United Nations Choir hits all the right notes
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The United Nations Singers from New York perform in the UN Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo on May 2, 2010. [China.org.cn] |
The United Nations Singers wowed an enthusiastic audience at a concert held in the UN Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo on Sunday.
The singers, from many different countries and wearing their national costumes, sang songs on the theme of "One World, One UN".
Mr. Mi Pengfei, vice president of the choir, told China.org.cn that the singers are all employees or former employees from UN Headquarters in New York. Their jobs range from editors, translators, librarians, tour guides, security officers, messengers, chauffeurs, accountants, photographers to top-level managers. The choir was founded in 1947 by staff members who wanted to get together to share music from each others’ countries.
Guillermo Vaisman, the conductor and musical director, is a famous Argentine musician. Over the past 20 years, he has conducted more than 400 concerts in Argentina, Italy, Switzerland, Uruguay and the United States. He joined the United Nations Singers in June 2004. Vaisman said the choir performed at Peking University and Beijing Foreign Studies University last week and would head back to the US this week.
For most members of the choir, this was their first trip to China and many of them said they were impressed by how modern Shanghai is.
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