China News Service, Chongqing, May 24 (Reporter Zhong Yi) On the evening of the 23rd, in the Chongqing Grand Theater located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, sometimes majestic and sometimes soft music poured out.
This is the first show of the Chongqing Festival Symphony Orchestra.
After three days of rehearsal in the early stage, in this large-scale symphony concert, nearly a hundred famous singers and professional musicians from all over the country became "dream weavers", working together to create a new and contemporary festival orchestra. He appeared in Chongqing and explained the charm of "gathering is a fire, scattered with gypsophila".
The picture shows the scene of the first large-scale symphony concert of the Chongqing Festival Symphony Orchestra.
Photo by He Penglei
Festival Orchestra is a form of band organization and management that has become popular in recent years. As the name suggests, it is an orchestra set up for specific music festivals.
The world-renowned festival orchestras include the Swiss Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, and the Hungary Budapest Festival Orchestra. Their common characteristics are "one group, one group", "season bird format" (not "permanent"), but no One exception is the world's top level.
From the point of view of the operating model, the festival orchestra can gather talents from all over the world, and "call what is called, come and go", which is a typical asset-light operation model of "borrowing a boat to go to sea".
The first large-scale symphony concert of the Chongqing Festival Symphony Orchestra is headed by the international music master Peter Ritzen as the music director. He Shucong, a powerful violinist from the “post-90s” in China, is invited as the principal of the orchestra.
In addition, American soprano soprano Juliet Petrus and the Chinese Philharmonic Quartet were also invited to help out, making a pioneering attempt at the exchange and integration of Eastern and Western music and culture.
The concert opened with Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor-Destiny", successively presenting world famous pieces such as "The First Movement of String Quartet No. 96 in F Major", "Carmen Suite 1", "The Blue Danube"; There are a perfect combination of Chinese music classics, such as the string quartet "Deep Friendship", "Shandan Pill Blossoming Red and Beautiful", "The Great Wall Ballad", "I Love You, China" and so on.
The picture shows the scene of the first large-scale symphony concert of the Chongqing Festival Symphony Orchestra.
Photo by He Penglei
It is worth mentioning that the large-scale symphonic poem "Chinese Caprice-MY BELOVED MOTHERLAND" specially created for Chongqing by Peter Liz and based on the materials of Chinese Bayu folk songs ushered in the world premiere.
The vocal part of the symphony poem was written by the famous lyricist Liang Mang, sung by the tenor Fan Jingma, and the chorus part was performed by the Chorus of Chongqing Normal University.
When talking about the original intention of the orchestra’s establishment, the relevant person in charge of the Chongqing Festival Symphony Orchestra stated that Chongqing has a diverse national culture, long and rich human resources, and beautiful nature... For a city with both humanistic temperament and modern charm, the festival’s The emergence will continue to improve the urban cultural taste and promote the high-quality development of the city by connecting the artistic elements with the urban temperament.