China News Service, Beijing, April 9 (Reporter Gao Kai) The first National Music Spring of the National Centre for the Performing Arts opened on the evening of the 8th. This is the first national music-themed special planning art festival launched by the National Centre for the Performing Arts. The opening of the evening specially planned music At the meeting, famous conductors Li Xincao and Lv Jia presented their first folk music “cross-border” performances.
The concert that night was officially opened in “Yan Miao” conducted by Lu Jia. “Clouds and mountains are heavy and the road back is far away, and the wind is thousands of miles away from Yang Chensha.” “Yanmiao in Yunshan” was developed, varied and reconstructed around the theme of the Chaozhou zheng piece “Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia”. Under the command of Lu Jia, the music The voices sing in unison, reproducing the legacy of the Han and Tang Dynasties and the magnificent and atmospheric beauty of Chaozhou music.
Lv Jia, who was conducting a folk music work for the first time, couldn’t hide his excitement. In an interview, he said, “This is my first time conducting a folk orchestra. I am both apprehensive and delighted. It is a new challenge and joy to work with folk musicians, especially. It is to interpret the colors, lines and rhythms of folk music works. It is a very fulfilling thing. Although I have never conducted a folk orchestra before, I have always been very concerned about the development of folk music and how to further develop and expand our nation. Treasures, this is a very important and urgent issue before everyone. The Spring of Chinese Music held by the National Centre for the Performing Arts is a particularly good art brand and a very good start.”
The “Yinzhen Beauty” in the opening concert is a folk music work by conductor Liu Sha’s invitation to composer Luo Maishuo, inspired by Emperor Yongzheng’s “Twelve Beauties (Concubines)”. The composer subtly divides the twelve pictures into four movements, and uses the synaesthesia of painting and music to string all the painting scenes into a whole with flowing rhythm. Under the command of Liu Sha’s swaying and flowing water, pictures of beauties in the Qing Dynasty turned into musical notes and appeared in front of them.
Conductor Liu Sha is the permanent conductor of the Central Chinese Orchestra. As for leading the “personal soldiers” to open the curtain of the Spring of Chinese Music, he said, “China’s Chinese National Orchestra has been developing for 100 years, especially in the past 20 years. Very fast. In terms of musical instrument production technology, the level of contemporary performers and orchestras, and the requirements for creation of works have improved rapidly. However, there has never been a platform for mutual exchanges and discussions. This Spring of Chinese Music has provided us with a great opportunity. A good platform is of great significance to the development and popularization of Chinese folk music.”
The conductor Li Xincao, who was also conducting folk music for the first time, brought the folk orchestral music “National Style” and “Silk Road” to the audience in the second half of the concert. The new work “Guo Feng” specially commissioned by the Central Chinese Orchestra is based on the theme of the traditional “Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms” and develops variations. Under the command of Li Xincao, the orchestra’s timbre is rich and varied, and the layers are progressive and well-proportioned. , the spirit of the nation is vividly interpreted.
Speaking of conducting folk music for the first time, Li Xincao said, “I have little experience in large-scale folk orchestral music. This is my first time conducting a complete large-scale folk orchestral piece in Beijing. Before that, I did a lot of anticipation and preparation. Fang music is still the same. My requirements for syntax and musical character in the command of Western music are also applicable to Chinese folk music. I believe that the Spring of Chinese Music at the National Centre for the Performing Arts will definitely have a great response, and it will definitely be more and more popular in the future. more and more abundant.”
The Spring of Chinese Music is the first specially planned art festival on the theme of national music launched by the National Centre for the Performing Arts. It echoes the “Spring of Chinese Symphony” of the National Centre for the Performing Arts and forms a rich array of music-themed art festivals at the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
The theme of this year’s Spring of Chinese Music is “National Style and Elegance”. During the 21-day period, a number of Chinese orchestras will be invited to play colorful Chinese music with different styles on the land of the motherland. More than 30 famous contemporary Chinese music masters gathered together to show the artistic inheritance and development of the times by integrating traditional and modern interpretations.
On April 16, the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra will bring many famous soloists to perform a number of well-known Chinese music classics premiered by the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra. On April 20, the day of Grain Rain, the Beijing Chinese Orchestra will use music to sow the hope of spring and nourish the earth and heart.
On April 21, the Chinese Orchestra of the Chinese Music School of the China Conservatory of Music gave a concert. The chimes and the organ played together on the same stage, presenting the diversified innovation of Chinese music in the form of artistic performance. On April 26, the Chinese Chamber Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music will use silk and bamboo to outline the scenery of spring, and start a journey of new folk music with light ink freehand and splashed ink. (Finish)Return to Sohu, see more