TAINAN—The second show of the Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular in Tainan drew the final curtain amidst the audiences' enthusiastic applause. President of Tainan National University of the Arts, Lee Delin, commented on the full house: "There are a lot of people in the audience today, and it does not happen often in Tainan City. To achieve full house in Tainan is not easy at all, it must have been very diligent work."
Lee, who has a Master's degree from University of Paris, said he was very moved by the entire performance.
"I felt as a whole—be it the costumes, the dub in the background music, or the stage background, or the performers' ability in the specialty—all have achieved the Chinese arts' elegance and sophistication," he said.
"I specialized in music and I value the effect of the dub in the background music.[It] is completely in accord with the need of the plot, the arrangement is very fluent."
As to the linkage of the modern and the classic, Lee said, "The performance, 'The Risen Lotus Flower' used modern clothes in the beginning, and turned to some classical clothes later on. I paid a lot of attention to this. I pay attention to the arrangement of music. I cannot feel any barrier in the change of music from modern clothes to classical clothes. To make this change so smoothly, it is not easy at all."
Many audience members traveled from the surrounding Tainan counties, villages, and towns that are one or two hours driving to the Tainan Cultural Center.
Tainan County Deputy Commissioner Yen Chun-tso, attended the Chinese Spectacular with his mother, wife, and two children. The whole family enjoyed the show, and Deputy Commissioner Yen said in an interview that, the show was "overwhelming".
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