After winning the Gold Award in the Instrumental Performance of the 22nd Beijing Student Arts Festival in May 2019, the Philharmonic Wind Orchestra of Zhongshan School won the Gold Medal for The 24th Student Art Instrumental Music Exhibition this year! This adds another heavy stroke to Nakasugi. In the past seven years, the Nakasugi School Philharmonic Wind Orchestra has grown from scratch, from the school theater to the national and even world-class stage, from only one piece of music to now countless gold. How did the Gold Award come about? Nakasugi people know that this is what we came out of in a down-to-earth manner! Come and listen to the voices of Nakasugi music teachers!
Principal Wang says:
Why can The Nakasugi version of "Long March Suite" create miracles?
Zhongshan School's "Long March Suite Song", the first full performance of primary and secondary school students in the country, was successfully premiered at the Beizhan Theater on the afternoon of April 29, 2021, vividly expressing the true passion of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the most beautiful revolutionary romantic spirit, and more than 2,000 spectators at the scene were deeply shocked and the applause lasted for a long time.
marvel! incredible! National role model! Vigorously promote! Stirring! In the melting mood! The performance was praised by leading experts and all sectors of society, and more than 300 media rushed to report on it, achieving unprecedented results.
After the success of "Long March Suite", many people asked whether Nakasugi was an art school? Is Nakasugi a music school? How long does this rehearsal take? The great success of Nakasugi's Long March Suite — nearly 600 children presenting works of the same artistic standard as a professional art troupe — has left experts wondering. The rehearsal of "Long March Suite Song", from March 1st to April 29th performance, more than 300 students in primary schools and more than 200 students in middle schools all participated, except for less than three hours of training every day on Saturdays and Sundays, and a total of thirty days of rehearsal time - making everyone feel incredible. It is unbelievable to create such a miracle in such a short period of time! But Nakasugi people know that this is not a miracle, we have come step by step, which is the goal of Nakasugi education, a strong artistic foundation, the rapid development of art education, and the results of the comprehensive education of the curriculum.
First, the great success of "Long March Suite" first comes from the high position and big pattern of Nakasugi School's goal of educating people.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, in line with the purpose of making every child a pillar of the country, let every child know that we have grown up with the same destiny as the motherland, and let every child become the child needed by the party. At the special moment of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, we take our children to relive the history of the Long March and let the children know that there was once such a group of communists who had a firm belief and were not afraid of hardships and sacrifices for the sake of the country and the nation. Such a group of strong soldiers walking in the ranks of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will become models and idols in the growth of children. By rehearsing China's best musical epic, "Long March Group Song", children can be shocked in their thinking and at the same time, walk into art, and feel the infinite artistic charm brought by a great work. This is the best education for children and the best growth.
In the process, the children really felt the difficulty of the Red Army's Long March. I felt tired after standing for half an hour at first, but now I stand for two hours or even longer. This is how the tenacity of the soldiers of the Red Army has left a deep imprint on the hearts of children and planted the seeds of strength. This is more than all preaching, which is the meaning and charm of this rehearsal.
Second, Nakasugi's strong artistic foundation comes from the fact that each child can play an instrument.
This year is the seventh year of Nakasugi's development, and from the first day, Nakasugi has asked every child to learn the same instrument, practicing wind music for 40 minutes a day, and having two hours of personal guidance from experts every week. It is not only the learning of an instrument, but also the process of entering art, intellectual development, and cultivating willpower. Success in life is achieved by countless persistence and countless efforts! From the third grade, Nakasugi's children do not know what is wind music and what is an instrument to the present, one gold award after another, more and more professional, more and more confident! The Nakasugi Wind Orchestra and Choir have grown from scratch, from dozens to hundreds of people; from the "Bear Haunting" of the Dream Theater four years ago, to the Zhongshan Music Hall, the New Tsinghua School, the Sydney Opera House, the Vienna Golden Hall, the California Theater in San Francisco... In this way, the children played today's "Long March Suite" step by step!
Third, the rapid development of Nakasugi art comes from the fact that every teacher in Nakasugi is a music teacher, and the whole school cooperates holistically.
Every teacher in Nakasugi is a Teacher of Chinese, Mathematics and Music, because they have to accompany the children to practice their instruments. During the two months of rehearsal of "Long March Suite", the teacher followed the children to feel, get excited and cry together. Children write in the essay: Sandwich gold mountain, you lose! The teacher shed tears of excitement as the child followed. The children sang: Loved ones, loved ones, when will you return to your hometown. The children sang and cried, and the teachers cried.
Nakasugi's belief has always been: everything is for the growth of children, do the best! All the teachers unified their thinking and realized that this event is of great significance to the growth of students, which is a key event in the growth of students. The whole school cooperates and cooperates fully, and can ensure the efficient rehearsal of children without suspension of classes and delays in the children's courses, which is another miracle in the eyes of others!
It is precisely because of such a teacher, such an understanding of the growth of children, and such an artistic atmosphere that the success of today's "Long March Suite" has been achieved.
Fourth, the brilliance of Nakasugi beauty education comes from the comprehensive education and abundant supply of Nakasugi Yulin courses.
In the Chinese Studies class, the whole school recited Mao Zedong's poems on the Long March; in the reading class, in addition to the texts on the Long March in the school textbooks, the middle and upper grades also read the red literary classics such as "Red Star Shines on China", "Red Rock", "Red Sun", "Red Flag Spectrum", etc.; in the writing class, all grades wrote essays about the Long March. In the art class, all the students learned to sing songs about the Long March and play the "Long March Suite"; in the comprehensive practice class, they watched movies and documentaries about the Long March... In the immersion of these courses, the children participated in this theme activity of washing the soul in an all-round way, and better understood the Long March, understood the meaning of revolution, and understood the meaning of life.
Fifth, we must be proud to say that the growth start of Nakasugi children is very high because of the guidance of top experts.
The starting point of Zhongshan art is very high, and the chorus has experts such as Zhang Shirong and Wu Lingfen, and the wind music is guided by experts such as Zhang Haifeng, Chen Guang, and Dai Zhonghui. It is precisely because of such a first-class expert in the country that children can feel the best art and progress in the fastest time.
The successful performance of "Long March Suite Song" is a memorable day in the history of Nakasugi art education, and it is also the best gift dedicated by Nakasugi students to the 100th birthday of the party. Nakasugi will use the charm of art and the spirit of revolution to let children have artistic accomplishment and broad minds, so that children have more self-confidence, more success and happiness!
Thank you to all your friends who are so supportive of Nakasugi! Special thanks to the composer's wonderful adaptation, zhang Shirong's first-class guidance of the children's choral method, and the charming interpretation of Jiang Xiebin's "Long March Suite"!
The performance is over, but the valuable legacy of "Long March Suite" will continue. The praise of leaders and experts far exceeded our expectations, the media and parents' evaluations made us more powerful, and the children's growth surprised us! Experts even said: I firmly believe that the Zhongshan Wind Orchestra and Choir will be famous throughout the country, at home and abroad! This makes us further think and summarize, and become a new driving force for the development of Zhongshan! The great "Long March" of The Century-old Famous School of Zhongshan, the great "Long March" of the Zhongsugi Wind Orchestra and Choir, which is famous at home and abroad, has just begun...
Principal of Nakasugi School: Wang Cuijuan
Music Teacher says:
Behind the miracle unforgettable moments
Nakasugi Music Group Wang Yuan
The North Exhibition Theater on April 29 is fiery, shocking and miraculous, and Nakasugi has once again successfully shaped the myth of the industry! And the story behind the miracle should only be the most clear to Nakasugi people who are fortunate enough to participate in it like me, and that unforgettable moment is the witness and proof of the miracle, and it is these unforgettable stories that shape the final myth...
One of the unforgettable builds confidence
I remember that before the school started, Principal Wang couldn't wait to set up the Long March Group Song Group, in addition to arranging the task of the group, it was more to cheer us up. To tell you the truth, at the beginning, Teacher Xiao Wang and I were very guilty of muttering, the Long March group song totaled ten songs, regardless of the difficulty and skill of singing, the time to stand on the stage full of ten songs was nearly an hour, which was a huge challenge for the primary school choir! To know that the youngest member of the regiment is only in the second grade, half an hour is an impossible task to move, let alone an hour, I really dare not think... The principal seems to see through our minds, every day in the group to change the law to give us "chicken blood", to encourage our fighting spirit, just like the butterfly effect, accompanied by the principal's exciting words, although it is still bottomless in the heart, but also began to actively cope, just do it!
The second unforgettable is to form a team
In order to meet the momentum requirements of the Long March group song, the first thing is to expand the enrollment of choir members. At the beginning, we were strenuously opposed, after all, in just two months, completing such a difficult work was no small challenge for the veteran team members, let alone retraining Bai Ding. However, relying only on dozens of veteran team members, it is really impossible to achieve the expected sound strength, so teacher Zhang, who assisted the external vocal expert, first screened the members of the choir into the voice department, the number reached about 120 people, and then Principal Liu carefully selected thirty people from the fifth and sixth grades, so a new choral Long March team with up to 150 people was formed!
The third unforgettable is to overcome the standing posture
As mentioned earlier, the youngest members of the choir are only in the second year, and although they have participated in choral training for one semester, their accumulated experience and skills are limited to vocal methods, which is really zero experience for stage standing, and it is an absolutely difficult problem. But there is no shortcut or skill in this matter, just a word "practice"! Starting from half an hour of motionlessness, we give the children 10 minutes a week to accumulate upwards, let the children adapt little by little, slowly form muscle memory, and finally reach standing for an hour without moving. I still remember the first and a half hours of the second grade standing, the mourning was full of complaints, in order to appease them, Teacher Xiao Wang and I told them about the border guards who stood still and guarded the motherland under the bad weather of the wind and snow, introduced them to the experience of how to stand longer, set an example for them to learn from the seniors, and issued various rewards in different ways... Slowly, the little Red Army with a look of it grew more and more: sweating indifferently; running to wash their faces and quickly returning to their faces when they were sleepy; uncomfortable applying to sit for two minutes and then joining the training again; applying for multiple stops late to ensure that the station was long enough; mutual supervision, encouragement, and increasing competitions. One by one, like the soldiers of the Red Army, they are not afraid of hardships and difficulties, just for a better interpretation, you are fighting and surpassing with all your strength!
Unforgettable four songs run-in
On the basis of maintaining the original tone of the original version, the external children's voice expert Zhang Shirong first asked professional teachers to adapt, and then re-adapted according to the specific conditions of the choir: the lead part of all the movements was added to the harmony, and the multi-voice melody showed a sense of layering on the timbre and artistic audio-visual; on the basis of not changing the round singing section, the melody of the low voice part was integrated, which highlighted the characteristics of the movement and the atmosphere; the large repetitive chorus sections were all adapted into female voices, male voices, and artistic audio-visual; on the basis of not changing the round singing segments, the melody of the low voice part was integrated into the melody of the low voice, which highlighted the characteristics of the movement and the atmosphere; the large repetitive chorus segments were all adapted into female voices, male voices, and artistic audio-visual. The alternating forms of harmony not only show the variety of art forms, but also perfectly express the artistic conception of the song. In order not to live up to the expert teacher's so careful arrangement, Xiao Wang and I did not dare to relax, we divided the ten movements into three groups, according to the average rate of completing three and a half per week, divided into three weeks, and the week at the end of the month was reviewed and integrated. And the daily rehearsal three hours are also divided into three periods: the first period of concentrated practice standing posture, according to the stage performance standards, everyone's eyes are staring at the front of the rehearsal hall clock, just like looking at the conductor in the middle of the stage, the screen plays the long march group song audio, so that the child forms a preliminary song memory, while training children can also control themselves during the interval of the movement to ensure that they stand still; the second period of sub-voice parts, sub-paragraphs, split sentence exercises, sometimes in order to ensure the pitch of a voice part, we even stare at people's heads, Check that everyone hums the melody of the musical sentence alone, so that dozens of people in a voice part do not have a single voice that runs out to pass the pass; the third period of movement arrangement, at this time is the coordination between the voice parts, the connection between the beginning and the end of the sentence, the difficult sentence melody pitch multi-faceted party assembly, often there will be a song in the middle part of the voice into the problem of staggered into the untidy, often requires us to repeat the practice over and over again. In order to ensure the accuracy of multi-voice harmonies, we often practice chords in a group of chords, and sometimes even a voice finds a child to sing along with the piano and then sing it again, and then row after row of children are first put together, just for the multi-voice harmony of the sound to be clean and crisp. By analogy, ensure that every child in the vocal part can sing without mistakes before practicing the part. Day after day, the details of the perseverance, the children's voices were hoarse, the teachers' shoulders and necks and arms were sore... But everything is just for the precision and precision of singing!
Unforgettable five-in-one platoon master
In April, the troupes have completed all the performance repertoire separately, and the tasks of the first stage have been successfully completed. Subsequently, jiang Xiebin, a red conductor and the second generation of conductors of the "Long March Group Song", was invited to the guidance class. The style of jiang's conduction is very rigorous and serious, from the pronunciation of each word and word of the song to the breathing and breaking of each sentence, and then to the treatment of paragraphs and whole songs, without a trace of ambiguity, with the children a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a song, over and over again. I remember that when guiding the movement of "farewell", in order to express the feelings at the beginning of the paragraph, we sang dozens of times, the children stood and rehearsed for nearly four hours that day, some of the lower grade children's tired tears were swirling in their eyes, but still rely on their tenacious perseverance to persevere, no one asked to sit down and rest, when the rehearsal ended I asked the child why? The child said: "Commander Jiang has been explaining to us non-stop, and he has not drunk a single sip of water, how can we not insist!" Such a demanding and perfect master and such a lovely and understanding child are all working hard and persevering for a common goal. I still remember the scene when the children of the two regiments met for the first time in the basketball hall: the well-trained standing and sitting postures of the children of the two regiments not only made people want to give them a thumbs up at all times; the children of the choir had confident singing and deep feelings, the children of the wind orchestra had the strength to play and the momentum; although it was the first cooperation, they could focus on the rhythm beat of Conductor Jiang, and cooperate with the tacit understanding like an old friend who had cooperated for many years... Conductor Jiang was even more touched by the enthusiasm of the children, and in the following couplets, he did his best to improve, and revised and improved the details several times for the perfection of the final presentation of the work. In this way, the children followed the pace of the experts and got closer and closer to the final bloom!
The unforgettable six miracles were born
The performance at the North Exhibition Theater on April 29 was dubbed "Miracle!" by all sides! incredible! It's rare! And all this is not surprising, it is precisely because of the fiery March and April every day of uninterrupted hard work and hard work, let us harvest this well-deserved praise and glory, but also let the children more truly see their own transformation - some children need to be reminded by others to remember the rehearsal, to later the first to arrive in the classroom and can organize the discipline of each voice; some children from staying motionless for half an hour, to the stage does not move for more than an hour Some children cannot guarantee from single-tone pitch, and later can accurately recite the melody of all voices; some children go from not knowing where the conductor is to staring at the conductor with good eyes, and the rhythm of the difficult sentences is accurate; some children sing from expressionless silly to later interpreting songs with patriotic pride and emotion... This little bit of change is constantly converging, and finally flowing out of the shocking heavenly sound of the scene: the farewell of the tear-stained clothes - the tragedy of the bloody Xiangjiang River - the birds of the beautiful Miaoling Mountains - the joy of the four crossings of the red water - the zhengzheng of the Luding iron cable - the wind and rain of the snowy mountains and meadows - the rolling of the six red flags - the rumbling of the Zhiluo cannon - the heroism of the master's high song and the loudness of the Zhentianjun trumpet!
The Long March group song performance came to a successful end, the children once again accumulated a rare stage experience, they not only sang the sound of heaven, played an uplifting music, everyone gained full of confidence and glory, they learned how to show their strengths while harvesting exquisite skills, but also learned how to integrate into an excellent team in mutual cooperation, and became a member of this most shocking and excellent team. The unique practical classroom of Ozhongshan will continue to provide children with a different stage and opportunities, set new and colorful goals for them, let them become examples of mutual motivation, forget the small self in the process of continuous persistence, and become a more dazzling big me as soon as possible.
The next miracle, here we come!
The Long March is not easy
Nakasugi Music Group Liu Chen
On April 29, 2021, on the occasion of the 100th birthday of our great Party, a student performance that has not been seen since the founding of the People's Republic of China resounded throughout the Beijing Beizhan Theater, creating the largest number of student art troupes in the same school, the most difficult to play and sing songs, and more than 600 students jointly presented the 20th century Chinese music epic - long march suite. There is no doubt that since the first performance of the group song 55 years ago, this performance is the largest scale and shock, CCTV, BTV, CETV and major news media at the same time rushed to report the performance feast, this school for the 100th birthday of our party is the Beijing Zhongshan School, as an orchestra teacher and platoon conductor, I personally created a miracle and witnessed the birth of the miracle, want to say too much, and listen to me tell the story.
The Long March group song is unprecedentedly difficult to play
The progress of Nakasugi students is extraordinary
There are ten long march songs, ten different styles of songs describe the story pictures of the ten Red Army's Long March, the tears of relatives farewell, the battle pictures of trampling on the waves to annihilate the enemy soldiers, the beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers of the motherland where the Miaoling Mountains are rising, the people's feelings of northern Shaanxi that are sung by gongs and drums, all the way down the journey, after experiencing hardships and obstacles, there are three main victorious divisions. Looking back on the rehearsal life of these two months, the children not only performed the Long March, but also experienced the difficulty of the Long March, learned the spirit of the Long March, if the difficulty of playing in the ten pieces is compared to the road of growth, then I would like to say that the children's artistic cultivation in the Long March group song can be described as difficult.
In the farewell, the children know for the first time that the eighth note in the original 4/4 beat can also score the beat, countless air ports need to see the command gesture pause and restart, countless speeds slow and gradual and beat changes appear in a short movement.
Breaking through the blockade line, the children played the fastest section since learning the instrument, and the string part was all changed to woodwind playing, and through the exercise of this movement, the woodwind children really raised the hand-to-hand combination to a new height. At the same time, the small repetitions and large repetitions of this piece are quite complicated, often confusing professional performers and conductors who are new to this piece.
Zunyi meeting shines, the long tone of the string music is changed to wind playing, the long weak music of the band and the large solo of the piccolo depict the early morning of the rising sun in Miaoling, compared with the bustle of the latter part of the three songs, here is the weight of the whole song, the pitch under the weak play, the solo of the large section, the children's technical and psychological quality exercise can be seen. In this song, the children of the orchestra experienced the infinite extension of less than 50 bars and as many as 6 times for the first time, and truly understood the importance of watching the conductor.
Four crossing the red water surprise, the most difficult in the first four songs, the level of soloism in the opening of the horn directly determines the success or failure of this song, the children play 4/8 beats for the first time, the second half of the brass, the sound configuration of the band, a little careless will affect the overall effect of this song, the large solo of the xylophone can not be lost, everything needs to be seamlessly connected, the children have experienced the exercise of the first four songs, preparing for the peak of the difficulty of the next five or six songs.
Flying over the river, without exaggeration, all students of wood pipe must have a professional level of performance to overcome a movement, black pipe professional teacher Chi teacher said four words to summarize: "Difficult! It's really hard! "The second song is the most difficult band clip since children learned the instrument, and all the wood pipe professional teachers not only teach techniques but also act as psychological teachers to comfort children. The strings show that the water rushing and endless sixteenth notes are all played by woodwinds, the difficulty of the brass pipe is not weak, the rapid change of the trombone position, the double spit of the trumpet are all in turn, I dare to say that the children successfully performed five movements comparable to the feat of the Red Army flying over the Dadu River to win Luding!
Crossing the snowy mountains and meadows, during the Long March, in order to surprise the enemy, in order to win the initiative, and for the strategy of going north, the Red Army marched through the meadows and achieved a major miracle in the military history of China and foreign countries. For our children, playing this movement with pure wind music is no less difficult than the Red Army crossing the meadow. First of all, the beginning of the music to the brass pipe came to a down, in the extremely quiet bass part of the playing, the horn solo with the trumpet attenuator to play the treble melody horn, which is not simple in the eyes of professional players, often hear many professional orchestras play this song Horn trembling horn and trumpet treble wrong tone, not nervous is impossible, but Nakasugi's children rarely make mistakes, perhaps because they often appear on the stage, children do not seem to know what is called nervousness. Second, the brass pipe began to play the tranquility before the blizzard, followed by the original string wind roaring up and down the bow to play the melody of the melody without a doubt to the wooden pipe, after the baptism of five songs, the children have gradually entered a better state in playing, from 50 speed to 160 speed in 8 bars, the children are experiencing the tempering of the highest difficult repertoire since the founding of the regiment, just like the Red Army crossed the snow mountain of the Dangling Mountains, one is the top of the snow mountain, and the other is the peak of the difficulty of the repertoire. Third, tonality, the children played the six-liter F major for the first time, and I believe that through this song, there has been a lot of progress in the learning of reading and tonality. Finally, I would like to say that in fact, this track I think is the most difficult of the ten songs, speed, fingering, air, gradual slowing and infinite extension and other spectral problems can be painstakingly realized to solve, but this song rises to a problem, that is, the mood and feeling of the track. After the re-orchestration of this track, I think it is not ideal, so I can only let the children feel, to re-create the second degree, the advantage of strings is that they can solve these problems very well, the discordant interval relationship of playing can achieve the effect of a wonderful portrait, after re-orchestrating to the sub-midrange and the upper bass, how to blow out the feeling of the demon wind gusts really gave me a headache for a long time, and how the pipa three strings play the wind and rain miserable Depression, how children adapt to the slow speed processing of different conductors and so on, etc. The sixth song is a track that can make children really grow, it is not easy!
To Wuqi Town, Zhu Jie, Annunciation, the characteristics of the three pieces of repertoire are obvious, the Red Army arrived at the Shaanxi-Gansu Revolutionary Base Area, the orchestra also changed from a super-large orchestra symphony orchestra to a grounded folk orchestra, a large part of the rhythm of folk music is a non-fixed value, not just the second half of the beat as simple, after the thirty-two sixteenth note and the rest note so that the children can not touch the north at first, it can be said that it is the first time to play such a complex rhythm type, with wind music to interpret the folk music things can be imagined, if the six pieces are the most difficult to play, Then the ninth song is definitely the most difficult in style, the soprano and chorus duet have become duo-parts heavy singing, the children of the orchestra must learn to listen, a little attention will be chaotic, so each rehearsal of the ninth song is always the most stopped times, through these three songs, children learn to play the music of the part by listening, and the cohesion between the voices is stronger!
The general division, the trumpet's charge horn reappears, if the farewell expression is to cling to it, then the ten-curved horn is the master's smile, which is a kind of catharsis. The speed was directly doubled, and it could be heard that the children's single vomiting ability had been improved unprecedentedly, all the children had made unprecedented progress through the continuous tempering of ten songs, and the whole song announced the victory of the Red Army's Long March and announced the birth of the miracle of the Nakasugi version of the Long March group song!
The adaptation of the Long March group song is unprecedented
Mr. Nakasugi has excellent professional ability
Last year, on the occasion of the fifty-fifth anniversary of the premiere of the Long March group song, I participated in the first few times of the whole Long March group song at the Grand Theater of the National Palace where the Long March was premiered, and the major performances ranged from commemorating the 120th anniversary of Chairman Mao's birth, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Long March to the Zhongshan epic version of the Long March group song, a Long March group song "Grand Slam" player can responsibly say that the Zhongshan version of the Long March group song is the closest to the original version in the past fifty-five years, the most shocking one, and it is also the most difficult.
The time is so short that the children have less than three weeks from the first rehearsal to the roughly rehearsal of ten songs, and the difficulties introduced a lot in the previous paragraph, and the re-composing of the orchestral version into a wind version has also encountered unknown and great difficulties. Many places and the original version of the source of a lot, can not reach the effect of the orchestral version, no way, before the conductor Jiang Xiebin came I have to do all the preliminary work well, Nakasugi people do the most professional things, to the original general score of the drastic modification, re-instrumentation, delete all the instruments played by the chorus melody, maximize the original version of the instrument, the wind version of the total score of a three pieces with the actual pitch notation of the conductor is a trouble, because each instrument has different tonality, so the sound of the total score and the score is completely different, no way, Can only force themselves in the process of rehearsal to exercise the ability to shift the fastest speed, the most troublesome thing in the rehearsal is that the sixth piece of the wind version and the original tonality are completely inconsistent, the original version is the ascending F major, and the wind version is F major, do not underestimate a rising word, directly from a descending sign to six ascending signs, if the tonality is wrong, then the choir's row will have a very big accident. Rewriting the sixth song has also become a daily task in this rehearsal process, now think about it, it is really not easy, many difficulties that were not thought of before appear one by one, in return, looking at the ten scores of their own revision of the dense marks or a sense of achievement, as the original manuscript of the first edition of the Nakasugi version of the Long March group song must be well collected.
In the middle of April, we ushered in the second generation of the Long March suite song red conductor Jiang Xiebin came to guide, as the last on-the-spot conductor, Jiang conductor gave a high evaluation of the wind music and the preliminary work of the choir, for the Long March group song, in the next few rehearsals, I and the children have a deeper understanding, the speed of the repertoire always corresponds to the emotional investment of the repertoire itself, for which I have no doubt. Conductor Jiang's rehearsal and his interpretation of the Long March group song have benefited all of us, and I will never forget the first time in the big row, the emotion that burst out of the spirit of the Long March was an incomparable shock of the original 170 people of the orchestra.
On April 29th, the Beizhan Theater was full of people, and the success of the performance left countless parents and audiences with tears of emotion, let history remember these 600 Zhongshan students, let history remember all the teachers who paid silently, and let history remember the school that created this miracle - Beijing Zhongshan School!
Success comes from real effort (excerpt)
Nakasugi Music Group: Wang Ruoxi
Ten movements, although only two voices, are also extremely challenging for children. Ten songs, ten different pictures of combat life are interlocked, harmoniously blending the folk music of each region with the tone of the traditional songs of the Red Army. The melody is simple to sing, singing out the feelings, singing the taste, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people but very difficult. Every time Master Zhang rehearsed, he first told the children the story of the Long March and laid the emotional state. For example, the sixth movement "Over the Snowy Mountain Meadow" begins with a two-voice part, the high voice sings the lyrics in a weak voice, and the low voice hums to render the atmosphere. Four bars and one breath, so that when the children sing, they seem to be in the cold snowy mountains with the uncle of the Red Army, above 4000 meters above sea level, the air is thin, inaccessible, snow-capped, and the mountains are high and deep. Let the song sound continuous, as if there is no end to the snowy mountains.
The youngest child of the choir is only in the second grade, and the lyrics of more than 100 pages of PPT must be fully sung within a month, and the next 2 must be memorized, which is really difficult for the second-grade members who have just joined the group, and the first time to participate in the performance is the unprecedented student version of "Long March Group Song". But it turns out that I completely underestimated these babies, and it was really difficult to hold the word back ~ no difficulty! It seems that the usual recitation of Chinese studies has laid a solid foundation for the children.
Because the time is very tight, Teacher Dawang and I do not have time to take the children to read the score sentence by sentence, to be efficient and work, according to the old method will certainly not work, ten songs can be sung first is the primary goal. One person and one voice part open the classroom directly add words to sing, I one sentence, one sentence for the child, use the most direct and simplest way to learn songs. Although this method is fast, but there are small problems, the eldest children have this high-intensity rehearsal experience, learn quickly, and the small one does not order nearly four hours of rehearsal in the afternoon, so that it is too difficult for them to keep their attention at all times, learn naturally and slowly, and the last two hours are completely "oil and salt do not enter" state. A week later, we both changed the plan, gathered 150 mouths together, the king taught singing, and the little king shuttled through the team to remind the children to be serious and serious, so it was such a non-stop stare, and the children's habit of watching the conductor was getting better and better! The problem of attention is also solved, and the efficiency of learning songs is greatly improved. In this way, ten movements are repeatedly sung, row by row, one by one, each note has been sung no less than a hundred times, and it is precisely such a high standard that the choir's pitch has been improved at the same time, and the melody has also become familiar in the shortest time. I remember the senior children said to me: Teacher Wang, I went back to the dormitory and lay on the bed and closed my eyes, my head was full of melodies, when I opened my eyes in the morning, there was still melody in my ears, and my dreams were "red flags fluttering, military trumpets sounding." That's right! In fact, Teacher Wang is also the same as everyone ~ on the way home will involuntarily sing a few words, really brainwashed by the melody, deeply rooted in the brain.
The success of our performance is thanks to countless people. It was the homeroom teachers who vigorously mobilized the children to publicize the activity on the first day of school. It was Master Zhang who broke open each group and whirling, every melody, and every breathing mouth during the training, crushed it to explain it clearly to the children, and carefully carved each musical sentence. In the middle of April, in front of the large hemp row, I had the honor of inviting Jiang Xiebin to give the choir children individual guidance, and Jiang Conductor was more to help the children to render the singing atmosphere more well with small skills. Where it must be very weak and weak, where it must be sung loudly like a trumpet, the speed of each movement changes, and every detail is buckled very carefully. Sentence by sentence, sentence by sentence, sentence by sentence, sentence by sentence, learn to see every command gesture, action, know how to flexibly deal with each extension sentence.
When we stand on the stage of the North Exhibition and sing each melody, do you know that this melody has been handled countless times by Master Zhang and Conductor Jiang! The piano has been played countless times! Conductor waving gestures countless times! The children have sung it countless times with their hearts! It is the "countless times" of these stages that accumulate over time, and it is the most perfect last time you appreciate! Just like Master Zhang often said, "Ten years of work on stage, practice every day offstage.". This sentence seems simple, but what school can really do it? Here, I can proudly say: we have the time, the energy, and the confidence to do this well! We Nakasugi did it! All the efforts were made on April 29, when the North Exhibition Theater was full of friends and applause. We turn the most sincere and exciting feelings into an audio-visual feast and dedicate it to the great motherland!
▲The 22nd Beijing Student Arts Festival Instrumental Music Exhibition
Breaking the Cocoon into a Butterfly Secondary School Student (Excerpt)
Nakasugi Music Group: Wang Qian
The concert is all done by the students of Nakasugi School, and the children of the band and choir are the youngest 7 years old and the youngest is not more than 18 years old. The original version of this red classic epic is entirely an adult work, which is extremely difficult for children. For the band, we adapted the original symphonic version into a wind version, adding a lot of wind instruments to the original unchanged modality. For chorus, the original baritone and mezzo-soprano voices were all adapted into a children's version of the high school low voice. The high voice of the primary school has a good breath and a stable high voice, and the low voice of the middle school is thick and resolute, which makes up for the lack of too many high frequencies and sharp and bright tones in the usual children's voice works.
The difficulty of such an adaptation is that the children have not undergone professional training, and the momentum and physical strength have become a problem, not to mention the great endurance and strength required when performing on stage. Therefore, we decided to solve the problem step by step. More than 160 middle school students have not undergone professional vocal training like primary school students, and most of the students still have basic problems such as pitch and rhythm when they sing for the first time. So we can only do how to speak, breathe, spit and other training. At the beginning of the training, students must first learn to read the score, read the lyrics according to the rhythm, and then substitute the lyrics into the melody, repeatedly sing along with the piano model, and repeat it over and over again until they are familiar with the singing and singing. At this time, there are still a small number of students who have pitch problems, so we practice in parts, practice in queues, even one by one, just to train students to achieve the best results. Despite the largest number of secondary school students, we have solved these problems in just one month and done our best.
On the other hand, it is to learn to understand the gestures of the conductor. For the first time ever, a primary and secondary school wind ensemble and a choir have completed a concert. On the stage, the choir can't hear the sound of the band, and it is difficult for the choir to listen to the band sing accurately and in unison, and the transmission of the sound also has a time difference. Therefore, students must learn to understand the gestures of the conductor. I remember that when Conductor Jiang first came to our school for conducting training, he only said: "Children, you sang really well!" But it is still much closer to the real 'Red Army'. This sentence did not make the children collapse, but further aroused their fighting spirit. During the training, each child's eyes were tightly fixed on the hand of Commander Jiang, and they paid attention to every starting, waving and falling shot of Commander Jiang. After repeated efforts, rehearsals, and progress, the primary and secondary school choir finally solved all the problems in only two weeks.
"The Long March" We Are Imperative (Excerpt)
Nakasugi Music Group: Tang Jiarui
One movement a day! Yes, you read that right, after two weeks of practice, Principal Wang issued a new instruction to rehearse ten movements in two weeks. At first I thought it was an impossible thing, but Nakasugi's children can always do it to your surprise, and never say no to the impossible!
Three hours of practice in the afternoon is not enough, so let's continue practicing in the evening, without delaying every minute! However, it is not enough to be able to play each movement completely, the orchestra pays attention to the cooperation, from the unity of skill to emotion, in this regard, the orchestra's conductor Teacher Liu did not spare less effort, "Trumpet do not rush the beat!" "The percussion accent must be knocked out!" "Don't be fast!" Teacher Liu's supervision and advice have been echoing in the rehearsal hall. Each vocal part has its missing part, whether it is fast or slow, strong or weak, we all accompany the children to adjust over and over again, practice over and over again, in the process of companionship, I am also cultivating my patience, learning the indomitable long march spirit of the Red Army.
Every day a movement, the children are methodically rehearsing, every time they complete a movement, it is like crossing a snowy mountain and turning over a meadow, although it is difficult, we always move towards the same goal!
The sword blade comes out of the grind (excerpt)
Vice Principal of Nakasugi School: Guo Jian
In retrospect, we have divided the preparation of the "Long March Suite" into four stages. On March 1, 2021, the "Long March Suite" was officially trained in four divisions, namely: primary school choir, primary school wind orchestra, middle school choir, and middle school wind orchestra. The four corps prepared for 1 month separately. The first half of the first half of the first month is arguably the most difficult period, when every day to see the children's frowns locked when practicing, half a month to win all 10 songs, which is not an easy task for professional adult bands. And we are facing a group of primary and secondary school students, which is a great test for every child's learning, concentration and willpower, and it is also a great test for the sense of responsibility and appeal of our teachers. What impressed me most was that during that time, Principal Wang audited among the various "legions" almost every day, and encouraged the children and teachers in between. Through this, I deeply understood that education is not only to set a lofty goal for children, but also to accompany and encourage in the process of this "expedition", which is more important and precious.
After all the sheets were taken, the Secondary Wind Ensemble arrived at the Junior School on 1 April to meet the Junior School Wind Orchestra Victory. Before going to the primary school division, we made a whole mobilization for the middle school wind orchestra, telling each member that we are about to meet with the best elementary school wind orchestra members of the national gold medal beijing gold medal, and we as seniors must play a leading role, have a sense of the overall situation, and obey the conductor in all actions. If you want to achieve the final victory of the "Long March", you need the joint efforts of our entire Nakasugi team, when the team consciousness has begun to be deeply rooted in the hearts of every team member! At that moment I saw 72 pairs of glowing eyes staring ahead, at that great goal.
The Senior Choir met with the Junior Choir Victory on 5 April. On April 18th, the four fronts of the primary and secondary school choir and the wind orchestra were held for the first time in the basketball hall of the elementary school, indicating that the first stage of the interpretation of the "Long March Suite" song was a stage victory! That day was a memorable moment for every student and teacher involved in the preparation of the "Long March Suite", so many people, such a grand scene, the wind orchestra and choir of nearly 600 people, which was a pioneering performance in Nakasugi, I believe this is also rare in the country. All the actors on the field are from Nakasugi School, and I believe that such a performance strength is the strongest in the country.
April 29th is a day that all Nakasugi people are extremely looking forward to and cherishing, and it is precisely because we value it that we will go all out and face it bravely! During each big joint exercise, the students looked at the conductor very attentively and listened to the explanations and requirements of the conductor. The process of progress is vivid, at the beginning of the wind orchestra students played for 1 hour in a row tired and could not sit still, the body will unconsciously shake left and right; the lever of the trombone part is very long, in the joint exercise because of the proximity to the front row of the secondary midrange part and there is a music table in front of the body, so when asking for the action of raising the trumpet, it is always impossible to do the clouds and flow; the age span of the trumpet part is particularly large, the smallest is only 3 years, and it is difficult to maintain a flat state for a long time due to the lack of arm strength; let alone the trumpet, For a 3rd grade child, it is extremely difficult to lift a large trumpet and maintain a posture for more than an hour. All of this seems so difficult, it is so difficult, but in this process, no child is left behind, every child is persevering, all working hard. You can see the progress of the children every time you practice together. In the later stage of the rehearsal, the 2 hours of joint practice did not rest, every child watched Jiang Conductor intently, and finally under the unremitting efforts of everyone, the artistic level of the "Long March Suite" played by the children was higher and higher every time, and the performance effect was better than once! This process is very important for everyone, although this is not the real Long March, but I always compare it to the same as accompanying the children to experience a Long March, it is so unforgettable. I once heard that the people who can withstand the trials and tribulations of the Long March are extraordinary people, and they are all people with strong will qualities, so our children have experienced the baptism of the "Long March", whether professionally or in the quality of will have a higher level of improvement and progress.
All the way to the long march all the way to the song
Vice Principal of Nakasugi School: Mijin
Recalling the day of the performance, several experts of the People's Liberation Army Military Band praised the performance with "miracle" and "incredible". The weight of heavyweight expert evaluations speaks for itself.
Thinking back to the excitement of jiang Xiebin's first rehearsal, he said that he did not expect that a school would be so strong and the level of students would be so high! Conductor Jiang said again and again: I originally thought it was just a long march group song, but now I know that I want to produce a fine product.
Looking back at Nakasugi's 7 years, thinking back to the growth of the Nakasugi Philharmonic Wind Orchestra and the Aiyue Choir, isn't it also "incredible" and "completely unexpected"?
The growth of the Nakasugi Art Troupe is called "a long march and a song", creating one "miracle" after another. When the Nakasugi Philharmonic Orchestra decided to sing "Five Voices of Shen Yun", many people said that elementary school students could not sing or even sing, but we sang it, and it was called a miracle. Just two years after its establishment, the Nakasugi Philharmonic Wind Orchestra won the first prize in Shanghai and is known as a miracle. The Nakasugi Marching Wind Orchestra and the Nakasugi Flag Dance Ensemble won the first prize in the country just a few months after their establishment, and are called miracles. The Nakasugi Marching Wind Orchestra returned to Beijing overnight after winning the award in Shanghai, and after only a few days of training, it won the first prize in Beijing, which was called a miracle. Not to mention, starting in the third grade, more than a thousand children each had an instrument, which is also a miracle for a non-art school.
Confident and persistent Nakasugi students
Miracles stem from children's self-confidence! Nakasugi children stand on the stage calmly and confidently. This stems from the fact that children appear on the whole school stage at least three times a semester, and the opportunity to perform in front of thousands of people Over the years, the children of the Nakasugi Art Troupe have appeared on top stages at home and abroad such as Sydney, San Francisco, Vienna, Zhongshan Music Hall, tsinghua university and other top stages at home and abroad. Therefore, Nakasugi children are not afraid of stages and cameras.
The miracle stems from the persistence of the children! Just as the Long March was the Red Army coming out step by step, the art of Nakasugi was also practiced day by day. Students in the third grade or above in the school practice musical instruments for forty minutes a day, and even in the winter and summer vacations, they also punch in the group every day. After a few years, after insisting on it for such a long time and practicing for such a long time, it is difficult to think of an effect.
It is simple to take one step or two steps, even one day or two days is simple, and the difficulty lies in the confidence and perseverance of the long march. The children's self-confidence and persistence make Nakasugi Art so brilliant, and the success of Nakasugi Art makes the children more confident and persistent. Isn't this the expression of the Long March spirit in the children of Nakasugi?
Nakasugi art has achieved children's self-confidence and persistence, and children's self-confidence and persistence have also achieved Nakasugi art!
Talented and hard-working art teacher
The great success of the performance is inseparable from the children's persistent training for more than two months, and even more inseparable from the hard work of the Teachers of Nakasugi Art. They used their artistic talents to pave the way to success for the growth of children. Choir Wang Yuan, Wang Ruoxi two teachers have a solid artistic foundation, Wang Yuan teacher studied in France to learn piano performance, Wang Ruoxi graduated from professional colleges to learn vocal music, the two play and sing complement each other, for the children to open the door of choral art, let the children into the chorus, fall in love with the chorus. Many of the well-known passages in the "Suite Song" are expressed in the form of solo singers, and we have made drastic changes to make them more suitable for children's singing. In order to allow children to learn to master as soon as possible, a song from the part of the practice to the overall practice of the part of the voice does not know how many times after repeated practice, from word-by-word teaching and singing to the smooth performance of the overall paragraph, the two teachers continue to audition and expert teachers together to discuss, run-in, adjust, modify, on the basis of retaining the original historical style of the song to inject new artistic vitality into the song. Only then did the children sing perfectly with passion and affection.
The two teachers are not only talented, but more willing to work hard, for two months as a day, every day at noon there is no lunch break to accompany students to practice, every afternoon a rehearsal is three hours, Sunday night also gave up rest to train at school. When Conductor Jiang first came, he said vigorously: The chorus of the primary school is beyond imagination, and the height of the treble span is unimaginable, and I can't believe that this is a primary school choir! This is inseparable from the two teachers' usual solid training and careful guidance!
Liu Chen, the responsible teacher of the wind ensemble, is a young teacher with great love for the art of wind music. He has studied trumpet since childhood, and has a deep foundation in playing under many masters and masters; he has been invited to participate in many important performances of orchestras and has rich experience in playing, and he is more than comfortable guiding orchestra students. He can be said to have an indissoluble relationship with the "Long March Suite", and he has twice performed a symphonic version of the full-page "Suite Song" with a deep understanding and understanding of all movements. The "suite song" of the pure wind version is also a challenge for him, and the wind music version has a relatively large adaptation. Teacher Liu is not only responsible for the practice of each part of the practice to grasp the situation and communicate with the expert teachers to solve the voice problem in a timely manner, but also to undertake the preliminary rehearsal and command of all the repertoire of the primary school and the middle school, the rehearsal has been uninterrupted every day for two months, and the middle school has rushed back to the primary school without stopping, laying a solid rehearsal foundation for the rehearsal of the command experts and being highly praised by the command experts. The children continued to improve in rehearsals, and Teacher Liu Chen also continued to improve and exercise himself in rehearsals, and his command skills became more and more mature and stable.
Teacher Tang Jiarui of the orchestra also has the foundation of "Tong Zi Gong" folk music, and the playing passages of the pipa, the national instrument in the "Group Song", are all guided by Xiao Tang in charge of daily practice. The daily one-on-one guided exercises allow the children's playing, picking, and wheel fingers to skillfully switch, adding a unique national musical color to the music.
Before Commander Jiang came, all the command and rehearsal was the responsibility of Teacher Liu Chen, and it was precisely because of the solid foundation in the early stage that Commander Jiang could do the work of promotion as soon as he came. When Conductor Jiang learned that the orchestra had only been established for four years, he felt incredible. In fact, there is nothing incredible, it is usually made by the teachers bit by bit. It is precisely because of such talented, highly professional and capable young teachers that we can quickly improve and grow up in just two months. Let such epic musical works as "Long March Suite" finally appear in front of everyone.
Top experts in the country
The complete success of "Long March Suite Song" is even more indispensable to Nakasugi's art experts and teachers. It can be said that without the careful guidance and careful cultivation of these art experts for children over the years, the flower of Art Education of Nakasugi would not be so gorgeous, and there would be no wonderful bloom of children!
Mr. Zhang Shirong, the permanent guidance expert of the Children's Favorite Nakasugi Aiyue Choir, led the children up the stairs of the Hall of Choral Art with his own unique children's voice training method, leading the children to sing in the Golden Hall in Vienna, at the United Nations Headquarters, and at the Sydney Opera House. There is also Grandma Wu Lingfen, a titan of the Chinese chorus, who gives care to the children and inserts wings for the children's songs. Teacher Li Xiaoxiang, Secretary General of the China Choral Association, gave high praise to the Zhongshan Choir, hoping that the children would have better growth and development to make new achievements and contributions to China's children's chorus!
The Zhongshan Philharmonic Wind Orchestra is a collection of famous artists, and the permanent art directors of various voice departments are masters of the whole country and even the world; The conductor Chinese Zhang Haifeng, the first conductor in China to win the world's "golden baton", has personally guided the children many times, bringing world-class guidance to the children; the internationally renowned composer Teacher Chen Qian spares no effort to guide the children, and devotes his dedication to benefit the children of the orchestra; and the national first-level wind music experts undertake the voice learning and training of all children Chinese trumpet players Chen Guang, Dai Zhonghui and young conductor Chen Bing brought the children the delicacy and rigor of the academic style. Thanks to all the expert teachers who dedicate themselves to the children, today's "Long March Song" is the best reward for the children's love for you!
Zhongshan invited these top experts in China, the best resources in Beijing. They came to Zhongshan not to shake a shot, but to demonstrate sentence by sentence, sentence by sentence of guidance, full of sincerity. Some experts come once a week, or even three times, for an hour or even three hours each time to rehearse for their children. It is so happy that children can be heard by these masters from an early age, and even have their ears raised! It is so blessed that the teachers of the Nakasugi Music Group can work with these experts and make a professional leap! It is these experts who have accompanied the Nakasugi Art Troupe from scratch, from "Bear Haunting" to "Five Voices of Shen Yun" to today's musical epic "Long March Suite", from the orchestra of more than a dozen people to the orchestra of hundreds of people to today's gold medal orchestra, the experts are indispensable.
The experts are willing to come to Nakasugi because they see the incredible potential of the Nakasugi art team; it is because they see the solid artistic foundation of the Children of Nakasugi, the children use their insistence on wind music learning, their sincere love for wind art, and the comprehension and expression of wind art that make the experts willing to come to Nakasugi; it is because they see the hope of wind music in the children of Nakasugi and see the future of Chinese wind music art!
We have reason to envision, and even more reason to believe, as experts say: The Nakasugi Art Troupe will be famous throughout the country and even in the world! The children who grow up in the Nakasugi Art Troupe will be the successors of the experts in the future!
We have reason to look forward to it, and even more reason to believe that the teachers of the Nakasugi Art Group will grow up solidly and happily on such a big stage and in such a big tempering, and will walk out of Nakasugi's "Zhang Haifeng", "Wu Lingfen", "Zhang Shirong" and "Jiang Xiebin"...
Nakasugi has confident and strong students, and there are art teachers who burst with infinite vitality. The "Long March Spirit" carried forward by the "Long March Suite" has become an infinite force in Zhongshan, making the People of Zhongshan more vigorous and progressive! The future of Nakasugi will be incredible!