The song carries not only a person's memories, but also a distinct mark of an era.
In 2016, at the "Spring Festival Gala of a Hundred Flowers - 2016 Chinese Literature and Art Circles Spring Festival Gala" held by the central government, the older generation of artist Yu Junjian sang the world with a song "Golden Beach, Silver Beach, Green Grass Beach", awakening the revolutionary memories of a generation.
As one of the earliest tenor singers in China, Yu Junjian has never stopped his singing career since his debut at the age of twenty.
Even in today's year of huajia, he still contributes his strength in the cause of literature and art. For Yu Junjian, military singers are not only a profession at many times, but also represent the responsibility of remembering the times.
Therefore, in his spare time, he collected fifteen old military songs into a book and integrated this album called "Chinese Contemporary Field Military Songs".
Whenever someone asked why he did such a thankless thing, Yu Junjian's answer seemed simple and sincere: "No one is doing these things now." But as a veteran, I had to do it, and that was the education we received in that era. ”
With the release of the song "There is no strong motherland where there is a happy home", Yu Junjian's ups and downs of military life re-emerged in the song.
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Yu Junjian, who has now retreated behind the scenes, recalls his music spring and autumn for more than forty years, and still has a thousand emotions. When he was a child, Yu Junjian, with his back to Shuxiang Mendi, studied at the Art Vocational College after graduating from junior high school, and his original ambition was to become a dancer.
However, just at that time, the country set off a wave of modern Peking Opera, and Yu Junjian's hometown of Guilin also rose up Gui opera, and under the accidental mediation of a teacher, Yu Junjian embarked on the road of singing opera.
The original dance teacher praised his singing voice: "Xiao Yu, in the future you will go on stage to act, and the first brand is all you." ”
Teacher Gui Opera also found that this child was born a genius and was a good piece of singing material, so he recommended him to Qiu Yunqing, who was teaching vocal music at that time, as a student.
Qiu Yunqing graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and her husband was Mr. Xia Feiyun, the band conductor and famous conductor of the revolutionary modern Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain", which can be said to be a famous teacher.
When he was young, Yu Junjian sighed at that time: "I am really lucky! When I started learning vocal music, I met the best teachers in Guilin, and the first step was to step on the starting point of the orthodox 'academic school'. Yu Junjian's musical career officially began.
If "God rewards rice to eat" is a praise for a person's talent, then Yu Junjian is definitely a typical example of "God chasing after rice to eat".
What is the truly pure and beautiful timbre, you can know by listening to Yu Junjian's singing. As a teenager, Qiu Yunqing taught him vocal aesthetics. Wei Guangyi, tenor director of the Guangxi Song and Dance Troupe, taught him how to use "breathing" well.
Graduated from the Vocal Music Department of the Central Academy of Arts, Zhou Weimin, who studied under Guo Shuzhen, Shen Xiang, Yu Yixuan and other masters, and was selected for the Bulgarian vocal master Brenbarov's expert class for further study, taught him tenor singing skills.
In the study of tenor, Yu Junjian can be said to be a little bit of understanding, however, he was able to achieve such great success later, thanks to a "nobleman" - Professor Li Peiliang from Beijing.
At that time, Li Peiliang was already the vocal director of the Central National Opera House and an important figure in the vocal music industry, and his teaching of Yu Junjian in vocal music could not be overstated as "the grace of reconstruction".
Later, Yu Junjian recalled his mentor and said movingly: "In my artistic path, Teacher Li played a key role. He taught me the concept and technique of 'open mouth pharyngeals'. Without Teacher Li, I would not have come to Beijing at that time. If I hadn't come to Beijing, it would be difficult to say what height and achievements I would have achieved later. ”
Li Peiliang met Yu Junjian at that time, he came to Guilin to recruit students for the central national song and dance troupe, after seeing Yu Junjian, he was immediately surprised by the young man's perfect sense of sound and unique voice, and often took it with him, practicing for four or five hours.
In addition to helping in music, Li Peiliang pointed out a future path for Yu Junjian: go to Beijing and continue to study music!
From Guilin to Beijing, Yu Junjian began his three-year-long path of further study for the Central National Song and Dance Troupe.
After graduation, Yu Junjian originally wanted to take the exam of the Vocal Music Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, but he mistakenly remembered the exam date. In desperation, he could only take the exam of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe.
In that exam held in 1979, Yu Junjian sang two songs with very different styles, performed well, and entered the Zongzheng Song and Dance Troupe without re-examination.
"I remember the interview at three o'clock that afternoon. I sang two songs, the Russian folk song "Three Sets of Cars" and Shi Wanchun's "Send my Thoughts to My Heart". The play is still stable. "Here in Yu Junjian, fate seems to be used to joking.
In the first accident, he "went astray" and gave up dancing to learn vocal music; the second accident, he "read the wrong school", was admitted to the General Political Song and Dance Troupe, officially put on the military uniform, and began his indissoluble relationship with the army.
At that time, Jiang Dawei and Guan Guimin could be said to be a benchmark in the domestic tenor field, and for a time, almost all the students in the song and dance troupe were learning the singing methods of the two predecessors, but it was difficult to have new innovations and progress.
Yu Junjian was keenly aware: "If you want to stand firm in the excellent tenor phalanx of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe and have your own position on the stage, you must take a different path from others!" ”
After careful consideration and consideration, Yu Junjian chose to use the "bel canto" singing method as the background color, the national charm as the feature, and the popular voice line as the embellishment.
As soon as this deviant innovation was introduced, praise and doubts poured into the face of Yu Junjian, and even his former teacher Zhang Quan said to him: "You have taken a completely different path from the original, in fact, it is quite good, you are unique." ”
The teacher's affirmation gave Yu Junjian strength, and he strengthened his determination to take this innovative singing method, and constantly improved and optimized it.
Therefore, in 1979, the mainland music scene gradually had the legend of this unusual tenor singer, and Yu Junjian was popular for more than twenty years.
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In the 1980s, when the war broke out in the southern part of our country, countless patriotic fighters rushed to the front line to defend the motherland. At that time, Yu Junjian was in the ascendancy of his career, which can be said to be a critical period of fame.
However, as a literary and artistic soldier of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe, he decisively abandoned his acting career in the sky and followed the soldiers to the south of the motherland to respond to the call of the state.
Along the way, he sang for the young soldiers, singing "Fifteen Moons", singing "Goodbye Mother", singing "Little Poplar", singing "Wise Tiger Mountain"...
In the melody of his hometown, he traveled through the rain of bullets and bullets, accompanying groups of young soldiers.
In his singing, there is gradually a new soul core, these songs are no longer the accumulation of musical skills, but the songs of blood and tears that embody the determination of young soldiers to defend their homeland.
To this day, many retired veterans still burst into tears when they hear the song of Yu Junjian, as if they have returned to that war-torn era, they wear shoulder armor and go all the way south.
In the days of marching with the army, Yu Junjian also wrote some stories of personal experience into songs.
In his song "There is no strong motherland, there is a happy home", there is such a lyric: "Yangchun March I turned eighteen, signed up to join the army to leave home." The lyrics come from a true story.
At that time, Yu Junjian spent the night in the countryside on the edge of the front line, and among the soldiers who kept vigil that night, there was a young teenager who was particularly conspicuous, and Yu Junjian knew after asking about it that the original teenager had just turned eighteen.
"I asked this young warrior at the time, are you afraid of fighting? He said he wasn't afraid. I said why. He said, I will not die, other people's children will die, and people who sacrifice their lives for the country will always die! ”
This innocent but full of determination and love vows touched Yu Junjian, and for a long time after the end of the war, whenever he heard his own song, he would remember the night of that day, and the boy's face was determined and his eyes lit up when he said this.
Although he was a literary and artistic soldier, the dangers in the life of the front line also nearly took yu Junjian's life many times.
In the Battle of Laoshan, he once performed on the front line as a literary and artistic soldier, and when passing through the battlefield of the Nanwen River front, Yu Junjian was in the same car with a battalion commander.
The terrain in the mountains near the South Win River was treacherous, but as soon as their car appeared, it was discovered by ambushed enemy troops.
The driver had a bad premonition, so he sped away in the opposite direction, and the rugged mountain road saw many sharp brakes and big turns, and almost fell off the cliff.
Just when Yu Junjian was doubtful and wanted to ask a question, the driver shouted a sentence of "Lie down"! The shell was like a red lightning bolt, grazing the top of Yu Jun's sword and exploding directly not far from the vehicle.
Still remembering, Yu Junjian remembered his heartbeat like a drum. The Sixty-seventh Army and the Forty-seventh Army, these were the two armies that Yu Junjian had accompanied in that year, and they were also the two armies he had the deepest feelings for.
On the day of the end of the war, camellia flowers bloomed all over the mountains, and under the graves of nearly a thousand were comrades-in-arms who had once listened to the song of Yu Junjian and charged to sleep, and whenever they thought of these heroic souls who had sacrificed their lives for the country, Yu Junjian's tears were difficult to suppress. For Yu Junjian, singing is a lifelong career and hobby, and a few years of marching career is to inject a military soul into his career.
What is a military soul? "The military songs that are sung one after another are very important factors that constitute the soul of our army. It will always stay and let people know that in the long river of history, someone has done such a thing. Yu Junjian said after completing his album "Chinese Contemporary Battlefield Military Songs".