Roses dotted cakes painted with musical scores, candlelight lit up a smiling face, and in the song of "Happy Birthday" sung in unison, the famous conductor and composer Tu Bahai stepped into the "post-80s" queue in the blessing sound.
Yesterday, Tu Bahai was asked what his wishes were for his 80th birthday on the 55th anniversary and 80th birthday of Congyi? Tu Bahai smiled and said, "I hope that the motherland will be prosperous, prosperous, prosperous and strong!" As long as I am an artist, as long as my brain is still clear, I hope to use the pen in my hand to write more songs that the audience loves. ”
Pictured: Tu Bahai and Zhu Fengbo jointly cut cake Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai photographed (the same below)
Seize the good opportunities of the times
Since his 55 years of art, Tu Bahai has composed and adapted nearly 100 songs and instrumental pieces, recorded and published nearly 100 records and albums, and conducted more than 300 concerts.
Feeling what he saw, thought and thought during the epidemic, Tu Bahai has successively created songs such as "Praise for Anti-epidemic Heroes" and "Chinese Aspirations" in the past two years. Just two months ago, he wrote a song called "Love It Will Fly" and gave it to mezzo-soprano Singer Wen Muya to sing. "Love will fly, like a bird, you don't cherish, it will leave you..." Tu Bahai said: "This song is dedicated to the lovers of the world, but also written to those who have to be separated because of the epidemic, I hope that everyone cherishes the people in front of them, cherishes the ordinary and happy life, and cherishes the hard-won anti-epidemic achievements of the medical guards." ”
While sharing the new songs, Tu Bahai also brought decades of creative scores, thick stacks of manuscripts, yellowed paper, curly corners, condensing the brilliance of the years and the wisdom of composers for more than half a century.
Pictured: Tu Bahai donated many of his musical score manuscripts to the Shanghai Light Music Troupe
Tu Bahai handed over the precious music scores to the leader of the group, Dong Deping, and turned back to the young juniors gathered around him and said: "You now look at these music scores, these music scores are all the creations of my Tu Bahai, but you must know that it is the great development of culture that gives me the opportunity." People's achievements are often inseparable from the times, the times give you opportunities, you do a good job is an achievement, do not do well to let the opportunity be lost in vain. ”
Be cautious when engaging in art
Despite his old age, Tu Bahai is still young, and his laughing and noisy personality makes the audience full of joy and laughter. At the birthday party, he specially put on a red jacket and conducted a small band to play the song he composed, "Happy Dai Township". The space of the venue is limited, the formation of the small band naturally can not be "full of calculations", before raising the baton, Tu Bahai "solemn statement": "Considering the economic cost, today the saxophone style is not used, the violin is used three, if there is a gap with the magnificent momentum in your impression, please imagine yourself to make up for it." ”
Pictured: Tu Bahai conducts a light music troupe to perform "Happy Dai Township"
However, when it comes to the overall quality and environment of song creation today, Tu Bahai, who always smiles and hehes, rarely sees a face under the floor: "For some of the current creations, I really feel that it is not good, and one of the reasons why I still insist on writing songs at this age is that I can't see some songs written too poorly, rather than this, it is better for me to write." ”
In the face of the lively scenes that seem to be from the artists today, Tu Bahai reminds young people to be vigilant: "Of course, it is good to love art, in the future, people's artistic accomplishment will become higher and higher, and the artistic atmosphere will become more and more intense, but this does not mean that there will be more and more artists." To engage in art, just love is not enough, but also to consolidate the basic skills, firm faith, sink down to study, art this road is not easy to go, it is full of ups and downs is also very difficult, you have to make a prudent decision, but once you think about it to take it as a lifelong ideal, do not easily waver. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan)