Experimental Short Musical “ War-chariots”Oct.22nd 23rd 15:30 16:00 19:00 Red Building Room. 105
Experimental Music Short Play, A song of war-chariots is a creative art performance work inclusive of art elements such as opera-oriented voice and western band music, string music, percussion music of Chinese traditional opera, structure of western opera, and essence of Chinses Kunqu opera. It is an art form predicated upon music expression. Regarding ideological contents, it makes deep dissection of Chinese and western culture in now days and over the history. It is initiated to adapt to the modern culture on the basis of inheriting the legacy of the past. In the progress of art, the new work gives us more food for thought. The script is based on the recomposition of poetry of Tu Fu. It writes a story from the perspective of a pregnant woman who sends her husband to the army draft with a purpose of revealing the pain and sadness that conscription brings about to the people. Meanwhile the story also tells the positive. Regardless of the hard life and cruelty of reality, people living in that age still see the light at the end of the tunnel. In detail, when the woman sees his husband off, she is thinking about whether his husband is able to return or not. The woman has dialogue with bystanders played by the instrument performers and they air their opinions. Eventually, the woman gives up the hope for his husband’s return, but she starts to be worried about the fate of her baby. “If the baby is a girl, she can grow up and marry a good neighbor boy. If the baby is a boy, he grows up only to find himself be drafted and then killed and buried in the battlefield. A baby boy or a baby girl, bystanders start to argue and there is no definite answer at the end. At the very last, the question is open to all the audience.
