By:Wu Qiong,Wang Jiaye,Jiang Meiqing | 2021-03-29 09:46
Together with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, renowned pianist Lang Lang and conductor Tang Muhai presented a stunning concert on March 26, connecting Chinese and foreign hearts with music.
The concert was held in celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday at the Nine Trees Future Art Center in Fengxian District in south Shanghai. A relay concert of piano masters from the world was also kicked off the same day.
Nearly 100 people from 22 countries attended the event.
“In China, Ludwig van Beethoven’s melodies are known to almost every household. In ‘Für Elise’ and ‘Moonlight Sonata’, we taste the sweet and sour of love; from ‘Destiny Symphony’, we gain the power to survive and move forward; and ‘Ode to Joy’ is the ultimate tribute to unity and the brotherhood of mankind,” said Sha Hailin, president of the SPAFFC (Shanghai People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries). “At this special moment when we are fighting against the COVID-19 virus, only through unity and cooperation can we solve the world’s problems and finally defeat the pandemic. Let us embrace peace in the melody, connect truth, goodness and beauty through Beethoven’s music, and warm our earth with beautiful notes in the human spirit of ‘music without borders’.”