Bach once said," Music is a kind of world language which does not require translating."On April 28, 2012, the Music Night events in Munich proved this sentence again .

"The Munich Music Night ",which is held regularly every year, is a large-scale conventional project of the Munich city government. A total of 123 different styles of music groups participated this year, including classical music, Latin American music, jazz, rock and so on. Konfuziusinstitute Munich invited a "Chinese-Western" fusion music group.The theme of the concert was: "From the Yangtze River to the Rhine."The main performer DENG Xiaomei is from Beijing. In addition to the erhu in her hand, the other six members of the group play the Western musical instruments violin, viola, cello, marimba, saxophone and drums. The vast majority of the concert repertoire was adapted by the Chinese folk songs and played out by the Chinese and Western instruments. What a special style and taste!

The opening song of the concert was named"Good Days" , and the German audience were brought to the warm atmosphere at once.Then the next was the melodious "Evening Primrose". In order to show different styles of Chinese folk music to the audience, the performers were specially selected the 14 distinctive Chinese folk songs. The most interesting was that the performers played the Chinese music "Guerrilla Song" in the way of Cuba's unique rhythm, which was really special and unique.

With the music playing, the German audience followed the artists "wandering" from north to south in China. They "traveled" from the vast grasslands to the Tibetan plateau, and from the capital Beijing to the scenic south, and then returned to the Rhine from the beautiful Yangtze River. They did an authentic Chinese folk music tour. These 14 pieces of Chinese traditional folk music were re-arranged and deduced in a different way, so the audience indulged in the wonderful music and appreciated the gentle and passionate Chinese music style. Not only were the foreign audience moved by the concert, but also the local Chinese audience were filled with homesickness.

That night, DENG Xiaomei Orchestra performed four sessions, up to 4 hours. About 120 audience enjoyed the evening's performance which was warmly welcomed. Many foreign audience were interested in the erhu. They feel that this traditional Chinese musical instrument is very special, and its sound is very wonderful.

Germany has had many great musicians, and their people have a good perception of music. That night, the string sound of the erhu showed China from another angle to the audience , and got their favorite.The performance was very successful!

By Confucius Classroom Munich