Music Ensemble: Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye （Blossoms on a Moonlit River in Spring）《春江花月夜》琵琶二胡洞簫合奏

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Clearview School Musicians： Pipa—Xueying Guo Erhu—David Jiang Flute—Kevin Su
演奏者：聞啟學校音樂家 琵琶—Xueying Guo 二胡—David Jiang 洞簫—Kevin Su

《春江花月夜》古曲 ，原名《夕阳萧鼓》，是一首传统的琵琶独奏曲。后改为合奏曲，称《春江花月夜》。《春江花月夜》的音乐极为优美典雅。它从黄昏江岸的钟鼓声写起，逐步推开，写出了月下江上的种种景色。时而是长江大河，水天一色，时而又是归来小舟，渔歌悠然，直至夜阑人静，留下一片萧声消逝在夜的寂静中，这是一首流行于国内外的古曲。
Blossoms on a Moonlit River in Spring is one of the most famous Chinese traditional music works. It had been popular among ordinary people before the year 1875, and has become one of the masterpieces in the treasury of Chinese classical music.
It was originally named as Pipa tune Flutes and Drums at Dusk, and was adapted by Liu Yaozhang, a member of Shanghai's Datong Music Conservatory and renamed as Spring Moonlight on the Flowers by the River by Zheng Jinwen in 1930.
Since 1949, it has undergone many revisions, until now it is a highly polished piece. The intro has a background of musical harmony, and then a Pipa is plunked faster and faster, giving out drumbeat-like notes. At the same time, deft fingering on a vertical bamboo flute produces the melody. The contrast between the two instruments - one producing pellet-like short notes by twanging, and the other producing long-drawn-out notes - conjures up a picture of a river in springtime. The technique, often used in folk music, of phrases repeated over and over, and seemingly chasing one another, gives a vivid impression of ripples on water.
The understated melody, the fluid rhythmical meter, the ingenious subtlety, together with random orchestration, combine to paint a tranquil scene of a river on a moonlit night in spring, and is paean of praise to the countryside south of the Yangtze River.
The whole work is divided into ten sections, each having a different title.