Bright Sheng visual materials series. 1985-2004.

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Bright Sheng visual materials series. 1985-2004.

Includes 40 photographic negatives of Sheng with various distinguished colleagues, conductors, and performers; also videotape recordings of performances of Sheng's work such as The Silver River and The Song of Majnun, and interviews with Sheng on network news programs and with the Voice of America Chinese Branch; Also DVD of Sheng's opera Madame Mao.

40 copy negatives, 18 videocassettes (VHS), 3 DVDs.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8334659

Bentley Historical Library

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