As a large-scale stage play and work creation project funded by the National Art Foundation in 2022, the Great Wall concert of the Central National Orchestra was performed in the Concert Hall of the National Grand Theater on November 18. The performers of the Central National Orchestra, under the guidance of Liu Sha, the chief conductor, presented the vigor and vitality of the Great Wall with their music.

In 2021, the national concert "The Great Wall" will be performed for the first time in the National Grand Theater. This year, after many creative meetings, rehearsals and synthesis, the structure of the concert has been rearranged into two classics and four new creations - the classic "The Great Wall" will be performed in the form of band concerto, and the wonderful movements of the two tracks "Blood and Meat Great Wall" and "Ode to the Great Wall" will be selected as the finale of the national orchestra "My Motherland", In addition, the two works "The Great Wall" and "Inside and Outside the Great Wall" constitute the whole concert.

The concert kicked off in The Great Wall, written by Wang Danhong, a composer stationed in the Central National Orchestra. The vigorous and powerful music led the audience into the ancient battlefield with fierce horns and powerful drums. The whole piece of music stretches across the thousands of years of history of the Great Wall. It witnessed the vicissitudes of life at the foot of the Great Wall and laid an emotional keynote for the concert.

The Great Wall Capriccio, composed by Liu Wenjin, the old head of the Central National Orchestra, resounded through the concert hall between the bow strings of Tang Feng, the deputy head of the Central National Orchestra and a Hu Qin player. "The erhu concerto" The Great Wall Capriccio "is the 'treasure of the Central National Orchestra. It was composed by Liu Wenjin, the old head of the orchestra. It has been the 40th anniversary since its debut in 1982. Last year, we tried to explore the innovation of concerto with the Ruan people in the Great Wall concert. This year, at this special node of the 40th anniversary, we decided to put the four movements of the whole song on the stage in the form of classical concerto after careful consideration and rearrangement." Tang Feng said in an interview, "Because this piece of music has been created for a long time, it has almost never been presented in a complete version in the past decade. This time, we hope to inject contemporary people's understanding of the spirit of the Great Wall into it through our new interpretation and refined interpretation. While paying tribute to the classics, we also hope to bring new musical feelings to everyone and gain new spiritual strength."

At the beginning of the second half, the composer Zhang Qianyi's national orchestra "Inside and Outside the Great Wall" used music to find another way to describe the Great Wall. The work depicts the winding appearance of the Great Wall with a sound full of frontier customs. In the music, Hebei folk songs, Northeast folk songs, Inner Mongolia folk songs and other music materials are connected, which integrates the national culture inherited for thousands of years inside and outside the Great Wall, and shows a beautiful picture of the integration of multiple cultures inside and outside the Great Wall in the northern territory.

The composer Guo Wenjing's instrumental concerto "The Great Wall of Blood and Meat" was played immediately. The concert selected the most inspiring second movement "Unite to Make a City" to show the unity of the Chinese people. At the end of the movement, when the performer sang forcefully, "Build our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall", the passionate mood permeated the audience.

The second movement "Night Rain" of the composer "Ode to the Great Wall" by Hao Weiya was loved by the audience when it was first performed. This movement added the horse head fiddle, a very regional instrument, and the female voice solo and band accompaniment, bringing a special feeling to the audience. There is no Mongolian musical vocabulary such as long tune in the music, but the original music language is used to show the theme, which broadens the artistic edge of the horse head fiddle, a national instrument. Under the affectionate interpretation of young soprano Gong Shuang and young horsehead zither player Hao Riwa, the image of the national backbone of the Great Wall, which has stood like a rock in the rain for thousands of years, is clearer.

Zhao Cong, the head of the Central National Orchestra, said that as the "national team" of national music, the Central National Orchestra has chosen the theme of the "Great Wall" to create a series of works. On the one hand, it is to increase the thickness and breadth of national music in the creation of the "Great Wall" theme, and on the other hand, it is to use national music to reshape the "Great Wall Spirit", so that a concert can respond to history and reflect the new era, As well as a number of Great Wall theme music works that can really remain to respond to the call of the times, and show the Chinese spirit and spirit with Chinese musical instruments and Chinese music.