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Taipei Male Choir to sing long-unheard old works
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THE sound of male vocals, including some songs not heard before in modern times, will warm winter audiences in Shanghai next Friday, as the Taipei Male Choir stages a concert at Shanghai Symphony Hall.
The choir will present a number of folk songs in Hokkien such as “A Bird” and in Mandarin, including “Grandma’s Penghu Bay,” while also singing some classic Western choir works from the Romantic period.
“These are not works of well-known composers, but they are very beautiful,” says Lin Junlong, executive director of the choir, who notes that the scores were collected and organized by the Carus recording company, and are being brought out for the first time in modern times.
To restage the beauty of the songs, the Taipei Male Choir practices in the songs’ original language — often Latin or German.
“It was very difficult for us. We have been practicing for more than six months,” says Lin.
The choir will record the songs with Carus shortly after their stay in Shanghai, which will probably make Shanghai audiences the first group worldwide to hear the old music.
The choir was initially composed of about 20 amateurs from the same high school, with their first concert staged in 1998. Membership gradually expanded to people from different schools and working in different fields.
They gained three gold medals in 2002 at the Olympic International Choir Competition in Pusan, South Korea, and the choir was listed sixth among the World Top 500 Choirs published by the Interkultur Foundation in 2006.
According to Lin, about a third of the repertoire of the Taipei Male Choir consists of Chinese classics, a third are modern works for male choir, while the rest are Western choir classics.
“The number of existing works for male choirs is very limited, and it can be exhausted quickly without supplement of new works and historical discovery,” says Lin.
Date: January 23, 8pm
Venue: Shanghai Symphony Hall, 1380 Fuxing Rd M.
Tickets: 80-380 yuan
Tel: 400-821-0522
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