Shanghai tea-houses
In the first part of this four-programme epic, Silk and Bamboo , Lucy Duran visits Shanghai, where traditional silk and bamboo ensembles perform in the old tea-houses that still thrive among the skyscrapers of the modern city.
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‘silk and bamboo music’.
Lucy Duran is in an old tea shop in Old Shanghai to hear ‘silk and bamboo music’.
Duration: 06:43
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Performers of the Shanghai Silk and Bamboo Association
Joyful Song
The Guzheng - a 7 string zither.
Lucy tells of the rival of the ‘silk and bamboo’ tradition after the Cultural Revolution.
Duration: 06:09
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Xiao Gan Bei
The drinking song
Guzheng player Xiao Gan Bei.
Celebrated Guzheng (zither) player Xiao Gan Bei talks Lucy through a song.
Duration: 06:50
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Xiao Gan Bei
Lamentation at nigh
Xiao Gan Bei on the Guzheng.
Xiao Gan Bei continues telling Lucy about the Guzheng, and how he learnt it.
Duration: 07:15
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Xiao Gan Bei
Assassination of a Han Emperor
Old people’s activity club
Lucy is in an old people’s activity club in Shanghai where traditional music is heard.
Duration: 09:12
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Déodat de Séverac
A piece about missing old friends
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Wealth and Prosperity
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Déodat de Séverac
A song of an oppressed wife
Style of silk and bamboo music.
A local musician explains how the style of silk and bamboo music has changed little.
Duration: 07:35
Broadcast
- Sun 5 Nov 2000 23:00Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 3
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