Fangfei May brings joy to the capital. On April 29, reporters learned at the National Center for the Performing Arts 2024 May Music Festival press conference that from May 1 to 25, 24 high-quality concerts will be performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts and the Beijing Art Center. Piano, swing jazz, national style, popular hits, etc. are played in turn, and there is always something that touches your heartstrings.
National Center for the Performing Arts 2024 May Music Festival poster.
The National Center for the Performing Arts May Music Festival has been planned and launched since 2009. After fourteen years, it has become the key theme art festival and performance card of the National Center for the Performing Arts. With the theme of "Joy to the Future", this May Music Festival brings together outstanding artists and well-known troupes from all over the world. For the first time, 24 concerts cover the National Center for the Performing Arts and the Beijing Art Center, ranging from classical masterpieces, swing jazz, national and international music festivals. From popular hits to popular hits, diverse content planning, and novel performance forms will share the colorful world of music with a wider audience.
The May Music Festival will also "go out" of the concert hall. Artists will visit hospitals, schools, municipalities, and villages during public welfare activities, allowing chamber music to truly flow in the city, creating a strong atmosphere of elegant art, and striving to promote classical music culture to "break the circle." Wang Luli, deputy director of the Performance Department of the National Center for the Performing Arts, revealed, "This May Music Festival has planned more than ten 'going out' performances, from Xiongan New Area to historical sites, from cities to outer suburbs, focusing on the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, hoping to make Chengdu Thousands of friends are nourished by music, see the beauty of art, and enjoy the beauty of life. "
, as the opening ceremony of the May Music Festival, will return again in 2024 with the specially planned concert "Bow String Feast" that started in 2018. On the basis of previous violins, the "Bow Feast" has added wind instruments, harps and other instruments, striving to present a more diverse and beautiful combination. Lu Siqing, artistic director of the May Music Festival, said: “This year, Qin Liwei, Sun Yingdi, and I will perform the “Meijie Trio” with string masters and emerging talents such as Huang Mengla, Su Zhen, Chen Xi, and Luo Chaowen, together with six performers from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The artist introduces flute, harp and other musical instruments on the basis of string instruments, from Baroque to modern times, from Europe to South America and China, displaying the rich beauty of bow string art in many aspects. In the constant dialogue between Chinese and foreign music classics, it fully demonstrates the relationship between Chinese and foreign artists. International exchange and cooperation.”
A group photo of guests at the National Center for the Performing Arts 2024 May Music Festival press conference. (Photo by Liu Fang)
Ms. Sophie Gareth, director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, said that she was honored to be the first international orchestra to perform the opening concert of the National Center for the Performing Arts in May. She hopes to use music to build this stage. Build a bridge of communication and use art to convey the beautiful common emotions of mankind.
Violinist Huang Mengla, who has participated in four consecutive "Bow Feast", was very impressed, "In recent years, the attendance rate of the opening performance of the May Music Festival has been extremely high. From the program planning to the composition of the artists, let's see the Grand Theater The emphasis on music festivals and the high pursuit of art also make me realize that the younger generation of musicians must follow closely in the future, and only on high-quality platforms can musicians stand higher and move forward. Further."
In the opening concert, violinist Chen Xi will perform Mendelssohn's String Octet with seven Chinese and foreign artists. Talking about the performance of the ensemble, Chen Xi said, "I think the core of the ensemble is more It is reflected in people-oriented. Every artist has his own style and has the right to speak, but in the ensemble collaboration, we will respect each other, seek common ground while reserving differences, and work together to find the essence of the work that impresses the audience."
In addition to the opening concert. "Feast of Bows and Strings", the Italian Musicians Ensemble, the Copenhagen Ancient Orchestra, the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Meijer Trio, Pinchas Zukerman, Shen Fanxiu, the National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra and other domestic and foreign famous groups will lead the audience. Dialogue with the classics and dedicate works by Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Bach and other Baroque composers. The works of the "Three Classical Masters" Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven will also be performed in a special concert, carefully depicting the classical spirit of the composer masters. “In this year’s closing concert, NCPA resident artist Ning Feng will perform two Mozart works with the orchestra.In this performance, he will "pull himself and refer to himself", which can be said to be an in-depth spiritual exchange between the orchestra and Ning Feng. "Tang Ning, head of the program operation group of the National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra, said.
In addition, the works of romantic and modern composers such as Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Williams It will also take turns to play in the May Music Festival. Many domestic troupes will show off their talents, among which the Beijing National Orchestra will perform folk music works that combine traditional and modern, popular and classic styles, interpreting "the most beautiful national style"
. Jazz has always been the standard feature of "Midnight Rose". This year, the famous musician Li Quan will meet the audience on an early summer night for a romantic swing concert. Music fans can not only go back to the 1930s and 1940s to experience jazz and music. Popular hits, you can also hear contemporary pop music produced by Li Quan. What is worth looking forward to is that all the tracks have been carefully designed and arranged by Li Quan and other artists, combining the beauty of the original works with the dazzle of jazz
. The "Fifth Element" saxophone quintet, which is popular in music, jazz and pop, will continue to bring a new experience of classical music to the audience of the Beijing Art Center with their witty performances and exquisite arrangements.
Author: Peng Dan
Text: Beijing Correspondent. Peng Dantu: National Center for the Performing Arts Editor: Li Yang Editor: Jiang Shengxin
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