NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In one of the
largest concerts ever held at the General Assembly of the United
Nations, August 28 will see Music
Director Long Yu assemble his
orchestra to represent China in a
musical celebration marking 70 years since both the ending of World
War Two and the establishment of the UN itself.
Artists from all the major Allied powers of WWII will be
represented, performing music by Beethoven,
Tchaikovsky, John Williams (Schindler's List performed
by Russian-born violinist Maxim Vengerov) and a new work by
Zou Ye (Shanghai 1937).
"It is a concert in which the music we play is about memories
and about new beginnings," says Long
Yu. "World War Two was of course a great tragedy, as well as
a victory over evil, which must be remembered, while the birth of
the UN from out of the wreckage of that war was a new beginning for
the world."
The concert will also feature America's MasterVoices choir,
12-year-old Chinese piano prodigy Sirena
Wang, and singers Ying Huang
(China), Sarah Fox (UK), Aurhelia Varak (France), Vadim
Gan (Russia), David Blalock (USA) and Christopher
Magiera (USA).
The concert is part of a tour of the Americas by the SSO and
will also take in two venues in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil (August 30,
31), and one in Buenos Aires,
Argentina (September 2).
About Shanghai Symphony Orchestra:
The SSO is China's oldest
symphony orchestra, founded in 1879. The SSO was the first Chinese
orchestra to play Carnegie Hall (1990), the first to play the
Berlin Philharmonie (2004), the first to give a concert in
New York's Central Park (2010).
In 2014 the SSO and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
launched the NYPO's Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency
Partnership, a joint endeavor that included the founding
of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA), and the NYPO's
four-year performance residency in Shanghai.
About Long Yu:
Maestro Long Yu is Music Director
of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, also of the Guanzhou Symphony
Orchestra, the Artistic Director and co-founder of the China
Philharmonic Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Hong
Kong Philharmonic. He is also Founding Artistic Director of the
Beijing Music Festival, co-founder of the Shanghai MISA Festival
and incoming Principal Guest Conductor of the Hong Kong
Philharmonic Orchestra.
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