Events celebrate Chinese composer who also transformed language
October 21, 2024
October 21, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Oct. 21 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
A Nov. 1-2 concert and conference at Cornell will celebrate the work of Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music and a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.
Chao was a classmate of Hu Shih 1914, a renowned Chinese scholar and diplomat who was also the lyricist for many of Chao's songs.
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A Nov. 1-2 concert and conference at Cornell will celebrate the work of Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music and a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.
Chao was a classmate of Hu Shih 1914, a renowned Chinese scholar and diplomat who was also the lyricist for many of Chao's songs.
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