create a humanistic business card that has attracted much attention for its region, making it world-famous like Cannes movies, Vienna music, and Wuzhen drama? In Hainan, a group of people who love chorus are working hard to use the "Hainan (21st Century Maritime Silk Road) Chorus Festival" to create a musical business card for Hainan that showcases the charm of urban art and conveys Hainan's tolerance.
The Bali Philharmonic Choir from Indonesia uploaded singing and dancing at the "Hainan (21st Century Maritime Silk Road) Chorus Festival".
"Winter to Hainan to Sing Chorus", from November 18th to 24th, the 2nd Hainan (21st Century Maritime Silk Road) Chorus Festival hosted by China Chorus Association, Hainan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Haikou Municipal People's Government, etc. was held in Haikou . This year's choir festival attracted more than 3,500 people from 77 choirs from 17 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China and 9 countries and regions along the Silk Road. As one of the art activities with the highest public participation, chorus has a positive role in promoting the cultural atmosphere of communities and cities. After the joyous chorus festival gathering, people began to think about how to make art festivals like the chorus festival better promote the development of Hainan's culture and art and make it more effective in the international community?
Create a National Art Festival
An artistic festival that lasts many days often requires a variety of activities to create more social benefits, especially for art festivals such as chorus festivals.
Zkerhen Men's Choir in the Austrian Palace brought a wonderful performance to the audience.
During this choir festival, in addition to setting up activities for the choir, the organizers also carefully planned a series of art activities to "close contact" with the general public, including 11 occasions to sing on campus and enter the community to exchange exhibitions and "sing "Hainan" enters Sanya, Qionghai, Wanning, Qiongzhong chorus performances and other activities. At the same time, special concerts by overseas choirs and performances of outstanding Chinese choral works were held for the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
Academic exchange is an important part of this chorus festival. How to use the chorus festival to better enhance the urban cultural atmosphere to show people's spiritual outlook? At the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" Chorus Development Seminar and the National Experience Exchange Seminar for Choir Heads, people in the music industry expressed their opinions and discussed the significance of chorus to individuals, communities and cities.
Zhang Demei, the chief planner of this chorus festival and the president of the Hainan Chorus Association, said that this chorus festival uses different platforms, adopts multiple forms, and stands on multiple dimensions, fully demonstrating the countries and regions along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The outstanding cultural achievements of the festival allow the rich and distinctive regional culture and artistic creation to interact with each other, making this chorus festival a grand event for promotion, cultural heritage and artistic exchanges.
Use chorus to ignite the passion of the city
Chorus is an artistic activity in which multi-voice vocal works are collectively sung. There is often a conductor, with accompaniment or a cappella. It is one of the most popular and widely involved music performance art forms.
It is understood that among the 77 choirs participating in this year's choir festival, there are both professional teams and amateur choirs such as senior choirs.
Russian Junior Choir performed at the choir festival.
As Dieter Johannes, head of the Austrian palace patron Zkerhen Men’s Choir, said, chorus is a form of singing that brings people together. In Austria, many people like to make friends by singing. "The atmosphere in my community is very good. Everyone likes to participate in chorus. Our community is also famous for chorus."
Dieter Johannes told Hainan Daily reporter that in recent years, more and more young people in Vienna Joining a choir has not only become an important way for young people to make friends, but also an important way to build community strength. In the past ten years, small choirs of 8 or 10 people have become more and more popular in Vienna.
In the eyes of many choir leaders, chorus can not only promote communication between people, but also enhance team cohesion and stimulate personal enthusiasm for life.
"This chorus festival further promotes the cultural connotation of the'Belt and Road'. More importantly, it allows various ethnic groups to display their own unique cultures and allows different cultures to blend here." said Li Peizhi, chairman of the China Chorus Association. In his view, Hainan is a major tourist province, and the Chorus Festival can further help Hainan build an international tourism consumption center.
Full-time Vice Chairman of Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles Wang YanMei said that Hainan, as an important fulcrum on the “Belt and Road” initiative, plays an important role in cultural promotion and exchange activities. The chorus festival integrates diverse cultures, which not only adds more cultural connotations to the construction of a free trade pilot zone and a free trade port with Chinese characteristics in Hainan, but also further demonstrates Hainan’s openness and self-confidence. At the same time, on this important exchange platform, local teams can learn from many international experiences.
Exploring the internationalization of the chorus festival
While Hainan is making every effort to build a free trade pilot zone and a free trade port with Chinese characteristics, chorus festivals and other art festivals are also seeking international development, with the help of cultural brands to showcase Hainan’s new opening Posture, more and more people pay attention to this charming island.
Korean Glee is singing.
Zhang Demei said frankly that there is still a big gap between the Hainan (21st Century Maritime Silk Road) Chorus Festival and true "internationalization". The so-called internationalization is not only reflected in the number of international teams participating in activities, but the core element is the internationalization of the operating mode. For example, the activity schedule of a high-level chorus team has been determined one year in advance. Therefore, the promotion of choir festivals internationally, recruitment of international teams, etc. must follow international conventions for more than one and a half years in advance.
This choir festival has received strong support from the International Cultural Exchange Foundation. As the organizer of the world's most famous chorus competition-the World Chorus Competition, the International Cultural Exchange Foundation has been looking for partners in China for many years. Fred Christ Schoenberg, the artistic director of the
International Cultural Exchange Foundation and the World Chorus Competition, said that China is a big chorus country and has made rapid progress in the choral career in recent years.
Schoenberg and his colleagues have participated in the design of choral events in many countries around the world. In August of this year, the World Chorus Grand Prix and the 4th European Chorus Competition was held in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were 171 choir teams from 47 countries and regions with a total of more than 6000 participants. In just a few days, Gothenburg was immersed in the beauty of music. Choirs from all over the world are here to sing to meet friends and spark music. This undoubtedly provides valuable experience for the organization of the Hainan Chorus Festival.
Schoenberg suggested, “The Hainan Chorus Festival should take into account local conditions, such as traffic and reception capabilities, and set an expectation: how many teams do you want to attract? What kind of teams do you want to attract?"
Schoenberg said. This chorus festival showed him the importance attached to the humanities and arts by the relevant departments of Hainan Province. Event organizers can think deeply: How to better promote the promotion and dissemination of local culture with the help of the choir festival?
education and training is an indispensable part of art festival activities. "On the exchange platform of the Chorus Festival, different forms of education and training can be carried out, including academic courses, master classes, etc." Schoenberg said.
It is worth mentioning that the relevant person in charge of the International Cultural Exchange Foundation and the artistic director of the World Chorus Competition made a special trip to Hainan to investigate the chorus festival activities. The two parties have reached a preliminary intention to sing Hainan (21st Century Maritime Silk Road) The brand concept of festival is integrated into the world chorus competitions to be held in Austria and Belgium in July next year, and the Hainan Chorus Festival will be promoted on this platform.
