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Tiananmen Echo

by R.I.P. Hayman

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released June 4, 1990

Tiananmen Echo

This work for classic Chinese lute guqin and bamboo vertical flute xiao was commissioned by the Airworks program of National Public Radio, and broadcast as a tribute to the martyrs for democracy on June 4, 1990. A subsequent performance was presented at Town Hall, New York City at the Tiananmen Remembered concert of June 4, 1997.

Tiananmen Echo revives the Shanbei folk tune made the Maoist classic "The East is Red", once broadcast around the world by satellite. The melody is mixed with audio from the Tiananmen protests featuring the voices of an Australian eyewitness and former Premier Zhao Ziyang who came to urge the protesters ta leave peacefully. He apologized that he had ‘come too late’ and could not protect them from the massacre to foliow. Zhao has remained under house arrest ever since that day. The facts of the period are still unavailable to the public in China.

Atonement for this tragedy by the responsible authorities is still to be made. As the classic saying states, "Lies written in ink can never erase truth written in blood."

This recording is dedicated to the people of China and the reconciliation of the events of June 4, 1989.

Hayman has worked in China for many years. He has taught at the China Conservatory in Beijing and studied the classic gugin lute with the master Wu Wenguang. The lute performed is inscribed “Yu zhou zheng yin" — "The true sound of the universe".

Thanks to: Wu Wenguang, Li Xian, Huang Paolian, Robin Munro, Han Dongfang, Tang Boqiao, and Felicity Long.

Composer and performer: R.!.P Hayman.
Executive Producer: Julia Prospero for the Airworks program. Original recording on TEAC 4 track at Pomonia Studios, digitally remastered by Europadisk, Don Grossinger, audio engineer.

8.30 minutes

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City 10013 USA email: riphear@aol.com.
Cover design by Anne Lawrence.

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