Hisaishi Joe is a famous Japanese composer, singer, and pianist who mainly serves as film soundtrack. Especially for the works directed by Hayao Miyazaki, he has produced music for all feature-length animated films over the past twenty years from "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" to "Ponyo on the Cliff". He is an indispensable soundtrack master in Miyazaki's works. The name "Hisaishi Joe" comes from his idol, the African American musician and producer Quincy Jones. He changed the name "Quincy Jones" to the Japanese pronunciation, and then added the closest Chinese character name to it, and it became "Hisaishi Joe". His English name JOE can also be said to pay tribute to the American soundtrack master QUINCY JONES.
Hisaishi Joe’s music has the power to evoke the purest heart. Whether you noticed the soundtrack because of the animation, or you simply fell in love with his music. Joe Hisaishi is a person with magical powers, magical enough to make a 3-year-old child listen obediently in the concert hall, magical enough to make a teenager addicted to games and anime enter the symphony concert hall for the first time.
Hisaishi Joe is known as a musician who touches the soul for his spiritual creations that are full of childlike innocence but can explain philosophy. He has perfectly collaborated with Hayao Miyazaki on the animated masterpieces "Princess Mononoke", "Spirited Away", "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", "My Neighbor Totoro", "The Sky of the Wild Child", "Castle in the Sky", " "Kiki's Delivery Service", "Kikujiro's Summer", etc., the melodious and lively melodies have cultivated a large number of animation fans and supporters of Joe Hisaishi in China. This night, Hisaishi Joe took us to ride Nausicaa's aircraft through the Valley of the Wind, wandering in the fluorescent mountain forest where Princess Mononoke haunted, and then took a quiet old-fashioned train to glide across the silent water, running To the wonderful land of hidden gods.
When Hisaishi Joe met Miyazaki Hayao
Hisaishi Joe's "Castle in the Sky" is called touching by his spiritual music creation that is full of childlike innocence but can explain philosophy. The Musical Bible for the Soul.
Hayao Miyazaki's "Castle in the Sky" can be said to be the most famous and most loved work among Japanese animations.
When Joe Hisaishi met Hayao Miyazaki, classic animations were born. They are legends in the history of Japanese animation. They brought Japanese animation into a golden age.
In 2008, Beijing Tianli Times International Performance Planning Co., Ltd. was the first company in China to be authorized by the China Music Copyright Association and produced "Spirited Away - Hisaishi Joe Miyazaki's animation original sound" large-scale audio-visual Symphony Concert". It was successfully performed at the Beijing Poly Theater on January 21 and 22, 2008 and received great acclaim. So far, it has performed nearly 100 times across the country, with an audience of more than 100,000.
In 2011, the "My Neighbor Totoro Band" under Beijing Tianli Times International Performance Planning Co., Ltd. collaborated with the famous pianist Tan Xiaotang to produce "The Summer of Kikujiro - Hisaishi Joe's Piano Music Totoro Band Dreams" "Travel Concert" premiered at the Beijing Concert Hall on April 28, 2011, and was a great success. Subsequently, he went on a nationwide tour, creating a "Kikujiro whirlwind", and every performance was sold out.
"Castle in the Sky" wind orchestra version made its first public appearance in China
January 26, 2012, "Castle in the Sky Symphonic Sound and Picture - Hisaishi Joe Miyazaki's classic animation "Large-scale audio-visual concert" will make its grand debut at the Beijing Concert Hall. This concert is a large-scale audio-visual symphony concert produced by the exclusive cooperation between Beijing Tianli Times International Performance Planning Co., Ltd. and the Beijing Wind Symphony Orchestra, and imported the original music score of Hisaishi Joe Hisaishi Wind Symphony Orchestra from Japan. By then, classic symphonic music such as "Castle in the Sky", "Spirited Away", "My Neighbor Totoro", "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", "Kiki's Delivery Service", "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Princess Mononoke" will be accompanied by big-screen movies The synchronous playback of wonderful pictures brings a different kind of audio-visual enjoyment to the audience.
This concert is completely different from the previous two concerts in the choice of musical theme passages and orchestration techniques. There have been many concert versions of "City in the Sky", but this wind symphony version is the first time it has been publicly unveiled in China. It is worth looking forward to for fans of Joe Hisaishi.