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In Hong Kong, China, where East meets West, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra has always let the two adjectives of "national" and "international" go hand in hand, becoming the "Business Card of Hong Kong" and carrying forward traditional Chinese music in the world.
Since Hong Kong's return to the motherland 25 years ago, art exchanges between the two places have become closer, and even if they are affected by the new crown epidemic, they will share exchanges with mainland art universities through online teaching and other means. For the first time, the 14th Five-Year Plan of the People's Republic of China proposes to develop Hong Kong into a cultural and artistic exchange center between China and foreign countries.
Yan Huichang, artistic director of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, said in an interview with the News Knows reporter: "On June 1, 1997, I officially became the music director of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and my first performance in Hong Kong was the return of Hong Kong, playing "The General's Order" and "The Sea, My Hometown", which was sung by Mo Warren. A kind of exchange between Hong Kong and the mainland is to serve as such a hub for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. Hong Kong will also develop it, and it will also play its unique unique position from history to the present day. Therefore, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra will cooperate more closely with the mainland and the international community, which is a big wind. ”
Cheung Chung-xue is the Concertmaster of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and joined the Orchestra in 2006 under the Mainland Talent Import Scheme. At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, Yan Huichang led a group to Shanghai to participate in the performance of the "Hong Kong Week" of the World Expo, Zhang Chongxue returned to her hometown with the troupe to perform, and in the same year she held a solo concert and represented Hong Kong to the mainland for exchanges many times. Zhang Chongxue, principal of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, told Knews reporters: "This messenger of music who can represent Hong Kong culture can bring music from Hong Kong to Shanghai and raise my hometown of Shanghai. Very proud, very proud, and of course very happy. ”
In recent years, the orchestra has been keenly innovating in the creation of music and the form of performance, developing instrument reforms, and developing environmentally friendly huqin, which has won the Innovation Award of the Ministry of Culture. At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra used environmentally friendly huqin to perform in Shanghai; In recent years, the orchestra has brought innovative and integrated traditional cultures to the world, and has also allowed overseas audiences to better understand the breadth and depth of Chinese culture.
Zhang Chongxue, chief of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, said in an interview: "They will be very surprised, because they did not expect to say that the current development of Chinese music, especially the national symphony, can develop into such a large scale, in their impressions, it may be the traditional form of a few people and a dozen people in the previous silk bamboo music, but every time our orchestra goes out to perform, all foreign friends are the last to keep shouting Encore (another song). In the end, it can be said that all the audiences of the whole concert stood up and applauded us, which was actually for them, breaking their previous tradition, such a thought, a concept. ”
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, at the invitation of the Hong Kong Office in Shanghai and other institutions, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra will hold a number of performances in East China to showcase the cultural ecology of the two places and celebrate the return to China.
(Look at the news Knows reporter: Yu Hua Luo Shiyuan Ma Yue Editor: Xia Dingwei)