“Art Masters’ Lectures” series activities launched
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Wednesday, 31 January 2024 13:20
On the afternoon of January 21, Ye Xiaogang, Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Chairman of the China Music Association, delivered an open class on “Telling Chinese Stories with Music” to the residents of Ningbo, at the Huiya Lecture Hall of the Minghu Campus of Ningbo Art Experimental School Education Group. The drizzling rain did not prevent music enthusiasts from coming and listening to the auditory feast.The class opened the prelude to the “Art Masters’ Lectures” activity in Ningbo, with the aim of telling the Chinese stories through music and nurturing the sentiment of the port city with literature and art.
Classic pieces appeal to the audience
Ye Xiaogang personally played the piano piece “Starlight”, which was once performed to over three billion people worldwide, marking the beginning of this open class.
Ye composed the “Starlight” for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. At the opening ceremony, Lang Lang presented the piece to a global audience of three billion, showcasing human being’s fantasy of the starry sky and love for life, as well as the modern Chinese way of thinking and their optimism and ambition for the future.
Then, he started with the story of the global dissemination of Chinese music that began in 2013 at the Lincoln Center in New York. He also talked about the stories behind his music creations such as “The Song of the Earth” and “"The Seven Chapters of Lin’an”, and shared his new ideas on music creation with the audience.
“The Song of the Earth” was created by Ye Xiaogang in 2005 based on seven poems from the Tang Dynasty. With the same title as the world-renowned composer Gustav Mahler’s “The Song of the Earth”, it is a musical innovation that pays tribute to Mahler’s composition over a hundred years ago.
