On the occasion of retiring the old and welcoming the new, spanning a year of literature and art in a warm and steaming theater has become the first choice of many Shanghai citizens.
2021 is counting down, 2022 is coming, and the Shanghai New Year Concert is once again ready to go.
Shanghai's major theaters have their own strange tricks, one after another to hold different colors of the New Year concert, the protagonists on the stage are both the veteran quartet, the century-old symphony team, as well as the classical music world "post-00s" rising stars, as well as "Internet celebrities" Jin Chengzhi and Zhang Shichao, as well as the academic school out of the ivory tower.
2022 Shanghai New Year Concert
When: December 31
Venue: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall
Shanghai Quartet + Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, this is a strong combination of the veteran quartet and the centennial symphony team.
The two sides will test the waters of an unknown but highly anticipated New Year's concert – without a conductor, the same stage will perform the New Year's full of New Year's round dances by composers such as Johann Strauss Jr. and Lechal, and the four performers of the Shanghai Quartet will also present the works of Beethoven, Dvořák, Bruch, Shahankun and other composers as the lead.
Guole "Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" - a audible Silk Road
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre
Composer Tan Dun + Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, this is a feast of Chinese music.
The Shanghai Grand Theatre's New Year's Concert has been played for seven consecutive years, and this year the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra was invited to perform Tan Dun's masterpiece of Chinese music, "Ode to Dunhuang Mercy", which takes the audience through the thousand-year history of Dunhuang with oriental philosophy and poetic aesthetics. In order to pursue the sound of Dunhuang, Tan Dun has traveled to Dunhuang more than ten times to collect styles, this "Chinese music version" tailored for the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra and about to premiere in the world, from the orchestration, the orchestration shows the superb skills and performance characteristics of folk music players.
"Rhapsody in Blue" New Year's Concert
Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall
The "post-00s" youth conductor Jinyu mine + neoclassical chamber orchestra, which is the home of the rising stars of the classical music scene.
In June 2021, Jinyu Mine won the runner-up of two international command competitions in succession, making a splash and becoming famous in one battle. In December 2020, Jin Yukuang, who is studying in the conducting department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and his classmates formed the Neo-Classical Chamber Orchestra, with members almost all of whom are "post-00s". At the New Year's Concert, this group of rising stars will join hands with pianist Liu Ji and singer Jin Shengquan to run from the Strauss family to Gershwin and Bernstein to celebrate the New Year in "Blue Rhapsody".
"Travels of Baima Village" Jin Chengzhi and Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Choir
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Such an important moment as the countdown to the New Year, of course, is indispensable to the Rainbow Choir, who will be waiting for you in the "White Horse Village" to spend the last day of 2021 with you.
"Travels in Baima Village" is the third suite created by Jin Chengzhi after "Zeya Collection" and "Sunset Collection", which tells the fantasy journey of Gu Yuanshan, a young man of the Republic of China who "lost his family" in Baima Village, Zhejiang Province, with seven interrelated works, and the "Gu Yuanshan Universe" has also begun. This is Kim Seung-chi's first attempt at "choral dramatization" and the "most immortal" work that Kim Seung-chi has ever written.
Shanghai Conservatory of Music New Year Concert
When: December 29
Venue: Shangyin Opera House
The Voice of Youth, the Voice of The Nation, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music New Year Concert gathered outstanding teachers, young students and the National Orchestra to bring a national instrumental music concert.
In the first half, the traditional folk songs "Spinning Thread", "Singing Mountain Songs to the Party", "Send Me a Rose" and a group of original Chinese music new works by Shangyin people will be displayed, and the second half will bring large-scale national instrumental music classics, such as: Zhao Jiping's "National Wind" created with the theme of the traditional piano song "Plum Blossom Three Alleys", Lu Chunling's "Happy News" composed by fusing the flute techniques of the north and south styles, The theme song "My Motherland" adapted by Wang Danhong by Liu Chi, and "Yanhe Caprice" composed by Wang Jianmin.
"Dance of the World" Wang Zhijiong and the Times Ensemble
When: January 5
It is also a New Year's concert with a strong imprint of Shanghai musicology.
Violinist Wang Zhijiong, who teaches Shangyin, and Shangyin teachers and alumni form the "Times Ensemble", and walking out of the ivory tower will also bring a lively "Dance of the World". From the dance music of the Strauss family, Brahms and Bartok to the excerpts of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker", the performance repertoire is a must-have dish at the New Year's concert, and the two upper-sound composers, Shen Ye and Dai, have joined forces to adapt it into a chamber version, bringing a new meaning to the classic work and making the audience dance with it.