's fifteenth year, the Shanghai Summer Music Festival has held nearly 400 consecutive performances, creating a unique music festival sample. Youth, diversity, and cross-border have become its keywords.
After five years, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra returns as a whole. This is also Jaap van Zweden’s farewell tour before stepping down as music director. "Shanghai has an extremely long history and an open and inclusive attitude, and has its own dignity and strength."
Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic
Jaap van Zweden likes Shanghai and believes that Shanghai is one of the most inspiring cities, he said , Shanghai is like a big heart. Culture, tourism, sports, commerce, etc. are organically integrated and running healthily, forming the source of the city's vitality.
Walking out of the concert hall, the Summer Music Festival held 7 open-air concerts, each with more than 1,200 spectators enjoying the music with cattail fans. Italian harmonica master Gianluca Litra, Latvian accordionist Sidorova, Italian saxophone quartet, Japanese jazz musician Makoto Kosone, etc., all appeared one by one, and each performance was different. On the night of the performance of the "Post-2000" Neoclassical Chamber Orchestra, it rained heavily, and almost no one left, wearing ponchos to listen to the entire performance. Neither high temperatures nor heavy rain can dampen enthusiasm, and open-air concerts have become a new cultural trend for Shanghainese to cool off.
Outdoor concert
City-wide symphony
At the same time, "City-wide Symphony" entered 9 city landmarks such as popular business districts, cultural spaces, street corner gardens, and Internet celebrity coffee shops, creating 13 art experiences for citizens and tourists Chance encounter. In Xintiandi, Xia Fei, principal trumpet of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, led a seven-member brass team to roam around and interact happily with passers-by. Three French female college students and a group of American high school students were inspired by the music and danced happily. At this moment, music crosses borders.
misa talk
misa walk
This year, the summer music festival also combined the concert with the city walk, which is popular among young people. For example, the "Shikumen Theme Walk" starts from the Shikumen "Jiaxiuli" where Mao Zedong lived in Shanghai, and passes along the "Centennial Zhang Garden" where the hit TV series "Flowers" was filmed, and the largest new-style alley in Shanghai. The residential complex "Jing'an Villa" finally arrives at the Shanghai City Lawn Music Square. With the gentle breeze, you can indulge in the blurry night of the jazz Shanghai big band. The
Summer Music Festival also set up a big stage for Shanghai's student orchestra. The Shanghai Student Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Student Choir, and Shanghai Student Chinese Orchestra took the stage one by one, each showing their talents. The "one session, one session" Summer Music Festival Student Festival Orchestra starts anew every year and witnesses miracles. This year, 62 young performers stood out from more than 400 applicants, and nearly 10 children came from other places and traveled hundreds of kilometers to Shanghai. After a week of high-intensity training, under the baton of conductor Zhang Lu, they appeared with a brand-new attitude, which made people burst into tears.
Summer Music Festival Student Festival Orchestra
Year after year, the Shanghai Summer Music Festival extends performances from the concert hall to outdoor squares, green lawns, and to various city landmarks, allowing the audience to expand from music fans to citizens, tourists, etc. The crowd continues to sow the seeds of music in the hearts of young people.
