劉管樂:
中國管樂演奏家劉管樂，河北省安國縣人，一九一八年一月二十四日出生於一個貧農家庭，一九九○年五月二十七日在天津病逝。十歲開始拜師學笛，十四歲經人介紹，拜還俗僧人為師，學習笛子和嗩呐。此後近十年時間裏，過著搭班賣藝的流浪生活，但演奏水平卻越來越高，名聲也越來越大，後來參加了抗戰救國工作。一九五一年，他被調到天津音樂工作團（今天津歌舞劇院前身）工作，擔任笛子、管子和嗩呐獨奏演員，同年，他隨中國音樂家代表團赴捷克斯洛伐克，參加「布拉格之春」的演出。從一九五三年開始，他專門從事笛子演奏，他的笛子藝術才得到了充分的發揮。多年來，他創作、改編、整理並演出了一批獨具特色的樂曲，如《和平鴿》、《蔭中鳥》和《賣菜》等。劉管樂演奏的不少樂曲，早已被各音樂院校列為笛子專業的必修曲目，也成為音樂會舞台上的保留曲目。為了繁榮民族器樂藝術事業，他還應聘在專業音樂院校兼課，為國家培養出一批批笛子演奏人才。
LIU Guan-yue
LIU Guan-yue was born on January 24, 1918 in Anguo, Hebei province and passed away on May 27, 1990 of illness in Tianjin. At the age of ten, he started to learn the dizi. When he was fourteen, he learned the dizi and suona from a monk who has returned to layman. Since that time, his performing art was higher and higher and won him many fame. In 1951, he was appointed to the Song and Dance Troupe of Tianjin as a solo performer of dizi, guanzi and suona. In the same year, he was selected as the representative of Chinese musicians to participate in the Prague Spring Festival in Czechoslovakia. Since 1953, he became solely a dizi performer. He has composed, arranged, and compiled many dizi pieces, including Peace Dove, Birds in the Forest, Selling Vegetables, etc. Most of his works has became the essential training materials of the conservatories and also be the common programme in concerts. Aimed on training more talent students, he also taught in the conservatories.