B4 丰收舞曲 Conductor – 黄贻钓 Recorded 1959 From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Ru-xy06wU
For modern China, 1949 is a very important point in time. Economy, politics and culture were transformed and pushed forward in this year. People were liberated. The same was true for the music scene in China at that time. Old symphony orchestras were given a new lease of life, while new ones were established all over the country. Among these orchestras, the Central Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra represented the highest level of Chinese symphony orchestras. At the same time, the history of these orchestras is also a history of the culture of new China, and some remnants of China's cultural life can be glimpsed in the piles of old paper. yoshio
Interesting.... I've read Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday and according to that book, during the Cultural Revolution, if you had books at home, artwork like paintings and records, that could be an automatic death sentence. Almost all musical art was forbidden 'cept for Chinese Opera and they could only do stuff celebrating the Communist Revolution, the only thing allowed basically was Mao's Little Red Book.... Meanwhile Mao himself would surround himself with books, records and precious works of art, holed up in horrible square grey bunkers that he would build all over the country, often tearing down beautiful very old buildings to build these bunkers.... Makes me wonder about orchestras like these. What happened to them.... And you can see it when you dive into so many famous singers and musicians from Taiwan and Hong Kong; so many of them originally came from China but they, or their parents fled...
The records The record survived through the greatest mistake in the human history. This is the great thing about the culture of records: they are unearthed in this way and preserved on someone's HD. Just as history is meaningless if it is not told, so music must be heard. I have written something uncharacteristically plausible. yoshio
上海交哬团演奏 - 欢乐
ReplyDeleteShanghai Symphony Orchestra - Happiness
A1 欢乐
Conductor – 陈传熙
A2 江南好风光
Conductor – 李耀伦
A3 采茶灯
Conductor – 李耀伦
A4 晚会圆舞曲
Conductor – 李耀伦
B1 小放牛
Conductor – 陆洪恩
B2 新春圆舞曲
Conductor – 吴逸亭
B3 孔雀开屏
Conductor – 李耀伦
B4 丰收舞曲
Conductor – 黄贻钓
Recorded 1959
From
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Ru-xy06wU
For modern China, 1949 is a very important point in time. Economy, politics and culture were transformed and pushed forward in this year. People were liberated.
The same was true for the music scene in China at that time. Old symphony orchestras were given a new lease of life, while new ones were established all over the country. Among these orchestras, the Central Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra represented the highest level of Chinese symphony orchestras. At the same time, the history of these orchestras is also a history of the culture of new China, and some remnants of China's cultural life can be glimpsed in the piles of old paper.
yoshio
Interesting.... I've read Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and
ReplyDeleteJon Halliday and according to that book, during the Cultural Revolution, if you had books at home, artwork like paintings and records, that could be an automatic death sentence. Almost all musical art was forbidden 'cept for Chinese Opera and they could only do stuff celebrating the Communist Revolution, the only thing allowed basically was Mao's Little Red Book.... Meanwhile Mao himself would surround himself with books, records and precious works of art, holed up in horrible square grey bunkers that he would build all over the country, often tearing down beautiful very old buildings to build these bunkers.... Makes me wonder about orchestras like these. What happened to them.... And you can see it when you dive into so many famous singers and musicians from Taiwan and Hong Kong; so many of them originally came from China but they, or their parents fled...
The records The record survived through the greatest mistake
ReplyDeletein the human history.
This is the great thing about the culture of records: they are unearthed in this way and preserved on someone's HD.
Just as history is meaningless if it is not told, so music must be heard.
I have written something uncharacteristically plausible.
yoshio