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2010 Harbin China Summer Music Concert, Government Reception Dinner |
| The 2010 Harbin Summer International Accordion Art Week is part of the Harbin Summer Music Festival. The official opening of the Music Festival was held at a Government Reception Dinner to which Raymond Bodell (President of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes) represented the accordionists at an event for all musicians involved in the Summer Music Festival. At the same time, there was also a Reception for all the accordionists attending the 2010 Harbin Summer International Accordion Art Week. First are the pictures of the Government Reception. |
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| Piao Yi -The Minister of Publicity Department of Harbin Municipal Party Committee - The host of the Reception Dinner. | Gai Ruyin - Secretary of a Municipal Committee of the CPC delivering the Opening Speech |
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| Raymond Bodell, President of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) representing the accordionists internationally at the Official Reception Dinner, hosted by the Government. | Raymond Bodell and Lin Duo, Harbin Deputy Mayor, at the Reception Dinner |
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| Piao Yi -The Minister of Publicity Department of Harbin Municipal Party Committee - The host of the Reception Dinner. | |
Accordionists Arriving from Around the World and Around China |
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A
lovely feature of major Chinese accordion events is the welcome at the
airport. Here Cindy Chen welcomes Harley Jones, Public Relations, Confédération
Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA).
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A
feature of the event is the volunteer helpers from the Harbin Normal
University, who are major cultural sponsors of the accordion event.
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The
volunteers all looked very smart in their
t-shirts with nice artwork. |
Some
of the volunteers, who were from the
Harbin Normal University Music Department. |
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Lots
of laughter, when we asked the volunteers to turn around and show the
logo on the back of the t-shirts. The local newspaper also photographed
this!!
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Later
in the day, everyone met for the first time to go to the Accordion Reception
Dinner. The assembly in the hotel lobby was a meeting of many friends.
Here is Raymond Bodell, Chen Jun and Kevin Friedrich, CIA Immediate
Past President and Cultural Ambassador for the CIA.
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Volunteer
translator Linda Lee with Raymond Bodell and Harley Jones.
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Andrey
Chugunov and Vladimir Zubitsky.
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Alexander
Kapitan & Radomir Tomic
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Two
buses were required to take all the accordionists to the Reception Dinner
which was held at the new campus of Harbin Normal University, about
1 hour drive from the Hotel. Most of Accordion Week will be held in
the city campus, much closer to the Hotel.
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President
of the China Accordion Association Zhang
Ziqiang, Kevin Friedrich and Mr. Zhangs wife Wang Biyun. You can
read a very interesting and historical Celebrity
Interview of these two famous Chinese accordionists.
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Zhang
Guoping and Li Jian Lin
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Hotel
Meng Xi is part of the huge new complex of the Harbin Normal University.
They had a large sign saying 2010 Harbin Summer International Accordion
Art Week. This was the place for dinner.
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2010 Harbin Summer International Accordion Art Week Reception Dinner |
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Xu Xiaofeng, Vice-President of Harbin Normal University welcomed all the guests and visitors to the 2010 Harbin Summer International Accordion Art Week. |
Wang
Hongyu, Harbin Accordion Art Week Organization Director,
was next to welcome everyone to the Reception Dinner and to Harbin City.
Wang Hongyu is also the Head of Keyboard Department of Music College
of Harbin Normal University.
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Zhang
Shaojie, Secretary of the Party Committee of Harbin Normal University
was the key speaker welcoming all the accordionists and wishing everyone
a most successful 2010 Harbin Summer International Accordion Art Week.
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Viatcheslav
Semionov who will be Chairman of the jury with Wang Hongyu at the dinner.
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Yuri
Shishkin practising, but not for his concert in Harbin - this time practising
with chop sticks!
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Chen
Jianyi, Li Cong and Cao Xiao-Qing.
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Crystal
Wang and Rui
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Members
of the Music Department introducing themselves to Viatcheslav Semionov
and Vladimir Zubitsky.
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After
a magnificient Reception Dinner of wonderful food, all the accordionists
left to go to the Opening Ceremony Concert. This was a 50 minute bus
ride back into Harbin City.
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Large
signs on the building for the China 30th Harbin Summer Music Concert.
The venue was the huge Harbin International Exhibition Centre Stadium
which seats many thousands of people and is the largest hall in the
Harbin area.
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More
large signs for the Summer Music Concert which is the opening concert
of the Harbin Summe Music Festival.
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Opening Ceremony Concert |
