Nandu News Reporter Huang Lu Correspondent Su Haochen In recent years, the prevalence of the "national tide" style, the collision and integration of traditional essence and contemporary trend, burst out more unprecedented wonderful, but also received more and more people's attention. On October 12, 2021, on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of its establishment, Shenzhen Concert Hall released a new music brand "Shenzhen Concert Hall • Chinese Music Tide" Music Festival, which inherits and innovates traditional culture with a number of unique ethnic cross-border concerts and a series of "Youyisi" peripheral activities, bringing a new Chinese music appreciation experience to the audience. It is reported that the "Chinese Music Tide" music festival will last throughout the golden autumn october, the first concert will be by the Guangling Qin sect descendant Chen Leiji and the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra players, showing the beauty of the intersection of China and the West; Singapore's emerging conductor Hong Yiquan led the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra from the "Kingdom of Heaven" to perform the finale, bringing the unique Bashu style of "hot pot" and "panda" elements to the stage.
Quartet of Guqin and Strings: Guangling School Meets Western Classical Chamber Music
The guqin, as an ancient plucked instrument of traditional Chinese tradition, has a history of more than 3,000 years. In 2008, at the opening ceremony of the world-renowned Beijing Olympic Games, Chen Leiji's performance of "Taikoo Relics" allowed the world to listen to China's oldest musical instrument, the guqin. This guangling qin school descendant from a Shanghai musical family was evaluated by Mr. Gong Yi, a guqin player and educator, as "a rare (performer) in the guqin world". During his study in France to study conducting, he conducted systematic and in-depth study of Western classical music. He has repeatedly tried to cross the guqin with Western classical chamber music, and has been constantly thinking about the improvement of Chinese classical music. On October 15, he will join hands with the performers of the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra to bring the audience works that integrate the beauty of Eastern and Western rhythms, including the classic works of guqin "Flowing Water", "Pingsha Falling Goose" and "Long Xiang Cao", as well as cross-border adaptations of Guqin and Western string music, "Erquan Yingyue", "Persuade the Jun to Drink a Glass of Wine", "Qingyun Music", "Tribute to Beethoven", etc., to stage a "string dialogue" between the East and the West. In addition, on the day of the Chongyang Festival on October 14, Chen Leiji will also meet with the Shenzhen audience in the series of activities around the "Youyisi" of the music festival to talk about his music story with Guqin.
Liping County Dong Dage Art Troupe
The "World Intangible Cultural Heritage" Dong nationality song of the Spring Festival Gala on the fourth day of the Spring Festival Gala is an ancient echo that has been passed down for thousands of years
"There is no word and a thousand years of rhyme, and there are songs to vibrate the national voice." Dong Dage is a multi-voice, unconducting, a cappella, natural chorus form, which has a complete multi-voice structure and is the most perfect folk chorus found in China. This musical art originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, has a long history, known as "the world's oldest Acapella", the "living fossil" of choral art, has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage list, has been evaluated as "the voice of a nation, a human culture". On October 23, the Liping Dong Nationality Song Art Troupe from Guizhou Province, the birthplace of Dong culture and the "hometown of Chinese folk culture and art", will take the stage of Shenzhen Concert Hall to perform the "Echo of a Thousand Years". Founded in 1972, the art troupe has spread the song of the Dong nationality all over the world in the past 50 years, leaving a distinctive "national voice" around the world. He has appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala four times, won the gold medal of the World Choir Competition, the silver award and the best popularity award of the original ecological singing method at the 12th CCTV Young Singers Grand Prix, and the gold medal of the Chinese Folk Song Chorus Festival Competition. The performance also invited Zhao Yi, a young tenor singer in Italy, and Li Hongmei, a national first-class actor and lyrical soprano of the China Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, to sing "Passing on the Heavens". In addition, the art troupe will also bring "Dong Music Song Workshop - Dong Instrumental Music Workshop" and "Intangible Cultural Heritage - Dong Great Song Music Market", showing the audience traditional musical instruments with national characteristics such as ox leg organs and Dong pipas, as well as the on-site production of traditional crafts such as Dong costumes and embroidery, as well as the interpretation of wooden leaf songs and flute songs, so that the audience can have a more comprehensive understanding of the traditional culture of the Dong people.
After 00, the new "qin" huai was described in the ancient rhyme Ruan Le
On October 29th, an antique Nguyen Le concert will be staged. Xue Miao, the inheritor of the new generation of "post-00s" Ruan Music, joined hands with the well-known Ruan musician Xu Yang, and the contemporary young pianist Qian Weixiang and the Chinese young percussionist Li Shang assisted in performing Ruan Le works such as "Zhongnan Ancient Rhyme", "Blooming", "Freedom", "Jingwei Reclamation", "Yunnan Memories" and so on. Xue Miao, the inheritor of the new generation of Ruan Music and a young Ruan player of the "post-00s", although he is young, has won the finals of the Chinese Instrumental Music Television Competition, and is currently the youngest Ruan player in China to cooperate with professional orchestras. He has cooperated with many well-known conductors including Tang Muhai, Zheng Xiaoying, Xia Xiaotang and so on, and has been well received. So far, he has held eight solo concerts and published five CD and DVD albums, and this year will tour his solo recitals nationwide. The other "protagonist" of this concert is Xue Miao's teacher Xu Yang, who is now a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music and the first full-time teacher of the Central Conservatory of Music. The repertoire of this concert will also include a number of modern and contemporary works, coupled with Xue Miao's youthful interpretation, so that the millennium instruments can reproduce the modern vitality.
Sichuan Symphony Orchestra
The Sichuan Symphony plays a unique Shu rhyme
On October 30th, the troupe from the "Kingdom of Heaven" will join the Shenzhen Concert Hall "Chinese Music Tide" Music Festival. The orchestra is composed of young outstanding performers graduated from internationally renowned art schools such as the Juilliard School of Music, the Curtis School of Music, the Harvard University Conservatory of Music, and the Vienna State University of Music and Performing Arts. The orchestra attaches great importance to the creation of works, and the original symphonic suite "Shangshan Shushui" and the original large-scale symphonic suite "Red Monument" were selected as the national arts funded projects in 2016 and 2018 respectively.
The conductor of the concert was the world-renowned Singaporean conductor Hung Yi Quan, who is the leader of a new generation of young conductors. The performance also invited mo mo, a cellist with "quite a master's style", and Zhang Rose, a young soprano singer in the United States who is also from Chengdu, Sichuan, to perform "Hot Pot Symphony", "Zhuang Zhoumeng", "Ode to the Sun" and Mahler's "Symphony No. 4 in G major".
It is worth mentioning that the three Chinese works in the first half have their own characteristics: "Hotpot Symphony" is a work created by Wang Delong, a young composer after the 90s, specially commissioned by the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, he believes that for Sichuan people, hotpot is not only a "spicy and joyful" mood, but also the taste of home, so in the work will present the "taste of hot pot" with two different expressions of passion and lyricism, and also hope that through such works with affinity and regional characteristics, more young people can be attracted to the symphony; cello concerto "Cello Concerto" "Zhuang Zhou Meng" is a work born from the ancient Zhuangzi philosophical thought, Zhao Jiping is good at using Chinese music to tell Chinese stories, this work is no exception, full of thinking, with distinctive cultural imprints; and "Ode to the Sun" is a symphony developed from folk materials in Bayu region, showing the bashu style with four movements of "stepping on the river", "picking mountains", "missing the sun" and "Ode to the Sun".
In addition to the above highly anticipated performances and experiential events, the festival also has a specially customized limited edition souvenir.
Attached: "Shenzhen Concert Hall , Chinese Music Tide" music festival schedule
Song of the Qin - Chen Leiji and the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra Guqin and Chamber Music Concert
Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall Concert Hall
Echoes of the Millennium - Dong Folk Song Concert
Hua Yang Qin Huai - Zhong Nguyen Concert
Bashu style Hot pot symphony - Sichuan Symphony Orchestra concert
My motherland - Shuofeng National Chamber Orchestra Concert
"Youyisi" series of peripheral activities
Master Meeting • Taikoo Legacy - Chen Leiji Meeting
Venue: Small Theater on the 5th floor of Shenzhen Concert Hall
Workshop • Dong Le Song Workshop
Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall Small Theater
Music Market • Intangible Cultural Heritage
Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall Art Space
Wonderful Preview • Sichuan Symphony Orchestra Public Rehearsal