Recently, the concert "National Music Chants China" was played continuously in Shanghai Grand Theater. The concert drew artistic inspiration from 5000 years of Chinese civilization, gave full play to the open and inclusive artistic characteristics of Shanghai style folk music from a new perspective full of historical depth, and praised China's brilliance with national music.
The concert is divided into five musical chapters. The first chapter, "The Great Spring and Autumn Festival", expresses the profound and brilliant Chinese civilization of five thousand years; The second chapter, Drunken Mountains and Rivers, tells about the aesthetic spirit of great joy and harmony, landscape and common in Chinese art; The third chapter, "Bringing Hundreds of Rivers", features more than ten kinds of musical instruments of different nationalities, such as Jiayaqin, Dongbula, Yi Sixian Qin, Lusheng, Satar, Xianzi, and Mashou Qin, taking turns to show the broad mind and vision of the Chinese nation; The fourth chapter "Heavenly Walk", a triple concerto composed of bamboo flute, erhu and pipa, shows the Chinese nation's strong and unyielding life power; Wu Zhang's Ode to China expresses his respect for Chinese civilization and his love for his motherland.
Luo Xiaoci, art director of "National Music Chanting China" and head of the Shanghai National Orchestra, said that the concert hoped to play the confidence and expectation of every Chinese with diversified and inclusive national music.
It is reported that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai National Orchestra. In addition to "National Music Chants China", the orchestra has also launched a series of national concerts with diverse styles and themes, leading the audience to experience the historical heritage and fashion temperament of contemporary national music from various aspects. For example, the concert of "Silk and Bamboo" led the audience to review the classic works of national music; Guofeng Music Live Folk Music at Sea leads the audience into a new era of Shanghai style folk music; The national symphonic epic Hero and the multimedia music scene Gardenia Blossom show the contemporary temperament of Shanghai folk music.