16 | Wednesday, March 3, 2021 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY YOUTH Lesson in German helping designs Nepalese new life in children Shenyang
KATHMANDU — With the SHENYANG — Barbara Elisa Durbar High School building in beth Freiman has made paper Nepal rebuilt by the Chinese gov cuttings and lanterns, and ernment, at a cost of $7.24 mil bought goods for Spring Festival. lion, student enrollment has “I also prepared hongbao (red increased like never before. packets) for my staff — they are The multifacility building, real red leather handbags! I also shared by two schools, Bhanu put cash in them. When in Rome, School and Sanskrit High do as the Romans do,” she says. School, had around 430 students In 2015, Freiman’s family combined last year. However, moved to China when her hus there has been a huge surge in band started working at BMW their numbers after the Chinese Brilliance Automotive in Shen government handed over the yang, capital of Northeast China’s property to the school manage Liaoning province. ment committee. “Shenyang and Germany are Both schools now have 626 stu quite similar. They both have dents combined, up by more than sauerkraut and pig knuckle. It’s 40 percent. Bhanu School has 314 very comfortable to eat and live students, more than double than here, except that it’s a little colder the number prior to the recon in winter than Germany,” she struction, and Sanskrit High says. School now has 312 students. After graduating from high “The attractive building with school, Freiman was accepted by wellequipped science and com The Magnolia Quartet, a new chamber group that consists of four women musicians from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, makes its a university in Germany major puter labs and auditorium is the debut performance at Shanghai Symphony Hall on Jan 29. The musicians (from left) are Liu Ming, Chen Jiayi, Zhu Lin and Ba Tong. ing in graphic design. However, primary factor for encouraging PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY she then changed her major to enrollment of the students,” law at the urging of her parents. Akhilesh Azad, principal of Bha Yet Freiman never gave up on nu School, told Xinhua News her design dream and, in Shen Agency recently. yang, it ultimately became a real “A majority of the new stu ity. In 2016, she opened her own dents have come from private studio and became the founder schools and we are receiving and designer of a children’s fash enquiries for new admissions on Band of sisters ion brand Coco & Ray. a daily basis.” “I like mixing some Oriental Though the building was ready elements into my designs. For to come into operation last year, Quartet strikes a note for music brilliance as they tune into stardom, example, I designed pockets for lessons with the physical pres qipao (cheongsam) so it’s more ence of students started only in Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai. practical for children,” Freiman late January. says. Constructed in 1891, the build “A good mother and a boss,” ing was in a dilapidated condition he Magnolia Quartet, a the global music scene.” progress and become a much more says Freiman’s 16yearold son, after it was destroyed by the dev chamber group featuring “We are seeing a growing number mature musician”, according to when he was asked to describe astating earthquake in 2015. The four women musicians of outstanding women musicians at Zhou. his mother. Her three children school had to be relocated to from the Shanghai Sym the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra,” We are seeing a Chen, the second violinist of the were her initial inspiration for Balmiki College premises in Tphony Orchestra, made its debut on Zhou adds. quartet, didn’t focus her training on making children’s clothes. Bhrikutimandap, some 500 Jan 29. Beethoven’s String Quartet One third of the instrumentalists growing number the violin until she enrolled in the Freiman says that her “young meters east of its original location. No 8 in E Minor was performed at in the orchestra are women, which of outstanding Shanghai Conservatory of Music in est daughter was born here and the Shanghai Symphony Hall by is not a special phenomenon world women musicians 2014. A disciplined person, eager to loves to eat doublecooked pork first violinist Liu Ming, second vio wide, according to Zhou. The global learn, Chen took part in the second slices. We all call her ‘little north $7.24 linist Chen Jiayi, Ba Tong on the vio music scene has been tuning to a at the Shanghai Isaac Stern competition in 2017 and easterner’”. la and cellist Zhu Lin. more feminine note for the past few Symphony snatched fourth place. She joined The clothes she designed are million The four instrumentalists “pre years. the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra handmade with carefully select the cost of the new Durbar sented their strong personal tech Zhou says: “Some orchestras have Orchestra.” as the associate concert master in ed fabrics and customized but High School building in niques without breaking the so many female musicians that you Zhou Ping, director of the her junior year. tons. At present, Freiman’s Nepal rebuilt by the intricate balance between each can’t help but wonder: Is this a Ba, the viola player, has been play studio has 10 staff members. Chinese government Shanghai Symphony part”, says Lu Ping, a Shanghai women’s symphony?” Orchestra ing an active role in public educa “In China, I have wonderful based music critic and a teacher at Zhou has found in the growing tional initiatives of the orchestra, tailors to help my designs come The foundation stone for the the Shanghai Conservatory of number of female applicants for such as attending online livestream to life,” she says. building was laid in August 2018 Music. Shanghai Symphony Orchestra world. We hope they will be musical ing shows, and introducing the It was the first time for Frei and it was handed over to the Lu praises the debut performance such qualities as “ambition, deter ambassadors of Shanghai, and musical events and programs of the man’s family to spend the Spring school management by the Chi of the Magnolia Quartet as “a show mination and irrefutable excel become heard worldwide.” orchestra. Festival holiday in China. “It’s a nese government in September. case of the highest artistic level of lence”. First violinist of the group, Liu, 25, She would love to play more ‘safe’ home here,” she says. Students say they are excited Shanghai”, saying that the foursome “I believe women musicians will only joined the orchestra in August, modern and contemporary pieces to be studying at the new build “added a new radiance to the glori play an even greater role in the as the youngest concert master of in the new chamber group, and XINHUA ing which is probably among the ous group of women musicians’’. future,” she adds. the symphony. Liu is a fanatic play more solo pieces on the viola, bestequipped public schools in “They are four extremely out Yu Long, artistic director of mobile gamer and a violinist with in a bid to introduce the instru the country and better than most standing musicians that happen to Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, “explosive power”, as was described ment and its latest developments to private schools. be women,” said Zhou Ping, director named the chamber group “Magno by her fellow musician Chen. music lovers. “I cannot express how excited I of the Shanghai Symphony Orches lia”, after the city flower of Shanghai. Liu was the only Chinese contest Zhu the cellist graduated from the Bulgarian am to study in such a sophisticat tra, at a news conference before the “These four musicians represent ant that entered the final round at Juilliard School. Joining the Shang ed building,” says Balram Dulal, concert that introduced the cham the new generation of the Shanghai the first edition of the Isaac Stern hai Symphony Orchestra in 2009, a student at Bhanu School. “After ber group to the media. Symphony Orchestra, as well as the International Violin Competition in Zhu takes great pride in her home artist puts years in a dilapidated and make “They spontaneously came exuberance and vitality of Shanghai 2016. “I was so nervous that I cried city of Shanghai and hopes to join in shift structure we are finally in together as a quartet and the sym and even the whole of China’s music like a baby before the final competi its glory with her hard work. classrooms that are unbeatable.” phony fully supported their union,” scene,” says the maestro conductor. tion,” Liu recalls of the contest. She China in The new infrastructure has Zhou recalls. “We believe the new “They are young musicians that ranked sixth at the competition and Contact the writer at attracted dozens of students group will have a bright future on are worth the attention of the whole “since then she has made great [email protected] from private schools as well, the frame which is a rare trend in Nepal. Aayush Devkota, a sixthgrad SOFIA — An exhibition of er, is among those students who Girls with paintings by Bulgarian artist have left private schools. He left Andrey Yanev, inspired by his vis a private school in Nayabazar the world it to China a year ago, has opened Kathmandu, to join Sanskrit at the Contrast Gallery in Sofia, school. at their feet Bulgaria’s capital city. “The day I saw this building, I The exhibition, From the Impe decided this is going to be my Female students get a lesson in rial Garden, which opened its new school,” he says. “Not just soccer tactics from their coach doors on Feb 16 and will run until because of its exterior appear Qian Hui at Shanghai Meilong March 12, features 19 watercol ance, the building has every Middle School recently. ors and eight drawings with his thing a proper school needs to The middle school’s team was painting Lotus in Love as the have. It is better than the private established 21 years ago and has centerpiece. school I had been studying at all blazed a path to glory since then. His nearly 10day stay in the these years.” It has won a number of Chinese capital at the invitation Separate desks and benches tournaments and competitions of the organizers of the eighth for each student, wellventilated both in Shanghai and across the Beijing International Art Bien classrooms and labs for practical country. nale inspired these paintings, education are all attractions for Many of its former players have Yanev told Xinhua News Agency the students. gone on to play for numerous at the exhibition’s preview. Teachers from both of the clubs and the national team. In Beijing, he had the opportu schools housed in the building are PHOTOS BY DING TING / XINHUA nity to see places like the Forbid elated at their increased attrac den City and Beihai Park, and tion to students. “each of them is extremely fasci “The new building has come nating”, Yanev says. as an opportunity to revive the After returning to Bulgaria, he lost glory of Durbar High started creating this series of School,” says Shiva Raj Adhikari, paintings, he explains. principal at Sanskrit High In February 2020, the Beijing School. “We have a sound infra biennale invited him to partici structure. Now the challenge is pate in the online contest, Love to deliver quality education.” Can Defeat Virus, and his water The modern, 42room build color Lotus in Love was selected ing has the capacity to accommo among the works that best date around 1,000 students. reflect this theme.
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