Performed by Qingdao Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Xu Dongxiao 

Symphonic poem Olympic Sailing Suite is the first commission work that the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra owns the independent copyright. It's a music piece specially composed by celebrated Hollywood composer Jeffrey Rona for the coming Olympic. And the American born violinist Yang Gefang and famous Chinese singer Kang Hong will be invited to highlight the concert.

About Symphonic Poem

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in one movement in which some extramusical program provides a narrative or illustrative element. This program may come from a poem, a story or novel, a painting, or another source. The term was first applied to by Franz Liszt to his 13 one-movement orchestral works in this vein. They were not pure symphonies in the classical sense because they dealt with descriptive subjects taken from mythology, Romantic literature, recent history or imaginitive fantasy. In other words, these works were "programmatic" rather than abstract. The form was a direct product of Romanticism which encouraged literary, pictorial and dramatic associations in music. It developed into an important form of program music in the second half of the 19th century.

A symphonic poem may stand on its own, or it can be part of a series combined into a suite (in the Romantic rather than the Baroque sense). For example, "The Swan of Tuonela" (1895) is a tone poem from Sibelius's Lemminkainen Suite. It can also be part of a cycle of interrelated works. For example, Vltava (The Moldau) is one part of the six-work cycle Mavlast by Bedrich Smetana.

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