【Changing angle storm】
At that time, the Taiyuan Experimental Jin Opera Troupe was full of famous actors, and Guo Caiping, Wu Zhong, Li Yuexian and others were in their prime years, with frequent performances and many repertoire, which provided a good opportunity for Xie Tao's small actors to study. In order to expand the performance, the troupe was divided into two performance teams, with Guo Caiping leading one team and Li Yuexian leading a team. Xie Tao was divided into Li Yuexian team. Li Yuexian is a famous actress who plays a man and deeply charms 16-year-old Xie Tao.
Xie Tao said: I watch her perform every day, as if she is enchanted, she is staged on stage, I watch it behind the curtain, and I imitate it when I come down. She played Yang Liulang in "Three Levels and Points of Handsome", how to sing, how to do, I learned how to come. I said in my heart, I'm going to play this, I'm going to play this!
Xie Tao also said: I began to change my voice at that time, the original voice was not the kind of thin, sweet, taunting green voice, now the voice is thicker, and the body is strong, not slim at all, is not born to sing? I didn't consult with anyone, and I was determined to change the horns.
Well, aren't you not consulting with anyone? Mother Xie just called the door.
At that time, Xie's mother also followed Li Yuexian's team, and her daughter's abnormal movement made her unable to sit still anymore. She asked her daughter aloud: Why don't you perform your own plays every day, and why do you go upside down on the stage?
Xie Tao said: I am thinking about Aunt Li's Yang Liulang.
Mother Xie said: You are a Danjiao, blindly wondering what, Yang Liulang has nothing to do with you!
Xie Tao knew that this level was not enough to break through, so he said bluntly: Mom, I want to sing Su Sheng!
Mother Xie was stunned: What do you say? You fool around! You, you know this reincarnation... You're going to me off!
The daughter's rebellion again made Mother Xie injured for the second time, angry and helpless. She stubbornly grinded to her daughter to reason, saying that interlacing is like a mountain, so that men are not men and women, they can't be changed back, they are abolished; mothers have also wanted to change, others have changed, and they haven't seen a few succeed; children, sing dan with peace of mind, all say that you have a future...
However, the daughter thundered and could not move, should "blindly ponder" or "blindly ponder", should learn Yang Liulang also learn Yang Liulang, the iron heart should be reborn, singing Susheng, no discussion!
Xie's mother does not understand, for her daughter Xie Tao, this is talent in the calling, personality in the drive, not to achieve the goal will not stop!
Mother Xie is still not dead hearted, she took her daughter to see Teacher Li Yuexian. Mother Xie said: Teacher Li will say no, and you will die of that heart.
Xie Tao thought to himself, you must have colluded with Teacher Li.
Teacher Li, who was playing with a sweater, looked at Xie Tao and smiled, and said in a soft voice: Your mother is right, don't change your beard, you sing Qingyi very well, don't change it.
Mother was victorious and returned to the dynasty, thinking that Teacher Li, whom you admire, said so, what else do you want. She still underestimated her daughter's "toughness".
Xie Tao said later: I didn't know where the awkwardness came from at that time, no matter who you said, I was the left ear into the right ear out, not the right thing, what to do, is to sing Su Sheng.
One day half a year later, Teacher Li Yuexian suddenly called Xie Tao in a large classroom and asked: Do you still watch me act every day?
Xie Tao said yes.
Teacher Li said: "Three levels and points of handsomeness" have been written down?
Xie Tao said: They have all memorized.
Teacher Li said: That Yang Liulang singing segment, you will immediately give me two sentences.
Xie Tao opened his mouth and came, a sentence that Yang Liulang first saw Mu Guiying's words: "Falling in front of the eyes of the golden phoenix", perhaps due to excessive nervousness, she sang the "golden phoenix" into a "golden bird", which made Teacher Li laugh, but finally said: You will learn from me later, I will teach you!
Xie Tao jumped up with joy.
Shortly after Xie Tao changed his life, a meaningful vignette occurred.
This year, Li Wanchun, Li Huiliang, Yuan Shihai, Wei Xikui and several other theater personalities were invited to Taiyuan to guide the work, and the troupe arranged two report performances, a big drama "Yangmen Female General", a folding play "Killing Dogs" and so on. She Taijun in "Yangmen Female General" is played by Xie's mother, such a good opportunity, she wants her daughter to show her face. The group also agreed, because it was particularly optimistic about Xie Tao, and also let her play the Role of Jiao's Dan in "Kill the Dog".
No one expected that the 17-year-old Xie Tao would not dry his neck!
Xie Tao said: I said I don't do it! Don't you all agree with me singing the horns? How can it be changed! If you want to play me, I will also play Kou Zhun and Cao Lang, not She Taijun and Jiao Shi!
The regimental commander and Mother Xie repeatedly persuaded and promised to act this time, and after that, you will never change the role of life, and you will not let go of your life.
After all, Xie Tao couldn't twist his arms and thighs, so he agreed to play She Taijun and Jiao Shi once. The results were a sensation. Several dramatists praised each other, believing that talents are rare and worthy of efforts to cultivate. Mr. Li Wanchun wrote a special article published in China Drama News, highly affirming Xie Tao, a teenager who will shape characters on the stage, the first day is an old lady with extraordinary temperament, and the next day is a cruel and vicious daughter-in-law, very rare, "is a little rookie"!
At a young age, Xie Tao once again showed his talent for theatrical performance. An artistic path that I don't know how brilliant it will be, waiting for her to trek and stride.
【Throat Off】
In the first play of Changing Students, Teacher Li arranged for Xie Tao to "Kill The Stage". "Killing Yi" is the famous fold of this play "Spring and Autumn Pen", and it has been performed in major dramas such as Peking Opera, Qin Cavity, and Jin Opera. This is a kung fu drama known for its workmanship, and skills such as hat wings, hair flaps, hair throwing, and boots all require actors to shine kung fu.
Xie Tao said: If I can take these kung fus, the foundation for Xu Sheng's work will be laid. But it's really hard. Let's say that this step, the dan horn is clamped, received, and Su Sheng has to let go, has to open the crotch completely. I know that I have to work hard, work hard, but I am not afraid, since I love to be a student, I have to learn the best.
Xie Tao is really talented and hard-working, and the first play of Xusheng "Killing Yi" made her act well, and won the championship in the 1986 Shanxi Provincial Opera Show. However, when it comes to Xu Sheng singing, Xie Tao is stuck, and her Danjiao voice is not easy to change!
Xie's mother loved her daughter and led her daughter to meet a famous jin opera pianist, Mr. Zhang Buchang, and wanted to eat partial rice and tune her voice. As soon as Xie Tao sang two sentences, the pianist frowned and turned around and said: How can this be this singing method? Go back and sing Dan, your daughter singing this doesn't work!
Frustrated, Mother Xie repeated the old words and muttered again.
Xie Tao was also really worried. Teacher Li Yuexian has also encountered this obstacle, but people themselves have painstakingly practiced a life-saving sound, the combination of true and false voices, false voices are greater than real voices, and unique voices have become popular.
Xie Tao said: The teacher's singing method, I can't find a position, I can't learn, I have been singing with this voice, and now I have to change my voice to my voice, it is difficult for me to die! Headache to death! ...... No way! I've got to make a way out of this hurdle!
The stubborn daughter of the Xie family will lose! She looked for her own way, and thought of going to the famous teacher to learn the system, so she found Mr. Zhang Xiaoyi, a famous vocal educator at Shanxi University, reported to her home and studied with her teacher. Under Professor Zhang, famous singers such as Yan Weiwen and Nie Jianhua will accept me, a small and nameless opera outlier?
Professor Zhang not only accepted Xie Tao, but also liked her very much.
Xie Tao said: Slowly contact Teacher Zhang, she likes me more and more. At first I was asked to go once a month, then two or three times a month, then once a week, and finally twice a week, to know how many people waited for her guidance, how busy she was!
Xie Tao is a mezzo-soprano, but Professor Zhang asked her to teach her to sing soprano songs, "Ode to Coral", "Snow in Saibei" and so on. She sang it over and over again.
Xie Tao tried to sing opera according to Professor Zhang's vocal method, and felt that singing Peking Opera and Yu Opera could find a position, which was very relaxed and smooth, but singing Jin Opera was not good, and it was not smooth. Xie Tao sincerely said to Professor Zhang: Teacher Zhang, my major is Jin opera, and I can't find a position.
Professor Zhang liked the cheerfulness of this little girl, pulled Xie Tao to the piano and smiled and said: You can sing a piece of Jin opera at will and I will listen to it.
Xie Tao sang the core singing section of the old student in "Deep Palace Love Hate". One sings attentively, one listens attentively, plays, ponders... She must find the exact location of the voice for this hard-working student.
A senior vocal professor, playing the piano, a Western ace instrument, a young woman, singing the ancient Shanxi Zizi, is so obsessed, so beaded, so pleasant, has become a new and beautiful scenery of the Art Department of Shandong University. In such a wonderful period of time, Xie Tao's voice has changed like a rebirth.
Xie Tao said: The more I practiced the vocal method taught by Teacher Zhang, the more I felt that I had benefited a lot, and it was too comfortable to find the breath and position of the vocalization. Until now, whenever I have an important performance, I have asked Mr. Zhang to be present to guide me. She became my lifelong vocal professor! (Author Zhou Zongqi)
(To be continued)
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