Many years later, at another Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, 84-year-old Tibetan singer Tseten Dolma, who won the "Special Honor Award," recalled that many years ago, when she first stood on the stage of "Shanghai Spring" and sang "Singing Mountain Songs to the Party," she would not forget that distant morning, when a young Tibetan girl heard the song for the first time on the radio of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
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When Caidan Dolma recorded "Kefan Listen" in the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, he improvised a song
It was 1963, and the 26-year-old Tseten Dolma was a student in the Shangyin Ethnic Class. Here she met several good teachers, Zhou Xiaoyan, the head of the department at the time, and Wang Pinsu, her main teacher. It was also on March 5 of that year that Chairman Mao Zedong issued a call to "learn from Comrade Lei Feng" and personally wrote an inscription, setting off a nationwide upsurge of learning from Lei Feng. When composer Zhu Jian'er read Lei Feng's diary, he saw an excerpt of the poem "Singing Mountain Songs to the Party" and immediately had inspiration and composed music. At that time, the first singer was Ren Guizhen, who later became a famous opera performance artist.
And when Tseten Dolma heard Ren Guizhen's singing voice on the campus radio, word by word, he clearly sang the voice of the daughter of this liberated serf, "I saw and experienced the bitter life of the Tibetan serfs, witnessed and felt the happy life of the serfs turning themselves into masters, and personally felt the warmth of the party." Without the Communist Party, there would have been no daughter of a serf walking on a college campus. ”
Tsetan Dolma and Teacher Wang Pinsu (left one left second)
A passion for singing burst out in Tseten Dolma's chest, and she went to her teacher Wang Pinsu and asked to learn to sing this song. At first, the teacher was slightly worried: "You are singing Tibetan folk songs, okay?" Don't lose style. But Tseten Dolma was very insistent: "What is sung in the song is the same as my heart." I must sing! Therefore, this Tibetan girl, who even spoke Chinese at that time, touched the teacher with a sincere feeling, and Teacher Wang Pinsu not only taught her to cut Chinese lyrics word by word, but even invited the composer of this song, Zhu Jian'er, to listen to the singing of Tsedan Dolma. Zhu Jian'er, like Wang Pinsu, was impressed by Caidan Dolma, and this heartfelt singing is the best "skill". In the college's debriefing performance, Tsetan Dolma's singing was a blockbuster.
In the second "Shanghai Spring" in 1961, Tseten Dolma sang the song "The Auspicious Sun Rises in the East" adapted by Xiao Leng, and the unique singing voice was impressive. In 1963, Tsedan Dolma once again appeared on the stage of "Shanghai Spring" and sang "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party", which was recorded and played by the Shanghai People's Radio, and "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party" was immediately popular in the north and south of the river, and Tsedan Dolma's name has since been linked to this song and is a household name.
In the second "Shanghai Spring" in 1961, Tseten Dolma sang "The Auspicious Sun Rises in the East" (adapted by Xiao Leng)
This year's Shanghai Spring International Music Festival coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and Tsetan Dolma has once again returned to Shanghai, returning to the stage of "Shanghai Spring", and she will once again sing "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party" at the closing ceremony.
As if going back in time, today, Tseten Dolma was a guest of the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, talking about the first time to see the city of Shanghai, talking about a musical event called "Spring" in this city.
Q
I heard you say that Shanghai is your second hometown, do you remember the first time you came to this city?
A: When I was studying at Tibet Public School, the teachers of the ethnic class of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music came to select students, and at that time I only heard that Shanghai was a big city, but I didn't know anything about it. Until I was chosen, I was very happy, took the train to Shanghai, and I was not afraid or worried at all, because I knew that this was a good place.
The first person you came into contact with in Shanghai was your teacher Wang Pinsu, right?
A: Yes, I remember going to the school to drop off my luggage, and Teacher Wang came to see me. The first time I saw her, she had a round face and was very cute, and I was immediately close to her in my heart. Later, because I was sick because I had just arrived in Shanghai, Teacher Wang took me to see a doctor, and let her mother help me boil medicine every day, and brought it to me when she went to work in the morning, and finally saw that I had been bad, and also took me to live at home. Teachers are like my family, so in my heart Shanghai is also my home.
When I heard that you want to learn to sing "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party", Teacher Wang gave you great support and help?
A: Yes, I remember the first time I heard this song at school, and I thought to myself, this is what I have to say! At that time, I didn't have any culture, and I couldn't write those words, but I could sing, so I went to Teacher Wang to teach me. At that time, I couldn't speak Chinese well, and many of the ending notes in the lyrics were inaccurate, such as the word "heart", which was not pronounced in Tibetan. Teacher Wang helped me pronounce word by word. Because I liked this song too much, I was also determined to practice it well, so that the teacher and I worked hard together to learn this song well.
Remember the first time you sang this song in front of everyone?
A: The first public performance was at the school debriefing performance. Because we regularly report on our learnings, I went to the show a few months after I learned the song. At that time, the teacher was very nervous, and I was also nervous, but when I began to sing, singing "Old Society, the whip sucked me...", I gradually immersed myself in the song, as the daughter of a serf, although I had not been whipped, I had also seen the tragic experience of my compatriots. This kind of empathy made me completely forget that I was performing, I didn't feel it myself, and when I sang, my tears flowed all over my face. This song moved me too emotionally, and probably because it touched the teachers and students on the scene, after which the show was selected for the "Shanghai Spring" of that year.
You took the stage of "Shanghai Spring" and sang this song to the north and south of the river, can you talk about the impact of this stage on you?
A: It was precisely because of my singing in "Shanghai Spring" that I was later invited, accompanied by my teacher, to Beijing to participate in the large-scale musical and dance epic "Dongfang Hong", which was initiated and choreographed by Premier Zhou Enlai. After the performance, I was received by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou along with other performers, who shook my hand and said, "You are still young, you must study and disseminate Tibetan music and culture well, and bring what you have learned to more Tibetan compatriots." "I always remembered the prime minister's words, so I didn't stay in Shanghai or Beijing, but returned to Tibet. Many people have asked me over the years, do you regret it? I don't regret it, I always remember the prime minister's words and did it.
Editor | Lina Liu
| He Yiping
Photography | Cai Qing
Video | Jin Jie