Last night, the Dunhuang Chinese Music "Old Child's Heart" He Zhanhao Guzheng Ensemble concert co-sponsored by the He Zhanhao Music and Art Heritage Center and Shanghai National Musical Instrument Factory No. 1 Co., Ltd. was held at the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Concert Hall.
On the stage, three generations of guzheng music creators and performers competed on the same stage; off the stage, guzheng enthusiasts from all over the country gathered together. When the melodious melody of "Butterfly Lovers" echoed in the concert hall, pushing the atmosphere to a climax; when "My Motherland and Me" was played, many children could not help but sing along softly, and the touching scene became the warmest freeze-frame of the night.
[Speaking of Guzheng]
Lovers are helpless and there are only a few new songs
91-year-old He Zhanhao still maintains strong creative vitality. He writes non-stop and refreshes his own record by releasing more than a dozen new and adapted works every year. Among the many traditional ethnic musical instruments, he has a special liking for the guzheng. In his view, guzheng is one of the instruments with great potential for development on the road to symphonic national music. "The piano can express the majesty of the music and express inner feelings, but if you want to show the subtle and extreme emotional changes in your heart and interpret that heart-wrenching feeling, the violin is better." He said, "If you have sufficient knowledge of the guzheng Once you understand it, you will find that it is a rare musical instrument that can skillfully combine majesty and delicacy."
Guzheng has millions of learners and enthusiasts across the country. Nearly half of the people at the scene were children learning Guzheng. It was amazing to see To Zheng music's broad mass base. However, what worries He Zhanhao is that with such a large audience and increasingly sophisticated players' skills, Zheng music works have not developed along with this prosperous trend. He said: "Those children are still playing in the 1960s and 1970s. The works of the era do not have new works that combine the times, have both skills and audibility to give them room to play."
[Speaking of Music]
Only by being close to life can it reach people's hearts
This concert will be held by He Zhanhao as the artistic director and conductor, guzheng Performer Song Xiaolu and young guzheng player Chen Beixuan led the Yulan Zheng Troupe of Shanghai Normal University to perform together. Three of the works in the repertoire were "specially customized" by him for the concert - the jubilant and uplifting "Spring Festival Overture", which leads the audience into a united and warm festival atmosphere; the national color "Dauraj" adapted from a Korean folk song Rich and highly contagious; the famous guzheng piece "Lu You and Tang Wan" debuts on the stage in a newly adapted quartet form, with a sad and sad melody that is soul-stirring.
At last night’s performance, the one that resonated most strongly was “Lu You and Tang Wan” with its rich opera flavor. He Zhanhao is not surprised by this: "Why did "Butterfly Lovers" capture the hearts of so many people back then? Because its melody was nice and close to the common people, and the opera elements incorporated into it made the Chinese audience feel more intimate." Today's "Lu You and Tang Dynasty" Wan" is exactly the same. He said: "Art works can only have long-term vitality if they are close to life. We need to creatively transform and innovatively develop more works that have already been recognized by the audience, so that they can keep pace with the times and be active on the stage. ."
[Talk about talents]
Learning and performing gave birth to new guzheng stars
As the first batch of outstanding musicians trained in New China, He Zhanhao personally experienced the development of Chinese music and wrote hundreds of famous songs. He has always adhered to the creative concept of "nationalizing foreign forms and modernizing national music", and has been committed to the popularization of music, innovation and the inheritance and cultivation of talents.
This time, the concert performer was the Yulan Zheng Troupe from Shanghai Normal University. The average age of the troupe members was only in their early twenties. They allowed He Zhanhao to see the rising stars on the stage. He was also surprised by the market acumen of contemporary young performers, and the three new works he was commissioned received an enthusiastic response.
instructor Song Xiaolu told reporters that the Yulan Zheng Troupe, founded in 2013, adheres to a learning mechanism that integrates teaching and practice. It has held hundreds of special concerts and performed on invitations across the country for more than ten years. In order to popularize the guzheng, members will go into Shanghai communities to give lectures, and they can often be seen at the annual Shanghai Music Festival "Shanghai Spring".
In addition, the concert also specially invited Wang Yong, dean of the School of Music of Shanghai University, to serve as the guide, who talked about the highlights of each piece, interpreted the three generations of teachers on the stage, and also launched the inheritance and promotion of Chinese folk music art. picture.
(Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan)
