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[paleaswater]

An excerpt from The Grand Canal, a symphony in a what I have come to think of as the Chinese academic style, but elevated to something quite extraordinary by Mao Weitao's solo recitation. People who have heard this piece have said that hers is the voice of the southern culture, and it's hard to disagree. Try to ignore if you can the

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[paleaswater]

Oh, the accent is completely impossible. That's what the subtitles are for. Though this is not really yue opera. It's a bit of recitation (吟） that appears in one movement of a psuedo-western style symphony. I really like it because it's almost an lost art -- scholars used to have this use of singing-reciting poetry, but nowadays almost no one knows it anymore.