A concert titled “East-West Dialogue: Spring Sequence of New Sounds” was held on Sunday at London’s Royal Academy of Music to celebrate Spring Festival.
The event was produced by the Sino-British Ensemble, an instrumental and vocal ensemble consisting of artists from China and Europe, and co-organized by the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, or SACU, and the UK Beijing Arts Group.
China’s Ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang, and his wife, Counsellor Hua Mei, attended the event on invitation.
The president of Society for Anglo-China Understanding, Michael Wood said musical dialogue between China and the West dates back to the 17th century, when Italian missionary Matteo Ricci arrived in China and presented the emperor with a clavichord, a stringed keyboard instrument unknown to the Chinese.
Guo Xinyi, founder of the Sino-British Ensemble, expressed her hope that the concert would help strengthen bonds between people of diverse backgrounds and promote exchange between Eastern and Western civilizations.
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