A Pioneer of Taiwanese Music--Composer Kuo Chih-yuan At the ceremony for the Executive Yuan's Awards for Culture in May, 85-year-old musician Kuo Chih-yuan made a rare public appearance. Thin yet lively, with a broad smile that betrays a childlike innocence, Kuo was the first Taiwanese composer since Chiang Wen-yeh (who pursued his musical career in mainland China) to write a symphony and a grand opera.
今年 5 月行政院文化獎頒獎典禮上，平日難得露面的 85 歲音樂大師郭芝苑親自出席，老先生身材削瘦卻神采奕奕，笑容中難掩赤子純真，他是繼在中國大陸發展的台籍作曲家江文也之後，台灣第一位譜寫管絃樂曲並完成「正歌劇」（意即「正式的歌劇」）的作曲家。