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Musical ring for New Year
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John Woo
AS many cities around the world use a concert to ring out the old year and ring in a new year, so does Shenzhen. On Saturday, the last but one day of 2000, Shenzhen New Year Concert 2001 was held at the Shenzhen Grand Theatre, with the grace of the mayor and many other celebrities.
It was done by the local symphony orchestra. The conductor was Zhang Guoyong, a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia. His tutor, a world famous conductor in Moscow, gave him the highest score for his graduation performance and said that he was so qualified that he could find a position with any orchestra in the world.
Totally eight symphonies were performed. They included works of such composers as Shostakovich and Johann Strauss. The last one was an E minor Concerto by Frederic Chopin, including the 18-year-old pianist Li Yundi who recently won the first place at the 14th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition. The piano image is bold and realistic, and the brilliance of the pianist's articulation is crisply expressed. Listening to the concerto, the audiences found atmosphere and poetry in slow movements and an engaging dance spirit for the finales, with rhythms given plenty of character.
A symphony entitled Torch Festival was the only work played at the concert that was composed by a Chinese, Wang Xilin. It sounds intimate to the audience, since the music of some southwestern China's ethnic folksongs has been blended into it. It provides a vision that the Chinese ethnic Yi men and women are dancing joyfully in light of many torches around them.
A symphony entitled Torch Festival was the only work played at the concert that was composed by a Chinese, Wang Xilin. It sounds intimate to the audience, since the music of some southwestern China's ethnic folksongs has been blended into it. It provides a vision that the Chinese ethnic Yi men and women are dancing joyfully in light of many torches around them.
A symphony entitled Torch Festival was the only work played at the concert that was composed by a Chinese, Wang Xilin. It sounds intimate to the audience, since the music of some southwestern China's ethnic folksongs has been blended into it. It provides a vision that the Chinese ethnic Yi men and women are dancing joyfully in light of many torches around them.
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