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Chinese Dances : Purple Bamboo Melody, Song of Happiness (2000)
Programme Note available
Edward McGuire
Commissioned by BBC Commission for BBCSSO China Tour 2000.
First performance:
BBCSSO / Titov (as encore), Grand Theatre, Shanghai, 01 Jan 2000
Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - C-XZ 342 [enquire]
Recording Composer / location: sound archive - C - McG 40 a i [enquire]
Recording Composer / location: sound archive - C - McG 40 a ii [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [enquire]
Part(s) : unpublished / Location: archive collection [enquire]
Part(s) : unpublished / Location: hire library - Box 34 [enquire]
Recording / location: hard disk (mp3 file) [enquire]
Recording / location: hard disk (mp3 file) [enquire]
Recording / location: hard disk (mp3 file) [enquire]
Recording / location: sound archive - YELLOW [enquire]
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Programme Note availableEdward McGuire
Commissioned by BBC Commission for BBCSSO China Tour 2000.
First performance:
BBCSSO / Titov (as encore), Grand Theatre, Shanghai, 01 Jan 2000
Work Details
Category: orchestral
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation: 1+11+122 4231 Tp 3 Perc Str
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation: 1+11+122 4231 Tp 3 Perc Str
SMC Holdings
Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - C-XZ 342 [enquire]
Recording Composer / location: sound archive - C - McG 40 a i [enquire]
Recording Composer / location: sound archive - C - McG 40 a ii [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [enquire]
Part(s) : unpublished / Location: archive collection [enquire]
Part(s) : unpublished / Location: hire library - Box 34 [enquire]
Recording / location: hard disk (mp3 file) [enquire]
Recording / location: hard disk (mp3 file) [enquire]
Recording / location: hard disk (mp3 file) [enquire]
Recording / location: sound archive - YELLOW [enquire]Programme Note
I learned these tunes on a trip to Beijing in 1990 - following performances of my ballet Peter Pan in Hong Kong - from the Er-hu player Zhou Yau-Kun. The following year, his group and mine, the Whistlebinkies, carried out exchange visits and we performed these dances together to audiences in Scotland and China. We again played them in our 1997 visit to Taiwan.
The first is a celebration of new-born life, represented by the young shoots of "Purple Bamboo." The second is an energetic dance of peace and happiness, literally translated "joy unbounded."
I learned these tunes on a trip to Beijing in 1990 - following performances of my ballet Peter Pan in Hong Kong - from the Er-hu player Zhou Yau-Kun. The following year, his group and mine, the Whistlebinkies, carried out exchange visits and we performed these dances together to audiences in Scotland and China. We again played them in our 1997 visit to Taiwan.
The first is a celebration of new-born life, represented by the young shoots of "Purple Bamboo." The second is an energetic dance of peace and happiness, literally translated "joy unbounded."
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