Hong Kong, 3 Mar (ZXS) -- The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra uses "music" as a medium to promote cultural and artistic exchanges between China and foreign countries
Written by Dai Xiaoyu Qian Xiaoyun
In early March, to celebrate the maiden voyage of the Resorts World One cruise ship based in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra boarded the cruise ship and performed a 3G webcast performance. Under the leadership of Yan Huichang, Artistic Director and Life Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the orchestra performed many songs such as "Chasing the Moon with Colorful Clouds", "Men Should Be Self-Improvement" and "The City That Never Sleeps Under the Taiping Mountain".
Yan Huichang said in a recent interview with the China News Agency that this performance not only brings unique Chinese music audio-visual enjoyment to Hong Kong citizens, but also announces to the world that Hong Kong has returned to normal and welcomes tourists from all over the world to return to Hong Kong.
"As a cultural ambassador of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra plays an extremely important role in the process of building Hong Kong into a Sino-foreign cultural and artistic exchange center, carrying forward our traditional culture through such an international metropolis as Hong Kong, and making the art form of Chinese music more expressive." Yan Huichang said that since the establishment of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 1977, it has undertaken the important task of using "music" as a medium to enhance cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.
To this day, Yan Huichang still vividly remembers seeing the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra perform for the first time at the opening ceremony of the first China Arts Festival in Beijing in 1987, when he was also the chief conductor of the Central Chinese Orchestra. He told reporters that compared with the repertoire of mainland orchestras at that time, the works of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra had a wider range of themes and could give full play to the characteristics of the orchestra's art, "For example, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra's 'Father of Hong Kong's New Music' Lam Lepei's "Insect World", these works actually had a great impact on the mainland, and at that time, the relevant performances achieved a strong role in promoting exchanges between the two places. ”
In 2008, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra was invited to give an opening performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, "This is the second time that the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra has been to Beijing for cultural exchange, and at this time I have already served as the artistic director of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. Yan Huichang described the performance as interesting, saying that it was like a pebble thrown into the lake, and although the splash was fleeting, the ripples on the lake would expand round and round. In the future, with the increasing cultural exchanges, the Mainland and Hong Kong have influenced and promoted each other, and have continuously carried out two-way feedback.
In the 2021th Five-Year Plan, the state has given Hong Kong a new position as a hub for cultural and artistic exchanges between China and foreign countries, and the National Arts Fund has also fully opened general project applications to the HKSAR since 2022. The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra's folk orchestra "Canglong Yin" was selected as a "large-scale stage play and work creation project" by the National Arts Fund in <>. Yan Huichang said that he is glad that the country not only attaches importance to Hong Kong's financial development, but also regards Hong Kong as a major array of cultural exchanges, "highlighting the leading role of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in this regard." ”
For Hong Kong's literary and artistic workers, Yan Huichang said that everyone should shoulder the responsibility of promoting Chinese traditional culture. Every year, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra has an international tour program, and he himself has taught Chinese music in many foreign conservatories. Yan Huichang hopes to further expand the lecture program in the future to allow more people to have an in-depth understanding of Chinese culture.
Yan Huichang revealed that the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism have recently been discussing cooperation, and he also plans to take on the position of artistic director at the music festival in the Greater Bay Area. "I hope that the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra can play a good role in demonstrating or promoting the cultural development of the Greater Bay Area." (End)