Chinese and foreign contemporary composers in a "dialogue platform"
Beijing Youth Daily 8 November 2008
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By listening no matter what you have to understand modern music, the night before last and last night the Dutch new music group of the National Grand Theater to perform for the audience is a new experience, different experience the fun of music. Chinese contemporary composers Mo Wuping, Tan Dun, Chen Qigang and other internationally renowned master of modern music Berio, Pierre Boulez, who works the dialogue, with a unique scenario.
It should be said that modern music audience in China is still a small minority, when the first Mo Wuping Fan II concert at the end of the scene out of individual viewers and the audience late into the noise floor, but also makes Lucas [Vis] in the next would like to pick up the baton at the first work only looked at him silently above the second floor of the right hand, waiting for quiet seated audience.
To allow the audience to understand modern music, The orchestra's music director tried to give the audience in a clear and concise manner before each of the works a brief introduction to the creative works of musicians and created the background.
Bons seem to care whether the audience would leave, and two evening performances for nearly 20 works are performed in the composer means and modes of trial, resulting in an audience not accustomed to some of the discordant tone of the slow rhythm of a long enough surprising, for those who are accustomed to listening to Beethoven, Mozart works the audience, do not like to come as no surprise.
This reporter was pleased to find that the majority of the audience is with the attitude to try to understand modern music, although do not like, but still insist on down, or even until the end.
It should be said that this is the Netherlands carefully selected new works of music troupe, of which Pierre Boulez's Derive and Luciano Berio Folk Songs are the characteristics of the sound techniques of the former was 12 and representatives of the vanguard party place, music has many possible trend direction.
The latter type of 11 different parts of the accompaniment of folk songs to modern performance of a combination of a variety of different styles, and mezzosoprano Margriet [van Reisen] traisen fun while showing her a variety of styles of music interpretation techniques, each style has its unique excavation of the personality, so concert scene color.
Chinese composer's works in the show occupies a significant proportion of the Netherlands is not only a new music group and the source of where Chinese composers, but also the composer of the Chinese will be Chinese folk music with contemporary Western music, a combination of creative ways. In Guo Wenjings She Huo you can hear the Chinese nation's religious scene, and in Mo Wupings Fan II you can hear the composer's attitude to life.
Tan Dun's Circle with four trios, conductor and audience is an interesting work, creative work in 1992, after the film did not become famous works of Tan Dun's the kind of music other than vanity, more purely music description.
In particular, allow the audience to participate in music, and when the command requests the audience, "Ha", when the audience and the orchestra together with blow whistle chirp, when the audience shouted and shouted together, the viewers of the "music" is also part of the music the audience to be fully experience of modern music, fun joy.
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