The "Yixuan and Friends" concert series is centered on American pianist Yixuan Cheng, who has invited many Taiwanese musicians to collaborate with her, and will regularly perform chamber music as the main theme of the concerts, with the expectation that through the sincere hearts of close friends, they will create moving music together and share it with everyone. The first concert in the series, Dream Reader, will be held on October 29 at the Eslite Auditorium. Pianist Cheng Yi-xuan will invite performers such as Ngan Ming-xiu, Yi Shen-hsing, Chen Shi-jie, Wu Xin-yun, and Wang Yu-ching to perform classical chamber music works by Fauré, Schubert, and Brahms. In addition, there will be a piano four-handed piece written by composer Ngan Ming-hsiu, and the audience will be able to enjoy the composer's own performance on stage. What's more, the concert will also feature the renowned broadcaster Xing Ziqing, a favorite among music lovers, who will bring the audience a wonderful guided tour of the music "Reading Dreams" with the most insightful explanations and the most emotional voices.
Regarding the concert project titled "The Dream Reader", pianist Cheng Yi-xuan said that her inspiration came from the Japanese author Haruki Murakami's novel "The End of the World and the Cold Otherworld", in which the protagonist, who is in the apocalyptic "Yume Reader", lives in a "street" surrounded by high walls for a long period of time, and reads those ancient dreams from the skulls of the unicorns, just as a musician reads the composer's mind and exhausts himself with his musical notes every day. This is just like a musician who reads the composer's mind in the notes every day and tries his best to interpret these beautiful and touching ancient dreams. The role of a musician is a very interesting one in this world," says Cheng. Although we don't need to have our eyes softly cut open in order to read dreams like the character 'I' in the book 'The End of the World', we do have musicians. But we do have a unique connection with musicians, just like in the book, to those ancient dreams locked in the skulls of unicorns. I believe that the job of the musician is to do our best to convey the composer's ideas, their story, to our audience through our hands and instruments." In other words, the composer's thoughts are encoded into notes on the score, and the musicians decode them with their performances. It is like reading the composer's dream through music, and at the same time, it leads the audience into a fantasy world of music.
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▲Picture: U.S. pianist Yi-Xuan Cheng will soon start the "Yi-Xuan and Friends" concert series, joining hands with a number of outstanding musicians to share the beauty of the art of chamber music with the Chinese people.