The Music Confucius Institute (MCI) has played an important role in promoting cultural exchanges between China and Denmark from its establishment in 2012 until its closing in 2020.
Many of you have followed us on our musical journey since we started in 2012, some by creating meaningful activities with us, others by participating in our many concerts and activities, and others through our social media platforms.
We've decided to keep our social media accessible but inactive, so that we can, together with our friends and partners, reflect on the work that we've done. The Royal Danish Academy of Music affirms the importance of bringing cultures together through music, and this may also serve as an inspiration for future collaboration projects with new partners.
I am a bass player and I must confess, I love the sound of the Guqin. It reminds me a lot of the sound of a fretless bass, which is my favourite version of the instrument. I would love to have and learn to play the Guqin but unfortunately we don't have them in Brazil and to buy one from abroad is very expansive, but who knows, maybe some day!
The style of the ancient was vibrant with bliss, just like how Zhongni is said to have been in a good mood most of the time. In the republican time, however, the approach of Qin Dao was changed into a more quiet, mournful, introspective and slower rythm, and although Guzheng also became a solist and copied folk music (whereas it had been a courtly instrument prior), it is played in such a vibrant fashion instead ; it was before China started to join the West into the "mice utopiah", so maybe this Ming Shan just reflect epochial changes, or the composer's character? Even for a modern composition, it is quite original indeed.
