Is it expensive to learn an instrument? If you have such concerns, you may be able to go to Teacher Fei's classroom. Teacher Fei is the founder of the Shanghai Philharmonic Accordion Orchestra Middle-aged and Elderly Band Fan Yangcheng, a while ago he saw the Shanghai Civic Art Night School 1200 places in 5 minutes to grab the light, laughing: "We charge low, an accordion class only 35 yuan, let the elderly friends have fun, Shanghai downtown, suburbs, and Students in the Yangtze River Delta come every week, and now there are 70 students." ”
Yesterday, Fan Yangcheng held an accordion concert for the trainees in the training classroom, which he rented last September in the Jingyu Creative Park on Zhonghua New Road. Everyone was upset because accordion lessons, which had been stagnant for a long time, had finally resumed. In the five classrooms, on Thursdays and sundays, you can always see elderly students smiling.
Pictured: Fan Yangcheng leads the "Second Round Dance" for the orchestra Xinmin Evening News reporter Guo Xinyang photographed (the same below)
For this concert, Fan Yangcheng himself conducted the concert, inviting Wang Wanjin, director of the teaching and research office of the former Orchestra Department of Shanghai Normal University, and Xu Tiansi, a well-known arranger, to serve as percussion and piano accompaniment. The female students put on royal blue dresses and long skirts and light makeup, and the male students put on suit shirts. At home, they are parents, grandparents, grandparents, and grandparents, and in Teacher Fei's classroom, they have made themselves back.
Presentation performances were held, and the largest classroom was their stage. Before the start of each track performance, everyone lined up at the door of the classroom to wait, the host announced the curtain, and then everyone walked into the classroom one by one, there was no stage height difference, the audience area and the performance area were within a few feet. Ensemble "Waves of the Danube", solo "Prairie Pastoral", unison "My Motherland and Me", quartet "Colonel Poughy March"... Each track is the melody of their youth.
Most of the members of the band were students who followed Fan Yangcheng to class at Yangpu District University for the Elderly many years ago, and Wei Zixia, who was known as the class leader, was the first batch of students That Fan Yangcheng brought to the University of the Elderly, "At that time, there were only seven students in the class, and teacher Fei learned from Doraemi, and the first song he taught us was "Polish Round Dance", which turned six years. ”
In Fan Yangcheng's class, it is not only necessary to pull accurately, but also to pull out the unique flavor of the song. Everyone learned from scratch, and now they can play in four voices. Zhong Jiandi, a student, said with a smile that wherever he went now, he had to take the piano to wherever he went, and happiness would follow wherever he went. Usually when there is no class, this group of students will call friends and bring their own accordion to travel together, in the hotel, in the farmhouse, everyone improvises the repertoire that Fan Yangcheng taught, often attracting passers-by to watch and applaud.
Pictured: Fan Yangcheng plays in the orchestra
Performing on stage is no stranger to this group of students, and in the performance, they do not see any nervousness and timidity. Huang Xiaoyun, who took the stage solo, was originally a student who studied with Fan Yangcheng, was a ship engineer before retirement, and after the opening of the new classroom, he was hired by Fan Yangcheng to be an accordion teacher, bringing a class of 10 students every Thursday. She lives in Minhang and spends three hours on the road every time she comes to class.
More than a decade ago, Huang Xiaoyun bought an accordion, and due to his busy work, he did not have the opportunity to learn, until he retired and saw that there was an accordion class at Yangpu District University for the Elderly on the Internet. Fan Yangcheng is her enlightenment teacher, and has always felt that she can be a good teacher, Huang Xiaoyun said: "I usually prefer self-study and summing up experience, if I can pass on my learning experience to my peers, they will be easier to accept." Nowadays, Huang Xiaoyun has four pianos at home, and different songs will choose different pianos to play, "I am also a grandmother, my daughter gave birth to a baby last year, the family is very busy, but still can't bear to give up, we need each other as a group, not to make money, it is completely a happy mood." ”
As Fan Yangcheng said, the concert is not to test their musical standards, but to take the audience to feel the atmosphere they enjoy together. On the faces of this group of accordion lovers, there is no trace of age, and they are full of love for music.
When a person treats work as a career, he will go all out, and working for the cause is the value of life and the joy of life. This year Fan Yangcheng is 75 years old, it can be said that the accordion career is already his life interest and pursuit, whenever the beautiful melody of the accordion comes out of his classroom, there is a sense of realization of value, a sense of happiness to let go of dreams, and a full sense of achievement. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)