Mid-autumn concert for Chinese traditional music pieces
Time: 2008/9/14
Venue: Beijing Concert Hall
Price: 80/180/280/380/580/666/880/999/1080
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Performed by Orchestra of China Opera and Dance-Drama Theatre

Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale has five notes. Bamboo pipes and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.

The concert will feature a group of Chinese traditional music pieces that wildly known among the Chinese.

Program

1. Essemble: Walking Horse Lantern; Silver Cloud In A Moon Night

2. Erhu solo: The Moon Reflected in Er-Quan River

3. Pipa solo: Butterfly Lovers

4. Gaohu solo: Ambush from All Sides

5. Sheng solo: Singing under the Moon

6. Sheng quintet: A Happy Night; Shepherd Song

Intermission

7. Canton music: Birds Back to the Forest;

8. Koto solo: A Fishing Boat Song At Dusk; Lofty Mountains and Running Water

9. Pipa and koto duet: Moon-lit Night by a Spring River

10. Banboo flute: New Song of Herdsmen

11. Jinghu solo: Night Thoughts