NSO & Hsin-Yi Forever Tales
Dear Dots & Four Seasons

music

  • Nationality

    Taiwan

  • Date

    4/10 (Fri.) 19:30

    4/11 (Sat.) 14:00、17:00

  • Venue

    Concert Hall

  • Production

    National Symphony Orchestra

  • Ticket Price

    NT$ 400 600 800

Ingnite the imagination of rhythm, melody and musicality

In 2013, Little Sun's Music Box was widely appreciated and repeatedly encored. Now in 2014, the NSO and the Hsin-Yi Foundation will collaborate once again to present Dear Dots and Four Seasons and other works combining music and picture books. The “Let’s Arts” corner this time takes the four seasons as its theme and creates interactions between music and illustrations. By sharing the picture book on screen, grown-ups and kids alike can read together while listening to musical selections. At the end, the picture book loved by thousands of children, Un Livre will magically be transformed into something everyone can share. With music woven into the narrative of Dear Dots, the newly composed Dear Dots by Ming-Hsiu Yen will stimulate children’s imagination with rhythms, melodies, and colors.

Yin-Fang Chang, conductor

Yin-Fang Chang is a talented conductor of the younger generation in Taiwan. She graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2004 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in orchestral conducting, and studied with Sung-Jen Hsu and Felix Chiu-Sen Chen. Since 2006, Chang has been Assistant Conductor of the NSO. In March 2012, Chang replaced the ailing Gennady Rozhdestvensky on short notice to conduct Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, In the same year, she made her debut with the Taipei Chinese Orchestra, conducting the world premieres of seven contemporary works. Since 2012, Chang has been Principal Conductor of the NSO Orchestra Academy, serving as a planner and mentor for the training program.

Program

  • ANTONIO VIVALDI: Excerpts from The Four Seasons
  • PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Excerpts from The Seasons, Op. 37b
  • ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV: Excerpts from The Seasons, Op.67
  • MING-HSIU YEN: Dear Dots
  • And symphonic excerpts that tell the story…
  • Approx. 60 minutes without an intermission.
  • The age guidance for this production is 3+.