Cover news reporter Doon Lake
In the 2022 CCTV Year of the Tiger Spring Festival Gala, the Sichuan elements are eye-catching. In addition to Zhang Guoguo's sanxingdui bronze mask appearing on the Spring Festival Gala stage, Liao Changyong, Li Yuchun, Huo Yong, Tan Weiwei, JiKe Junyi and other Sichuan stars also sang songs.
The stars in front of the stage are dazzling, and there are also Sichuan musicians who are silently dedicated behind the scenes. On the morning of February 2, the cover news reporter learned exclusively from the Spring Festival Gala crew: Among the many song and dance programs of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger, 6 were musical works created by Zhou Xuan, a young teacher at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. It is indeed relatively rare for a person to compose 6 original pieces of music on the same Spring Festival Gala on CCTV.
The 6 original works created by Zhou Xuan are: the song "True Love Dances", "Happy Hour", the dance music "Golden Noodles", "Hot Pot Sonata", the martial arts soundtrack "Milk Tiger Howling Spring", and "Flowing Water". Among them, 5 were composed by him independently, and 1 martial arts program soundtrack "Flowing Water in the Clouds" was co-created by him and student Wang Fei.
Zhou Xuan is a teacher in the Department of Modern Music Production at the School of Popular Music of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and a national second-level composer. He has participated in the music creation and production of large-scale events at the international, national and provincial levels for many times.
Zhou Xuan told the cover news reporter about the behind-the-scenes story of his work on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala: "The 2022 CCTV Spring Festival Gala is actually the second time I have cooperated with the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the first time was last year's Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Ox, when I created the original music of the national song and dance "All One Heart". In October 2021, I officially received an invitation from the director group of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and began to compose music for the 2022 Tiger Spring Festival Gala. ”
"The first work I created was the creative dance "Golden Face" about our Sanxingdui cultural relics in Sichuan. The choreographer of this dance is the famous dancer Yang Liping, which is my first cooperation with Yang Liping. Zhou Xuan said, "In the early days of creation, I went to Sanxingdui to collect style on the ground, communicated with the Spring Festival Gala director team many times, and finally determined the direction of music creation." After repeated revisions, the final version was not determined until the day before the Spring Festival Gala aired on January 30. ”
The dance music "Hotpot Sonata" is a musical description of the hot pot, the most representative food culture symbol in the Sichuan-Chongqing region, portraying the scene of enthusiasm like fire, joy and peace and hot pot boiling. He said: "In terms of music creation, I put the Sichuan folk song "The Sun Comes Out happy yangyang" throughout the whole song, symbolizing and implying the long aftertaste and deep fragrance of the hot pot bottom oil, and then put various musical elements and musical styles, especially the Sichuan River trumpet, Sichuan opera and Qingyin elements with strong Sichuan characteristics, into the pot one by one, and boiled a delicious cultural hot pot. ”
When talking about the two musical works of "Flowing Clouds and Flowing Water" and "Milk Tiger Whistling Spring", Zhou Xuan said, "These two programs are music creations completed in the form of soundtracks. Among them, "Flowing Water in the Clouds" is based on Chinese percussion and ethnic instruments supplemented by a majestic symphonic chorus to reflect the rigidity and softness in Tai Chi; "Milk Tiger Whistling Spring" has a strong dramatic nature. I used music to match the storyline of the show, highlighting the sense of power of drama and martial arts, and organically combining ethnic music, symphonic music and modern pop music. ”
In this year's Spring Festival Gala, there are also two songs with a strong festive atmosphere and joyful atmosphere, "True Love Dances" and "Happy Hour", which are also composed by Zhou Xuan. Among them, "True Love Dances" is sung by Wang Yuan, Ren Jialun, Ji Kejunyi and Song Qian; "Happy Hour" is sung by Wang Junkai, Zhu Yilong, Yu Kewei and Zhao Liying.
In an interview with the cover news reporter, Zhou Xuan modestly and low-key said, "As a Sichuan musician, I am honored to have 6 musical works on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger. I am grateful to Chuanyin for cultivating me, and I am grateful to my hometown Sichuan for cultivating me. ”
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