"Jahja Ling"; is an orchestra Conductor (music)/conductor. Since 2004 he has been the music director and conductor of the San Diego Symphony. He is of Fuzhou people/Hokchiu Han Chinese/Chinese descent and is now an United States/American citizen. He is the first and only conductor of Chinese descent to serve as music director of a major U.S. orchestra.

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How can you expect audiences to accept everything new? People threw eggs at Stravinsky. Bruckner was so depressed after the debut of one of his works that Mahler had to come and comfort him. New music has always been difficult for audiences to accept.

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God has used our ministry and the local Chinese churches there to do great work. Now we are looking to do the follow up well, which will be focused on the Word. The most important thing is to continue to listen to the word of God.

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We have hundreds of pieces of new music being composed every year. How many will last? This has always been true. How many of Brahms' pieces lasted? And what of Brahms' contemporaries, the ones whose work hasn't survived? It is unfair to compare today's music to what has endured, which is only the greatest music. The point is to listen, to keep listening.

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Rev. Stephen Tong?s evangelistic ministry goes all around the world to reach out to all nations. We go to wherever that needs to hear the Gospel, from South America, Europe, South Asia and all to way to East Asia.

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