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A series of traditional Chinese classic pieces will be performed at the Shanghai Grand Theater on December 29 to help ring in the New Year.
The event will be the seventh consecutive New Year’s concert by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. This tradition has highlighted a different musical style each year, including symphony, chamber, vocal and traditional Chinese music.
This year’s concert will include performances from selected students and teachers with the conservatory’s Traditional Chinese Orchestra, and will be conducted by Wu Qiang. Bamboo flute master Zhan Yongming, rising erhu (a two-stringed bowed instrument) star Lu Yiwen and liuqin (a willow-shaped plucked instrument) player Zhang Biyun will participate in the concert.
“It will be a concert of pieces in everybody’s mouth, where local audiences can easily appreciate the melodies that have long been haunting their mind,” says Chen Ming, director of the Art Department at the conservatory.
The Chinese Traditional Orchestra at the Conservatory will draw the concert curtain with a joyful traditional Chinese piece “Flying Dragon and Jumping Tiger.” Zhan will perform “Solitary Orchid Greeting the Spring,” a representative piece of the Southern School of bamboo flute playing from the 1950s.
The concert will also highlight different parts of the orchestra including the stringed, plucked string, wind and percussion sections, through well-known traditional Chinese pieces like “Yao Nationality Dance Song,” “Full Moon,” “Scenery of Tianshan” and “Capriccio of Yan River.”
Date: December 29, 7:15pm
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater
Address: 300 People’s Ave
Tickets: 80-500 yuan
Tel: 6431-8756, 6431-5472
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