Chinese Herald News (contributed by Chu Jiaming) After five years, the third Chinese Music International Exhibition and Performance Competition will be held in Osaka, Japan as scheduled in August this year. The event was hosted by the Oriental Orchestra Association and the Executive Committee of the 3rd Chinese Music International Competition 2024, and judges and contestants from all over the world were invited to participate. At 7 p.m. on August 5th, the "Eve Festival of the 3rd Chinese Music International Exhibition and Performance Competition - Concert of Famous Songs by Internationally Famous Performers" will be held, with Dr. Gong Lin as the artistic director, and internationally renowned performers from China, Japan, Australia and Sweden will perform a musical feast here.
The author has been studying the piano with Professor Huang Ling since childhood, from a piano boy to entering the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and now going to Japan to continue his master's degree at the National University of Music. It is a great honor to be invited to perform with Professor Huang Ling in Japan.
In this concert, Professor Huang Ling and the author's teachers and students collaborated with the Japanese Chinese Orchestra to play two pieces on the theme of "love" with erhu. Professor Huang Ling's erhu concerto "Farewell to the Newlyweds" was performed by Mr. Zhang Xiaofeng and Mr. Zhu Xiaogu based on Du Fu's "Three Officials and Three Farewells" poem of the same name, and used the three sections of "Greeting Relatives", "Shocking Changes" and "Farewell" to describe the unfortunate experience of a newlywed couple in the "Anshi Rebellion", showing the years of war and chaos. The erhu concerto "Qiao's Courtyard - Love" performed by the author is the third movement of the "Qiao's Courtyard Symphonic Suite" adapted and created by Mr. Zhao Jiping based on the music of the TV series "Qiao's Courtyard" of the same name.
For this performance in Japan, Professor Huang Ling arranged the "Japanese Folk Song Ensemble" with ingenuity. The melody of the piece is taken from the popular Japanese songs "Forest Waterwheel", "Bamboo Garden Lullaby", and the folk song "Dragnet Minor". Wang Ruilin, the inheritor of the Pudong Pipa, was also invited to play Japanese melodies with Huang Ling and Chu Jiaming, teachers and students of the Pudong School, using Chinese folk musical instruments (gaohu, erhu, pipa) to carry out the collision and exchange of Chinese and Japanese cultures, and convey the long-standing friendship between the two peoples.
With a rich repertoire and a variety of performances, this concert is not only a musical event, but also a festival of exchange that transcends cultures and borders. Performers from all over the world gathered together to interpret the profound heritage of Chinese music with the universal language of music, showing the world the infinite charm of Chinese music and the infinite possibilities of musical and cultural exchanges.