Twenty-eight years ago today, on May 17, 1997 (April 11, 1997 lunar calendar), Yanni launched the first performance of his trip to Beijing at Capital Stadium. On May 17, 1997, Yanni launched the first performance at Capital Stadium. Yanni was born in Kalamata, Greece, and moved to the United States in 1972 to study at the University of Minnesota, where he received a degree in psychology. His music breaks through the traditional rules of symphony performance, but combines the essence of various artistic styles. His music goes beyond entertainment and has a richer connotation. Yanni himself said: "My purpose is to communicate with people emotionally, and I transform the experience of life into music, hoping that it will give the audience a spiritual impact." According to Yanni's plan, he will tour around the world, mainly in front of those representative historical monuments. Including the Forbidden City in China, the pyramids in Egypt, and the Temple of the Sun in Mexico. Before coming to Beijing, Yanni had just finished his performance at the Taj Mahal in India. Yanni believes that these monuments are symbols of the noble spirit and pursuit of perfection of human beings, represent the history of human civilization, and are miracles created by human beings. He wants to integrate his music into this splendid atmosphere and pass on the incomparable creation of human beings. In May 1997, Yanni will realize his dream of visiting China. On May 17, the first performance was launched at the Prime Minister's Gymnasium, and on May 30 and 31, the "Yanni Forbidden City Concert" was held at the Working People's Cultural Palace in Beijing. Chinese audiences were fortunate to see Yanni's performance firsthand, and to experience the special charm of the embrace of ancient human civilization and modern art on the spot. There will be 3,000 seats in the main hall square, and Yanni and his 45-piece band will be distributed on the three floors in front of the hall, playing nearly 20 pieces of music familiar to Chinese audiences, including "Santorini", "Dancing with Strangers", "Looking Back on Feelings", "Aria" and the newly created "Nostalgia" and "Love is Everything". The live concert of the Forbidden City was made into a record and video product and distributed worldwide. And then Yanni's plan was to go to the Temple of the Sun in Mexico and the pyramids in Egypt. Beijing listeners came to know Yanni in his concert CD of the Atticus Theater in the Acropolis of Greece. It was indeed one of his overnight concerts worldwide, performing modern music in a 2,000-year-old theater, which is probably a miracle in the history of music. This is Yanni, even though he doesn't know notation, even though he uses music that no one can understand. When the reporter met Yanni last year, he read his unique "book from the sky" and heard him sing beautiful melodies. This score is not five lines, but six lines and some strange symbols. Yanni said that his compositional process is to first record the melodies in his head on his own "heavenly book", and then to be translated by professionals into the score of each instrument of the staff according to his "heavenly book". Yanni's creation is born with the concept of band harmony. Each of Yanni's musical works is a story of his. For example, the song "Remembrance" (that is, "Nostoguya"): "There I was in the United States for a clinical doctorate in psychological medicine. I couldn't go home and I couldn't meet or talk with friends. I could only do monologues and reminisce about the past. The house on the cliff, not far from the sea, was like a heavenly party to me. This feeling of memory inspired my music..."