhythm of Life 生活的節奏: by CY Coleman
    12. Suliko 蘇麗科: Georgian Folk Song
    13. Zitti, Zitti 悄悄地(From “Rigoletto”）: by Giuseppe Verdi
    14. In Taberna Quamdo Sumus 在酒店裡(From “Carmina Burana”): by Carl Orff
    15. That is me 那就是我: Lyrics by Xiaoguang 曉光,
      composed by Gu Jianfen 谷建芬曲劉孝陽改編
    16. Man Jiang Hong 滿江紅: Lyrics by Yue Fei 岳飛,
      composed by Li Baochen 李抱忱
    17. Kasar Mie La Gaji 地球累了: by Alberto Gra
    18. The Battle of Jericho 傑里科之役: American Traditional Spiritual
      arranged by Moses Hogan
    19. Sabre Dance 馬刀舞曲: composed by Aram Ilitch Khatchaturian,
      arranged by Yang Hongnian 楊鴻年

    Conductor: Hongnian Yang 杨鸿年
    Assistant Conductor: Li Yang 杨力
    Piano Accompanist: TianYang Wang王天阳 and Jun Liu刘俊

     

    The Central Conservatory of Music Chorus, Beijing

    Located at the former Prince Chun’s Residence of Qing Dynasty,

    the Central Conservatory of Music’s beginnings can be traced to 1940, when the National Conservatory of Music was founded. It has merged together with other 5 music institutions and departments of music in Universities in 1950. Moved from Tianjin to Beijing in 1958, it was ranked among the national leading universities in 1960. Currently, it was listed as one of the leading universities in the “211 project” in 2000, the only institution in Academies of Fine Arts in China, and only key institution of higher learning supervised directly under the Ministry of Education of the State Council among all academies of arts in China.

    Hongnian Yang 杨鸿年, conductor

     

     

     

      Conductor Yang Hongnian is China’s well-known Conductor and Music Educator and Professor of Conducting at Central Conservatory of Music. He was formerly Vice Chairman of the International Children’s Chorus and Performing Arts Association, Board Member of Chinese Musician’s Association, Adviser of China Choral Society and China Chorus Union.

    Professor Yang has an ardent and bold style. When conducting he adds subtle movements to interpret the music in his vast repertoire. His unique performing art and his music prowess are well admired by musical professionals and educators in China and overseas. He has received praise from the international music community as a “maestro who masters the myth of chorus”.

    Based on Professor Yang Hongnian’s achievements, he was granted the title of “National Exemplary Worker in the Culture System”. He was consecutively recommended by the international conductors to be the Vice Chairman of the National Children’s Chorus Performing Arts Association. US President Ronald Reagan awarded the highest appreciation Certificate for the children’s chorus he conducted while in America. He received the Honorary Citizen of Newark Medal and the Golden Key from Osaka and Bingku County of Japan for his contribution to music.

     Li Yang 楊力: Assistant Conductor

     

    Yang Li is professor of Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, Principal Conductor of Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, Conductor of the Children and Young Women’s Chorus of the China National Symphony Orchestra, and Director and Conductor of Beijing Philharmonic Chorus.

     

    Yang Li was born in a musical family and started learning music since early childhood. In 1990, He graduated from the Conducting Department of Central Conservatory of Music. In 1997, he received an “Artist Diploma” from Stuttgart Conservatory of Music in Germany where he graduated from, and became the first Chinese artist to win the H. von Karajan Foundation scholarship.

     

    The Ministry of Culture of Peoples Republic of China awarded the “Wen Hua Prize” to Yang Li for his excellent performance on conducting the opera production “General She Leng”. He was also given an award for “Best Conductor”. In 2010, Yang Li led the Beijing Philharmonic Chorus and participated in the 24th Béla Bartók International Choir Competition held in Hungary. The chorus won the first place among Children’s Chorus Category, and the second place in the Youth Category. In July 2011, Beijing Philharmonic Chorus competed in the 2011 Istanbul International Chorus Competition, and was awarded the first place in Children’s Choirs Category, Female Choirs Category and the Grand-Prix. In the following month, the chorus participated in “The Singing World”-The 7th International Choir and Vocal Ensembles Competition in St. Petersburg and won 15 awards including first places in categories of Children’s Choirs and Female Choirs, and Modern Music, as well as the Grand-Prix, Special Prize of Jury and the Best Performance of Y. Falik’s work. Yang Li was awarded the Best Conductor.

     

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    Friday, 6/22/2012, 8pm

    Harvard Sanders Theatre

    Central Conservatory of Music Chorus
    (Beijing)
    Free Admission  

     
    Hongnian Yang 楊鴻年
    Conductor and Music Director

    Li Yang 楊力

    Assistant Conductor


    The 24th Season 2012-2013

     July 26- August 17, 2012

    The 21st Music Festival at Walnut Hill

    第21屆胡桃山音樂營 

    2012 Concerto Competition: Mozart Piano Concerto in

    C major, No. 21, K. 467

    2012 musical festival

       

    The 5th annual Chinese Music Instrument audition and concert 

    Audition: Saturday 9/29/2012

    Concert: Saturday 10/6/2012

    First Church Boston

     

    Sat. 11/3/2012, 8 pm

    NEC’s Jordan Hall

    The Long Sisters Piano Duo,  

    Beatrice Long  

    Christina Long

    The Long Sisters piano duo 

     Sat. 2/2/2013, 8 pm

    NEC’s Jordan Hall

       玄門步虛

    Empty Choreography

    佛教道教音樂會

    Buddhism and Taoism Temple Music

    Chinese Performing Arts of North America北美中樂團

    Jian Bao包键,  Guanzi 管子, Jianbing Hu 胡建兵, Sheng 笙

    Tao Chen 陳濤, Di Zi 笛子 


     

    Sat. 3/30/2013, 8 pm

    NEC’s Jordan Hall

    Lynn Chang, friends, and The Ying Quartet

     

      Sat. 4/13/2013, 8 pm

    NEC’s Jordan Hall

    Pianist Meng-Chieh Liu

    Schubert Sonata Cycle 4

    Meng-chieh Liu

    April 15, 2013

    (application deadline)

    Jury date: 4/20/2013

     The 22nd Annual Chinese brush painting and calligraphy competition

      http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/competition/painting/2012/index.htm

     

    July 25- August 16, 2013 (TBD)

    The 22nd Music Festival at

    Walnut Hill

     

      

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  • Modeled After Boston, Nanjing’s Economic Development Focuses on High Tech Industries

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Cambridge, Mass. – Nanjing, which means “capital in the South” in Chinese, is a major city in Eastern China. In the evening of May 25, Nanjing Economic and Trade Delegation consisted of 50 government officials and business leaders successfully held the Nanjing Overseas Talent Entrepreneurship Forum and Nanjing 321 Plan Promotion Conference at Marriott Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. Over 400 entrepreneurs, professionals, researchers and students attended this conference.

    Yang Weize making theme speech at the conference.
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  • 南京321计划吸引英才——借鉴波士顿经验诚邀海外人才共创业

    【波士顿双语网记者李强2012年5月26日图文报道】南京是六朝古都，中国历史文化名城。5月25日周五晩，南京市委书记杨卫泽率团在剑桥市万豪酒店举办中国南京——波士顿海外人才科技创业恳谈会曁“南京321计划”推介会。本次会议由南京市政府主办，南京大学波士顿校友会协办，吸引了大波士顿地区400多位企业家、专业科技人员和中国留学生参加。

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  • 我在美国栽培香椿树的乐趣

    双凌客，旅美华侨

    我在陕西生活过十年，在那嗜爱上了“香椿芽”。那里到处可见一棵棵高大、枝繁 叶茂的香椿树。春夏间，家家户户的饭桌上总有一样香椿制作的佳肴。闻到那浓郁的特殊芳香，我就会垂涎欲滴，它的美味、丰富的营养吸引了我：香椿树全身都是 宝，香椿芽内含蛋白质、钙、镁等多种元素及氨基酸，具有清热、解毒、开胃等功效；它的皮、根、果实都能入药呢！
    2014_Xiangchun_Tree
    上图：刚刚从花盆里的栽到地里的香椿树。
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