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A Brief Study of the Historical Significance of

the 4th ″Shanghai Spring″ Erhu

Competition in 1963

From April 7 to 14, 1963, the 1st National Erhu Competition was held in Shanghai. The competition was one of the major events in the 4th “Shanghai Spring” Music Festival, and China’s largest erhu competition in history.

This was the year when the great erhu master Mr. Liu Tianhua had been dead for 31 years, and it had been 13 years since Mr. Yang Yinliu discovered Mr. A Bing in Wuxi and recorded his three greatest erhu pieces including “The Moon Reflected on Erquan Spring”. During the period after the death of these two great musicians, i.e. from 1949 to 1963, over a hundred new works for erhu had been composed, many at quite high level, which was a really inspiring phenomenon to the circle of erhu music.

This was the year when the second generation of erhu musicians such as Jiang Fengzhi, Lu Xiutang and Chen Zhenduo, were in their prime of life, and their techniques and artistry had already reached the summit of their music careers.

This was the year when the third generation of erhu musicians, having been educated by the second generation, started their teaching or performing careers and when all the eight national conservatories of music established the erhu discipline courses with sufficient qualified teachers and increasing number of erhu students. It marks the new ear of rapid development for erhu education and performance.

This was the year when China, after having suffered three years of natural disasters, recovered its economic vitality, and historical turning-points emerged for the social life, culture and arts of the nation.

It was at this right moment with fine compositions, fine talents, music pioneers of high reputation, and the strong support from the social and cultural environment that the first erhu competition was organized.

Would it be possible again if the competition were postponed one or two years later?芽 I believe anyone who has experienced the suffering of that age would say “no”. That was because after the year of 1964, China’s political situation was immediately deteriorated under the left-wing movement, which brought the political, social and cultural life into such a horrible turmoil that no one ever dared to have the idea of organizing competitions of this kind.

This means that the competition in the spring of 1963 was neither too early nor too late, but was at the very right moment. More significantly, this competition, serving as a link between the past and the future with far-reaching impact upon the art of erhu, turned over a new page for the development of erhu in the next half of the century, and moreover, became an extremely important turning-point in the centennial evolution of erhu. Thus, we have the story of this great historical event in the modern history of the art of erhu.