Composed in yanan in early 1939 during the second sinojapanese war, the work was inspired by a patriotic poem by guang weiran, which was also adapted as the lyrics. According to pianist composer wash xinghai yellow river cantata creative adaptation piano concerto works, produced in china a particular historical period, as the musical work of art that does not affect its due artistic value, he influenced generations of chinese music. Yet, this is the exact audience writer and illustrator ange zhang reaches in a song for china. Cantata collective has just received another major blow with the cancellation of the upcoming berkeley festival and exhibition in june. A staple of chinese choral literature, the yellow river cantata has not attracted any. The yellow river as a piano concerto was certainly one of the greatest masterpieces came out of the cr era. Bach cantata vespers 201920 season grace lutheran church.
Ange s father was a famous writer whose yellow river cantata was considered by many to be the anthem of the chinese revolution. He joined the communist party in 1938 where he composed the yellow river cantata. Consequently, a lot of chinas historical art, architecture, books, records and. Foss, a member of the american academy of arts and letters, was a guest conductor with. Hoss brock, tenor evangelist keven keys, baritone jesus maura janton cock, soprano karen brunssen, mezzosoprano sarah ponder, mezzosoprano ryan townsend strand, tenor douglas anderson, baritone.
However, there were exceptions, which is where chen yung came in, as he played an arrangement of the yellow river cantata, which was a highly favoured piece, as it was written for the revolution. How my father wrote yellow river cantata, ange zhang groundwood books, september 2019 born zhang guangnian, but known by his pen name guang weiran, he was something of a prodigy, becoming a member of the communist party at the age of. Yellow river cantata has long been a chinese nation musical epic, and it is the first symphony in chinese history. Cantata for the 20th anniversary of the october revolution. If a cantata gets too long and complex it runs smack into the oratorio. Tourism along the yellow river glorifies chinas past. The yellow river piano concerto, performed by the philadelphia orchestra during its historic trip to china in 1973, has become a part of the. Brookfield calvarys mountain a cantata for passiontide. However xians own eminent status is only posthumous. Red land, yellow river and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. This great song turns eighty years old in 2019, and will be sung and performed by huge orchestras and choirs around the world, as the chinese diaspora has embraced the cantata as its own. Cantata is a family of organizations focused on leading the innovation that will enable americans to live their best lives as they age.
The story of christies success with yellow river is wellknown. Welcome to albuquerques newest luxury townhome community. This song sings of the greatness of the chinese nation and its resolve to overcome all the trials that beset her, and grow to become a paragon of ideals. The yellow river or huang he listen help info is the second longest river in china, after the yangtze river, and the sixth longest river system in the world at the estimated length of 5,464 km 3,395 mi. The yellow river piano concerto simplified chinese. The book ends in a burst of glorious color and song, with the words of the yellow river cantata in mandarin, as well as newly translated into english. The libretto is a fourhundredline poem of eight sections written by guang weiren 192002, a comrade of xian, who was inspired by crossing the river on his way to yanan a year earlier. The tremeloes spurned jeff christies song, which in turn launched jeff on his own way to a successful music career. With interlinear translations and a full complement of indexes. This is the fascinating story of how a young chinese author, guang weiran, a passionate militant from the age of twelve, fought, using art, theater, poetry and song, especially the famous yellow river cantata the anthem of chinese national spirit to create a socially just china. The subject, guang weiran, lived through interesting times during the early and middle 20th century when china experienced civil war, japanese invasion, and postrevolutionary turmoil.
Festival will mark 80th anniversary of popular cantata chinadaily. Sir john eliot gardiner and his monteverdi choir undertook the bach cantata pilgrimage, performing and recording in the year 2000 the sacred cantatas at churches all over europe and in the united states. The overarching goal of our organizations is to facilitate active, purposedriven and harmonious living while we pursue and realize a new vision of aging. It was originally directed by jiang qing, wife of chairman mao, and since its. The yellow river as a piano concerto was certainly one.
Bookmark this page for easy access whenever you need new ideas and inspiration. During the antijapanese war, overseas chinese made great contribution to chinas liberation. Set during the period of the struggle against the japanese and the war against the kuomintang in the 1920s and 30s. The 1939 yellow river cantata with lyrics by guang weiran set to music by xian xinghai, and the yellow river concerto later derived from it, is one of these. He composed the chorale cantata in leipzig for the 14th sunday after trinity and first performed it on 10 september 1724. The cantata learning community is full of information, research, lesson plans, and more to help you integrate books and music into your lessons. Yin chengzong, the pianist playing in this album, and others adapted into a piano concerto during the cultural revolution. Music, power, and politics presents sixteen different cultural perspectives on the concept of music as a site of sociopolitical struggle. How sound emerges in river histories american landscape painter thomas cole captured in his famous painting, view from mount holyoke, northampton, massachusetts, after a thunderstormthe oxbow, what social anthropologist paul connerton described in his book, the spirit of mourning, as a tranquil sublimity, a. This year, to commemorate the 70 th anniversary of world war ii and to pray for world piece, north american chorus association will once again render this classic chinese choral work. A celebration of music that will undoubtedly stir the soul in its nationalistic fervourthe centrepiece of the programme will be the yellow river cantata by chinese composer xian xinghai. The word cantata first appeared in the italian composer alessandro grandis cantade et. Though this cancellation was expected, it is still a crushing disappointment. Emmanuel music is a bostonbased ensemble of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by craig smith to perform the complete sacred cantatas of j.
Under the baton of maestro wanjun qiao, near 300 singers from all. Weekly cantata has been more of a monthly cantata since my last blog post from may 27, and it will stay like that probably until september because of me needing vacation time with my family now and then doing some work on this website later in the summer, to make it easier to use for everyone. Usually a source of rich fertile soil and irrigation water, the yellow river has transformed itself more than 1,500 times in recorded history into a raging torrent that has swept away entire villages. Yellow river simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The yellow river cantata was written in 1939, during a period of great suffering following japans invasion of china. Sep, 2015 ten years ago, north american chorus association successfully presented yellow river cantata concert in woolsey hall of yale university. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your first box. Most styles of music get larger and more complex over time, and the cantata is no exception. Zhang presents his fathers story in a vivid and compelling manner. Yellow river cantata news newspapers books scholar. The central conservatory of music will hold a festival from may 23 to 27 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the yellow river cantata. It is also the subject of a famous musical with lyrics by militant poet guang weiran. The yellow river piano concerto xian xinghai xian was born in 1905 in pungu in china.
This saturday oct 24, beijings international festival chorus presents xian xinghais production cantata alongside the international festival childrens choir. I turned to my fellow teachers to help choose books supporting science, social studies, math, and even some folk songs for music class. Our planned performance of the b minor mass, conducted by nicholas mcgegan, was scheduled as the headline concert to open the festival. Emmanuel music continues to perform cycles of largescale and chamber works by bach, handel, mozart, schubert, brahms, debussy, haydn, schoenberg, weill, wolf, medelssohn, and schumann under artistic director ryan turner.
Cantata is a gated, intimate community with only 20 homesites located two miles from downtown phoenix and sky harbor airport. This is a novel by yin, chu wang hua, liu zhuang, etc. A song for china ange zhang this is the fascinating story of how a young chinese author, guang weiran, a passionate militant from the age of twelve, fought, using art, theater, poetry and song, especially the famous yellow river cantata the anthem of chinese national spirit to create a socially just china. Yellow river cantata crimson river chorus lp from 48372143. According to an account by xians daughter, he began work on the composition on march 26, and took merely four days to complete. Joseph river date back to 1930 in niles and 1947 in elkhart. The vast and powerful yellow river is often called the mother river of china. Yellow river cantata at yale university all ct chinese chorus. Cantata are published in chinese song books printed in chungking. In addition, the religious or literary theme of each text is summarized within the specific context of the cantata as a whole. This short biography under 100 pages tells the story of the man who wrote the yellow river cantata. In ten contrasting movements, the cantata relates the story of the bolshevik revolution and the birth of the soviet union, from the battle for the winter palace in 1917, through the suffering of 1918 and lenins funeral in 1924, to the building of factories and collective farms in the early thirties, and the final consolidation of stalins control over the country with his new. A commentary published monday took a firm stand against performances that make fun of the yellow river cantata a 1939 composition that tells of the countrys struggles during the second sinojapanese war. It was here that he composed the yellow river cantata in 1939, during the sinojapanese war 19371945.
The yellow river cantata is a cantata by chinese composer xian xinghai 19051945. The 1939 yellow river cantata with lyrics by guang weiran set to music by. Xian xinghai pictured above, right is best known for the yellow river cantata, upon which the yellow river concerto for piano and orchestra is based. Experience chinese choral history with xian xinghais. Dialogue song by the yellow river by central philharmonic society type song title, artist or lyrics top lyrics community contribute business. Premiered on april of the same year in the shanbei gongxue hall of yanan, the work soon spread to all parts of china. Yellow river cantata at yale university all ct chinese. The chorus is excited to explore his other, comparatively unknown and unexplored.
It is developed and sold by qa systems, and was formerly a product of ipl information processing ltd. The yellow river cantata was composed by xian xinghai in the 1930s. An epic work scored for a large orchestra with additional chinese instruments, a narrator, soloists and a choir, this modern choral masterpiece was inspired. The lyrics of the yellow river cantata boosted the fighting spirit of the chinese when facing the japanese during wartime and influenced later generations, too. The yellow river cantata is a cantata by chinese composer xian xinghai 1905 1945. Yellow river cantata, ange zhang groundwood books, september 2019. The yellow river cantata is one of chinas most wellknown patriotic choral works, and is often taught to schoolchildren. Please enter your name, your email and your question regarding the product in the fields below, and well answer you in the next 2448 hours. In this non fiction picture book, chinesecanadian author and illustrator ange zhang. Shortly after the revolution began, many of ange s classmates joined the red guard, mao s youth movement, and they drove their teachers out of the classrooms. In this nonfiction picture book, chinesecanadian author and illustrator ange zhang. The yellow river film aims to touch a chord1 chinadaily. Chinas culture ministry has launched a crackdown on the spoofing of its revolutionary culture and its heroes, ordering the deletion of thousands of online videos for parodying popular red.
In kothen, where bach worked from 1717 to 1723, he restaged some of his earlier church cantatas. Cantata, from italian cantare, to sing, originally, a musical composition intended to be sung, as opposed to a sonata, a composition played instrumentally. The yellow river is also known as the cradle of chinese civilization or the mother river. Composed by xian xinghai in 1940s, this cantata praises the courage and fighting spirit of the country. Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which musics longacknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or even silence listeners, has been used to advance agendas of power and protest. Performing the yellow river cantata by xiangtang hong dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of musical arts in music in the graduate college of the university of illinois at urbanachampaign, 2009 urbana, illinois doctoral committee. The yellow river cantata is music of great enthusiasm and great fun to perform and listen to. Map courtesy of the department of history, united states military academy. Enjoy the conveniences and amenities of a rental community without. It was known as a propaganda piece written to promote communism and recall the atrocities of. Gods endless love for the world is vividly expressed in th.
How my father wrote the yellow river cantata, a new 80page hardback nonfiction book on the man whose poem inspired one of the bestknown works of chinese revolutionary music. Beijing is promoting tourist spots along the yellow river. Chinese and russian choirs commemorate ww2 victory. One of my favourite songs is the second piece from the yellow river cantata, the heroic male solo ode to the yellow river, or in chinese. The handbook to bachs sacred cantata texts identifies scriptural references for the wording, imagery, and themes that j. The works history is interestingly messy and problematic, as it was none other than chairman maos wife, jiang qing, who ordered a collection of musicians to adapt the cantata into the concerto. Huanghe dahechang is a cantata by chinese composer xian xinghai 19051945. Ten years ago, north american chorus association successfully presented yellow river cantata concert in woolsey hall of yale university.
The cantata was an eight movement work for chorus orchestra and soloists with narration. So the cantata and oratorio started to meld into each other in the mid to late 1700s. The yellow river was considered by the chinese as the cradle of chinas civilisation and its sorrow. Illustrations of guarding the yellow river is an old book that shows how china protected the cities around the river.
In 1982, cantata singers began an era of growth and exploration. Tourism along the yellow river glorifies chinas past the area known as the cradle of chinese civilization is undergoing a renaissance. From wikibooks, open books for an open world yellow river piano concerto by yin chengzong and yu wanghua based on xian xinghais yellow river cantata and symphony no. It is at this time that he composed the famous yellow river cantata. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer. Listen to the yellow river ballade from the yellow river cantata a troubled river mirrors chinas path to modernity new york times november 19, 2006. The river is 5464 km long and it drains at the bohai sea, a gulf of the yellow sea. American cantata for tenor, soprano, two speakers, chorus, and orchestra 1977.
The yellow river cantata is a cantata by chinese composer xian xinghai. When i discovered cantata learning, it made perfect sense to add many of these titles to our book collection right away. The yellow river piano concerto by wanghua chu, zhuang liu, li hong sheng. The story of the cantata that led to the famous yellow river piano. With music director david hoose, cantata singers began to redefine the choralorchestral canon, presenting treasured icons alongside both new music and historic gems that might otherwise be lost to obscurity. It tapped into the chinese peoples deep yearning to become a strong nation, free from foreign exploitation. Chinas national centre for the performing arts ncpa orchestra made its carnegie hall debut in new york on monday, as part of a sixcity coasttocoast us tour, with programs combining western. Its the yellow river piano concerto, arranged into a concerto from themes by composer xian xinghai for a work called yellow river cantata. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. The yellow river piano concerto was composed by a group of chinese composerpianists in 1969 and is based on the yellow river cantata.
Xian xinghais 19051945 yellow river cantata is probably chinas best known choral work. This incredibly convenient location offers a luxurious gated community lifestyle with amenities nearby. This is the fascinating story of how a young chinese author, guang weiran, a passionate. Ib musicexamlistening paper wikibooks, open books for.