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M'ai Sang (My Song) can be translated into "Pulsating Voices." A 10-minute piece in 3 movements that interprets Chinese folk-music and dance into a Western mold. Written for and recorded by Peter Serkin in 1989. ... Read more

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This joyful suite of pieces for solo cello, based on folk melodies from various regions of the composerÕs native China, was written for and premiered by Yo-Yo Ma, who has also recorded it for Sony Classical. ... Read more

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Chapters: Xian Zhang, Hu Kun, Li Delun, Muhai Tang, Bright Sheng, Yip Wing-Sie, Peng Xiuwen, Yu Long. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Xian Zhang ((Chinese: ), born in 1973 in Dandong, China) is a Chinese American conductor. As a child, Xian Zhang began to learn music with her mother on a piano built by her father. She continued her music studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She began conducting studies at age 16, and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the conservatory in Beijing. Her first conducting appearance was at age 19 with the China National Opera Orchestra in a production of The Marriage of Figaro. She served as conductor-in-residence of the China Opera House in Beijing, and conductor of the Jinfan Symphony Orchestra. Xian Zhang moved to the United States in 1998. She studied for her doctorate in music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and also served for four years as music director of the university's Concert Orchestra. In 2002, she shared in the first prize of the first Maazel/Vilar Conductors' Competition. She served as a cover conductor with the New York Philharmonic from 2002 to 2004. She became an assistant conductor with the New York Philharmonic in 2004, and her conducting debut with the orchestra was in a Young People's Concert that year. In January 2005, she made her Philharmonic subscription debut in January 2005 on a program shared with Lorin Maazel. Maazel subsequently appointed Xian Zhang as the orchestra's associate conductor in 2005, a post she held for several years. Xian Zhang served as the fifth music director of the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra from 2005 to 2007. In January 2008, she became the first woman to conduct the Staatskapelle Dresden in its p...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7350721 ... Read more

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China Dreams is a four-movement work written in 1995 for the Seattle Symphony. The work reflects ShengÕs nostalgia for his homeland, expressed through use of Chinese folk melodies from different provinces. A recording available on Bis CD 1122 by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra also includes other recent works by Sheng: Postcards (1997) and Flute Moon (1999). ... Read more

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A haunting unaccompanied violin work based on folk music of the composerÕs native China. Duration ca. 10 minutes. ... Read more

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I'm sure the piece is very pretty but it's just alittle too hard for me to play. ... Read more

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Based on a well-known Chinese folk song, a common influence in Sheng's works. In this setting, the viola should evoke the timbre, and tone quality of a female folk singer. ... Read more

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Three fantasy movements which draw on uniquely different inspirations. ca. 15 minutes. ... Read more

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Commissioned by the Verdehr Trio, Tibetan Dance had its first performance on March 7, 2001. The three-movement work is based on the rhythm and melodic motive of a Tibetan folk dance from Qinghai, a Chinese province by the border of Tibet where the composer lived during his teenage years. 15 minutes. ... Read more

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Inspired by Concertino for Clarinet<-i> and String Quartet<-i>, which draws on fragments of folk tunes from northwestern China. This edition presented for solo clarinet (B flat or A).

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This piece was jointly commissioned by the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Richmond, Virginia. It is dedicated to the Shanghai Quartet, who debuted it in March 2000 at the University of Richmond. ... Read more

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Requested by Seiji Ozawa for Leonard BernsteinÕs 70th Birthday celebration, Bright ShengÕs Three Chinese Love Songs is for Voice, Viola, and Piano.Set to Chinese folk songs, this collection includes: Blue Flower ¥ At the Hillside Where Horses Are Running ¥ and The Streams Flows. ... Read more

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For Clarinet and String Quartet.

Written in 1994, the premiere performance was given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, New York City, David Shifrin clarinet. ... Read more

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Based on the instrumental interlude of the well-known Peking Opera, Farewell My Concubine. ca. 10 minutes. ... Read more

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A new piano/vocal arrangement of this wonderful opera, a tragic love story based on a famous Islamic legend. First performed in 1992 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. ... Read more

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Commissioned by the Takacs Quartet, Great Performers of Lincoln Center, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Colorado and the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis. Duration ca. 18 minutes. ... Read more

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H'UN (Lacerations) is a FULL SCORE to the extensive work written by Bright Sheng. This work recounts the Chinese Culteral Revolution 1966-1976. This was a very dark, sad time for the people of China. This work contains no melody because the composer felt this horrific time did not deserve one. ... Read more

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Flute Moon<-i>, premiered by the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1999, is for solo flute-piccolo with a chamber orchestra comprised of harp, piano, percussion and strings. The music is based on Chinese mythology and a poem written in c.1200 by Jiang Kui.

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