Music has no boundaries
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Guan agrees that rock music does not need to make compromises to go with classical music, and pointed out that many a symphony is known for being rebellious, such as some of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fate Symphony.
For a rock musician like Cui and pop singer like Chen who used to play with three or four team members at concerts, joining a whole orchestra is no easy job. "It takes a lot of preparation, from the conducting to the rhythm of every instrument." Cui said. "The details are hard to fix."
Chen also experienced the challenge when rehearing with Harbin Orchestra. "Sometimes I am not used to the rhythm and speed of symphony, but the problem won't last long and we will do a better job as we move ahead," he told the Global Times. "This is the first time I am working with an orchestra. I can't promise how good it will be, but it is worth trying."
Cui said it would be a chance to know where they don't get it right, and find ways to address it in the concerts to follow. He is certain that his first concert with an orchestra would definitely not be the last.
Working with an orchestra also means bigger costs. The tickets for Cui's concert are priced at between 200 yuan ($31) and 2,800 yuan ($421), with the highest exceeding local diva Faye Wong's recent concert in Beijing. For Chen's concert, the base ticket price starts higher, at 280 ($42.11) and runs up to 1,680 yuan ($252.67).
"Many concerts spend a lot of money on costumes, makeup, dancing and so on, but in this concert, all the money will be spent on the music," Cui said. "If you want to watch a glamorous fashion show, you probably shouldn't be coming."
"A single piece of ordinary orchestral instrument costs 50,000 to 70,000 yuan ($7,520-10,528), Guan said. "It makes classical music expensive. Blending classical music with pop will make the product of the concert something that lasts longer, as part of it is forever."
Guan himself has experience of composing pop songs for a TV series in the early 1990s.
"When people now listen to the pop music I composed, they can easily tell it is from that age, but the symphony in music never grows old with time."
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