Every year on this day, I think of my hometown Beijing with a heavy heart. A group of mothers lost their teenage children in a horrific event on this day thirty four years ago in my hometown. I was still a kid. Now as a mother, I created this piece as if playing my child’s favorite song to put him to sleep.
The melodic element from the beginning is typical intonation of traditional story telling art 曲艺 from northern China, especially Beijing and Tianjin 京津 area. This music art form has had more than 1500 years of history. It was already popular during the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 A.D.) from monks singing stories of the Buddhist sutra and scriptures.
Wu Fei 吴非
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