On the evening of November 14, the Suzhou National Orchestra's Wu Yue Spring and Autumn Symphony Concert was played at Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Concert Hall. As one of the important performance projects of "Praise the New Era, Strive for a New Journey", sponsored by the Shanghai International Arts Festival Center under the guidance of the Publicity Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, this performance is also the second concert held by the Suzhou National Orchestra after the previous evening's "Charm of the Yellow River".

The concert was performed by Peng Jiapeng, a famous conductor, artistic director and chief conductor of the orchestra, and Zhu Changyao, a famous erhu player and artistic director of the orchestra, together with the young musicians of the orchestra. Through the national public culture cloud, Suzhou National Orchestra Special Zone, Suzhou National Orchestra Digital Concert Hall, video number, bilibili, Himalaya and other network platforms, synchronous online live broadcast is carried out.

A cheerful "Festival Overture", the representative work of Zhu Jian'er, the first generation of composers trained in New China, marked his centennial birthday; Later, the song "Ancient Sophora Tree Seeking its Roots" created by Zhao Jiping created a scene of wandering people leaving their hometown, yearning for their hometown, and returning to their hometown happily, which reflects the profound intention of Chinese people at home and abroad to stay rooted and connected with their hearts forever; Then Zhu Changyao led the audience to bring Liu Wenjin's Erhu masterpiece "The Great Wall Capriccio", which focuses on showing the magnificent scenes inside and outside the Great Wall, leading the audience to look back at the profound history of the nation and learn the strength of confidence to move forward. "The Great Wall Capriccio is the first erhu concerto in China. This year is the 40th anniversary of its debut at the Shanghai Spring Music Festival. This time, we also chose it specially for Shanghai audiences." Zhu Changyao said.

In the second half, the orchestra brought two original works. Jiang Ying's "Difficulty and Brilliance", written for the centenary of the founding of the Party, describes the epic of national heroes' struggle, eulogizes the brilliant achievements of the new era, and was selected into the "Symphony of the Times - Support Plan for the Creation of Chinese Symphony Music Works" in 2020-2021; The final piece, the Chinese orchestral music "Wu Yue Spring and Autumn" created by Li Binyang, brings a grand and magnificent symphonic movement. The five movements of "Wu Yue contending for hegemony, tasting courage through hardships, the sword of Yue women, fighting again, and being magnificent in the south of the Yangtze River" are continuously played, vividly interpreting the music epic of "King Gou Jian of Yue defeating Wu Gui", and the sound of the national orchestral orchestra that is flexible and flexible, It completely reproduced the changes and historical process of Wu and Yue's struggle for hegemony, and successfully drew the curtain on the whole concert.

The performance received continuous applause from the audience. "I came here specially for Wu Yue Spring and Autumn Festival. The magnificent symphony seemed to put me on the historical stage, deeply immersed in the emotion created by the national orchestral music, and felt the story in the music. It was the end of the music when I came back to my senses, which was very shocking!" Liu, the audience, said.

It is worth mentioning that November coincided with the fifth anniversary of the founding of the orchestra. On the afternoon of the 14th, the Suzhou National Orchestra held a press conference in Shanghai to introduce the details of the performance to the Shanghai media and summarize the development of the orchestra in the past five years.

In the past five years, based in Suzhou, facing the whole country and the world, the Suzhou National Orchestra has performed 606 large and medium-sized concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Suzhou and other urban and rural areas, as well as 22 cities in 12 countries such as the United States and Russia. The orchestra won the title of "National Advanced Collective of Culture and Tourism System" by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and became the only national orchestra shortlisted in China. The orchestra won the "International Symphony Orchestra Award" of the Austrian Music Theatre, and Peng Jiapeng won the "International Music Culture Achievement Award" of the Austrian Music Theatre, becoming the first Chinese orchestra and musician to win this award.

It is reported that in December this year, the orchestra will also participate in the "Symphony of the Times - Invited Performance of National Excellent Orchestras" hosted by the Art Bureau of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Art Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the China Music Association, and then go to Shanghai to play the Symphony of the Elegant Wind and the Symphony of the Sea and the Ode to the Rivers, Rivers and Lakes, two large-scale Chinese orchestral concerts with distinctive epochal and artistic characteristics, to entertain Shanghai music fans.