"White-haired Hero" Chinese music artist Fang Jinlong finished his Chinese style concert with his disciples at the Wanping Theater and rushed to the North Bund AIA Grand Theater for a dialogue between masters and disciples with the Tang Family Class. The Chinese Style Ensemble Zide Qin Club performed a Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo New Chinese Style Music Collection at the Young Theater to tell the story of "the beauty of Jiangnan"... Recently, the Chinese music trend in Shanghai Theater has reached its full "content". When the audience turned on the flashlights on their mobile phones, the stars shone brightly. With "A Laugh in the Sea" performed with suona, morinouqin, pipa and other national instruments, who can say that this is not more high than a concert?
With the iteration of stage styles and communication methods, Chinese music has gradually shed the label of "niche". Wearing Hanfu to listen to a Chinese style concert is becoming a ritual in young people's daily life, and it can be felt even overseas. to this craze. Tradition, innovation, and originality. In conversations with reporters, “top performers” gave these keywords regarding the development and spread of traditional Chinese music. But just like the issues faced by any kind of "popular culture", how to maintain the long-term vitality of art is a problem that creators need to face calmly after embracing the popularity. Especially in the face of national musical instruments and music with a long history, whether "traffic is king" in the innovation process, whether artistry and entertainment can be better "achieved", and whether the performances entering the theater can truly be "acclaimed and praised". "It's a big hit." After the excitement, the thinking has just begun.
"Fang Plenum" expects more young people to perform
Last Friday, the "Fang Jinlong and His Disciples" national trend concert almost left the aisles of Wanping Theater without room to stay. After the 996 seats were sold out early, the theater added more than 100 seats in the corridor, but they were still quickly occupied. During the performance, national wind instruments, pipa, guzheng, morinouqin and other musical instruments appeared one after another. Fang Jinlong once again showed his true qualities as a "Fang Quanhui". In addition to common national musical instruments, he also displayed the bone flute "龠", China's earliest "Reed" made of bamboo slices and "Shakuhachi", a five-music instrument with a long history.
Before the performance, Fang Jinlong was busy until the last minute for the perfect performance that night. "I can play more than a dozen instruments during the performance, more than at station B." Fang Jinlong's "out of the circle" cannot but mention his performance at station B in 2020 He made a stunning appearance at the New Year's Eve party, where he "played against" a hundred-member orchestra by himself, using a variety of national musical instruments to perform a medley, and became a representative figure of traditional Chinese music in the hearts of many young people. When Fang Jinlong became a popular IP and guaranteed box office, was this popularity directed more towards himself or folk music? Fang Jinlong’s answer was, “Folk music has caught up with the good times.” “The key lies in constantly updating and changing performances, dozens of unique concerts, and striving to bring changes to the audience every time.”
However, due to the Internet, due to Fang Jinlong, who is "good at doing things" and has a large number of fans, considers himself a "traditional" person and attaches great importance to accumulation and paying tribute to traditional culture. Fifty records and a large number of collaborations gave Fang Jinlong the confidence, "We are like a drop of water in front of Chinese culture. Only by integrating into the ocean of traditional culture will we not dry up." On social media, Fang Jinlong once humorously replied to young netizens, "Don't call me an old man. After all, I'm still young and there's still a lot of room for improvement." Talking about his current goal, he hopes to collect musical instruments from 56 ethnic groups and find talented young people from different ethnic groups. , "Only with more young performers and more Fang Jinlong can folk music be passed down forever."
The musicians took performance classes, bringing an immersive national style experience
transformed into a Taicang scholar of the Ming Dynasty, and the audience followed and connected in the context of time The 13 tracks from the collection experience an ordinary and pleasant spring day for the citizens of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty. Zide Qin Society's first "Intangible Cultural Heritage Series Concert" "Jiangnan Hao", the stage was as exquisite and elegant as ever. Creating immersive visual enjoyment for the audience is the specialty of Zide Qin Club. According to the role characteristics of each musician, the team selected styles such as Taoist robes, vertical collars, cloaks, bijia, drags, and cloud shoulders, and customized them. The printing, dyeing, and embroidery parts also incorporated the popular festivals of bamboo, pine and crane, etc. pattern.
It is worth noting that the repertoire performed this time is all original. The band did not directly select or adapt the traditional music of Jiangnan Sizhu, but created new songs based on the style of the music. The artistic director of the concert, Tang Bin, referred to the configuration of the Jiangnan Sizhu Band, while highlighting the position of the guqin. He even specially compiled the guqin solo "Taoyuan" from the "Dahuange Qin Score" compiled by Xu Shangying, a qinist of the Yushan School in the late Ming Dynasty. . "We did a lot of homework and found that Taicang in the late Ming Dynasty had a lot of materials that could be excavated, such as Kun opera, paintings, poetry, etc., so we invited the famous Kun opera master Shi Xiaming to dub and add lively choreography to the stage," "Jiangnan Hao" "Director Zhang Yi told reporters, "Even our musicians themselves have to attend performance workshops. We hope that by integrating cross-border arts, Zide Qin Club can show the spiritual outlook of the late Ming scholars in its own way."
Zide Qin Club Starting off online with over 100 million views, now moving from the screen to the theater, how can you continue your unique style? Zhu Liyue, the president of Zide Qin Society, has set a goal: to insist on originality and play cross-border. He said frankly that for the piano club, this is a change that must be adapted to and a gap that must be crossed. "Chinese folk instruments have distinctive personalities and require professional composition and arrangement to coordinate each instrument, which places higher demands on the team. He believes that "contemporary young people like a more diverse and integrated audio-visual experience and are interested in offline performances. The lighting, stage design and sound control have put forward higher requirements. "After several years of practice, Zide Qin Club has gradually developed a full-time stage team. The performers are mainly musicians signed by the piano club and school students. The offline theater is no longer an extension of online programs and has gradually developed into an independent one. business section.
Author: Wang Xiaoli and Sun Yanyang
Text: Wang Xiaoli and Sun Yanyang (intern) Picture: Photo provided by the organizer Editor: Xu Yang Editor: Xing Xiaofang
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