Nandu News Reporter Huang Lu "There is a kind of touching that can only happen in the concert hall." This brand slogan engraved on the image wall of the Shenzhen Concert Hall is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and condenses the beautiful music memories of countless audiences. The "Beautiful Sunday" charity performance, which has been accompanying the public since its opening, celebrated its 600th performance on March 17. This public welfare project aimed at popularizing music education has been cultivating audiences for Shenzhen's elegant culture and art for decades, subtly improving citizens' appreciation level and musical literacy. So far, "Beautiful Sunday" has been successfully held for 17 years with the strong support of the Propaganda Department of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, the Shenzhen Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau and the Shenzhen Publicity and Culture Fund, with more than 7,000 artists and more than 700,000 visitors. The audience shared the excitement brought by music and art.
played the sound of the city, the 600 performance " American sound resonance "
On March 17, "Beautiful Sunday" ushered in its 600th performance. To celebrate this monumental event, "Beautiful Sunday" specially invited Zou Tiefu, a well-known music producer also from Shenzhen, to conduct the Shenzhen City Philharmonic Orchestra and perform passionately for the audience with a local "Sound of the City" ring. At the
concert, Zou Tiefu and the orchestra presented to the audience a number of selected pieces that spanned different cultural backgrounds and diverse musical styles, fully demonstrating the artistic style of local musicians and orchestras. At the same time, Zou Tiefu also served as the guest guide for this concert, popularizing symphony knowledge to the public audience, appreciating and explaining the performance repertoire, and leading everyone to appreciate the immortal musical charm of classic works.
Zou Tiefu is a pioneer and witness of the development of music in Shenzhen. His "recording life" officially started in Shenzhen. He has more than 40 years of industry experience and has won numerous awards. He is known as the "Godfather of Chinese Fever Records". The Shenzhen City Philharmonic Orchestra was established in 2014 and was born in response to social trends. Its mission is to spread elegant music and promote social civilization, and to play brilliant music for a bright future in Shenzhen. The average age of the band is less than 35 years old, and they represent Shenzhen’s vibrant young force.
Multi-theme series nourishes the cultural life of citizens
From melodious folk music, elegant and agile piano, to gorgeous and delicate chamber music, majestic pipe organ, and music lecture hall that educates on "music"... On "Beautiful Sunday" "On the stage, the audience can enjoy various and exciting performances or lectures brought by professional music performing artists and scholars from home and abroad. For more than ten years, Shenzhen Concert Hall's "Beautiful Sunday" has successively formed theme series such as "Organ Concert Series", "Appreciation Concert", "Music Lecture Hall" and "Online Concert", with performances covering symphony, chamber music, folk music, and chorus. , music lectures and other forms to provide audiences with different levels of music enjoyment and meet the diverse artistic needs of citizens.
In addition, relying on the performance platform of "Beautiful Sunday", Shenzhen Concert Hall has also launched various public welfare cultural service theme projects, such as the "New Year Art Care Series" concerts to convey the love of the Spring Festival to citizens staying in Shenzhen for the New Year; The colorful performances are brought from theaters to communities, schools, enterprises, hospitals and other grassroots units in the "Into Series"; as well as the "Beautiful Charity" project that uses music to convey cultural care, both are committed to giving more audiences the opportunity to enjoy listening to elegant music. Cultural benefits of music.
Deepen the road of music aesthetic education and promote the popularization of art for all.
How to bring elegant music closer to the audience and how to gain a deeper understanding and resonance of the beauty of music is a proposition that "Beautiful Sunday" is always exploring.
By inviting artists to give personalized "annotations" and guided listening to the music in the appreciation concert in the form of "lectures combined", "Beautiful Sunday" hopes to narrow the distance between the audience, the artists and the musical works, and subtly To improve citizens’ appreciation level and musical literacy.Many audiences expressed their appreciation for this: "The appreciation concert is very suitable for those of us who have not studied music systematically, but want to improve our musical literacy, because during the performance, the artist will first explain and introduce the repertoire, so that we can understand it while enjoying it." You can learn more about music, and the repertoire is not too long, and the overall feeling is very approachable."
And the sub-brand "Music Lecture Hall" created since its inception is a "golden word" for "Beautiful Sunday" to promote the implementation of national aesthetic education. Shop sign". So far, hundreds of celebrities including Zheng Xiaoying, Leslie Cheung, Ye Xiaogang, Lang Lang, Lu Siqing, etc. have participated. They use vivid language to popularize various music knowledge and share anecdotes behind the music with the audience. Its rich themes, The relaxed atmosphere is loved by everyone. Last year, the "Music Lecture Hall" also won the 2023 National New Era "Lifelong Learning Brand Project", the Guangdong Province 2023 Continuing Education Quality Improvement Project Certification Project (Lifelong Learning Brand Project), and the 2023 Shenzhen "Lifelong Learning Brand Project" Project" has won many honors and has been widely recognized in the practice of art popularization education.
It is reported that "Beautiful Sunday" in March will also bring Dr. Wang Yong, Dean of the School of Music of Shanghai University, a music lecture on the European Summer Music Festival, as well as Chinese young pianist Chang Yun and Italian young saxophonist Eleonora... The piano and saxophone duo appreciation concert presented by Fiorentini together looks forward to injecting endless artistic vitality into the city with more exciting and rich high-quality theatrical performances.
