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Chinese Dances : Purple Bamboo Melody, Song of Happiness (2000)
Programme Note available
Edward McGuire
Commissioned by BBC Commission for BBCSSO China Tour 2000.
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Programme Note availableEdward McGuire
Commissioned by BBC Commission for BBCSSO China Tour 2000.
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Category: orchestral
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation: 1+11+122 4231 Tp 3 Perc Str
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation: 1+11+122 4231 Tp 3 Perc Str
Programme Note
I learned these tunes on a trip to Beijing in 1990 - following performances of my ballet Peter Pan in Hong Kong - from the Er-hu player Zhou Yau-Kun. The following year, his group and mine, the Whistlebinkies, carried out exchange visits and we performed these dances together to audiences in Scotland and China. We again played them in our 1997 visit to Taiwan.
The first is a celebration of new-born life, represented by the young shoots of "Purple Bamboo." The second is an energetic dance of peace and happiness, literally translated "joy unbounded."
I learned these tunes on a trip to Beijing in 1990 - following performances of my ballet Peter Pan in Hong Kong - from the Er-hu player Zhou Yau-Kun. The following year, his group and mine, the Whistlebinkies, carried out exchange visits and we performed these dances together to audiences in Scotland and China. We again played them in our 1997 visit to Taiwan.
The first is a celebration of new-born life, represented by the young shoots of "Purple Bamboo." The second is an energetic dance of peace and happiness, literally translated "joy unbounded."
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Publisher: unpublished
Location: ref library
Format: score
Location: ref library
Format: score