January 29, 2011
Bright Sheng sits down with TGN from The Gathering Note
Bright Sheng, a name familiar to SSO audiences, sat down with the Gathering Note earlier this month. The composer was in town to hear the orchestra perform two of his short pieces. One of them, Prelude to Black Swan, a world premiere. The other, Shanghai Overture...
September 10, 2010
Bright Sheng Interview: When East Drifts West - To kick off its 21st
season from Santa Barbara News Press by Josef Woodard
In this interview Bright Sheng talks about his world premiere piece "Hot Pepper" for violin and marimba read more
Jul 29 2010
Part 1
BRIGHT SHENG INTERVIEW: NORWEGIAN MUSIC WITH A CHINESE OR AMERICAN ACCENT, Published in SUMMERFEST, ARTIST NEWS by KBRAILEAN read more
Part 2
BRIGHT SHENG INTERVIEW: ON THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC, Published in SUMMERFEST, ARTIST NEWS by KBRAILEAN read more
Bright Sheng was in South Africa from August - September 2009
Interview From The Muse that Sings by Ann McCutchan. Copyright Ann McCutchan and
published by Oxford University Press, Inc. (www.oup.com/us). All rights reserved.
Click the topic to listen to an interview on Naxos.com with Bright Sheng about his music, his life and his new CD of orchestral music from Naxos.
The featured works are Phoenix, Red Silk Dance, Tibetan Swing, and H'un (Lacerations), recorded by Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony.
Phoenix, co-commissioned by the Seattle Symphony and Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, was inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen tale, the mythical bird symbolizing for Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng “the muse of all peoples.” Aggressive fervor seeks meditative peace in H’un: In memoriam 1966–1976, hailed by The New York Times as “a searing portrait of the Cultural Revolution in China…deeply affecting.” Sheng’s exquisite Spring Dreams, Three Fantasies and Tibetan Dance are available on Naxos 8.570601, a unique recording using Chinese instruments by the Singapore Chinese Orchestra. China Dreams and Nanking Nanking can be heard on Naxos 8.555866.
Interviewed by By Janice Steinberg / SanDiego UNION-TRIBUNE
