267:. The decision for him to take over as music director was first announced in December 2001. When Yeh took over as music director, he initiated a project in which he began to blend the traditional Chinese music which the orchestra typically played, with several musical genres such as jazz and rock. He began the project as he believed that adapting the orchestra in this way would help it stay relevant and ahead of the competition. In 2005, he renewed his contract for the Singapore Chinese Orchestra. In 2005, Yeh, along with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, went on tour in Europe, and was the first Chinese orchestra to perform at the
181:, during which both of his parents were detained by authorities due to suspicions that they were foreign spies, as they could speak English and had acquaintances from the west. His parents were released after a few days, but his father was placed on house arrest for three months, while his mother was placed on house arrest for a year. During the revolution, Yeh remained a student of the conservatory, despite the banning of European music. However, Yeh was eventually able to persuade a teacher to teach him the works of
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on 10 April 1988. In 1995, he and the orchestra were awarded the
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