Tenor Singer Yan Weiwen and Soprano Singer Liang Wenjing "Master and Apprentice on the Same Stage" Chorus Lu Xu Photo
Beijing, March 8 (China News Network) -- The Concert of the Central Chinese Orchestra 'Red Makeup Chinese Music' was recently held at the Concert Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. In the past ten years, the concert has become a brand play of the Central Chinese Orchestra every year to pay tribute to women.
The concert was led by conductor Chen Bing, with Jin Yue as the band chief, tenor singer Yan Weiwen, erhu player Yu Hongmei and other top guests joining in, playing Chinese music fanghua with shengshi red makeup, presenting a wonderful and colorful music event for the audience.
Conductor Chen Bing and the performers of the Central Chinese Orchestra closed the curtain with Lu Xu photo
The baton rises, and a national orchestral piece "Gallop" kicks off the concert. The narrative music poem "Deer Mother Lotus" brings the audience a beautiful legend about the kindness of the "deer girl" and the mother's love under the moving singing of soprano Wei Garni and the affectionate recitation of bass singer Liu Yang. Composed by female composer Zhu Lin, the national orchestral piece is compact in structure, smooth lines and personality, the rhythm is bright and dynamic, and the notes are intertwined on the stage into a dynamic picture of light and shadow.
As the "mysterious guest" of the concert, the appearance of tenor singer Yan Weiwen set off a climax for the concert, his masterpiece "Mother" appeared more emotional and touching on the stage of "Red Makeup Chinese Music", and "Want to Kiss" sung with soprano singer Liang Wenjing "Master and Apprentice on the Same Stage" reflected a strong regional style. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that Yan Weiwen has joined hands with the Central Chinese Orchestra.
The second half of the concert opened with the national chamber music "Meibian Four Dreams", which was composed by female composer Wang Danhong, which is a representative and breakthrough repertoire of the miniaturization and diversification of the national instrumental performance form in recent years, and it is also a classic work that uses national music to interpret and depict "beauty", showing a new realm of dialogue between tradition and modernity, inheritance and innovation.
Subsequently, the national orchestral works "Folk Style Suite" were played, and the four works of "Small River Flowing Water", "Fishing Song", "Rainy Night Flower" and "Black Walking Horse" were created and adapted from Yunnan folk songs, Hezhe folk songs, Taiwanese pop songs, and Kazakh folk dance music, using music to depict the cultural outlook of "ten miles of different customs and a hundred miles of different winds" on the vast territory of the motherland.
Erhu player Yu Hongmei in the performance of Lu Xu photo
Erhu player Yu Hongmei finale debuted and played "Mengshan Yishui". Her performance brought the euphemisms of the erhu to the extreme, and the nostalgia flowing between the bow strings infected the audience. Immediately after, the familiar melody of "Horse Racing" sounded, as a classic in the erhu song, Yu Hongmei's version of "Horse Racing" has been praised, and the song has been played and the applause is thunderous. Amid the applause and cheers from the audience, the orchestra presented the return song "Send Me a Rose" to the audience.
"The 'Red Makeup Chinese Music' concert has gone through ten years and has become a brand play of the Central Chinese Orchestra to present the 'Two Sessions' and pay tribute to women every March. On this stage, musical works praising the party and the people are constantly staged, female conductors, performers, singers, opera composers and composers continue to emerge, showing the artistic posture of not letting the eyebrows be shaved, and the women's theme music is warm and infects a group of audiences. Zhao Cong, director of the Central Chinese Orchestra, said that this year, we will launch another decade for the concert with the top guest lineup, the best quality repertoire, and the most diversified interpretation form, hoping that "Red Makeup Chinese Music" can continue to break through innovation and constantly recreate and reshape the new classics of women's theme concerts. (End)