In the Spring Festival of previous years, Li Shengnan, a young pipa player of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, was a "trapeze artist", lingering in the concert of "Sea Folk Music" in four European countries and eight cities in the United States... This year, Li Shengnan, a new Shanghainese, decided to respond to the call to stay in Shanghai for the Chinese New Year, and his parents also came from Beijing to get together with their daughters and enjoy the slowed-down holiday time together.
Pictured: Li Shengnan, who stayed in Shanghai for the New Year, provided a picture by the interviewee
Parents are by their side
Early in the morning Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Shengnan and his father's top priority was to paste the Spring League and hang up the blessing characters, "Since I have a memory, as long as I am around my parents for the New Year, this habit has never changed." "The Spring Festival with a family, even if you are not in your hometown, is particularly happy." Li Shengnan's family is full of new years, and she also joyfully greets everyone for the New Year (see picture below).
Li Shengnan recalled the scene of the Spring Festival overseas in the past two years, and the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra was particularly popular with foreign audiences and overseas Chinese everywhere it went, and the audience would wear Chinese costumes to listen to the concert, and the response was particularly enthusiastic. At the end of the performance, steaming dumplings will be prepared backstage, and the performers will also meet to go down to the restaurant and eat an exotic Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
On Chinese New Year's Eve night this year, Li Shengnan's family wrapped a lot of dumplings together, making up for the reunion that had not been realized in the past journey. A large pot of dumplings has a yuanbao type and a fancy style, and one of the lucky dumplings also hides a coin, which means that the new year will be blessed and colorful. At that time, across the time difference, Li Shengnan always crossed thousands of rivers and mountains to pay tribute to his family through video. Nowadays in Shanghai For the New Year, Li Shengnan still "prays to the New Year" on the video, and the blessing is delivered, avoiding the crowd gathering.
Li Shengnan said: "In the New Year in Shanghai, our family will go to the movies and go to yuyuan Garden to see the lantern festival, which is lively and ritualistic. ”
Photo: Li Shengnan in the performance of "Year of The Burning Red China" Courtesy of the interviewee
Open a new world of folk music
How hot is folk music these days? It can be seen from the performance footprints in Li Shengnan's circle of friends. On New Year's Day this year, Li Shengnan participated in Tan Dun's "Ode to Dunhuang Mercy", which was her first attempt to stand and rebound the pipa, and also to be as elegant as the flying sky in the Dunhuang murals. "The antique instrument such as the rebound pipa pursues a simple timbre, so it is not like the modern pipa that wears nails", the pull of the flesh and strings leaves a thick calluses on Li Shengnan's fingers, in order to achieve the performance effect of blind play, she looks for feelings again and again, and finally completes such a stunning finishing touch.
Photo: Li Shengnan in the performance of "Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" Courtesy of the interviewee
After the performance, Li Shengnan immediately switched stages without stopping, and finally boarded the concert "Year of The Fiery Red China" conducted by conductor Zhang Guoyong, composing the New Year music with the sound of Chinese music. On the evening of January 25, she also participated in the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra's classic brand concert "Sea Folk Music" at the Fujian Minnan Grand Theater. In a few days, Li Shengnan will walk into Huinan Town and Xinhua Street with the orchestra players to present the classic folk music repertoire to the residents of the community, becoming an atmosphere group with the taste of the New Year.
On February 15, the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra will also present the "Happy and Peaceful Reunion Year" concert at the Lantern Festival, with the participation of Li Shengnan, to bring the orchestra's 2021-2022 performance season to an end. Li Shengnan revealed that the new resident version of "Sea Folk Music" is also being polished, and will open in March, she will incarnate as Yu Ji, and cooperate with the opera flower face actors to compose a song "Wine Song", "I like Shanghai, a metropolis with a hundred rivers and rivers, for Shanghai, I fell in love with it at first sight." Thanks to the platform provided by the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, it not only benefits young actors, but also opens up a new world for folk music. ”
(Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)