c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 1 John Banno, At Kennedy Center’s ‘China-U.S.A.,’ West Engulfs East.
Washingtn Post, Sept 22, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/at-kennedy-center
-china-usa-west-engulfs-east/2011/09/21/gIQAf5TfoK_story.html
("it was the tradition of conservatory-trained Chinese composers suppressing
nearly everything distinctive about their country’s endemic music in an
effort to sound more Western. * * * the Chinese-in-name-only works on the
program)
Note:
(a) The "snatch" in "some snatches of Chinese folk melody."
snatch (n): "a brief period "
(b) The Savage Land 原野
(c) warmed-over (adj):
"1: not fresh or new : STALE
2: heated again "
(d) Gian Carlo Menotti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Carlo_Menotti
(e) theremin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
(an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible
physical contact from the player; named after its Russian inventor,
Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928)
(f) Hua-bang-zi 河北 花梆子 (高音板胡)
(g) Sunshine on Tashkurgan 阳光照耀着塔什库尔干
* Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County 喀什地區 塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkurgan_Tajik_Autonomous_County
* Chuanyun LI 李 传韵
(h) Italianate (adj): "Italian in quality or characteristics"
(i) bel canto (n; Italian, literally, beautiful singing):
"operatic singing originating in 17th century and 18th century Italy and
stressing ease, purity, and evenness of tone production and an agile and
precise vocal technique" | f***a
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