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Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra
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The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) is a professional symphony orchestra based in Shanghai, China. It is under the administration of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film, and TV. The current music director is Muhai Tang and the deputy director is the young conductor Liang Zhang. According to the orchestra's official web site, the orchestra was re-structured based on the former Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra (SBSO). SBSO was merged from two orchestra - Shanghai Film Orchestra, which was established in 1954 and Shanghai Broadcasting Orchestra, which was established in 1950. The merge happened in 1996, and the new orchestra was named Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra with Yongyan Hu as its first music director. The name of the orchestra was officially changed to the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in April 2004 with famous conductor Zuohuang Chen as its Music Director, adopting the world’s most prevalent system of music seasons. When Muhai Tang took over the music director position in 2009, he told the journalist that the orchestra was not going to focus on overseas. Tang said they had to consider why the audience would like to listen to the music and how they could play the music well. He believed that the orchestra should be based on Chinese cultural values. The SPO plays in neighborhood concerts, concerts promoting youthful Chinese soloists or Chinese composers, and concerts related to government activities, but they also per
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Swordsmen of China - Film Music
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Gu / Ma: Fishermen's Song of the East China Sea
Ren: Colourful Clouds
He / Ding / Huang: Chinese Orchestral Works
Xu: Memories of the Past at Jinling
Li, W.: Chance / Qing: River of No Return
A Ke, Jian: Golden Peacock / Song of Huayi / Ancient Music of the Sunny Spring / Yi Melody
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Xian: Yellow River Cantata and Other Choral Works
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Happy Spring Evening (Chinese Evergreens)
Colourful Clouds
Phases of the Moon
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Ma, K.: North Shaanxi Suite