On the evening of March 9, the opening concert "New Voices in Vienna" was performed at the Shanghai Concert Hall. The National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra joined hands with conductor Sun Yifan and soprano Song Yuanming to perform a wonderful set of chamber orchestra works by Wagner and Mahler. A grand opening of the 2024 weekly radio concert season, lighting the first music torch.
's 42-year-old "Weekly Radio Concert" is a time-honored music popularization brand of Classic 947. This year's Star Broadcasting Festival performance season takes "Sparks to the Future" as the theme, through "reshaping" and "new voices" , "fusion" are three key words to plan and present 20 concerts throughout the year, inviting many domestic and foreign musicians to bring innovative expressions and cross-border collisions of classical music, continuing to pay attention to new artists and new works, and committed to building a new voice for youth Rich and diverse display platforms.
In addition, this year, in addition to visiting the Shanghai Concert Hall in Huangpu District, the Jiushui Future Art Center in Fengxian District, and the Shanghai Broadcasting Art Center in Changning District, Star Broadcasting will also work closely with the National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra in Beijing and Shanghai presents many concerts.
The "Reshaping" section is an in-depth deconstruction and reconstruction of the existing framework, in order to create a new form of classical music with more vitality and adaptability: the Paganini Quartet in Vienna, Austria and the Cosmos String Quartet in Spain will respectively Bringing the purest German-Austrian music and Gypsy sounds to the audience;
The Bridge Quartet of the National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra will join hands with pianist Jiang Boqiang and double bassist Liu Yimei to present two musically interesting chamber music works that trace the history of chamber music. The evolution and development of musical genres in the Classical and Romantic periods;
The Shanghai New Sinfonietta, composed of more than 20 foreign performers living in Shanghai, will play a lively performance under the leadership of conductor Robert Fiore Piazzolla's tango dance music and enter the colorful tropical rainforest of South America.
The "New Sound" section will bring simpler and hotter music hope, using new sounds or vocabulary to convey the pulse and direction of the times. The orchestra and choir composed of
children will show the spark of social aesthetic education on the stage of the 2024 Star Broadcasting Conference. The Nanyang Model Middle School Symphony Orchestra, recognized as the strongest student orchestra in Shanghai, and the Spring Youth Chorus of the Huangpu District Youth Art Activity Center, the strongest choir, will take the stage successively, showing off the new look of contemporary philharmonic youth with their energetic voices. When the small figures in the team come together, they emit the most heart-warming light and heat.
"Integration" is to find commonalities in differences, integrating different elements, cultures or ideas into one, forming a unique and inclusive new art system.
Innovative pianist Chai Qiongyan will join guqin player Jacob Charles and electric guitar player Zhao Gejun to perform illusory shadow puppet performances and interactive visuals, using guqin and piano to compare Princess Iron Fan and Shuiyunxia , presenting a magical realism audio-visual story.
Pianist and composer Zhu Linlei, who has appeared on the stage of Xingguang Club 6 times, will return together with four cellists to create a unique expression using the fusion of electronic music and classical instrumental music to respond to the audience's curiosity about where music creation in the new era will go, and let the future can hear.
In addition, the "Master Class" series of Xingguang Club will be performed in Beijing, Shanghai and Guizhou this year: conductor Lu Jia will conduct the National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra to present "Bruckner Code" at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing; conductor Zhang Guoyong will conduct the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra to perform "Impressions of Shostakovich"; conductor Zhang Yi will detail "Literary Stories in Symphony" with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2024, Star Broadcasting will still deliver good music to thousands of households through an omni-channel audio and video delivery system including radio FM, Archimedes app, Kankan News app, and BesTV large screen terminal.
