The Paper's reporter Liao Yang intern Wang Zhong
In front of the beautiful national style background board, many viewers wore beautiful Hanfu punch cards to take souvenirs, and in front of the sales table of derivative limited gift bags, there were also many viewers who stopped to buy... This scene took place at the Shanghai Concert Hall, the scene of the performance of "Folk Music on the Sea".
In the autumn of 2021, the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra's Guofeng Music Scene "Folk Music on the Sea" entered the Shanghai Concert Hall and launched the first round of 23 resident performances. The integration of architecture, light and shadow, and folk music has achieved a bold market exploration of folk music performances, and many people have brushed two or three brushes, and they are still unfinished.
On the evening of August 19th, "Folk Music on the Sea" returned to the Shanghai Concert Hall, kicking off the second round of resident performances and 19 consecutive performances. The performers combed their hair in buns, put on their quaint and flowing robes, and once again transformed into "gentlemen in the forest".
"Sitting in the audience to rearrange 'Folk Music on the Sea', there are mixed feelings." Director Ma Junfeng sighed, "After a few months, those familiar melodies have been re-played by artists, and every note has been injected with a new sense of life. ”
What's new about the comeback? The reporter found that in addition to the upgrading of audio-visual presentation, a number of fresh faces also poured into the stage, and the performance lineup was more diverse.
"Jigu", "Water Line", "Fire Dance", "Ink Opera", "Landscape", "Yu Xi", "Crossing", "Bee Flying", "Silk Road"... From the beginning to the end of the 9 tracks, each track is equipped with a different rehearsal echelon, behind each instrument are equipped with two or three performers, providing a display platform for more young people, and their different understandings, different treatments, different styles of music also make the same work glow with different personality charm.
At the same time, as early as the rehearsal of the workshop, the original team of the first round of resident performances relayed the inheritance with the new members to help young artists with pursuit and enthusiasm grow rapidly.
During the first round of residencies, a "wine song" told the eternal love of the overlord Bieji, and the pipa player Yu Bing once incarnated as a bully and joined hands with Yu Ji, played by the Peking Opera actress, to start a life-and-death sadistic love. In the second round of residency, "Yu Xi" was freshly baked, changing the perspective of the narrative - pipa players Zhu Tianjin, Li Shengnan, and Liu Xuexian all incarnated as Yu Ji, interpreting this legend from a female perspective, and the overlord was played by Peking Opera male actors.
"Yu Ji is talented and beautiful, dares to love and dare to hate, I want to show her tenderness, but also to show her fierceness." Participating in the residency for the first time, Zhu Tianjin summed up that it is necessary to use the pipa technique to describe the jinge iron horse of war, but also to use special fingerings such as soft strings and strings to imitate Yu Ji's crying and show her tender side. When playing with Peking Opera male actors, when the line was arranged to the emotional place, Zhu Tianjin, who had entered the play, could not help but cry for a while.
Senior Yu Bing guided her, and the moment she took the stage, she was Yu Ji, from the posture of walking to the speed, she had to be carefully figured out. In addition, everyone has different characteristics and does not need to be deliberately compared. "The three Yu Ji are different, which is related to the style of the performer playing the piano and the interpretation of Yu Ji, so the audience will have a fresh feeling every time they brush." Zhu Tianjin said.
"Yu Xi"
"Crossing" can be called the "King Explosion" work in "Sea Folk Music", which makes the scream and the electro-acoustic band collide passionately, igniting the audience and turning the audience over the audience. Yan Jinlong and Jiang Feng participated in the residency for the first time, and will take turns to play soloists in The Arbor and Armenian pipes.
The performances of the two new members have their own characteristics: Yan Jinlong's performance is extremely powerful, penetrating and impactful; Jiang Feng loves rock and roll on weekdays, and meets cool electro-acoustic bands, showing the fashion and trendy style of contemporary folk music.
"'Crossing' frequently uses extreme tones that are rare in the chant, and I'm like a shooter in the Olympic arena, I have to play 10 rings at a time, and no deviation is allowed." In addition to extreme sound, for Yan Jinlong, another challenge is how to release himself from the classical and traditional repertoire of primary school and perform the style of a rock star. Senior Hu Chenyun imparted experience, to relax, not to have rules, to show their skills and charm freely and freely.
Talking about how to mobilize the audience's emotions, Yan Jinlong said with a smile, "First of all, you have to be hi yourself, and then drive the audience to hi together through playing, so that they can feel different folk music - folk music can also be in line with today's world, so trendy, so fun." ”
"Crossing"
"Bee Flying" changed the famous "Wild Bee Flying Dance" into a folk music quintet - erhu, Shaoqin, Ruan, percussion, sheng, like a young people's carnival party. Ying Yiting, Ling Meng, Li Chenxiao, Jiang Yuanqing, and Li Chunxu all took the stage for the first time to perform this difficult work, playing extremely fast, the sound flow rolled up and down, and the interaction was completed in one go, vividly depicting the scene when the wild bee flapped its wings and flew.
The five also experienced a change from strange to familiar. In order to deepen the tacit understanding, during the rehearsal process, they constantly exchanged experiences, exchanged skills with each other, and even designed a happy clip of the douqin, which instantly closed the distance between them.
"You have to be in a very relaxed state, and you have to be desperate to rush forward." Born in 1999, Li Chenxiao, who plays Ruan, just graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music last year. Participating in the residency, she was stressed and excited, and prepared for all emergencies, "For example, will the plucks fall off, and is it possible for the strings to break?" My performance was particularly intense as soon as I started, so I had to prepare the plucks, check the strings, and leave the rest to the stage. ”
"Bee Flying"
Not only the repertoire and actors have changed, but also the Shanghai Concert Hall, which carries the performance of "Folk Music on the Sea".
Fang Liang, general manager of Shanghai Concert Hall, found that during the first round of residency last year, the audience liked to pat and buy and buy, and this year, the concert hall should move from time to time, and the national tide of the scene was even stronger: the scene not only arranged a national style background board for the audience to punch in and take souvenirs; On the basis of last year's cultural and creative products, three limited gift bags of "Sea Folk Music" were launched for the audience to choose to buy - the gift bags included guofeng music masks and guofeng stickers designed by the Shanghai Concert Hall, as well as canvas bags designed by the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra.
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