Highlights of the Year!

TIAN JIANG PERFORMS AT CARNEGIE HALL'S STERN AUDITORIUM

http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2012/5/13/0200/PM/Tian-Jiang-Piano/

Sunday, May 13 2 PM | S/P

Tian Jiang, Piano | From Mao to Mozart to Stern: Commemorating Isaac Stern’s 1979 China Visit |

Concert Program:

Bach-Busoni: Organ Toccata in C major, BWV 564

Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K475

Beethoven: Sonata #23 in F minor, Op. 57, "Appassionata"

Brahms: Handel Variations Op.24

Chopin: Scherzo in B Flat minor, Op.31

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In 1979, the tide of change brought American violinist Isaac Stern, preserver of Carnegie Hall, then serving as goodwill ambassador, from the United States to China. A year later, under Mr. Stern’s sponsorship, a young Tian Jiang, became one of the first young musicians to ever leave China to come to America to study Western Classical Music.

This May, exactly 33 years after Isaac Stern’s China visit, Tian Jiang will perform in Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, commemorating the memory of Isaac Stern—a concert for America’s youth, to help and inspire them with the power and beauty of Classical music- just as Tian himself was inspired by its power and helped by Isaac Stern.

This concert, presented by the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture, is a commitment to rekindle what was done in 1890s America by Antonin Dvorak and Jeanette Thurber's National Conservatory of Music. The National Conservatory aimed to advance what was referred to by Dvorak as "a great and noble art”. Today, the Foundation seeks to revive, in America, that outlook, and especially the desire, on the part of the very young, to know the power of Classical music, through performing it.

This solo recital will be performed, to allow many young people to, for the first time in their lives, "hold a conversation", channeled through pianist Tian Jiang, with several of history's greatest musical minds. Not only that: This concert brings an important chapter of world history to "full circle". Though Isaac Stern is deceased, the Carnegie Hall Stern auditorium in which Tian will play, bears his name. That music which the violinist can no longer perform, is so performed by a musician that Stern so forcefully supported, as a young man. Pianist Tian's purpose is to assist youth in New York City to take up the very Classical tradition that Stern had brought to China those many years ago, in the same way that the young Tian was assisted; most of all, the purpose is to say "Thank You" for a great gift, in the only way that great musicians expect to be thanked—by passing it on to others.

No one knows for sure, but somewhere in that audience, in May, will be sitting someone, or even many someones, who can do the same thing, as Isaac Stern and Tian Jiang do, for some other group of people, in some other nation, in some other time. Thus, the circle of the song of gratitude goes on.

General public tickets on sale March 14th, 2012 at Carnegie hall box office:
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2012/5/13/0200/PM/Tian-Jiang-Piano/

For Tian's concert schedule, please visit: www.pianisttian.com