Students second in GG Music Festival
Last night was the finals for the 2nd Annual Guānggǔ Music Festival (光谷音乐节). The students came in second place in the children’s division! They were great on stage! First place went to a 4-year old girl that did a dance number. Our second performance ranked third in the scoring but since we won second place already they gave it to another girl that sang the Beijing Olympic song. It was a long night. It ran from 6:30 P.M. to almost midnight!
The Guānggǔ Music Festival is a televised event in Wuhan. I’m not sure about the rest of China. It seemed like a big thing. The production had stage monitors, fancy-shmancy lighting, pyrotechnics like fireworks and flamethrowers, smoke machines, bubble machines, and exploding containers of gold paper that would shower the stage. They were passing out signs for the audience to hold up to the cameras when it passed by and whistles and glow sticks and colourful lightsabers. They cued fake applause, cheers and whistles. The works! It was pretty cool to see it all first hand.
I haven’t been able to find any articles on last night’s show yet, but here is the old one.
“光谷音乐节” on 武汉晚报 (May 24, 2009) (*.pdf) You can read the article in shoddy English here.
Tags: China, festival, music, school, SMIC, Wuhan, 光谷音乐节
