Speaker: WANG Ning (President, National Centre for the Performing Arts, China)
Title: Building a World Symphony Community with a Shared Future Through Exchanges and Mutual Learning
Date: November 26, 2019
Location: NCPA, China
Selected speech
Symphony is the crown jewel in the musical world. For hundreds of years, generations of musical masters have created marvelous works that are like shining stars in the galaxy. With their rigorous structure, ingenious layout, profound implications and expressive notes, these symphonic pieces that crystallise the human cultural progress convey the characters and features of different nations and regions in different times, and are a valuable cultural asset shared by the whole humankind. Being the beneficiaries and inheritors of this asset, we should fulfill the honorable mission of protecting and communicating symphonic music, do our bit for its sustainable development, and make it continue to shine over the journey of human civilisation.
