With the graceful music of the east and west, the alternation of ancient and modern, "Shengqin and Mao" was staged at Sinan Mansion last night, which was the end of this year's Sinan Art Appreciation Meeting. As a brand and cultural business card of Shanghai's art education, Sinan Art Appreciation will bring a series of interesting public welfare activities to benefit the people, colliding and blending ethnic groups with a variety of art categories, presenting the contemporary beauty of Shanghai-style Chinese music in multiple dimensions, and actively exploring the integrated development of landmark buildings and humanities and arts, so that citizens can feel the eternal charm of traditional culture in their daily lives.
Originating in China, the sheng is a commonly used ritual instrument in ancient times, and it is also the first wind instrument in the world to use free reeds, which has played a positive role in promoting the development of Western musical instruments. In the last phase of this year's Sinan Art Appreciation Fair, Zhao Zhen, the principal of the sheng department of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, will be the guide and performance, and will perform together with special guests Zhang Qi, associate professor of organ major of Shanghai ** University, Zhao Chenxi, a young harmonica player, and Yin Yiwen, an accordion player. Sheng, harmonica, accordion, and pipe organ are several Chinese and Western instruments with deep roots performed on the same stage, creating a wonderful world of harmony.
This year's Sinan Art Appreciation will focus on the theme of "Silk Road Chinese Music" and hold a total of eight art sharing activities. The performers of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra joined hands with famous artists and professional scholars from various fields at home and abroad to perform both well-known classic songs and contemporary works of Shanghainese folk music. Through the interpretation of characteristic musical instruments, the audience will be led to experience the exchange of Eastern and Western cultures on the Silk Road in the diversified and inclusive Chinese music and elegant music, and present the integration and development of national musical instruments.
Ge Jianxiong, professor of history and doctoral supervisor of Fudan University, was invited to the first event "Silk Road Chinese Music" as a guest guide, and Wang Yong, vice chairman of the Shanghai ** Family Association and dean of the ** College of Shanghai University, presided over the tour. Performers such as Jin Kai, Wang Yinrui, Cao Yun and Lu Shasha of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra led the audience to experience the rich and diverse national musical instruments on the Silk Road, combined with the historical story of the spirit of Chinese instrumental music, and showed how the national instrumental music of different regions has spread to all parts of the world in thousands of years of cultural exchanges and has become the common cultural heritage of mankind.
Liu Xuanyi, a flute player, Jiang Yuanqing, a percussionist, and Jiang Shan, a cellist, will show the artistic charm of Konghou and the cross-border interpretation of Western musical instruments. Liu Bo, principal of the Ruan Vocal Department of the Orchestra, led the orchestra's "Fashion Strings" group to present "Encounter Strings", and invited Feng Keats, project director of Shanghai Hanfu Copyright Center and senior researcher of Shanghai International Fashion Science and Technology Innovation Center of Donghua University, to guide the dialogue and appreciate the integration and development of national musical instruments and clothing culture on the Silk Road, allowing the audience to experience the inclusiveness and diversified innovation brought by the Silk Road civilization from different perspectives.
Zheng Cong Hundred Strings" is led by the orchestra's principal dulcimer Cao Yun and Hungarian Zimbaloon player Julian Chick, leading the orchestra Yu Xiaona, Gao Jing and other performers to explore the development history of the dulcimer family with the same origin and generation of the three major dulcimer systems in the world, and show the artistic charm of national musical instruments across time and space. Yu Bing, the principal of the pipa section of the orchestra, together with Shen Cenlin, Zhu Tianjin, Liu Xuexian, Liu Jia and other pipa players, presented "Pipa Silk Language", and Guo Shuhui, professor and doctoral supervisor of Shanghai ** University, led the audience to re-walk the Silk Road from the perspective of pipa evolution, combined with Chinese poetry and cultural relics, showing the unique artistic charm and contemporary inheritance and development of pipa from ancient times to the present.
Zhang Jiawei, a huqin player of the orchestra, served as a guide and guest performer, and together with Chen Xiaoyan, Wang Xiaoben, Dong Shiluan and other huqin players, they appreciated the Huqin family instruments and stringed instruments on the Silk Road, such as Aitek, Sattar, Husitar, etc., and used national string music to unfold a colorful picture of the Western Regions for the audience. "Modern Suona", performed by the orchestra's suona player Jiang Feng, cooperated with the orchestra's Lu Bin, Yang Yang, Wang Shijie and other performers, as well as ** producers Jamsaw and Shen Aisen, to present wind instruments such as suona, basket and Armenian pipe on the Silk Road, which not only interprets the rich charm of the Western Regions, but also presents the unique style of Shanghai-style cities.
The Sinan Art Appreciation Party is jointly sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Huangpu District Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Shanghai Grand Theatre Art Center, and the Sinan Mansion, and organized by the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra. This year's event was also supported by the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and entered the university campus, attracting more young teachers and international students to come to the site to observe and interact with the artists.
Author: Jiang Fang.
Text: Jiang Fangtu: Performance Editor: Xuan Jing Responsible Editor: Li Ting.
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