Markor was very impressed by the rich natural scenery that Taiwan has.

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[Reporter Ling Meixue/Taipei Report] Taiwan is surrounded by the sea and has abundant natural resources, which fascinates the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO). , French music and Mendelssohn will be extended. The concert "Marquell's Sea", which will be performed at the National Concert Hall on September 23, will present the classic ocean of Debussy, Mendelssohn and Toshio Hosokawa. In addition, the second soprano Fan Tingyu was invited to perform Elgar's Seascape.

Markor admired Taiwan's abundant natural scenery, "I like to enjoy the sea view on a boat very much. The ever-changing ocean can be a source of inspiration for music, so the concept of the sea was incorporated into this concert. Listening to nature from music, interpreting nature." Among the tracks, Debussy's most well-known "Sea" is one of the tracks that NSO2023 will tour in Washington and the eastern region of the United States.

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Second soprano Fan Tingyu graduated from the Hannover National Academy of Music and Drama in Germany with three diplomas in vocal music education, concert singer and opera soloist.

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This concert, which is also one of the themes of this season, is "Mendelson" and "calm sea and happy voyage". Oratorio composed of "The Sea" and "Happy Voyage".

In contrast to Beethoven's use of mixed chorus to present the text of the poem, Mendelssohn, a German composer who loved nature, used pure instrumental music to express the image of the sea in the poem, stacking the tension of the music with instrumental music, showing the "static" of the sea. And the image of sailing "set sail".

Toshio Hosokawa's "Cyclic Ocean", which is full of oriental colors, will express through the parts of various instruments that when the sea water evaporates into clouds, and then turns into rainwater and falls into the sea, forming a storm. After the storm, the sea returns to calm, and the sea water turns into water vapor again. Turning into mist and rising into the sky, the cycle of the ocean is used as a metaphor for the process of human birth, survival and return to nature.

As for the British composer Elgar's "Seascape", it was a solo work for orchestra and vocals that Elgar was commissioned by the Norwich Music Festival in England in 1896. He composed five poems with sea as the theme and composed the orchestra Lelian Song Collection "Seascape".

Second soprano Fan Tingyu said that when singing this group of works, in order to present the multiple appearances of the ocean, it is necessary to find a balance in the intersection of human voice and orchestral sound. Elgar created from 5 stories written by different poets. The title piece of the seascape, the theme and content of the story are very different, there are quiet and magnificent, there is a love story, and there is the spirit of the brave who will never give up in the confrontation with the sea.

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