The College Choir Shocking “Vienna New Year’s Concert”

via: 大连艺术学院 date: 04/11

Vienna New Year’s Concert 2015 is the highlight of Entering New Year Cheerfully-2015 New Year Grand Simulcast for 30 Hours from the CCTV music channel, which is not only expected by music fans around the world, but also the old friends of Chinese audiences.

In the process of intercontinental rebroadcast of the concert, the mixed choir of the College excellently sung the classic masterpiece in music a cappella chorus Pizzicato Polka showing strength and elegant demeanor of the choir from Dalian Art College before the audience nationwide and also giving the hope for the New Year to people with splendid music.
The program is a piece of outstanding work accomplished by cooperation of famous composer in Austria Johann Strauss and his brother Joseph Strauss, which is the classic program of Vienna New Year’s Concert in Austria. At the midfield of 2015 Vienna New Year’s Concert,the mix choir of the College performed Pizzicato Polka, presenting fresh and delicate music to people.

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The form of Pizzicato Polka performed by the choir has unique features with extremely high technical difficulty. Adopting the form without accompaniment and lyric, and using voice ”beng” to imitate pizzicato of string music, this requires that the choir is capable of accurately grasping pitch and intonation, with changeable rhythm, tacit cooperation with conductor. Being suddenly quick and suddenly slow, suddenly strong and suddenly weak, the voice of the choir sound is just like the sound of instrument, showing instrumental music effect of the band pizzicato. Conducted by permanent conductor Teacher Sun Yi of the choir, this piece of classic choral work is perfectly shown to the audience.

Background information:
The Dalian Art College choir is a chorus team composed by teachers and students at school, and it has made a considerable progress and gained delectable achievements after brave exploration and daring practice for several years. In September 2009, it participated in the chorus competition of 7th Chinese Music Golden Bell Awards and won the excellence award; it reached the final during chorus competition of 14th Yong Singer Prize-giving Competition in April 2010, and it took part in 3rd Mainland and Taiwan Chorus Festival and won the Gold Jasmine Award in May. In June, the 2nd Director Representative Conference of Chorus—China was held in our College, the choir held a special concert praised by experts. In September of the same year, the choir was invited to attend Sowing for the Future Teachers’ Day large-scale theme evening held by Ministry of Education. It won the Gold Award again in the 4th mainland and Taiwan chorus competition in May 2011, and in the chorus competition of 8th Chinese Music Golden Bell Awards held in June, it won the first prize. As for cooperation with China National Symphony Orchestra in June 2012, its original oratorio Johann Adam Schall von Bell performed at China's National Grand Theater achieved complete success which was broadcast at the CCTV music channel and Liaoning TV. In June 2014, it won the Best Conductor Award and the Best Accompaniment Award issued by China Chorus Association. In September, it won the Silver Award in the chorus competition of 9th Chinese Music Golden Bell Awards. In October that year, the mixed choir won Golden Peony (the first prize) Award of adult mixed chorus of the first “Romantic City• Travel to Dalian” Nationwide Chorus Competition. In October 2014, it cooperated with symphony orchestra of the College and performed another practical and teaching masterpiece –original oratorio Soul of Cherry together. The choir conductor Teacher Sun Yi won the Best Conductor Award, etc. issued by China Chorus Association.

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