岁月甘泉 Ask the Sky and the Earth at Woolsey Hall, Yale University

SYGQ Chorus (Chai-lun Yueh, music director)
Yale Concert Band (Thomas C. Duffy, music director)
http://www.sygqChorus.org

The moving moment during speech.

古老而华丽的耶鲁乌斯音乐厅座无虚席，演出开始前，耶鲁乐队指挥汤姆·多菲先生用英语动情介绍了岁月甘泉组歌以及中国知青下乡运动的始末，随后，感人的一幕出现了，著名男­中音歌唱家、耶鲁版《岁月甘泉》合唱艺术总监岳彩轮先生问台上的演员和台下的观众，"现场有多少人曾经参加过着这场知青下乡运动"，只见台上台下齐刷刷的举起无数双手。

40多年过去了，无论是两鬓染霜，还是身在异乡，那段岁月是不再年轻的"知青"们永难忘怀的。许多人演出后告诉记者，自己是满含热泪唱完的。

台上台下还有许多手不是为了自己举起的，他们是为兄弟姐妹、亲朋好友，毕竟，要想找出与这场著名的运动不相干的中国人，几乎不可能。四十多年前，全中国有近两千万的热血青­年，到遥远的边疆、海岛、山村、荒原务农劳作，在穷乡僻壤渡过了自己宝贵的青春岁月，并从此改变了一生的命运。

- 印州华报报导
http://sygqchorus.org/TheAsianAmericanTimes.aspx

In the ancient and gorgeous Yale Woolsey Hall, before the start of the premiere performance of "Ask the Sky and the Earth", Yale concert band director Tom Duffy introduced this chorale suit and the sent-down youth movement of China. Subsequently, the touching scene emerged. Renowned baritone and chorus music director Mr. Chai-lun Yueh asked the audience and the singers, "How many people who have participated in this sent-down youth to countryside movement", and countless hands were raised.

40 years later, in a foreign land, these no longer young "sent-down youth" were always hard to forget those years. A lot of people told reporters after the performance, many singers and audiences had tears in their eyes!

Among those hands were raised, some of them are not for their own, they are for their brothers, sisters, friends and family members. 40 years ago, with nearly 20 million of the youth in China were sent down to distant frontiers, Islands, mountain villages, wasteland to spend their precious youth to do labor work, it is impossible to find people irrelevant. The movement changed so many people's lives.

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