Concert on China's mother rivers enthralls audiences

Recently, an ethnic music concert titled From Yellow River to Yangtze River, featuring performers from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, and students from the Guoluo Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai province, was successfully staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.

The concert, themed around China's mother rivers, showed the ethnic music prevailing in the Sanjiangyuan (Three-River-Source) area in Northwest China's Qinghai province, with the goal of promoting musical exchanges and cultural communications among various ethnic groups.

During the concert, an original musical piece titled Thousands of Galloping Horses was performed collaboratively by the orchestra from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a Tibetan youth orchestra from Guoluo. The youth orchestra, with 96 members, approximately 80 percent of whom come from pastoral families, with the youngest being 12 years old, was initiated by faculty from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Besides, renowned musicians such as erhu (a two-stringed fiddle) player Duan Aiai, pianist Jin Shanshan, pipa (a four-stringed Chinese lute) player Wu Shuang, suona (a piercing double-reed woodwind instrument) player Liu Xizhan also participated in the concert.