Photography / Sue title
On the evening of November 27, after a period of suspension of the epidemic, the Zhongshan Park Music Hall in Beijing ushered in the first concert - "The Covenant of Roses: Lin Chaoyang Violin Famous Music Concert". The performances are selected from the famous artists of the Romantic period such as Tardini, Richard Strauss, Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Brahms. Before the performance, Lin Chaoyang's friends prepared red roses for the audience, and many of the audience held a rose all night to listen to the beautiful expression of the strings.
The Zhongshan Park Music Hall is also known as the "Forbidden City Music Hall", which is brilliant and atmospheric. But Lin Chaoyang is always a little naughty, willing to sprinkle a little wild in the "palace" and sprinkle some salt on the music. People who were familiar with Lin Chaoyang were a little surprised: "How come you suddenly have white hair when you are just over fifty?" "Dyed." Lin Chaoyang said with a bad smile and very sincerely, "Let me go through vicissitudes with the music!" ”
Twice "defected" from classical music
The official poster released at the concert was designed by Lin Chaoyang himself. He chose Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps at the junction of France and Italy, as the main visual image, and placed a huge red rose on the summit at an altitude of 4810 meters. Lin Chaoyang said: "The rose is an emotional symbol, and what I express on the famous stone of Mont Blanc is that the music itself can be transformed into a visually understandable image. The works of these great musicians are not meant to uncover scars with a handful of snot and tears, to make you feel alive. I don't play this. Music must be objective, the reason why it is written so vividly, and even some music can completely defeat you at a certain time period, but it does not mean that you always have to deal with music and art emotionally. I like to plant a rose on a stone and play the works of the most famous composers of the Romantic period, and finally communicate with you in a calm way. I need the audience to think he understands the music, not just me. I'm never impulsive. ”
Lin Chaoyang, who said that he had never been impulsive, had actually been crazy. In the years he has studied and worked, he has had two artistic exploration experiences of extraordinary significance: exploring painting when he was young; and exploring film and television drama composition in middle age.
Lin Chaoyang recalled: "I completely crashed into painting! When you enter an environment, you may naturally like it. "For two or three years, Lin Chaoyang did not play the violin and concentrated on painting. With the support of Valentin Sidorov, president of the Soviet American Association, he went to the Russian State Art Base "Villa Repin" in 1993 to work on the work. In 1994, he went to France and then to Italy, looking for his dream of being a painter in the north and south of Mont Blanc.
But how did this idea disappear? "That's young cuteness." Lin Chaoyang smiled shyly, "When I was young, I always felt that there were infinite possibilities. Painting has become something more personal for me now, but when I was younger, I wanted to make it a great profession! ”
Since 2005, Lin Chaoyang has been exploring "composition and music production" and has devoted himself to creating film and television drama music and popular music. The TV series "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes", "Snail Residence", "Mobile Phone", "My Brother's Name is Shunliu", "Ye Luo Chang'an", "You Are My Brother", "Floating and Sinking", "If Life Deceives You", "Tangshan Earthquake", "Ten Years of Love", "Holy Heaven's Gate", "Theater", the movie "Autumn Joy", "Zaranor", "Tattoo", "Xinhai Revolution", "Thirty-three Days of Lost Love", etc., are all music created by him.
He has tried film and television music and cross-border music for more than ten years, and has achieved fruitful results. During this period, "Salt" and "Salt Brother" were Lin Chaoyang's stage names? code name? Screen name? nickname? Anyway, Brother Yan is Lin Chaoyang, and Lin Chaoyang is Brother Yan. Because "salt" is the most important condiment for balancing taste, Lin Chaoyang has always used his own efforts to balance sound and vision. He doesn't just compose music, he tells stories with violins — within the framework of the director, using violin to outline the picture and character.
Exploring painting allows Lin Chaoyang to present classical music with visual images, while exploring film and television and popular music allows him to express classical music in a lifelike way. Until two years ago, Lin Chaoyang returned to the concert hall again.
Art makes childhood in Shanghai less stunned
Born in Shanghai in 1968 and graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Lin Chaoyang was one of the finest violinists of his time. He has won awards in world-class music competitions such as the International String Quartet Competition in London, the Libice International Violin Solo Competition in Italy, and the Janpolski International Violin Recital Competition in Russia, and has made achievements in both violin solo and string quartets.
In 1984, Lin Chaoyang entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Affiliated High School, when the folk song class was one of the best courses he learned. He remembers a male teacher in his forties who would teach folk songs 20 minutes before class every time, and Lin Chaoyang said: "The impression left on me is so beautiful." ”
Lin Chaoyang's father was originally a tenor singer in the Shanghai Radio Orchestra and became a choral conductor after middle age. In such an environment, listening to music, including Peking Opera, became the basic art education of young Lin Chaoyang. Lin Chaoyang said: "The essence of music is of a linguistic and singing nature, and its basis is to express one's own ideas. The linguistic function of music is very powerful, but it has been slightly ignored in the last one or two hundred years, and people think that music is simply sound and sound and music theory. But actually it's basic about language and structure, and you have to be able to sing and dance. ”
As I can remember, my father brought Lin Chaoyang to the cultural troupe every two weeks or a month. The handsome uncle and beautiful aunt in the literary troupe were dancing and singing, while Lin Chaoyang rolled around and climbed onto the stage, very happy. There are still old records at home, Peking Opera, Yue Opera, and Commentary, and my father will explain it to him when he is idle. He was fascinated by it, and sometimes father and son hummed. At the age of six or seven, the father was ready to let his son learn music.
Lin Chaoyang said: "After learning music, or one day having a feeling for music, you are not so stunned." A child who studies music has a different sensitivity to some things than a child who does not learn music. See a meadow, see the sunset, a picture with music will appear in your mind. ”
When he was about to graduate from studying abroad, Lin Chaoyang returned to the field of violin. Because he won more important awards before going abroad, and won two more awards abroad, everyone knows him in a specific circle. Lin Chaoyang recalled: "In the 90s, we encouraged returnees, we caught up with the wave and came back. In 1996, Lin Chaoyang joined the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing as a professor of violin.
In the early days of returning to China, in addition to teaching, the "Beijing String Quartet" formed by Lin Chaoyang entered the public eye. American writer Guy Tellez commented: "It is unbelievable that in your music I can hear the elegance of pure European culture..." French violinist Gérard Bligh praised Lin Chaoyang: "The arrangement of the phrases, the change of timbre, the control of the rhythm, the contrast between passion and tranquility are perfect, and the performance is impeccable!" ”
In the field of teaching, Lin Chaoyang has trained many violin masters. Wang Xiaomao, principal of the Orchestra of the National Ballet of China, Wang Congcong, a young soloist and winner of international competitions, Zhang Jingye, a young soloist and teacher of the Central Conservatory of Music, and Xie Tianren, a winner of international competitions, have all studied under Lin Chaoyang.
Playing the piano is the same as planning plates
It's playing in a structure
Lin Chaoyang has wandered out of violin art twice, and why has he returned twice? In Songzhuang's 400-square-meter studio, Lin Chaoyang, wearing shorts and drinking cold water, first said sincerely: "Sometimes I don't leave the studio for more than ten days." Regarding the first return, Lin Chaoyang joked: "When I arrived in Europe, I found that playing the piano can feed me, but painting can't." As for the second return, it is already moving towards the age of 50, Lin Chaoyang said: "If the remaining half of my life is just for inexplicable TV dramas, what is the value?" You know, most of the TV series sucked. ”
Once, a crew let Lin Chaoyang score the music, and the pictures had been filmed, emphasizing that the people in the play were playing a famous song. If you need a song, Lin Chaoyang is easy to do, but the picture is not right. Lin Chaoyang can write a piece of music to the picture, but it is certainly not a famous song. Lin Chaoyang was helpless against such a disrespect for music.
With more similar things, the decision to return is easier. And he never left his violin teaching position. In Lin Chaoyang's consciousness, the violin was played 400 years ago, and it has a sophisticated and simple logic system. "Playing the piano is like a plan plate, it's playing and regrouping in a structure."
However, since then, violin teaching has become "pulling" one textbook and then "pulling" another textbook, endlessly "pulling" the textbook. Or, in other words, to go to a conservatory and then to a higher conservatory. The existing violin teaching model is very popular with Lin Chaoyang, "A child who learns the violin learns the violin technique with the last teacher, the first period of ten years, during which it is very likely to be eliminated; if not eliminated, then learn the second period." Lin Chaoyang said: "There is really a problem with this teaching method! It violates the principle that 'playing the violin is a craft'. ”
The law of craftsmanship is not only practice makes perfect, but also the mystery of work should be understood. After so many years of teaching, Lin Chaoyang's understanding of music or the whole thing has helped his teaching. Lin Chaoyang uses a variety of behaviors to help students do better in music in less time and faster. "Usually a child takes three or six years, and when I'm here for half a year, he can reach a high point," he said. I have summarized the minimalist pedagogy of violin playing and teaching, which belongs to all violin players, even children aged seven or eight. ”
Lin Chaoyang spent 25 years teaching, as well as understanding music, violin, performance, and performance itself, and he felt that the time had come to produce results. In the past two years, Lin Chaoyang has launched a set of his own pedagogical methods. The textbook "Lin Chaoyang Violin Gene Practice" was designed by himself, and he summarized his summarized teaching experience as "Lin Chaoyang DNA Teaching Method". The exploration of this pedagogy has been completed and is currently being refined and practiced. There are probably more than 100 teachers and 500 to 1,000 piano children across the country who accept this method of practice.
Lin Chaoyang is very confident in his own teaching method, "This is not confidence in the simple sense. Violin playing, a whole system of objective and rational interpretation of the playing in terms of technique, music, etc., is very simple. If I run into a peer, I can talk about it all in a brief way in 30 minutes. I believe it's wonderful, it's a good thing. ”
Through the specific arrangements of violin associations or music associations in various places, Lin Chaoyang shared his experience with grassroots music teachers. Generally speaking, the local violin association or teaching institutions bear the cost of landing, and Lin Chaoyang dedicates his wisdom and time. Lin Chaoyang enjoyed it. Lin Chaoyang summarized violin playing as a chess step, or the structure of Go. If you violate it, you can't do it. Lin Chaoyang said: "This is the best teaching method ever. No one has done my job in the past. ”
Over fifty years old
Finally close to the realm I want to achieve
The existing music teaching is almost decomposition, and then decomposition, so music becomes a technical competition. Shouldn't music be like cooking, using different materials to make exquisite food? Lin Chaoyang asked.
Lin Chaoyang searched for a rule that was to try to decipher the genetic code of violin art. He said: "You can not know how to cook, but as long as you are good at control, take the menu matching table to make it, at least the professional standard." Of course, you are not a master, because there must be a breakthrough in professional standards, and the master brings you a new ratio. ”
Therefore, Lin Chaoyang could not guarantee the cultivation of a master, in his eyes, a master could not be taught. Some of the delicious Sichuan hot pots are, why can people always find the most fragrant ones? Because people have made new tricks, the premise is that they have not violated the rules. Lin Chaoyang said: "I only provide the most basic things, if you want to be unique, that is art, it is possible to take a step towards the master!" ”
Will Lin Chaoyang teach music to mcDonald's, and the world's piano sound is a taste? Lin Chaoyang said that the best teaching does not tell you specifically how to do it, it is more primitive than McDonald's. McDonald's is popular because it uses the most versatile proportions to get the flavor through. For example, why in the form of a hamburger? Including the most famous California beef noodles, everything is universal, as long as the proportions are coordinated to a certain extent, everyone will feel delicious. That's what it does.
McDonald's's success is to be able to cover the general taste of the masses. If it weren't for commercial success, but just a quirky Italian or French shop product, the world would definitely think mcDonald's would go down in the annals of Michelin three-star history. Lin Chaoyang said: "We can't belittle ourselves, every time I go to the airport to see McDonald's, I still want to try it." Even someone as picky as I am is still respectful, so it should be said that it is great. ”
Zhao Songguang, the 90-year-old old director of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music, once used the "principle of craftsmanship" found in philosophy to explain music. He arranged the sound elements like Mendeleev inductive periodic laws of elements and made a periodic table of elements. Lin Chaoyang used mathematical theory to explain that violin performance is similar to that of his predecessor Zhao Songguang. Lin Chaoyang believes that the origin of music began in ancient Greece, and the discovery of overtones and the creation of strings through overtone relationships. The structure of the instrument itself is an engineering structure.
Playing the violin, how to borrow your body? It's about sports, it's the same with sports. Many people blamed Lin Chaoyang: "You have degraded music!" How can music be like sports? How can music be a computational problem? Lin Chaoyang said: "When you are not rational enough, you can no longer talk about success." Art needs to be rational the most, because it has another side, and it is indeed the most emotional. If you are not full of intelligence, wisdom, and have a rational strength to control your own ability, how can you talk about making a possible artistic achievement? ”
Lin Chaoyang, who completely ended the creation of film and television dramas and returned to the industry again, initiated the establishment of the "Best Friend Trio" group, and he and the pianist Sheng Yuan of the Central Conservatory of Music and the cellist Zhu Yibing seized the time to perform together, which became the box office guarantee for the spread of classical music and changxin. After the age of 50, Lin Chaoyang felt that he was finally close to understanding what he wanted. He said: "A person at this age, if he is lucky, can finally begin to have a rational and free life." My state of affairs is starting to get better and better. ”
"Rose Covenant: Lin Chaoyang Violin Famous Song Concert" presents a return of Lin Chaoyang's best state, countless applause, countless roses flocked to the stage, "white hair" Lin Chaoyang released a love for the violin, love for the audience.
Text/Liu Hongqing
Poster courtesy of /Beijing Zhongshan Park Music Hall