2024.12.19 Large-scale Ethnic Orchestral Music “Two Cities of Tang Poetry and Song Lyrics” Xi'an Station
Time: 2024.12.19 Thursday 20:00
Venue: Xi'an | Xi'an - One Belt One Road Culture and Art Center - Concert Hall
Composed by renowned composer Liu Hao/conducted by national-level conductor Chen Jenxuan
Ministry of Culture and Tourism 2024-2025 “Symphony of the Times” Creation Support Program Supported Works
Shaanxi Provincial Radio and Television Folk Orchestra & Shaanxi Folk Orchestra & Zheyan-Zhejiang Folk Orchestra
Two Cities of Tang Poetry and Song Lyrics” is a large-scale national orchestral piece that interprets the cultural heritage behind the Tang poems and Song lyrics by taking the prosperity of Chang'an and the softness of Hangzhou as a guide. The eight movements, like a historical scroll, recreate the actual scenes, feelings and sensations of those years. From the exciting “First Encounter - Dreaming of Chang'an”, “Getting to Know Each Other - Embroidered Chang'an”, “Flowering - Glazed Years”, “Farewell - Memories of Chang'an”, to the smoky and rainy “Walking in the City - Song City Wells”, “Watching the Tide - Watching the Qiantang River”, “Enjoying the Lake - Dreaming of Drunken Xizi”, “A Thousand Years”, and “A Thousand Years”. -Dreaming of Drunken Xizi”, ‘The Road of a Thousand Years’, each chapter is a heartfelt tribute to the ancient literati and artists. Folk music, the language of internationalization, will be played in this performance, leading to the heirloom music of the Tang and Song dynasties.
Large-scale Folk Orchestra Work Two Cities of Tang Poetry and Song Lyrics
The 1st Movement: First Encounter - Dreaming of Chang'an
Percussion and Folk Orchestra
Chang'an Avenue is narrow and slanting, with green oxen and white horses and seven fragrant carriages.
--Lu Zhaolin's Ancient Ideas of Chang'an
The 2nd Movement: Getting Acquainted - The Embroidered Chang'an
Pipa and Folk Orchestra
The big strings are as noisy as the rain, the small strings are as cutting as whispers.
The big strings are noisy like the rain, and the small strings are like whispering.
--Pipa Xing by Bai Juyi
The spring breeze is so smooth that the horse's hooves are fast, and the flowers of Chang'an are all seen in one day.
--Meng Jiao, “After the Enrollment
The 3rd Movement: Flowers and Glazed Years
National Orchestra
The clouds want to dress up and the flowers want to look beautiful, the spring breeze brushes the threshold and the dew is thick.
--Li Bai, “The Song of Qing Ping - One of the Songs
Listening to Hu Jia breaking the willow at night reminds me of Chang'an.
--Wang Han's “Words of Liangzhou
A piece of moon in Chang'an, the sound of pounding clothes in ten thousand houses.
--Li Bai's “Song of Wu at Night” (子夜吴歌)
The 4th Movement: Farewell - Looking Back to Chang'an
Bamboo flute, xiao and orchestra
Autumn winds are blowing in the Weishui River, and fallen leaves are filling Chang'an.
--Jia Dao, “Remembering Wu on the River” (賈岛)
The 5th Movement Walking the City - Song City Wells
Guzheng and Folk Orchestra
The West Lake is a world scenic spot, where the sunrise and the sunset, the rain and the sunshine, are always suitable for the four seasons. Hangzhou people also have no time not to travel, and spring travel is especially prevalent. Chengping
When Chengping, the first boat such as the big green, between green, ten kinds of brocade, hundred flowers, Bao Sheng, Mingyu and so on, why wing more than a hundred. The next are countless
All of them were gorgeous and elegant, and all of them competed with each other.
--Zhou Mi: The Old Story of Wulin
The 6th Movement Tide-Gazing at the Qiantang River
National Orchestra
The white rainbow walks along the roaming sands, and the jade cup is empty when the yao tai is lost. On sunny days, it shakes the bottom of the clear river, and on evenings, it floats and sinks amidst the rapid waves.
--Chen Shidao, “Watching the Tide on the 17th Day”.
In the past, when I was drunk and raised my sail, the sun was half full in front of the hidden mountain.
The river was full of light, and the daffodils were all wearing light red shirts.
--Li Metie, “Memories of the Qiantang River” (李觏)
The 7th Movement: Lake Appreciation-Dream of Drunkenness in Xizi
Female Chorus and National Orchestra
The water is glistening and the sun is shining, and the mountains are in a state of wonder.
I would like to compare the West Lake to the Xizi, with light make-up and thick colors.
--Su Shi, “Drinking on the Lake in the Early Sunshine and Later Rain
The 8th Movement The Road to a Thousand Years
National Orchestra
The Han family's celestial horses come out of the bushes, and alfalfa and pomegranate blossoms are all over the countryside.
The inner garden is only known to contain the phoenix's rara avis, and there is no more chicken in the car.
The Jade Peach was stolen from Fang Shuo, and the Golden House was built to store Ajiao.
Who would have thought that Su Qing would return to his country in his old age, and the pines and cypresses of Maoling would be raining.
--Maoling” by Li Shangyin
Introduction
The large-scale national orchestra work “Two Cities of Tang Poetry and Song Lyrics” takes Chang'an and Hangzhou under the Tang Poetry and Song Lyrics as the entry point, and insights into the culture behind the words, and outlines the prosperity of Chang'an and the softness and beauty of Hangzhou in the musical language. Each movement brings back to the audience the actual scenes, feelings and sensations of the authors of the Tang poems and Song lyrics.
The first movement “First Encounter - Dreaming of Chang'an” uses percussion to imitate the sound of horses' hooves to ring the opening chapter, rhythmic and powerful, grand and majestic; the second movement “Acquaintance - Embroidered Chang'an” seems to be immersed in the sound of pipa in the Embroidered Chang'an; the third movement “Flowering - Glazed Years” appreciates all the splendor of the world's fireworks; the fourth movement “Farewell - Memory of Chang'an” remembers the softness and tenderness of the Chang'an, remembers the former people and scenery of the Chang'an and remembers the Chang'an again. The fourth movement “Farewell - Remembering Chang'an” remembers the old people and scenery of Chang'an, remembering Chang'an; the fifth movement “Going to the City - Song City Wells” opens the chapter of Song lyrics, Song lyrics under the West Lake in the smoky rain, bustling, the composer used guzheng to set off the Song Dynasty market bustling, playing the affluence, prosperity of Hangzhou, think of the fear of the wind and rain, only 'a straw raincoat,' and love the words of the Song Dynasty Su Shi, and even love the boldness of Su Shi's feelings, and the love of the Song Dynasty. More love Su Shi's bold sentiments, “do not listen to the sound of beating leaves through the forest, there is no harm in chanting and walking slowly,” the ancient famous line visualized in the orchestra's shocking cooperation, leading us to appreciate its open-mindedness, must be sound; the sixth movement of the “Tide - view the Qiantang River,” through the sound of the light and shadow of the picture and paintings reflecting the tide of the Qiantang River, depicting the beautiful picture of the broad and magnificent; the seventh movement of the “Enjoy the Lake - dreaming of intoxication, the lake is a dream, the lake is a dream. The seventh movement “Lake Appreciation - Dream Drunkenness Xizi” lyricist depicts the woman, with the design of the female chorus can be described as delicate feelings, moist and fragrant; the eighth movement “The Road of a Thousand Years” is rich in color, the composer with a stirring melodic line reverence to the “Silk Road” this great opening to the “One Belt, One Road” brought about by exchanges and exchange of information. The eighth movement “The Road of a Thousand Years” is full of color; the composer's melodic lines are in awe of the great opening of the “Silk Road”, and in awe of the exchanges and achievements of the “One Belt, One Road”, and the extended acoustic ambience is the hope for the future.
Why Tang Poetry? Why Song lyrics? Since ancient times, the literati have left behind countless cultural treasures, using “folk music” as an international musical language to play the never-ending music leading to the Tang and Song.
Artists
Conductor
Chen Jiexuan
Chen Jiexuan is a national-level conductor, with double master degrees in conducting and management, a “1111” stage art talent of Zhejiang Province, and is currently the music director and permanent conductor of Zhejiang Performing Arts-Zhejiang Folk Orchestra.
She is a part-time professor and master's tutor of Shanghai Normal University, guest professor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, music director of the welcome and farewell banquet of the Head of State for the 2023 Asian Games, conductor of the “Yingle Zhiyin” World Chinese Women Conductors, guest conductor of Shanghai Peking Opera Theater, and conductor of the Jiujiang Symphony Orchestra of Jiangxi Province.
Conducting the National Symphony “Between the Wide Mountains and the Sea” won the title of National Outstanding National Orchestra and was selected as one of the “National Art Fund” and “Central Propaganda Department's ‘Symphony of the Times’ support projects; conducting the National Orchestra ‘Two Cities of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty’ was selected as one of the most outstanding performances of the National Orchestra in the world. Two Cities of Tang Poetry and Song Lyrics” was selected as a support project of ‘Symphony of the Times’; the opera ‘The Red Boat’ was awarded the prize of ‘Five Firsts’ by the Central Propaganda Department and selected for the China Opera Festival; the national orchestra ‘Impression of Liangzhu’ was selected for the National Outstanding National Orchestra Exhibition; and ‘Poetry and Painting of Zhejiang’ by Zhejiang National Orchestra. Poetry and Painting of Zhejiang” won the first prize of the orchestra and the excellent conductor prize in the ‘Sound and Dance Festival’ of Zhejiang Province.
Luo Jing
Zither Performer
Luo Jing is a zither player, professor of guzheng at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and doctoral supervisor. Director of Guzheng Society of China Musicians Association, Visiting Professor of Guizhou University, Approver of Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Artistic Director of Luo Jing Guzheng Art Troupe and Hefeng Shaohua Zither Orchestra. She studied under the famous guzheng educator and performer Mr. and Mrs. He Baoquan and Sun Wenyan. She has served in the Shanghai National Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and was the principal of the zheng. During her time in Hong Kong, she hibernated at the Department of Music of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University, the Hong Kong University of Education and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
In 1989, she won the first prize in the Junior Professional Group of the ART Cup International Competition of Chinese Musical Instruments, and has participated in four consecutive performances of the Shanghai Spring Festival since 1993, and won the Music Performance Award. 1995, she won the second prize in the Youth Group of the Oriental Cup National Guzheng Competition organized by the Ministry of Culture, and gave her debut solo recital at Carnegie Hall in the United States of America in 1999. She has visited more than twenty countries and regions, including Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, Taiwan and Macau.
Tang Xiaofeng
Pipa Performer
Tang Xiaofeng is a contemporary Chinese pipa player, associate professor of the Department of Folk Music of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and tutor of master's degree students. She graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Central Conservatory of Music successively, and studied under the famous pipa player educator and doctoral supervisor Prof. Li Jingman and Prof. Zhang Qiang.
In 2011, she won the first silver medal in the pipa competition of China Music Golden Bell Award, and in 2012, she won the gold medal in the first Liaoyuan Cup National Pipa Competition. He is a member of the Innovation Team of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a high-level talent introduced by Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a winner of Shanghai May Fourth Youth Medal, a title of Shanghai Outstanding Literary Artist, a deputy director of Pipa Specialized Committee of Shanghai Musicians' Association, a deputy secretary-general of Pipa Society of China Music Association, and a council member of Chinese Folk Orchestral Music Society.
Chen Hongxuan
Bamboo Flute Performer
Chen Hongxuan is a young bamboo flute player, a teacher of bamboo flute in the Department of Folk Music of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a doctor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a director of the Bamboo Flute Committee of Shanghai Musicians' Association, and a deputy director of the Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She studied with Prof. Tang Junqiao, a famous flute player, educator and doctoral supervisor.
In 2012, she was awarded the Gold Medal in the Fourth National Youth Ethnic Instrument Performance Competition of the Ministry of Culture's “Wenhua Prize” (wind instrument category); in 2014, she was awarded the Gold Medal in the Fifth National Youth Ethnic Instrument Performance Competition of the Ministry of Culture's “Wenhua Prize” for the second consecutive time (bamboo flute solo category). (bamboo flute soloist group); in 2019, she won the overall champion of the CCTV “China Instrumental Music Television Competition” in the professional adult wind instrument group.
Gu Yu
Flute and Xiao player
Gu Yu, deputy secretary-general of the Flute and Xiao Committee of Shaanxi Musicians Association, head of the Shaanxi National Orchestra, young bamboo flute player of Shaanxi Radio and Television National Orchestra, member of Xi'an Shakuhachi Research Association, and member of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, has studied under the famous bamboo flute player, educator, and composer Mr. Madi; and the famous bamboo flute player, conductor, and composer Mr. Zhang Yanwu.
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Shaanxi Radio and Television National Orchestra was founded in 1950 under Shaanxi Provincial Radio and Television Bureau. It is one of the earliest professional national orchestras established since the founding of New China, and has been awarded the title of “Top Ten Outstanding National Orchestras of China” for several times. The famous musician Zhao Jiping is the artistic advisor of the orchestra, and the famous conductor Yan Huichang is the honorary music director of the orchestra.
The orchestra has always been committed to the classical inheritance and diversified innovation of national music, and has created and performed a large number of outstanding musical works. Among them, the national orchestra “Silk Road Chang'an” was selected as a project funded by the National Art Fund; the national orchestra suite “Forever Shandandandan” was selected as a key work of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's “Symphony of the Era--Chinese Symphonic Music Works Creation and Support Program”. The national orchestral suite “Forever Shandandandan” was selected as a key work under the “Symphony of the Times - Chinese Symphonic Music Works Creation and Support Program” of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (only one in the whole country) and a key work under the “Hundred Years of Creative Program”. City of Tang and Song” was selected by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as the ‘Symphony of the Times’ creation support program.
Entering the new century, the orchestra insists on taking the growth path of high-level opening, high-quality development, and international integration, and actively carries out exchanges and cooperation with famous orchestras at home and abroad, and successively represents the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, etc., and disseminates traditional Chinese folk music works all over the country and even overseas, and has performed in more than 30 countries and regions in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Australia. It has contributed to the inheritance and promotion of Chinese traditional culture.2023 In May, the orchestra was invited to participate in the opening ceremony rehearsal of the China-Central Asia Summit, and was awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Shaanxi National Orchestra
Shaanxi National Orchestra was formally transferred to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shaanxi Tourism Group in 2022, and implemented the operation mode of “one set of people, two brands” with Shaanxi Radio and Television National Orchestra, and on March 18th, 2024, Shaanxi National Orchestra's new location was listed on the Xixian Silk Road World of Joy.
Shaanxi National Orchestra now has more than 60 professional musicians, with four major folk music training bases in Xi'an Aerospace, Four Seas, Qujiang and Fengxi. The orchestra has always adhered to the core concept of “inheritance, innovation and communion”, and with the slogan of “Elegant Rhythm of Folk Music and New Voices of the World”, the orchestra creates and performs a series of folk music works with remarkable cultural characteristics, such as “Forever Shandandandan”, “Qin Wind and Opera Rhythm”, “Navigating China”, and “Searching for Dreams of the River and the Lake”. Shaanxi Folk Orchestra
Shaanxi National Orchestra makes full use of the rich tourism resources and platform advantages of Shaanxi Tourism Group, and increases its strategic layout in the development of folk music performances, folk music training, brand building and other aspects. While adhering to the traditional skills, the orchestra actively embraces innovation, continuously broadens the space for creation and interpretation of folk music, and promotes the fusion of folk music with world music. To create a new mode of cross-border integration of “cultural tourism + folk music”, to create a new scene of folk music appreciation, to tell the story of “Three Qin” through folk music, to show the charm of Shaanxi, to further promote the inheritance and development of folk music in Shaanxi, to show the beauty of folk music and culture in Shaanxi, and to create a unique folk music festival with Shaanxi characteristics. To further promote the inheritance and development of Shaanxi folk music, to show the beauty of Shaanxi folk music and culture, and to create a brand of folk music with Shaanxi characteristics.
In the future, Shaanxi Folk Music Orchestra will continue to join hands with colleagues in the industry to jointly promote the development of Shaanxi folk music, using music as a link, connecting the past and the future, the East and the West, letting the folk music sound into the hearts of people, and composing a harmonious movement between human beings, human beings and nature, and human beings and the world.
Zhejiang Folk Orchestra
Zhejiang National Orchestra, subordinate to Zhejiang Performing Arts Group, was founded in 1957, located in the beautiful Xizi Lake, is a large-scale national orchestra enjoying great reputation at home and abroad, with strong local characteristics of Zhejiang, and was awarded the title of National Outstanding National Orchestra in the National Instrumental Music Exhibition in 2023. In recent years, the orchestra has made great efforts to innovate its mechanism, organized various forms of concerts, such as famous artist series, vocal series, festival series and theme series, cooperated with many famous musicians and won high evaluations, and commissioned a number of national orchestral works, which have achieved remarkable results that have attracted attention in the music world.
In 2023, Zhejiang Folk Music Orchestra commissioned the famous composer Wang Danhong's original large-scale national symphony “Between the Broad Water, Mountains and Seas” to win the National Art Fund's 2024 annual subsidy project, and was selected for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's 2022-2023 annual “Era of Symphony” creation support program. 2021 In 2021, Zhejiang National Orchestra took “Liangzhu” as the core theme and national orchestra as the carrier, and invited young composer Wang Yunfei to create original large-scale national orchestra “Impression of Liangzhu”, which was selected for National Instrumental Music Exhibition in 2021. 2020, invited composer Wang Yunfei to create “Poetry and Painting of Zhejiang”, which was awarded “Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China” by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. In 2020, Wang Yunfei's folk orchestral piece “Poetry and Painting of Zhejiang” won the gold medal of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's “Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China's Stage Art Excellence Creation Project”.
All the past is a prelude. In the new era, Zhejiang National Orchestra will always take “socialist literature and art is the people's literature and art” and “adhere to the people-centered creative orientation” as the fundamental purpose, and continue to unforgettable, oar and march on the road paved by the predecessors to start a new journey.