Ethnic Concert "Listening to Guizhou on the Plateau" Playing in Qingcheng

Original Title: Ethnic Concert "Listening to Guizhou on the Plateau" Playing in Qingcheng

The picture shows the concert scene.

On the evening of August 27th, the 2023 National Arts Foundation's national music concert "Listening to Guizhou on the Plateau" was performed at the Inner Mongolia Art Theater Concert Hall, sparking a wave of Guizhou ethnic music in Qingcheng Hohhot.

The reporter learned that "Plateau: Listening to Guizhou" is a comprehensive stage performance project that is based on the colorful Guizhou Plateau and features multimedia interactive performances, integrating ethnic folk music and painting exhibitions. It is composed of five movements and preludes, including "Home, Mountain, Water," "On the Top of a High Slope," "Festival Memory," "The Return of Wumeng," and "Heaven and Earth," using the orchestra's self-developed improved musical instruments, Integrating national and world-class intangible cultural heritage music elements such as Dong ethnic song, Miao ethnic flying song, Guizhou lantern, and local opera Nuo opera, and combining Guizhou elements and ethnic characteristics with new media, not only allows the audience to immerse themselves in the beautiful mountains and rivers depicted by music, but also in an auditable, visible, and participatory form of performance, which has exploratory significance for the diversified presentation of stage art projects.

According to Long Guohong, the head and chief conductor of the Guizhou Provincial Ethnic Orchestra, the work dynamically presents Guizhou art works, combined with on-site folk music performances, which not only allows the audience to experience the relationship and emotions between people and their homeland, people and the environment, people and people, ethnic groups and ethnic groups, but also deeply comprehends the origin of "Heaven and Earth are full of love" in "Listening to Guizhou on the Plateau", sublimates the simple national sentiment, and realizes the realization of "nature The creative essence of inferiority, introspection, and the transformation from consciousness to confidence.

"Different from the vast and magnificent plateau in Inner Mongolia, the Guizhou plateau is mysterious, shy and simple, and I really want to go there once I have the chance to experience it." In the opinion of Ma Zhigang, a citizen, this is an art exchange and cultural collision between the the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the the Inner Mongolian Plateau, and it is also a music festival where the ethnic minorities in both regions are close to each other.

It is reported that 'Plateau · Listening to Guizhou' has been selected for the 2016 National Arts Foundation Youth Art Creation Talent Funding Project and the 2018 National Arts Foundation Stage Art Creation Funding Project. The Guizhou Provincial Ethnic Orchestra was selected for the 2018 First National Excellent Ethnic Orchestra Exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism based on this work. It is the only ethnic band in the country that has applied for an established and improved instrument performance. In 2019, the work was included in the national key creative repertoire list of the National Stage Art Boutique Creation Support Project. In 2020, it was selected for performance by the National Ethnic Region Art Troupe organized by the National Civil Affairs Commission. In 2021, it won the first prize in the music category of the 8th Guizhou Literature and Art Award. This year, it once again received support from the National Art Fund. (End)