The insider build bridge for audience by the evaluation and pre-judge on performance

Editorial notes: Only an international festival has professional judgement and estimation, it is the culture festival which has academic spirit and can build “bridge” for the audients’ interests. In this session of festival, besides careful organization of many excellent program, the committee also carried out pre-judgement and evaluation on the performance quality. So, we searched some papers of commend and pre-judgement from academism musician to guide the audients to interpret the performed important works and appreciate the famous musician and famous orchestras.  
　　

“ New dream on the sea” Has Personality 

Jie Wu
　　
“New Dream on the Sea VII” concert, held by Shanghai Musician Association, is the most important part of the music festival. Seven art songs and five orchestral new works have been played in this concert. Music forms of art songs are the highlights in this event. Liangzhen Zhu’s works, baritone solo Let Me Hold Your Hand (lyric wrote by Huang Yuyan) and tenor solo You are the Far-off Light in My Dream (lyric wrote by Zhang Haining), are catchy. They expressed a strong feeling about life, patriotic and homesick emotions respectively.  Xiao Leng’s tenor solo Nostalgia is based on the poem of Yu Guangzhong. Rao Pengcheng’s To Find a Star and Li Geli’s Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again are based on Xu Mozhi’s poem. These literature based songs reflect the spirit of pursuing literary mood in musical composition nowadays. The high pitch parts of the songs clearly have some challenges for the new singers.

Qiming Lv’s orchestral overture No.4 Thunderstorm is drawn from Cao Yu’s same name literary work. By sound of music, Qiming Lv successfully revealed the protagonist’s human nature distortion and alienation to the audience---groaning in the darkness, shouting in the thunderstorm, death struggling and perishing.  Conception of Lu Pei’s Xianghe Song comes from the traditional musical style “Xianghe song” and “Xiang He Da Qu ” in Han-wei period. Its structure conforms to the “yan, qu, qu, luan” patterns of “Xiang Xiang He Da Qu”. It brought the audience a brand new auditory experience by using urheen, lute, piano and orchestra concerto as its orchestration. Based on the Micro-Concerto  concept, the yong composer Yiwen  Shen  infinitely expands short pentameter and oboe melody in the “First Orchestral Essay”. These five new original orchestra works are uniquely subtly conceived. They reflected the different composing angles and exploration spirits for contemporary humanism in different languages.

Small Defects of  Lou Lan  Cannot Obscure Great Virtues of it

Wenhui Zhao
　　
Loulan, the original musical created by Shanghai Conservatory of Music, depicts the tragic love story between Loulan princess Archies and a craftsman Nagy who fight together bravely against enemies and die heroic deaths to protect the country Loulan against Hun’s invasion. After watching this two-episode musical, I admit that the well-knit and dramatic plot development greatly increases its brilliance. In particular, the plots are linked well together. Especially, the plots began with princess being back from Heaven Pool to find her maid a Hun’s spy. She called on people to channelize and remove. Then she seduced Hun’s King for more available time, assassinating their machinator.  In the end, she sacrifice themselves and flooding Hun’ s army through sluicing. The series plots are link by link. What need improve is as follows:  some sluggish plots in Episode One, and unclear description of methods by which the princess finds Heaven Pool and defeats Huns at the beginning of Episode Two.

Although the story happened in Loulan, a country in western region, the aria of whole musical bases on pop music, embellished by west regions music, blending elements of rock, R&B and “Loulan-style”, all in order to produce the effect of “symphonic pop”, which makes it more vivid and more popular in young people. The most impressive scene belongs to the “channelization” part in Episode Two, dividing the platform into three layers. The upper showing Nagy leading people to channelize, the middle princess leading people to transfer and the lower Hun’s King preparing to marry the princess. The music takes on three themes respectively at first, and makes a great integration of them at last, which is seen to “play” brilliantly. It is worth mentioning that the music throughout the whole performance is performed by a live band. Although sometimes fairly loudness outweighs the singing and dialogue, undeniably speaking, the performance served a spectacular show pleasant to both eyes and ears to the audience. Such arrangement embodies the professional advantages of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and is also rare to see in Chinese original musicals.

People Expect the Sound of “France”
　　
YiFan Sun

On May13th, “The Sound of France” stroke a pose on the stage of Shanghai Oriental Art Center.  The two highlights of the night is the sounds of Sokhievmania and Miracle .   　

Tugan Sokhiev is the general music inspector of Tougan Seok Chiev and French Toulouse State-owned String Orchestra. He hold concurrently general music inspector of Berlin Deutsche Symphony Orchestra. LeMonde of France commended the series of concerts hold in Paris by the words of ”Sokhievmania”. The performance is worthy to pay high attention to, including the first cooperation between Tugan Sokhiev and Berlin Symphony orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Besides, he is also guest conductor of many famous symphony orchestra in the world, such as Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , Spanish national symphony orchestra and Amsterdam  Royal Concertge symphony Orchestra. After the cooperation performance between Tougan Seok Chiev and French Toulouse State-owned String Orchestra in Théatre des Champs-élysées, Sokhiev is honored as “ The Year's most Inspiring Musician ” by French media. It is believed that music of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and Variations of a Rose by Deqing Wen, a Swiss born Chinese music composer, will give out the music rhyme of different style by his performance.

Cellist Tatjana Vasiljeva, the world top cellist, assisted performance in that night. By preeminent cello technology and attractive sound, she is called “Miracle”. Let’s expect the deep, profound and complex beautiful timbre of the cello on that night.