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TORONTO—Kaija Corlazzoli, executive director of the Toronto Concert Orchestra and the Amici Chamber Ensemble, said the music in Shen Yun Performing Arts is divine. “The orchestra sounds so special, and it accentuates the experience so much. I mean, the dancing is extraordinary, but the music is bringing so much to the experience as well, and such unique sounds [are] really transporting us,” she said after seeing Shen Yun at the Fours Seasons Centre in Toronto on April 3. “It is divine.” Based in New York, Shen Yun is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, which has taken it as its mission to revive China’s traditional culture before decades of communism all but destroyed it. The performing arts company features a unique orchestra that blends traditional Chinese instruments into a Western classical orchestra. The orchestra performs original compositions that accompany the dances. “I’m hearing many special instruments coming through, and …