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A song "Liang Zhu" has accompanied Wu Yili for sixty years. Sixty years later, playing this piece on stage again, Wu Yili's eyes lit up with tears, "My eyes have been wet since the beginning of the performance, this opportunity is too rare."
As the first "Liang Zhu" piano accompaniment score writer and premiere, Wu Yili once said that her adaptation of "Liang Zhu" is a process of combining Chinese and Western musical expression techniques, "The most well-known Chinese music in the world, "Liang Zhu" should be counted as one,
Because its melody is really touching. Wu Yili said that every note of "Liang Zhu" was deeply rooted in her life: "It is the classic in my heart." ”
Wu Yili's life is low-key, cold and extraordinary. She began to learn the piano at the age of 6, studied under the re-disciple of the world piano master Liszt at the age of 9, the famous Italian musician Mei Baiqi, and became a dazzling pianist in Shanghai at the age of 18.
At the age of 19, he performed the "Beethoven Concerto" with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, which caused a sensation on the beach. In 1954, she became the first piano soloist of the Central Orchestra.
In 1959, because of the 10th anniversary of the National Day, the state organized literary and artistic activities in various places, and the masses had high expectations for "Liang Zhu".
But at that time, there was no piano accompaniment version of "Liang Zhu". So Wu Yili found the general score of "Liang Zhu", studied it for several days, adapted the piano accompaniment version of "Liang Zhu", put it on the stage, and became the initiator and premiere of this version of "Liang Zhu", shocking people at home and abroad.
Wu Yili is good at playing Western classical and romantic music, and her performance is enthusiastic and meticulous, and her tone is beautiful. She also strives to use Western instruments to innovatively express Chinese national music.
Wu Yili once quoted the famous music educator Mr. He Luting as saying, "Chinese piano works must be played well, if they are not played well, they can only stay on paper forever." In 2017, a video of Wu Yili playing the piano "Liang Zhu" circulated online, and the elderly man once again entered the eyes of the Chinese people, and her elegant fingering and music touched countless netizens.
In 2018, in the first program of the CCTV News Comprehensive Channel "Classic Yong Chuan", 88-year-old Wu Yili walked to the piano with the support of the famous violinist Lu Siqing, and the two played the Chinese ancient song "Liang Zhu".
The piano violin weaves together and touches hundreds of millions of viewers. When she stepped onto the stage and sat in front of the piano, one note after another poured out, and the powerful vitality impacted the hearts of every audience present. Sitting on the piano bench is no longer an elderly man,
Rather, she is a "young girl" who has a deep love for the piano. "Passed down through the ages to praise the life of love, Shan Boyong love Zhu Yingtai", the deep meaning of the song melts in the melody of the old man's fingertips.
Wu Yili is a person who "learns from Both China and the West". She always remembers that her leaders had taught her, "We must work harder on Chinese works, we must 'Chinese feelings of Western musical instruments', and "performers like me have learned more 'foreign'." "And Wu Yili has received both traditional and Western education. Among the ancient Chinese literati, Wu Yili loved Xin And Du Fu the most, and liked their "bold mind and family feelings".