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"Frowning"
(Singer: Wu Bixia)
Cao Xueqin
One is the Langyuan Xianpao,
One is that the jade is flawless.
If there is no strange fate, this life will meet him again,
If there is a strange fate, how can the heart finally be blurred?
A vain self-pity,
An empty laborer.
One is the moon in the water,
One is a flower in the mirror.
I wonder how many tears I can have in my eyes,
How to forbid the autumn to the end of winter,
Spring flows to summer...
Man intentional, the sky is merciless; the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror. How many dreams of youth are disillusioned under the obscenity of the parents' fate, and how many loving loves are in vain in the misery of the wind, sword, frost and sword, and finally blur. The tragedy of Baoyu and Daiyu's life with love and no reason not only made Cao Xueqin cry for it, but also made the present people two hundred years later lament and lament it.
In 1982, Mr. Wang Liping, a composer who was already a household name, took on the heavy responsibility of composing music for the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber". Mr. Wang Liping was immersed in the world of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and spent more than a year painstakingly writing the theme song "Frowning". Someone once asked: "There are so many beautiful poems in "Dream of the Red Chamber", why did you choose "Frowning" as the theme song? Mr. Wang Liping replied: "Because it is the theme of love and foreshadows the end of the tragedy." He said: "This song was not written by hand, nor was it written by the brain, it was flowed with my heart." "This work firmly grasps the theme of Bao Dai's love, but also lays the overall tone of the music of the Dream of the Red Chamber, establishes the musical image of the story of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the music creation of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has since unfolded perfectly...
(Right: Teacher Wu Bixia)
(Left: Mr. Wang Liping)
(October 2018, New York, USA)
The "Red Chamber" in the title of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is from the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's poem "Qin Zhong yin". "Rich girl in the Red Chamber, embroidered with golden wisps", which means that the rich lady who lives in the palatial pavilion embroiders her Aya Luo wedding dress with gold thread. "Red Chamber" is the meaning of the rich family boudoir, and "dream" is Cao Xueqin's dream-like life feelings.
In the first depiction of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are two people who have come from a simple and beautiful wonderland to a complicated personnel tribulation. Lin Daiyu's predecessor was a Daizhu grass on the banks of the Sansheng Stone on the bank of the Western Spirit River, and she transformed into immortal grass under the watering of nectar by the Shenying attendants of the Chixia Palace, so she was full of inexhaustible feelings for the Shenying attendants and was bent on repaying them. When the divine attendant wanted to go down to the mortal world, the daizhu fairy who had already been incarnated as an immortal should also follow the next mortal. She said, "I don't have this water to pay back for his nectar." He will be a man in the next life, and I will be a man in the next life, but I will repay him all the tears of my life, and I will be able to repay him. "Ying, Miyuya." This Shenying waiter was the predecessor of Jia Baoyu, the Divine Ying Waiter was transformed into Jia Baoyu, and the multicolored crystal jade that he held in his mouth at birth was the remaining 36,000 pieces of alchemy stone left by Nuwa Tian, and the Daizhu Fairy became Lin Daiyu.
Let's look at "Dream of the Red Chamber" again, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu are always accompanied by crying and arguing together, as long as they are angry and arguing, Lin Daiyu will cry. The main reason why Lin Daiyu cried was whether it was you Jia Baoyu who was the only one in her heart. With the return of tears again and again, the love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu deepened step by step, from autumn to winter, from spring to summer, until finally Lin Daiyu dried her tears for Jia Baoyu, and her life came to an end...
(Left: Teacher Wu Bixia)
(Right: Mr. Wang Liping)
The five-tone scale of the guzheng in the opening cavity of "Frowning Eyebrows" and the guqin and steel flakes interact with each other, just like the wind blowing, and the heart trembles with it, as if the ripples of water are fainted. Reflecting the Red Chamber Immortal Song that Bao Yu heard when he was dreaming of the illusory realm, the picture seemed to be seen and not seen, like the youthful beauty of the flower-like jade, the pure beauty and sad temperament image, unfolding one by one with the singer. At this time, the stage is pure, quiet and beautiful, the singer is calm and warm, like a calm and elastic iron absorbing stone, firmly taking into account the noise of the external world, the otherworldly love of the three worlds, following the tone of the singer's natural speech, clearly and transparently speaking word by word. Special attention should be paid not to inverting the characters, such as the "Lang" character of "Langyuan Xianpao", and the decorative sound should be passed by the downward sound. At the end of the two poems, Mr. Wang Liping deliberately added the dragging cavity of the "ah" sound, which is the wonderful point of this song, it is this seemingly inadvertent, but it is a well-designed aria, which strongly expresses the "full of sorrow and infinite emotion" of this disillusioned love tragedy! ”
About the Author:
Wu Bixia, lyrical soprano singer, professor and doctoral supervisor of the China Conservatory of Music, young Yangtze River scholar, national outstanding model teacher, expert enjoying special allowances of the State Council, member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, "four groups of talents" of the Central Propaganda Department, national "moral and artistic double xin" literary and art workers, the Ministry of Education in the new century outstanding talents, the director of the Chinese Music Association. She is the first singer in China to combine Chinese national and Western bel canto and win a very high international award, and is known as the "nightingale of East and West". He has won many awards at home and abroad, such as the first prize of the "National Vocal Music Competition" of the Ministry of Culture, the first prize of the first "China International Vocal Competition", the first prize of the 8th "Bilbao International Vocal Competition of Spain", and the second prize of the 12th "Tchaikovsky International Vocal Competition". He has held more than 100 solo concerts in the world, starred in Chinese and foreign operas "Rigoletto", "Janiskiki", "Little Erhei Marriage", "Xi Shi", "Night Banquet", "Diary of a Madman", "Zhuang Zhou's Wife Test", oratorio "Butterfly Love Flower", "Dream of a French Woman", "Yu Wang", "Dream of the Red Chamber", vocal concerto "Butterfly Double Flight", "Griel Vocal Concerto", etc., published 20 albums, served many times in the German "New Voice" International Vocal Competition, Chinese music "Golden Bell Award", Chinese Ministry of Culture "Wenhua Award" and " Judge, National Arts Fund, Beijing Culture and Art Fund.