She is the first female conductor of symphony in China and the first Chinese conductor to be invited to rehearse a world-famous opera abroad. She was the chief conductor of the Central Opera House and was awarded the French Order of Merit for Literature and Art and the Order of Honor for Friendship between Russia and China. She, breaking down gender barriers, proved herself professionally and passionately in the male-dominated field of conduct. She is the 92-year-old "hardcore grandmother" and the famous conductor music educator Zheng Xiaoying.
Hello! "Big Girl" came to the beautiful and pleasant Xiamen, in the home of Teacher Zheng Xiaoying, on the seaside of Xiamen, on the stage of the theater, I saw that although Teacher Zheng is 92 years old, she still has a sense of girlishness, which is the tempering of time and the power of more simple love. Follow me, listen to Teacher Zheng Xiaoying tell her love affair with music, and feel her love and passion for music at close range.
"Long live the great, glorious, heroic Chinese people!" Accompanied by this sonorous and powerful voice, the Xiamen Minnan Grand Theater resounded with an exciting music - "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China", and it was Teacher Zheng Xiaoying who was in a hurry and passionately commanded on the stage. Even female conductors in the world are rare, but in the fifties and sixties, how did she go through all kinds of hardships to stand on the highly anticipated podium?
Zheng Xiaoying, who was only 33 years old at the time, conducted her first symphony performance of "Tosca" in Moscow, thus becoming the first Chinese conductor to stand at the top opera house, and even the first female conductor to stand at the Moscow Opera House. After the performance, her mother saw the report at that time and specially sent it to Zheng Xiaoying, which she properly treasured to the present, and the flower petals sent by her peers in the Moscow makeup room at that time were also carefully collected by Zheng Xiaoying to this day.
Nowadays, Teacher Zheng Xiaoying has performed 77 times in 12 countries with the large-scale Chinese symphony work "Tulou Echo", in which Teacher Zheng carefully explains the structure, background and emotional level of the symphony "Tulou Echo". After the performance, the audience shouted "Teacher Zheng, I love you", which echoed not only the pride of bringing Chinese music to the world, but also the respect and heartfelt love for a musician.
The 92-year-old teacher Zheng Xiaoying is still running for the music career, she boldly paints her own planning picture of future music, and imagines her dream of the music island of Gulangyu Island. What is her next musical plan? Why did she learn to drive? What is Zheng Xiaoying, a teacher who has been dealing with music all her life, and what is her favorite music in her heart? How does she feel about age and illness?
Want to know more about the story of "hardcore grandma" Zheng Xiaoying, just tonight at 21:20 Jiangsu Satellite TV broadcast "Hello! Big Girl", Thursday at 12:00 noon Mango TV was launched simultaneously. This program is jointly produced by Jiangsu Satellite TV, Sunshine Media Group, Miaoqu New Media and Dongjin Culture.