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Conference Paper: Playing cosmopolitanism: programs of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra in the Early Twentieth Century
| Title | Playing cosmopolitanism: programs of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra in the Early Twentieth Century |
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| Issue Date | 2013 |
| Citation | The 2nd Biennial Conference of the East Asian Regional Association of IMS, Taipei, Taiwan, 18-20 October 2013. How to Cite? |
| Abstract | In April 1936, premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Shanghai was given by the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, together with four vocalists and several local choirs. The performance of these 200 musicians of different nationalities exhibited the harmony of settlement's life in this cosmopolitan city, which seemed to be heralded by the repertory of the Municipal Orchestra at the wake of the century. Orchestral works of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky and excerpts from Wagner's music dramas were introduced by the German conductor, Rudolf Buck, during his directorship in 1906-18. Six European musicians also joined the orchestra at that time and made an effort in training the Filipino members, thus provided grounding for its future development into a multinational orchestra. The purpose of this paper is to examine the programs of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra in … |
| Description | Conference Theme: Musics in the Shifting Global Order Session 2A - Programming Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism and Imperialism |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/205630 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Pang, IPL | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-20T04:14:04Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2014-09-20T04:14:04Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | The 2nd Biennial Conference of the East Asian Regional Association of IMS, Taipei, Taiwan, 18-20 October 2013. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/205630 | - |
| dc.description | Conference Theme: Musics in the Shifting Global Order | - |
| dc.description | Session 2A - Programming Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism and Imperialism | - |
| dc.description.abstract | In April 1936, premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Shanghai was given by the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, together with four vocalists and several local choirs. The performance of these 200 musicians of different nationalities exhibited the harmony of settlement's life in this cosmopolitan city, which seemed to be heralded by the repertory of the Municipal Orchestra at the wake of the century. Orchestral works of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky and excerpts from Wagner's music dramas were introduced by the German conductor, Rudolf Buck, during his directorship in 1906-18. Six European musicians also joined the orchestra at that time and made an effort in training the Filipino members, thus provided grounding for its future development into a multinational orchestra. The purpose of this paper is to examine the programs of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra in … | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | IMS-EA 2013 | en_US |
| dc.title | Playing cosmopolitanism: programs of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra in the Early Twentieth Century | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
| dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 240163 | en_US |