On the evening of December 13th, the "13th Love in the City Autism Concert and the Inauguration Ceremony of Shanghai Cao Peng Charity Foundation" was held at Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Concert Hall. On the stage, Cao Peng, a 96-year-old conductor and "national moral model", led the autistic children of the "Angel Zhiyin Salon" who accompanied him for 14 years to bring wonderful performances. Offstage, caring enterprises, caring people and autistic families have helped to support the establishment of the Shanghai Cao Peng Public Welfare Foundation. The foundation was established in just 3 days, and the donation has exceeded one million yuan.
At the one-and-a-half-hour concert, more than two-thirds of the show was performed by these "children of the stars." This group of children, who cannot communicate normally and live a normal life in the eyes of outsiders, have become the real protagonists on the stage. They can play beautiful melodies, they can dance jazz to show enthusiasm, and even difficult performances such as trumpet trios, bass ensembles, and string ensembles are presented by them. One live audience member said: "The whole concert was like a miracle that made this winter night so warm. ”
Behind this "miracle", there is a strong team. In 2008, Shanghai Cao Peng Music Center and Shanghai Charity Foundation jointly established the "Angel Zhiyin Salon", successively established the "Angel Zhiyin Choir", "Brass Quintet", "Wind Music Ensemble" and other teams, opened up projects such as "Love Classroom" and "Love Coffee", "Love Roasting" and "Love Ping Pong", and jointly established the Cao Peng Care Autism Charitable Trust with Wanxiang Trust. Over the years, Cao Peng has led hundreds of young volunteers to use music to serve children with autism and their families, helping children to appear on the international stage many times and participating in hundreds of concerts and competitions.
"Over the years, we are delighted that the changes in children with autism have changed." Cao Peng said, "Children who came to the 'Angel Zhiyin Salon' more than ten years ago always bowed their heads and were silent. Nowadays, they can not only play on the stage, but also learn well in cultural classes. They're all smart kids, they just don't have their ears open. With a little more patience and a little more love, they will definitely be able to wake up their ears with music. ”
Shanghai Cao Peng Charity Foundation Council Team
Shanghai Cao Peng Public Welfare Foundation will continue to carry out projects such as "Love Classroom" and "Love Coffee" to care for autistic patients, and in the future, it will also fund the development of children's health education, scientific theory and practice research on autism rehabilitation, life care and life care for the disabled, volunteer training and training, etc., so that autism and its families can get the respect and life security they deserve, so that the project of caring for autism patients will develop in the direction of branding, and more caring enterprises and caring people will participate in the action of caring for autistic patients.