Farewell to Cambridge has many popular composing versions, and the version included in this album is the first mainstream classical music version of this poem. John Ratt, a famous British composer, wrote a new composition for this poem, which opened the prelude to this album.
Farewell to Cambridge originated from a famous sentence by China poet Xu Zhimo, which praised the influence of Xu Zhimo's poems on later generations. Xu Zhimo studied at King's College in his youth, and later wrote Farewell to Cambridge, depicting an idyllic scene of King's College.
This poem is a must-read poem for many contemporary China students in class, and millions of students study and read it every year. It also attracted countless friends from China to visit Cambridge, England, and visited Xu Zhimo's alma mater, King's College, Cambridge University.
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A marble monument in the back garden of King's College has become the most popular attraction in Cambridge in recent years. The stone tablet is engraved with the first and second sentences of the poem Farewell to Cambridge. Xu Zhimo wrote this poem when he returned to Cambridge in 1928. Just three years after he wrote this poem, Xu Zhimo died in a plane crash, but his poem will last forever.
After leaving Cambridge, Xu Zhimo became a famous figure in modern China. His life and poetry are closely related to China's influence on western art and literature in the 1920s and 1930s.
China Economic Net-King's College Choir released the music album Farewell to Cambridge.