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PARIS—Mr. Richet, a composer, had many positive comments to make about the Divine Performing Arts (DPA) 2009 World Tour, at the Palais de Congres des Paris on Sunday, March 1.
“I thought that it was really good,” he began, saying he thought the show had been done with “taste and refinement.”
Mr. Richet, who also teaches piano and percussion, thought the scenes were “magnificent,” and the presentation “well done and pleasing.”
“I'm really happy [about the show],” he said.
Of course it was the music that he enjoyed most, particularly the erhu. “Also the scene with the Chinese fans. It was magnificent. There were many beautiful things,” he said.
The DPA orchestra brings together two of the world’s greatest classical music traditions, Chinese and Western, in a masterful fusion. With Western instruments as its base, the orchestra brings out Chinese musical flair through a variety of Chinese instruments.
Erhu soloist, Xiaochun Qi, plays this traditional two-stringed Chinese violin, which has a unique, soul-stirring sound. The erhu can be traced back 1,000 years to China’s Tang Dynasty, often considered the peak of China’s 5,000-year culture.
Unlike Western string instruments, the erhu has no fingerboard. Musicians who play the erhu press their fingertips on the strings without making contact with the neck. This produces the magical, weightless quality of the sound.
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