Changsha Evening News, October 21 (all media reporter Yin Wei) On the evening of the 21st, the premiere of the large-scale symphonic narrative group song "Miao Zhai's Story" hosted by the Chinese Musicians Association and the Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles was held in the Changsha Concert Hall.
"The Story of Miao Village" is my country's first large-scale symphonic narrative group song reflecting the theme of poverty alleviation, and it is also the largest symphonic group song concert in Hunan's history.
What are the characteristics of the show?
What difficulties have you encountered?
How to present it perfectly in the end?
Lead creators such as conductor Yu Hai, soprano Wang Lida, "Xiangxi Folk Song King" Yang Yunqun, "Chinese Miao Song King" Die Dangjiu, Lyricist Jinsha, and Composer Meng Yong were interviewed by reporters.
Audience
"Understand, like to watch, and keep it"
"Sing around the fire pond to sing the Miao song, sing a mountain and high ridge poor mountain nest. Year after year of poverty, the stone grinding will turn every year." The performance opened in the introduction "Sing Miao Song around the fire pond".
Through the 17 songs of "Deep Clouds", "Spring Breeze Blowing", and "Sun Rising", the concert showed the audience how the ancient Miao village, which is so beautiful and poor, how to pass Targeted poverty alleviation step by step realizes the dream of being well-off.
The songs in the work all have distinctive Miao elements.
For example, before each movement, the way of singing Miao songs around the fire pond is used as an introduction to reveal the era background, theme and content of each movement.
Through the progressive "Singing Miao Songs Around the Fire Pond", "Singing New Songs Around the Fire Pond" and "Singing Joyous Songs Around the Fire Pond", the three a cappella choruses are connected in series to form a clear image, cohesion and step. An in-depth organic whole.
The audience Sun Liping said excitedly after watching the performance: "The Story of Miao Village" adopts the style of Miao songs with the characteristics of western Hunan, and uses solo, unison, duet, children's voice and chorus to reflect the story of poverty alleviation. Artistic appeal is a work that we people can understand, like to watch, and keep. I believe it will be able to sing throughout the country."
Yu Hai
New exploration is worth advocating and encouraging
The last song of the performance is "The Sun Is Rising".
At this time, the mood of the audience progressed step by step with the performance, and came to a climax. Suddenly, they heard the familiar melody of the national anthem, and the audience thunderous with applause.
Incorporating elements of the national anthem into the group song is exactly the idea that the famous conductor Yu Hai Lingguang flashed.
Yu Hai and Xiao Ming acted as commanders this time, and he was specifically responsible for the second half.
"The Story of Miao Village" mobilized more than 400 people to perform on stage. It is the largest symphonic group song concert in Hunan's history.
With such a huge scale, the well-informed Yu Hai also called out "a bit difficult".
He told reporters: “It’s easier to direct a regiment alone, but there are more than 400 people in this performance, so many units, there are male voices, female voices, and children’s voices. There are people around the stage, which is too difficult. Indoors This is the first time I have conducted so many people in a theater."
Even Yu Hai said it was difficult, so where is the difficulty?
Yu Hai believes that the main reason is the coordination problem caused by the speed of sound lagging behind the speed of light.
He explained: "I told the choir members, you don’t rely on listening, you must rely on watching. The choir sits farther (located on the second floor of the performance hall above the stage), and there is a time difference in sound transmission. If you listen to the band melody , Then singing is slow and can’t keep up with the rhythm. I have to look directly at my baton. A lot of energy of Xiao Ming and I was spent on caring for the choir, instructing them how to start the film and when to enter."
Although the conductor faced great difficulties, Yu Hai was very satisfied with the final performance.
"The Story of Miao Village" was very successful, and this is also a brand new exploration. Musically, it uses the basic Miao tones to write a large symphonic group song; on the theme, precision poverty alleviation is very meaningful; on the content, through a small The Miao Village reflects the progress of society. These attempts are worth advocating and encouraging." Yu Hai said.
Wang Lida
Show the Hunan style, the audience feels cordial
When the reporter saw Wang Lida, she had just arrived at the concert hall from the airport, and even the makeup was done at the airport.
Although the schedule was tight, Wang Lida was in a very good state of mind. When he mentioned the song "Mercedes on the Motherland" she sang, she called "Proud".
"The lyrics, composition and singing of this song are all from Hunan. We use literary and artistic forms to praise the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in Miao Village." Wang Lida said that this change is passed to the audience through her singing, and whenever singing When it sounded, she always felt extremely proud.
In addition to the profound theme, this song also gave Wang Lida a lot of space in music.
She introduced that the composer has very cleverly integrated the music elements of the Miao nationality's high-tone music, which can not only reflect the Hunan elements and show the Hunan style, but also shorten the distance with the audience and make them feel cordial.
"I originally studied Huagu Opera. I used a lot of opera elements when I sang, such as singing and throwing tunes. In order to make the audience sound more cordial, I did a lot of second-degrees on the basis of composers. Creation." Wang Lida said.
A large number of Miao music elements used in "The Story of Miao Village" are more profound in the eyes of Miao musicians such as Yang Yunqun and Die Dangjiu.
Yang Yunqun told reporters that she used the high accent of Huayuan Ma Lichang in her performance of "White Clouds".
"The song is about one mountain and one ridge. There are many white clouds. In the depths of the white clouds, there is our happy Miao Village. We sing content with a lofty artistic conception and use this high accent. In order to be able to connect with the orchestra, teacher Meng Yong also It has been carefully adapted to meet the needs of the theater without losing the original ecological flavor." Yang Yunqun said.
Die Dangjiu, the non-inherited inheritor of the Miao folk song, revealed that when singing the song "Grandma's Wooden House", it felt very close to reality.
He sighed: "It resonates too much! This song is about my grandson coming back from summer vacation and seeing a big change in my grandmother's house and life. The lyrics describe everything and everything in it is very accurate. Especially in the chorus part, "Push open the small wooden windows upstairs, you can see how beautiful the wooden houses in Manzhai are." It reminds me of my hometown and my own experience, which hits people's hearts."
Sands, Meng Yong
Art comes from life above life
Excellent music works are inseparable from the success of lyrics and music.
The songwriters of "The Story of Miao Village" are famous Hunan musicians Jin Sha and Meng Yong.
"As a symphonic narrative group song, "The Story of Miao Village" tells the story of Miao Village's poverty alleviation by telling stories. It achieves a vivid combination of grand narrative and detailed performance." Jinsha explained, because the Miao Village's poverty alleviation story itself is It is highly logical, so the plot of this symphonic work is coherent, unified and complete.
Art comes from life and is higher than life.
As early as the beginning of the creation, Jinsha and Meng Yong agreed that they must start from the details of the lives of the people in Xiangxi, give a vivid artistic image to the content to be expressed at each node, and avoid false openness.
Taste the lyrics of each song in the work "The Story of Miao Village", the fire pond, the stone road, the Miao drum, the tongzi flowers of the Manzhai, the old green vines wrapped around the trees, the wooden house, the little sister, "Ah Ga Ga Jiong The screaming flower and magpie of "Gaga" are all symbols with the characteristics of the Miao nationality in western Hunan.
Meng Yong said: "The harmony style of the whole work is unique. On the basis of Western harmony, it adopts the strong harmony of the Miao ethnic group in western Hunan. The two are highly integrated. The changes and development of the harmony show the rich and colorful Miao people. Life." Meng Yong also specifically mentioned the supplementary words in the group songs. These supplementary words are innovative, especially the most common supplementary word in Miao music, which runs through the entire "Miao Village Story". works.
These are important reasons for the success of the premiere of "The Story of Miao Village".