The wellspring is China’s almost limitless pool of young musicians, a mounting number driven by increasing prosperity and nurtured by Chinese society’s desire to compete with the West.
Their arrival is felt especially in Europe, but the rising star Xian Zhang, 33, was recently named associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic.（求解：What is “but” doing here? Aren’t these two parts of this sentence talking about the same phenomenon that Chinese conductors are bewared gradually in the recent years?）
原文
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/0 ... .html?th&emc=th
With stunning swiftness China’s surging ranks of classical musicians have found a home in Western concert halls, conservatories and opera houses, jolting a musical tradition born in the courts and churches of Europe.
The phenomenon, which has been building for at least a decade, has gathered steam in the last few years, injecting new vitality into the American classical music scene after historic influxes of …
But many Western musicians and educators interviewed cited similar qualities in Chinese virtuosos: passion and refinement, expressiveness and brilliance.
Along with Lang Lang and another highly praised Chinese pianist, Yundi Li, also 24, a new crop of stars in their teens or barely out of them are on the way up.
Chinese musicians have now joined them in force and are winning high-profile positions.
Their arrival is felt especially in Europe, but the rising star Xian Zhang, 33, was recently named associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic.（求解：What is “but” doing here? Aren’t these two parts of this sentence talking about the same phenomenon that Chinese conductors are bewared gradually in the recent years?）
It is in the elite Western conservatories that the presence of Chinese is perhaps most significant for the future.
The wellspring is China’s almost limitless pool of young musicians, a mounting number driven by increasing prosperity and nurtured by Chinese society’s desire to compete with the West. (求翻译。这句读着非常别扭啊~)
“One goes where the talent is,”
“There’s bound to be friction.”
But the will to overcome such difficulties among many families of musical Chinese children points at what the future may hold for classical music.
Vocabulary: jolt vitality cite >in force< >elite conservatory< bonanza friction tremendous
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