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Qinghai is divided into one prefecture-level city (Xining), one prefecture (Haidong Prefecture), and six autonomous prefectures: Haibei, Hainan, Huangnan, Golog, Gyêgu, and Haixi.
Qinghai's economy is amongst the smallest in all of China.
Qinghai's culture is heavily influenced by China and Tibet, given the close proximities as well as a shared history.
www.top40-charts.com /pedia.php?title=Qinghai   (821 words)

  
 II Journal: An Interview with Bright Sheng
Sheng is associate professor of music at the University of Michigan.
Music developed enormously because there was a great amount of state funding to train young musicians.
Furthermore, historically music in China is meant for the performer's self-indulgence and cultivation of his or her spirit, not for the audience.
www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol7no1/sheng.html   (2332 words)

  
 Music of Qinghai
The music of Qinghai, a province of China inhabited by Tibetans, Mongolians and others, includes hua'er, a type of song prevalent throughout northwest China.
This informal music is often competitive in nature, with singers interacting and improvising topical and love lyrics, usually unaccompanied.
Qinghai's folk music is known for its intervallic leaps in melody
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 Versatile Musician Taps into Rich Cultural Fountain
During his stay in Qinghai, home to many ethnic groups such as the Tibetans, Mongolians and Hui, Sheng learned and collected numerous examples of folk music.
For instance, he learned very well the Qinghai folk-song genre called hua'er (flowers), which is inspired by the local Hua'er Festival held on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar.
I do not know what my music will be like in five or 10 years or even in which direction it is going.
www.china.org.cn /english/culture/39246.htm   (609 words)

  
 Music of Qinghai - China-related Topics MU-MZ - China-Related Topics
Qinghai is a province of China inhabited by Tibetan peopleTibetans, Mongolian peopleMongolians and others.
Qinghai's folk music is known for its intervallic leaps in melody refintervallic.
Qinghai has also produced the well-known composer Bright Sheng, who worked in Qinghai's Folk Dance and Music Theatre while he collected the area's folk songs refSheng.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Music_of_Qinghai   (265 words)

  
 Present Music
Sheng was the artistic director of the San Francisco Symphony's "Wet Ink 93" Festival and composer-in-residence with the 1993 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Sheng's recent premieres include: Tibetan Dance for the Verdehr Trio in March 2001, Nanking Nanking by the NDR Symphony and Red Silk Dance, a piano concerto for Emanuel Ax and the Boston Symphony, both in January 2000, and String Quartet No. 4 (Silent Temple), for the Shanghai Quartet in March 2000.
Bright Sheng's music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer.
www.presentmusic.org /composers.detail.php?id=36   (412 words)

  
 Dancing About Architecture
In the remote plateaus of Tibet, recording artists have been hard at work laying down tracks of love ballads, drinking tunes, and songs meant to soothe the savage beast.  That’s because students at Qinghai Normal University are trying to save Tibetan folk music, which has been vanishing in the face of cultural conflict and globalization.
Gabriel Prokofiev is aware of the fact that classical music appears to be dying, but he refuses to concede defeat.
The man behind Nonclassical, a label and London club night, he is bucking the downward trend by returning classical music to its populist roots.
www.dancingaboutarchitecture.com   (335 words)

  
 Amateur Conducts Symphony Orchestra in Art Festival
Duan Yuhui, chief violinist and composer in the Singing and Dancing Troupe of Qinghai Province in northwest China, considers conducting his amateur job.
It was beyond his expectation that he could conduct his symphony "Wind from West China", based on a Qinghai folk song, for the festival, he said.
Qinghai is inhabited by many minority ethnic groups, which pass on folk music from one generation to the next.
english.peopledaily.com.cn /english/200010/02/eng20001002_51713.html   (358 words)

  
 Bright Sheng - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
During the Cultural Revolution that dominated China from 1966 until 1976, he was sent to the remote province, Qinghai, on the Tibetan border.
Sheng's opera, The Song of Majnun, based on the Tibetan folk music of Qinghai and set to a libretto by Andrew Porter, was premiered, by the Houston Grand Opera Company, in April 1992.
His composition, "Spring Dreams for Violoncello and Orchestra of Traditional Chinese Instruments," was performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the National Traditional Orchestra of China during a tour of the United States in February 1997.
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 Taipei Times - photo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The bridge is being built for the Qinghai-Tibet railway line, which is due to open next July.
The 1,142km line from Golmud on the Qinghai plateau to Tibet's capital Lhasa will cover 1,142km, with 960km traversing the roof of the world at over 4,000m, crossing the Kunlun Mountains and reaching 4,767m above sea level at its highest point.
Chunghwa Telecom shares opened low yesterday and fell by around 4 percent on the back of the government's announcement yesterday.
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