In recent years, violinist Huang Mengla has found that some listeners are more willing to accept works that sound sweeter, "Why resist?" There is a lot of beautiful music in classical music, and while we lead the appreciation of taste, we should also let the audience get joy and satisfaction. ”
On February 27th, at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Huang Mengla will hold a recital concert under the name of "Greetings to Love", focusing on the four chapters of joy of love, gentleness of love, separation of love, and rebirth of love, showing the rich layers of love.
Compared with the usual more academic repertoire, the repertoire of this concert is more "sweet", from Prokofiev's "Three Oranges love", Elga's "Greetings to Love", Isayi's "Children's Dream", Chrysler's "Sorrow of Love", to Tan Dun's "Sad desert" and Chen Gang/He Zhanhao's "Liang Zhu"... "Easy to understand and easy to accept." Huang Mengla described.
Huang Mengla violin solo concert
Down-to-earth to play the piano first
"In the first few months of the epidemic, all the performances were cancelled, and I couldn't go anywhere, so I took a walk and practiced the piano, and this leisurely day was not over for a long time."
During the epidemic, some musicians have taken the stage to go out of the circle, and some musicians have explored their own potential, cross-border conducting and composing. In the face of all kinds of hydrangeas and "temptations" thrown, Huang Mengla refused one by one.
"There is a specialization in the art industry, and the interlacing is like a mountain. I'm interested, but more of awe. "Over forty years old, Huang Mengla's musical career does not have a new plan to cross the circle, and he is still down-to-earth and plays the violin first.
"Bottlenecks happen all the time." Huang Mengla admitted that one is a bottleneck in performance ability, and the other is a bottleneck in understanding, perception and imagination, "Sometimes there are some ideas in your head, and you practice from various angles, but you can't get the effect." It's painful! Knowing that the good things are there, you just can't reach them. ”
"The bottleneck period is easy to produce boredom, and if the state is not good, it will not be pulled." When he was a child, in order to play the basic skills well, his parents and teachers would strictly order him to practice the piano for six hours a day, and now it is different, Huang Mengla chose to reconcile with himself, "I can't think of a problem, let it go first, don't die, after a while it will naturally pass." ”
"Sometimes on stage, you get into the state of 'human and piano unity', how to pull is right, but this state is very rare." 」 Huang Mengla and cellist Wang Jian have talked, and the other party has also had this state, but so far no more than five times, but it is impossible to find it.
"Once you enter such a realm, you want to grasp it, and you want to reproduce it." Today's Huang Mengla is constantly pursuing "human-piano unity" on the stage, just like Liu Xiang and Su Bingtian, running through the world record, and every restart since then, they are trying to pursue that peak state, "I hope to fix that spiritual artistic inspiration." It is a dynamic that tells you that you can reach it. ”
Learning to play the piano requires a dead spirit
In addition to the performer, Huang Mengla also has a status of a popular teacher at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
"What they lack is distraction, information explosion, too many distractions." Compared with the era when he learned the piano, Huang Mengla observed that it is difficult for the younger generation of students to concentrate on a road, and learning the violin requires special concentration and the spirit of death, without this quality, it is difficult to become excellent musicians.
Nowadays, more and more children are learning musical instruments, and the curtain has long been drawn on the inner volume. Huang Mengla's daughter is also learning violin, and he also has a real advice for the parents of the children.
"Don't think too early to make your child famous, 99% have nothing to do with you." He suggested that learning musical instruments should be regarded as a kind of quality education, first cultivate interest, and then find a better teacher for the child according to the child's likes, opening a new door for the child.
There are also piano children who have studied the piano for ten years, but they are fascinated by the Internet Divine Comedy, which seems to deviate from the original intention of receiving classical music education to improve aesthetics.
"If he doesn't learn the piano for ten years, he will also listen to the Divine Comedy." The Divine Comedy is more appealing to the ears, and I can also sing it. Huang Mengla laughed and said that after learning classical music, the improvement of aesthetics is inevitable, but it takes time to ferment, "give children one more choice, at a certain age, they will be enlightened, and they will recall that there is still classical music in the world." Classical music requires you to take the initiative to feel, you need to have certain ideas about the world and life, in order to find resonance. ”
So, how do you see the importance of talent and hard work on the road to learning the piano?
"No one can succeed by pure talent or pure hard work, and there must be both." Huang Mengla metaphor, if talent is a flame, effort is a combustible, the more combustibles, the more fire is strong, "the flame has a size, talent also has a size, talent can make you start fast, but follow-up efforts are also very important." Conversely, if there is no flame, no amount of combustibles is useful. ”