With a thud, the ballet dancer's tiptoe shoes knocking on the ground makes a sonorous sound, what is hidden in the toe?
Answering one after another, some people answered wood, and some people answered silicone, "Silicone is excessive, silicone is soft, can't stand up!" Daniel, a young dancer, laughed and said that the tip of the shoe is actually cloth, a layer of cloth, a layer of glue, dozens of layers of overlapping, and finally dried, "If it is wood, it will sweat, it will be wet, it will be moldy." ”
Such an interesting scene occurred on January 16, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's "Music Map Class" lecture 3 "Dance Music". It was a popular class that led the audience through the world of dance and music freely, and ballet dancers in tiptoe shoes and tutu skirts danced ballet in the concert hall.
Young dancer Daniel and ballet dancer popularized ballet
How to distinguish between romantic and classical ballet
In which country did ballet originate? At the scene, the audience's answers were also very enthusiastic, answering France, Italy, russia.
"Ballet originated in the Italian Renaissance, but flourished in France. The movement terminology for ballet all over the world is French, and for this reason, many people mistakenly believe that it originated in France. ”
Daniel said slowly, speaking of France, I have to mention King Louis XIV of France, who loved ballet and played an important role in the history of ballet development. In 1661, Louis XIV founded the world's first Royal Ballet School in Paris and developed a systematic syllabus that established the norms for hand positions, foot positions, and many ballet movements. After the 17th century, ballet went out of the court, into the theater, into the public eye.
"Before the 17th century, the heroines of ballets were all regurgitated by men, because there were no women dancing ballet, which was also a manifestation of the artistic inferiority of men and women in the French imperial power." In 1832, Tarioni starred in the "Fairy" at the Paris Opera, which was later hailed as the "romantic ballet debut", becoming the first female dancer to wear tiptoe shoes and dance with tiptoe techniques.
So, how to distinguish between romantic ballet and classical ballet? Daniel shared a tip that in romantic ballets such as "Fairy" and "Giselle", female dancers wear knee-length skirts, while in classical ballets such as "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "Nutcracker", female dancers wear tutu skirts, like small round tables, revealing two large long legs.
"First there was Romanticism, then there was Classicism. In the earliest days, female dancers were not allowed to show their legs, only long skirts, and only the bones of the feet could be exposed. Later, everyone's aesthetic of art slowly opened up, tutu skirts can better show the body lines, and more light, female dancers can do more rotation, bounce, show more skills. Daniel said.
Subsequently, many children were invited to the stage, under the leadership of a ballet dancer, one move at a time, learned ballet, and the laughter was full.
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs "Swan" and "Viennese Temperament Round Dance"
How St.-Saën's "The Swan" came about
In the performing arts category, dance and music are always deeply integrated and deeply bundled.
The Russian composer Tchaikovsky wrote countless works in his lifetime, among which the music written for "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker" was easy to understand and widely circulated. The character of these music is distinct, which not only retains the elegance and beauty of traditional ballet music, but also has rich symphony and plot.
The French composer Saint-Saëns also wrote a "Swan", affectionate, pure, and sad, and countless ballet dancers danced on this short song for a few minutes, and even adapted it into a ballet solo dance "The Death of the Swan". "The Swan" is from Saint-Saën's orchestral suite "Animal Carnival", and its birth is also very interesting, and the arrogant Saint-Saën flows it out of the nib with displeasure.
"Saint-Saën is smart and proud. Once he went on a tour, he didn't expect that everyone didn't know him, and he was very angry. On the way back just in time for carnival, he began to write, writing all the composers he hated, and turning into animals, such as the composer Rameau who became a rooster. This passage of the host amused everyone.
The work was written in 1886, but was not publicly premiered until 1922. Because of his sarcasm, Saint-Saën did not dare to make it public, hid it, and forbade it to be played or published during his lifetime, with the exception of The Swan.
Many great composers have also used the genre of ancient dance music. A famous example is Bach, whose Cello A cappella suite consists of a prelude and some ancient dance pieces, such as gigs, Sarabande, and Kurante.
The Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. is known as the "King of The Round Dance", and his round dance music is spread to thousands of homes through New Year's concerts. Originally, his father did not want him to be a musician, but rather wanted him to become a banker, because the latter had a higher social status. Unexpectedly, little Johann Strauss studied music and formed a band behind his father's back, and later surpassed his father in musical achievements and prestige.
Huang Beixing, chief of the cello vocal department, popularized the cello
Why is there a hole hidden behind the cello
In order to let the audience have a more intuitive impression of the work, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performed Johann Strauss Jr.'s "Viennese Temperament Round Dance" on the spot. Huang Beixing, chief of the cello department, joined hands with harpist Sun Zhiyang, accompanied by ballet dancers, to present St. Sang's "Swan", two of the most romantic instruments romantic collision, people are mesmerized.
As early as the Baroque period, the cello was one of the most prominent instruments. "Over the centuries, composers have written many beautiful pieces for the cello. If you want to learn the violin, the cello is a good choice. In popularizing this "big man" to the audience, Huang Beixing said that from the shape, the string distance to the number of strings, the method of playing, the earliest cello is completely different from the present.
In foreign countries, Huang Beixing likes to look around at the piano, and found that many old pianos have a hole in the back, and they are in the same position, and senior violin repair masters do not repair, just put it. He had always been very confused, and later a violinist told him that the priests of the early church liked to travel, and in order to play the violin while walking, they dug a hole in the back of the violin and hung a rope in the hole to facilitate hanging the violin.
"The foot brace was also developed later. The earliest people used to hold it between their legs, so it was also called 'knee cello'. "After hundreds of years of flux, the cello was finally shaped to what it is today.
The stringed instrument is the base of the symphony orchestra, there is no string instrument, the orchestra seems to have no roots, very ethereal, and the cello with a low and thick tone is the most important stringed instrument. Interestingly, the cello is not only indispensable to Western symphony orchestras, but also plays an important role in China's national orchestras, and the performance principle of the national instrument Gehu is very similar to that of the cello, but due to various reasons such as timbre, it is gradually replaced by the cello.
At the scene, several lucky spectators were invited to the stage, holding the principal cello for a try, and the chief hand took the entrance to experience this affectionate instrument closely.
Chinese New Year special poster
【Program Preview】
Since last September, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's "Music Map Classroom" has been conducting three consecutive lectures, and the venue has been full, attracting countless large and small audiences. The fourth lecture , "Yangxindian Music Sit-in Conference" will be held in March this year.
During the Spring Festival, from February 3 to 6 (the third to sixth day of the first year), the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will also package four classes and send them to the children under the name of the "Concert for Children" special edition of the Chinese New Year.