Thursday, September 25, 2008

Spring Festival Overture

Spring Festival Overture is a Chinese orchestral work composed by Li Huanzhi between 1955-1956 dipicting the scene when folks in Shanbei region were celebrating the Chinese New Year . The tune is widely heard primarily in Mainland China, where it appears frequently on textbooks of music for schools, as well as being played on various occasions of joy.

In the year 2007,The Overture was selected to be carried and broadcast into space on China's first lunar probe, Chang'e 1.

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