At the back of King's College there is a memorial stone in memory of a former student of the College, famous Chinese poet Xu Zhimo. Moving to the UK in 1921, Zhimo spent a year studying at King's. There he fell in love not only with the romantic poetry of English poets like John Keats, but also with Cambridge itself.
His poem, Second Farewell to Cambridge, is his most famous poem, and is now included in Chinese textbook for senior high school students, learned by millions of school children across the country every year. The poem paints an beautiful picture of King’s and the River Cam, and serves as a reminder of Xu Zhimo's fondness for his time in Cambridge.
While the poem has been set to music many times before, King's has commissioned(正式委托) the first
musical setting of the text by a mainstream classical composer( 作 曲 家 ). The new piece, by famous English
composer John Rutter, has been written and recorded in celebration of the near 100-year link between King;s
College and Xu Zhimo, and was released(发行) on 26 January 2018 on a new album on the King's College Record Label.
The CD can be ordered from kingscollegerecordings.com and is available at release on Apple Music, iTunes, Netease and Baidu Music.
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