US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music
From the Middle Kingdom to the Wild West
China Now Music Festival: China and America—Unity in Music
September 29, 2019
An open dress rehearsal with The Orchestra Now, conducted by Jindong Cai, for the world premiere of a new symphonic oratorio by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Zhou Long to commemorate the Chinese railroad workers of the American West, on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. With the China Now Festival Chorus and soloists.