The only one-hour noon meeting for the public on weekdays in the country - Shanghai ** Hall "** Afternoon Tea" ushered in its 12th birthday yesterday. The public welfare ticket price and heart-warming afternoon tea attracted many Shanghai music fans to enter the "city ** living room" to celebrate their birthdays.
The picture says: "*Afternoon Tea" 12th anniversary birthday celebration scene Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai (the same below).
*Afternoon Tea" 12th anniversary celebration invited guitarist Fan Ye and cellist Xie Zhiying to bring a ** meeting called "Crossing Memory", which was broadcast live on the official ** account of the Shanghai ** Hall. More than 100 loyal viewers came to the scene to share with everyone the story of "My Story with Afternoon Tea". "Brother Tiger" said: "After listening to afternoon tea, drink a cup of tea and walk home, bel canto is beautiful, life is so beautiful." Ms. Wang, an old friend of "Afternoon Tea", said: "*In the 12 years of Afternoon Tea, from the beginning of my parents to take me there, to now I grab tickets for them to accompany them, which is a kind of replacement and a kind of inheritance. A netizen also shared on social platforms: "Every time I come, I feel that this is the reason why I like Shanghai. 30 yuan to hear a high-quality ** meeting, so that anyone can afford it, this is a benefit to Shanghai citizens. In the upcoming 2200th issue on January 18th, Professor Liu Nian, who specializes in viola in Shangyin, will also perform a special performance with his students.
12 years ago, the Shanghai ** Hall explored how to open up the theater space and let more people enter this historic Shanghai cultural landmark, so the "day mode" was opened, which became the first and only theater in the country to hold small ** meetings for the audience on weekdays during the day. In the past 12 years, "* Afternoon Tea" has successfully held more than 2,100 ** meetings, invited more than 7,500 artists to meet with the audience, staged more than 13,000 works, and the number of viewers reached 2230,000 people. In addition to launching a series of conferences, such as the popularization of Western chamber music "Lingyu", the promotion of the "World Music Gallery" and "Hundred Flowers Blooming" to promote the world's regions and Chinese ethnic minorities, the folk music chamber music "Toast to Invite Folk Music" and the "Horn" with the theme of brass music, etc., it also regularly creates thematic and systematic "Lectures & Series" and "Summer Theme Week". At the same time, every 100 and every anniversary, there will be special celebrations and other forms.
Over the past 12 years, "*Afternoon Tea" has also witnessed young artists who have gone to the national and even world stage. For example, the "Prism Piano Trio" won the 9th China ** Highest Gold Bell Award Chamber Music Award, Cheng Jiarui, who won the second place in the 19th Scriabin International Piano Competition in Italy, Chen Zhiyuan, the overall champion of the 9th German Gut Immling International Vocal Competition in 2017, Deng Yifei, the violin champion of the 62nd Washington International String Competition, Chen Jiayi, the champion of the 10th China ** Golden Bell Award Violin Competition, and Li Hanyue, the winner of the 13th China ** Golden Bell Award Guzheng Competition, Fifth place at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019 and runner-up at the 2022 Queen Elizabeth Cello Competition Chen Yibai, and third place at the Sydney 2023 International Piano Competition Guo Rongrong.
In the past 12 years, "*Afternoon Tea" has gone from offline to online, "meeting" with more music fans in the form of audio and live broadcast, so that the "fragrance of tea" will float from Shencheng to the whole country and even the world. In the fall of 2021, on the occasion of the 1900th issue of "** Afternoon Tea", ** Hall specially launched the "Online Version of ** Afternoon Tea" (audio version), which selects weekly wonderful live performance clips and shares them with music fans on the platform, and at the same time launches live audio broadcasts of afternoon tea from time to time, so that more audiences can realize their dream of being accompanied by "Afternoon Tea" without leaving home. In April 2023, "** Afternoon Tea" will be presented on the Xiaohongshu platform as a new "Afternoon Tea Song List" (* version), with the theme of "Afternoon Tea Vinyl" sounding in the **hall, combining the beautiful vision of afternoon tea** and **hall, and accompanied by repertoire and **popularization.
In the 6th China International Import Expo, "* Afternoon Tea" has never been absent, in a small "Expo Blue" space, let friends at home and abroad see the demeanor of Shanghai's best people, feel the enthusiasm of Shanghai's literature and art, and also become the "most beautiful service window" to spread Shanghai's urban culture. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Guang).
Comment now丨The city is a bit warm.
One of the important purposes of enhancing the city's soft power is to warm the hearts of the citizens who live in it. Whether it is a cup of "** afternoon tea" at noon on weekdays, or the lights of Dayin Bookstore lit for readers at night, the notes flow and ByteDance ......In the end, it is the soul that is soothed.
Life is not as good as it should be, and there is still a calling, hope and ideals in the world, because the spiritual wealth accumulated by human beings for thousands of years is still inspiring. In order to broaden the performance space, increase the style of the meeting, and enrich the one-hour lunch break of the workers, the Shanghai ** hall has launched a small ** meeting with a cup of warm tea for 12 years. In the vicinity of People's Square, where every inch of land is valuable, it can be called "luxury". The branch of Dayin Bookstore under the Wukang Building is a cultural landscape in this area, and it is also a cultural space worth staying and stopping in addition to taking photos and checking in. If you move out, it will not only be the night lights for the readers.
Shanghai ** Hall, formerly known as Nanjing Grand Theater, has a history of 94 years;This year marks the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Wukang Building, and many cultural celebrities such as Sun Daolin and Wang Wenjuan once lived here - these two old buildings that carry the cultural story of Shanghai, after being protected and built, how do they get close to the citizens?"*Afternoon Tea" and Dayin Bookstore are undoubtedly in line with the context of the old building and meet the needs of the public to check in the old building and even open the door of the old building - and then, they are integrated into it in a literary and artistic way. Such a public welfare, low-priced, aesthetic, and warm cultural space is all over the corners of the city, which is also the soft power of urban culture. (Zhu Guang).