On September 11th, Ding Jianhua, Li Lihong, Song Chunli, Sun Qiang, Xiao Xiong, Xue Fei, Yao Xijuan, Zhao Xiaolu and nearly ten other domestic first-class sound artists will join hands to "dedicate their voices" to the Shanghai Oriental Art Center to present "The Power of Sound - Famous Artists Multimedia Audio-Visual Recitation".
The eight most "talking" artists will be transformed into Shakespeare, Gibran, Audrey Hepburn, Gauguin, Shu Ting, Reagan, Gibran, Liang Qiushi, Chaplin and many other immortal celebrities, with language as the main line, supplemented by large-screen images, bringing a night of heart-string resonance audiovisual feast.
Conveying the "Power of Sound"
At the scene, Song Chunli, a national first-class actor, Li Lihong, a famous dubbing performance artist, Yao Xijuan, a famous dramatist, and Sun Qiang, an actor of the National Drama Theatre, sang the proverbs of the era through wonderful performances; resonated with the voice actor Ding Jianhua on the local recitation stage in Shanghai, and Zhao Xiaolu, a young drama actor; Xiao Xiong, a national first-class actor of the Air Politics Repertory Theatre, and Xue Fei, a former anchor of CCTV's "News Network" and a famous broadcast host, were also invited to appear with famous artists.
The chapters of this performance are selected from many celebrity classic speeches and classic plays. Xiao Xiong will call attention to children in developing countries who are suffering from poverty, as a prologue to Audrey Hepburn's "For The Children" speech at UNICEF, and Li Lihong will perform "The Last Speech", a classic speech delivered by Chaplin, the king of silent comedy, during World War II through the role of the film "The Great Dictator", with passion and profound meaning, calling on people to fight for freedom in poetic language.
Yao Xijuan will convey the love and true meaning of life through the famous Lebanese poet and novelist Gibran's poetry collection "Prophet Sha and Mo". She then took on the role of the legendary deaf-blind writer Helen Keller who inspired the world, with "If You Give Me Three Days of Light" to warn people that only by bravely accepting the challenges of life can they win the light in life.
French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin's "Defending My Paintings", a generation of literary heroes Shakespeare's famous tragic work "Hamlet" excerpt "Advice" and other world-famous masterpieces will also be displayed on the stage.
One by one, the moments buried in the torrent of time, the memories engraved on the historical inscriptions. The thickness of life will multiply in these flashing moments and immortal memories. On this night, sound is the carrier, thought is the theme, and what will be connected will be the eternal spiritual world of mankind.
In recent years, recitation variety shows have become popular, from "Chinese Poetry Conference" to "Readers", the program uses multimedia images to directly answer the audience's most direct questions: Why do we need to read?
Since 2015, Dongyi has also carefully planned a number of recitation concerts. First, the recitation concerts of and cooperation between The Russian meritorious artist Andrei Pisarev and a generation of sound giants Cao Lei , "Four Seasons" and "One Night Chopin" have successively appeared on the Stage of Dongyi; on the Night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2017, more than ten artists from the north and south have staggered on the Stage of Dongyi with the title of "Walking Like a Song and Autumn Reflection"; in the performance season of Dongyi in 2018, "To Pushkin" by Pu Cunxin, Cao Lei, Yao Xijuan and many other performing artists gathered together to perform.
The tension of language and text is comprehensively presented through the reader's speech and stage vision. Open the audience's hearts with reading culture, celebrities or ordinary people, all exude the most ordinary and sincere emotions on the stage, the audience is no longer hesitant to accumulate more or less culture, and everyone can get cultural nourishment in instant reading.
As the producers of "To Pushkin" said about "why do such a performance": "I hope to stimulate people's pursuit of a better spiritual life through the expression of classical literary works and classical music." When everyone's deep yearning for love, beauty, goodness, and freedom is aroused again, what gushes out becomes poetry and music. “
Source: Thoughtful