A traditional Chinese opera. Played by classical Harmonicist Yew Hong Jen.
This melody comes from a Chinese folk song of the yellow river, and tells the story of Zhu Yingtai's childhood.
When Zhu meets Liang Shanbo, a fellow student. The two spend three years together as good friends. Zhu falls in love with Liang,
but cannot express her feelings without revealing her identity as a woman.
When both the students must return home, Zhu invites Liang to visit her family and to court her sister. He doesn't know that Zhu
is really inviting him to marry her.
Liang promises to see Zhu again, but Liang waits before doing so. When Liang arrives, he sees Zhu and realizes that she is a
woman, and they fall in love.
The love duet between the two is replaced by anger as Liang learns that in his absence,
Zhu has been betrothed to another. Liang becomes sick and dies as the music replays the duet of their love.
Zhu and the orchestra continue to play their contrasting parts. The section ends with the suicide
of Zhu Yingtai as the solo violin plays an overarching high note. The lover's parts are overcome by a
final orchestral section. In the legend, Liang's grave opens and Zhu throws herself into the chasm.
The lovers' themes return and the two lovers are magically transformed into butterflies.
Carman Fantasy Carmen is a French op¨¦ra comique by Georges Bizet.
The story is set in Seville, Spain, c. 1830, and concerns the eponymous Carmen,
a beautiful Gypsy with a fiery temper. Free with her love, she woos the corporal Don Jos¨¦, an inexperienced soldier.
Their relationship leads to his rejection of his former love, mutiny against his superior, and joining a gang of
smugglers. His jealousy when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo leads him to murder Carmen.
A traditional Chinese opera. Played by classical Harmonicist Yew Hong Jen.
This melody comes from a Chinese folk song of the yellow river, and tells the story of Zhu Yingtai's childhood.
When Zhu meets Liang Shanbo, a fellow student. The two spend three years together as good friends. Zhu falls in love with Liang,
but cannot express her feelings without revealing her identity as a woman.
When both the students must return home, Zhu invites Liang to visit her family and to court her sister. He doesn't know that Zhu
is really inviting him to marry her.
Carman Fantasy
