Date Harvest (Suona Music)

Adapted by: Liang Peiyin and others

Suona: Zhang Guoming, Wu Yahui, Wang Haiyun

Conducted by: Peng Jiapeng

Accompaniment: Suzhou Chinese Orchestra

This is a folk music dating from a long time ago. The music is enthusiastic and bold, expressing the northern golden autumn season. Men and women, old and young, with a basket, holding a pole in one hand, hitting dates, joking around. This song requires one to put a “whistle” in the back of the mouth, and to have one hand with the suona and the other with a special double reed instrument called the “kaqiang”. These three instruments imitate the voices of men, women, and children, and quickly switching between the instruments shows a joyful scene of the amusing antiphonal singing of men and women.