Forum examines role played by technology in music

Leaders of China's classical music community examined how technology and digital media are changing symphonies, orchestras and the field as a whole at the fourth China Orchestra Administration and Management Forum in Shenzhen - a metropolis in Guangdong province that's considered as a sci-tech hub -over Nov 10-11.

Forum chairman Nie Bing, who's also director of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra that was established in 1982 - three years after Shenzhen's founding - says the change has been vast since the reform and opening-up.

"Most people didn't even know how to speak Mandarin in the early years after Shenzhen became a city," Nie says.