On the huge curtain at the back of the stage, Juliet is devastated by the death of her lover Romeo. She stabbed herself with a knife resolutely, and at the last moment of her life, the hand she tried to extend still could not touch the fingertips of her lover. The picture is frozen in this heartbreaking distance, on the podium, Jing Huan sees the timing, with a powerful wave, and the composer Prokofiev's tense music rushes to the end.
Conductor Jing Huan and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra are in rehearsal. Photo by Fang Fei, a reporter of this newspaper
Last night, the "Romeo and Juliet" ballet film symphony concert was performed at the Zhongshan Park Music Hall. Conductor Jing Huan conducted the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and used live performances to pave the "track" for the film. Since the opening of the 24th Beijing International Music Festival, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra of "Labor Model" has been non-stop, and this is the second complete performance they have brought.
The ballet Romeo and Juliet is a classic that is often performed, and prokofiev's music is very popular. This version of the film features a choreographed version by Kenneth MacMillan, the royal ballet watchman, and the original soundtrack by Prokofiev, starring The Crown's principal dancer, Francesca Hayward, and principal soloist William Braswell. Different from the general stage live video, this film was filmed in Budapest, Hungary, it has no actor appearance or curtain call, whether it is the lens language, narrative rhythm or picture texture, it is infinitely close to the traditional perception of the film.
"The plot of the film is very tight, and correspondingly, the music is also cut very tightly, but the performers are alive." Jing Huan and the musicians often found in rehearsals that this musical sentence had just been performed, and the next plot immediately began, leaving everyone with a very limited "breath" to adjust, and it was easy to be limited and uncomfortable to play. But the film that has been formed, pushed up and never waits for anyone, "one point can't catch up, and the back will be all chaotic." ”
Audiences closer to the stage may find that Jing Huan has a small screen in front of her own music stand, and she also wears headphones throughout the performance. "The beats are displayed on this little screen, and there are sound tones in the headphones." Jing Huan introduced that this is all to make the orchestra's performance closely with the movie. To this end, she and her colleagues stayed up all night for several days in a row, finding the "points" in the music one by one, and corresponding to the pictures of the movie frame by frame.
Some unforeseen "accidents" are also happening. Previously, the "Romeo and Juliet" ballet film symphony concert was staged in Guangzhou, at that time, the scene used led screen to play the film, but in the Zhongshan Park Music Hall, the performance completely adopted the form of film screening, the projection light from the front of the stage of the auditorium directly behind the shooting, just shining on the eyes of the musicians, and in order to ensure the picture effect, the lights in the theater can not be turned on too brightly, and it is inevitable that everyone will "feel dark" when playing. In addition, because the climate in Beijing is much drier than in Guangzhou, after a few days, the sound of the musical instruments sounds a little "tight", which requires musicians to take more care of them.
"That's what a career as a musician is." In the face of various situations, big or small, Jing Huan's attitude is still very optimistic. As long as the performance can have enough ideal presentation effect, no matter how many difficulties, "we all have to overcome and get used to it." ”
(Original title: Great!) Symphony Orchestra "Dubbing" the Ballet Film Live)
Source: Beijing Daily
Author: Gao Qian
Process Edit: l061
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