ARLINGTON, Texas, Oct. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Crossing Chinese
Opera with Jazz is an innovative cultural project which is
produced by Zhuhai Golden Jazz Cultural Industry Management Co.,
Ltd. Through adapting and arranging classic Chinese opera excerpts
in the manner of jazz music, the two independent music forms have
been blended harmoniously and created a refreshing performance.
This project has gathered a group of world-class jazz musicians
from both home and abroad, and Chinese opera artists, who have been
working together and have finally
come up with this amazing and significant music performance.
After the successful debut in
Zhuhai, Guangdong Province of
China on May 26th, 2017, Golden Jazz has been invited
by UTA (University of Texas at
Arlington) to the United
States for academic exchange in a symposium held on
Oct 12th, 2017 as well as for the
overseas premiere which was held at 19:30 local time on
Oct 13th, 2017 at Texas Hall on UTA
campus.
Golden Jazz has provided a platform for numerous Chinese
well-known opera artists and jazz musicians from both home and
abroad and they have jointly presented a refreshing and stunning
concert which brings a music cultural clash between the ancient and
the modern. Ms. QI Aiyun, a National Level I performer, the famous
Qin Qiang opera artist as well as the winner of Plum Performance
Award in the 21st Chinese Opera, participated in the concert and
sang the classic opera pieces 'The Sole of Straw Sandals'
(Ma Xie Di), 'The White Snake' (Bai
She Zhuan)and 'Peach Blossoms in March' (Sanyue Taohua). And the
well-known US composer, conductor and saxophonist as well as the
arranger of the music, Drew Zaremba
has adapted traditional opera pieces such as "The Arraignment of
Su San" (Susan Qi Jie), "Farewell,
My Concubine" (Ba Wang Bie Ji), "The Execution of Shan Tong" (Zhan Shantong), "Qinchuan New Song"
(Qinchuan Xin Ge), and "In the Deep Night" (Ye Shenchen) has successfully brought out the
essence of both Chinese opera and jazz and has made the musical
blending great.
The audience were impressed and
amazed by the unique music expression. They gave rounds of sincere and warm applauses to
every piece of music in the concert and they even stood up when the
concert came to the end, applauding and reluctant to leave. All
performers and musicians in the hall were gratified to feel the
audience's enthusiasm for their performance. The concert at UTA has
attracted the attention of the local Chinese media and the music
media. A large number of Chinese overseas students attended the
concert, being curious about the effect of the mix between Chinese opera from their own
culture which they are familiar with and jazz from the American
culture. After the concert, these students
shared their views and felt a positive feeling from the event
- they were able to understand both musical cultures better.
Exciting news is that the
project of Crossing Chinese Opera with Jazz has been selected as a
key cultural communication project by Department of Culture,
Guangdong Province and submitted
to the Ministry of Culture of the
People's Republic of China. This project is not only for a
performance work on the stage, but also aimed to make the most use
of values by such musical innovation and cultural blending.
During the symposium, professors
from the music department of UTA were deeply impressed by the
profound Chinese culture and endless charm of Chinese opera arts,
in which they have showed their strong interest. The professors
thought this meaningful and wonderful art form should be recognized
by more Americans. Therefore, right after the concert, the producer
of the project Ms. ZHOU Jing and all the performance artists were
invited for a further discussion on a serial of issues in relation
to the development of Crossing Chinese Opera with Jazz. For
example, issues like how to make this type
of music form more naturally
and how to recompose more refreshing music pieces by blending the
two music forms have been brought up in the symposium.
The trip of Crossing Chines Opera
with Jazz to the USA has created
more values in cultural communication, academic research and
educational innovation. Combining the essence of Chinese
traditional opera and jazz music, the new form of world music will
unquestionably bring a better understanding of Chinese culture to
the world.
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