The most beautiful time Zhao Cong, head of the China Central Chinese Orchestra, performed the ancient city

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Led by Zhao Cong, head of the China Central National Orchestra, known as the "Pipa Goddess", the superb performance makes the pipa and piano and other Western string instruments perfectly blend.

On the evening of the 27th, "the most beautiful time" - Zhao Cong and her friends' Pipa concert was staged at the Quanzhou Grand Theater. This is an audio-visual feast combining Chinese and Western cultures. Zhao Cong, the head of the group, led the performance. The superb performance made the pipa and piano and other Western string instruments perfectly blend.

The most beautiful time Zhao Cong, head of the China Central Chinese Orchestra, performed the ancient city

Passionate show
Famous Chinese and foreign songs complement each other

The whole performance was kicked off by the pipa, piano and string quartet "Blooming", followed by "The Liang Zhu", "Romeo and Juliet", "Rose Tango" and other famous Chinese and foreign songs, which complemented each other. During the performance, Zhao Cong also acted as the "host" during the transition time of each track, interpreting the artistic essence and profound connotation of each work, allowing the audience to experience different artistic sounds. "Her friends" are also very powerful. Pianist Liu Xingchen is a professor of the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music and the leader of the piano grading panel. The Rubik's Cube String Quartet was established in July 2016. After its first work "Rose Tango" was premiered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, it received rave reviews.

It is worth mentioning that the performance is very interactive. For example, Professor Liu Xingchen's piano solo "Argentina Dance" won a lot of praise, and "Pipa Goddess" Zhao Cong staged his masterpiece "Spring River, Flowers and Moon Night", which uses traditional Chinese folk music to dialogue with Western classics. , to the delight of the audience. Afterwards, Zhao Cong's original pipa solo "Flying Sky on the Silk Road" received numerous applause and aroused widespread resonance in the starting point city of the Maritime Silk Road. International Music Vocabulary, Powerful Chinese Works".

This concert was originally to be performed in Quanquan in March this year, but it was postponed for almost half a year due to the epidemic. During the performance, Zhao Cong said that everything is the best arrangement, and performed the theme song "The Most Beautiful Time" with "her friends". I wish everyone to cherish the good time and live in the moment. The song is over, but the people are not gone. After the performance, the audience was reluctant to leave the venue, and they returned happily after two encores.

Live to share
Good music comes from collision

Before the performance, the Quanzhou Grand Theater and the Quanzhou Museum held a special sharing session of "the most beautiful time" - Zhao Cong and her friends Pipa. When Zhao Cong shared at the Quanzhou Museum, he first reviewed the past ten years of his study trip to Quan. Zhao Cong said that in 2012, he was preparing for a concert at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, from the oldest traditional interpretation to the most modern innovation. At that time, inspired by his teachers and friends, he guided him to study Nanyin in Quanzhou and learned from Zeng Jiayang, a well-known pipa player in Quanzhou. Nanpa's performance art has benefited a lot, which has an important influence on his own performance and creation later. Zhao Cong said frankly that although Nanpa and Beipa have different styles, they have many things in common, and being inclusive will help break through the bottleneck of development.

Some commented that "Zhao Cong, a pipa player, has an active mind, and has always presented a heroic and lovely stage image in front of the audience", saying that her "active mind" is because she likes "cross-border" the most. When talking about crossover in this sharing event, Zhao Cong's eyes flashed with a smart light, "Crossover is so fun, good music is created by collision. In fact, there are not so many boundaries in music. Through the combination of different instruments, infinite creation can be created. It is possible.” Then, taking the performance of that night as an example, he introduced the cross-border cooperation of the works using pipa, piano and string quartet, described their performance process from cross-border to innovation to exploration, and expounded the innovation of traditional ancient music. the opinion of.

Zhao Cong believes that art should serve the people, combined with the communication methods of the new era, embrace the Internet, and spread the beauty of art through Douyin, station B, live broadcast and other channels, which is also what modern artists should seriously think about.

Involving the artist

The media commented on her: "Zhao Cong has become a music practitioner who persistently walks between classical and modern in the advancement of modern folk music." Hans Nielsen, the famous international recording master and chairman of the "Sound Asia" jury, commented on Zhao Cong as "a top performer with a first-class international performance level".
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Involving musical instruments

Pipa (pinyin: pí pa), the first plucked instrument, is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia, a plucked stringed musical instrument. Made of wood or bamboo, the speaker is half-pear-shaped and has four strings on the top. It was originally made of silk thread, but now it is mostly made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon.

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