Cultural Revolution

Bright Sheng is a composer who loves melody, but his "H'un: In Memoriam 1966-1976," which David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony will perform tomorrow and Friday, doesn't have a single tune. The piece commemorates the victims of China's cultural revolution, in which Sheng's grandparents were among the hundreds of thousands of educated Chinese who lost their lives. All intellectuals who smacked of Western corruption -- including a 10-year-old piano student like Sheng himself -- were declared "enemies of the people."