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August 19, 2015
6th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival/
DONG Yi's Special Programme on the Zheng for Chinese Lovers' Day
Classical zheng performer, Yi Dong, is the most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, one of the only five soloists who has given a recital in the Great Hall of the People, the most prestigious venue in China and the soloist with the biggest number of public performances of any Chinese musical instrument in the UK. Playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history and some 36,000,000 active participants, she makes her 14th annual return to Edinburgh to "indulge us with a rich spa of the spirits and mind" (China Xinhua News Agency) with music of love stories and poems of China. The concerts also features the full Zheng score of the historic concerto The Butterfly Lovers, whose composer Yi has been working with for 15 years. "It's proved to be my best music experience for years" (BBC World Service). Part of the 6th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival.
