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Colleges Urged to Popularize Classical Music

China's higher education institutions have a duty to popularize classical music, participants in the first Chinese College Student's Music Festival agreed in Xiamen Friday.


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China's higher education institutions have a duty to popularize classical music, participants in the first Chinese College Student's Music Festival agreed here Friday.

The consensus was reached as delegates from 17 schools engaged in musical education met to hear performances and lectures at a forum on "Higher musical education in the 21st Century".

Guo Shulan, head of China's Central Conservatory of Music, saidmusic, as a special teaching method, played an important role in improving the whole nation.

Combining artistic education with quality education had become an issue of wide concern to teaching staff, he added.

Fan Zheming, assistant to the president of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, said college students at musical instituteswere the professional musicians of the future and they should spare no effort in popularizing music for the public.

China has nine higher musical education institutes in big cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Participants also made suggestions to festival organizers. Liu Xiaogeng, president of Yunnan Artistic Training School, said the festival should add a thesis selection and composing competition, to further connect with European and American musical festivals.


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