On the evening of October 17th, the second "Dunhuang Cup" Chinese National Chamber Music and Ensemble Competition came to an end, in this competition with nearly 400 Chinese national chamber music teams and ensembles participating, two works of Xiyan Xi'an Song and Dance Theater stood out from the strong as clouds - the work "Chi Jue" won the gold medal of the professional youth group C, and "Tea Horse" won the silver medal of the same group. The reporter learned from the interview of the Xi'an Song and Dance Theater today that the gold medal-winning "Chi Jue" is the latest original work of the academy's folk orchestra, which tells the silk road style and life with sincerity in the music.
The "Dunhuang Cup" Chinese National Chamber Music and Ensemble Competition aims to discover and promote outstanding national chamber music works and orchestra organizations with cultural and artistic aesthetic value and innovative spirit of the times, suitable for the promotion of grass-roots art societies, with a total of nearly 400 professional and non-professional Chinese chamber music teams and ensembles participating, more than 300 teams shortlisted for the finals, and 30 well-known composers, conductors, performers and educators from home and abroad participated in the judging.
It is reported that among the two works awarded by the Xi'an Song and Dance Theater this time, the hand dish and the guzheng work "Chi Jue" use the "synaesthesia" expression technique to show the strong sincerity of the sun and the heart of the naked child, as well as the understanding of life. The folk chamber music "Tea Horse" describes and interprets the colorful culture of the Tea Horse Ancient Road - through performance, the artists show the customs and customs of the merchants on the Western Ancient Road in the slow sound of horseshoes, showing the spirit and national feelings of ancient Chinese merchants who are not afraid of hardships.
Chen Yulong and Zhang Sisi, the creators and performers of "Chi Jue", told reporters that the difficulty of this work lies in the tacit cooperation between the two instruments of hand disc and guzheng, "Chinese and Western fusion" - the zheng is a Chinese silk bamboo instrument, the disc is made of Western metal, the two instrument ensembles are rare, and the ensemble is rare in the industry. This time, the two artists will be skillfully harmonious with the two instruments, and the whole song will be played with the musical color of the minor key, coupled with the clever use of slippery and vibrato, bringing the listener into the mysterious nature, the deserts, mountains, grasslands along the Silk Road... In the melody, the creators also added ethnic minority music colors, so that the whole song not only has a fashion atmosphere but also maintains the true color of the classical nation, "showing the style of the Silk Road, expressing everything in the world, we also hope to use this work to call on everyone to protect nature and protect the ecological environment." ”
The relevant person in charge of xi'an song and dance theater said that after winning the award, the folk orchestra of Xi'an song and dance theater will continue to polish original and excellent works such as "Chi Jue" and dedicate excellent spiritual food to the public.
Sun Huan, an all-media reporter of Xi'an Newspaper
Photo courtesy of Xi'an Song and Dance Theater