Love in Xuhui and Garden Life in the Global Village

Chinese and Foreign Classical Symphony in the International Community


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At the night of June 5th, “Love in Xuhui Garden and Life in the Global Village‒Chinese and Foreign Classical Symphony in the International Community”cosponsored by (Singapore) Shanghai Hangxin Real Estate Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra was held on the tennis court of Xuhui Garden, an international community.


To make the symphony go to the grassroots unit and let refined music enter the community, (Singapore) Shanghai Hangxin Real Estate Co., Ltd. cooperated with Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra this time to hold such a community concert filled with the atmosphere of “global village”. There are nearly 500 foreign friends from over 20 countries and regions living in the international community of Xuhui Garden. This concert attracted not only these international friends from all over the world, but also residents living in this community and clients of Global Top 500 enterprises, which have offices in Xuhui Garden Building. Chinese and foreign friends gathered together to taste the wonderful feelings of symphony.


Before the official performance of the concert, many foreign renters in Xuhui Garden showed tremendous expectations. Mrs. Chi Tian of the Superb Serviced Apartment accepted the interview and said:“This is the first time for me to take part in the outdoor community concert. The tracks include not only well-known Chinese and foreign compositions but also ‘Totoro’ suitable for children, so my child and I are looking forward to this concert very much.”While a German renter, Mrs. Liane also said:“my husband and I used to listen to concerts in opera houses when we were in Germany and Italy before, but it is the first time for us since we came to Shanghai, especially that it is held in the community. We think it very interesting and newfangled."Mrs. Li who has lived in Xuhui Garden for more than ten years accepted the interview and said:“The service of Xuhui Garden never makes me disappointed and the activities in the community continuously get rid of the stale and bring forth the fresh. The concert that will be held in the community is a great surprise to me."


This international community concert of Xuhui Garden invited not only Gu Chao, the presenter of Classical Music Frequency of Shanghai East Radio Company, but also two foreign renters in the community as the presenters. To meet the demands of audiences, in addition to traditional Chinese folk songs like “Jasmine Flower”, the folk song of Jiangsu, "Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix”, a great composition showing the artistic charm of suona, and “The Butterfly Lovers", a lyric and moving violin concerto, some well-known classical symphony compositions of other countries was specially chose , such as selection of “Swan Lake”, a famous Russian ballet, “Brindisi”, the selection of “The Lady of the Camellias” as the famous Italian opera, together with compositions that Japanese renters are familiar with, like “Spring Comes to the North” and the theme song of “Totoro”, an animated movie of Hayao Miyazaki. There were 15 tracks in total for the whole performance. From old to now, Chinese to foreign and classical to popular, different kinds of musical works were in intersection and collision, which regaled ears of present residents of Xuhui Garden and also let them fell the charm of symphony to make them have deep resonance.


In recent two decades, the developer of Xuhui Garden‒(Singapore) Shanghai Hangxin Real Estate Co., Ltd.has provided more than 500 internationally well-known musical instruments for the society at no charge for long-term use by famous music education groups and performance groups at home and abroad, such as Central Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Conservatory of Music of National University of Singapore, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, etc.


(Singapore) Shanghai Hangxin Real Estate Co., Ltd. expresses that Xuhui Garden will hold 1-2 concerts every year in future, which can enrich the spiritual life of community residents and also help to popularize refined music, bring traditional Chinese music to more foreign friends, let more foreign classical symphony enter the community and integrate into grassroots units and continue to strive for further improvement of friendship between Chinese and foreign people.