Lyric: Huai Hua Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV Previously Mount Faber stood there A Chinese larch (1) tree The sun brought it rosy clouds Starlight brought it pearly dew What’d the young brought it? -Happy lively yangko dance (2) -Happy lively yangko dance … Continue reading →

Lyric & Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV Always recall your face enchased with Traces of hardship of life Yet you remain a clear resolute smile Such uneven years melted not Your fervent love of this Motherland your fervent love of this Motherland ah! … Continue reading →

Lyric & Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV Every mid-autumn I watch merely A foreign moon The rushing Red River Flows away not My endless pain and sorrow Ah! That night I urgently left you Ah! Forever We hadn’t met again We hadn’t met … Continue reading →

Lyric: Huai Hua Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV I’m deeply cleaving for you – Caucasus bonnie How could the steppe nightingales Rival your sweet singing? That year spring came so quickly Under the hawthorn tree you danced so Trippingly yet suddenly! A bolt … Continue reading →

Lyric & Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV Tell me not that you are Parting in this endless night Those bygone happy dates how Can we be forgot? Even The nightingales in the forest Are wailing for Me The wild geese have returned Tended … Continue reading →

Lyric: Huai Hua, Yao Qi Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV Breeze chilly brine rippling The distant blue flies single A seagull Ah! seagull why’d you leave your companions? Why’d you fly not home and Unheard your loved ones’ secret talk? Even more such … Continue reading →

Tune ∙ the fortune – teller Lyric: Li Zhiyi Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV I live at the head of Changjiang Lord1 lives at the River end Daily I think of lord, though can’t see lord We both drink same from these waters … Continue reading →

Lyrics: Huai Hua, Yao Qi Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV The winter sun skiing were we On the Hokkaido plage Our hands held tight vying the White shirt with crimson dress Laughter was flitting Across the torreya trees the torreya trees The moon … Continue reading →

Lyric: Huai Hua, Yao Qi Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV Sea wave rolling rolling me back To my far – longing homeland ‘Twas beach small boats Hung with worn fishing nets wherever seen My kinsmen bent tugging Until one cry – “Heave ho!” … Continue reading →

Lyric: Yang Shen Music: Yao Qi Soprano: Shudong Luo Braamse Pianist: Charles J. Hulin IV Bright moon mid heaven Rimes Changjiang junks from afar Moonbeam streamy merely the River Mirrors the vast expanse of sky No dangling willows misted whence The islet birds startled trilling Quick ! — unmoor our … Continue reading →