Summary: Today, the 2021-2022 music season of the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra will usher in a blockbuster performance, and the famous conductor Liu Sha will perform the "Shostakovich Famous Works Symphony Concert" at the Tianjin Concert Hall. As an active "amphibious conductor" today, Liu Sha has delivered impressive answers in both Western music and Chinese folk music in recent years.
Tianjin North Network News: Today, the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra 2021-2022 music season will usher in a blockbuster performance, the famous conductor Liu Sha conducted the Tianjiao, in the Tianjin Concert Hall to perform the "Shostakovich Famous Works Symphony Concert". As an active "amphibious conductor" today, Liu Sha has delivered impressive answers in both Western music and Chinese folk music in recent years. Yesterday, Liu Sha accepted an exclusive interview with this reporter in the Tianjiao Rehearsal Hall, freely talking about his unique and profound understanding of Chinese and Western music.
Each time the orchestra is conducted, there is a new repertoire
Liu Sha is currently the principal conductor of the Orchestra of the Central Chinese Orchestra, but he has always insisted on exploring Western music. In 2018, he conducted Shostakovich's Twelfth Symphony, "1917" in Tianjin, and this time he will direct Shostakovich's "Oxfly Suite", "Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor" and "Symphony No. 9 in E major". Liu Sha told reporters that he hopes that every time he cooperates with the orchestra, he can have a new repertoire, tianjiao has successfully performed a number of German and Austrian classics in recent years, and the orchestra is very powerful, so this time it specially chose "Symphony No. 9 in E major" and other difficult repertoire. Liu Sha said that the Tianjin audience is very enthusiastic about the artists and he is looking forward to meeting the Tianjin audience again.
National orchestral music needs new works by newcomers
After years of development, Chinese national orchestra has made great progress, but compared with the highly mature Western symphony, there is still a lot of room for growth in both orchestration and musical literature. Many folk music conductors have studied Western music conducting, and they have applied the mature system of Western music to Chinese national orchestral music, and Liu Sha is one of them. In Liu Sha's view, for folk music conductors, it is necessary to learn Western music conducting, because Western music conductors have experienced hundreds of years of development and formed a basic unified command standard, with this foundation to understand China's musical instruments, musical scores, instrumentation methods, conductors can have more room to play.
Liu Sha mentioned that the urgent problem to be solved in the development of national orchestra is the shortage of young composers and works. He believes that the creation of ethnic orchestras is not a simple transplant of Western symphony, such as replacing the first violin with Gao Hu and replacing the second violin with Erhu, and it is not appropriate to apply Chinese national music to the standards of Western music. After communicating with many young composers, Liu Sha found that they had the idea of creating national orchestral music, but it was difficult to achieve the performance of the orchestra, so Liu Sha demonstrated for them and analyzed how successful national orchestral works were instrumented, and how shocking the sound of properly orchestrated national orchestral music was. Under his efforts, many young composers began to think about creation from the perspective of national music, and then launched a number of works, among which excellent works often appeared in concerts led by Liu Sha.
Pursue only one thing in your life
As a conductor who combines Chinese and Western music, Liu Sha is busier than most of his peers, and so far he has conducted 52 orchestras. Liu Sha said frankly: "I have no other hobbies besides music. When you focus on only one thing, you don't want to learn anything else. From childhood to adulthood, I have all learned music and made music, and music has entered from the beginning of my life trajectory, and it is also the original intention that I have never forgotten in my life. Liu Sha said that when his idol, the late conductor Maris Janss, left the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam in his later years, he said that he finally had time to see the world, because his lifelong travel was all for the conducting career, although he had been to many places, but he had never seen the scenery outside the concert hall. Yang Songsi only makes music in his life is the life that Liu Sha "yearns for", he said: "Although sometimes I feel lonely and boring, it is very happy to do only one thing in my life. ”
【Source: North Network】
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