{"id":101120,"date":"2024-01-03T17:26:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T22:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=101120"},"modified":"2024-01-03T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T22:42:04","slug":"preview-li-delun-music-foundation-presents-east-meets-west-meets-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2024\/01\/03\/preview-li-delun-music-foundation-presents-east-meets-west-meets-contemporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | Li Delun Music Foundation Presents East Meets West Meets Contemporary Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_101122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101122\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-12.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Li Delun Music Foundation\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-12.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-12-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-12-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-12-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Li Delun Music Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Li Delun Music Foundation presents its annual East Meets West New Year\u2019s Concert of Favourite Classics with an intriguing addition to the program. The concert takes place on January 6.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Strauss, Verdi and Beethoven, the performance will include a work linked to the Enlightenist art movement, with live painting \u2014 and audience members can join in the creative expression.<\/p>\n<h3>The Performers<\/h3>\n<p>Chinese-born conductor <strong>Dr. Jin Wang<\/strong> is now based in Austria. He has worked with more than 100 orchestras in Asia, Scandinavia and Europe, including the Swedish National Orchestra Gothenborg, Radio Symphony Berlin, Seoul Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, and China Philharmonic, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first conductor born in China to become a General Music Director in Germany at the W\u00fcrzburg Opera. He has been Artistic Director of the Haydn Symphony Orchestra Vienna since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Wang has composed the 2024 New Year\u2019s Symphonic Dance to premiere at the concert. He\u2019ll be conducting the Toronto Festival Orchestra, the Yangtze River Performing Arts, and the Toronto Tsinghua Alumni Performing Arts Group.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen-year-old Toronto native <strong>Kevin Wang<\/strong> is the piano soloist. Kevin was a semi-finalist of the 2022 OSM Competition, where he was the youngest competitor. Prior to that, he was a finalist at the Kaufman International Youth Music Competition in New York where he was awarded the Best Performance of a Romantic Piece.<\/p>\n<p>Artist <strong>Jin Zuo \u5de6\u664b<\/strong> specializes in contemporary oil and acrylic paintings on canvas. He won his first painting competition in his native China at the age of 19. He pursued art studies at the China Central Academy of Arts while also working in the animation department of a television station.<\/p>\n<p>He emigrated to Canada with his family in 2012, where he founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c9art.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C9 ART Gallery<\/a>, and continues to work. His paintings are held in many private collections, as well as appearing in published works.<\/p>\n<h3>The Program<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Overture to \u201cDie Fledermaus\u201d by Johann Strauss II \u6b4c\u5287\u300a\u8759\u8760\u300b\u5e8f\u66f2<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThunder and Lightning\u201d Polka by Johann Strauss II \u96f7\u7535\u6ce2\u5c14\u5361<\/li>\n<li>Streams of Sorrow by An-lun Huang \u6c5f\u6cb3\u6c34 \u9ec3\u5b89\u502b<\/li>\n<li>Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor, K. 466, I. Allegro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart d\u5c0f\u8abf\u92fc\u7434\u5354\u594f\u66f2\uff0c\u7b2c\u4e00\u4e50\u7ae0\uff1a\u5feb\u677f<\/li>\n<li>Fantasia Synesthesia #1 by Solomon Hsu, Gloria Gao, Mary Chen, with Kemin Zhang &amp; Bukaopu Chamber Ensemble \u7b2c\u4e00\u8054\u89c9\u901a\u611f\u968f\u60f3\u66f2<\/li>\n<li>Overture to \u201cLa forza del destino\u201d by Giuseppe Verdi \u6b4c\u5267\u300a\u547d\u904b\u4e4b\u529b\u300b\u5e8f\u66f2<\/li>\n<li>2024 New Year\u2019s Symphonic Dance by Jin Wang 2024\u65b0\u5e74\u4ea4\u97ff\u821e\u66f2<\/li>\n<li>Ohne Sorgen Polka schnell, Op. 271 by Josef Strauss \u7121\u6182\u7121\u616e\u6ce2\u723e\u5361<\/li>\n<li>Chorus \u5408\u5531 A You Raise Me Up by Rolf L\u00f8vland \u4f60\u9f13\u821e\u4e86\u6211 &amp; B Tomorrow will be Better by Dayou Luo\u7f85\u5927\u4f51 arr. by William Wu \u80e1\u5049\u7acb<\/li>\n<li>Ode to Joy \u6b61\u6a02\u980c by Ludwig van Beethoven \/ Poem by Friedrich Schiller \u8b6f\u914d \u9127\u6620\u6613<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Fantasia Synesthesia #1 and Enlightenism<\/h3>\n<p>The Enlightenist movement aims to make an artist out of everyone, and to encourage and promote creating art while connecting with like-minded people. The movement believes that contemporary art can have a transformative power and become a universal experience.<\/p>\n<p>Concert organizers met Zuo Jin at Art Toronto, and were struck by both his paintings and his philosophy. They worked together to come up with a way to involve the audience as artistic collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasia Synesthesia #1, nicknamed \u201cThree Sounds and Ten Thousand Ways to Enlightenment\u201d (\u4e09\u58f0\u4e07\u609f) is a reference to the 42nd chapter of The Book of the Way (or Dao De Jing \u9053\u5fb7\u7ecf) by Lao Tzu. It\u2019s considered the very first musical composition of the Enlightenist movement, and its central premise is accepting the natural flow of life, including randomness.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Hsu, Gloria Gao, and Mary Chen were the highest bidders at a live auction, winning the right to select a musical note each to be incorporated into the thematic material of the composition. At the end of the auction, the piece was arranged and performed by the Bukaopu Ensemble, featuring cellist Rosalind Zhang and led by her brother, composer Kemin Zhang.<\/p>\n<p>During the concert, artist Jin Zuo will create a painting in real time on stage while the chamber ensemble plays and improvises.<\/p>\n<p>Audience members are encouraged to join in by drawing in their seats, using a blank page that\u2019s been left in the concert program. (But \u2014 bring your own crayons or other drawing instrument.)<\/p>\n<p>The resulting drawings can be submitted to the Li Delun Music Foundation during intermission, and they\u2019ll be used as inspiration for another new piece of music that will be performed at a concert later this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Li Delun Music Foundation<\/h3>\n<p>The non-profit Li Delun Music Foundation was established in Toronto in 2002 with a goal of promoting cultural exchanges between East and West via music. The organization is named after Li Delun, a conductor who became renowned in his native China. Delun founded the first symphony orchestra in the People\u2019s Republic of China, among many notable accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Delun made it his life\u2019s work to help Western classical music gain inroads in China. As such, he also championed the work of Chinese composers, and premiered many of their works, as well as introducing them to international audiences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tickets and more information about the January 6 concert at the Meridian Arts Centre [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ca\/event\/10005F7DD6353B51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Are you looking to promote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\"><u>event<\/u><\/span><\/a>? 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