KENNY G panned by critics ENHANCES THE CHINESE PUBLIC

The New York Times has reported the mysterious , enormous and lasting success of a song by the Chinese American saxophonist Kenneth Bruce Gorelick – known as Kenny G. The song is called ” Going Home ” and the 1989 takes about four minutes and consists mainly by a long and catchy melody saxophone , a musical genre very calm and ” background ” . Kenny G is a musician artistically controversial : his music has had very great commercial success in the United States , but experts and colleagues do not believe a musician of great quality . ” Going Home ” is one of two songs recorded in the studio disc Kenny G Live: in the United States when released as a single , arrived on the 56th place in the ranking of best-selling singles (at the time , was one of the least successful single in the his career) . In China, however, says the New York Times, is known by almost anyone because it is played for years ” in schools, shopping centers, fitness centers and railway stations ” for a purpose: to signal the imminent closing time ( Going Home , in English, means ” go home “).

On a recent Saturday afternoon , for example, tells the reporter for the New York Times, the song was played repeatedly during the last hour and a half of opening the antiques market in Beijing. A market leader explained that the song was used from 2000 to signal that the market is closing : about the reason for his particular use , the manager could not answer , but suggested that to happen because ” they sound virtually anywhere .” Zhu Mingde , the owner of a gym in the center of Beijing, is playing for the last half hour of the opening of the gym, but said he did not know who the author is or why it is widely used , ” everything I know is that when you put this song is now closing . ” The Chinese newspaper China Daily News has calculated that most of the Chinese who frequent a shopping mall ” can expect to hear about 4,876 times in the course of their lives .”