Yu Long
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Biography
Long Yu, born July 1, 1964 in Shanghai, China, is a conductor who began his musical education with piano studies under his grandfather, composer Ding Shande. He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1987 and further studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. Yu returned to China and was appointed principal conductor of the Central Opera Theatre in Beijing in 1992. He founded the Beijing Music Festival in 1998 and became its first artistic director. In 2000, he led the China Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra through open auditions, renaming it the China Philharmonic Orchestra. Notable performances include a concert for Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in 2008 and the BBC Proms in 2014. Yu has also served as music director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra in 2003 and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in 2009, overseeing significant developments such as the Music in the Summer Air Festival.
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- I. Prelude: The Song of the Yellow River Boatmen by Yu Long
- Ren Guang: Coloured Clouds Chasing The Moon by Yu Long
- Wencheng: Autumn Moon On A Calm Lake by Yu Long
- Yiqiang: Dance of Spring by Yu Long
- Mingxin: Little Mermaid Suite: Straw Hat Dance by Yu Long
- Luting: The Cowherd's Flute by Yu Long
- Traditional: Dialogue In Song by Yu Long
- Traditional: Spring Flowers in the Moonlit Night on the River by Yu Long
- Jiping: Dance from Qiuci by Yu Long
- Yuxian: Spring Wind by Yu Long
- Jianer: Happy Times by Yu Long
- Jianmin: A Night on the Lake Beneath the Maple Bridge by Yu Long
- IV. Defend the Yellow River by Yu Long
- II. Ode to the Yellow River by Yu Long
- III. The Yellow River in Wrath by Yu Long
