How does the "aroma of the earth" ascend to the hall of elegance? The director team looks forward to retaining the "true color"

Director Zhang Yimou always said, "We must let the aroma of the earth ascend to the hall of elegance." "The children who sang the 'Olympic Anthem' came from Malan Primary School, Stone Monkey Primary School, Jinggou Primary School, Bayi School and Da'andi Primary School in Fuping County." In the beginning, many children could not open their mouths. Liu Kai, secretary and principal of the Xiazhuang School District In Nanzhuang Town, Fuping County, recalled. To interpret the Greek Olympic Hymn in the form of an a cappella chorus, the challenge is all-encompassing.

Lin Jiahao, from The University of Foreign Chinese in Beijing, is one of the choir's language teachers. "It's really difficult for children to learn Greek from scratch, and they have to master a lot of things that aren't in Chinese." Lin Jiahao explained, for example, there are many tongue-biting sounds in Greek, pronunciation is easy to make mistakes, sometimes, Lin Jiahao has to check the children's mouth shape one by one, carefully observe whether the "tongue biting" is in place, in order to find out the few wrong sounds that are not very harmonious in the crowd; sometimes, the pronunciation is not easy to find right, but with the melody sung, it begins to "deviate". "These can only be corrected through repeated training." In order to more realistically experience the feelings of children when they sing and give more targeted improvement methods, Lin Jiahao has learned this work that is not easy to sing.

Zhang Hongyu, dean of the School of Music and Dance of Baoding University, and other professional teachers provided vocal guidance for the choir. From a professional point of view, "'Olympiad' required a high range of voices, but the director team didn't ask the kids to be so leading in business. In a short period of time, it is also unrealistic for children with no singing experience to master a set of scientific vocal methods. Zhang Hongyu is very clear that the director team looks forward to retaining and showing the children's "true colors", letting the world see their intelligence and agility, seeing their sincerity and simplicity and a little shyness, therefore, in the usual vocal training, in addition to teaching the children to achieve the due pitch through sentence by sentence, Zhang Hongyu did not put too many requirements on the children in "technology". He also pays great attention to joining some group games, so that the children realize that chorus is a kind of collective cooperation, but also maintain the natural love of music: "We hope that the children can complete this big task, and do not lose their simple happiness." 」 ”