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farming magazine. d w. what's a party to show you one when i was in paris quite often after the performance people came and asked me how are you able to play bach in a way that we can understand how were you able to understand bach and how can you understand western music at all i told them i think in their highest in purest form

the arts and cultures of the world are very much related. they have no geographical borders they are the spiritual property of mankind. solution.

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was music and bach's music him particular that enabled you shall me to deal with had dreadful experiences the pianist lived through all the excesses of the mt regime years of indoctrination five years of re education another five years locked up in a neighbor camp a shattered family hardship and harassment in one thousand nine hundred eighty she emigrated and finally found a new home in paris this film tells the story of her return to china as an internationally acclaimed interpreter of bach's music thirty five years after she left the country. should both be true about how what's the issue with the let's watch. this issue but

has always been my favorite composer besides bach even in my early days to feature i've loved his been to hise ascent secondary school as i'm sure that the show was the first sentence reads i was a stranger when i arrived and as a stranger i depart again. it he moved me then though i didn't understand it yet. unbelievably twenty years later it came true for his english. because even now i'm not sure if i'm truly chinese or a foreigner and just feeling is very odd because i'd lived abroad for thirty six years and have only lived twenty nine years in china. their decision to return to china wasn't. an easy one the wounds that mao inflicted

on the country fifty years ago during the cultural revolution still run deep her family was considered borzois and counter-revolutionary you shall may became the victim of organized public denunciations so sheet music being burned and her teachers being humiliated and driven to suicide apart from a few so-called model operas playing the piano and classical music were forbidden it would be years before she started playing again in secret. i wasn't very cultivated as a child. there were no books to read no music to listen to nor any art to appreciate. there was no school no education. for artists writers or musicians there was no freedom to express themselves to write or to

unfold their talents to trees who. was in with you again dear she said cultural revolution destroyed two things firstly it completely destroyed culture there weren't any books left you probably can't imagine that it wasn't possible to buy any books in china shruti not even be dictionaries. cish dealership the. artists were chased into cowsheds and this was a terrible terrible tragedy secondly the younger generation were misled by politicians dumbed down they had no access to any education at all. fenians cian eternity do. you think the time you see was to me not because there was no culture i joined the

masses and took part in class struggle and revolution to should i wanted to devote my life to mao zedong in those days i didn't even accept my own parents i found them despicable. and lisa shamed could should they wish to give what you want it. to show which i think this harmed i was society hugely. it was something that will stay with us for generations to come why do i consider this an awful tragedy because i experienced it myself i lived through it.

to do this show many refused to do this to a for years she pretty much had always rejected the idea because many people here in france told her she had to go that it was necessary to close the circle in the spirit of this phrase we find in lao tsu returning is the movement of doubt you know there were old so many friends in china who told her she had to come back but she didn't want to go to that. yet they still to make sure there was a fear of confronting her pasties an extremely painful constant there was

a fear of facing hostility that. could lead to the hostility all the animosity of the people she might know to and who had not have the chance to go drolls and dedicate their lives to music because she was. also afraid of confronting the chinese public. so the idea of going to china in this context seemed a bit crazy that you'll see the especially with the work like the goldberg variations of civil rights us already up to three. and i thought the chinese audience would still need time to accept but michelle insisted on doing it again and again so i thought why not try it with if i waited too long someday i'd be too old to do it so we decided to come home. to georgia to

. sasha and returning to shanghai after thirty five years i feel like a stranger. i was born in shanghai and so was my mother or my machine then sure war was in one chimp regime but i don't recognize that i cannot find my birth place all those old buildings those single story houses those rectangular courtyard houses they're all gone china is now so modernized you find standing in front of these office blocks i feel insignificant powerless we will hurt the true source or the country.

just as she had no will to it consists of eight solo performances in seven cities all over china i tried for almost three years to persuade her and when she finally agreed i was naturally overjoyed but up to the very last moment she was still hesitating and wondering if she should really go ahead with it at all the symphony hall in shanghai is very large and even two concerts would have been completely sold out. you shall my insisted on performing in a small hole. that he was shouting yet. should he go to my agent sang sheen suggested that i should play in the large hall you but i think the goldberg variations are ill suited to large spaces to.

shew. me to show it's intimate rather than showy or overblown so it's really crucial to find a perfectly suited venue for this piece of shit such as each to which it's. because sheen called me and said people have been lining up the whole night for your first performance waiting the whole night at the ticket office without sleeping feet you know it's a cheat a pal phone call. they get what you pay i can remember it was raining the day that they queued up for tickets they sold out within two hours unbelievable in these circumstances i tried to persuade you shall man to give another concert and she finally agreed to take it for this concert was sold out in just ten minutes that

your fingernail trouble might go on the black market tickets were on sale for up to eight hundred euros professor drew was shocked when she found out her to lay hold of half a ton i didn't see. but i'll say it is was an incredible surprise she never imagined and countering this kind of audience because it was almost a third of the age of typical western audiences she never imagined this kind of audience or that this audience would have known her work but beyond that it shocked her because she could not help making a connection between these young people and her own youth and the cultural revolution listen to this law the lesson is still a good new. document from control.

to. cheek when it was really touching to see such a passionate audience with your time with the audience was touched to say not because i'm in for sure but because this piece is just so incredible you know digital it completely put paid to my idea that the chinese were not mature enough to.

she did say. that for me there are many interpretations and feelings around this piece but i think i'm more the emotional type with it with sufficient sure that. she feels she's a taper example of this piece on the stage i can only present what i feel and share it with the audience. she can point to infant.

or she was a huge issues a challenge i've always lived in big cities like shanghai beijing and later paris only. time she was each is right she jahi to see but i have always been looking for places in the countryside with peaceful flowing water between silent majestic peaks that might give me peace and replenish my strength to the neighbors that's why i work in a fashion equal. to the with the meath you hear before and

after every concert or recording i retreat to the mountains to meditate and to work . haha to sneak off but you can do. as you crash i'm sorry to interrupt your beginning is very good but it could be even better in hong kong. you need to push with the strength from the stomach

don't just control it with your fingers beauty try to you and you show which country you are and he says she's too it's fairly difficult try the first note again. try again go slower and i think from my own experience when playing the slower the keys are touched the better it sounds so go as slow as you can you just know. i know you're. the one. with.

sole goal that it's a big dream to boss something on to a set up a school you can understand if you bear in mind that the schools and universities in china with close to ten years and that there were no books no playing of music and that's an entire generation were denied the right to education to tunes in the us they're full of big ideas to create a school that is she is looking for the right way to do that a film that would full.

or not in time kind i always joke with western journalists teachers i say actually as a buddhist you didn't know that now did you then should i really think. so there is some truth in my words about. there was a for example if i put a loud two together they're linked because of the highest forms of human culture and art are all connected to one another to shampoo and emit back to the musicians shall see. chillax name means broke and lao tsu claim that people should be like water bringing blessings to humankind but not battling against the current. projected time in the same bar has become a daily ritual like meditating or having breakfast you should. show you.

should it's a habit and if i don't do it i feel disoriented and be fuddled so it is useful to just to assure. she is we to wish on this china tour i've chosen the venue at the chengdu conservatory of music because i've always liked it you do so tragic. and this one conservatory of music is the largest conservatory of music in china with more than seventeen thousand students shish. let the music continue to reverberate it doesn't stop. making.

this part is certain very very interesting. master class you wish to master class in strangely something i don't like doing because the students are already very tense and you have to tell them what they did wrong in front of a few hundred people and it gets to the point that they don't know any more what they have done wrong and are like a frightened little birds who sorts hoary. are going faster you going faster please relax let girls relax i feel you're trying to get this over with quickly.

good news i think bach's music is very important for young people his balance the feeling of elegance there's no melodrama or histrionics. his exact science of melody and the firm handling of style his interpretation of emotions and the way he expresses them is actually a chinese approach he controls it it's not a reckless and unbridled performance. which he turns the g. to the people who play bach well have a good pastor a solid and well built foundation. c.t.g. to egypt hark.

back. to. just being sick i was most touched coming back this time by the young people to the jewish family most of the people attending the concerts were on average twenty to

twenty five years old something very different from europe where the average age is usually around sixty years the young people of china are so open minded i think they are china's hope for the future she demanded to see what. beijing is the highlight of the tour the city was the center point of view shall may's life until she left the country she started here and it was also here that her promising career was abruptly interrupted by the cultural revolution it was him begging that she picked up her life again as an individual and as an artist after her release from the labor camp friends and her foremost. just as live here the concert in beijing is an opportunity for a family reunion. majar chicago if my mother had witnessed this performance she would have fainted right there on the floor. during my parents are no more

but my four elder sisters are still alive right. and the most important member of the family the piano. it followed me to the farm for re-education and through labor camp and it followed me back again to beijing it's the patriarch of our family yet they are white so we need to get the keep and felt replies d.s. with the years human years she in this a whole hour my mother couldn't learn to play the piano because my grandfather forbade it she says she invested all her hopes and dreams in me she wanted me to realize her dream of playing the piano she invested all her energy and did everything she could for me in beijing during the cultural revolution she was afraid people would say i was playing the big western drum exchange even in the winter and they are very cold in beijing she would stand guard outside every night

wrapped in a blanket. the conservatory of music is where i grew up i spent more time there than i did at home . school shoes. the happiest time of my life was from the age of eleven to thirty when i was just studying the piano learning together with my teachers and classmates. each shoes. but they were also the most excruciating years those public denunciations could get extremely cruel. i remember when i was twelve the whole school assembly of

four hundred gathered together to criticize. that's not something i can ever forget . because. those days during the cultural revolution other schools would also gather here i remember the debating stage over there yes yes yes it was here public assemblies were always held here. you for a dollar a year returning to the conservatory was excited but i felt flustered. as you would do with the country about your dirt shown by russia. it wasn't just a place for academic discussion or concerts your memories flooded back like scenes in a movie and caused a bittersweet feeling when you moved to try to see it in our city you should use your be just. littered with nothing's changed which is a tragedy should put

a change that's true do you remember some much happened here. concerts and also public denunciations were held here during the cultural revolution. i held my hands up until i lost the feeling in them shouting long live chairman mao. to the chief which those scenes from the cultural revolution are seared into my memory they can never be removed sure what your society should never forget that and the hortons of culture music and education to show you it's the most crucial condition for a perfect harmonious society it's a dry suit regarding the tragic events of the past how can we ensure such things don't happen again so you don't have to say fashion no one has been made accountable nor has there been any taking stock of the past music that. i

gingerly pin jaji to our sheets or should we say there's not the courage to really face up to this past it remains a blank space in chinese history. to . you with. the concert in bed was the toughest battle i had to fight you. i chose the hall where i last heard. performance and which is therefore the most significant for me though. so to. say what you did. act on. this in this chair blocking the way. that morning the rehearsal went badly that it was very cold in beijing so the rehearsal was catastrophic beijing was definitely

the most difficult concert of all there was an incredible audience young people there were also officials high ranking officials that were the daughters of deng xiaoping they were the people nicknamed the references they were intellectuals they were friends and many old friends from the conservatory it created to lots of stress that was actually absolutely terrible because you'll get up sort of more it's a team of three multi-boot. they're

kind and stand count is a transform china and she plays to sold out concert halls the music school is no longer a refuge of the counter-revolution and the moss tree of an instrument no longer an expression of west on board while attitudes on the contrary owning a piano is now seen as a status symbol one that everyone seeks to attain but the dop chapter of the cultural revolution remains launched under wraps and her struggle against forgetting and against the suppression of memories jew show may keeps bringing attention to the wounds that still afflict chinese society.

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poor. poor. we'll show. you the ship i want to perform. just to let everyone know that this generation still exists. the hardships experienced by my generation are many and not just physically. there was no culture no music and even dictionaries had to

be copied by hand right now i want to tell everyone my generation didn't just disappear without a trace i want to bring glory to my generation nature.

something i felt something special that i have never felt in a concert hall a hole that was starting to become fluid. thank you because people who were there made this very beautiful common to us afterwards the barriers fall in. many describe this concert as a moment afraid. to say and throughout.

there was she. i wished i could go and see hocks grave and when that wish finally came true because i had an even higher goal and that was to play his masterpiece in front of his tomb. chiyo she says you know what you change judicial commission. you know and now that this dream has also come true no i have no more unfulfilled desires. saitoti vietnam.

she didn't in china when you go to the grave of your ancestors you speak to the monarchy. and i think that when john mayer played the goldberg variations at st thomas tonight she felt that she was talking to behind this way back talking just as she does when she visits the grave of a patterns like lot of us were told us to do to see the.

judith's. goats are it's an unbearable feeling to have led my whole life like a dog with its tail between its legs and now two has suddenly become some kind of a popular star i'm a performer who lack self-confidence i've never felt self-assured or proud i do not know these feelings in the cold so i was raised differently and my cultural revolution background formed me into the person i am today. which is it says you can be you when you push with you i don't ever feel as if i'm the protectionist so i always play the role of a servant a servant of music a servant of the composer a servant of my students in accordance with my traditional chinese upbringing.

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