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The Program Today Is Inspired by the Elements Fire and Metal, Which Represent the Seasons of Summer and Autumn in Chinese Philosophy The program today is inspired by the elements Fire and Metal, which represent the seasons of summer and autumn in Chinese philosophy. Taking inspiration from the transition of late summer (a season over- brimming with life and burning red-hot) to autumn (a period of harvest) Fire and Metal is a celebration of the flowering and maturing stages of life. Anchored by Pulitzer Prize winner Zhou Long’s “Five Elements: Fire and Metal,” commissioned especially for today’s concert, the program transitions from the celebratory energy of “A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix”—the representative animal of fire—to the deliberate rhythms of “Picking Jujube” and “The Grapes are Ripe”. Opposite, yet complementary, the elements of Fire and Metal represent the crucial, intertwined forces of blooming and maturing life. QING HOU Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist and Chinese Fine Arts Society Artist in Residence PR O G R A M P RELUDE : G RAND F ESTIVITY AH UNDRED B IRDS P AYING H OMAGE 普 天 同 慶 TOTHE P HOENIX 百 鸟 朝 凤 罗 逸 清 by BRENT ROMAN Cheng Da Drum Team 任 同 祥 arranged by REN TONG XIANG Yazhi Guo Suona O PENING R EMARKS Amy Briggs Piano JULIE TIAO MA P ICKING J UJUBE Board President Chinese Fine Arts Society 打 枣 G OLDEN F IREBOX 郭 雅 志 arranged by Y A Z H I G U O 金 色 的 炉 台 Yuqi Deng Guzheng Yazhi Guo Suona 陈 钢 by C H E N G A N G Tao He Erhu Qing Hou Violin Yang Wei Pipa Amy Briggs Piano O NE N IGHTIN B EIJING C OLORSOF F OLK L IFE 北 京 一 夜 五 彩 民 风 陈 升 by C H E N S H E N G 郭 雅 志 by Y A Z H I G U O Yuqi Deng Guzheng Yazhi Guo Bass Suona, Xun, Dizi, Yazhi Guo Suona Guanzi, Hulusi & Leaf Tao He Erhu Yang Wei Pipa F IVE E LEMENTS : F IREAND M ETAL Megan Arns Percussion 五 行 : 火 & 金 D ANCEOFTHE G OLDEN S NAKE 周 龙 by Z H O U L O N G 金 蛇 狂 舞 Fifth House Ensemble: 聂 耳 by N I E E R Melissa Snoza Flute Jennifer Woodrum Clarinet Yuqi Deng Guzheng Drew Williams Violin Yazhi Guo Suona Jean Hatmaker Cello Tao He Erhu Qing Hou Violin with guest artists: Yang Wei Pipa Yang Wei Pipa Megan Arns Percussion P OSTLUDE : C HALLENGEAND R ESOLUTION T HE G RAPESARE R IPE 变 与 衡 葡 萄 熟 了 罗 逸 清 by BRENT ROMAN 周 维 by Z H O U W E I Cheng Da Drum Team Tao He Erhu Amy Briggs Piano PROGRAM NOTES C OLORS O F F OLK L IFE Arranged by Yazhi Guo P RELUDE : Arranged by Yazhi Guo, Colors of Folk Life is an interpretation of G RAND F ESTIVITY by Brent Roman Chinese folk music across many different ethnicities, featuring five different woodwind instruments: the xun, dizi, guanzi, bass suona and Based on a traditional Chinese tune, popular during festivities, the hulusi, as well as a leaf. melody is arranged in dominating drumming sounds accompanied by graceful metal cymbals and gong. Yazhi Guo Winner of the Grand Prize in New York’s International G OLDEN F IREBOX by Chen Gang Pro Musicis Awards, 2012 Hong Kong Award for Best Artist in Music, and selected by China’s Ministry of Golden Firebox is an adaptation of the popular tenor song The Light of Culture as an Outstanding Musician, Yazhi Guo is not Chairman Mao Lights Up the Firebox, composed by the music composition only one of the best suona artists in Asia, but is a gifted department at the Shanghai Bureau of Metallurgical Industry. It was composer as well. Born in Shanxi, Guo graduated from written in the 1970's as part of Chen Gang's Red Violin collection. the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with distinctions. From 1999 to 2011, he was the principle Chen Gang suona player for the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, is chairman of the Hong Kong Suona Association, and is A key figure in contemporary Chinese music, Chen Gang was born in known for inventing a new “flexible core” for the Shanghai in 1935. He first studied composition with his father Chen instrument. Guo currently studies Jazz at the Berkeley School of Music. Ge Xin, followed by entry to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in He is passionate about the role that improvisation plays in both 1955. In his final year of study at the conservatory he wrote, together traditional Chinese music and in jazz. For this concert, he has arranged with He Zhan Hao, The Butterfly Lovers. This violin concerto became two traditional folk pieces. one of the most popular and best loved Chinese compositions ever written, winning five Golden Record prizes as well as a Platinum W ORLD P REMIERE : Record prize. Chen is a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of F IVE E LEMENTS : F IRE A ND M ETAL Music. His works are famous for by Zhou Long their clever combination of rich national ethnic sentiment and great The Five Elements or movements ("wu xing" in Chinese) were held by contemporary composition the ancients to compose the physical universe and were later used in technique. traditional Chinese medicine to explain various phenomena. In Zhou’s five-movement music composition The Five Elements, each movement is represented by one of these elements. Together, they define the various stages of transformation in the recurring natural cycles of seasonal change, growth and decay. Like yin and yang, the Five Elements maintain their internal harmony through a system of mutual checks and more than a decade as music director of Music From China, an balances known as 'creative' and 'control' cycles. Both these cycles, organization based in New York City, he received ASCAP’s prestigious which counteract and balance one another, are in constant operation, Adventurous Programming Award in 1999. Zhou won the 2011 Pulitzer maintaining the dynamic fields of polar forces required to move and Prize in Music for his first opera, Madame White Snake. He currently is transform energies. Distinguished Professor of Composition at the conservatory affiliated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City and has taught at The first movement is Metal, which is a refined extract of Earth forged institutions across the US. by Fire. The sound of the forge is echoed by the striking chords of the pipa, which create distance in sonority. Wind and stringed instruments T HE G RAPES A RE R IPE recreate the flow of metallurgical elements, helped by percussion. This by Zhou Wei movement symbolizes the image of extraction and refinement. Written in the early 1980s, The Grapes Are Ripe depicts a scene of The next movement is Fire. Just as spring develops celebration during the grape harvest in Xinjiang, the western-most naturally into summer, the aggressive and creative province in China. This piece is a staple in the erhu repertoire. energy of Wood matures into the flourishing 'full yang' energy of Fire. This movement contains consistent rhythmic drumming with an energetic figure played by Zhou Wei the ensemble. A famed erhu player and teacher, Zhou Wei (b.1961) is the principle erhu with The Five Elements for Piccolo, Clarinet, Percussion, Pipa, Violin the China Oriental Song and Dance and Violoncello was commissioned by the Chinese Fine Ensemble. He is known for combining Arts Society for Forces of Nature: The Five Elements Project, the erhu with instruments from made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. southeastern China and for The project is dedicated to the memory of its founder, incorporating electronic sounds in his Barbara Tiao. compositions. Zhou Long A H UNDRED B IRDS P AYING H OMAGE T O Zhou Long (b. 1953) is an internationally recognized composer whose music stretches Western instruments eastward and Chinese instruments T HE P HOENIX westward, achieving a fertile common ground. Born into an artistic Arranged by Ren Tong Xiang family, Zhou was sent to a state farm during the Cultural Revolution, where the bleak landscape made a lasting impression. In 1977, he A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix is one of the best- enrolled in the reopened Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing known folk tunes in China. The song, first arranged for suona by Ren where he studied composition. In 1983, he was appointed composer-in- Tong Xiang, mimics a multitude of birdcalls, ostensibly as they pay residence with the National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra of homage the phoenix, king of all birds in Chinese philosophy. China. Zhou immigrated to the U.S. in 1985 to attend Columbia University, receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1993. After Ren Tong Xiang Chen Sheng Primarily a suona player, Ren Tong Xiang is Chen Sheng (b. 1958) is a modern Taiwanese pop music composer. known as the Master of Traditional Chinese Originally a visual artist, Chen began his career in music as an assistant Music, having pioneered cross-instrumental at Zhong Yi Records. As a composer, he is represented by Rock techniques for the dizi (Chinese bamboo Records. He published his first album “the Crowded Playground” in flute) that were originally the sole domain of 1988. the suona. Xiang has composed many pieces for the suona and is a passionate teacher as D ANCE O F T HE G OLDEN S NAKE well. by Nie Er P ICKING J UJUBE Based on an instrumental folk song, the song was rearranged and Arranged by Yazhi Guo renamed “Dance of the Golden Snake” in 1934.
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