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2014 Chinese New Year Celebration
2014年USF春节晚会
January 30 (Thursday)
MSC Oval Theater
Co-sponsors:
USF Confucius Institute, Chinese Students and Scholars Association,
Chinese Culture and Language Club, INTO USF, and USF World
Lion dance is a form of
traditional dance in Chinese culture and
some other Asian countries. The lion
dance is usually performed during the
Chinese New Year and other Chinese
cultural and religious festivals.
Mt. Song Martial Art Academy
Rui Yang 杨瑞 & Luo Wu 吴珞
The Erhu 二胡
The Gaohu 高胡
The Banhu 板胡
The bow is made of
horsetail hair inserted
between the two strings.
The tube resonator is
covered with snakeskin.
The erhu is one of the
most representative
Chinese traditional
musical instruments.
It is developed from the
erhu, and it is used in
Cantonese music and
opera. It belongs to the
huqin family of
instruments, its name
means "high-pitched
huqin".
It is used primarily in
northern China. The
banhu differs in
construction from the erhu
in that its sound box is
generally made from a
coconut shell rather than
wood, and uses a thin
wooden board.
Guzheng
古 筝
The Guzheng, also called Zheng, can be traced back
to 300 B.C. Along with the Erhu, it remains one of the
most popular Chinese traditional instruments. The
Guzheng has 21 strings and a range of 4 octaves. The
strings are stretched over wooden bridges that move for
tune and pitch adjustment. The right hand is used for
plucking with fingernails. And the left hand executes
pitch, vibrato, and sliding maneuvers.
The music piece Joy and Peace is very
popular in southern China, especially in
Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao.
The music expresses people’s happiness
when seeing the lightning and the dark clouds
during the day after the long drought.
Joy and Peace
Instruments: Gaohu and Guzheng
Gongs and Drums in Festival
喜庆锣鼓
Instruments: Erhu and Guzheng
The music imitates the percussion sounds of
gongs and drums, and sets a festive feeling of
people singing and dancing.
This music piece depicts
the beautiful spring
scenery of the Tibetan
plateau, and expresses
the Tibetan people’s
infinite love for life. The
prelude of this music
describes the spring
scenery: snow-capped
mountains are beginning
to thaw. The music
incorporates the Tibetan
toasting song, and
adopting the melody of
local folk dance. It shows
a warm scene of Tibetans
in the song and dance
celebration.
The Spring
Dawn of
Snowy
Mountain
Instrument: Guzheng
Silent Mountain Bird Song
空 山 鸟 语
This music was composed by
Huatian Liu in 1918. It describes
the “Silent Mountain” as
“No man is seen,
But voices of birds are heard.”
Instruments: Erhu and Guzheng
The music is characteristic of the local music
of Shandong province, birthplace of
Confucius. As the name implies, the
purpose of this song is to give you a sense
of a small village in rural China. As you
listen to this, imagine yourself surrounded by
the natural Chinese landscape, going about
your life as a rural Chinese citizen.
Village Scenery
山村小景
Instruments: Erhu and Guzheng
Chinese Yoyo
空 竹
Chinese yo-yos were traditionally
made of bamboo, which was very
easy to break and not convenient
for complicated tricks. The sticks
used with the yo-yo continue to be
made of wood.
Performer：Casper Yan 颜世欣
梁 祝
Butterfly Lovers
The Butterfly Lovers is a
Chinese legend of a tragic love
story of a pair of lovers, Liang
Shanbo (梁山伯) and Zhu Yingtai (
祝英台), whose surnames form the
title of the story. The title is often
abbreviated to Liang Zhu (梁祝)
and regarded as the Chinese
equivalent of Romeo and Juliet.
Instruments: Gaohu and Guzheng
Bind a red hair ribbon
扎红头绳
Instruments:
Banhu and Guzheng
In the past, ordinary Chinese
people were poor and could not
afford anything beyond their
bare necessities except during
Chinese New Year. The music
is about a girl who received a
red hair ribbon and was
overcome with joy and gratitude.
音乐之声
Do-Re-Mi, Edelweiss
Instruments:
Erhu and Guzheng
查尔达斯 (匈)
Czardas
(by Vittorio Monti)
Instruments：
Erhu and Piano
Best wishes to everyone
for a successful Year of the Horse!