Spring Festival Overture
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Spring Festival Overture (simplified Chinese: 春节序曲; pinyin: Chūnjié Xùqǔ) is a Chinese orchestral work composed by Li Huanzhi (李焕之) between 1955-1956 dipicting the scene when folks in Shanbei region were celebrating the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). The tune is widely heard primarily in Mainland China, where it appears frequently on textbooks of music for schools, as well as being played on various occasions of joy.
In the year 2007，The Overture was selected to be carried and broadcast into space on China's first lunar probe, Chang'e 1.
[edit] References
- "Chinese Music to be played in outer space" (Listen), China.org.cn
- Li Huanzhi, Spring Festival Overture (Chinese)
- Sample melody inside a music textbook (Chinese) (Numerical notation) published by People's Education Press
[edit] External links
- YouTube - Spring Festival Overture performed at Goldener Saal, Musikverein, Vienna
- The White-Haired Girl (Suite) / Spring Festival Overture by Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Amazon.com MP3 Downloads
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