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From Dr. Hai-Lung Dai, Senior Vice Provost and Dean, the conductor of Yellow River Cantata:
It was a great personal privilege for me to work with you in the production of the Yellow River Cantata. I was deeply impressed by the effective and touching singing of the choruses after only a couple short rehearsals. You created the voices that have much emotionally moved the audience. You made me very proud, and I hope you are proud of what you have accomplished.
From an Ambler Symphony member:
“…….., it was even more of an uplifting experience to participate in playing different types of music, such as we had yesterday, joined by tremendously talented musicians. The sound of the great chorus, washing down over the orchestra from above, was both ethereal and powerful, and the soloists were brilliant. And moving beyond standard classical music repertoire, to the Chinese sound of the Yellow River or the modernistic lines of Maurice Wright's Fanfare, expands and challenges in a very exciting way.”
From a Temple faculty:
“ I had heard the Yellow River piece on radio several times since it was composed some three decades ago (?), but never viva voce, and certainly never with such a huge combined chorus with orchestra and so magisterially led and performed – and in such a magnificent hall! A high point in Temple! And great for our common concern: Globalism.”University history
From an audience:
“What a great treat today at the Baptist Temple! The vocal music was fabulous.”