(Wang Liping, representative of the 8th National People's Congress, member of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress, member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Vice Chairman of the 10th Central Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party. National first-level composition. Lifetime Honorary Chairman of China Music Copyright Association. Enjoy. Special government allowance. In November 2007, he was hired as a librarian of the Central Institute of Literature and History.)
Wang Liping: A good composer can’t rely on himself.
"China News Weekly" reporter/Kai Yanzhang
published in "Walking with the Republic-Democratic Parties" When the new edition of "Dream of Red Mansions" was remade in the 70th Anniversary Special Issue of Unity and Cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party"
, someone asked Wang Liping, "Will you write music for the new edition of "A Dream of Red Mansions"?" Wang Liping replied, "I will not write "Dream of Red Mansions" again. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s not that I don’t love it, but that I have exhausted everything in my creation. If I can’t write better, why should I write it?”
Wang Liping is a famous film and television music composer who composes the music. Many of the film and television works have become collective memories of the Chinese people, such as the 87 version of the TV series "A Dream of Red Mansions" and the movie "Shaolin Temple". When he was a student of the Conservatory of Music, he set up such ambitions, “A good composer can’t rely on himself and sit in an ivory tower and talk, but leave something to the people that they can understand and understand. Music."
87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions"
In 1982, Wang Liping learned from music editor Wang Zhifu that Wang Fulin was preparing for the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions". Wang Zhifu asked him, "Are you interested in composing music?" "Extremely interested" Wang Liping said. In fact, when Wang Liping finished reading "A Dream of Red Mansions" ten years ago, he had the idea of composing music for it, but he never had a chance.
Wang Liping and director Wang Fulin met to talk about his understanding of the Dream of Red Mansions. Soon, the crew invited him to join. Before joining, Wang Liping made a request, one is that all the songs are composed by him, and no one else can be found; the other is that the lyrics use Cao Xueqin's original words, "No one is too old to break the ground". When
determined the theme song, someone suggested to use "full of absurd words, a handful of bitter tears. It's all clouded by the author, who understands it". Some people also said that "The Good Song" was also suitable, but it was rejected by Wang Liping. "At first I heard "Good Song" seems to be a theme song, but after careful consideration, "It's good, it's good" is a kind of thought that was born in the world. "A Dream of Red Mansions" is a member of the world."
In the end, he decided "Vaning Eyebrows" as the lyrics of the theme song. After
started composing, Wang Liping's pressure suddenly rose. In "Dream of Red Mansions", Cao Xueqin clearly writes the characters, costumes, and props, except for the notes, not a single one. After repeated consideration, he decided to write a style of "Thirteen Do Not Rely on": not relying on opera, not relying on folk songs, not relying on rap, not relying on pop songs, and not relying on art songs, creating a style that only belongs to "A Dream of Red Mansions" The music "dialect".
Among them, Wang Liping took the longest time to compose the song "Burial Flower Yin". At first, he could not write. Almost every day I think, "Why did Cao Xueqin write this?" In the past, people's understanding of Funeral Flower Yin was miserable. But Wang Liping read it over and over again, always feeling that this kind of understanding is not right.
Until one day, Wang Liping suddenly thought, "At the end of the sky, where is the fragrance mound", he was raising his head to ask the sky, and the core was a struggle and shouting to fate, which had the flavor of Qu Yuan's "Heavenly Questions". He invited several red scholars to his home for advice. The red scholars agreed with him. One reason was that Cao Xueqin was deeply influenced by Qu Yuan.
At that time, most of the singers who sang film and television dramas were famous and professional musicians. However, Wang Liping felt that due to the unique music style of "A Dream of Red Mansions", those mature singers, because they have formed their own style, would find it difficult to sing the songs in "A Dream of Red Mansions" well.
He plans to find an ordinary person to sing. Once, when he attended a gala in his hometown of Changchun, he heard a female singer singing on stage and felt that "found the voice he wanted." The female singer was Chen Li. At that time, she was just a laboratory technician at the Changchun FAW Factory. Soon, Chen Li entered the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" from FAW. He stayed for three years and sang all the songs in the play.
"Leave some tunes for the common people that they can understand and understand."
Now, Wang Liping is 78 years old and his head is full of gray hair. He has almost never been separated from music in his life. His father was a music teacher in Changchun, Jilin, and he loved folk music. When Wang Liping was a child, he often heard his father play the flute. "From the beginning, I knew the world, but I didn’t understand the words and knew nothing.When white, there is this kind of influence. "He recalled. When
was 12 years old, he decided to focus on music. It was the summer of 1954 when the League Central Committee decided to select more than a dozen young pioneers from across the country to go to the Soviet Union, Hungary and other countries to participate in international summer camps. Wang Liping was killed. One of the selected young pioneers. After returning to China,
applied for the junior class of the Central Conservatory of Music. During the interview, the invigilator asked him, "What do you want to do? He said he wanted to compose. "From the bottom of my heart, I feel that the performer is also very pitiful. They have to practice it over and over again when Li Si writes a song. Why can't I write a song for others to practice?" "Years later, Wang Liping recalled his original choice like this. At the conservatory of music, Wang Liping was confused for a time. At that time, the school ethos was to pursue new trends and regarded Debussy, Ravel and other impressionist composers as idols rather than not. Pay attention to tradition. Every year many students are trained, and most of the songs they compose are high and low.
Once his father told him about this experience: On a train, his father met the composer Li Jiefu. Li Jiefu said When he finished writing a new song to teach the workers to sing, the workers made some mistakes. He would not ask them to change it. Instead, he quietly changed the tune to something that the workers could sing right.
was a great inspiration for Wang Liping. "A good composer can't rely on being upright, sitting in an ivory tower and talking, but should leave a piece of music that they can understand and understand. "
His attitude towards life began to change. And he really experienced the hardships and bitterness of life during the "Cultural Revolution." "My father was forced to death, my mother was sent back to my hometown in the countryside, and I was also Sent into the farm. "Once, he thought "Dream of Red Mansions" was verbose and trivial. After the "Cultural Revolution", he re-read "Dream of Red Mansions", remembering the joys and sorrows he had experienced, and for the first time the idea of composing for the play was born.
film music
after the reform and opening up In the second year, Wang Liping was transferred to the Chinese Film Orchestra, where his job was mainly to compose the film.
One day in late September 1979, Wang Liping received a call and learned that the documentary "Harbin Summer" was about to be broadcast during the prime time of the National Day, but the original His song has not been reviewed, and he asked him to expel a few lyrics and music within a day. Wang Liping made a request. It’s okay to write it, but it’s better not to sign it. "Songs rushed out in such a hurry, others watched them, and no one looked for me I wrote a song. "
Wang Liping shut himself at home and submitted the manuscript on Monday. The other party said, "Are you still handing in one less?" "Only Wang Liping remembered that he had written one less one. So, he temporarily drove out another one, which was "On the Sun Island."
, a song that Wang Liping didn't want to sign, had a huge influence. In fact, Wang Liping never did. I have been to Sun Island. In the future, he recalled that he wanted to use this tune to express a “mind of facing tomorrow with hope”. This was closely related to the social environment at that time. At that time, the “Cultural Revolution” had just ended three years ago. People need to use hopeful tunes to bid farewell to the pain that has not yet gone.
Times are changing. During the "Cultural Revolution", most of the Hong Kong films released in the Mainland were produced by leftists. After the "Cultural Revolution", the Hong Kong Film Company Wanting to change this situation, I began to want to shoot new themes in the Mainland, and the topic for shooting "Shaolin Temple" was decided during this time.
Since Shaolin Temple is in Henan, the Hong Kong Film Company is looking for someone who can write film music. A composer who also understands Henan music. Before that, Wang Liping wrote music for "Red Flag Canal". Some people in Henan music industry recommended him to the Hong Kong Film Company.
He spent a day or two to write Two lyrics. One "Shepherd's Music" and "Shaolin Shaolin". He quickly composed some materials from Henan local operas and showed them to the director. The director was very satisfied.
But he proposed to write a new version Many years later, he recalled that he asked the director at that time, and the director said that the film may not be released in Henan, or even in the mainland. Therefore, he worried that the songs written in the style of Henan opera would restrict the work in other parts of the world. For local communication, he intends to write a song that can be widely followed even if it is released in the world.
Therefore, he combined folk music with Western music and re-written "Shaolin Shaolin" and "Shepherd Music". It eventually became an episode in the movie "Shaolin Temple." When
was creating the episode for "Shaolin Temple," he used the method of "holding up the essence of national music with a tray of Western instruments", which became his future The basis for the creation of "Dream of Red Mansions".
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