On the evening of October 28, the first concert of the National Chamber Orchestra of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music and the pre season concert "Fenghua National Music" was held in the Concert Hall of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. The concert was hosted by Zhejiang Conservatory of Music and co organized by the National Music Department and the Department of Music and Engineering of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. Wang Fujian, the director of the National Music Department of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, was specially invited to serve as the art director, Zhou Zhan, the permanent conductor of the National Orchestra School of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, served as the deputy head of the delegation, Chen Zhiyi, a Gaohu performer, Liu Yu, a young erhu performer, and Wei Sijun, a young bamboo flute performer, joined hands with the National Chamber Orchestra of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music.
This concert is the first concert of the first professional national chamber orchestra in Zhejiang Province, which performed ten national instrumental ensemble works such as "Moonlight on the Spring River", "Water Clouds in Xiaoxiang", "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace", "High Mountains and Flowing Water", "Gardening", "Walking on the Street", "357", "Double Hate", "Chain Link", and "Eight Tone Harmony". Wang Fujian, the art director, once said that these works, with classical traditional music as the main body, are intended to pay tribute to the excellent traditional music culture of the Chinese nation, and strive to promote the characteristics of national music while integrating the musicians' superb performance techniques into them, so as to inject new vitality into traditional music.
The concert narrated to the audience the peaceful beauty of the coexistence of the spring river tide and the bright moon on the riverside with a song "Night of Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River". This work selected the silk and bamboo ensemble version of Shanghai Datong Music Club. The music depicts the charming scene of waning night, river and moon, and also shows the poetic cultural aesthetics of the Chinese nation. Xiaoxiang Water Cloud was created by Guo Mian, a musician of Zhejiang School in the Southern Song Dynasty, and has become one of the representative works of Zhejiang School's intangible cultural heritage tradition after being passed down through the ages. The Xiaoxiang Water Cloud performed by the National Chamber Orchestra of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, with the ancient zither playing as the lead and the silk and bamboo music concerto, expresses the ancient literati's infinite feelings about the fragility of mountains and rivers and the drift of the times.
Chen Zhiyi, a Gaohu performer from Guangdong National Orchestra, was invited to bring two pieces of music with Guangdong music characteristics. "Two Voices of Hate" is an earlier traditional ancient music of Guangdong music, which is in the mode of "Yifan". The music is based on the story of the folk legend "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". Lian Huan Kou is an adaptation of ancient music by Yan Laolie, a Guangdong music elder, who uses new techniques such as playing the dulcimer with a right bamboo stroke, adding flowers, and speeding up the speed. After the adaptation, the melodies are linked one after another. Both works are compiled with "five heads" (Gaohu, Yangqin, Yehu, Qinqin, Dongxiao), which is one of the most representative performance forms of Guangdong music. The last piece of music, "Harmony", is based on the ancient Sheng Yu music and the Chinese music rhythm. It aims to reproduce the millennium Chinese music tradition and rhythm, and to show the harmonious realm and spirit contained in Chinese traditional music. Under the continuous applause, the orchestra returned to play a bright, cheerful and well-known Chinese music "Bubugao".
The whole concert deeply rooted in the purity and diversity of traditional music, presented the traditional connotation of Chinese excellent culture with music language, and demonstrated the inheritance and promotion of the value and vitality of Chinese culture by the national musicians in the new era.
It is reported that in the middle and late November, the orchestra will launch the concert "Poetry in Jiangnan" with Zhejiang style as the theme and Jiangnan style as the theme, to show the meaning and far-reaching of cultural Zhejiang. In the first ten days of November, the orchestra will co sponsor with the Composing Department of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music to hold the first national chamber orchestra creation competition and works collection at the National Music Festival of the National Music Department of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, and in the first ten days of December, the orchestra will launch the award-winning and excellent works concert of this activity with the theme of "Rhythm of the Times". At the end of December, the orchestra plans to go to Shanghai Concert Hall to perform its first show outside the province and the 2023 New Year concert.