Shanghai Chinese Orchestra's "Mainstream" series "Shaking the Jade Zhengzheng" Liu Bo and "Fashionable Strings" special concert was performed at the Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall last night, showing the charming charm of Ruan art.
"The Ruan instrument is both ancient and modern. Its mellow, harmonious and unobtrusive character is very similar to the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture. When a group of Ruan instruments are played together, its sound seems to reach directly into the heart." Liu Bo, chief of the Ruan section of the orchestra He is a famous Ruan performer and the first Ruan major to receive an undergraduate degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Liu Bo has an outstanding sense of music and deep playing skills. Since 2001, he has been invited to teach the Ruan major at Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a guest. He is a powerful promoter of the popularization and development of Ruan music.
Shanghai Chinese Orchestra's "Fashion Pinxian" Ruan group was formed based on Liu Bo and the young Ruan performers he has trained for many years. It has composed and arranged many warm and pure repertoires. At the premiere concert of "Fashionable Strings", there were more than ten original works and dozens of repertoires, which served as a professional demonstration and influenced many Ruan ethnic orchestras in the country. It has now become an excellent brand of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra. The concert was conducted by the orchestra’s resident conductor Yao Shenshen, and the opening orchestra’s “Fashionable Strings” group included Ruan performers Desert Desert, Wang Yan, Tang Yiwen, Li Lin, Han Xue, Yang Jing, Li Chenxiao, Wang Chuqing, Wu Hongye, Zhu Tianjin and others. Presenting "Swords", the work is inspired by the famous poem "Watching Lady Gongsun Dance with Swords" by Du Fu, a poet from the Tang Dynasty. The music melody is vigorous and grand, vividly depicting the artistic conception of "a sword dance moving in all directions". Liu Bo brought "Drunken Madness", which was adapted from a guqin piece said to have been composed by Ruan Ji, one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove" in the Jin Dynasty - it is said that Ruan was "invented" by Ruan Ji. The music melody is implicit, profound, exciting and frustrating, showing the open-minded and uninhibited spiritual world of the literati hermit. "Lotus Emerging from the Water" is adapted from traditional Hakka Zheng music. The style of the music is simple and elegant. It depicts the grace of the lotus emerging from the mud but not stained. It supports the object and expresses ambitions and expresses lofty sentiments. "Sanliu" was adapted by the orchestra's lifelong artistic consultant and famous composer Gu Guanren based on famous Jiangnan silk and bamboo music. The style is fresh and elegant, the melody is beautiful and bright, the music is joyful and lively, and it has a strong Jiangnan style. "Playing Tambourines and Singing Hymns" presents a strong Xinjiang style, with lively, cheerful, sincere and affectionate tunes, showing a beautiful picture of frontier life.
Liu Bo said: "At the beginning of the commissioned creation, the goal was - when looking back at the excellent traditional literati music, it should also conform to the aesthetic and psychological rhythm of the audience, and be able to express the temperament of Chinese culture with modern creative techniques. 'Fashion Pinxian' is to The "Mainstream" series of the
folk orchestra, which embodies Shanghai-style folk music's elegance and sophistication, inclusiveness and unobtrusiveness, will also be promoted - Zhao Zhen, the principal of the orchestra's Sheng section, will also perform the orchestra's Sheng in the solo concert "Sheng on the Scene". The Sheng music works of different arrangements and styles by all the performers show the youthful sound of the ancient instrument. On June 8, the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra's "International Music Rhythm" series "Encounter" Suona × Bagpipes × Electroacoustic Crossover Music Live will be performed at the 1862 Fashion Art Center. The orchestra's suona player Hu Chenyun will join hands with a Scottish bagpipe player. Perform cross-border works with diverse styles and open up a musical dialogue that spans the East and West. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Guang)
