gathered "Prince of Pingtan" Gao Bowen, "Prince of Yue Opera" Zhao Zhigang, and a group of artists from the Yangtze River Delta in the fields of guqin, opera, and performance...... Just yesterday afternoon, the 2nd Shanghai Pudong Yangtze River Delta Guqin Art Festival officially opened, helping to build a platform for the integrated development of Yangtze River Delta culture and highlighting the brand identity and influence of "Shanghai Culture". At the opening ceremony, "Mountains and Flowing Water Meet Bosom Friends, Pudong Three Heroes to be Born" - Guqin cross-border integration boutique performance, won full applause.
With the opening drum of "Prosperous China", this art festival kicked off, "Guangling San", "Changmen Resentment", "Remembering the Old Man", "Zhannai", "Sixian Cao" and so on show the immortal cultural charm of the thousand-year-old guqin.
It is worth mentioning that in terms of repertoire innovation, the art festival has launched a number of "guqin +" cross-border integration programs, including Pingtan "Tianya Singer", Yue Opera "Jiangchengzi Su Shi", Qin Song Ensemble "Autumn River Night Park", scene performance "Listening to the Qin", Chinese dance "Listening to the Rain", Shanghai Opera "Yanyan as a Matchmaker", etc., showing the new artistic ecology and bold and innovative artistic exploration under the guqin Hanyong. And a guqin ensemble "I Love You China" vividly expresses the surging spiritual chorus of every Chinese child.
"In order to bring more people closer to traditional art, we are exploring the integration of Yue opera and guqin, and this launch of Jiangchengzi Su Shi is an attempt. Zhao Zhigang told reporters, "I look forward to creating more cross-border integration works in the future, so that more people will be fascinated by traditional Chinese culture." ”。
As the head of the Shanghai Pingtan Troupe, Gao Bowen also served as the host of the performance that day, he said, "This art festival not only has guqin solos, but also a number of innovative programs, rich in form and content. Traditional art not only needs to be inherited, but also needs to be innovated in the form of performance, so that the audience can be more happy to hear and be nourished and edified by traditional art. ”
This year's art festival will also launch the "Nine Guqin Family Heirs Concert", focusing on the classic charm of guqin ancient songs, "Confucius Reading Easy", "Pingsha Falling Geese", "White Snow", "Stone Flowing Spring" and other more than ten classic qin songs, so that the audience can turn a thousand times and shuttle between history and reality.
Compared with the first session, this year's Guqin Art Festival has rich and colorful content, innovative and diverse forms, and famous artists and famous actors have widely participated in the response, showing the highlights of leapfrog development. During the art festival, the "Commemoration of the Three Masters of Pudong" Inheritance and Development Forum will invite famous artists of various genres to inherit and sort out the historical context of the "Three Masters of Pudong Guqin", explore the path of inheriting the past and integrating the present, launch the "Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties" and the Guqin Exhibition of Contemporary Qin Masters, adhere to the cultural benefits of the people, and carry out activities such as the grassroots level of guqin art and the cross-border exhibition of Guqin into the community.
"The spring breeze is fine, and the sound of the piano has not changed for thousands of years. Pudong New Area will take the Guqin Art Festival as a platform and the mission of promoting the national strategy of Yangtze River Delta integration, adhere to integrity and innovation, so that Chinese traditional culture will not only retain the classic heritage, but also radiate the vitality of the new era.
This year's Guqin Art Festival is strongly supported by the Pudong New Area Publicity and Culture Development Fund, the Pudong New Area Civil Affairs Bureau, the Pudong District Committee of the China Democratic National Construction Association, Chuansha New Town and relevant departments, and is guided by the Pudong New Area Culture and Art Guidance Center and the Pudong New Area Social Organization Development Guidance Center.