Yixing, a famous city in Jiangnan, is the hometown of the late erhu master Min Huifen. Recently, accompanied by the melodious sound of the piano, always follow the party • The second Min Huifen Youth Erhu Art Exhibition Award Ceremony and Award-winning Concert Series of Activities ended in Yixing, a famous city in Jiangnan.
The first Min Huifen Youth Erhu Art Exhibition, initiated by Ru Yi, a disciple of Min Huifen and professor of the Department of Folk Music of shanghai conservatory, was held in Shanghai last year, attracting more than 200 contestants. This year, the influence of the exhibition and performance activities radiated from the Yangtze River Delta to the whole country, and more than 700 teenagers and children signed up to participate. National folk music experts and winners gathered in Yixing to participate in the award ceremony, winning concert, symposium and erhu master class, and visited Min Huifen Art Museum, Min Huifen Former Residence and Min Huifen Cultural Park, feeling the elegant rhyme of Jiangnan Silk bamboo town and inheriting Min Huifen's artistic spirit.
"Her music is pulled into the soul, into the vast world that the composer did not expect"
Min Huifen Memorial Hall began to be built in 2015, and in the past seven years, Wanshi Town, Yixing City, has continued to commemorate and pass on Mr. Min Huifen's art in a variety of ways. Here, people can see Min Huifen's childhood photos, the costumes she wore during the performance, the awards she won, the letters she wrote, and the creative process of each of Min Huifen's important works. In addition to sorting out the former residence and establishing a memorial hall, the local government also specially built the Min Huifen Theme Park, and the three beads were strung together to build the Erhu Art Highland.
Min Huifen was born in a small village with only 6 families, but here often comes the melodious Jiangnan silk bamboo, Southern Jiangsu blowing, ethnic beach springs, the country path walking folk silk bamboo band, five or six years old Min Huifen once followed the silk bamboo band unconsciously walked more than ten miles... Inspired by her youth, with the simple original intention of "promoting folk music for fifty years and not squinting", she composed the musical chapter of the Chinese nation, became a monument and spiritual beacon of national music, led and promoted the development of contemporary Chinese national music, and left a valuable spiritual wealth for future generations, which is worth remembering forever.
The picture shows Min Huifen as a young man
On the afternoon of July 19th, folk music masters and experts and scholars from the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country held a theme seminar in the Min Huifen Art Museum, focusing on the importance of erhu education for young children to inherit and develop Min Huifen erhu art, and nearly 20 experts spoke freely.
Liu Hong, a music theorist and director of the Folk Music Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, sighed and felt that the master could not be copied when she saw the place where Min Huifen had lived and the career she had achieved. How does a master become a master? It lies in the fact that she has never stopped in art, the spiritual power brought by her art is endless, and future generations may be able to meet her technical standards, but the height of art is endless, "We don't need 'Min Huifen second', teenagers should inherit the spirit of the master under the inspiration of the master, and grow into an artist like Min Huifen." ”
Composer Zhou Chenglong recalled that Min Huifen was always serious about art to the point of meticulousness, "There is a strange phenomenon: the music given to others, performed or recorded once, ends here, but in Min Huifen's hands, the music can stay and spread." He sighed: "Her song has been pulled into the soul, to the vast world that the composer did not expect." ”
Jiangnan Famous City plays the erhu classic, inheriting the Chinese national music context
At the 2nd Min Huifen Youth Erhu Art Exhibition and Awards Concert, the melody of many erhu classic works sounded, and the birth of these works witnessed the cultural context of the development of Chinese national music. At the same time, many works also reflect the distinctive characteristics of Jiangnan culture.
The opening song is a repertoire "Harvest" brought by the Erhu Orchestra of Yixing Youth Activity Center, which is a piece of music with special significance. In 2013, Min Huifen learned that the children in her hometown were going to participate in the first children's erhu competition in Jiangsu Province, specially arranged her teacher Wang Yi's work "Harvest", and rushed from Shanghai to Yixing to help the children prepare for the competition. Min Huifen's persistent pursuit of art inspires the growth of the orchestra's children. Today, these children have grown up and have been admitted to the school of their choice, and the performers include Zhang Jinque and Lu Haiyuner from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Lu Yixiao from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and Cha Sainan from Nanjing Normal University.
Children's Group B Gold Medalist performs "Memories of Jiangnan" composed by Min Huifen
Performed by Shi Runyu, a gold medalist in The Children's B Group, "Remembrance of Jiangnan" was composed by Min Huifen, which was originally titled "Longbow Exercise" based on the poetic creation of Bai Juyi's "Remembrance of Jiangnan", which was composed in the early 1970s and renamed "Remembrance of Jiangnan" in the 1990s. In the music, the beauty of Jiangnan in childhood is vividly remembered: the quiet village, the flying waterwheel, the melodious Jiangnan silk bamboo, the bold field song and other artistic conceptions constitute this music.
Zhang Jingran, the winner of the best performance of Min Huifen's works this time, played "Honghu Theme Caprice". Created in the late 1970s, the work was adapted by Min Huifen based on the opera "Honghu Red Guards" and "Watching the World's Toiling People Are Liberated", and was immediately performed on stage and spread throughout the country. The work not only gives full play to the characteristics of the erhu resembling a human voice, but also retains many facial features in the original vocal works, marking the beginning of Min Huifen's practice of the artistic erhu vocal cavity.
Peng Xiaoyan, a student from Yixing High School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, plays "Rhapsody of the Fifth Second Hu - Hymn" composed by Wang Jianmin
At the end of the performance, all the gold medal winners and students of the Yixing Erhu Association stepped onto the stage and collectively played the famous erhu song "Horse Racing". The image of the work vividly depicts a warm and jubilant scene of grassland horse racing, setting off a festive atmosphere, and also implying that the winning young players are also like galloping horses, galloping on the happy avenue leading to the temple of art.
The event was sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Yixing Municipal Committee and the People's Government of Wanshi Town, Yixing City, guided by the Shanghai Musicians Association, hosted by Shanghai Ruyi Erhu Studio, Yixing Erhu Association, Yixing Wanshi Town Cultural Service Center, co-organized by Suzhou National Musical Instrument Factory, and strongly supported by the National Orchestra Professional Committee of Shanghai Musicians Association and the Erhu Professional Committee of Shanghai Musicians Association.
Courtesy of the organizer
Author: Jiang Fang
Editor: Wang Xiaoli