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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Music of Sichuan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sichuan is a province of China which has a long history of both folk and classical music.
		The Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu is one of the older establishments of musical education in China, having been established in 1939.
		Sichuan (Chinese : 四川; pinyin : SÃ¬chuān ; Wade-Giles : Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Sichuan (855 words)

	China-related Topics MU-MZ Topic Center - China-Related Topics
		Music of Hebei Hebei is a province of China, known for its orchestral wind ensembles and the Huangmei opera.
		Music of Guangxi Chinesemusic Guangxi is a region of China, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
		Music of Guizhou Chinesemusic Guizhou is a provinces of Chinaprovince of China.
	www.famouschinese.com /public/China-Related_Topics_MU-MZ.html (631 words)

	General Information fo POPMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sichuan Conservatory of Music, founded in the year of 1939, the only music school of higher learning in the southwest part of China, has now been one of the prestigious schools with a complete and efficient educational and administrative grounds as well as celebrated faculty.
		Music production sound engineering It has been rather discouraging for the musically talented people who will dedicate themselves to composition, owing to the fact that composers, performers and conductors are creating artistic works in their separate fields.
		Modern Music Literature studies Like the role of literature in film and drama, music literature plays a major part in the whole progress of history and development of music.
	www.popmc.com /index_e.asp (1025 words)

	Sichuan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Southern Song Dynasty established coordinated defense against the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in Sichuan and Xiangyang.The line of defence was finally broken through after the first use of firearms in history during the six-year siege of Xiangyang, which ended in 1273.
		The area lies in the Sichuan basin and is surrounded by the Himalaya (喜玛拉雅山脉）to the west, Qinling (秦岭) range to the north, and mountainous areas of Yunnan to the south.
		Sichuan also had the largest output of pig meat among all the provinces and the second largest output of silkworm cocoons in China in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sichuan (1508 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Elaine Barkin, "The New Music of Chen Yi." 147-150.
		It is demonstrated that Manchu musical instruments are the embodiment of the shamanic concept of universal sagacity.
		The new music of China was greatly advanced in musical education, composition, and performance along two streams — as a fine art in academic environments and as a New Music Movement among the masses — through the wartime period of the 1930s and 1940s.
	www.musicinchina.org /journal.htm (4116 words)

	Sichuan / Chengdu /Sichuan Opera / Puppet and Shadow Shows / Food Culture
		During the Republic of China (1912-1949), the lantern shadow show to the accompaniment of gong and drum music developed into one of the distinguished folk dramatic arts.
		Sichuan food, as one of the four noted schools of Chinese cuisine, has a history of some 1,000 years.
		Sichuan embroidery, one of the four noted schools of embroidery in China, has a history of more than 2,000 years.
	www.chinatravelhub.com /REGIONS/sichuan04.htm (691 words)

	Szechuan Opera-Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The dialogue was punctuated by music performed by two musicians using a small drum, a gong, and a fiddle.
		Fiddle music from the southeastern province of Anhui arrived in the mid-nineteenth century.
		Sichuan Opera has a strong element of the fantastic, geared to an audience that appreciates stories of ghosts, animal spirits, and demons.
	web.simmons.edu /~xie6/final_project/history.html (555 words)

	Di Fang Xi
		Sichuan, a gigantic sandstone basin ringed, like the Tibetan highlands, by high mountains, is China's most populous province and the homeland of more than 100 million people.
		Occupying the unrivaled first place among more than a dozen other traditions of music-theater in the province, the Sichuan Opera is distinguished by a melodically fluent fundamental character and numbers among the southern Chinese styles which clearly differ from the northern Chinese operas with their tendency toward loud and frequently martial passages.
		Numerous Sichuan opera troupes are active throughout the province, both in the countryside and in the cities, but only the troupes from the capital city of Chengdu and from the province's other major metropolis of Chongqing maintain a consistently first-rate artistic level.
	www.meta-theater.com /english/produkt/difangxi/di_sichuan.htm (316 words)

	Music of Sichuan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sichuan - Tibet - Xinjiang - Yunnan - Zhejiang
		Sichuan opera is an ancient tradition that is well-known across China, while the folk-based Sichuan lantern drama is popular in the region.
		Married lay priests have their own kinds of music, performed at various rituals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Sichuan (241 words)

	Shepherd School of Music - SHEPHERD SCHOOL STUDENTS TO PERFORM AT KENNEDY CENTER
		She earned her undergraduate degree with honors from the Cleveland Institute of Music and currently is pursuing a master’s degree, studying with the Shepherd School’s Kathleen Winkler, professor of violin.
		With her focus on solo performance, she came to Houston to expand her musical experience and currently is pursuing a doctorate of music, studying with the Shepherd School’s Michael Webster, Professor of clarinet and ensembles.
		After earning her bachelor’s degree — and in the process the E. Nakamichi Piano Concerto Competition at the Aspen Music Festival — Mimaki attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for her master’s degree and currently is a doctoral student of Shepherd School Professor Robert Roux.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~musi/news/kennedy_2006.html (794 words)

	China: Classical Music
		The music itself is clearly designed to be an abstract complement to the highly-developed poetic genres, and bears similar titles.
		Fortunately, the situation with music produced in China is much better in this respect than with that produced in India, so there is no real conflict between recording and musical quality.
		The music is quite sophisticated and dense in ideas, and presents a real opportunity for "interpretation" by a range of fine musicians.
	www.medieval.org /music/world/china.html (1390 words)

	Electroacoustic Music by Women Composers
		Her music is performed regularly in concert and on the radio in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia.
		Presently, her music studies various types of sound energies of nature; she uses these as they are or transforms them in the studio to create an abstract and expressive non-anecdotic musical language.
		Current musical preoccupations include methods of combining life performers and electroacoustic material, and techniques to model in the musical structure relationships found between the elements of the natural world.
	cec.concordia.ca /econtact/wea2/ConcertTwo.htm (1797 words)

	Academic Departments - College of Liberal Arts - Music Department - Adjunct Faculty - Jay Chen
		Professor Chen is a trumpet instructor at OSU and Willamette University.
		Chen is the principle trumpet for the Portland Opera and the Salem Chamber Orchestra.
		In China, he served as trumpet instructor at the Sichuan Conservatory and as principal trumpet for the Emei Motion Picture and Television Industry Orchestra.
	www.willamette.edu /cla/music/faculty/chen.htm (177 words)

	Ashley Sandor Sidon \| Cellist \| Biography
		She is a former cello instructor, chamber music coach and lecturer in twentieth-century music at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China).
		Prior to her tenure in Asia, Dr. Sandor Sidon was an instructor of cello and director of chamber music at Earlham College in Indiana (USA), manager-member of the Emery Trio and a former associate member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra.
		As a researcher and proponent of contemporary music, she has premiered compositions by composers Philip Koplow and Roger Vogel, and her research document titled "Lineage and Comparison of Versions of Igor Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne" was published by the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts (2004).
	www.ashleysandorsidon.com /biography.html (461 words)

	Elder Conservatorium of Music \| David Lockett
		David Lockett studied piano at the the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide and at the Royal College of Music in London.
		His CD of piano music by the Australian composer Margaret Sutherland was described by Soundscapes International Review of Fine Music as “an enormously important and welcome disc”.
		A residency at the Sichuan Conservatory in China during 1991 prompted an immediate invitation for a return visit while in Japan, during his first tour there in 1989, he was awarded honorary life membership of the Piano Teachers’ National Association.
	www.music.adelaide.edu.au /staff/keyboard/david_lockett.html (1045 words)

	Elder Conservatorium of Music \| Guila Tiver
		Mezzo-soprano Guila Tiver began her vocal studies at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide as a recipient of the Elder Scholarship.
		After graduating from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Music and English Literature and two years study of French Language and Literature, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to further her vocal studies in Switzerland.
		Since 1985 Guila has been teaching singing at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide and in 1989 was also appointed Lecturer in Voice, later becoming Head of Vocal Studies, at the Flinders Street School of Music, Adelaide Institute of TAFE, until the amalgamation of the two schools.
	www.music.adelaide.edu.au /staff/voice/guila_tiver.html (538 words)

	NIU Music - Phelps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Phelps' music is performed frequently in the US and abroad at various venues, including SEAMUS and ICMA conferences, and is distributed on the BELLA, SEAMUS, CENTAUR and THIRTEENTH labels.
		Chordlines," a computer music work on CD, was choreographed by South Indian classical dancer/choreographer Siri Rama and performed at the International Computer Music Conference in Hong Kong in August, 1996.
		Currently, he has renewed his electric guitar "chops" and enjoys blending various styles of music while re-exploring the sonic world of rock, pop and other club musics.
	www.niu.edu /Music/people/bios/jphelps.shtml (682 words)

	Sichuan - China Tour - Travel to China
		Sichuan (zh-cpw c=四川 p=S?chuān w=Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a Provinces of Chinaprovince in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu.
		The Song Dynasty (960-1279)Southern Song Dynasty established coordinated defense against the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in Sichuan and Xiangyang, which proved successful as Mongke Khan died of illness in Sichuan.
		The Minjiang River (Sichuan)Minjiang River, in central Sichuan is a tributary of the upper Yangtze River, which it joins at Yibin.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Sichuan (963 words)

	ISCM-ACL World Music Days 2007 Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We are therefore looking for works with a diversity of style and a variety of possibilities, with the use of ethnic instruments and elements, with music that goes beyond its local cultural boundary for a better world.
		We believe that local audiences, overseas participants and delegates of the 2007 Festival will not only receive a unique experience in musical stimulation, education and satisfaction, but also be able to witness the ambition, vitality and efficiency of Hong Kong.
		In the case of a composer having special requirements concerning the performance (e.g., specific performer or specific instrument), the expenses should be covered by the composer, National Section or Associate Member.
	www.hkcg.org /2007worldmusic/ISCM (1110 words)

	Chinese Performing Artists of America (CPAA) - Artists
		She was later admitted into China Conservatory of Music and studied guzheng classics of different schools, Chinese musicology and music theory.
		After graduating with a Master's degree in the Musical Arts from Sichuan Conseratory of Music, she was invited to join the faculty of the Conservatory where she taught voice, piano and music theory.
		Her passion for music has influenced many young students and winning praises and the confidence of both students and parents.
	www.chineseperformingarts.org /artists_musicians1.html (998 words)

	Dr. Emma Zevik - Faculty - Department of Performing and Visual Arts - The American University in Cairo (AUC)
		Emma Zevik is a composer, filmmaker and educator whose creative works -- music, masks, and poetry -- have been enjoyed by audiences around the world -- from Boston to Beijing -- including a full-length program of her original works at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City.
		She was Visiting Professor, Music Composition and Musicology, at Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China, 1995-97.
		Recipient of numerous awards and grants, she was a Music Composition Fellow at the Millay Arts Colony, where she completed compositions incorporating her first study of Egyptian music.
	develop.aucegypt.edu /pva/faculty_emmazevik.html (367 words)

	Pawtucket Arts Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jun Qin graduated from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.
		She is a member of the Sichuan Branch of the Musician Society of China and worked in the Chinese Emei Film Studio.
		With the introduction of Western music into China, it has also proven itself to be a vital musical instrument that can encompass both Western and Eastern cultures.
	www.pawtucketarts.org /chinesemusic.htm (226 words)

	Augsburg College - Augsburg Now
		As he retires from the College, he leaves a legacy that includes close connections to a Chinese conservatory of music and its faculty, an archive of original music from Scandinavia, and influences from these experiences that impacted the education of many, many music students he has taught.
		He was attracted to Augsburg by music chair Leland Sateren, and chuckles in recalling the early days when they shared an office and between the two of them taught almost all the music students.
		One is a musical composition that was requested by the Havana Clarinet Quintet, a group whom he happened to meet when they performed in China.
	www.augsburg.edu /now/archives/summer02/bridging.html (528 words)

	ANU - Faculty of Arts - Keyboard Institute
		A School of Music member since 1979, John Luxton is recognised as one of Australia’s.nest pianists and pedagogues.
		He is the chosen accompanist of many singers and instrumentalists, a sought-after concert artist and a chamber music player and his artistic advice is frequently drawn upon by a wide variety of national arts organisations.
		Ms Powell’s musical education commenced in Sydney, where she attended the Sydney Conservatorium High School and completed a Bachelor of Music degree, studying with Nancy Salas and David Miller.
	www.anu.edu.au /music/keyboard/biographies.php?p=1 (2576 words)

	The Tentacle \| News \| Spring 2001
		The newly established Improvised Music Workshop is a regular forum for both practicing and witnessing live improvisation, as well as a collaborative space where artists and aficionados can create and learn.
		The newly established Sichuan Modern Pop Music Conservatory in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, is seeking faculty members to teach various instruments, with an emphasis on jazz.
		Affiliated with the prestigious Sichuan Music Conservatory, the SMPMC is reportedly the first school of its kind in China, offering academic degrees in composition, computer music, audio recording, modern dance, and instrumental disciplines including guitar, jazz piano, and synthesizer.
	www.tentacle.org /archives/news0301.html (2145 words)

	Wang Lisan
		He encouraged faculty and students at the conservatory, regardless of their affiliation, to systematically study folk music, memorizing folk music from each and every province of the country.
		Wang Lisan already had a natural love for folk music, but now he had an opportunity to fully familiarize himself with the various styles of folk music, which was to be of great value to him.
		Because this piece is the first published twelve tone work in Chinese piano music, and it is based on the contents of Li He's original poem, hence this piece significantly combines the old with the new, and Chinese and western cultures.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~echew/projects/ChineseMusic/composers/wang_lisan.html (4769 words)

	The Seattle Times: Music & nightlife: Piano prodigy loves what he is doing, as his brilliance attests
		After many years of reading about music, you may think you've heard all the amazing prodigy stories — but Yundi Li's story still boggles the mind.
		When he was 7, he asked his parents for piano lessons, and within five years he was good enough to win top honors in an audition for the top music school in Sichuan province.
		The Cliburn Foundation's president, Richard Rodzinski, has called this new wave "just the beginning of a reflection of the huge interest in Western art music in China," and he expects the Chinese presence in classical music to continue to grow in years ahead.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/musicnightlife/2002234120_yundi10.html (914 words)

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