Music has no boundaries
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It is not unusual to see overwhelming solo concerts around the New Year featuring the best and hottest musicians who keep music lovers more than busy. But this time around, some local pop singers plan to team up with classical symphony orchestras to deliver something different and new.
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Rocker Cui Jian and Beijing Symphony Orchestra. [CFP] |
Rock legend Cui Jian is to cooperate with Beijing Symphony Orchestra on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in Beijing, with more than 80 musicians of the orchestra participating. Though such crossover projects have seen success in Western countries, Cui's upcoming concert is recognized as the first such large-scale collaboration between rock and classical music in China.
Taiwanese pop singer Chyi Chin had also announced that he would hold a concert in Beijing with China Philharmonic Orchestra at the end of this year. But, for unexplained reasons, the concert has been postponed to early next year, though the concert posters have not been taken off the streets and subways.
Singer of a younger generation, Chen Chusheng, 29, is also busy preparing for his concert with Harbin Orchestra on January 8.
Guan Xia, president of China National Symphony Orchestra, though not involved in the concerts, told the Global Times that the combination of pop and classical music may become a trend for concerts in China as the technology develops further. "If the technology and equipment could be perfectly enlarged to mix the sound of two dimensions at the concert, the combination will create something new, which may fundamentally change music itself for better." Guan said.
Such concerts would help bring together fans of both music genres to better understand and appreciate each other. This would be a good thing for classical music, according to Guan, as the population of pop fans is much larger than that of classical music in China.
As for Cui, who loves both rock and classical, the collaboration is a dream come true. He joined the Beijing Symphony Orchestra in 1981 when he was 20, and played the trumpet for seven years until he shifted his passion to something different which later led him to become the "father of China's rock music."
"I love both genres of music, and such a performance will enable me to release my passion for both as was never possible before," he said at a press conference last month. Regarding the differences between rock and classical, Cui said there should be no boundaries in the world of music. He compared pop and classical music to the last day of December and the first day of January.
"It could be the difference between two years or just a matter of two days."
To clear any doubts that the combination would make rock lose the spirit of rebellion, Cui said he would never give up the attitude of rebellion in his music.
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