Hosted by the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Xinghai Concert Hall hosted the "2022 Guangdong International Youth Music Week" from January 16 to 23, this music week through the comprehensive integration of online and offline, to achieve the global multi-local real-time linkage of innovative dissemination, to tell the world a good Chinese story, show the achievements of the construction of the Humanistic Bay Area.
World-famous musician and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Music Director of guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and famous conductor Long Yu, famous conductor Michael Stern, and the world-renowned Shanghai Quartet and other masters of today's classical music scene will "appear" YMCG to share classics with young students and the public at the Music Week, sit and discuss, explore the current situation and future of musicians, and explore how literary and art workers can rejuvenate their passion from life and create excellent works that reflect the spirit of the times.
The opening concert on the evening of January 16 was performed in the Symphony Hall of the Xinghai Concert Hall, with Jing Huan, the permanent conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the music director of the Guangzhou Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducting the Canton Symphony and Guangqing Symphony, the fourth movement of the British composer Gustav Holst's Planetary Suite, "The God of Joy - Jupiter", the symphonic poem "Roman Pine Tree" by Italian composer Otorino Respichi, and the French composer Camille Saint-Saùn's "Carnival of Animals".
For the selection of the opening concert, Chen Qing, director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, has this interpretation: "The meaning of 'Jupiter' in the "Planet" suite is joy, the music is so full of enthusiasm and vitality, so that you will think of the young people who participated in the music week, which is a sincere greeting and welcome to them; "Roman Pine" was played in the first Guangdong International Youth Music Week in 2017, after several years, the world has changed, we keep the memory with the classic, polish the original heart; "Animal Carnival" is an interesting work. It commemorates the centenary of the death of the composer Saint-Saën, and at the same time, the concern for nature and ecology implied in the work is quite meaningful, and echoes Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" in the closing concert. ”
In order to implement and cooperate with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control measures, the internationally renowned Shanghai Quartet was unable to come to Sui to participate in the 2022 Guangdong International Youth Music Week, and the two offline chamber music concerts originally scheduled for January 18 and 19 were changed to 8 o'clock every night on January 17, 18 and 19, and the Shanghai Quartet brought online performances to everyone.
Founded in 1983 at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Shanghai Quartet has traveled the globe, holding about 3,000 concerts and recording 35 albums in 35 countries and regions.
During the Music Week, the Shanghai Quartet will hold three master classes at xinghai concert hall on the afternoon of January 16, 18 and 19 with three groups of young musicians from the China Philharmonic Orchestra, shanghai symphony orchestra and Guangzhou symphony orchestra as the media. The Shanghai Quartet is guided remotely via the Internet.
On the evening of January 20, the above three groups of young quartets from the Beijing Shanghai Canton Orchestra will hold a special concert of The Beethoven String Quartet in the Chamber Hall of the Xinghai Concert Hall.
Shanghai Quartet
The closing concert will take place on the evening of January 23, and YMCG Artistic Director Yo-Yo Ma will deliver a video link. The concert also invited young musicians who have participated in the past YMCG in China and three groups of young string quartets from the China Philharmonic Orchestra, shanghai symphony orchestra and Guangzhou symphony orchestra to form this year's YMCG symphony orchestra, and under the direction of Jing Huan, they will perform Beethoven's Sixth Symphony "Pastoral", bringing out the theme of man and nature; in addition to the video speech, Ma Youyou in Boston will also play the Antoning Symphony Orchestra on the stage of Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall in the form of a screen ensemble. Dvořák's "Ode to the Moon" uses the artistic conception of "sending lovesickness in the bright moon" to send meanings with music, connecting each other separated by the epidemic with music.
Friends who are interested in watching online performances and master classes can follow the official video number of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and other platforms to watch.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Zhang Suqin
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Wu Bo