Detroit Symphony Orchestra perform works by Xiaogang Ye at Lincoln Center

By Lydia Brown, 24 September 2013

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, New York City on 22 September 2013

Ye Xiaogang, Twilight of the Himalayas, Op.68

Ye Xiaogang, The Last Paradise, Op.24

Ye Xiaogang, The Song of the Earth, Op.47

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

New York Choral Society

Yongyan Hu, Conductor

Cho-Liang Lin, Violin

Measha Brueggergosman, Soprano

Yijie Shi, Tenor

Chen-Ye Yuan, Baritone

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Lydia Brown

Lydia Brown is presently pursuing her B.A. at New York University, where she studies journalism and ethnomusicology. Though she trained for many years as a classical violinist, Lydia's interests include cross-cultural musical hybridity and the effects of miscegenation on the musical output of early Irish-Americans.