Original title: “Beijing New Year Concert” returns to the Great Hall of the People after 4 years
Beijing Evening News (Reporter Gao Qian) Along the busy Chang’an Street, crowds of people poured into the Great Hall of the People along the solemn long steps. In the auditorium, the stage decorated with red lanterns was lively and festive. On the evening of February 1, conductor Zheng Jian waved his baton, and the Beijing Symphony Orchestra merged with the music into the jubilant sound of the “Spring Festival Overture”. After 4 years, the 20th “Beijing New Year Concert” finally returned to its birthplace, the Great Hall of the People.
The “Beijing New Year Concert”, founded in 2005 on the New Year’s Eve of the twelfth lunar month, can be called a “time-honored brand” in the Spring Festival stalls in the performing arts market. In the past 20 years, “celebrating national festivals, wearing national costumes, and listening to national songs” has become this culture over time. The brand’s outstanding features. This year, famous singers such as Liu Danli, Wu Bixia, and Mo Hong took the lead on the stage. Nearly 200 performers from the Beijing Musicians Association Chorus, Beijing New Year Concert Children’s Choir, and Beijing Musicians Association Children’s Choir formed a massive performance lineup. Accompanied by the rich tones played by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, another folk song was sung joyfully to celebrate the New Year.
The concert revolves around the theme of the New Year, with four chapters: “Family”, “Friendship”, “Nostalgia” and “Happiness” performed in sequence. The repertoire includes “Back to My Mother’s Home”, “Father’s Grassland and Mother’s River”, “Want to Kiss” Folk songs with regional characteristics such as “Looking at Yangko”, “Beijing Ode”, “The Waves of Honghu Lake”, “My Chinese Heart”, “Descendants of the Dragon” and other well-known classic melodies, as well as “China in the Lights” and “Pilot” representative songs of the new era.
Many wonderful moments are unforgettable: “China in the Lights” is performed by Wu Bixia, with beautiful melody and ups and downs. The audience cheered enthusiastically, and Wu Bixia performed an a cappella song “Only Folk Songs Respect Relatives”. The melodious singing prompted the audience to beat the rhythm with their hands, setting off a small climax at the scene; Mo Hong sang “Leading the Navigation” 》Magnificent and touching, the concert concluded. In the long-lasting applause, all the actors sang “My Motherland” and “Singing the Motherland”. The chorus on and off the stage pushed the atmosphere of the whole night to the climax.
Mohong has never been absent from the stage of the “Beijing New Year Concert”. “Over the years, I started as a young actor and gradually grew and matured.” Mo Hong said. She cherishes her fate with the “Beijing New Year Concert” and affirms its contribution to the music industry and the performing arts market. “After years of baptism, the generations of talents and works presented by the concert are shining with the light of the times.”
It is reported that the 20th “Beijing New Year Concert” is hosted by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism as the guiding unit, hosted by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, and sponsored by the China International Cultural Exchange Center and Beijing Youth Daily.