Looking back on the surging years in music, the singer | concert of the classic red ethnic opera and symphonic epic "Long March Suite Song". July 1st | Opera
To welcome the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the CPC, Shanghai Oriental Art Center carefully planned three concerts. On July 1st, singers from Shanghai Conservatory of Music collaborated with the Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra to perform the "Classic Excerpts - Ethnic Opera Selection Concert". On the same day, the Shanghai Oriental Citizen Concert's Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe "Sing a Mountain Song for the Party" will present familiar red classics to the audience. In addition, on August 1st, during the Army Day, conductor Zheng Xiaoying's disciple Gao Song, along with the Shanghai Opera House Choir and the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra, will perform the epic masterpiece "The Song of the Long March".
Teachers and students of the Shangyin Shengge Department sing ethnic opera with a hundred year history
Chinese ethnic opera, as an opera style that draws inspiration from traditional Chinese opera, was brewed in the 1930s and formed in the 1940s and 1950s. After the birth of the national operas "Hongxia", "Honghu Red Guards", "Red Coral", and "Jiang Jie", Chinese opera gradually developed into opera styles with Chinese characteristics.
This concert is performed by multiple singers and students from the Vocal Opera Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The performers include Liu Fangying, Yu Lihong, Chen Jianbo, Meng Jinhui, Chen Yang, Zhao Yong, Chen Jingwei, Xu Jie, Chen Jiapo, Yang Xuejin, Fang Qiong, and the student group from the teaching group. The opening theme of the concert is the overture "Time Flows Fragrance" composed by Xu Ke, a young composer from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. It will conclude with a duet by Shanghai Conservatory of Music's teachers and students in "Revolutionary People are Forever Young", shaping many characters in national operas such as "Red Guards of Honghu", "White Haired Girl", "Jiang Jie", and "Daughter of the Party" for the audience.
A hundred people from Shanghai Opera House sing the symphonic epic "Long March Suite Song"
In 1965, on the occasion of commemorating the 30th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, General Xiao Hua, who had participated in the Long March, spent six months completing 12 vivid and sincere works. Composers Chen Geng, Sheng Mao, Tang Ke, and Yu Qiu selected 10 of them to compose a set of songs, depicting 10 interlocking scenes of combat life, namely "Farewell", "Breaking through the Blockade Line", "Zunyi Conference Shining with Glory", "Four Crossing of the Red River and Emerging with Strange Soldiers", "Flying over the Dadu River", "Crossing Snowy Mountains and Grasslands", "Arriving at Wuqi Town", "Zhu Jie", "Bao Xi", and "Grand Master". They cleverly integrated the folk tunes of various regions with the traditional songs of the Red Army, and compiled a large-scale vocal suite called "Long March Set Song" with a distinct theme, rich content, novel form, and unique style.
The Shanghai Opera House has repeatedly rehearsed and performed the Long March Suite. In this performance, the theater will draw on the strengths of others on the basis of restoring the premiere version, and recreate this large-scale music epic with a lineup of nearly 200 people.
