Qianjiang Evening News Hour new reporter Chen Yuhao
The first Yangtze River Delta Original Pop Song Contest in 2020 will be held in Jinhua Jindong District from November 23. Players from Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui and other cities will compete in these days.
It is worth mentioning that during the competition, the participating singers will visit Shi Guangnan's former residence and music theme hall to find the footprints of this "people's musician".
Shi Guangnan has a deep relationship with Zhejiang.
Shi Guangnan's ancestral home is Dongye Village, Yuandong Township, Jindong District, Jinhua City. Shi Guangnan's ancestors had lived in the small village of Dongye for generations.
Today, in addition to building a music square named after Shi Guangnan in Jinhua, there are also well-preserved Shi Fuliang (Shi Guangnan's father) and Shi Guangnan's former residence in Dongye Village.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Shi Guangnan's birth and the 30th anniversary of his death, the first "people's musician" to be named in the peacetime era after the founding of New China, and his creations have influenced entire generations.
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In Jinhua City's Jindong District, bypassing Liyu East Road and further ahead, a striking musical fountain comes into view, echoing the UFO-shaped concert hall opposite.
Here, is the young people of Jinhua and the young people of literature and art, the most favorite to go to Shi Guangnan Square. Usually, when the weather is good, come for a walk, see the fountain, and there are various theatrical performances in the amphitheater and concert hall from time to time.
Shi Guangnan's fate with Jinhua can be traced back to the last century. Shi Guangnan was born in 1940 in Nanshan, Chongqing, in Dongye Village, Yuandong Township, Jindong District, Jinhua City. Shi Guangnan's ancestors had lived in the small village of Dongye for generations.
Although he was born in other places, For Zhejiang and Jinhua, Shi Guangnan has always had a unique complex, and the most famous song "On the Field of Hope" sings a strong attachment to his hometown.
Shi Guangnan was born on August 22, 1940 on the south bank of Chongqing. His parents, Shi Fuliang and Zhong Fuguang, were both revolutionary intellectuals, and they attached great importance to his education since childhood.
And Shi Guangnan's musical talent is also visible to the naked eye from an early age. When he was 5 years old, Shi Guangnan casually hummed an original song between classes: "Spring has arrived, peach blossoms bloom, birds fly, yellow warblers call in the trees, they are happy, I am happy, we are all happy." ”
As soon as the teacher listens, such a young child will be original? I quickly recorded the lyrics with a pen and paper and named it "Spring Has Arrived". Later, this song also won the second place in the primary school group B in the Chongqing Primary and Secondary School Singing Competition, and the prize was a large wooden horse.
Shi Guangnan and his parents
After the founding of New China in 1949, Shi Guangnan followed his parents to Beijing, and then was admitted to the Affiliated Middle School of the Central Conservatory of Music, and from that time on, Shi Guangnan entered the first "creative peak" of his life.
At that time, a music publication called "Song of the Yuanmingyuan" swept all over Beijing. By chance, the teenager Shi Guangnan took over the "Song of the Yuanmingyuan", and he also published a large number of "private goods" music scores created by himself in this magazine.
As a child, he spent time in many places, so that Shi Guangnan has always had a strong interest in folk music, and many of the works he has created are songs with ethnic elements in Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan and other places.
Teenager Shi Guangnan
Because he didn't like to show it, Shi Guangnan marked each song like a country, a nation, and an author, and the works of composers with strange names such as "Achaturia", "Fang Yao", "Arebsen" and so on were actually from Shi Guangnan's hand.
Two of the most famous pieces, "Lazy Dunia" and "Round Dance", because they were too good to listen, quickly spread to the society, and were rehearsed and performed by major symphony orchestras and choirs. Until many performances, many people still think that it is a work written by a foreign composer that has been circulated to China.
Later, the students really couldn't see that Shi Guangnan's talent was buried, and everyone spontaneously raised funds to edit a pamphlet for Shi Guangnan- "Selected Chinese and Foreign Folk Songs". But even so, few people know that the songs here are written by Shi Guangnan, who is only 17 years old.
This low-key personality allows Shi Guangnan to experience life more steadily, and also lays a solid foundation for the grounded "people's nature" in his subsequent works.
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Open NetEase Cloud Music, the original song of "On the Field of Hope" plus various cover songs, there are nearly 150 versions, and the total number of comments is more than 3000. Even now, it is a proper flow of gold.
Who would have thought that at that time, Shi Guangnan's writing fee for composing music for "On the Field of Hope" was only 30 yuan. A friend once sang for him, "This song is sung all over China", but Shi Guangnan did not care, and laughed at himself that "30 yuan is enough to buy a ticket for a popular concert".
According to Shi Guangnan's wife Hong Ruding, every time we talk about music and the country, Shi Guangnan is always full of excitement, he once said: "No matter how many unsatisfactory things there are in society, I am always full of hope for our country, if our society does not have people full of hope, what future will our nation have?" ”
It is precisely because of the enthusiasm for the motherland and the hope for life that Shi Guangnan has a steady stream of creative motivation. This pure personality allows Shi Guangnan to often have the divine stroke of "passionate creation".
In 1972, Hong Ruding was about to celebrate her birthday, and one night Shi Guangnan suddenly called her to the piano room, lifted the lid and played a song, saying: "Realize that now, I have not written a song for you, this song is my birthday gift to you." ”
This song given to Hong Ruding is the famous "Playing the Tambourine and Singing Songs", which was broadcast on the Central People's Radio and immediately became popular all over the country. The whole song displayed in front of everyone is a beautiful and fiery picture of life, and in the artistic environment of "quotation songs" and "model plays" at that time, there was a miracle that everyone would sing "Playing Tambourine and Singing Songs".
At that time, some people commented that both intellectuals and workers and peasants could understand the song, and they could feel the "strength to stimulate life" and the "feeling of home and country" in the song.
Xue Lei is the principal vocal actor of Zhejiang Song and Dance Theatre, and in 2018 he played Shi Guangnan in the opera "On the Field of Hope".
At that time, in order to better understand Shi Guangnan, Xue Lei found The elder Jin Qi, who had exchanged compositions with Shi Guangnan, and in Jin Qi's impression, Shi Guangnan did not have any big composer's shelf, "very sincere, very pure, and full of vitality."
Shi Guangnan, played by Xue Lei
In those years, Shi Guangnan wrote songs for workers, farmers, soldiers, scientists, teachers and children, and antarctic expedition members and sports athletes... Every group, every profession, can be his creative object.
Guan Mucun was one of the singers who sang Shi Guangnan's songs the most that year. In a variety interview, Guan Mucun said that shanghai audio and video once gave her a collection of 108 songs, most of which were written by Shi Guangnan.
In the earliest days, Guan Mucun was still working in the factory, and one day, the lyricist Han Wei quietly asked her, "Do you want to know Shi Guangnan?" It was the one who wrote "Playing Tambourine and Singing", Guan Mucun said of course he wanted to, and Han Wei took her to Shi Guangnan's piano room, "at that time in the basement of a song and dance theater".
The first on the left is Guan Mucun, and the one on the right is Shi Guangnan
After listening to Guan Mucun sing for a short while, Shi Guangnan stood up excitedly and said, "Yes," and later gave Guan Mucun good songs such as "The Grapes of Turpan Are Ripe," "The Bamboo in the Moonlight," and "If You Want to Know Me."
This is Shi Guangnan, who did not care at all that Guan Mucun was still a female worker in a steel filing factory, and as he himself said: "My music is written for the people." ”
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Shi Guangnan once said to Hong Ruding: "I hope to become a literary and artistic pioneer, use my own pen to write works worthy of the motherland and the times, and use my songs to make young people love the motherland more and be full of confidence in the future. ”
In October 1976, the "Gang of Four" was crushed and the whole country rejoiced. After a toast to his friends, han Wei, a friend and lyricist, sent a poem to Shi Guangnan.
Although the drops of wine did not stick, but seeing the lyrics, Shi Guangnan's creative passion was instantly ignited, and he wrote a "Toast Song" in just a few days. At the Chinese New Year's Eve party in 1979, Li Guangxi's "Toast Song" singed by Li Guangxi aroused great resonance among the people of the whole country, and in the years that followed, almost every factory and every school broadcast "Toast Song" on a loop. CCTV even received nearly 200,000 letters asking for the song to be on-demand.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Shi Guangnan successively wrote works such as "White Feathers Send Affection", "Anchovy Bamboo in the Moonlight", "Turpan Grapes Ripe", "On the Field of Hope" and other works, entering the peak of his career. Until now, these songs have been the "pop songs" in the hearts of generations.
But as a "people's musician", Shi Guangnan always has a dream in his heart, that is, to revitalize China's opera industry.
At that time, pop music flourished, and soon few young people were willing to listen to traditional and ethnic music, and friends around him advised Shi Guangnan to "write more pop music, what opera to write", he smiled: "I can write more than a dozen pop songs a day, but I want to make Chinese opera on the world stage." ”
In 1981, the China Opera and Dance Theater planned to make Lu Xun's "Wounded Death" into an opera, and the music composition was handed over to Shi Guangnan. Embarrassingly, there was no extra pay for the job, but Shi Guangnan didn't care at all, he said, "It's a mission."
During that time, Shi Guangnan often stayed in front of the piano for 8 or 9 hours, and when he was hungry, he would take a few bites of cold bread. Hong Ruding often advised him to take a break, but he always said, "It's okay, just finish writing this paragraph."
After the successful performance of "Wounded Death", Shi Guangnan took over the creative task of the opera "Qu Yuan" without stopping. At that time, Shi Guangnan's good friend Wang Liping, who had composed music for the 87 version of the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber", recalled that his creative state, like a cow, could sit at the piano all day without getting down.
According to the baritone singer Yang Hongji recalled, in 1993, the famous Shi Guangnan actually rode a Suzuki motorcycle to him, saying that he was creating "Qu Yuan" and that there were several songs that he wanted to sing to Yang Hongji.
The two quickly went to the piano room to try the sound, one of the songs, "Leaving the Troubles", the highest note to drop A, completely beyond the baritone Yang Hongji's vocal range, Shi Guangnan quickly said: "When I wrote, all I thought was that you would sing this song, maybe I was too excited at the time, I wrote (tone) on it, it was okay, you can change it." ”
In March 1990, the opera "Qu Yuan" finally met with the audience, but it seemed as if the mission had been completed, and on April 18 of the same year, Shi Guangnan fell by the piano forever because of cerebral hemorrhage.
"I love you deeply, this amorous land, the path I have stepped on, the flowers and birds are singing..." At Shi Guangnan's funeral, the traditional mourning music was not played, but chose this "Amorous Land" created by him before his death, and every word contains deep affection for the motherland and the people.
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