On May 11, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Chorus and the artists-in-residence took advantage of the morning light to go south. Five years ago, in 2019, the National Centre for the Performing Arts' "May Music Festival" charity performance came to Xiong'an New Area for the first time, bringing a pleasant afternoon to the busy builders. Five years later, the May Music Festival returned to the festival and it was a completely new place. On the same day, the melodious singing in the Convention and Exhibition Center of Xiong'an New Area, conductor Jiao Miao, together with the National Centre for the Performing Arts Chorus, resident opera singers and piano accompanists Liu Xiaoxing and Zhang Yue, presented musical blessings to the audience representatives from the relief units, universities and participating enterprises in the new area.
Under the theme of "Music for the Future", the concert will be composed of new old songs, which are diverse and colorful. A loud shout kicked off the performance, and the excerpt "Soybeans, White Rice and Peanuts" from the original national opera "The Ballad of the Canal" of the National Centre for the Performing Arts was sung first, and the prosperous scene of the canal in the past was fully sung in the song; The folk songs "Kangding Love Song", "Dragon Boat Words", "Hong Geese" and "Song of Eile" were then staged, with distinct regional styles across the land of China; Popular songs from different eras, such as "Grandma's Penghu Bay", "Childhood", "On the Shore of Lake Baikal" and "Snowflake", evoke collective memories. For example, the two nostalgic and warm songs of "Grandma's Penghu Bay" and "Childhood" are opened briskly in the guitar strings, and the singers wear navy hats and whistle, as carefree as when they were children. "My Motherland and Me" ended the whole performance, and the applause rang out for a long time......
"This opportunity to watch the show is very rare." Zhang Ling, a teacher from the Xiong'an Campus of Chaoyang District Experimental Primary School in Beijing, said. After the establishment of Xiong'an New Area, Zhang Ling can feel that the children's campus cultural life is richer and more fulfilling, and various forms of aesthetic education are constantly improving the children's artistic literacy.
"'People's Nature' is one of the tenets of the NCPA, and we look forward to continuing to go to the grassroots level to bring artistic enjoyment and blessings to the audience." Zhang Yao, vice president of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, said, "Being in Xiong'an New Area, we really feel China's power and speed, and we want to dedicate the best music to the builders of Xiong'an." ”
Since its launch in 2012, musicians have spread their footsteps to all corners of Beijing, from communities to schools, from hospitals to workshops, from the core area to Beijing's new "two wings" and far suburbs, and more than 180 public welfare performances have covered more than 30,000 audiences. In the future, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera Singers, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra, and the West End Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra will continue to go deep into the grassroots and let chamber music flow in the city's blood.