On May 12 this year, the Gaochun Folk Song Festival was successfully held at the National Center for the Performing Arts. Different genres of folk songs such as labor horns, mountain songs, and minor tunes in the Gaochun area were performed on the spot, showing their unique charm and charm to audiences across the country and even the world. Xia Xiaoling and Shen Yun sang "Gaochun Yangge" to push the atmosphere to a climax.
Gaochun folk songs, why can they be on such a big stage, this has to start from the source......
Gaochun folk songs have a long history, according to research at least 2,500 years, the unique geographical location and local culture have bred rich reserves, beautiful and gentle and high-pitched and loud Gaochun folk songs, showing the beauty of language, the beauty of the tone, the beauty of the tune, the beauty of the timbre and the charm of the charm characteristics, Li Bai in Danyang Lake is now Shijiu Lake wrote "the young woman is a light boat, the song is flowing water", it reflects the Gaochun working women rowing on the side, while singing folk songs, which shows that Gaochun folk songs have indeed been circulated for a long time.
Xia Xiaoling is a native of Gaochun, her father is a member of the literary and artistic propaganda team, she has lived in an environment full of music since she was a child, so that she has a natural love for singing. Later, under the guidance of Chen Jiannan of the Frontline Song and Dance Troupe, Xia Xiaoling also received a short period of vocal training. In 2003, Xia Xiaoling entered the Gaochun Cultural Center to work, and Chen Jiulin, who was the director at the time, opened the door for Xia Xiaoling to sing Gaochun folk songs.
made her debut on stage, Xia Xiaoling sang a joint song of Gaochun folk songs adapted by Chen Jiulin. The so-called joint singing is to combine the familiar 8 folk songs into a new song through clever rhythms. This is also a new challenge for Xia Xiaoling. The most difficult song to sing is "The Wind Blows the Willows", "The Wind Blows the Willows" is a loose version of the singing, Xia Xiaoling insists on opening her voice every day, and finally practices a textured voice.
The joint singing of Gaochun folk songs made Xia Xiaoling appear on CCTV and became the focus of the Gaochun folk song industry. Since then, "Picking Water Chestnuts" composed by Chen Jiulin and lyrics by Wang Shiyan has made Xia Xiaoling's singing fly into thousands of households in Gaochun. Through the adaptation of the two teachers, this song has a cheerful tone and a clear rhythm, reflecting the joy of the harvest of the water town girl in the process of picking water chestnuts, and also giving it the atmosphere of the times.
In addition to the guidance of her predecessors, Xia Xiaoling's achievements on the music road are also inseparable from the support of her partner Shen Yun, Xia Xiaoling and Shen Yun cooperate very tacitly, and many of the works they have collaborated on have won awards, among which "Gaochun Yangge" adapted from "May Planting Seedlings" also won the "Five Ones" Project Award and the Shanhua Award.
Now, Xia Xiaoling walks into Wenxi Primary School in Gaochun District, Nanjing every week to teach children to sing folk songs, so that children like folk songs. She also hopes that more people will sing Gaochun folk songs on the stage and sing Gaochun folk songs better and farther.
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Editor|Chen Wen Xu Wenqian