Music educator with major score to settle By Yang Cheng | China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-27 09:28 Share CLOSE Book focuses on new approach needed to inspire and nurture creative talent by mixing instrument-playing with painting, Yang Cheng reports in Tianjin. Zong Xiaojun, a veteran educator at the Central Conservatory of Music, launched his new book, Music: Powering the Creative Imagination, at a recent music education gala in Tianjin. His courses, based on the book, are touted as one of the first attempts to nurture creative imagination by connecting music with painting. His first class was given to music teachers from poverty-stricken areas as part of the National Music Education Conference, held over July 16-19 in Tianjin.