The "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the 22nd "Meet in Beijing" International Arts Festival will open on January 6, and on January 6 and 9, the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra will appear at the opening ceremony of the "Meet Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the "Meet Beijing meet Jiangnan" Suzhou Culture and Art Exhibition Week special concert, with symphony, the internationally recognized artistic language, to help the successful convening of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
On the evening of January 6th, under the baton of music director Chen Xieyang, Su Jiao will be invited to perform the "Ice and Snow Covenant" large-scale comprehensive literary and art evening at the Beijing Tianqiao Art Center, which is also the opening performance of the "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the 22nd "Meet in Beijing" International Arts Festival. In the evening, a 100-member orchestra composed of 50 performers from the Central Chinese Orchestra and 50 performers from the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra will bring magnificent performances to the audience. Speaking about this performance, Chen Xieyang said, "This performance has both singing, dancing, and instrumental music, which is very rich. The fusion of Chinese and Western in the band will also bring a lot of novel experiences to the audience. ”
Previously, Su Jiao had been invited to Beijing many times to participate in important performances such as "Chinese Symphony Spring" and "Retrospective Exhibition of Chinese Symphony Works Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up". However, in the view of the head of the troupe, Chen Guangxian, the performance in Beijing this time is "of extraordinary significance". Chen Guangxian said that in less than a month, the Beijing Winter Olympics will be opened, invited to participate in the opening performance of the "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival, for Su Jiao, "both a recognition, but also an honor", but also give Su Jiao the opportunity to once again use symphony as an "international universal artistic language" to show the style of Chinese culture to the world. It is understood that on January 3, the orchestra will depart for Beijing. Next, Su Jiao will actively participate in the rehearsal.
The second performance of the "Entering Beijing" of the SuJiao Is the special concert of the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra held at the Beijing Concert Hall on January 9, the Suzhou Cultural and Art Exhibition Week. In this concert, Sujiao Music Director Chen Xieyang deliberately selected two classic works by Russian composer Shostakovich - the film "Oxfly" Suite and the Tenth Symphony in E minor. Among Shostakovich's many film music creations, "Bullfly" contains some of the composer's most popular melodies, especially "Romance" has been adapted into various instrumental versions and widely circulated. Symphony No. 10 in E minor is one of shostakovich's 15 most frequent symphonies, and it is worth mentioning that the Tenth Symphony was successfully premiered in China on March 10, 1985 under the baton of Chen Xieyang.
Chen Xieyang said frankly that after more than 5 years of development and accumulation, Sujiao has developed into an excellent professional symphony orchestra, and its performance standards and management level have been very significantly improved compared with when it was first established. "The Suzhou Symphony Orchestra is an international symphony orchestra that not only embodies Jiangnan culture, but also presents Chinese symphony works to the audience. Therefore, this time, I want the audience in Beijing to feel the unique temperament contained in this 'symphonic new army' that has been infiltrated by Jiangnan culture, and also to show the achievements of the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra in the past 5 years. ”
Photography / Jiang Wenlong
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting
Editor/Cui Wei