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Following the shanghai synchronized swimming team and the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra performers a few days ago, on October 28, the National Wind Music Scene "Sea Folk Music" that was being performed at the Shanghai Concert Hall welcomed two athletes - Sydney Olympic champion Tao Luna and Tokyo Olympic Synchronized Swimming runner-up Huang Xuechen.
Unexpectedly, the Olympic athletes are versatile, Tao Luna has learned guzheng, and Huang Xuechen's partner and roommate Sun Wenyan has also learned guzheng. At the end of the performance, they took to the stage, Tao Luna played the guzheng, and Huang Xuechen, who dared to try, played the Chinese drum, and with the accompaniment of erhu, pipa, Ruan and flute, they and the performers of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra played "A Laugh in the Sea" and enjoyed the joy of music.
Shanghai Chinese Orchestra Leader Luo Xiaoci teaches Olympic champion Tao Luna to play the guzheng Photo: Hong Yitong
Huang Xuechen plays the Chinese drum Photo: Hong Yitong
The other side of the Olympic champion
In Tao Luna's sports career, she has won the Shooting World Cup finals 6 times and broken the world record many times. Many people remember the exciting scene when she won the first gold medal for the Sydney Olympics in the women's 10m air rifle event with a score of 488.2 rings in 2000.
21 years later, Luo Xiaoci, director of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, still remembers the moment when Tao Luna won the championship, and she is sincerely proud. When winning the championship, the narrator once described Tao Luna with such a sentence: "We are familiar with her is a very serious face, and today she finally smiled." Holding her breath and not smiling, this is the impression that Tao Luna left on most of the audience. It wasn't until she came face to face with Tao Luna that Luo Xiaoci discovered that she was a person with a cheerful personality and liked to try new things.
At the beginning of the residency of "Sea Folk Music", Tao Luna became the first wave of audiences to buy tickets. "My father was a folk music enthusiast and loved to pull erhu. One night, I was on the phone with a friend, who didn't answer, and then told me that I was listening to a concert. I asked what concert? Does it sound good? The other person said it was very good, and I bought two tickets that night. Tao Luna told reporters that she also learned guzheng, and later because of the training too busy, she failed to insist, which also became a pity.
What impressed Tao Luna the most about the performance of the evening was the performance of pipa, guzheng and guzheng. "Especially the "Wine Song" played by the pipa, I felt that the performer had exhausted all his strength and really played it into my heart."
The scene of the performance of "Folk Music on the Sea" Photo: Wang Li
When an athlete, there is physical exercise every day, Tao Luna likes to plug in headphones, while listening to songs while practicing, the most favorite to listen to is Jay Chou, the understanding of folk music is limited to "Spring River Flower Moon Night", "Backgammon" and other traditional tracks.
"'Folk Music on the Sea' really subverted my imagination of folk music, arranging, stage presentation and performance, very innovative spirit. The music took me into the woods for a moment, crossed the desert again, calmed down for a while, enjoyed it for a while, and didn't listen enough. I must send vibrato for more people to see. Tao Luna said with a smile.
"More intense than the game"
Like Tao Luna, Huang Xuechen also felt "unfinished" after watching "Sea Folk Music". At this year's Tokyo Olympics, she won the silver medal with her partner Sun Wenyan's "Snow Goose" group in the synchronized swimming double free self-selection final. In addition, the Chinese synchronized swimming team also won the second place in the free selection competition of the synchronized swimming team at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
In the group free self-selection competition, the performance theme of the Chinese synchronized swimming team was "Hero of the Towel", and the repertoire was selected from "Mu Guiying Hanging Commander", with the pipa as the main instrument. "We've always wanted to incorporate ancient music elements into synchronized swimming, and there are passages in "Folk Music at Sea" that are appropriate as the soundtrack for synchronized swimming. Hearing the chapters of "Water Line" and "Fire Dance", I was excited, and the more I listened to it, the hotter and hotter it became, and even the movements in the water appeared in my mind. Huang Xuechen said.
After the 2016 Rio Olympics, Huang Xuechen chose to retire and get married. In 2018, shortly after giving birth to her daughter, she received a call for the national team. At first, his family was not very supportive, but Huang Xuechen chose to make a comeback and began to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics. Previously, Huang Xuechen's weight once rose by 30 kilograms, and she desperately lost fat to return to the field. Now that the Olympics and the National Games are over and the team is in a period of adjustment, she finally has the opportunity to come to the concert.
After the performance, Tao Luna and Huang Xuechen came to the stage to compete with the performers of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra. Luo Xiaoci, a guzheng player, instructed Tao Luna to play the melody of the theme song "Laughing in the Sea" on the guzheng. Tao Luna's fingers are tied with "brassiere", although at present she can only "fight" with one hand, the two hands cannot cooperate, and the fingering method is not familiar, but under the guidance of Luo Xiaoci, she is more and more confident. The last time, I finally played the melody right. Luo Xiaoci commented: "It is worthy of being a champion and has a strong psychological quality. ”
Luo Xiaoci teaches Tao Luna to play the piano by hand Photo: Hong Yitong
Wang Yinrui, principal percussionist of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, taught Huang Xuechen to play the Chinese drum, and in less than 3 minutes, Huang Xuechen found the feeling and held the drumsticks in both hands to play the rhythm powerfully. Finally, a special song "A Laugh in the Sea" was played smoothly. "It's actually more intense than the game." Huang Xuechen said, "Whether it is sports or music, it is one minute on stage and ten years of work offstage, which we are very similar to." ”
Wang Yinrui, principal percussionist of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, teaches Huang Xuechen to play drums Photo: Hong Yitong
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Shi Chenlu
Source: Author: Wu Tong