On January 28, the 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week Orchestra officially debuted at the Xinghai Concert Hall and held the first performance of a series of symphony concerts in Guangzhou. Before the performance, a Guangzhou media meeting was held at the Music Week Camp.
This project is hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and co-organized by the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Xinghai Concert Hall, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Macau Orchestra and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. This is the first international concert in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and even in the country in 2024. This influential music and cultural exchange event uses practical actions to explore new models and new paths for cooperation in the cultural field in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and promotes the high-quality development of cultural integration in the Greater Bay Area.
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Spread the voice of the Bay Area and showcase the wonderfulness of Guangdong
"Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" and "cultural construction" are high-frequency keywords in the 2024 Guangdong Provincial Government Work Report. The report requires Guangdong literary and art workers to enrich high-quality cultural supply and promote culture The cause and cultural industry will prosper and develop; cultivate a positive, strong and simple culture, tell the story of China to the world, spread the voice of the Bay Area, and showcase the wonderfulness of Guangdong; introduce and cultivate more literary and artistic celebrities and leading talents, and create a batch of works that show the charm and charm of the times. A masterpiece with Lingnan charm.
Music Week in 2024 anchors three important pivots to help build a culturally strong province, build a high-quality cultural talent incubation base in the Greater Bay Area, and promote the creation of new and outstanding musical works. With the mission of producing talents and works, through a series of unique Innovative cultural and artistic activities with international influence showcase the remarkable achievements of the cultural development of the Greater Bay Area and cultural exchanges and mutual learning between China and foreign countries. Yu Long, chairman of the
Music Week Art Committee and famous conductor, said that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is the biggest location advantage of the Music Week and provides the momentum for sustainable development of the Music Week: "The most irreplaceable advantage of the Music Week is that Guangdong The cultural superiority of the Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The Greater Bay Area is not only an economic Bay Area, but also a cultural Bay Area. The prosperity and development of culture will provide young people with rich humanistic nourishment and pave a bridge for their growth and development. In turn, , these young people will also become the backbone of the cultural development of the Greater Bay Area, China, and even Asia."
Yu Long.
Since its opening on January 20, 70 well-known music conservatories, comprehensive universities, and nearly 20 professional teams from China, Russia, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, France and other countries and regions have Students of the orchestra, under the guidance of band players from the world's top orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bayerische Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, etc., work together with Music Week Music Director and internationally renowned conductor Daniel Ha Ding and Ding explore together how to use music to enhance communication, eliminate differences and create resonance.
Master Harding recalled the gatherings with young musicians in the Greater Bay Area over the past few days and expressed many emotions: "This year's music week is an adventurous artistic journey for both instructors and students. We always It is to aim at a seemingly unattainable goal and then work hard to achieve it; and when we achieve it, we will immediately prepare for the next transcendence. Never be satisfied with the status quo and be ready to meet challenges at any time. This is what artists and young people should do. A certain attitude is also the only way to keep art young forever."
Master Harding. During the
music week, the students first met during the "Pearl River Night Tour", and under the guidance of two masters, Yu Long and Harding, as well as a team of instructors, the intense and orderly band training and ensemble training were held at the Xinghai Concert Hall. He held two chamber music performances (January 25th and January 27th) and two "Music Gathering and Talking" music activities (January 24th and January 26th) to quickly improve his performance level in all aspects; January On the 29th, the instructors and students conducted city outreach and experienced the cultural inclusiveness and openness of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area through diverse and in-depth cultural exchanges.
Talking about the guidance received from the tutor during the music week, Lin Ruifeng, the concertmaster of the music week orchestra and young violinist, was deeply impressed: "The violin master Mr. Helmut Zechtner told us that in the orchestra, drawing and bowing can It's unity, but everyone's imagination is different, and the band members come together in different ways. He hopes that our voices have our own stories, and each of us should have our own ideas, and the music played like this It has connotation."
Music Week instructor and famous trumpet player Hannes Laubin recalled his interactions with the students and was very moved: "Music Week is a big family, and the students and I are 'two-way'. "Run to", I hope that they can all create their own miracles in the world of music in the future."
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Classical new sound sky, Bay Area Huazhang comes out with new colors
On the evening of January 28, at the first performance of the series of symphony concerts, Hong Kong composition Liang Haoyi's "The Ambition of the Sky: The Magnificent Chapter of Dawan" has begun. This is a work specially created by the composer commissioned by the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra for this music week. It is also an important initiative for the first time to use the excellent platform of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week to promote the creation of high-quality music.
Composer Liang Haoyi.
Liang Haoyi has this interpretation of this work: "If you can speak Cantonese, maybe you can feel the rhythm of Cantonese from the music, and even hear the Cantonese liner notes hanging on your lips; if you If you have never traveled to the Greater Bay Area, you may hear and see from the trumpet melody at the beginning of the work that the night has just begun and the city lights are twinkling. In order to use music to capture the rich history and culture of Guangzhou, the core city of the Greater Bay Area, and the colorful The essence of it is that I returned to the beach after more than 20 years and got creative inspiration from the colorful buildings and the moving crowds."
As a young man born in the Greater Bay Area after 1995, Liang Haoyi has already He is a composer with a certain international reputation. The soundtracks he created for the movies "Changjin Lake" (nominated for Best Music at the Golden Rooster Award), "Operation Red Sea" and "Changjin Lake: Shuimen Bridge" are well-known works in the industry and are praised as It is a masterpiece that is in line with international benchmarks; the music he created for the online games "Honor of Kings" and "Endless Showdown" are even more masterpieces that "break the circle".
Liang Haoyi's music resume itself is an example of the coordinated development of culture and art in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the integration of Hong Kong and Macao youth into the overall development of the country, and the use of international language to tell Chinese stories: "Music does not require language, there is no barrier, everyone can use music Establish your own understanding and imagination of the Greater Bay Area, communicate freely in music, and tell your heart." In this extraordinary world premiere, the Music Week Orchestra, led by Master Harding, performed this piece with an uncompromising level An excellent interpretation of the work as a tribute to the Greater Bay Area. The composer depicts the diverse and integrated cultural outline of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with abstract and perceptible strokes, and uses colorful colors and swaying rhythms to embody the beauty and prosperity of the city... These moving musical moments are all performed by the Music Week Orchestra were appropriately interpreted, and their vigorous vitality and endless energy infused this piece of work with endless vitality.
Another heavyweight piece in this concert is Mozart's "Concerto for Violin and Viola in E flat major". Viola soloist Amiha Grosz, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, performed this classic piece together with violinist Wilde Furlong.
Amiha described the piece itself as an interpretation of the relationship between culture’s individuality and commonality: “When two solo instruments play at the same time, there should not be an either/or competition in your mind, but rather retain yourself. personality, and at the same time perseverance and tolerance to 'make' space for each other. Looking back on our work in the Greater Bay Area these days, it is not the same. We come from all over the world, speak different languages and have different dreams, but in music, Under the guidance of understanding language, we find commonalities, eliminate differences, and seek common ground while reserving differences. This is the charm of music and the original intention of Music Week."
Fran is an internationally renowned violinist. While maintaining the best technical condition in their performances, the two have a rare tacit understanding. The violin's sound is firm and powerful, and the viola is melancholy and introspective. The push-pull structure of this power creates a A very dramatic expression. And the orchestra, as another main body of the symphony and concerto, is no less impressive. Despite its romantic tendency, the overall structure of the orchestra's performance is extremely rigorous, clear, and elegant, especially in Mozart's unusually long No. In one movement, the subtle changes in the orchestra's and solo's responses often make people smile.
The last piece of the concert is Czech composer Anton Dvořák's "Symphony No. 9 in E minor (from the New World)" 2024 marks the 120th anniversary of Dvořák’s death. The Music Week Orchestra pays tribute to the composer with this work. It also reinterprets Dvořák’s persistence in his homeland and his desire for a brilliant new world through the vision of the youth in the Greater Bay Area. Longing. The great conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein once described that the root of this work lies in the artistic belief in music without borders.
The young people of the Music Week Orchestra have learned a lot under the guidance of Master Harding and a group of mentors. Under the instruction of Flexible and rich in musicality; every phrase in the second movement is highly artistically expressed by each performer, and the final section is particularly moving. The transparent and sentimental texture coupled with the pastoral purity make Dvořák’s beauty beautiful. The sad homesickness is conveyed vividly. Of course, the wonderful performance of the woodwind section, especially the English horn, in the most famous passage is deeply touching. The timpani in the third movement has a deep temperament, the volume is not aggressive, but the magnanimity is extraordinary. The final movement The trumpet is full of indomitable heroism, destroying the wind and waves, breaking through the clouds and cracking the shore, and the splendid glory of the finale is moving.
In an interview before the concert, Daniel Harding talked about one of his mentors, the great Conductor Claudio Abbado said that he could feel that Abbado’s spirit was with this group of young people in Guangzhou and the Greater Bay Area: “Abbado is a very quiet and low-key person. He is not very popular. Love talking about music. However, he founded two large youth symphony orchestras in Europe, and he loves working with young people. He has a principle that the conductor should ‘step back’ appropriately to allow the performers’ talents to be showcased and to allow the young performers to learn to listen to each other naturally. Everything I do here is to try to help young musicians learn to listen to each other, and then you will understand everything, and the beauty of music and the beauty of humanity will naturally be revealed. "
Talking about his music experience in the Greater Bay Area, Harding said that he conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in 2007 and 2014 and performed at the Xinghai Concert Hall twice. In fact, he is already a frequent visitor to the Greater Bay Area, but this time The experience is of extraordinary significance: “This is my third visit to Guangzhou. I have only visited briefly before, but this place left such a deep impression on me that I always look forward to revisiting it and interacting with China. musicians try their hand at creative work together. Under the leadership of Mr. Yu Long, art practitioners in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area decided to use music, a cross-cultural language, to try to create commonalities and build platforms, which is of great significance. It’s a cliché that music can transcend language barriers. And the empathy in music always reminds us that we are not alone. No matter you are from Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, Berlin, or Paris, there is always a musical moment where you and I can be honest and connected. "
After the concert debut at Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou, Daniel Harding will lead the Music Week Orchestra to Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the other two core engine cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, to perform at the Shenzhen Concert Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Center. Let the Greater Bay Area audience listen to this orchestra formed in Guangdong, the forefront of China's reform and opening up, and feel a big family full of vitality, making friends through music, and full of cultural collisions and exchanges.
Written by: Nandu reporter Wu Fengsi Intern Chen Shaofan
Pictures: The organizer provides
