Thirty Establishment Starting Starting again | The 30th Anniversary of the founding of China International Chorus Festival

Author:Cultural Tourism China Time:2022.07.28

▲ On July 19, the 30th anniversary of the China International Chorus Festival was held in the Beijing Concert Hall.

On the evening of July 19, when the young conductor Yang Li led the children of the Beijing Philharmonic Choir, accompanied by the composer Zhang Shuai's play "Snowflake", the Beijing Concert Hall was full of cleverness, lightness, romance In the touching melody, people also seem to cross the exciting and hopeful night of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics more than 5 months ago.

Yang Li on the stage was as excited as the audience in the audience. Thirty years ago, his father and well -known conductor Mr. Yang Hongnian, who led the predecessor of the Beijing Philharmonic Choir, the Central Orchestra and Women's Choir. "Nightingale" and other five famous Chinese and foreign songs. Thirty years later, standing on the stage of the 16th China International Chorus Festival, the Beijing Philharmonic Choir led by Yang Li also sang 5 Chinese and foreign children's chorus works. Flying Dance was composed or adapted by his father Yang Hongnian himself. In this regard, Yang Li said with emotions: "This is art inheritance. No matter how much the choir's name has been changed in the past 30 years, but our purpose has never changed, that is, we have made more excellent Chinese chorus works and Chinese children's vocal chorus. The level is displayed in front of the people of the world through the big stage of the China International Chorus Festival. "

In July 2020, Yang Hongnian always left his favorite Beijing Philharmonic Choir. Yang Hongnian was considered a master who raised the Chinese child chorus to the world -class level, and his death shook the Chinese music industry. Thirty years ago, it was precisely because Yang Hongnian and Ma Geshun, Yan Liangzhang, and Qiu Li and other older generations of musicians and conductors were jointly proposed and running. The first China International Chorus Festival was held in Beijing. On July 16, 1992, 17 Chinese and foreign choirs gathered in the Beijing Concert Hall, singing a song of world friendship that affected the next decades.

The 81 -year -old composer Zhang Yida and Gu Xiayang, Honorary Chairman of the Chinese Musical Drama Association, have participated in the founding and development of the China International Chorus Festival. Zhang Yida still clearly remembers the scene of Yang Hongnian and the choir with the choir on the stage 30 years ago. Gu Xiayang, who was the cadre of the art bureau of the Ministry of Culture, also treasured the souvenir of the first China International Chorus Festival. They said that an international chorus art festival can be held for 16 consecutive sessions, persistent, deeply cultivating, and it is not easy. The achievements of these achievements have a direct relationship with China's years of adhering to reform and opening up, continuously prospering cultural undertakings, and vigorously enriching the cultural life of the masses.

The 16th China International Chorus Festival is by the International Exchange and Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China Foreign Culture Group Co., Ltd., China Song Qingling Youth Science and Technology Cultural Exchange Center, International Chorus Alliance, Beijing Education Committee Co -sponsored by the Chinese Chorus Association, the famous conductor Zheng Xiaoying was invited to serve as the honorary chairman of the Art Committee and the famous chorus conductor Wu Lingfen as the artistic director. This year's chorus festival was held from July 16th to 20th. Night "public welfare special concerts, Chinese chorus and rural aesthetic education forum, and six main activities of the closing ceremony of the 16th China International Chorus Festival, covering four major sections: cultural benefits, art exchanges, conference forums, and performance evaluation.

Literature and art is one of the best ways to realize people's soul exchanges. The purpose of the China International Chorus Festival is to promote the communication and reference of Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges and reference through singing, and to spread the singing of the United States to promote the unity and progress of countries around the world. The number of participating teams in the 16th China International Chorus Festival made breakthroughs from the previous session. A total of more than 50 choirs and more than 30,000 chorus enthusiasts in 52 countries and regions participated.

Li Jinsheng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Foreign Culture Group Co., Ltd., said that despite the influence of the epidemic of new crown pneumonia, chorus enthusiasts around the world cannot get together offline, and the 16th China International Chorus Festival is still held by online and offline methods. As the theme song "Snowflake" of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics "Snowflake", no matter what situation, whether it is in the hometown or in the distance, the flower of the art of chorus is as shiny.

Deepen international cooperation to promote cultural exchanges

▲ The spread of Chinese culture and promoting cultural exchanges is an important purpose of adhering to the China International Chorus Festival.

In 2018, Yang Hongnian published an article in the People's Daily that excellent chorus works are often closely integrated with real life and have distinctive characteristics. The chorus is to tell Chinese stories and spread Chinese voices with pure beautiful singing. Over the past 30 years, the Chinese International Chorus Festival has used a chorus to set up a bridge for cultural exchanges and peace of friendship in the world.

▲ Chinese and foreign chorus artists know and know each other through the stage of the Chinese International Chorus Festival.

According to incomplete statistics, in the past 30 years, more than 3,000 teams and more than 120,000 people in 90 countries and regions directly participated in the China International Chorus Festival, covering over 100 million people online. A large number of domestic excellent choirs met with foreign counterparts through the platform of China International Chorus Festival. A large number of Chinese chorus classic works walked abroad and go to the world stage through the chorus festival.

International, professionalism, and artistic have always been the prominent characteristics of the China International Chorus Festival. Based on the 12 years of cooperation with the International Chorus Alliance, this year's chorus festival also joined hands with the world chorus competition. Through the close cooperation between Chinese and foreign artists, they jointly selected the participating team and performance songs. Online "Double Crown" concert. The concert specially adds the track introduction and guidance session, so that the audience will obtain the music knowledge that analyzes the songs, processing and sound, and can internalize it and externalize it. In terms of promoting cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries and deepening people's exchanges and cooperation, the China International Chorus Festival has left many unforgettable vivid stories. At the opening ceremony of the 14th China International Chorus Festival in 2018, the daughter of Kazakhstan musicians Bykadimov's daughter, Baya Momova, and Guo Min, the granddaughter of the Chinese musician Xinghai, joined the stage to sing Kazakhstan folk songs "Swallow" and Chinese songs "Where are time to go", through the wonderful music, interpreted the touching chapters of the people's deep friendship in the country along the "Silk Road".

In the 1940s, in order to avoid the fire, the famous Chinese musician, the star of the Chinese musician, came to Alamu, Kazakhstan. Under the arrangement of destiny, he met Kazakistan musicians in the streets. Although the language is not unreasonable, the pursuit of sincerity of music makes them feel cherished. The friendship between the two musicians continued among the younger generations. Bykadimov's daughter inherited his father's music career and committed to promoting music exchanges between China and Kazakhstan. Xing Xinghai's daughter, Gun Nina, also insisted on collecting and sorting out the manuscripts and scores of her father. The daughter of the two was as a sister, and the letter continued, and the two families met with each other for more than 80 years.

At the 13th China International Chorus Festival in 2016, a youth choir from Maskatin, USA participated in it. This choir was initiated by the United States, Mrs. Sara Landie, a friend of China. The choir takes the emotional exchanges between China and the United States, deepening the feelings with Chinese friendship and young people, and proclaimed songs such as "Reserving Eternal Memory of Love" and other songs that praise China and the United States.

▲ The Maskatin Youth Choir learns to paint Peking Opera Facebook in Beijing

When the Maskatin Youth Choir came to Beijing to participate in the China International Chorus Festival, Hong Lei, the then Consul General in Chicago, went to the airport to see him off. During Beijing, they not only brought wonderful performances to Chinese audiences, but also visited the Palace Museum and the Great Wall and other landscapes. They also conducted a series of exchanges with students from the 35th Middle School and Jingshan School in Beijing. Traditional cultural courses such as dumplings, paper -cutting, painting Peking Opera Facebook, and Chinese knots. After the trip to Beijing, the Maskatin Youth Choir rushed to Zhengding in Hebei to conduct friendship activities with local middle school students and experienced unique "Changshan War Drum". Although the visit time is short, the choir members have a deep understanding and experience in Beijing and Chinese culture. They said that if there is a chance, they will come to China to participate in the chorus festival in the future.

At the China International Chorus Festival, such examples abound. Chinese and foreign people use chorus as a medium, strengthen cultural exchanges and civilized dialogue, formed affection, and become a vivid example of civil diplomacy. Many foreign choirs fell in love with China by participating in the chorus festival, and became interested in traditional Chinese culture. They sang a video of Chinese chorus songs and once became a hot spot in social media.

Popularize the integration of Chinese and tourism in promotion of chorus arts

▲ China International Chorus Festival has set up a bridge for peace and friendship for Chinese and foreign chorus enthusiasts. The picture shows the scene of the Chinese and foreign choirs participating in the Chinese International Chorus.

As a national and international chorus art exchange platform, the reason why the China International Chorus Festival can adhere to the environment of my country's reform and opening up, and it is inseparable from the strong support of the central and local cultural authorities and the Chinese chorus. Fertile soil. During the first China International Chorus Festival, there were only 17 Chinese and foreign choirs participating, and now it has grown to more than 530; the countries and regions participating in the chorus have increased from the initial to 52. The Beijing -Tianjin -Hebei region has expanded to 29 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities across the country.

Li Peizhi, chairman of the Chinese Chorus Association, said that in 1992, after the initial results of China's reform and opening up, culture and art also ushered in great prosperity and development, especially the masses' chorus art was rapidly popularized across the country. The founding of the China International Chorus Festival is another iconic event that leads the popularization and development of Chinese chorus after the establishment of the Chinese Chorus Association in 1986.

When hosting the first China International Chorus Festival, the popularity of the masses' chorus art is not as high as today, mainly due to the participation of professional colleges such as the Central Orchestra Choir, the Chinese Opera Choir, etc., but this year participated in more than 500 Chinese and foreign choir troupes. Among them, there are very few professional colleges. This fully shows that the masses have blossomed in China. Among large cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou in my country, more than 3,000 mass choirs have been carried out all year round, and many primary and secondary school classes have choirs.

▲ The in -depth integration of chorus and tourism is one of the directions adhered to the China International Chorus Festival since its founding.

It is worth mentioning that since its establishment, the China International Chorus Festival consciously integrates culture and tourism, and follows the road of integration and opening the festival. The first China International Chorus Festival was co -organized by cultural performance units with international travel agencies, tourism companies, etc., and designed different tourist routes for the overseas choir and the Beijing Waiwai Choir who came to Beijing to participate in the event. These choirs sang while walking around the tourist attraction, organically combining "poems" and "distant" to integrate the singing into the beautiful scenery. In addition, the seeds of the chorus festival have germinated. Today, the active choir can be seen in major parks in Beijing. Beijing Xicheng District has also founded the Jingshan Choir Festival. These are the results of the integration of culture and tourism. It can be said that the China International Chorus Festival is not only a witness and beneficiary of China's reform and opening up, but also participants and builders of the new era. Persevere in the original intention of public welfare to practice social mission

▲ China International Chorus Festival continues to carry out chorus public welfare operations. The picture shows the public welfare chorus singing "It's better tomorrow" on the stage of the chorus.

At the beginning of the establishment of the China International Chorus Festival, he attached great importance to chorus education and chorus charity. Through organizational chorus command masters and chorus training courses, he carried out targeted popularity of chorus art in the underdeveloped regions of economy. In 2012, with the help of all sectors of society, the chorus festival further strengthened the concept of public welfare and inclusive festivals, carried out the poverty alleviation operation of chorus public welfare culture, and played the public welfare role of the chorus art exchange platform to the greatest extent. The group is the social responsibility of a cultural central enterprise.

In 2016, with the joint funding of the China International Chorus Festival and the China Children and Children's Foundation, the Chunlei Girls Choir, Huanjing School of Ningxia Zhongning County came to Beijing to participate in the 13th China International Chorus Festival and boarded the stage of the Great Hall of the People. Essence The children deeply moved the audience with a song "Wolfberry in the Hometown". On the day when the choir returned home from Beijing, the local area was just like the New Year. The parents of the students and the masses in the village stood on both sides of the road, pulling the banner of "Welcome to the Choir Honesty", holding the flags, setting off firecrackers, greeted by greeted by greeting These reputable children.

Since then, the Chunlei Girls Choir of Kuanjing School of Ningxia Zhongning County has further received the attention of the whole society. In November 2016, the first letter readily read in the real -time connection screen of Tiangong II in the real -time connection of Tiangong 2 was from the hands of the Chunlei Girl Choir of Kuanjing School in Zhongning County, Ningxia. During the National Day in 2017, the relay planned by the People's Daily sang the video dissemination of "I Love You, China", and played the entitled "Spring Lei Girls Singing" I Love You, China ". Video caused a sensation on the Internet. In just two days, a single Weibo received more than 2.64 million readings. For a while, the singing of the Chunlei Girls Choir moved countless people.

In the past 10 years, with the support of the China Children's Children's Foundation, the China Youth Development Foundation, the Beijing Deqing Public Welfare Foundation, the Shenzhen Songhe Growth Care Foundation, etc., the China International Chorus Festival has cumulative counterpart assistance and cultural poverty alleviation 68 chorus groups. More than 8,000 teachers, covering 58 poor cities and counties, millions of students benefited directly.

In 2021, my country completed the target task of poverty alleviation in the new era as scheduled, and the rural revitalization achieved a good start. Cultural revitalization injects a strong spiritual motivation into the revitalization of the countryside. Empowering the countryside with art, using Meiyun Run to the countryside, and planting elegant art in children's hearts are the key to rural culture. Since the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, the China International Chorus Festival has continued to adhere to the original intention of public welfare and practice social mission. This year's chorus festival and Beijing Deqing Public Welfare Foundation, Shenzhen Songhe Growth Care Foundation, and the Music Education Branch of the Chinese Education Society have organized a rural aesthetic education forum, public welfare special concert, etc. Choirs in developed areas and ethnic minority areas are displayed on online performances and live broadcasts to help the revitalization of rural aesthetic education. Over the years, the China International Chorus Festival has become an important public welfare platform that gathers social forces to dedicate love and help more children to show the world to the world.

The 30 -year -old singing journey of China International Chorus is the joy of countless singing and countless joyful smiles. On this road, the footprints of chorus enthusiasts and musicians around the world left a good memories of reunion.

Thirty standing, moving forward. Facing the future, China International Chorus Festival is still young. Entering the new stage of historical development, the China International Chorus Festival will welcome the vast Chinese and foreign chorus enthusiasts from all over the world with a fuller enthusiasm and more open attitude, and jointly protect this big family belonging to all patriots. Looking forward to the 17th China International Chorus Festival two years, the world can completely defeat the epidemic, and chorus enthusiasts around the world can gathers in Beijing without any care.

(The picture of this article is provided by the event organizer)

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