Unlock Shanghai Summer Music Festival, N ways
After a series of wonderful performances, what can a music festival leave for the audience and citizens? Since its inception, the Shanghai Summer Music Festival has always created different scenes for encountering music, bringing small surprises in ordinary life to citizens and tourists. During the 2024 Shanghai Summer Music Festival, there will be more than 20 events in various forms, from concert halls to street corner gardens, from music to painting and architecture, allowing art to ignite the passion for life.
“City Symphony” brings music to the streets
Following its first performance at Apple Shanghai Jing'an Store on March 21, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's "Citywide Symphony" will visit nine city landmarks, including popular business districts, Internet-famous coffee shops, cultural spaces, and street corner gardens, during MISA, creating 13 opportunities for citizens and tourists to encounter art.
Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall's new performing arts space·Music Lobby, Jinhe Yuejie No. 8 Hengshan Road, Soong Ching Ling Cultural Space, PLUSONE Café, Lululemon, Zhihe Kafen Garden, Dream Garden, Xintiandi and Huangpu District Library are all marked in this MISA "City Symphony" art map.
Performers from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, students from the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, young performers who have emerged from the "Wonton Skin Star Stage", well-known musicians and music performance groups in Shanghai, children's choirs and dancers will all become art ambassadors. The sound of flutes floating from the corner gardens, the slow-moving bossa nova on the balconies, and the brass marches encountered in Xintiandi will all meet citizens and tourists unexpectedly.
Launch of new cultural talk show MISATalk
MISATalk is a new cultural talk show launched at this summer music festival, which will invite five representatives from different fields to give keynote speeches.
On July 4, as one of the arrangers of the piano concerto "Yellow River", pianist Shi Shucheng will share with the audience his artistic concept and artistic life of adapting Vivaldi's classic work "The Four Seasons". On July 6, Shanghai nursery rhyme singer-songwriter Wang Yuanchao will be a guest at MISATalk, talking about the unforgettable memories of childhood and singing beautiful Shanghainese nursery rhymes.
On July 13, performing artist Wang Rugang will start with a mung bean popsicle, talk about those unforgettable delicacies, and together find the fireworks of Shanghai and the taste of hometown in memory.
This year marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Aaron Avshalomov. He was the first composer to compose the March of the Volunteers with orchestral music, and was affectionately called "Afu" by his Chinese friends. On July 14, classical music lover Xu Shen will lead the audience to explore Afu's musical footprints in Shanghai.
This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer Jin Yong. His stories of loyalty, chivalry, and revenge are still cherished by countless readers. On July 15, the closing session of MISATalk will be presented by Mao Jian, a professor and writer at East China Normal University, who will share with the audience her own Jin Yong world.
MISAWalk brings architecture and music together
This year, the summer music festival also launched several MISAWalk routes. On July 6, the Shikumen themed walk will start from Jiaxiuli, the Shikumen where Mao Zedong lived the longest in Shanghai, passing through the "Hundred Years Zhang Garden", the filming location of the hit TV series "Flowers", and the "Jing'an Villa", the largest new-style lane residential complex in Shanghai, and finally arrive at the MISA venue - Shanghai City Lawn Music Plaza, accompanied by the breeze, and indulge in the hazy night of the Jazz Shanghai Big Band.
The walk on July 7th was Baroque-themed, starting from the former site of the French General Association, the Garden Hotel, and strolling under the mottled shadows of the plane trees. The Cathay Cinema, Nanchang Building, Lin Fengmian's former residence, Science Hall and other historical buildings carried the city's memory. On July 11th, the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall, with the music of Bonizzoni, the Resonance Orchestra and the Chaconne Orchestra that traveled through time and space, ripples of Baroque appeared.
The Baroque period, which had a profound impact on architecture, music, painting and other fields, was a "golden age" of flourishing art. MISA and Dongyi Art Museum jointly launched the "Venice Sound and Painting Feast" event to interpret the musical characteristics of the Baroque period, listen to the Venice boat songs, appreciate the 16th century Venetian school of painting, take a "MISA Walk" in the art museum, and visit the "Titian Flora - Uffizi Gallery Venetian School of Painting Collection Exhibition".
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Jin Yong's birth, the Summer Music Festival will not only premiere "Wuxia" created by Yu Long and co-commissioned by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Chengdu Symphony Orchestra and Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra and composed by Liang Haoyi in the closing concert, but will also hold a number of related activities. On July 7, the instructors of "Star Tai Chi" will teach the audience the three basic Tai Chi moves on site. On July 15, the martial arts monks of Songshan Shaolin Temple will unveil the veil of Shaolin Kung Fu.
MISA is a window to the world's music culture and the "music entry point" for the world to arrive in Shanghai. "Meeting in Shanghai" is the theme of this summer music festival, and the "Imprints of Shanghai" exhibition will be open to the public free of charge during the MISA period. The exhibition is named after objects, and brings together more than 100 daily life objects of ordinary people in Shanghai, such as Shenbao, old photos developed by Wang Kai Photo Studio, programs of Daguangming Theater, Shuangmei brand toilet water, Zhengguanghe soda...
In addition, drinking a MISA special blend, listening to an opening rehearsal, watching an online live broadcast, and sending a MISA customized announcement postcard are all different ways to unlock MISA.
