Today, I went to a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called "Bamboo and Silk," which was about the history of music in China over the last 8000 years from crane bone flutes from 6000 BCE to the beginning of Western influence in Chinese music starting in 1912 when the Quin Dynasty ended. The lecture, in my opinion, was really dull, but there was a silver lining on that gray cloud when an ensemble of Chinese musicians played some music from various parts of China (but mainly Cantonese) and from various periods of time from ancient to new-ish.

When I heard the music, I made various associations. I heard Debussy in the music, which would make sense, since his music was influenced by east-Asian music, I even heard some Copland in it, like his piece Appalacian Spring. I was also reminded of the video game Okami, which takes place in a traditional Japanese environment and has similar-sounding music to the music I heard.

I also heard that there is a Chinese music festival at Carnegie Hall, so if any of you would like to hear some Chinese music, you can check there.