Opening the Shanghai Summer Music Festival Auditory Feast, Approaching the Composers of the "Metaverse" | Youth | Music Festival
On July 8th, when I walked into the Shanghai Symphony Hall and scanned the mini program code with my phone, a brilliant starry sky appeared in the screen with the help of reality enhancement technology.
This is a special gift prepared for the audience at the Shanghai Summer Music Festival. The 2023 Shanghai Summer Music Festival officially kicked off, and in the next two weeks, there will be over a dozen exciting music performances by musicians from Shanghai and various countries around the world on the stage in Shanghai.
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Gary Kingslin, the head of the New York Philharmonic, arrived at the opening ceremony of the summer music festival. The New York Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra have close exchanges and profound friendship.
Led by Zhou Ping, the head of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, guests from various countries unveiled the art installation for this year's summer music festival. This year's summer music festival is themed "The world has sound, the universe has light". MISA will combine various orange model board toys such as instruments, astronauts, planets, VR glasses, etc. for this year's main visual 3D printing, such as "freely assembled" toys, full of futuristic and fun.
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The brightly colored and lively summer music festival installations have attracted many viewers to take photos and check in.
The hall of the submitted concert hall also prepares cosmic themed ice cream to create a relaxed atmosphere for summer performances.
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The opening concert tickets for that night were sold out early. The audience arrived early at the concert hall to experience the lively atmosphere of the music festival.
At 7 pm, the musicians gradually arrived on stage to prepare for the performance that night.
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The opening concert of the 2023 Shanghai Summer Music Festival will be directed by young conductor Jin Yukuang with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, performing the theme fantasy song "Three Body" by crossover musician Wang Feinan, and the eponymous work "Metaverse" by young composer Liang Haoyi and Icelandic composer Anna Sowalsdottier. At the same time, Holst's classic "Planetary Suite" will also be performed, showcasing composers of different eras' imagination of the vast universe with different styles of music.
Young composers Liang Haoyi and Wang Feinan also came to the scene to listen to the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra playing their own melodies.
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After 2000, conductor Jin Yukuang stepped onto the stage and led Shanghai Jiao Tong to perform a series of exciting songs that night.
The opening song is a symphony adapted by young composer Wang Feinan based on the music of the popular TV drama "Three Body Problem". After leaving a deep and humorous impression on the audience with "The Wheel of Time" last year, Wang Feinan once again developed the "Fantasia" of "The End of Time" and "The Unknown Day" in the original soundtrack of the film and television with a rebellious creative attitude. By incorporating avant-garde and electronic music styles, and even incorporating Chinese folk materials, he reshaped the universe, life, and consciousness in the sound, describing the romance and joys and sorrows of the three body world.
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Following Icelandic composer Anna Sowalsdottir's "Metaverse," the composer stated that the idea of "metaverse" in the title originated from "a kind of falling into a black hole, transcending to the other side, reaching a place that no one knows and cannot control." The music is filled with a strong mysterious power, where the symphony orchestra is reborn as a natural organism, and in the work, time is diluted to non-existent.
Another eponymous work by young composer Liang Haoyi, "The First Symphony: The Metaverse," showcases another perspective in his mind. He excels at "visualizing sound," by incorporating avant-garde and electronic music styles, and even incorporating Chinese folk materials to reshape the universe, life, and consciousness through sound, describing the romance and joys of the three body world.
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The exciting performance received enthusiastic applause from the audience. Xiao Jin repeatedly walked onto the stage, leading the submitted performers to bid farewell to the audience.
In the next two weeks, the Shanghai Summer Music Festival will also bring rich music performances to Shanghai audiences in various performance venues such as urban lawns and third spaces; The flashy music performances that shuttle through various landmarks in the city are also waiting for unexpected encounters with people who love music.
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