The magnificent Shu style guqin "Flowing Water" with both immortalization and romance; the simple, soulful, warm and cheerful suona solo "Loess Qin"; the small chorus "Qiang Hong Ballad" showing the beauty of national art harmony...
On Nov. 18, the Tianfu folk Music Exchange performance "Jinxiu Qunwen" sponsored by Chengdu Cultural Center opened.
In October 2021, Chengdu Cultural Center became one of the first ten centers of popularization and promotion of Chinese folk music in China. It is understood that this activity is to promote the high-quality development of public services, constantly improve people's accessibility, sense of gain, satisfaction for the purpose of carrying forward the excellent traditional culture, inheritance of folk music. The performance team is composed of outstanding folk music talents of the whole city, including professional art colleges and universities, business backbone of Chengdu Cultural Center for Civil Culture and Art Training School, and cultural centers of various districts (cities) and counties.
The small chorus "Qiang Hong Ballad" and "Dong Bailet" opened the prelude of "Jinxiu Qunwen" Tianfu folk music exchange and performance activities. The students from the student Choir of Southwest University for Nationalities performed the multi-part a cappella chorus of ethnic minorities, giving full play to the expressiveness of different parts, vocal areas and timbre of the human voice, showing the harmonious beauty of ethnic art. In their moving songs, they fully demonstrated the deep historical deposits, unique geographical environment and multi-ethnic culture of Chengdu formed the regional cultural characteristics.
Sanmenxia Rhapsody is an Erhu song composed by famous composer Liu Wenjin in 1960. It is one of the outstanding contemporary Erhu works. On the same day, Jiang Yue from the Chengdu Cultural Center Citizen Culture and Art Training School brought this song. I saw her slow operation bow, fingers knead fine strings, sometimes leaning ear, sometimes closed eyes addicted, sometimes held up drunk. The erhu sounds like a human voice. It not only describes the magnificence of the Sanmenxia reservoir and the fortitude of the builders, but also expresses their lofty ambition and longing for the future.
The cultural centers of Chengdu district also brought wonderful programs for today's performance. LAN Wei and Li Zhao from Qingyang District Cultural Center respectively played the flute solo "Qinchuan Lyric" and the guzheng solo "Yun Changyu". Liang Fengyi from Jinniu District Cultural Center played the pipeggio Spring of Tianshan Mountain in the style of Xinjiang folk dance music. Li Baiyun from the Cultural Center of Wuhou District brought the flute solo "Gusu Walk". He Shenglin Tong, Jinjiang District Cultural Center, suona solo "Loess Feeling"...... These musical works full of ethnic characteristics are interspersed with a beautiful picture of Chinese civilization.
For the Yellow River this famous song, everyone is most familiar with the piano version. In fact, in national chamber music and symphony, dulcimer often plays the role of piano accompaniment, expressive force is extremely rich. Today, He Shenglin from the Cultural Center of Jinjiang District will play the dulcimer solo "Yellow River". The performer's wonderful performance attracted continuous applause from the scene.
Music, fireworks, music energizes city life. It is reported that Chengdu Cultural Center was selected as one of the first ten Chinese folk music popularization and promotion centers in October 2021. Next, the museum will continue to promote the in-depth popularization and promotion of Chinese folk music, and strive to form a national art popularization leading demonstration with distinctive characteristics, outstanding highlights and obvious results, and jointly enrich the cultural context of Chengdu as an international music capital.