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和口琴大师、四次格莱美奖获得者霍华德合影。Du Zhusong and Howard Levy, a harmonic master and winner of Grammy Award
Du began to take lessons in bamboo flute and vertical flute when he was very young. The bamboo flute master Zhao Songting and the vertical flute master Song Jinglian taught him. One day, Master Zhao suggested he learn how to play Suona. The boy did not like Suona at first, thinking it was too loud and noisy. But once he got started, he could never stop. He became fascinated with the traditional trumpet-like musical instrument. Fortunately, he was able to study under the guidance of China’s best Suona players of yesteryears such as Ren Tongxiang and Hu Haiquan. A winner of numerous national and international awards for his Suona playing over years, Du Zhusong is now a professor with Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, a class-one national musician, a director of a professional organization for Suona players.
On the evening of February 24, 2018, Du Zhusong performed A Hundred Birds Are Paying Homage to the Phoenix, a Suona masterpiece, at the first Murfreesboro Festival of Chinese Arts, in partnership with the MTSU symphony orchestra. The piece was composed by the Suona master Ren Tongxiang in 1953. Though a student of Ren Tongxiang, Du Zhusong created his own variation on the original masterpiece with regional characteristics. Ren, a native of Shandong, composed with his knowledge of the birds in his home province, whereas Du, a native of Zhejiang, has listened to birds chirping and warbling in the woods around the West Lake in Hangzhou for over 20 years.