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Happy Friday! Join Sarah and Jeffers, our resident music lovers to discuss the playlist curated by the Hong Kong Jazz Academy over a drink of your choice!

Designed specifically for our members and the public in quarantine, Social Soul Sessions (SSS) is an online programming about connection for those in isolation through the arts. The topics range from literature and films to music and other entertainment.

The music segment of SSS will feature a monthly playlist recommended by our industry leaders. Every month join us to talk about the songs and its curation in a book club-esque conversation with other aficionados and fans.

Listen to these tracks before our social session!

Session #3: Jennifer Lin’s Picks of the Month

The Director of Beethoven in Beijing Jennifer Lin tucks into the music behind the documentary, which dramatizes the sweep of music history in China, starting with the historic 1973 trip to Beijing and Shanghai of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the first to tour the People’s Republic.

Here is a playlist of some of her favorite music from the documentary to enjoy in its entirety.

Jennifer Lin’s Picks of the Month.

Jennifer Lin is an award-winning journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. She created and codirected the feature-length documentary, Beethoven in Beijing, which premiered on PBS’s Great Performances in 2021. For 31 years, she worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer as a reporter, including posts as a foreign correspondent in China, a financial correspondent on Wall Street, and a national correspondent in Washington, DC. Lin has written an oral history of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1973 tour, called Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra’s History Journey to China, which will be published by Temple University Press (May 2022). She also is the author of Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family, and coauthor of Sole Sisters: Stories of Women and Running.

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