Upstream Record 丨 Music is our eye remember Chongqing's largest blind wind band

"They say your world is only dark."

"They say, in your lifetime, you can't take care of yourself."

"They say that no matter how high your education is, you can only do massage."

"They say, blind man, what more can you dream of?"

……

When the band's chief trumpeter, the blind teenager Wang Taifan, pushed open the door he had been looking forward to for many years for the first time, and walked on the stage hand in hand with other classmates, a chasing light hit him. As the opening prelude, Wang Taifan calmly raised the trumpet in his hand and blew the music of dreams, and the melodious notes were like buds in the darkness, angrily placed on the stage.

Darkness descends

Today, we live happily in a colorful world. But also today, there is a group of people whose world has faded, and for them, seeing a colorful world is a distant dream.

Once, Wang Taifan could also see the blue sky and the golden sunset overhead. But slowly, his world was left with only one color.

Ten years ago, due to necrosis of the eye plate, Wang Taifan's eyesight weakened day by day, and finally one day, there was only darkness in front of his eyes.

"What does it feel like? Just feel that the sky has fallen. ”

"I can't go to class, I can't play with other people, I just stay at home in a daze." Today is black, wake up, tomorrow is still black. ”

"Walking on the road, you will encounter some mutterings, some of them are not available, you have not provoked them, just because you are blind." 」

"I guess there are still some people pointing behind their backs, it doesn't matter, I can't see it anyway."

"Grandpa and sister look, now I can't even remember..."

"Want to see their faces again. I don't need three days of light, I just want to look at it again. ”

A ray of hope

After becoming blind, Wang Taifan transferred to the special education center, and when he first came, he did not like to talk, and often sat alone in the corner in a daze. Until one day six years ago, the orchestra conductor handed him a trumpet, and Wang Taifan stroked the trumpet in surprise—he had heard the music coming from here.

Today, many years later, Wang Taifan recalls the moment when he officially touched music, and he can't help but feel a lot of emotions.

"Music, it's my eyes," he paused for a moment, and continued, "it's a different world I can see. ”

"Don't worry, take your time." In order to let Wang Taifan lay a solid foundation, the teacher only let him blow the trumpet. Even, at first, he couldn't even blow his horn! Therefore, the orchestra conductor asked Wang Taifan to touch the shape of his mouth and experience the vocal skills. In addition to class, Wang Taifan always held the number mouth to grope. After a whole semester and a winter vacation of hard work, this persistent teenager finally got his wish to blow out the melody and had a silver trumpet of his own.

Learning a new piece of music and not seeing the score, Wang Taifan listened to it over and over again until every note and rhythm was memorized in his mind. Can't see the conductor, just silently recite the beat in your heart, keep up with the tune.

"For more than six years, I spent a third of my time with trumpets, and it almost became a part of my body." Wang Taifan spends 3 hours practicing trumpet blowing every day, blowing after doing homework, blowing on the bed when bored, blowing when he is in a good mood, and blowing when he is low... The school playground and the rehearsal hall on the fourth floor often have a crisp trumpet echo.

The sound of nature

In May 2011, the "Yangfan Wind Orchestra" of Chongqing Special Education Center was born with visually impaired children as the main members. This year is the band's tenth birthday.

Ten years of "sailing", carrying children into the wider blue sea and blue sky. In October 2018, the "Yangfan Wind Orchestra" participated in the 4th Chongqing Primary and Secondary School Students Art Festival and won the first prize in the middle school group; in December 2019, it participated in the first "Little Ambassador of Chinese and Foreign People-to-People Exchanges" National General Exhibition And won the first prize and fashion award of instrumental music;

On May 16, 2021, the band made its debut in the newly built national campus professional concert hall. The audience was full of people, and the audience did not hesitate to give the warmest applause and admiration to this wind orchestra, to this amazing group of students and teachers.

On this day, the chief trumpeter Wang Taifan walked into the long-awaited concert hall and played his best song with his friends, and in the darkness, a first heavenly sound poured out.

At this moment, the blind trumpeter, this blind band, declared wordlessly to the world:

Have a dream, everyone is amazing!