The Paper's reporter Liao Yang intern Bai Maram
"Thoughts, put on the golden wings, rest on the slopes and hills, the gentle new air of the homeland, we feel fragrant when we breathe!" Oncoming is the jordan river shore, and the pagoda falls on Mount Zion; ah, how lovely the lost homeland is! Ah, gracious nostalgia is full of hope! ”
"Fly, Golden Wings" is a choral segment of Verdi's opera Nabuco, which flew out of the choral rehearsal hall of the Opera House on October 17, not only with a moving melody, but also with great momentum.
The scene of the event
It is hard to imagine that the singers are the principals of kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Shanghai, a total of more than 80 people - they are all learning to sing this chorus for the first time, or in Italian, and they have sung it in a similar way.
This "bel canto experience class" is guided by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and is part of the series of courses jointly organized by the Shanghai Municipal Arts Education Commission and Shanghai Shangyin Performance Co., Ltd. "Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Art Literacy Improvement Seminar Music Section", hoping to let school administrators and principals feel the beauty of music with vivid experience courses.
"Opera White" learns to sing Italian songs with zero basic knowledge
"This song is known as Italy's 'second national anthem', and it is extremely popular, and because of this song, Will became famous on the first night and spread his reputation throughout Italy." After Receiving the teaching task, Wang Renmo, a teacher in the Vocal Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, was the first song that popped up in his mind was "Fly, Golden Wings".
In the classroom, Wang Renmo started from Italian pronunciation, talked about the four periods of Verdi's opera creation, and the appreciation of Verdi's famous work "Nabuco", and finally entered the practice of "Fly, Golden Wings", humorous and affinity, very infectious.
"The principals are all 'zero foundation', so I am nervous, but they give me a lot of encouragement, enthusiasm, cooperation, let me relax." Wang Renxiu laughed and said, "In an hour and a half, I finished my one-year Italian course, and I also taught half of the music appreciation course. ”
Next, Wang Renmo will also bring 5 classes, including vocal vocal skills, opera appreciation classes, etc., and he will even bring a group of students to the scene, singing and speaking, and demonstrating teaching.
In his view, the spread of opera should follow certain specifications and certain standards, "can not be too casual, wearing A-shirts, wearing slippers to listen to opera is not appropriate, to let everyone know how this elegant art came from, there must be respect in the heart." ”
"I've always said that people who study music are never bad people, they must be good people. As the biggest communicator of the school, the principal will definitely bring back our music information, and the artistic atmosphere of the school will certainly be active. "For the activities of the elegant art run campus, Wang Ren praised the festival.
"It's so interesting, I must study Fly, Golden Wings when I go back." Gong Ruihua, secretary of Gong Lu Middle School affiliated to Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, called himself "Opera White", learned to sing Italian songs for the first time, and was very excited.
After taking this solid experience class, Gong Ruihua has more thinking about aesthetic education, for example, in addition to the regular music class, the school can also introduce some higher-level art appreciation classes, "Taking "La Traviata" as an example, we must also popularize the background of opera, let students understand the story behind it, and then let them enter the theater to see. This is more helpful for improving students' literacy. ”
"Singing from scratch, I couldn't keep up, but I was still very infected." Yang Huibao, principal and secretary of the Changbai Ercun Primary School in Yangpu District, Shanghai, said that the school is piloting the project of "opening autistic children with music" to study the healing effects of music.
More than half of the teaching, the satisfaction of the principals reached 95%
When setting up the course of the music section of the seminar, the Shangyin Opera House planned 19 courses with the theme of "Discovering the Beauty of Music", starting from lectures by famous teachers, vocal music experience, and performance observation.
In terms of lectures by famous teachers, musicologist Han Bin was invited to talk about the status of Shanghai in the formation and development of modern Chinese music, Shangyin teacher Zhu Dandan and Xiang Zheng told Western classical music from the perspective of travel, Professor Kang Xiao of the China Conservatory of Music shared the charm of opera; vocal experience was to let the principals personally participate, through mastering the bel canto singing skills, singing beautiful and beautiful music with their own voices; in terms of performance observation, the principals have been invited to observe the rehearsal of the original musical "Loyalty" in Shangyin...
Comprehensive feelings, layers of preparation, and the down of the class, the principals feel the importance of aesthetic education in the construction of the school.
Principal Xu Hongmei of Shanghai Blind Children's School mentioned the aesthetic education of special children and hoped that special children would have more opportunities to experience art; most of the students from the rural Principal Jin Fanhua of Jinshan Zhuhang Primary School hoped to create more opportunities for children to enter the theater; after watching the musical "Loyalty", Principal Qian Yin of Dong Li Meifeng Kangjian School sighed that such positive energy dramas should enter the campus for more students to watch.
After the performance, the Shangyin Opera House will also organize the principals to observe the original works of the Shangyin and the first-class high-quality performances in China, and at the same time, the principals will share their impressions with the producers.
At present, the course has been taught more than halfway, and the questionnaire survey of principals of the Shangyin Opera House shows that the satisfaction rate has reached 95%, and the average attendance rate of the course has reached 80%.
Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Shangyin Opera House has made great efforts in popularizing music and art and promoting opera art.
Since opening its doors, The Shangyin Opera House has planned three major public welfare popularization brands of "Opera Salon", "Art Talk" and "Music Workshop", and has successively launched 37 music popularization activities such as "Music Hanrun People's City", "Travel with Music", "Opera Art 12 Lectures", "Opera "La Traviata" Music Appreciation", "Ukulele Music Workshop" and "Bayan Music Workshop". The three brands can be called "blockbusters", and the number of activity places is often sold out, and the supply exceeds the demand.
Shangyin Opera House said that in the future, it will continue to integrate the high-quality teachers of Shangyin, link up with the surrounding communities, provide personalized content and services, and tell the music story of Shanghai with the sound of the sound of the above sound.
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