NCPA May Festival unveils its first outreach programmes in 2023

NCPA May/05/2023
On the afternoon of May 5th, the NCPA May Festival 2023 unveiled its first charity performance at the Occupational Rehabilitation Center of Daxing District Federation of the Disabled to greet the 33rd National Day for Helping the Disabled. The China NCPA Chorus worked with the chorus master JIAO Miao and rehearsal accompanist LIU Xiaoxing to deliver a wonderful performance. About 20 popular choral works were sung in this early summer day, making the beautiful art of chamber music and artists' warm greetings accessible to a wider audience.


Established in 2009, the NCPA May Festival is a chamber music-related performing arts brand created by the NCPA. With a star-studded lineup and a rich repertoire, the NCPA presents a series of chamber music performances every May. After more than a decade, the May Festival has become a much anticipated music feast.

2012 saw the May Festival break through the limitations of concert hall, with a series of outreach programmes launched "outdoors". Chamber music has begun to step out of the theatre into communities, schools, hospitals, workshops, museums and other different corners of the city, as well as suburban areas, showing its beauty to the urban residents, staff and workers. So far, more than 170 outreach programmes have been given during nine years' NCPA May Festival, benefiting an audience of about 30,000, realizing the vision of “letting music flow through the city”.


2023 is the first year for implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC and a crucial year for marching ahead on the “14th Five-Year” Plan. To carry out education in XI Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, further give full play to the NCPA’s exemplary role as a platform for art popularisation, and encourage more performing arts institutions to offer aesthetic education for all people to get the capital involved in vivid practice, the NCPA May Festival 2023 was kicked off with a focus on promoting the development of the capital in the new era and serving local key industries, including the front-line workers, so as to inject richer cultural connotations into the construction of “four centres”.


In the first programme given on May 5th at the Occupational Rehabilitation Centre of Daxing District Federation of the Disabled, the members of the China NCPA Chorus joined hands with the chorus master JIAO Miao and rehearsal accompanist LIU Xiaoxing in performing choral versions of numerous Chinese and foreign classics, opera selections and contemporary hit songs. The melodious sounds of singing and well-known melodies have struck a chord with the audience in the depths of their hearts.

The performance started with four mixed choruses. From Sing a Mountain Song for the Party to Dance of Youth, these four time-honoured songs jogged the audience’s memory of the times and youth. The singers’ voice sounded like a story of the times told vividly, with each member of the audience appearing in the story as a leading character. Subsequently, female and male choruses were staged one after another. Among them, Snowflake, a female chorus that touched the world at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, was sung loudly with deep emotion, jogging the beautiful memory of the “Dual Olympic City”, once again arousing a tremendous sense of pride. Although snowflakes belong to a cold winter, the audience still felt warm at heart by listening to to the song. Then, male choruses were performed, such as Plunking My Favourite Native Lute and Who Dare To Invade The Sacred Land. From the classic TV drama Railway Guerrillas to the epic opera The Long March, red classics were eulogizing the revolutionary martyrs and honouring the great era. At the end of the concert, popular songs were presented in turn. From the widely sung The Same Song to China in the Lights, which is much-liked by the audience, the moving sound of singing narrowed the gap between the citizens and the art of music. The entire audience gave a standing ovation, and the China NCPA Chorus delivered an encore, My Motherland and Me, singing that beautiful melody together with the audience. Although the performance has ended, the “spiritual dialogue” brought by the concert has left something touching in the hearts of the audience.


After the first performance, the famous violinist Siqing Lu and artists from the China NCPA Orchestra, China NCPA Chorus, NCPA Resident Singers, Beijing Symphony Orchestra and West End Tiron will go deep into the grassroots units to bring chamber music into flowers in the capital throughout May and meet a wider audience face to face to show them how music can make life so much better for one and all.

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