The 20th chapter of the thirty years of cantonese song, Guan Zhengjie - eternal "Fishing Boat Singing Evening" (composer Wang Zhi)
Like Guan Zhengjie's songs, basically like "Fishing Boat Singing Evening" (Lu Guozhan words), a completely Chinese classical style song, melodious and simple, full of charm, in Guan Zhengjie's low voice, the first Chinese meaning of the song is fully interpreted. Lu Guozhan, who filled in, presented a beautiful picture with words, which made people reverie.
Unfortunately, this Chinese song was wrongly signed in Hong Kong, and the lyrics of the Hong Kong tape were printed, and the awards said that the composition was Jean Michel Jarre. Whether it is the Greed of the French, or the ignorance of the Hong Kong Record Company, the refusal to revise for many years, is the real shamelessness.
One day in the 1980s, I was playing a song by Guan Zhengjie on my home tape recorder, and I put it on this song "Fishing Boat Singing Evening", and just as my father was chatting with his college colleagues, they stopped talking, asked me to take out the tape recorder and play it, and then listened to the song three times in a row. My father's colleague said, "I've heard it many times, but I still like it!" ”
I said, "There's a strange thing, the composer of this song is a Frenchman, we talked to my classmates and we thought it was incredible, it was clearly 100% Chinese style." ”
My father's colleague asked, "Did this Frenchman grow up in China, or in Hong Kong?" I replied, "I don't know this man, but the author's name written on the tape is this Frenchman!" ”
My father immediately said, "I teach economics and I am not familiar with folk music, but this is certainly not written by the French, this kind of Chinese flavor, only Chinese can write, and is proficient in Chinese musical instruments, and it takes many years of practice to have this achievement!" ”
My father's colleague also said: "Although I am only a math teacher, I am sure that this is written by Chinese!" Even if this Frenchman grew up in Hong Kong, even if he has been immersed in Chinese culture and immersed in Chinese music, he can't do it! ”
With the media conditions at the time, we simply couldn't have learned more about the facts. After many years, I listened to chinese ancient music a little more, and then I learned that the real author was Wang Zhi, a teacher of folk music at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at that time, and the title of the work was "Capriccio on the Theme of "Fishing Boat Singing Evening". In fact, many people who know Chinese music know this song and know that the author is Wang Zhi, but the Hong Kong song is signed by the frenchman who has nothing to do with it.
I have to say that at that time, Lin Zixiang and Guan Zhengjie both used this song. Lin Zixiang's "Water Lotus" is written and adapted from the ancient Chinese song "Fishing Boat Singing Evening", while Guan Zhengjie's "Fishing Boat Singing Evening" states that the author is Jean Michel Jarre, a French electronic musician. However, this piece has nothing to do with the ancient song "Fishing Boat Singing Evening", and there is no similarity, it is completely newly created. The question is, who created it?
The facts were disclosed in the New Evening News and the Southern Metropolis Daily.
In 1981, the Frenchman Jean Michel Jarre went to China to perform a visiting performance, one of which was to perform "Fishing Boat Singing Evening" with the Beijing Conservatory orchestra, which was conducted by Huang Feili, the revision and performance of the melody of the guzheng part was responsible for Li Meng, and the entire music adaptation was written by Wang Zhizhi, a teacher of the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. The correct name of the work is "Capriccio on the Theme of "Fishing Boat Singing Evening"", except for the introduction part of the version of the original guzheng "Fishing Boat Singing Evening", the subsequent music is all newly created! In the chinese music industry, the signature of this work is "Wang Zhi" (although there is another theory is Wang Zhi + Li Meng).
The tunes of Lin Zixiang's "Water Lotus" and Guan Zhengjie's "Fishing Boat Singing Evening" are all newly created parts of this "Fishing Boat Singing Evening" theme capriccio", rather than adapted from classical music. And the Frenchman Jean Michel Jarre, who participated in a Chinese performance, included this song on his music album, did not sign the author's name, only wrote Jean's adaptation, I don't know if it is a biased position, or a bad conscience, but it is certainly not negligence!
And Guan Zhengjie's record company does not ask the truth, the direct signature composer is Jean Michel Jarre, even a little bit of common sense, do they really think that a Frenchman who has been in China for a few days has written such a Chinese-style song? Jean Michel Jarre and Kwan belonged to the same record label at the time, and the royalties were collected by themselves. In China in the early eighties, there was no concept of copyright awareness, people really "borrowed", and they could not react, perhaps proudly saying that "the Frenchman also played my song", or, about two cassettes, it was solved, too lazy to investigate.
The Chinese music community has always known that the author is Wang Zhi, but the Hong Kong record company is unwilling to face this fact. As for the Frenchman, whether it is intentional or not, he has become a famous fisherman! Although he is also a well-known French musician, he married the Singaporean star Gong Li in his third marriage.
For this song "Fishing Boat Singing Evening", we thank Guan Zhengjie for singing, and also thank the real author Wang Zhi for bringing us beautiful songs. (Verified author content, from the New Evening News, Southern Metropolis Daily, May 28, 2011)