On the evening of September 5th, the "4th China Suzhou Jiangnan Culture and Art International Tourism Festival" stage repertoire exhibition project and the opening concert of the Suzhou National Orchestra 2022-2023 Music Season "Towards the Light" was held in the Suzhou National Orchestra Concert Hall. open the curtain.

It is reported that the Chinese Orchestra Concert "Towards the Light" is conducted by Peng Jiapeng, a famous conductor, the artistic director and chief conductor of the orchestra, and the young erhu performer Lu Yiwen and the young performers of the orchestra perform together. . The concert brought together three major Chinese orchestral works, the famous composer Liu Changchang's Chinese orchestral piece "Jasmine Blossoms", the Erhu Concerto "Dream Interpretation" and the fifth Chinese symphony "Brightness" commissioned by the orchestra.

As the opening song "Jasmine Blossom", also known as "Dragon Leaps to the East", through the wonderful concerto of heavy percussion and national orchestra, it aroused the enthusiasm of the audience with cheerful rhythm and inspiring atmosphere; Erhu concerto "Dream Interpretation" Under the performance of Lu Yiwen, a specially invited young erhu performer, winner of the "Double Gold Award" of the Golden Bell Award and the Wenhua Award, and the band, ten consecutive music melodies are presented, which are full of longing, love, struggle, sorrow, dream and if A dream of life with complex emotional images such as waking from a dream.

As the title work of the concert, the fifth Chinese symphony "Bright", which was created in 2020 and touched many audiences in the last music season, was staged at the finale. This work of the times expressing the fate and feelings of mankind commemorates and sings the "anti-epidemic" "Heroes are not afraid of hardships and are conscientious. The audience, Ms. Wang, said that the works performed tonight were very touching. I felt the distinct Jiangnan temperament and national spirit in the three works. Now that the epidemic is spreading across the country, we need works like "Brightness" even more. , to strengthen everyone's confidence and courage.

Peng Jiapeng said that the three works carefully selected tonight are all innovative works of national symphony and have the same characteristics of Jiangnan music culture. We start with this, and we hope that the audience can feel the professional orchestra’s pursuit of inheritance and innovation from the rich and varied melodies of the works, and feel the orchestra’s thinking and artistic concept of keeping pace with the times from the distinct themes of the works, and get the results from the wonderful music. Moisturize the soul, absorb the bright forward force.

Starting from "Towards the Light", the Suzhou Chinese Orchestra will bring a brand new musical journey to music fans at home and abroad with 157 large and medium-sized Chinese orchestral concerts in the 2022-2023 music season. At that time, a batch of large-scale original ethnic orchestral works such as "South of the Yangtze River" and "Legend" will be staged one after another; a series of large and medium-sized concerts such as "Yanhuang Style", "Large Chimes and Chinese Orchestral Music" and "Genghis Khan" will meet the audience one after another.