MEI-PA, CHAO — A Guide to Chinese Music

Hong Kong: Tai Hwa Printing Factory, 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with a short inscription, on the front pastedown page. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "Mr. Chao was in charge of Music Department of Wayland Academy, Hangchow (Hangzhou) since 1926. He was an assistant of music, University of Shanghai and Academy of Shanghai in 1927. From 1928 instructor of music appreciation and chorus conducting, University of Shanghai, Shanghai Arts Academy. He took up the post of an instructor of music, the Eastern Intercollegiate Summer School. In 1929 Mr. Chao went to Europe on a governmental scholarship and was admitted in the class of Maurice Weynandt for professional singing. He was selected as a soloist of the leading Brussels Oratorio concerts, "Concerts Spirituels," and participated in Mendelssohn\'s "Elijah", Wagner\'s "Parsifal", and Henrich Schutz\'s "La Passion selon Saint Matthieu" in 1932. " (from the world biographical encyclopedia); Signed by Author. Very Good+ .