Original: Joe Chi
Military lark
Yilin is not old pine
Geng Lianfeng was born in December 1944. Her song has traveled through the mountains and rivers of the motherland, forever singing a new look; since she joined the army in 1960, she has always sent enthusiastic songs, sincere feelings, and atmospheric performances to all border posts of the whole army, as well as to the northern forest sea, the desert Gobi, the Xisha Islands, the snowy plateau and other places. Loving the army and serving the people will always reflect the water conditions of the military and the people; the duet with Zhang Zhenfu can be called a classic song. All the way to the song, the lotus fragrance overflowing, Danfeng Yayin!
A soldier at the age of 15, as a military singer, she loves soldiers, has a military camp in her heart, and is full of affection for the army. She waded through mountains and rivers, traveled all over the world, sang for the soldiers guarding the motherland, sent them moving songs, and dedicated food for them. In 1964, he participated in the chorus of the large-scale musical and dance epic "Dongfang Hong", in 1965 he participated in the large-scale vocal suite "Long March Suite Song - The Red Army Is Not Afraid of Expeditionary Difficulties" and led the song "Zunyi Conference Shines", in 1967 he began to form a duet group with Zhang Zhenfu, in 1973 he sang "A New Look of the Motherland", the duet masterpiece "Letters from afar come by the wind", "Majestic Himalayas", "A Thousand Rivers Rushing to the Ocean", "Looking at the Moon", "Youth in The Flash", "Friends Have You Ever Thought"? Where do you fly larks", "Huangshan Mountains and seas of clouds are spectacular", "Mountains full of grapes are red and colorful", "Waves" and so on.
Being a soldier, serving a soldier, and singing a soldier have gone through ups and downs along the way. You are the most beautiful in the hearts of the warriors, and your soul is always the Green Barracks. Your singing is loudest in the eyes of the audience, and your artistic tree is evergreen. An olive green, a lark in the army; a pure heart, the true feelings of the art garden.
Manjianghong · He Hua Jia Yi Shou
Wind and rain, sixty years, spring and autumn.
According to Yu De, seek sincerity and kindness, and the lotus fragrance is overflowing.
Singing earnestly from the arts, being open-minded and simple.
The narration says that the warmth is like a blazing fire, and the love is not lost.
Happy sweet, mellow like honey. Love spreads, friendship flows. Let the years be consistent.
Build a dream to set sail and forge ahead, the original intention is not to forget the still chi yi.
Respect the stage, Dan Feng is full of acquaintances, and the song is dedicated.
Qiao Zhi said in his heart, sincerely wishing the famous singer Geng Lianfeng the 60th anniversary of his career from the arts, Gengzi Xia, and Mi Nanyang Shuhe.
Geng Lianfeng, who came from a revolutionary military family, entered the Comrades-in-Arms Literary and Labor Corps at the age of 15. In this revolutionary melting pot, her outstanding voice and acting talent have been honed and demonstrated. At the beginning of 1965, in order to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, Premier Zhou Enlai instructed that the Beijing Army Comrades-in-Arms Cultural and Labor Troupe should compose a chorus based on Xiao Hua, then director of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, composing a chorus. It also requires that the work be "revolutionary, national, and popular." After being appointed, the comrades-in-arms literary troupe did their best to immediately dispatch the leader of the Chen cultivation regiment and Shengmao, Tang Hao, and Li Yuqiu as the strongest composers to live and retake the Long March.
Soon, all ten works in the "Long March Suite" were completed. These new works have different styles, ethnic and regional characteristics, and many works are tailor-made for the singers of the troupe. For example: Jia Shijun's "Crossing the Snowy Mountain Meadows", Ma Guoguang's "Four Crossings of the Red Water Surprise Soldiers", Ma Yutao's "Annunciation", and so on. When selecting the actors of the third song of the group song "Zunyi Conference Shines", the composer ShengMao, the director Han Rongshi, and the conductor Tang Jiang all invariably chose Geng Lianfeng, who was only 19 years old. Because the third song is a female vocal duet, according to geng Lianfeng's voice characteristics, Yang Yiran, who is older than her, was selected to join.
Before the official rehearsal of "Long March Group Songs", in addition to distributing the song scores to everyone to familiarize themselves with, first of all, all the cast members were allowed to study the revolutionary memoirs of the Long March in large quantities, and Luo Ruiqing, the lyricist Xiao Hua, who participated in the Long March, was invited to make reports, and each person also had to write a number of experiences... In this way, the actors gradually entered the role. Geng Lianfeng took on such a heavy responsibility for the first time, and at first she was a little afraid, she specially asked the author of the three songs, Sheng Mao, to open a small stove for herself and help herself deal with the work word by word until she was recognized by all the main creators.
Through the unremitting efforts of all the personnel of the regiment, the "Long March Song" was successfully premiered on the "August 1st" Founding Day of that year. The three songs led by Geng Lianfeng, although the warbler cried for the first time, but it made the scene moved and praised. Premier Zhou, who was present at the concert, said to Geng Lianfeng: "Xiao Geng, your three songs are sung well, the Zunyi meeting is very important, your eyes must shine, glow, and laugh, because the Chinese revolution has seen hope." The premier's words deeply touched Geng Lianfeng's heart. After playing that, Geng Lianfeng had a deeper understanding of the spirit of the Long March and was more confident in her singing.
On August 1, 1965, the Comrades-in-Arms Song and Dance Troupe of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region held the first performance of the large-scale vocal suite "Long March Suite Song - The Red Army Is Not Afraid of Expeditionary Difficulties" at the Beijing National Culture Palace, and the response was enthusiastic. In 1966, Geng Lianfeng and 18 other people followed Premier Zhou Enlai on a visit to Romania, Albania and other countries, bringing the "Long March Suite" out of the country and receiving a warm response overseas. The landmark masterpiece "Long March Suite Song", which is a landmark in the history of Chinese music, has begun to tour Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou and other places after 40 consecutive performances in Beijing, but it still cannot meet the aspirations of hundreds of millions of people. When Premier Zhou learned of this, he instructed that the group songs be made into musical and artistic films and broadcast to the whole country. The crew of "Long March Suite Song" has also accompanied Premier Zhou on many visits and performances, and has also had a wide influence in the world. The young Geng Lianfeng has also attracted the attention of the world.
Geng Lianfeng has performed hundreds of "Long March Suite Songs", but her most memorable one was the one she went to Xingguo County in 2004. On that day, when the actors came to the country that had produced more than 50 founding generals and was known as the rejuvenation of the Red Army County, the local masses were just like when they welcomed the arrival of the Red Army. Along the way, crowds of people carrying bamboo baskets filled with peanuts, dates, rice wine... Give it to the actors in the uniforms of the Red Army of the year. In the crowd was a grandmother over ninety years old, trembling. When the Red Army set out that year, she had just married Yan'er, and the husband and wife met, and they would definitely be reunited after the victory of the revolution. Unexpectedly, in a fierce battle, the husband died heroically. Grandma waited for seventy years, but she still looked forward to her husband's return. On this day, under the support of the villagers, the grandmother cried like a tearful person looking around for her husband, and Geng Lianfeng saw it and was moved to tears. She comforted her grandmother and hugged her tightly.
In 1967, the Comrades-in-Arms Song and Dance Troupe produced a group song program, one of which was a Tibetan style male and female vocal duet songs, in the troupe many times selected, audition did not find the right one, and finally selected the song and dance troupe's Geng Lianfeng and the opera troupe's Zhang Zhenfu, the two with tacit understanding, sound harmony, won everyone's recognition, in the following years, when there were performance tasks, the song and dance troupe and the opera troupe completed by mutual loan. Until 1973, Zhang Zhenfu was officially transferred to the song and dance troupe, and the two ushered in a brilliant period of cooperation in duets...
"A New Look of the Motherland" is a male and female duet composed by Sheng Mao and lyrics by Shi Xiang and Liu Wei in the 1970s, and sung by Geng Lianfeng and Zhang Zhenfu. In just two minutes, the song used more than twenty "new" words to sing the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, which aroused strong resonance among the majority of listeners that year. The song has a distinct rhythm and cheerful tune, blending elements of xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and other places with very ethnic styles. "Teacher Shengmao introduced the characteristics of the song to me and Zhang Zhenfu, such as dense words and fast songs, so the words should be bitten clearly. He also pointed out the best and most flavorful places of the song and taught us how to sing it. Teacher Geng recalled the scene when she first sang "A New Look of the Motherland" and was still very excited, when she opened her mouth, she received a full round of warm applause, the applause repeatedly sounded 6 or 7 times in two minutes, and when the first singing ended, the audience continued to applaud until they returned to the stage and sang the song again, and the audience was satisfied. After the song was broadcast on the radio station, it quickly reached the ears of hundreds of millions of listeners in the motherland, and the song quickly became popular throughout the country, when many people would compete to sing this song, which became the classic voice of that era.
At the end of the 1970s, the national television audience often saw a pair of male and female duets on television, their performances were lively and tacit, and the songs they sang were catchy, and soon the two became the best male and female duet partners in the minds of the audience, they were Geng Lianfeng and Zhang Zhenfu. This pair of "male and female vocal duets" also became the "golden signboard" of the Comrades-in-Arms Song and Dance Troupe of the Beijing Military Region, and was praised by the media at the time as "China's first couple singing".
Performing in Tibetan costumes is one of the distinctive personalities of Geng Lianfeng and Zhang Zhenfu. Their vivid, fresh, singing and dancing performance forms were deeply loved by the audience, and many Tibetan-style songs sung by them, such as "Kangding Love Songs" and "Chairman Mao Sent People To Come", became the classic works of male and female vocal duets of that era.
As a veteran, as long as it is a performance to comfort the soldiers, Geng Lianfeng is all rushing to participate. Once, he performed for the soldiers on the Tibetan plateau at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and after the performance, Geng Lianfeng heard that there was a post there at more than 5,000 meters, and there were still seven or eight soldiers there. Upon hearing about this situation, Geng Lianfeng immediately applied to go up the mountain. By the time she got to the mountain, she was already dizzy and had trouble breathing, but she was strong and still insisted on performing for the soldiers. Once Geng Lianfeng went to the front line to offer condolence performances, and heard that there were two sentries in the fire line who could not watch the show, so she and her partner Zhang Zhenfu performed on the fire line. As soon as they were dispatched, they were discovered by the enemy, and the enemy's cannons immediately aimed at them, seeing that the two artists were about to face danger to their lives, and no one expected that it was Feng Gong and Liu Wei who saved them.
From the majestic morning glow to the sunset of youth, she always warms the hearts of hundreds of millions of people who are eager to moisturize with a moving smile and a kind song. As an actress, she interpreted a wonderful artistic life with her persistent pursuit of career and tenacious fighting spirit; as a soldier, she showed the image of a Chinese soldier on the stage, opening a long scroll of red iron for the audience.
Now that she is more than an old age, Geng Lianfeng is still active on the stage, as an evergreen tree in the song world, sixty years of stage career, art and life experience, so that her singing voice is always full of the passion of life, her clear and moving singing voice and warm and sunny smiling face, can always bring infinite joy to the audience.
Rare shadows remain