On April 2, in the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall, silk and bamboo orchestras encountered thousand-year-old poetry. On the stage of the 41st Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, the large-scale ethnic orchestra "Tang Poems and Song Ci Two Cities" was played by the Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater Chinese Orchestra. "Tang poetry and Song lyrics are the cultural genes of the Chinese people, and ethnic orchestral music is China's 'musical mother tongue'. I hope to use this most appropriate way to bring ancient poetry into everyone's lives and let the world hear the voice of China." After the performance, the creator Liu Hao, a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, said in an interview with this reporter.
This work takes the two ancient cities of Chang'an and Hangzhou as its theme, and uses ethnic orchestral music as its writing style. It unfolds the real scenes, real feelings, and real feelings in the poems into flowing music and paintings, allowing the audience to follow the music to complete a cultural journey that spans thousands of years. At the beginning of the performance, percussionist Zhang Jiajing knocked on the door of time and space with sonorous rhythm. In "First Encounter, Dreaming of Chang'an", the drum beats are scattered like horses' hooves trampling on the ancient Chang'an Road. The grand scene of "Chang'an Avenue is narrow and sloping, with green oxen and white horses and seven-scented carriages" written by Lu Zhaolin, followed by the majestic music, instantly erects the magnificent atmosphere of the imperial capital of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Immediately afterwards, the pipa player Tang Xiaofeng's fingertips were flowing, and the melody of "Acquaintance Splendid Chang'an" was clear and lively. The wonderful sound of "big beads and small beads falling on the jade plate" in Bai Juyi's "Pipa Journey" blended with the high-spirited spirit of Meng Jiao's "horseshoes in the spring breeze", vividly depicting the prosperity of Chang'an City where thousands of nations come to visit and the horses and horses are noisy. Later, singer Wang Shan affectionately sang and performed "Flowers and Glazed Years", narrating the fireworks in Chang'an. Xiao player Wang Junkan and flute player Zheng Di had a musical dialogue, and "Farewell·Looking at Chang'an" conveyed the ancient people's sorrow for parting and their feelings about home and country.
Guzheng player Luo Jing performs "Walking in the City·Songcheng City Well" with smart zither music. The notes fully reflect the excitement of spring outings in Songcheng and the hazy mist of the West Lake. In "Watching the Tide·Watching the Qiantang River", the band's sound progresses layer by layer, interweaving the majestic momentum of "a white rainbow across the flat sand" in the music. In "Appreciating the Lake: Dreaming of the West Lake", the female chorus is as gentle as water, and Su Shi's famous line "I want to make the West Lake better than the West Lake" is turned into music, which blends with the orchestra into a light-ink Jiangnan painting. The final chapter "Millennium Road" has an exciting melody, blending the long distance of the camel bells of the Silk Road in Zhang Ji's "Liangzhou Ci" with the majestic wind and thousands of miles in Li Bai's "Guanshan Moon", paying tribute to the blending of civilizations and pushing the whole song to a climax.
