Normally, people's impression about Chaiyi is a town culture, however, very
people aware that the sunshine Chiayi has also been recognized as “the city
of band music” in Asia Pacific Area. Continually organizing 12 times of “The
Band Music Festival of Chiayi City”, it allows Chiayi establishing its reputation
in the international stage, the activity has also become one of the well-known
music grand meeting in Taiwan .
By the end of every year, the band music festival of Chiayi City opens bustlingly
under citizens' enthusiastic anticipation. The music festival is not only an
important stage for all of the band music teams to present their performance
in front of the public once a year, it is also a great chance introducing the
worldwide famous band music groups to our people.
When the loud and clear brass band instrumental ensembles and wood-wind instruments
play together, listens from all over the nation or the world have come to enjoy
the moment in our city. The city, situated on the Tropic of Cancer, has suddenly
demonstrated a different feature, displaying another melody chapter of lively
Taiwan .
Tracing the development history of the band music in Chiayi city, we can track
back to 1932 at the time when Japanese ruled Taiwan . People had established
the first local wood-winds instruments band at Chiayi senior high school, the
band music of Chiayi spread over since then. Half century later, in 1981, following
the prosperous economy of Taiwan and information freely flowing, many junior
high schools or professional schools started to transfer their original traditional
military music bands and drums bands into the band music that play various music
and classical music.
After organizing the unprecedented “Music Lovers' Unified Performance of the
Band Music” in our country, we have received active responses from the public,
which also opened the fountainhead that Chiayi city would organize big-scale
activity by the end of in the very beginning of each year. In 1993, the Chiayi
Municipal Cultural Center organized “the first Band Music Festival”; 1998 “1997
International Band Music Festival in Chiayi”, and the 7 th Chaiyi Band Music
Festival; in 1999 “2000 Asia Band Music Festival in Chiayi”; the 9 th Band Music
Festival in 2000; the “2001 International Band Music Festival in Chiayi”, and
the “ 2002 International Band Music Festival in Chiayi”, etc. we have already
stepped into the 12 th band music festival. Our program of each year has been
highly regarded by the public, and the program also makes Chiayi an international
spot in terms of the band music. Accumulating more than 10 years of experience
and reputation, Chiayi has received the reputation of “the city of Taiwan 's
band music”.
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