On March 19th, “Opening the Door of Music” Face to Face with Famous Violinists – Huang Bin’s special concert was held in Beijing Concert Hall, inviting “Grand Slam players” in the music industry and famous violinist Huang Bin to present to the majority of music fans. A high-quality concert also played the prologue of “Opening the Door of Music” in 2022.
Speaking of Huang Bin, she is not only the director of the Orchestra Department of the China Conservatory of Music, but also an outstanding female musician in today’s international music scene. She has won first prizes in three major international competitions: the Wieniawski Youth International Violin Competition in Poland, the Paganini International Violin Competition in Italy, and the ARD Munich International Music Competition. She is a well-deserved “Grand Slam Violinist” .
Another important “star” of this concert is the violin “General Du Pont Grumio” played by Huang Bin. This pinnacle masterpiece produced in 1727 by Antonio Stradivari, the master of Italian violin making, is known as “the supreme summary of the master’s life of violin making”. On December 11, 2014, with the completion of the signing ceremony of the sale of the Rare violins of New York, the Yu Art Foundation officially became the collector of this famous violin, which is also the first one owned by mainland China. Put Stradivari’s top violin. Mr. Yu Heng, chairman of the Yu Foundation, mentioned his collection experience, “The original intention of collecting this famous violin is to hope that every outstanding Chinese performer will have the opportunity to play the Stradivarius violin. In the future There will be more and more Chinese young people shining brightly in the international competition of 2019, adding a dazzling touch to China’s music industry. I also hope that one day I can sit in the best theater in China and listen to this ‘Du General Pang Grumio’.” This coincides with Beijing Concert Hall’s philosophy of always insisting on high-quality music content. This concert was sponsored by the Yu Art Foundation, which made it possible for the audience to “feast their ears”.
Regarding the amazing texture of “General Du Pont Grumio” in this concert, Huang Bin said with emotion: “Sometimes a good piano is like a sword. It makes the performance more natural and free to do whatever you want.”
As the premiere of the “Opening the Doors of Music” series in 2022, this concert has made great efforts in the selection of performances. For the vast majority of children who are ready to “test the water” of classical music, violin and piano are the most intimate and familiar musical instruments. In order to better “lead the audience to get started” and popularize and promote classical music, this session Although the concert invited famous violins, they did not suffer from the dazzling and difficult dazzling skills of the music, but chose a lot of “down-to-earth” classics, including Chrysler’s “Prelude and Allegro”, which was arranged by Chrysler, which highlights the classical and lively atmosphere. Mozart’s Rondo in G major; Saint-Saëns’s “Introduction and Rondo Capriccio”, Ravel’s “Zgan”, which show violin playing skills; Song of Tchaikovsky and Tchaikovsky’s No. 42 “Memories of a Dear Place”… Huang Bin’s proficient skills, the tacit cooperation with “old partner” pianist Zhang Fang, and the concert hall’s old friend Zhang Yuwen Such an ingenious concert not only makes “senior fans feel shallow after listening to it”, but also “doesn’t feel deep after listening to it for the first time”.
At the performance site of “Opening the Door of Music” at the Beijing Concert Hall, famous artists, famous pianos, and famous songs gathered together, and the audience can enjoy the sound of the sounds of nature played by Huang Bin with this high-priced famous piano for a minimum cost of 99 yuan. It’s a rare opportunity.
“Open the Doors of Music” is back with a new upgrade
“Opening the Door to Music” is an old brand established by Beijing Concert Hall in 1994, and it is also the “childhood memory” of generations of music lovers in the capital. At the beginning of its establishment, it was only held in the summer vacation, in order to cooperate with primary and secondary school students’ holiday time and create opportunities for everyone to enter the concert hall together. It is everyone’s “off-campus art class”.
Now, the steps that have been suspended for three years have started again. In 2022, the “Opening the Doors of Music” series, with the expectations of many music lovers, will be upgraded and come back with a big hit. Zhang Lin, general manager of Beijing Concert Hall, introduced that the upgraded “Opening the Door to Music” has several characteristics: In terms of performance time, it breaks through the time limit of summer vacation and runs through the music season throughout the year to provide more performances for the audience. Choice and convenience make “Opening the Door of Music” always accompanied by the audience; in terms of the performance theme, it breaks through the performance theme limitation of “made only for children”, but covers “children”, “classical guide listening” and “cross-border”. ” and other diversified stage contents, entertaining and entertaining, and explain the profound things in a simple way, so that classical music is no longer unattainable; in terms of performance concept, it breaks through the limitation of audiences only for students in the capital, and creatively proposes the concept of “National Aesthetic Education”. The concept opens a door to the world of music for more lovers and learners, aiming to pursue the popular education of music in the whole society.
Professional performance venues show the beauty of modern architectural acoustics
Founded in the 1980s, the Beijing Concert Hall was rebuilt under the auspices of the older generation of famous conductors Li Delun and Yan Liangkun. It is the first professional concert hall in my country.
As a representative professional performance venue in the field of international classical music, Beijing Concert Hall has good frequency characteristics, moderate reverberation time and uniform sound field distribution. The large-scale pipe organ in the back area of the stage is the first large-scale pipe organ introduced in my country. It has 4,859 sound pipes. It has been more than 30 years and still retains good sound quality and sound effects. Since the completion of the Beijing Concert Hall, Menuhin, Stern, Seiji Ozawa, Yo-Yo Ma, Skoda, Domingo, Cabaye, Mesky, Lang Lang, Liu Shikun, Yin Chengzong, Fu Cong, Lu Siqing, Essen Artists such as Bach have left a glorious page here.
Today, Beijing Concert Hall takes “music into life” as its core value concept, and based on five development visions, “Strive to become an important member of the world concert hall family, strive to become a national first-class music hall, and strive to become the largest platform for Chinese and foreign youth art exchanges. , and strive to become a practice base for art education in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and an experimental field for the consumption of classical music and chamber music culture.” Realize the double harvest of economic and social benefits.
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