Online concert blows the national style
Our reporter Wu Bingze
"It's so nice!" "I was intoxicated by the strong ethnic style across the screen" "This concert is awesome"...Looking at the "thumbs" on the Internet, Vice President of Guizhou Lantern Theater, Guizhou Province A stone hanging in the heart of Long Guohong, the deputy head of the National Orchestra and chief conductor, finally fell. "Unexpectedly, the evaluation of netizens would be so good. This has strengthened our confidence in running the "Cloud" concert."
According to tradition, the Guizhou Provincial National Orchestra will hold a Chinese New Year National Concert as the first performance of the year before the arrival of the Lunar New Year.
This year, due to the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the audience could not be organized to watch the performance in the theater. After several considerations, it was finally decided to move the performance to the "cloud".
Recently, the "Dashan Festival-2021 Guizhou New Year Folk Concert" jointly produced by the Guizhou Provincial Ethnic Orchestra and the Guizhou Provincial Lantern Theatre was "cloud premiere" at the Guiyang Grand Theater. This is also the group's first online live concert.
According to the creators of the concert, "Dashan Festival" highlights the regional and national colors of Guizhou. "We hope to reflect the beautiful life through the festive atmosphere, highlight the richness of the Chinese national music through regional folk music, and satisfy the people through folk music. The masses' demand for diversified music and art".
The performance of the day kicked off in the song "Drum·Spring Thunder", and the majestic drumbeat sounded the joyous sound of the "Year of the Ox".
Subsequently, it absorbed the musical elements of Guizhou resident minorities such as the Dong, Buyi, Miao, Yi, Shui, etc., and creatively arranged the ethnic orchestra "Take the "Tian Eye" Home", "Secret Drum Tibetan", and "Mao". Appeared to present a feast of Chinese New Year folk music unique to Guizhou.
"We have tried to broadcast the excellent plays of the troupe online before, but they are all recorded and broadcast. This New Year concert is the first attempt to'cloud live'." Long Guohong said that the new presentation has brought a lot of new performance to the performance. Challenge, "We have put forward higher requirements for our performance level and must be done in one go."
However, the final result surprised Long Guohong. The actors performed the repertoire at a high level and nearly 600,000 people watched the performance online that day.
The success of the first "Cloud" performance strengthened the Guizhou Provincial Ethnic Orchestra's confidence in hosting the "Cloud" concert.
Long Guohong told reporters that through live webcast, the spread of Guizhou's national culture has become wider, providing a new window for more audiences to understand Guizhou.
Shao Zhiqing, chairman of the Guizhou Lantern Theater and director of the Guizhou Ethnic Orchestra, said that the institute and the troupe will continue to explore more fashionable and innovative forms of art performances to show the audience more of Guizhou’s rich and colorful national art and make Guizhou colorful Popular all over the world.
Our reporter Wu Bingze