In 2024, the Shanghai Group Arts Center, located at No. 125 Guyi Road, Xuhui District, will launch a percussion parent-child activity every quarter. The event is announced through the "Shanghai Mass Art Museum" WeChat public account, and is often sold out as soon as it is launched.
The teaching teacher of the percussion parent-child activity comes from the Zhu Zongqing Percussion Group Art Center Teaching Center. Zhu Zongqing Percussion Ensemble was established in 1986. The founder Zhu Zongqing is a famous percussionist. The Zhu Zongqing Percussion Ensemble is one of the few groups in the world that can integrate Chinese and Western percussion instruments. It is also the first professional team to combine percussion performance, teaching, research and promotion, and enjoys a high reputation internationally. Currently, the Zhu Zongqing Percussion Ensemble’s teaching center in Shanghai is based in the Performing Arts Center.
Huang Fanjia, the instructor of a recent percussion parent-child activity, is a senior lecturer in Zhu Zongqing’s percussion teaching system. He graduated from the Music Department of Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, majoring in percussion. During the event, parents brought their babies to the rehearsal hall at the event site. They also brought "instruments" - their own cups, small bowls, small pots, etc. Volunteers and organizers prepared cute name tags for the children, and the “instruments” were placed on place mats in front of the children themselves. At the scene, the children sat in a circle around the teacher, and the teacher communicated with the children in a squatting and kneeling posture.
The children are between three and six years old, lively and active, and full of curiosity about the outside world. Teacher Huang Fan in the middle of the circle welcomes the children to the "Percussion Kitchen". It turned out that the whole activity was guided by food familiar to the children, leading them step by step into the world of percussion music.
Huang Fan’s family took out several percussion instruments and asked the children to identify them. Huang Fanjia guided the children to associate the shapes of musical instruments with fruits, so as to remember their names. "What does the jingle of bells look like? What does the jingle of bells look like like grapes? What does the clanking of bells look like? The clanking of bells looks like sugar cane." The children followed the teacher while reciting children's songs and dancing at the same time. The scene was very lively. Then, Huang Fanjia taught the children to recognize "quarter notes", "eighth notes", etc. using one to four character names of dishes and fruits, allowing the children to gradually master concepts such as rhythm and beat through the food they are familiar with. .
Then it’s time to test the “teaching results”. The children picked up chopsticks and spoons and played music on the small pots, cups, and bowls in front of them, just like little percussionists. Along with their laughter, a joyful symphony of pots and pans erupted.
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