The Paper's reporter Liao Yang
In order to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra also commissioned four composers from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Jia Daqun, Yu Yang, Hao Wei and Yang Fan, to create four new works.
Four generations of composers were commissioned to write the idea of the strong tone of the times, which was proposed by Yu Long, music director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. These four works are also one of the first 39 key literary and artistic creation projects released in Shanghai with the theme of a well-off society in an all-round way and the centenary of the founding of the Party.
Long Yu (right)
On December 5th, under the leadership of resident conductor Zhang Jiemin, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra rehearsed for the first time Jia Daqun's "Chasing The Waves", Yu Yang's "Ode to China", Hao Wei's "Believe in the Future - For Sopranos and Orchestras", and Yang Fan's wonderful excerpts from "Fathers".
Rehearsal scene
On the same day, scholars and experts from many literary and art academies, professional colleges, literary and art criticism and other fields across the country gathered in Shanghai. As the first audience, they listened to four new works and engaged in in-depth conversations with the four composers after the rehearsal. These dialogues will help the four new works to be published in a more mature manner as they usher in the centenary of the founding of the Party.
Composer Jadaqun was born in the 1950s. For him, the history of the centenary of the founding of the party is thick, and it needs a heavy work to carry its cultural and spiritual core, so he wrote a band concerto suite "Chasing waves" under the title of Mao Zedong's poem "The Heart Tide Is Rising High", which is about 40 minutes long and has five movements.
Jada group
Composer Yu Yang was born in the 1960s. His symphony Ode to China consists of three or four movements, with a strong Chinese musical style, which combines the lyricism of romanticism, the color of impressionism, and the symphonic vocabulary of modernism, showing a new style of contemporary Chinese music.
Yu Yang
Composer Haovia was born in the 1970s. In "Believe in the Future - For Sopranos and Bands", he uses the famous passage "Believe in the Future" by the index finger of a contemporary poet as the lyrics, and through the dialogue between a large orchestra and a soprano, he expresses that Chinese people are forging ahead and believing in the future on the road of modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party.
Haovia
Composer Yang Fan was born in the 80s. In his symphonic poem "Fathers" in single movement, he tries to find resonance with his fathers, paying tribute to those who are imprisoned to raise fire for others, those who burn their lives to martyrdom in faith, those who survive from war and march, and those who stand on monuments and sleep in dust.
Yang Fan
It is worth mentioning that Yang Fan is also the composer of the hit dance drama "The Eternal Wave", and the musical theme in "Father's Generation" is taken from "The Eternal Wave".
When creating dance dramas, Yang Fan thought of expanding it into symphonic poems, "Stage art is a comprehensive art, dance drama music is more scene-based, more descriptive, after becoming a symphonic poem, dance, dance and all other visual elements are removed, that is, relying on listening, I have expanded on the composition technique, described more aspects, is a richer, more comprehensive, more symphonic collection." ”
From the attached high school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music until his undergraduate graduation, Yang Fan spent 13 years in Shanghai, and the inspiration for "Father's Generation" came from his thoughts and feelings about his father's generation during this period. To be able to write a theme with three other composers, Yang Fan said, such a learning exchange is rare, "it is not easy for young people to have such an opportunity, the three composers are my teachers, I have benefited a lot." ”
On the same day, Yang Yandi, vice chairman of the Shanghai Musicians Association, listened to four new works and participated in the seminar. For the first time, he participated in the seminar on new works that were still in the works, "Very fresh! Invite four representative composers of the post-50s, post-60s, post-70s and post-80s generations to write their feelings about the centenary of the founding of the party, and the creativity is very good. ”
"Although the fragments are listened to, the overall quality is very high, reaching a very high level." In Yang Yandi's view, the creation of the four composers has its own advantages, and there are impressive places in grasping the audibleness of music, excavating the multi-faceted expressiveness of the theme, and comprehensive thinking about musical language and contemporary techniques.
"The characteristic of music is that it is impossible to be realistic, it is impossible to write very specific details, it is a kind of perception." Yang Yandi believes that for the creation of the main theme, the most critical thing is how to excavate artistry in the theme, composers on the one hand to use professional language to express artistic pursuits, on the one hand, to get the recognition of the current audience, "the combination of the two, for composers is a great test, they have done a very deep thinking." ”
On December 31st, at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's New Year Concert "Singing Mountain Songs to the Party", the wonderful excerpts of the four new works will be staged first, and the full version will be presented at the end of April and early May next year, and a national tour is planned.
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