Shen Yun ‘Brings back the humanity and the beautiful culture of China’ Says Music Teacher

MILWAUKEE—Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company continued its world tour at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Sunday evening, March 13.

Music teacher Mrs. Robert J. Fritz joined the enthusiastic audience and had a message for the artists: “Thank you for sharing your beautiful culture across the globe!”

“Delightful indeed!” Mrs. Fritz said of the exhilarating world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music show.

Each year, New York-based Shen Yun unveils an entirely new lineup of dances, songs, and musical scores. According to its website, a performance by Shen Yun is a presentation of traditional Chinese culture as it once was: a study in grace, wisdom, and the virtues distilled from the five millennia of Chinese civilization.

Mrs. Fritz appreciated this and said, “It was just fascinating and authentic, bringing back the humanity and the beautiful culture of China. My husband and I visited China. We were in the second delegation to go there in the 1970’s. But to see this now, . . . is the most exciting to share.”

In ancient China art was a means to explore the connection between mankind and the higher realms. Poets and artists cultivated virtue, believing that to create true art worthy of the heavens, there first must be inner beauty and purity.

Mrs. Fritz was moved by the artists’ inner spirit conveyed through the dances and said, “The synchronization, the precision, and the dedicated spirit. The backgrounds were so fascinating, using modern technology and opening the spirit, as one, one with the Lord, is a great privilege and a joy and we are very delighted to have the opportunity of seeing the show this evening, and being here.

Her daughter, attorney Mary Fritz Carle, agreed and said, “I am absolutely transformed by this and inspired.”

She elaborated, “The complete spiritual dedication in each performer, even the narration in-between, is also enriching toward the whole.”

To Shen Yun’s artists, Ms. Carle said, “I thank you so much!”

She said she enjoyed various aspects of the show, “As an attorney I like to see the precision and preciseness, everything being so exact.”

Like audiences world-wide Mrs. Fritz was impressed by Shen Yun’s unique music, a blend of Eastern and Western instruments, and said, “It’s beautifully authentic. A fascinating experience, the idea of transcending the past, bringing it to the present and looking toward to the future, it’s a beautiful blend of wholeness and vision. I’m very impressed and very inspired.

Mrs. Fritz had only one regret, “I’m sorry my husband could not be here with me this evening, Dr. Robert J. Fritz. We went to China together in the 1970’s. Thank you for sharing your beautiful culture across the globe. A perfect joy. I am so pleased! Thank you for bringing it."

Reporting by Catherine Wen and Jeanmarie Lunsford.