Under the Silver Moonlight----Wang Luobin Folksongs Concert

Time&Date：19:30:00 14/9/2008
Venue：Forbidden City Concert Hall
Price(RMB)：50;80;180;280;380;580;800

Wang Luobin

Wang Luobin was a renowned Han Chinese songwriter who specialized in composing Mandarin-language songs based on the music of various ethnic minorities in western China.

Wang was born in Beijing on 28 December 1913. He graduated from the Music Department of Beijing Normal University in 1934 and actively participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War on China's behalf beginning in 1937 in Shanxi Province. In 1938, in Lanzhou in Gansu Province, Wang composed his first Xinjiang-inspired song, "The Girl from Dabancheng" . He took up residence in northwestern China for more than 50 years since then, and devoted his time there to composing, collecting and revising western Chinese folk songs. In all, Wang wrote seven operas and published six songbooks, and wrote some 700 western-style songs, the most famous of which include "Alamuhan" ( inspired by a Xinjiang Uyghur song), "Awariguli" (also supposedly a Uyghur song), "Flowers and Youth" (pinyin: Hua'er Yu Shaonian, a Hui Muslim folk song), "At a Faraway Place" , "Lift Your Veil" , "Duldal and Maria", "Mayila", and "The Crescent Moon Rises" .And he has been called "King of China's Western Folk Music".

During his lifetime, Wang Luobin experienced many political and social changes, as well as his own life's ups and downs, but none of this affected his love for music. Wang Luobin contributed to the Chinese folk music.And during his last years,he had been invited abroad to hold concerts and give lectures.By the time of his death ten years ago at the age of 83, Wang Luobin had created over 700 beautiful songs. Quite a number of these songs have nourished the minds of the population ever since they were written.