Interview: Formed Under Pressure
Vivian Fung was interviewed for a roundtable about how Asian classical musicians experience discrimination.
It’s important to acknowledge and to understand that, just because you are a Chinese composer, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to be composing folk songs. That whole term of “East meets West” drives me crazy. You fall into the trap of, You’re a Chinese composer, so let’s just put you in with the Chinese music festival or the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration.