Ala-Tan-Ch-Chi-Ge & Zha-Ge-DaSu-Rong: 8th Annual Program –
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Ala-Tan-Qi-Qi-Ge (1955~)
–A national treasure of Mongolian folk long-song and a singer with a sound of nature
Gifted with clear and gentle voice and
born in a place where the vast grasslands
inspire her with the long-song,
she then stores it deep in heart……
Ala-Tan-Qi-Qi-Ge is a renowned Mongolian mezzo soprano. Her timbre is natural and clear, her voice range wide, and her singing euphemistic and free. She has been singing on stage for more than forty years. During the course of forty years, she always makes as much as effort in exploring the music and traveling around to collect folk songs, striving for interpreting Mongolian folk long-song profoundly and to excel the art of singing to its utmost. The famous poet Qi-Mu-Rong once described her in the follow way: It is like listening to the deep heart of Mongolian people when listening to her voice. The powerful and yet gentle touching feeling from her singing is unforgettable.’
Ala –Tan-Qi-Qi-Ge is a first-class singer to this day. In 2004, she represented the Inner Mongolia to give a live performance for the “Declaration for the Mongolian folk long-song to be safeguarded as the oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity of UNESCO”. As a result, the long-song was proclaimed on the list of the masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In the following year, she was invited as the mentor of the graduate students of Normal University of the Inner Mongolian, and thus became the first mentor of the Chinese of the graduate students of the art of long-song. She has received countless awards for performing the long-song.
Zha-Ge-Da-Su-Rong (1954~)
–The first professional singer to perform Mongolian folk long-song publicly in Beijing.
Growing up in a homeland that is abundant with folk music, Zha-Ge-Da-Su-Rong not only excels his talent in singing since childhood but also gets to learn and gather many local folk songs while growing up. He has been learning the long-song from some predecessors for a long time, acquainting himself with several long-song singers and many nameless nomadic folk song singers. Such precious experiences and personal connection with folk songs together help him to develop a performing style of his own and further become an outstanding representative figure for the Ci-lin-guole Style School of the Mongolian folk long-song. He received several awards in 2004, including the “Best Singer of Mongolian Folk Long-Song” in the West Folk Song Competition held by CCTV, the golden award of “the Folk Song Solo Group of the Aboriginal Ecology”, and the golden award of “the Multiple-parts Folk Song Group of the Aboriginal Ecology”. In 2006, he and his students held a thematic concert in the Chinese Musical College. Through the concert, he was able to resume the performing of the ten songs of “Qoor In Duu” (songs of complex tone) passing down by Ha-Zha-Bu, and to re-set the light to safeguard, display and pass on the Mongolian old songs.