Time: 2008/9/14
Venue: Beijing Concert Hall
Price: 80/180/280/380/580/666/880/999/1080
Tel: 86-10-64177845
Email: ponypiaoen@hotmail.com
Booking online: http://www.piao.com.cn/en_piao/ticket_2089.html
Performed by Orchestra of China Opera and Dance-Drama Theatre
Traditional music in Chinais played on solo instruments or in smallensembles of plucked andbowed stringed instruments, flutes, and variouscymbals, gongs, anddrums. The scale has five notes. Bamboo pipes andqin are among theoldest known musical instruments fromChina;instruments are traditionally divided into categories based ontheirmaterial of composition: skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk,earth/clay,metal and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist ofbowedstrings, 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
666(280*3); 999(380*3); 999(580*2)
