Butterfly Lovers By Dama Orchestra: Score and Music

Among Dama Orchestra's many concert performances, ranging from shi dai qu (Chinese Oldies) and folk songs to popular numbers, Butterfly Lovers (2006) was the first musical production. Transformed to musical theatre from the Shaw Brothers film Love Eterne, the music was arranged and composed from popular huangmei folksongs, which together with the costume and stage design gave a modern flavour to the performance. As the arrangers/composers for this production, both authors describe the process and experience of musical arrangement and composition from Butterfly Lovers.

Chapters One to Three give information about Dama Orchestra and provide details regarding the transformation from Love Eterne to Butterfly Lovers, while Chapters Four to Six give musical scores and discuss some of the production's performance issues.

The living recording of Butterfly Lovers was released in 2009.