China News Service, Guangzhou, September 30th (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The 2nd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Art Festival came to an end on the 30th.
In the past month, under the theme of "Singing the Great Bay Area, Contributing to a New Era", Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau have integrated high-quality cultural and artistic resources through "city linkage", and used unique cultural and artistic activities for the Greater Bay Area. Residents presented a "literary feast".
According to reports, next, with the efforts of literary and art workers in the Greater Bay Area, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will launch more exchange programs such as joint creations, performances and exhibitions, and talent training, showing the thriving new atmosphere of the Humanities Bay Area.
Online and offline ensemble "Voice of the Greater Bay Area"
In the month-long 2nd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Art Festival, there were many wonderful performances.
At the opening ceremony, musicians from the "China Music Association Symphony Orchestra Alliance - Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Festival Orchestra" performed the magnificent symphonic poem "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which made many audiences still remember it.
Photo by Cheng Jingwei at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Arts and Crafts Expo
"The whole symphony concert conveys a strong Chinese cultural charm, born out of famous paintings through the ages, and has the charm of the times, bringing us an unforgettable audio-visual feast." The audience Miss Liu praised.
The symphony and the national music rhythm blend and stir, showing the majestic momentum of the famous Chinese painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and it has also become a vivid illustration of the "concentric circles" drawn by the literary and art circles in the Bay Area.
In the performance team of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", Jia Lei, a sheng player from the Macao Chinese Orchestra, Zhang Yueru, a erhu player, and Yang Weijie, a flute player from the School of Music of South China Normal University, are veritable Bay Area artists.
Talking about the new development of Hong Kong and Macao folk music in recent years, Yang Weijie has a lot of feelings.
He introduced that in recent years, he has also established the "Cantonese Music Assembly" together with gaohu performer Yu Lefu and many other young folk music players in the Bay Area.
Cantonese Opera, known as "Red Beans in the South", is the most representative artistic work with the same cultural roots in the Greater Bay Area.
From September 5th to 6th, the Cantonese Opera performance of "Hundred Flowers Competing to Shine in the Pear Garden" attracted many fans of Hong Kong opera. More than 40 Cantonese opera stars and young actors gathered at the Ko Shan Theatre in Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
As the first show of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Stage Art Tour", the large-scale Teochew opera "Shufang Ting" with the theme of overseas Chinese created and arranged by the Guangdong Teochew Opera Troupe also appeared at the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Art Center during the festival.
Huang Yixuan, director of Guangdong Chaozhou Opera House, said that Teochew opera has a broad cultural identity and a solid mass base in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Over the years, the epidemic has not interrupted the exchanges between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Teochew opera circles.
Entering the era of convergent media, cloud communication brings infinite possibilities for cultural exchanges in the Bay Area.
From September 10th to 18th, the 3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Music Season launched 9 high-level concerts online, attracting 714,000 viewers.
In the music season, the exciting "Voice of the Greater Bay Area" in the new era will be played with wonderful "air music feasts".
The emergence of high-quality products, weaving the ties of literary and artistic exchanges
This year's Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival has also become a stage for newcomers and new works to debut.
On the evening of September 9th, "Traveling to Lingnan - Special Gala for New and Innovative Small Works in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" was staged at the Guangdong Art Theatre.
The nine major art troupes and colleges in the Greater Bay Area have staged new small-scale stage works in recent years, showing the mellow cultural features of Lingnan through a series of music, dance, opera, and acrobatics with a deep background and warmth.
This year's newly created contemporary dance "Bay" by Guangdong Song and Dance Theatre showcases the continuous and positive spirit of the Bay Area in the form of group dance and vivid and graceful dance poses.
The Cantonese song "Every Spring" sung by Zeng Xiaomin, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, combines the ancient rhyme of Cantonese opera songs into a beautiful melody.
"Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have their own beauty and beauty in stage art creation. Relying on the profound Lingnan regional culture, Guangdong has more resources and talent advantages to tap excellent traditional culture, and the creation of Hong Kong and Macao regions has a more international perspective." In the Guangdong Song and Dance Theatre Academy Chang Xiong Jian said.
The 3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Music Season held online this year highlights the launch of original works.
The opera "Xinghai Xinghai" originally created by Xinghai Conservatory of Music and the folk orchestral suite "Love in the Great Bay" have respectively become the program in charge of the opening and closing ceremonies of the music season.
Teachers and students from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Macau Polytechnic University also brought wonderful performances through the online broadcast.
Cai Qiaozhong, deputy secretary of the party committee and dean of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music, said that the plan to establish the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Symphony Orchestra" was also put on the agenda during the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Art Festival: "With the Bay Area With more and more in-depth exchanges, we will realize the sharing of teachers and courses, and realize all-round cooperation in talent training, joint creation, art exhibition and cultural industry."
The cultural and artistic activities launched by cities in the Pearl River Delta are also splendid.
For example, on September 29, the exhibition "Understanding Guangzhou - The First National Illustration Support Program" was staged at the Highland Cultural Space of Guangzhou Book Center; There are 83 works on display.
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