Xia Feiyun Conducts Chinese Music Favourites
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A Stellar MeetProfessor Xia Feiyun, the first pedagogically trained professional conductor in China, is a highly esteemed figure in the music circle. He has taught numerous music talents at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music over the years, and as a former Resident Conductor of the HKCO, has guest conducted many of its concerts over the years. For this concert, he will be bringing with him veteran virtuosi of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra and the former Shanghai Film Orchestra, such as Weng Zhenfa (sheng), Zuo Yiwei (suona) and many others, to Hong Kong. The programme features two of Xia’s most famous interpretations, As the Moon Rises and The Legend of Shadi’er, golden classics such as Celebration Overture, The Murmuring Brook, Jin Melody, The Water Margin Capriccio and Righteous Courage that Soars to Heaven, an arrangement by Xia based on the modern Peking Opera, Taking Tiger Mountain by Stratagem. Zhang Chongxue, HKCO’s Huqin Principal, will perform Capriccio on Theme from Hong Lake, an arrangement by the erhu maestro Min Huifen, to take us revisit the glorious past of Chinese music in Shanghai.
Repertoire：Celebration Overture
Composer：nil
Repertoire：As the Moon Rises (Ancient Tune, Arr. by Peng Xiuwen)
Composer：nil
Repertoire：The Murmuring Brook (Arr. by Chen Dawei)
Composer：Yan Haideng
Repertoire：Jin Melody (Orch. by Chen Dawei)
Composer：Liu Yuan
Repertoire：The Legend of Shadi'er
Composer：Ouyang Qianshu
Repertoire：Capriccio on Theme from Hong Lake (Arr. by Min Huifen, based on a theme song in the opera, Red Guards on the Hong Lake Orch. by Qu Chunquan)
Composer：Zhang Xiaofeng
Repertoire：The Water Margin Capriccio
Composer：nil
Repertoire：Excerpt from the modern Peking Opera Taking Tiger Mountain by Stratagem: Righteous Courage that Soars to Heaven (Arr. by Xia Feiyun)
Conductor：Xia Feiyun
Sheng：Wen Zhenfa
Suona：Zuo Yiwei
Erhu：Zhang Chongxue
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Classical Music Yearbook 2014" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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