劉管樂:
中国管乐演奏家刘管乐，河北省安国县人，一九一八年一月二十四日出生于一个贫农家庭，一九九○年五月二十七日在天津病逝。十岁开始拜师学笛，十四岁经人介绍，拜还俗僧人为师，学习笛子和唢呐。此后近十年时间里，过著搭班卖艺的流浪生活，但演奏水平却越来越高，名声也越来越大，后来参加了抗战救国工作。一九五一年，他被调到天津音乐工作团（今天津歌舞剧院前身）工作，担任笛子、管子和唢呐独奏演员，同年，他随中国音乐家代表团赴捷克斯洛伐克，参加“布拉格之春”的演出。从一九五三年开始，他专门从事笛子演奏，他的笛子艺术才得到了充分的发挥。多年来，他创作、改编、整理并演出了一批独具特色的乐曲，如《和平鸽》、《荫中鸟》和《卖菜》等。刘管乐演奏的不少乐曲，早已被各音乐院校列为笛子专业的必修曲目，也成为音乐会舞台上的保留曲目。为了繁荣民族器乐艺术事业，他还应聘在专业音乐院校兼课，为国家培养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.