Mid-spring makes the moon, the time is harmonious and clear.
With a slightly green earthy smell in the air, sit on the ground in pairs, listening to the symphony of the palace level on the large lawn in the city center in the most relaxed posture... This is a very vivid "plain face photo" of the "international style" life of Shanghai citizens today.
The "Urban Lawn Concert" made by Huangpu District, which is committed to building the core leading area of Shanghai's international cultural city, has entered its sixth year this year. On April 2, 2019, the 2019 Shanghai City Lawn Concert released the annual performance schedule: the traditional four major sections "Sound of Spring", "Charm of Summer", "Autumn Rhyme" and "Winter Music" will cooperate with the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival Organizing Committee Office, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, China Shanghai International Arts Festival Center, and Shanghai Concert Hall to provide richer high-quality performances; in particular, combined with the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, this year's lawn music will continue to excavate and deepen the red culture, Jiangnan culture and Shanghai culture. Polish the lawn concert brand with a series of events.
After six years, some people say that the lawn concert has stained the cultural and artistic temperament of a city, enhanced the civilized quality of the citizens and the ability to appreciate art. However, this performance brand that grows on the green grass says: This is a cultural output with a confident light, which will spread more Excellent Chinese culture and build a brand project that leads China's advanced culture.
The 179 performances attracted 280,000 visitors
Next to the Shanghai Concert Hall in the People's Square area, this 5,000-square-meter green terrace has witnessed a major initiative in cultural performances in a city. Since 2014, Huangpu District, which gathers the city's richest theater and performance resources, has launched the "City Lawn Concert" high-quality art public welfare project, with the concept of "gathering resource advantages and highlighting regional characteristics", through cooperation with professional art institutions, it has built this unique music performance platform - on sunny weekends, high-quality open-air concerts are regularly staged here, inviting the audience from indoors to outdoors, in the birds and flowers, in the most natural background vocal field of nature, feel the "strings move my heart".
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra are frequent visitors here; a large number of artistic masters such as Yu Long, Cao Peng, Huang Ying, Liao Changyong and so on have performed on stage. In the past six years, the concert has presented 179 wonderful musical performances for the general public, attracting nearly 280,000 visitors.
Each of the four seasons has its own "taste"
According to reports, the "Sound of Spring" chapter of this year's lawn concert will be the first time to cooperate with the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival Organizing Committee Office.
Founded in 1960, the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival is the oldest music festival in China. Qiao Jia, executive director and deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Musicians Association, said that the Shanghai Spring will bring three performances together with lawn music - the "Shanghai Legend of the Bund Story" brought by the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra will be performed on the afternoon of April 13, which will also kick off the prelude to the annual performance activities of the 2019 Shanghai City Lawn Concert; "The Wind Comes from Eastern Europe, the Sound of the 'Qin' in Spring - National Accordion Concert" and "Gold Award King Nikita Boriso-Glebsky Violin Concert" Two different musical culture demonstration performances will be held on the 14th.
The "Charm of Summer" chapter will be held in conjunction with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Summer Music Festival (MISA) to hold seven high-quality concerts in early to mid-July. At that time, the Japanese "Drum Boy" performance troupe, known as the treasure of Asian culture, wu man, the authority on contemporary pipa interpretation, and the six-seat Grundmi Award winner UkuleleUri master Daniel M. He, as well as well-known teams and musicians such as the "Evital" brothers, who specialize in jazz and traditional classical music respectively, will successively ascend to the city's lawn music square.
The "Autumn Rhyme" chapter will be jointly created with the Shanghai International Arts Festival Center in China to create a series of performances of "Art Sky - Urban Lawn Every Day Performance", inviting well-known teams at home and abroad and the original innovation show to hold about 26 concerts with their own characteristics from late October to early November. In addition, the successful holding of the "12-hour Special Event" for three consecutive years will further enhance the indoor and outdoor linkage effect and stage interaction experience this year, and bring happy parent-child time in the form of rich art performances.
In the chapter "Winter Music", the public can step on the golden leaves and feel the temperature of jazz music - they will hold hands with the Shanghai Concert Hall to hold the theme concert of "Ode to the Winter of Apricots" in early December. The Bund Source Lincoln Jazz Center also moved the special performance here.
Multi-channel ticketing
This year is the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, the Shanghai City Lawn Concert will benchmark the "Huangpu District To Launch the "Shanghai Culture" Brand Three-Year Action Plan", combined with the creation of the new "National Public Culture Demonstration Project", continue to excavate and deeply cultivate the red culture, Jiangnan culture, Shanghai culture, give full play to the leading and exemplary role of the city lawn concert, and build it into a brand project that cultivates and practices the core values of socialism, inherits China's excellent traditional culture, and leads China's advanced culture. Meet the higher-level spiritual and cultural needs of the public.
From now on, citizens can log on to official platforms such as WeChat public accounts and websites such as Shanghai Culture Cloud, Huangpu Culture Cloud, Shanghai Huangpu, and Performing Arts World to retrieve performance information for urban lawn concerts. After making an online reservation through the WeChat platform of Shanghai Culture Cloud and Huangpu Culture Cloud, you can pick up tickets by yourself at the lawn site. In addition, WeChat platforms such as the People's Grand Stage "Art Ticket Pass", Shanghai Huangpu and various community cultural activity centers in Huangpu District will also provide booking booking or public welfare ticket distribution services as auxiliary channels.
Author: Gu Yiqiong Wang Licheng
Image source: Huangpu District courtesy photo, Fu Guolin photo
Editor: Chen Chen