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Press Release.
Majestic Drums III - 2004 Hong Kong Drum Festival
Chaozhou
music (or Chiuchow music) is a vernacular art that evolves with the lifestyle of
the people of the Chaozhou and Shantou region. It assimilates, borrows,
integrates and even transplants music that comes from the rural areas, fishing
villages, forests and small towns and continues to change as time passes by.
Their gong-and- drum music falls into four categories: the xiaoluogu, suluogu,
daluogu and quluo ensemble. Daluogu, in particular, is an important part of the
community gatherings, when people come together for feasts, festivals and
rituals.
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My choice
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My choice would be
the 2004 Hong Kong Drum Festival: Majestic Drums III because I find
the performance of the Chaozhou Daluogu Troupe highly interesting.
Its configuration includes the percussion instruments of Chaozhou origin -
xiaoluogu and suluogu, winds, plucked-strings and other
string instruments. The genre of Chaozhou daluogu originated from
Chinese opera, and some pieces from its repertoire of music such as
Spring Comes to the Fishing Port have become household tunes. It is
not everyday that we can hear Chaozhou music in Hong Kong Chinese
Orchestra concerts, so I would regard this as an opportunity not to be
missed.
Liza Wang
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“One could never imagine drum music could be so beautiful? You would
have thought its only function is to hearten and to elate, but in the
hands of the virtuosi, it comes in such a huge variety of sounds that
it’s beyond your imagination, and manifests itself as a genre of
unparalleled value. It’s a real eye (or ear) opener indeed.?
Issue #265, Audiotechnique
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The 1st Hong Kong Synergy
24 Drum Competition
The Champion of Junior Section: Shanghai Alumni Primary School
The Champion of Intermediate Section: Jockey Club Ti-I College
The Champion of Senior Section: Made in Hong Kong
New Shifan Luogu Song of the
Victorious General
Pei Deyi and Xiao Jiang
New Shifan Luogu: Pei Deyi
Bangn and Jinghu In the Deep of
the Night Set Tune from Peking Opera Arr. by Li Minxiong
Bangn: Yim Hok-man Jinghu: Wong On-yuen
Chaozhou Xiaoluogu The Skipping
Thrush Arr. by Lin Yunxi
Chaozhou Daluogu The Magnificent
Bridge Across the Harbour Lin Yunxi, Wu Shunxi and Zheng Zhiwei
Chaozhou Daluogu Spring Comes to
the Fishing Port
Zheng Shimin, Cai Yuwen and Lin
Yunxi
Performed
by Chaozhou Folk Music Troupe of Shantou
Ensemble Ancient Tunes of Qiuci
(Suite)
(Excerpts) Zhou Ji
5th
Movement: Dance of the Peace Lions
6th
Movement: Sumozhe Festival
Percussion and Orchestra Guanshan
Capriccio Zhang Lie
Percussion: Ronald Chin
Percussion and Orchestra Let the Thunder of Drums Roll II (Arrangement
commissioned by HKCO/ Premiere)
Arr. by Zhang Lie
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Music from the Heart ~ Pei Deyi
The Art of Performing New Shifan Luogu and Chinese Percussion
Music (in Cantonese & Putonghua)
Navigator：Chan Ming-chi
Date: 12/10/2004 (Tue)
Time：7:30pm
Venue：Rm CR1, 7/F, Backstage, Concert
Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre)
Fee: $50 (for FoHKCO: $38*)
Student FoHKCO can attend one Pre-concert demonstration talk free
of charge
Reservations: 3185 1670
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Supports
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| Date: 15 -16.10. 2004
Time: 8:00 pm |
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Venue:
Sha Tin Town Hall Concert Hall |
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$200, 180,
130, 100
* The best seats for the audiophiles (limited seat)
$300
As recommended by Aik Yew-goh, studio recording expert and Leo Fung, ‘Prince
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Zhang Lie
Conductor |
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National Class One Conductor. A
member of the Chinese Musicians?Association, a director of the China
Nationalities Orchestra Society, and the Deputy Secretary General of the
Chinese Professional Committee of Conductors; and is currently the Resident
Conductor of the China Broadcasts National Music Orchestra and a Composer of
the Orchestra’s Research and Development Centre.
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His accolades include an
International Film Festival award and in China, the Five “One?Project award,
the Pan Millennium Young Musicians Award, and the title of “Top Performer?by
appointment of the Ministry of Culture. He has visited more than ten countries
and regions, including Europe, America and Asia.
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Chaozhou Folk Music Troupe Of Shantou |
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Established in 1958, the
Chaozhou Folk Music Troupe of Shantou is the only State-run performing group
in Chaozhou music. Its mission is to promote the regional culture of Shantou
and Chaozhou, express the beauty and elegance of the genre and spread the
humanism of the Chaozhou people at home and abroad.
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The group boasts a full
establishment and a star-studded cast. It has been invited to give
performances in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. It was acclaimed by CCTV
for its work in promoting Chaozhou music and for setting a good example in
maintaining a fine balance between upholding traditions and blazing the trail
for new creativity in the field of Chinese traditional music.
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Pei Deyi
Vice President of the China Percussive Art Society and a
percussion artist of the Nanjing Folk Orchestra） |
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Pei Deyi is a National Class
One Performer, a famous percussionist, and Founding Concertmaster of the
Nanjing Folk Orchestra.
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He has been performing
percussion for forty-four years, and spent nine years developing the “new
shifan luogu? The modified instrument has been recorded in A Pictorial
Guide to Chinese Instruments, being officially recognized as a new entry in
the history of Chinese musical instruments. Song of the Victorious General,
a new composition that he wrote and performs on the new shifan luogu,
has received critical acclaim after it was released for worldwide
distribution.
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Wong On-yuen
Jinghu |
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The Concertmaster and Assistant
Conductor of HKCO. From 1981, Wong has produced twenty-six albums as soloist
and has held more than a hundred huqin recitals at home and abroad.
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The awards he has received
include "Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Persons 1985", "Performer of the
Year 1989" awarded by the Hong Kong Artists' Guild, "The Most Outstanding
Asian Artist Award" by the Chinese-American Arts Council of New York (1991),"
Outstanding Gentlemen of the 1990's" by the RED company of the United
States(1992) and the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)(1997).
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Yim Hok-man
Drum |
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Being a renowned percussionist,
Yim is currently Deputy Concertmaster cum Percussion Principal of the HKCO. He
is also a part-time lecturer in percussion at the Hong Kong Academy for
Performing Arts and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Yim has visited many
cities in the world. Yim was named "Artist of the Year 1999" by the Hong Kong
Artists' Guild.
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His solo albums Master of
Chinese Percussion - Yim Hok-man (1) and Master of Chinese Percussion - Yim
Hok-man (2) are considered quintessential representation of Yim's knowledge of
percussion. Released for international distribution in 1998 and 1999, they
were highly acclaimed in the music and acoustics milieux, and are selling very
well in every part of the world.
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Local young percussionist. A
veteran performer in both Chinese and western percussion instruments, Chin has
represented Hong Kong in performing tours in many parts of the world. Chin has
produced TV programmes and conducted radio programmes about Chinese Percussion
for Radio Television Hong Kong. He was listed in The Cambridge Biography
Centre as “The 20th Century Outstanding Musician Award.?br>
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Chin is currently Assistant
Percussion Principal of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. In 1998, he founded
the Hong Kong Drum Ensemble as his active contribution to Chinese drum music
and to the community of Hong Kong.
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