On the evening of December 8, 2024, Nanjing University of the Arts (NUA) proudly hosted a symphony concert to commemorate the 112th anniversary. Under the baton of conductors Xu Zhiliang, Ju Yun, and Zou Qingyu, NUA’s symphony orchestra delivered a captivating performance. The repertoire for the concert includes John Williams’ “Olympic Fanfare”, the first movement from Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 or the “Unfinished Symphony”, Wang Xilin’s “Torch Festival”, Holst’s “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity” from “The Planets”, Tchaikovsky’s “Pas de Deux”, Professor Zang Heng’s composition “The Power of Faith”, the second movement from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 or the “Pathétique Symphony”, and the fourth movement of Shostakovich’s “Fifth Symphony”. The concert concluded with encore performances of “Blooming Flowers and Full Moon” and the “Radetzky March”. The concert elicited enthusiastic responses from the audience on site and attracted over 20,000 viewers tuning in to the live stream online.




