Opening Concert for the 32nd China Harbin Summer Music Festival.
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| The Harbin 2014 China Summer International Accordion Art Week is part of the 32nd China Harbin Summer Music Festival. The Opening Concert for the 32nd China Harbin Summer Festival was a "Large-scale Symphony Concert" and what a superb event it was. Sponsor was the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and Harbin Municipal Government. |
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| Thousands of balloons decorated the outside the concert hall. |
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| Fantastic statutes (real people) |
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Tania Lukic-Marx (Australia) and Zoran Rakic (Bosnia) |
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| Translator, Tania Lukic-Marx (Australia) and Zoran Rakic (Bosnia), Milan Bjeletic (Serbia), Volodymyr Runchak (Ukraine) and Abdullahayev Ondassyn. |
Signs in the hall. The concert was titled "The Imagination of the Music City". |
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| Signs in the hall. |
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| We enjoyed a very high level concert conducted by Tang Muhai with the Harbin Symphony Orchestra and several choirs including the Harbin Opera House Chorus and the Harbin YueCheng Chorus and also Performing Units: Harbin High School Symphony Orchestra. |
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| Certainly a "Large-scale Symphony Concert" that had the audience cheering and cheering. |
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| CIA President Raymond Bodell and China Accordion Association (CAA) President Li Cong standing next to the photo board for the 2010 China Harbin Festival where they have their pictures. |
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Volunteer translators showing off the accordion bag and program cover. Li Xue, Liu Yaning, and Tong Xin.
View the full program online. |
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| Xue Dong |
Gerasimov (Russia) |
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Jury for the Performer senior category, left to right: Xu Dawei, Alexander Kapitan, Chen Jun,
Owen Murray, Wang Shusheng, Li Cong, Cao Xiaoqing, Milan Bjeletic, Zhang Guoping. |
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| Liu Liyang translating for the ever busy Artistic Director Wang Hongyu. |
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| Jury left to right: Wang Rui, Jin Chunmei, Cao Yuedong, Xu Sheng and Cui Yuhua with CIA President Raymond Bodell and translator Liu Yaning in the background. |
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| Competitions included young children through to adults. |
Each room was nicely decorated with the logo and a nice sign. |
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| Jury left to right standing in front of the event logo: Shan Jianxin, Meng Hui, Zoran Rakic, Viatcheslav Semenenko, Li Xiaoqi, Cui Yongri and Zhu Chunling |
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| Contestants |
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| Jury left to right: Wang Danyang, Sun Tao, Fu Yang, Li Tao, Zhang Liqin, Tania Lukic-Marx and Tong Jianhua. |
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| Some contestants pictures |
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| First to speak was the Normal Harbin University Vice-Chancellor Xu Xiaofeng. |
Minister Zhang Lixin, Harbin Municipal Party Committee Public Relations Department. |
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| CIA President Raymond Bodell speech translated by China Accordion Association official Crystal Wang. |
China Accordion Association President Li Cong. |
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| Two comperes. |
First performance was the Concerto for Accordion and Clarinet composed by Cui Zhe. |
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| The work titled "LongJiang Thoughts" featured Zheng Quan (clarinet) and Xu Guoqi (accordion) with the Symphony Orchestra of Harbin Normal University conducted by Tao Yabing. |
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| Accordion duet by Cao Ye and Tan Jialiang. |
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Alexander Kolovsky (Macedonia). Video above performing
Video 1: Don't Leave Me
Video 2: Lonely Tango |
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"Harmonium Duo" of Hubert Giziewski and Rafal Grzaka (Poland).
Video 1: The Spinner, Stanislaw Moniuszko (arr. W. Puchnowski)
Video 2: Winter, Anatoly Shalaev. |
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| Video: Polka by Alfred Schnittke |
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| Yuri Shishkin - Tenderness |
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| Yuri Shishkin - Power and Intensity. |
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| World Premiere of "Hope For", a double concerto for er hu and accordion performed by Shao Dan and Yuri Shishkin with symphony orchestra. "Hope For" was composed by Shao Dan and Liu Qiao and compiled by Liu Qiao. |
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The World Premiere performance with the Symphony Orchestra of
Music College of Harbin Normal University was highly acclaimed. |
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| Very enthusiastic audience applause for Shao Dan, conductor Tao Yabing and Yuri Shishkin after the very successful world premiere. |
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| Accordion soloist Alexandre Kapitan (Russia) performing Express Tango composed by Vladimir Zubitsky who is attending the Harbin festival and a Jury member. |
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| Tatiana Kuznetsova (violin), Alexandre Kapitan (accordion), Tatiana Kirilovich (piano), and (cello). |
