Madame Mao commissioned “The Yellow River Piano Concerto” to be composed as a reimagining of Xinghai’s Cantata. Later, “The Yellow River Piano Concerto” was also banned from being performed in China due to The Cultural Revolution ending which moved its presence to Western stages for Western audiences. By the late 1980s it reemerged on Chinese stages and from there it garnered the prestige it has today.
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The composers of the “Yellow River Concerto” based it on “The Yellow River Cantata/Huánghé Dàhéchàng” by Cantonese composer Xian Xinghai (June 13, 1905-October 30, 1945) = which can be heard here (https://tinyurl.com/ydf4dffj). Despite Xian Xinghai being declared one of the”The People’s Musicians” by Mao Zedong, “The Yellow River Concerto” was banned from Chinese stages as part of The Cultural Revolution.
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