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nPeking Opera: “Snow Forest” arranged by Larry LangPeking Opera has a history of over 300 years in China. It is not really opera associated solely with Beijing area, butis rather a special type of play with singing, dancing and dialogue known in Chinese as “Jing-Xi.” The music of Jing-Xi isvery special, different from all other Chinese traditional music and folk songs in the way that jazz is different fromother forms of American music.Inspired by the music of Jing-Xi, I made an arrangement of a tenor aria titled “Snow Forest”- “Da-Hu-Shang-Shan” 京剧管弦乐 :《林海雪原》for symphony orchestra, to expose American audiences for the first time to the beauty of this specialChinese music. A musical painting of a snowy forest in northeast China emerges in this music. Based on a story from 1948,a brave Chinese solder, in conflict with terrorists, eventually wins the battle.– Larry Lang“Sunset Flute & Drum” – traditionalSunset Flute & Drum is a masterwork of Chinese traditional music. It is elegant, graceful and lyrical, painting a landscapeof a quiet night in spring, with the moon rising. A canoe on the river creates ripples, flowers bloom along the river banks,depicting a perfect breathtaking scene of southern China. The original music is composed for pipa solo, and will beperformed by an ensemble of pipa, guzheng, erhu and dizi in this concert.– Larry LangHeaven Earth Mankind (Symphony 1997), excerpts, by Tan DunCommissioned by the Hong Kong government to celebrate the reunification of Hong Kong with China on July 1, 1997,Tan’s 70-minute symphony is a dramatic montage that captures the panorama of human history and the longings of ourspirit. It joins the cultures of the East and West: reflecting the Chinese aesthetic of using celebratory music as a vehicle forspiritual contemplation while featuring lush Romantic harmonies and sweeping lines characteristic of Western music. Tanconspicuously adapts African rhythms and melodies known to audiences in the East and West, including the folk song“Jasmine Flower” (used by Puccini in Turandot) and Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Taoist philosophy colors the Symphony throughits tripartite division of Heaven, Earth and Mankind. The work concludes with a hymn to universal freedom and peace, aspiritual descendant of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The Symphony envisions a new world, one in which the arroganceof isolationism, colonialism and imperialism has finally yielded to a global community.– Mary Lou Humphrey- 8 -
nAbout the SoloistsLi Chen, sopranoChen was a Peking Opera singer when Mr. Wang composed his beloved TV series music,Dream of the Red Chamber. From among hundreds of top sopranos in China, she was selectedby Mr. Wang to be the only solo singer of the entire television series. Since then the nameof Li Chen has been connected with the music of Dream of the Red Chamber in the hearts ofmillions of Chinese people. Ms. Chen has a pure and touching voice, and has presented thebest recording of Wang’s music and the Chinese people have affirmed that Li Chen wasborn to sing the Dream of Red Chamber.Dacheng Tian, tenorOperatic tenor Dacheng Tian is the Dean of the Schoolof Music at Shaanxi Normal University. He graduatedfrom Tokyo University of the Arts with a Doctor of MusicalArts in opera. Dr. Tian has studied with Regine Crespin and Camille Maurane in France andwas admitted to the master classes of Vittorio Terranova in Italy. Dr. Tian has performed thelead roles in La Traviata and Carmen, among others, in Japan and China. He frequently offerssolo recitals and has been tenor soloist for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem,and Handel’s Messiah. Dr. Tian’s CD albums include Tian: French Arts Songs (Adam recordpublisher, Japan, 1998); Tian: French & Italian Opera Arias (Kojima record publisher, Japan,2002); and Tian: Chinese and Japanese Songs (Kojima record publishers, 2005).Zhuo Sun, guzhengZhuo Sun is Associate Professor of Music at the School of Music, Shaanxi NormalUniversity. Ms. Sun studied guzheng from childhood with her mother, Qu Yun, a famousguzheng artist in China. Sun plays all types of traditional guzheng music and is committed toexploring contemporary interpretations. She has performed with the Chinese Youth NationalOrchestra, National Music Orchestra of the Xi’an Conservatory of Music, the ContemporaryOrchestra at Sheffield University and the German Chamber Orchestra. Sun received herbachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing andher Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from The University of London. Recordings by Sun include:“XiangYun ” (Longyin Ltd of Hong Kong, 2001); “Gorgeous ” (China Music PublishingHouse, 2003); and “Sound of The Mother and Daughter” (China Recording Corporation,2008).Man Jia, erhuMs. Jia is Associate Professor of erhu at the School of Music, Shaanxi Normal University.As a Shaanxi native, Ms. Jia began studying the erhu at age 10 under her father’s tutelage.She has been engaged by the Shaanxi Opera Orchestra since 1990. With the Shaanxi ArtsGroup she has performed on concert tours as erhu soloist in France, Germany, Austria,Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong, among other locations. In 2005 she received aCertificate of Honor from the Golden Concert Hall of Vienna for her performancein the concert, The Rhythm of Chinese Folk Music.- 9 -
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