Li Dan
To "sing a good" song for everyone, sing a "good song"
——Remembering the young singer Li Dan
Wang Yu
"Friendliness is the warmth of the sun, friendship is the sweetness of flowers... Friendliness is the umbrella in the rain, friendliness is the charcoal in the snow, friendliness is to be a good person, passed down from generation to generation..." At the "Song Chorus Competition for Teachers and Students of The City's Colleges, Middle Schools, and Primary Schools" held in Chongzuo City, the young singer Li Dan once again performed "Friendly Song" with a beautiful singing voice.
Li Dan, songwriter Li Xin and Che Xing sang "Friendly Song" together
In Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern Xinjiang, the core socialist values, including this "Friendly Song", have a high degree of vocal performance, especially among the majority of primary and secondary school students. According to the statistics of the Propaganda Department of the Chongzuo Municipal Party Committee, in the first prefecture-level city to carry out a series of socialist core values song into the campus activities, more than 300,000 primary and secondary school teachers and students in the city participated in the activities, and received vivid socialist core values education.
This made Li Dan very excited, she said, the socialist core values children's vocal suite is the Chinese Music Association, the Beijing Music Association organization created, in the form of music to convey the values we should adhere to, more moving, more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is of great significance to organize and carry out the singing activities of teachers and students of colleges, middle schools and primary schools in the city, as well as the choral competition activities, which demonstrates Chongzuo's sense of responsibility for strengthening leadership in terms of youth values. I feel honored to participate in it, because I was deeply involved in the planning and organization, counseling training, summary and evaluation, etc., I was rated as an "excellent counselor" of the activity, and I also saw the children's welcome to the song from another side.
Li Dan sang "Flowers and Mountains of Flowers"
"Guangxi is the ocean of songs, with the beautiful legend of 'Song Immortal' Liu Sanjie. In Guangxi, you can talk like this, you can talk and sing. Li Dan talked about his singing career, and his language was full of attachment to his hometown. Guangxi's charming mountains and rivers have nurtured her naturally crisp and sweet voice, and Guangxi's colorful national culture has cultivated her singing talent that is different from ordinary people. Li Dan said that he has loved singing since he was a child. It is precisely because of his strong interest and persistent dream that he has led himself to embark on the road of professional study of singing step by step. The enlightenment of singing art was in his hometown of Guangxi, with Liang Xuemei, director of the Guangxi Music Association and former director of the Yulin Mass Art Museum. The further study of singing art was successively studied in the School of Music of Hubei University of Science and Technology, the People's Liberation Army Art College, especially under the tutelage of Professor Meng Ling, which laid a solid foundation for the maturity of singing art and the formation of a unique style.
There are many outstanding students who enter the PLA Academy of Arts every year to study, but for Meng Ling, a professor of the Vocal Music Department of the PLA Academy of Arts and a famous vocal educator, Li Dan is a very special one. Meng Ling once said of her, "Li Dan is very hardworking and is a child with a strong desire for knowledge." At the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, Li Dan sucked the nutrition of singing art with hunger and thirst, and practiced his singing skills down-to-earth. Li Dan said, "It is a very rare opportunity to study with famous teachers in Beijing. During her college years, Li Dan followed Meng Ling to learn bel canto singing and ethnic singing assiduously, and her four years of study laid a solid foundation in singing and acting, and her voice was high-pitched and beautiful, full of appeal.
"Being a student of Mr. Meng is the greatest happiness in my life!" Talking about every progress in his singing career today, Li Dan is particularly grateful to his mentor Meng Ling for his strict requirements. In the era of college, there was a year of the Dragon Boat Festival, because to prepare to participate in a national professional competition, and the competition time was approaching, Teacher Meng sacrificed the time of the Dragon Boat Festival vacation in order for Li Dan to achieve good results in the competition, and worked overtime to make up lessons for Li Dan in the Beiqin Room. During the class, because Li Dan's understanding of the song and the technical handling of some places were not appropriate, the teacher suddenly became stern: "Singing like this, do you still want to go to the competition?" The Excellence Award is not expected to be won! Li Dan suddenly cried, and the teacher casually handed over a tissue: "Continue to sing after crying." After the class, the teacher suddenly took out two rice dumplings and a specially glued brown sugar from his satchel, and said lovingly: "Child, red bean filling, dip some brown sugar while hot, it is delicious." "It is precisely because of the strict requirements of the teacher that Li Dan achieved good results in that competition. Li Dan still remembers that special Dragon Boat Festival very clearly, "In the eyes of Teacher Meng, I am always the best. She always praised me in front of outsiders, but was very strict with me behind closed doors. Not only was he carefully instructed in the vocal profession, but he also taught me how to be a useful person to society. ”
Keeping in mind the teacher's earnest teaching, shouldering a responsibility for the society, not nostalgic for the prosperity of the capital, resolutely giving up the vast world of development in Beijing, as soon as he graduated from the university, Li Dan responded to the call of the state, participated in the selection of the talent introduction plan, and came to the beautiful Chongzuo City, the southernmost border area of the motherland to work.
Chongzuo is a border city that was only established in 2003, and "I am fortunate to have the opportunity to grow with this beautiful city." "Li Dan is now working in the propaganda department of Chongzuo City of the Communist Party of China, and she exerts her talents with full passion, uses the professional skills she has mastered, and uses the local superior cultural resources to promote the development of local cultural and artistic undertakings." Work well and use practical actions to repay the cultivation of the motherland" This is Meng Ling's graduation message to Li Dan. Li Dan interprets the teacher's sincere teachings with practical actions at all times.
Chongzuo has beautiful natural scenery and strong border customs. In the Zuo River and its tributary, the Ming River Basin, there is a group of ancient rock paintings that exude an ancient atmosphere and a deep Tibetan cultural code. These relics of painted petroglyphs left by the Luo Yue people, the ancestors of the Zhuang people from the Warring States to the Eastern Han Dynasty, were inscribed on the World Cultural Heritage List in 2016. The cultural treasures left by these ancestors have ascended to the highest halls of world cultural heritage, and how to protect the original appearance while making them glow with charming charm is undoubtedly a feasible way to interpret and disseminate culture.
"Huashan rock paintings are a precious treasure left to us by Luo Yue's ancestors, the rock paintings are silent, but the mysterious song and dance scenes emit a deep call, calling us to enter it and interpret it." The Huashan petroglyphs attracted Li Dan, who was determined to use the form of music to show the style of Huashan, interpret the code of petroglyphs, and expand the cultural influence of Chongzuo. In the year of the successful application for huashan petroglyphs, with the support of the Chongzuo Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the Propaganda Department of the Chongzuo Municipal Party Committee invited Wang Zujie, Wang Xiaoling, Meng Ling, Li Xin, Che xing, Zhang Zhuoya, Liang Mang and other famous musicians in China to enter Huashan. Li Dan said that after the musicians collected the wind, they lingered on chongzuo's landscape and praised the cultural heritage of chongzuo, lamenting that "the rock paintings are magnificent, the national characteristics are distinctive, the cultural heritage is profound, and it is very magical and shocking." The musicians integrated the sense of truth into the works, dedicated beautiful notes and infinite emotions to Huashan, and jointly created seven original songs with the theme of "Huashan".
In March 2017, at the "Song from Huashan - Huashan Original Song Tasting Meeting" brilliantly staged in Ningming County, Zhuangxiang, Li Dan and Zhou Peng, Dongfang Hongyan, Wu Jing, Black Duck Group, Wang Chuanyue, Zhang Lili, Shi Peng, etc. performed seven "Huashan" theme songs vividly showed the beauty of Huashan Mountain, the love of Huashan and the dream of Huashan Mountain. Among them, "Flowers and Flowers", composed by Che Xing and Li Xin and sung by Li Dan, was rated as the most popular song after the audience voted by secret ballot. Subsequently, at the 2018 "Spring Rain Project" of the Ministry of Culture and the Central Civilization Office - The National Cultural Volunteer Guangxi Tour and the 8th "Charming Beibu Bay" (Nanning) Series of Mass Cultural Activities Launching Ceremony Literary and Art Evening, Li Dan once again passionately performed this new song, which was also unanimously praised by the audience.
Li Dan said that "Flower Mountain Blossom" is a song with a very beautiful melody, and the creators have borrowed and absorbed the unique charm of Zhuang folk music, showing the beauty of Huashan and the mystery of rock paintings, and expressing the pursuit and praise of Zhuangxiang people for a happy life. "When Singing, I combined the singing characteristics of local mountain songs that I heard when I was collecting local styles, and carefully interpreted them according to the singing practice over the years. Everyone listened to it and responded very well. I am also constantly groping to form and strengthen my own singing style. This is very important, I want to give myself an accurate positioning. ”
Under the careful interpretation of Li Dan again and again, "Flowers and Flowers" has been familiar and loved by more and more people. In 2017, Chongzuo TV founded "Huashan TV" to launch music works with Huashan as the theme to the whole country, and the attention of Li Dan's interpretation of "Huashan Blossom" has always been in a leading position. Nowadays, "Flowers and Mountains and Blossoms" has become the square dance song in some places and the opening song of large-scale theatrical performances.
Chongzuo City in the process of promoting and disseminating Huashan Zhuangxiang culture, has organized more than 300 artists to carry out Huashan rock painting original song creation style, calligraphy painting creation style, live performance creation style and resident performance creation style and other activities, the results are very fruitful, Li Dan said that in recent years, artists inside and outside the region have created more than 100 songs with Huashan rock painting as the theme, more than 300 calligraphy painting works (pieces), more than 20 drama works, and well publicized and promoted Huashan rock paintings. These original works are of high quality, among which the operetta "Jiehe Spring" and the song "Drunken in the Border Pass Beauty Village" were awarded the 2017 National Arts Fund Stage Art Creation Funding Project Small Drama (Festival), the novel "Love on the Cliff" was selected as the Guangxi Literary Creation Support Project, the large-scale dance "Dance • Qiu" won the third prize in the professional group in the 9th Guangxi Music and Dance Competition, and a number of fine art works were selected for the Guangxi Art Exhibition.
Li Dan conducts art training for university students
In recent years, she adheres to the concept that art comes from life, literature and art should serve the people and serve socialism, actively participate in the theme practice activities of "going deep into life and taking root in the people", and has won the first prize of the national "Push Newcomer Competition" Guangxi Division and the Beijing Division Finals National Singing Method, the National "Push Newcomer Competition" National Singing Method Award, the National "Push Newcomer Competition" National Singing Method "Top Ten Singers" Award, the National "Youth China" The second place in the overall score of the vocal music professional group of the youth group in the finals of the campus talent competition, the "Top Ten Singers" award of the second "Yellow Crane Tower Cup" singer competition in Hubei Province, the excellent program award of the large-scale TV literary and art evening of CCTV's "Long Live the Motherland", the silver award of the national vocal competition of the National Higher Art Colleges and Universities National Higher Arts Colleges and Universities, and the silver medal of the national vocal music competition, and successfully held a number of individual vocal concerts.
"The teacher's teaching has always been engraved in my heart, and as a literary and artistic worker, I must strengthen my sense of responsibility. For me, it is to strive to 'sing good' songs for people, sing 'good songs', and play the role of musical bacon in casting the soul. Li Dan said.
Li Dan participated in public welfare activities
Shouldering the responsibility of literary and art workers, Li Dan actively participated in the activities of party spirit publicity, cultural benefit for the people, and cultural poverty alleviation. He has successively participated in the planning, organization and participation in the chongzuo city primary and secondary school teachers and students socialist core values series song singing activities and chorus competition, celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up and the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the autonomous region and chongzuo city "opera into the campus" activity results exhibition and performance activities, Nanning International Folk Song Festival "True Color Flower Mountain • Dadi Flying Song Evening", "Chinese Culture Spring Festival Gala", "Our Chinese Dream - Culture into Ten Thousand Homes", "Chinese New Year Culture Goes Abroad", Many cultural activities to benefit the people, such as the special rectification of organized crime and the elimination of evil forces, have been widely praised by all quarters. "Friendly Song", "Peach Blossom Ballad", "Party Flag More Colorful", "Mother-in-law is Mother", "Dan Heart Opens to the Sun", "We Are All Family", "We Fly High and Fly Under the Sun", "Flowers and Flowers Blossom" and other pleasant songs, singing the main melody, spreading positive energy, and inspiring people's confidence in pursuing a better life.
Talking about what he is currently doing, Li Dan said that he is now stepping up the recording of the song "The People Are the Roots", which is composed by lyricist Xing Shaoying and composer Hu Xudong, which is a song with the theme of poverty alleviation. The song sang greetings to the cadres in poverty alleviation, sang the concern for the people in difficulty, and gave people the strength to be positive and inspiring. "I will combine my own experience in participating in poverty alleviation work and what I think and feel in poverty alleviation work, carefully interpret this song, praise the public servants working in the frontline of poverty alleviation, and present our great 70th anniversary of the founding of New China."