"Yellow River Cantata", one of great magnum opus by Xian Xinghai, full of power and grandeur, is performed in Xinghai Concert Hall on Nov 19th, celebrating the Fourth China Golden Bell Awards for Music opens in Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province.

Nearly 300 teachers and students from Xinghai Conservatory of Music prepared for the events.

Besides the concert, a total of 117 Chinese rare ancient music instruments from Tang Dynasty are on show at 10:00 that morning.

Events arrangement:

November 20-25
Programs: Second round, Semi-final and final of Vocality, lute, piano
Locations: Xinghai Concert Symphony Hall, Hongxiannv Artistic Center, Inner hall of Xinghai Concert Hall

20:00 November 22
Program: Golden Bell Concert
Location: Xinghai Concert Symphony Hall

20:00 November 26
Program: Awarding Concert
Location: Xinghai Concert Symphony Hall

Background:
Xian Xinghai (1905-1945), Chinese well-known musician, studied in Paris Conservatory, later joined the Communist Party and was praised as "people's musician". His career life reflected the tension between the demands for populist music in an age of mass mobilization and revolution and the bourgeois music of Europe. Xian's famous Yellow River Cantata was such effort to bring Chinese and Western instrument together. Died before Communist's victory, Xian's populism has been exaggerated and his cosmopolitan side diminished for political reasons after liberation. His Yellow River Cantata and other revolutionary song were popular throughout China.

Xinghai Concert Hall and Xinghai Conservatory of Music are named to memorize him

Editor: Donald

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