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Chou Wen-Chung, 'Godfather Of Chinese Contemporary Music', Dead At 96 by Artsjournal1

"[He] left a relatively small body of compositions, but his fastidious and elegant works are filled with emotional eddies. He wrote mostly for Western instruments, but made them bend single notes to accommodate the microtonal flexibility of Chinese music." In addition, as a professor at Columbia University, he trained an entire group of now-prominent Chinese […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM on October 30, 2019

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