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Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra's five-country tour in Balkan Peninsula concludes successfully
17:45 Aug 21 2018
According to the official report of the Albanian Embassy, on August 21, local time, the Chinese bamboo flute orchestra in Tirana, the capital of the Republic of Albania, staged a fantastic seaside and Chinese elements intertwined with the collision of the music feast, the Chinese Ambassador to Albania Jiang Yu, A Minister of Tourism and Environment Klosi, the Mayor of Durrës Dako, the Mayor of Kavaja Sakija, the President of the ACCA Spasiu, the President of the ACCA Nano and more than ten ambassadors and other 400 people attended the concert that night. The concert was attended by more than 400 people, including the president of Albanian-Chinese Cultural Association Spasiu, the president of Albanian-Chinese Friendship Association Nano, and the ambassadors of more than ten countries in Albania. The concert was broadcasted live by Albanian national television. The concert is a cultural exchange activity of the local embassy and the final concert of the “Flute Passing on the Music of Heaven” Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra's five-country tour in Balkan Peninsula.
The sound of flute is long, the sentiment is strong, the drift is graceful, and the reverberation is long. That night, the Adriatic Riviera played the heavenly flute music of the Orient, and the Chinese folk music with deep cultural heritage caused the resonance of the Chinese and Arabian audiences. The orchestra used the sound of Chinese silk and bamboo to reproduce the classics of China's folk music, and demonstrated the charm of oriental music in an innovative and adapted way. During the concert, the artists of the Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra presented seven pieces, including “Happy Encounter”, “Henan Song”, “Bamboo Words”, “Maxims”, “Yangge” and “Three Scenes of the Treasure Island”, as well as “Yangguan Sanyi”, a vocal piece adapted from an ancient song.
The artists of the Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra demonstrated the rich expressive power of the Chinese bamboo flute instrument by innovatively adapting it to collaborate with the traditional Chinese instruments of the shakuhachi and the erhu, and integrating the Western instrument of the piano while inheriting the essence of folk music, making the collision and fusion of Chinese and Western music shocking to the heart. The piece “Bamboo Branch Lyrics” borrowed the ancient name but did not describe the idyllic atmosphere, after the orchestra re-arranged to present a brand new musical work, giving people a refreshing feeling. Young erhu player Chai Shuai performed a piece called “Henan Xiaoqu”, which is a chamber piece for erhu and bamboo flute orchestra with the tone of Henan opera. Chai Shuai borrowed the playing techniques of the falling hu to make the erhu's expressive power richer in his performance. Another highlight of the concert was the girls' solo performance of the ancient piece “Yangguan Sanyi”, which was a long-lasting parting piece by the Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra and soprano Huang Lu, one of the classic Chinese vocal works. What surprised the audience even more was that the orchestra also arranged a special piece of Albanian music “Si Dukat” as the return piece. An overseas Chinese audience member praised, “It is rare to hear such a Chinese flavorful and relaxing flute concert in a foreign country, and it makes me miss my faraway country.”
Mayor Klossi praised the concert for fully demonstrating the charm of Chinese music and culture, allowing us to see the rich expressive power of the traditional Chinese instrument, the flute, sending a stream of fresh air for the Western audience, looking forward to more Chinese high-level artists to visit and perform in Afghanistan, hoping to strengthen the musical exchanges between the two countries, and also welcoming more Chinese tourists to visit the country.
Ambassador Jiang said that under the “Belt and Road” initiative, Sino-Arab cultural exchanges have flourished, and the establishment of a platform for cooperation between Central and Eastern European countries has promoted cultural exchanges between the two countries, and that the concert will allow the audience to see a poetic China through the music of the flute, and that the Chinese culture is profound and profound, and we hope that Chinese musicians will use music as a link to promote the splendid Chinese culture to the world. We hope that Chinese musicians will use music as a link to promote the splendid national culture of the Chinese nation to the world.
The concert was broadcast live on the 24-hour news channel of the mainstream media. The Panorama newspaper also reported on the performance and spoke highly of the artistic standard of the concert.
On this tour, the Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra led by Prof. Zhang Weiliang, the famous master of national music, the king of saintly xiaojiao, the king of flute and flute and xiaojiao hygienist, held a total of seven performances, which passed through seven cities in turn, including Sarajevo, Zadar, Novorossija, Pag, Subotica, Ohrid and Tirana, and the performances were a great success. It promoted the artistic exchanges between Chinese and Western cultures, brought Chinese folk music to the world, demonstrated the extremely high artistic heritage of oriental music, fully demonstrated China's cultural self-confidence, and allowed the Western audience to profoundly experience the value of China's traditional music and culture, and also contributed to the creation of a strong Chinese power to build a Chinese cultural brand with international first-class influence and high level.
This five-country Balkan Peninsula tour is a reflection of the cultural concept of “One Belt, One Road” construction and a further practice of “One Belt, One Road” cultural exchange. The Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra helps the construction of “One Belt, One Road” with music, deepens the mutual understanding and respect between various nationalities and countries, jointly paves the road of peace and stable development, demonstrates the unique charm of Chinese music and culture, enhances the dissemination and influence of Chinese national music and culture, and promotes the Chinese national music and culture to the world with the power of Chinese music. The power of Chinese national music is used to promote Chinese national music culture to the world. In today's global cultural pluralism, Prof. Zhang Weiliang leads the Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra to explore the development of traditional Chinese musical instruments, and to play the ancient musical instrument, the flute, to create a new sound that blends the ancient and modern, the elegant and the vulgar, and the Chinese and Western cultures, and to open a new chapter for Chinese music to go to the world stage.
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