On the evening of December 20th , Sichuan University held its 2020 New Year Concert in the Wangjiang Gymnasium, Wangjiang Campus. SCU Symphony Orchestra staged a wonderful music extravaganza for faculties and students.
The concert kicked off with “My Motherland”, a piece that expressed the Chinese people’s deep affection for their beautiful motherland. Under the passionate command of Chao Xiao, a guest chief inspector, the SCU Symphony Orchestra performed a repertoire of both Chinese and foreign classical music successively. “Ode to the Red Flag” was resounding with heroic, inspiring and exciting rhythms. The familiar folk song "Jasmine", after new adaptation and interpretation, was more clear and fluent; the interlude of "Country Knight", with a slow and beautiful melody, infiltrated the heart like spring water. The fourth movement of string quintet "Trout", with a clear rhythm, was filled with the vitality of life. The Yining Xu’s violin solo Concerto in D Major, directed by Tianmu Wu was lively, novel and unique, winning the applauses from the audience. Tenor Shida Wang’s ”Shedding Tears" of the Italian opera "The Glycol of Love", aroused the strong emotional resonance of the audience. The concert came to an end in the chorus "My Motherland and I", and the moving musical notes reverberated over the stadium for a long time.
The predecessor of Sichuan University Symphony Orchestra was the West China String Quartet team established in 2005, which was renamed Sichuan University String Symphony in 2009. In 2016, Sichuan University Symphony Orchestra was officially founded. After years of development, it has become a high-level double-pipe symphony of 60 students. The Symphony has participated in many large-scale performances at the university. In addition, it has performed together with the Symphony Orchestra of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, the Symphony Orchestra of Munich Polytechnic University ( TUM ) in Germany, the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Washington in the United States, “Starry Sky” an amateur orchestra in Beijing, and the symphony orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music, etc.
