In an equal societies. The divide starting november fifteenth on d w. With her body to show you one when i was in paris quite often after the performance people came and asked me how were you able to play bach in a way that we can understand how were you able to understand bach and how can you understand western music at all i told them i think in their highest in purest form the arts and cultures of the world are very much related. They have no geographical borders they are the spiritual property of mankind. Solution. Perhaps. It was music and bachs music him particular that enabled you shall me to deal with had dreadful experiences the pianist lived through all the excesses of the mt regime years of indoctrination five years of re education another five years locked up in a neighbor camp a shattered family hardship and harassment in one thousand nine hundred eighty she emigrated and finally found a new home in paris this film tells the story of her return to china as an internationally acclaimed interpreter of bachs music thirty five years after she left the country. Should both be true about how whats the issue with the lets watch. This issue good has always been my favorite composer besides even in my early days to feature i have loved his been to highs a since secondary school as im sure that the show was the first sentence reads i was a stranger when i arrived and as a stranger i depart again. If you moved me then though i didnt understand it yet. Unbelievably twenty years later it came true for me to show india. Even now im not sure if im truly chinese or foreign nationals and just feeling is very odd because id lived abroad for thirty six years and have only lived twenty nine years in china. Their decision to return to china wasnt. Uneasy than the loons that mao inflicted on the country fifty years ago during the cultural revolution still randeep family was considered borzois and counterrevolutionary you shall may became the victim of organized public denunciations so sheet music being burned and had teachers being humiliated and driven to suicide apart from a few socalled model operators playing the piano and Classical Music were forbidden it would be years before she started playing again in secret. I wasnt very cultivated as a child. There were no books to read no music to listen to nor any art to appreciate. There was no school no education. For artists writers or musicians there was no freedom to express themselves to write or to unfold their talents to trees who. Was in the honey you again dishes the cultural revolution destroyed two things firstly it completely destroyed culture there werent any books left you probably cant imagine that it wasnt possible to buy any books in china should not even be dictionaries. Do you wish that the. Artists were chased into cowsheds this was a terrible terrible tragedy secondly the Younger Generation were misled by politicians dumbed down they had no access to any education at all. They need eternity to. You to determine. To me that because there was no culture i joined the masses and took part in class struggle and revolution should i wanted to devote my life to mao zedong in those days i didnt even accept my own parents i found them despicable i was ashamed of them could should do ornish so good with you. I think this harmed i was society hugely. It was something that will stay with us for generations to come why do i consider this an awful tragedy because i experienced it myself that i lived through it. To dawlish osho made refused to do this to a for years she pretty much had always rejected the idea because many people here in france told her she had to go that it was necessary to close the circle in the spirit of this phrase we find in lao tsu returning is the movement of doubt you know there were also many friends in china who told her she had to come back but she didnt want to go to that. Yet this year to make sure there was a fear of confronting her pasties an extremely painful constant there was a fear of facing hostility that. On the political hostility all the animosity of people she might know to and who had not have the chance to go drove and dedicate their lives to music because she was also afraid of confronting the chinese public. So the idea of going to china in this context seemed a bit crazy especially with the work like the goldberg variations. Civil rights us all male up to three. Hundred i thought the chinese audience would still need time to accept. But michelle insisted on doing it again and again you should use so i thought why not try it if i waited too long some day id be too old to do it so we decided to come home. With you to judge which. Sasha returning to shanghai after thirty five years i feel like a stranger. I was born in shanghai and so was my mother oh mama sure they sure was in one chimp regime but i dont recognize that i cannot find my birth place all those Old Buildings those single story houses those rectangular courtyard houses theyre all gone china is now so modernized you find standing in front of these office blocks i feel insignificant powerless he willed her true source who the country. Just as she had no will to consists of eight solo performances in seven cities all over china i tried for almost three years to persuade her and when she finally agreed i was naturally overjoyed but up to the very last moment she was still hesitating and wondering if she should really go ahead with it at all the Symphony Hall in shanghai is very large and even two concerts would have been completely sold out. You shall my insisted on performing in a small hole. Should you go to my agent sang kate sheen suggested that i should play in the large hall you but i think the goldberg variations are ill suited to large spaces. Should. You touched the food its intimate rather than showy or overblown so its really crucial to find a perfectly suited venue for this piece of shit such as each day when its. Could. Because sheen called me and said people have been lining up the whole night for your first performance waiting the whole night at the Ticket Office without sleeping feature is a cheat a call phone call. They get what you pay i can remember it was raining the day that they queued up for tickets they sold out within two hours unbelievable in these circumstances i tried to persuade jewish oil man to give another concert and she finally agreed to let take it for this concert was sold out in just ten minutes that your friend with her name chulbul michael on the black market tickets were on sale for up to eight hundred euros professors who was shocked when she found out her to lay hold of half a ton of things you. Cannot say it is was an incredible surprise she never imagined and countering this kind of audience because it was almost a third of the age of typical western audiences she never imagined this kind of audience or that this audience would have known her work but beyond that it shocked because she could not help making a connection between these young people and her own youth and the cultural revolution will sit in this law the lesson is to look good to you to less you dont have any children to. To show who gunned down sheikh winchell it was really touching to see such a passionate audience which would have the audience was touched to say not because im in for sure but because this piece is just so incredible you know digital it completely put paid to my ideas that the chinese were not mature enough to. Which it or she would say. That for me there are many interpretations and feelings around this piece but i think im more the emotional type which it were to be sure that. She feels shes taper example this piece on the stage i can only present what i feel and share it with the audience isha. She can point to infant. Or she was a huge issues a challenge ive always lived in big cities like shanghai beijing and later paris. Than she would each is right she johnny chung but i have always been looking for places in the countryside with peaceful flowing water between silent majestic peaks that might give me peace and replenish my strength to the neighbors thats why i work in a fashion equal as im going to be with the meath you hear before and after every concert or recording i retreat to the mountains to meditate and to work. Ha ha to suck on it you can do. As you question im sorry to interrupt your beginning is very good but it could be even better. Call it higher than. You need to push with the strength from the stomach dont just control it with your fingers beauty try to you get going you show which you do there and he says shes too its fairly difficult try the first note again. Try again go slower and i think from my own experience when playing the slower the keys are touched the better it sounds so go as slow as you can you just know. I know youre. The one with. The whole goal though its a big dream to boss something on us to set up a school you can understand that if you bear in mind that the schools and universities in china would close for ten years and that there were no books no playing of music and thats an entire generation were denied the right to education to tunes in the us theyre full of big ideas to create a school that she is looking for the right way to do that a film that would fall. Or not to turn kind i always joke with western journalists teachers i say actually has a buddhist you didnt know that now did you and should i really think. So there is some truth in my words but thought. It was a for example if i put a loud two together theyre linked because of the highest forms of human culture and art are all connected to one another to shampoo and image for the means to show see. Children pass name means broke and louts who claim that people should be like water bringing blessings to humankind but not battling against the current to. Hurt you to feel the same bar has become a daily ritual like meditating or having breakfast. So you. Should say its a habit and if i dont do it i feel disoriented and be fuddled so it is useful to choose to assure. She is we to wish on this china tour ive chosen the venue at the change conservatory of music because ive always liked to do so tragic. And this one conservatory of music is the largest conservatory of music in china with more than seventeen thousand students shish. Let the music continue to reverberate it doesnt stop. Making. This part is certain very very interesting. Master class you assure master class in strangely something i dont like doing because the students are already very tense and you have to tell them what they did wrong in front of a few hundred people it gets to the point that they dont know any more what they have done wrong and are like a frightened little birds who sorts hoary. Are going faster you going faster please relax let girls relax i feel youre trying to get this over with quickly. Good news i think bachs music is very important for young people his balance the feeling of elegance theres no melodrama or histrionics his exact science of melody and the firm handling of style his interpretation of emotions and the way he expresses them is actually a chinese approach he controls it its not a reckless and unbridled performance. Its pretty damaging. To people who played well have a good pastor a solid and well built foundation. C. T. G. To egypt hark. Back. To. Just a little boy being a trick i was most touched coming back this time by the young people to the jewish most of the people attending the concerts were on average twenty to twenty five years old something very different from europe where the average age is usually around sixty years the young people of china are so open minded i think they are chinas hope for the future she tended to see both. Beijing is the highlight of the tour the city was the center point of. Life until she left the country she started here and it was also here that her promising career was abruptly interrupted by the cultural revolution it was impaled on that she picked up her life again as an individual and as an artist after her release from the labor camp friends and her foremost. Just as live here the concert in beijing is an opportunity for a family reunion. Myers a cognizant if my mother had witnessed this performance she would have fainted right there on the floor. My parents are no more but my four elder sisters are still alive right. And the most important member of the family the piano. It followed me to the farm for reeducation and through labor camp and it followed me back again to beijing its the patriarch of our family yet they are white so we need to get the keep and felt replaced yes we did years even years sheen this a whole hour my mother couldnt learn to play the piano because my grandfather forbade it she says she invested all her hopes and dreams in me she wanted me to realize her dream of playing the piano she invested all her energy and did everything she could for me in beijing during the cultural revolution she was afraid people would say i was playing the big western drum show and she even in the winter and they are very cold in beijing she would stand guard outside every night wrapped in a blanket. In the conservatory of music is where i grew up i spent more time there than i did at home. School shoes. The happiest time of my life was from the age of eleven to thirty when i was just studying the piano learning together with my teachers and classmates. Each shoes. But they were also the most excruciating years those public denunciations could get extremely cruel. I remember when i was twelve the whole School Assembly of four hundred gathered together to criticize. Thats not something i can ever forget. Because. Those days during the cultural revolution other schools would also gather here i remember the debating stage over there yes yes yes it was here public assemblies were always held here. You for a dollar a year returning to the conservatory was excited but i felt flustered. Theres a word with the country about your dirt shown by russia. It wasnt just a place for academic discussion or concerts your memories flooded back like scenes in a movie and caused a bittersweet feeling you will hear more of the truth yet in our city just as you see youll be just a little guy. Just littered with nothings changed which is a tragedy should put a change thats true do you remember so much happened here. Concerts and also public denunciations were held here during the cultural revolution. I held my hands up until i lost the feeling in them shouting long live chairman mao. To the chief which those scenes from the cultural revolution are seared into my memory they can never be removed sure what your society should never forget that and hortons of culture music an education too for she you are its the most crucial condition for a perfect Harmonious Society its a tricky situation the tragic events of the past how can we ensure such things dont happen again so you dont have to say fashion no one has been made accountable nor has there been any taking stock of the past that. I gingerly pin jagjit or should or should we say theres not the courage to really face up to this past it remains a blank space in chinese history. You say the country and begging was the toughest battle i had to fight you i chose the hall where i last heard through shenyang super formants and which is therefore the most significant for me. Union saw that. She were treated. Like a fish from. Which isnt this chair blocking the way. That morning the rehearsal went badly that it was very cold in beijing the rehearsal was catastrophic beijing was definitely the most difficult concert of all there was an incredible audience young people there were also officials high ranking officials that were the daughters of Deng Xiaoping they were the people nicknamed the references they were into. Actually there were other friends and many old friends from the conservatory it created to lots of stress that was actually absolutely terrible. To. Their claimed in and stand count as a transform china yeah she plays to sold out concert halls the music school is no longer a refuge of the counterrevolution and the mastery of an instrument no longer an expression of west on board while attitudes on the contrary owning a piano is now seen as a status symbol one that everyone seeks to attain but the dark chapter of the cultural revolution remains largely under wraps and her struggle against forgetting and against the suppression of memories jew shall may keeps bringing attention to the wounds that still a flake chinese society. Ever. More or. The or. Or are. Poor. I want to perform just to let everyone know this generation still exists. The hardships experienced by my generation are many and not just physical. There was no culture no music and even dictionaries had to be copied by hand. I want to tell everyone that my generation didnt just disappear without a trace i want to bring glory to my generation nature. This is something i felt Something Special that time i have never felt in a concert hall. That was starting to become fluid. Thank you because people who were there made this very beautiful common to us afterwards the barrios how. Many describe this concert as a moment to freedom. Give them a multi gift. It was she. I wished i could go and see hocks grave and when that wish finally came true years i had an even higher goal and that was to play his masterpiece in front of his tomb. Chiyo she says you know what you changed your dish. You know and now that this dream has also come true you know i have no more unfulfilled desires. Saitoti vietnam. She didnt in china when you go to the grave of your ancestors you speak to the monarchy. And i think that when john may play at the goldberg variations at st thomas tonight she felt that she was talking to behind this way back talking just as she does when she visits the grave of a patterns like lot of us were told us to do. Judiths you see you. Go there its an unbearable feeling to have led my whole life like a dog with its tail between its legs and now to has suddenly become some kind of a popular star im a performer who lack selfconfidence ive never felt selfassured or proud i do not know these feelings in the codes i was raised differently and my cultural revolution background formed me into the person i am today. Which is it says you can be you when you push that you know i dont ever feel as if im the protagonist so i always play the role of a servant a servant of music a servant of the composer a servant of my students in accordance with my traditional chinese upbringing. Sand trickles through our fingers and now around the world it seems to be running out. Theres hardly any industry that doesnt using. The precious grains are in franks numbers. Because not all scientists aligned. To anything result. In thirty minutes on d w. 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