947 news | 2024 Shanghai Summer Music Festival lineup announced, come pick your favorite

One evening in 1926, Mei Baiqi conducted the Orchestra of the Ministry of Works Bureau (the predecessor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra) to perform in Hongkou Park, if from this earliest recorded open-air concert, Shanghai's tradition of spending the summer with music has been about a century.

In 2024, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its 145th anniversary and the Shanghai Summer Music Festival will enter its 15th year. This long-yellowed program, as an important coordinate to review the history of Shanghai, is also a memory endpoint of the in-depth development of Shanghai music, which truthfully shows the century-long walk of Shanghai's urban civilization. It is these steps that ultimately converge into the path of music embedding in the city, making music a close choice for citizens in their daily lives.

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

On May 20, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission jointly launched the "Shanghai 2024 Shanghai Summer Music Festival" together with the Shanghai Huangpu District People's Government, Shanghai Xuhui District People's Government, Shanghai Radio and Television Station, Shanghai Culture Radio, Film and Television Group Co., LTD., and other organizers, and first announced the program lineup.

From July 1 to 15, there will be 24 live performances, more than 20 "online MISA", 13 citywide symphonic performances, 5 "MISA talk", 3 "MISA Walk" and Tai Chi experience, Shaolin Kung Fu exhibition, World Coffee Tour and other performances and activities. At that time, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra will once again meet in MISA, in addition, 5 musical groups, 5 student art groups, nearly 50 conductors and solo artists will also take turns on the stage of Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall and Shanghai City Lawn Music Square, from Venice at night, American Impression, Gypsy Song, South American style and other diverse musical performances. Focus on instruments of different styles such as harmonica, accordion and saxophone, presenting the musical style brought by MISA like a world exposition.

Shanghai, standing at the intersection of Chinese music and world music, MISA is also "sound" and will promote countless encounters, the summer of 2024, because of MISA, meet in Shanghai. As Long Yu, artistic director of the Shanghai Summer Music Festival, says: "Music is part of the city's life. Shanghai Summer Music Festival lets every citizen living here and friends who come from afar feel the colorful music life of the city. MISA is a window to the world's music culture and a 'music entry point' for the world to arrive in Shanghai, allowing the world to have a deeper understanding of Shanghai."

Yu Long, artistic director of Shanghai Summer Music Festival

Old friends meet in Shanghai

Create music "ideal"

At the 15th MISA, friends from home and abroad gathered in Shanghai to create an "ideal place" for music.

With the theme of "Music and Friends", Yu Long, Yang Yang, Huang Yi and Sun Yifan, four generations of conductors from the "post-60s" to the "post-90s", joined hands with violinists Ning Feng, cellists Wang Jian and Qin Liwei, and pianists Zhang Haochen and Wang Yalun to present classic works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Chrysler and Chopin.

Yang Yang

Huang Yi

Sun Yifan

Ninfeng County

Wang Jian

Qin Liwei

Pianist Zhang Haochen

Pianist Wang Yalun

Following the debut performance of MISA last year, young composer Liang Hao Yi lit up the musical friendship of friends with "Friendship Eternal Overture", the Summer music Festival is not only a reunion of musicians after a long absence, but also a sincere exchange of audience and music, a rare star lineup gathered at MISA, lighting the torch of music and love.

On July 2 and July 3, conductor Van Ziden, who is about to step down as music director, led the New York Philharmonic to return to MISA for the first time after five years, performing masterpieces by Mahler, Mozart, Brahms and other giants, and giving the Chinese premiere of "post-90s" composer Nina Shekhar's "Light".

Music style expo

Travel the world by hearing

On July 5, the Latvian accordionist Ksenia Sidorova and the German young baritone Binyamin Appel staged the concert "Venice at Night - Accordion and baritone", presenting the world premiere of this new set to the concert Hall, allowing the audience to enjoy the delicate and romantic scenery of the water city in the concert hall.

On July 6, the GCG Pilot Orchestra took to the stage with the works of American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, minimalist music representative John Adams, and the Oscar-winning best score Korngold and Coriano, presenting a unique American music Platte.

On July 9, Zhang Jiemin led the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, joined hands with soprano Fang Qiong and a number of young singers and musical stars who have won the Golden Bell Award, sang "China in Song" in the shade of Shanghai City Lawn Music Plaza, featuring vocal works from different regions, different ethnic groups and different genres. Praise the magnificent cultural features of this vast land in harmony.

On July 12, young mezzo-soprano Wu Hongni and Russian pianist Sergei Rabin jointly set off "Carmen's Veil" to experience the mysterious and ancient Gypsy style.

Listen to the "inaudible sounds" in the symphony

Wandering the Musical Instrument Expo

In MISA, in addition to hearing the majestic sound created by the symphony orchestra, you can also hear many Musical Instruments that rarely contribute "sound" in the symphony. This year, harmonica, accordion and saxophone will become the "absolute protagonists", presenting a series of colorful and pleasant "Musical instrument Expo" to the public.

"I am so happy to be back in Shanghai again, I have been waiting for this call for ten years," Italian harmonica master Gianluca Litera was excited when he received MISA's invitation. On July 5, Zhang Lu and the string players of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will collaborate with the musician, who is proficient in both classical and jazz performance, to perform popular works such as Gordon Jacobs' "Five Pieces" and Morricone's film score.

Italian harmonica master Gianluca Litra

Accordionist Sidorova will also take the stage at the Huangpu Lawn City Music Square on July 7 to explore tango music from around the world with players from the Shanghai Friends Chamber Orchestra. The Italian saxophone quartet will also play Nino Rota's classic film music in the green fields. Clarinetist Elgau will show the charm of the orchestra's "orator" through works by composers such as Wolff, Weber and John Williams.

Accordionist Sidorova

Italian saxophone quartet

From gorgeous Baroque to dynamic Neoclassical

Intergenerational dialogue leaps forward in Shanghai

On July 4, two pairs of twin pianists, Shi Wei, Shi Rong, Zhou Leping and Zhou Leting, will work together for the first time at MISA, performing Mozart's melodies and Alensky's Russian romance, and presenting Shi Shucheng's world premiere of Vivaldi's Four Seasons for two pianos and eight hands.

In "Wonton Wrapper" on July 11, Italy's Harmonic Ancient Orchestra and Shanghai's Chacongu Orchestra carried the audience through time and recreated Baroque sounds.

On the city lawn that night, the new generation conductor Jin Yukuang led the neoclassical Chamber orchestra, and pianist Wang Yalun took over the baton to play the classical "new sound" : from the spicy and warm Shostakovich to the swaying Capustin and Piazzolla, setting off a cross-era classical dialogue in Shanghai.

Student power building

The fruits of aesthetic education help youth music dreams

Teenagers grow up with MISA

Since its establishment, MISA has always been engaged in the responsibility of "social aesthetic education". Over the years, it has not only given birth to four student art groups, such as Shanghai Student Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Student Choir, Shanghai Student Chinese Orchestra, and Shanghai Summer Music Festival Student Festival Band, but also attracted a large number of young people to participate in it. From the audience to volunteers, countless vigorous forces continue to join, becoming an important stage for young people to bloom their musical dreams every summer.

This year, in addition to the four student art groups, the award-winning Spring Youth Choir will also take the stage to let the world hear the youth beautiful voice, but also let people see the youth grow with MISA.

Chinese composer to see Cha Xia again

Common spectrum of Chinese culture of heroism

Jin Yong's centenary commemorates the eternal martial arts spirit

On July 15, Yu Long led the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, together with violinist Wang Jing and bamboo flute player Feng Tianshi, with two heroic works, Tan Dun's "Hero" violin concerto and Liang Haoyi's "Wuxia - to commemorate the centenary of Jin Yong's birth", to show the heroic spirit rooted in the Chinese people. The commemoration of Jin Yong, the "swordmaker" who created an "imaginary cultural community" for countless Chinese, also brought the MISA to a close.

Created by Yu Long, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Chengdu Symphony Orchestra and Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra jointly commissioned Liang Haoyi's "Martial Arts". This bright sound is the world's first performance, coupled with the Oriental chivalric tenderness created by composer Tan Dun, who has won international awards such as Oscars and Grammys, to pay tribute to the chivalry spirit of the Chinese nation. "For the country and the people, the great chivalry", meet the rivers and rivers. Meet in Shanghai.

Photo source: Shanghai Summer Music Festival

Original title: "947 Lesun | 2024 Shanghai Summer Music Festival lineup announced, come pick your favorite"

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