Secondary School's Music and Drama Celebration 中学部音乐戏剧节

The Yew Chung International School of Beijing hosted its annual IGCSE and IBDP Music and Drama Celebration on Wednesday. The performances were an opportunity for our students studying advanced music to showcase the compositions they’ve created over the course of their studies this year for the entire YCIS Beijing campus. These compositions, arrangements, dramatic performances, and instrumental solos were performed entirely by our talented students as well.

周三，北京耀中国际学校顺利举办了IGCSE/IBDP音乐戏剧年度盛会。对我校研修音乐的学生而言，经过一整学年不懈的学习，这次的表演盛会恰恰成为了他们展示各自作曲天赋的契机。所有作曲，布场，戏剧表演乃至器乐独奏完全由我们的学生独立完成。

Lianne Yu, YCIS Beijing’s Head of Music, detailed the unique changes made to this year’s performance and how the school supports its students looking to pursue instrumental and musical learning at an IGCSE and IB level. Below is a snippet of her full interview.

北京耀中国际学校音乐部主任Lianne Yu，详述了本年度表演盛会所带来的独特变化，以及校方如何助力学生追求IGCSE/IB级别的乐器和音乐学习。以下是对她整个采访的节选片段。

What is different in this year’s performance compared from last year?

相比去年，本年度的表演盛会有何不同？

This recital partners with what we do in IGCSE and IB music and drama, in which students need to give a real performance in front of an audience. This can be in the form of a smaller more intimate performance or a larger schoolwide performance, as long as it is live and recorded.

今年的独奏会与IGCSE/IB音乐戏剧携手合作，学生们要在观众面前带来真正意义上的现场表演。只要能做到现场直播同步录播，它既可以以较小规模的亲密表演形式呈现，也可以以更大范围内的校园级的表演形式呈现。

For this particular performance, we changed the seating layout so that the audience was distributed among the various performing acts, e.g. the orchestra on the stage, the band in the middle of the audience, piano off to one side, etc. 

为了这次独特的表演，我们改变了座位分布方式，以便观众可以沉浸在各项表演之中，例如，舞台上的乐团，乐队位于观众们的中间，钢琴则偏向一边，等等。

We chose this seating arrangement to encourage a bit more engagement amongst the kids. We also wanted to make the acts feel more centralized among the audience to encourage a greater sense of community, a very important aspect of YCIS Beijing!

我们采用这样的座位分布方式，是为了尽可能多的让他们融入到孩子们中间。我们也想要让表演更多的集中在观众之间，促成一种社群文化的感觉，这是北京耀中秉持的一个非常重要的理念！

We also had students lead a question and answer section between every performance. These questions focused on the aesthetics of the experience, what the audience thought, and allowed the audience to listen a bit more attentively. We hoped that this would be a valuable experience for the students as a deeper music education exercise in addition to an opportunity listen to nice music. 

在每个场表演的间隙，我们也会让学生进行一个问答环节。这些问题主要集中在美学的体验和观众的感受上，让他们可以更加用心去聆听。我们希望这次活动能够成为学生们的一次宝贵经历，除了为他们带来一场视听盛宴之外，也为他们的音乐学习带来更深刻的启发。

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