日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Culture

Lyrical souls turn ancient Chinese poetry into song

By Chen Nan ( China Daily ) Updated: 2015-11-11 08:11:47

Lyrical souls turn ancient Chinese poetry into song

Chinese folk singer Gong Linna and her husband, Robert Zollitsch, perform at a concert in Beijing, where they reinterpret Chinese ancient poems with music.[Photo by Wang Xuhua/CFP]

A musician couple is turning ancient Chinese poetry into songs, Chen Nan reports.

The Austrian composer Franz Schubert was a pioneer of turning poems into music.

A similar line is now being followed in China by German composer Robert Zollitsch, who is working on poetry of two dynasties - Tang (AD 618-907) and Song (960-1279).

It is expected to both enliven Chinese music and bring back classical poems to a modern society.

"We want to use music to get those poems across to the contemporary scene, and (take them) to people from different cultures," says Zollitsch, 48.

Along with his wife, Gong Linna, a Chinese folk singer known for her powerful voice and dramatic facial expressions, Zollitsch has used such experiments in their latest album, Tang Song Dong Xi.

With Gong singing and Zollitsch composing, they used more than 15 Chinese poems from ancient poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi as lyrics.

The new album comprises two CDs.

Tang Song, referring to the two Chinese dynasties, sees Chinese and Western instruments played together, and the other CD, Dong Xi, a Chinese wordplay indicating the East and the West as well as the Chinese phrase meaning "the thing", has pop and electronic music in the songs.

The first song of the album is Jing Ye Si, or Thoughts on A Quiet Night, taken from the famous poem of the same title by Li Bai (AD 701-762).

Zollitsch says he has read the poem since the 1990s and so far has seen more than 300 translations of it.

"Though I am a foreigner, I can share the sentiments of the poem," says Zollitsch, adding that Austrian composer Gustav Mahler also used poems by Chinese poets like Li Bai, Meng Haoran and Wang Wei, as text sources in composing The Song of the Earth. "It's mutual human emotion, which is told through music."

For Gong, who, like many Chinese, learned the poems in school, she didn't understand the poem until she left home. The 39-year-old singer had moved with Zollitsch to Berlin in 2004 and returned to China in 2009.

She says, she connected with Li's poetry the most when she felt homesick while in Germany.

Instead of using her trademark high-pitched voice to impress listeners, she depicted the poems with her storytelling skills.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

 
Editor's Picks
Hot words

Most Popular
 
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 超碰一区二区 | 哪个网站可以看毛片 | 国产视频一区二区三区在线观看 | 你懂的在线免费观看 | 久久久久久久久久国产精品 | 午夜神马久久 | 天天搞夜夜 | 色婷婷在线观看视频 | 狠狠干av | 久久精品影视 | 黄网站在线免费 | v片在线观看 | 亚洲网站免费观看 | 欧美视频久久 | 久草免费av | 18久久| 精品无码久久久久久国产 | 四虎免费视频 | 成人在线视屏 | 青青青手机视频在线观看 | 好吊操这里有精品 | 国产黄频在线观看 | 精品99久久 | 成年激情网 | 亚洲一区二区精品在线观看 | 成人手机在线免费视频 | 国产一区二三区 | 在线观看欧美精品 | 久久一级大片 | 综合免费视频 | 澳门av在线| 日韩一级中文字幕 | 亚洲日本色图 | 中文字幕av久久爽一区 | 香蕉在线网站 | 国产在线一二区 | 国产成人精品免费看视频 | 色偷偷www8888 | 日韩午夜在线观看 | 国产激情在线播放 | 天堂中文在线资 |