China's music culture development centers have been concentrated in Beijing and Shanghai. The appearance of Xinghai Concert Hall is not only the first professional music venue in South China, but also rare in China. After opening, it will become the locomotive to promote the development of classical music in Guangzhou, the third big city in China that can echo Beijing and Shanghai musically, and it will also provide the cultural soft power behind this booming southern city.
"Treasure of Town Pavilion" plays "Sea of Stars"
The construction process of Xinghai Concert Hall is full of twists and turns. From 1 March 19901day, the construction contract was signed between Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and South China University of Technology, and it was completed in 1998, which lasted for 8 years. I still remember that when it was completed, the Hong Kong Philharmonic people who came to see us specially were deeply surprised by the large organ with nearly 8,000 sound tubes in the concert hall. This organ weighs 40 tons, is14m wide and 2m high, and is really the "treasure of the town hall" of Xinghai Concert Hall. After the opening ceremony, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra performed Shang Yan's first public concert "Pearl River Music Xinghai Feelings" on June 13 and 14. In order to show the "imperial style" of this rare large-scale organ in China, Chen Yonghua, a famous Hong Kong composer, was specially entrusted to compose a work of organ and orchestra, The Sea of Stars, and Jian Huang, a local organ player, was invited to perform solo in the north. The conductor is also Ye Yongshi, a Hong Kong conductor, who was then the chief conductor of Guangjiao (later changed to music director).
In fact, Hong Kong is closely related to the music scene in Guangzhou. After the completion of Xinghai Concert Hall, it will become a new platform for Hong Kong music groups and musicians to perform northward. 15 years later, the traffic distance and psychological distance between Guangdong and Hong Kong have been greatly reduced. Coupled with the 24-hour customs clearance between the two places, from the end of April to the end of February, 8 world-class famous troupes and more than 50 musicians who became popular in the international music scene were invited; More than 40 concerts, more than 30 public art activities, 6 famous lecture halls and a series of celebration programs will be held, which is believed to attract more fans to enjoy in the north.
Xinghai Concert Hall, as a key project of spiritual civilization construction in Guangdong Province, was under the care and leadership of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and provincial government, directly led by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, specifically organized and implemented by the Provincial Department of Culture, planned, approved, invested, constructed and completed. Xinghai Concert Hall project has been strongly supported by Guangdong Provincial Construction Committee, Planning Commission and Finance Department, and the active participation of domestic and foreign scientific research, design, construction, installation and other units and technical experts has enabled the project to be successfully completed.
Xie Fei, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) and former secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, has always cared about and supported the construction of Xinghai Concert Hall. Xinghai Concert Hall is still under construction, so he visited the construction site in his busy schedule. He was very happy to see the Xinghai Concert Hall rising from the ground, and said that he could be proud of designing and building such a good concert hall. In the future, we should not only arrange performances by art groups in our province, but also invite foreign and foreign music groups to perform. With such a good venue, elegant art will be more attractive. Comrade Xie Fei cared about the construction of Xinghai Concert Hall from beginning to end, and wrote an inscription for the concert hall.
Xinghai Concert Hall project, from overall design, architectural structure, interior decoration to interior design, embodies the wisdom of many designers, sculptors, artists and scientific and technological experts, and embodies the sweat of thousands of builders in Qian Qian.
Overall design unit of Xinghai Concert Hall Project: Architectural Design and Research Institute of South China University of Technology
Interior design unit: Jimei Group B of Guangdong Jimei Design & Engineering Company.
Construction units: Guangdong No.4 Construction Engineering Company, Guangdong No.2 Construction Engineering Company, Guangdong Industrial Equipment Installation Company No.3 Branch, Zhanjiang Yue Ying Air Conditioning Engineering Company.
The symphony hall and indoor hall of Xinghai Concert Hall have been carefully designed and built, and the natural sound performance of the two halls has reached good sound quality. On March 3rd, 1998, the ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in the newly-built Xinghai Concert Hall, under the sunshine.
Yu Youjun, director of the Propaganda Department of the Standing Committee of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, said: The completion of Xinghai Concert Hall, the music hall that Guangdong people have been waiting for for for a long time, is a major event in the construction of spiritual civilization in Guangdong Province, and it is also a major event for musicians and fans in the province. The completion of this concert hall has provided a modern and advanced stage for Guangdong Province to display elegant music and carry out foreign cultural exchanges.