The 13th Golden Bell Awards for Chinese Music is being held in Chengdu. This is the only national music professional comprehensive award in China, this year with the theme of "Centennial Golden Bell", there are piano, vocal music (bel canto), vocal music (ethnic), guzheng four projects of the semi-finals, semi-finals, finals, a total of 44 high-level music competitions and series of special concerts. Among them, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra brought two performances: special concert and closing music.
On the evening of October 23, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of music director Long Yu, performed the "Golden Bell Award for Chinese Music and the Special Concert of the 'Autumn of Rongcheng' Shanghai Symphony Orchestra". Huang Ying, a famous soprano singer who has collaborated with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra many times, and Zuo Zhang, a pianist, once again held hands with the orchestra and joined hands at the Sichuan Grand Theatre to bring Chinese folk song adaptations such as Ding Shande's "Lover Sends Me Sunflowers", as well as Mussorgsky's "Dawn on the Moscow River", Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on paganini Themes", Ravel's "Bolero" and many other Eastern and Western classics.
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has a relationship with the Golden Bell Awards. In 2001, the two resident composers of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra each won the first Golden Bell Awards, Qu Wei won the "Lifetime Achievement Award", and Zhu Jian'er won the silver medal for "Instrumental Music and Large-scale Symphonic Choral Works" for "The Tenth Symphony "Jiang Xue"", after which he won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the third Golden Bell Awards. In the nearly two decades since then, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has invited Golden Bell Award winners to perform on stage many times, working together to build a performance stage for young Chinese musicians and help them develop their careers in the long run.
On the evening of October 23, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra held a special concert at the Sichuan Grand Theatre, which began with Mussorgsky's "Dawn on the Moscow River". Following the music, the audience seems to be strolling along the Moscow River in the morning light, hearing the footsteps of soldiers and the bells of churches.
Subsequently, the pianist Zuo Zhang, along with the orchestra, played Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini, which has been called "the absolute sound of the nineteenth-century Romantic musical showmanship". The theme song in the movie "Seventy Years Back in Time" is from the 18th variation of the work, and the interpretation of the left chapter carries a touch of gentle melancholy.
In the second half, soprano Huang Ying and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra presented a number of art songs by composer Ding Shande. In the early 1950s, with a keen interest in traditional Chinese folk songs, Ding Shande adapted a series of well-known folk song tunes.
These excellent vocal works show the exploration of the older generation of composers represented by Ding Shande on the road of music nationalization. Ding Shande's creation integrates Chinese and Western styles, on the basis of retaining the artistic conception of folk songs and local styles, and adds richness and expressiveness through the integration of Western creative techniques.
Conductor Yu Long's understanding of the musical emotions of Gong Ding Shande is: "These works are small pieces that tell big stories, expressing the most simple and simple emotions and the hottest love for life. Songs like "Lover Send Me Sunflowers" are so simple and simple but so hot love. Every word, every note, is a beautiful portrayal of life, a portrayal of love, and nothing is more worthy of our praise than love. ”
In the 1980s, Yu Long witnessed his grandfather write the vocal suite "Western Yunnan Poetry Banknote". "'Western Yunnan Poetry' is written in traditional China, but you can hear very modern techniques, very bold innovations, and it is very difficult to sing."
Huang Ying, who sang this vocal suite, was praised by the Western media as "the nightingale flying from China". With a gentle singing voice, she shows the babbling spring water and butterflies flying in the vocal suite "Western Yunnan Poetry Banknote", depicting the artistic conception that is difficult to reproduce in language.
Ding Shande once proposed: "Nationalization is not how many traditional national expression methods are used in the works, nor does it depend on whether it is played with national instruments, but whether it truly expresses the spiritual outlook and ideological feelings of the Chinese people, and whether it has Chinese style and Chinese style." ”
Coming to Sichuan, of course, there is no indispensable Sichuan mountain song, "When the Locust Flower Blooms" and "The Sun Comes Out happy Yangyang" are the mountain songs taken by Ding Shande from different regions in Sichuan. "When will the locust flower bloom" is a question and answer of a mother and daughter, just a few lyrics, vividly depicting the time when the locust flowers are about to bloom, and the girl looks forward to the return of the lang and is ashamed to admit it. "The Sun Comes Out happy" portrays the optimistic, cheerful and self-satisfied image of the working people who go up the mountain to cut firewood with a light beating rhythm.
Huang Ying has performed Ding Shande's works many times, and her mentor Ge Chaozhi at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music was invited back from France by Ding Shande, and in her opinion, this is also a connection with Ding Shande. "Art songs are embroidered like embroidery, and Mr. Ding Shande's art songs also add a layer of national characteristics. For example, the Sichuan folk song "The Sun Comes Out happy" is sung in the Sichuan dialect and is very enjoyable. ”
On the evening of October 26, the 13th Golden Bell Awards Ceremony and Closing Ceremony Concert of Chinese Music will be held at Chengdu City Concert Hall. Conductor Zhang Guoyong will join hands with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to bring wonderful performances to the audience together with some of the winners and judges of this year's Golden Bell Awards, Zhang Ye, Yan Weiwen, Dilibair and Shi Yijie.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Shi Chenlu
Source: Author: Wu Tong