China Youth Daily client news (China Youth Daily China Youth Network reporter Ma Fuchun) Tiger Xiaochun came to resign from the old years, and the spring breeze opened a new chapter. On the evening of December 28, the "2022 Lanzhou New Year Concert", sponsored by the Lanzhou Municipal CPPCC Committee, the Propaganda Department of the LANZHOU Municipal Party Committee and the Lanzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and jointly performed by the Lanzhou Grand Theatre and well-known domestic artists, was grandly staged at the Lanzhou Concert Hall on the banks of the Yellow River in Jincheng, kicking off the prelude to the colorful cultural and artistic activities from New Year's Day to the Spring Festival in Gansu Province.
The concert was conducted by Lin Daye, music director and chief conductor of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, and specially invited the famous soprano Singer Guo Sen, the young soprano Li Dan, the young baritone Gao Yupeng and the outstanding young singers in Gansu Province to perform together with the Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra, the Lanzhou Concert Hall Choir, and the Northwest Normal University Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra and Choir.
The opening song "You are Lanzhou" once again looked back fondly at the "epidemic" picture of the Jincheng War and sang the surging strength of the people of Lanzhou to fight the epidemic together. "Ode to the Red Flag", "We", "Long Live the People" and other exciting songs were staged one after another, and the applause in the field was thunderous. It is worth mentioning that this concert also brought the symphonic choral suite "Ode to Nanliang" originally produced by the Lanzhou Grand Theatre, which was also the first time that the work was first met with the Lanzhou audience after the premiere of the work at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing at the end of September.
The symphonic chorus suite "Ode to Nanliang" consists of eight movements, consisting of a mixed chorus, a male chorus, a female solo and chorus, and a baritone solo. The music fully absorbs the longdong (Qingyang) folk song materials such as "Our Leader Mao Zedong", "Embroidered Golden Plaque", "Ten Songs in the Border Area", "Frozen Ice", "Five More Moons" and so on, and praises the spirit of Nanliang from today's historical perspective with the tone of atmosphere, high pitch, clarity, stretching and humor, and praises the spirit of Nanliang from today's historical perspective, or sonorous and powerful, or brisk and cheerful, perfectly interpreting the spirit of Nanliang.
The concert ended with the high-pitched singing of "The Great Communist Party of China" sung by the audience. Leaders of relevant provincial and municipal departments, as well as model workers in Lanzhou, anti-epidemic volunteers, community workers, advanced individuals in poverty alleviation, lanzhou good people, moral models, representatives of retired soldiers, grass-roots public security cadres and policemen, fire commanders and fighters, medical workers, teachers and representatives of grass-roots sanitation workers watched the performance together.
Source: China Youth Daily client