![]() "To sing with this orchestra - which was all Chinese nationals - this great masterwork of Western culture, was wonderful," Tucker said. They held six concerts, including three performances of Johannes Brahms' "Ein deutsches Requiem." The work calls for more than 100 voices and a large orchestra joint concerts were staged with the Hong Kong Bach Choir and Orchestra, the Shanghai International Festival Chorus, and the International Festival Chorus and Orchestra, who accompanied the Cornell singers March 15 at Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall. Tucker and the group of 80 singers were accompanied by assistant conductor John Rowehl, physician Catherine Husa '73 (the daughter of Cornell professor emeritus of music Karel Husa) and choral ensembles supporter Percy Browning '56. "A lot of it went so smoothly that was a surprise in itself." ![]() "It was a great trip - it was tiring but well worth it," said Scott Tucker, the Priscilla Edwards Browning Director of Choral Music at Cornell. ![]() The Cornell Glee Club and the University Chorus walked and sang on the Great Wall, visited several schools and performed for audiences in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong during a concert tour of the People's Republic of China, March 11-26. ![]()
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