Many well-known China music masterpieces, composers' creative teams handed down from generation to generation, and groups of mature musicians have left a deep impression on the music industry through the groups, institutions, places and popularity gathered in this music festival, and also left a resounding voice for the city and China culture.
The formation and holding of festivals must be for some kind of spiritual sharing and collective communication. The purpose and intention of organizing and holding music festivals is nothing more than gathering musicians, fans and social organizations, institutions and people who care about music in a relatively concentrated time and occasion to share the joy and emotion brought by music, which not only forms the climax and highlight of music life, promotes the development and progress of music culture, but also shapes and enhances the cultural image and artistic character of regions or cities. The practice of various Chinese and foreign music festivals, including "Shanghai Spring", has proved this point.
Looking around the world, music festivals have become an important promoter and measure for cities and regions around the world to build brands and establish images, and gradually formed their own interesting and intriguing characteristics and expertise. For example, Salzburg, a famous city in Austria, is not only famous for being the birthplace of Mozart, but also famous in the international music world for holding extremely high-level and colorful Salzburg Music Festival for many years. The German town of Bayreuther, where Wagner settled in his later years. After Wagner, a summer music festival with the purpose of staging and launching Wagner's operas began to take shape. Until today, it has formed a spectacle that Wagner fans all over the world rush to Bayreuther to "worship" every July and August. On the other hand, the Greenbourne Opera Festival in Britain uses ancient aristocratic houses and theaters to produce and perform exquisite and novel indoor operas (such as Mozart and Richard Strauss's plays).
One of the keys to running a music festival well is to form distinctive features and specialties around the central guiding ideology. In this regard, the "Shanghai Spring" Music Festival has its own distinctive features from the beginning, which has long been recognized and recognized by the music industry and the public, that is, to introduce new works and enliven popular culture. The so-called newcomers' new works refer to new musical works first, and then new musical talents (especially creative talents and performing talents). In this regard, the achievements of the "Shanghai Spring" in the past 50 years are obvious to all.
A few years ago, a CPPCC proposal on "Suggestions on Further Running the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival" (which won the 2006 Shanghai CPPCC Excellent Proposal Award) put forward systematic ideas and suggestions on the mechanism and measures of the future "Shanghai Spring", and had six visions, hoping that "Shanghai Spring" would become the best platform for releasing and performing outstanding new music works in China (Shanghai); Become the best channel to understand and review China's music development achievements; Become the best stage to launch China's cutting-edge talented performers; Become the best window to understand the China world music trends and foreign modern and contemporary music achievements; Become the most academic music event in China and also the closest to the audience and the masses; It has become a prominent highlight in Shanghai's music life and cultural life, and has enhanced Shanghai's urban character and cultural radiation.
As a representative high-quality brand of Shanghai culture, "Shanghai Spring" should and may play a greater promotion effect and radiation efficiency in the overall situation of Shanghai's rapid development and the strategic layout of Shanghai's construction of a cultural metropolis.