"Mr. Li, regarding the arrangement of the Spring Festival Gala program, I think the music "Memories of the Forbidden City" is very good, when I listened to your album before, I thought this song was very good, majestic!"

Hearing that Director Zhao wanted Li Yange to perform the music "Memories of the Forbidden City" on the day of the Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Zhongxiang shook his head and said: "Is "Memories of the Forbidden City" a little too much? The Spring Festival Gala, I think it is still a little more festive. ”

"It's true to be festive, but there is not so much attention to the music, otherwise, everyone will sing songs related to the New Year." This year is the first time Director Zhao has directed the holding of the Spring Festival Gala, and deep down he naturally wants to make something different from the previous ones.

The reason why the Spring Festival Gala of the year before last was able to cause such a big response was mainly because of the invited treasure island singer Fei Xiang, who sang the song "A Fire in Winter", singing and dancing, although many leaders felt that it was not good to sing and dance at the party, but it turned out that the audience still liked this style of performance very much.

Director Zhao asked, "Mr. Li, what do you think?" ”

Li Yange said: "The reminiscence of the Forbidden City is good, but if this piece is to be played on the stage, it is estimated that it will not work without an orchestra of twenty or thirty people." ”

"What do you mean, Mr. Yili?"

"Director Zhao, just tell me directly, what kind of music do you want, is it a little more festive, or is it another style of music?"

"It's like I want the Forbidden City to recall this kind of majestic music, the stage layout of the previous Spring Festival Gala was too small, this year I specially applied to the leaders of the station for a very spacious studio, and I will arrange the scene a little more grandly when the time comes."

The Spring Festival Gala in 1989 changed the small family spirit of the previous sessions, not only the venue was changed a little bigger, but even the number of performance troupes was several times that of the past few sessions.

At the beginning, there were twenty or thirty people in the light orchestra, and there were twenty or thirty dance troupes that danced with them later, and fifty people came to the stage without a trace of crowding.

A little more atmospheric music.

Li Wen closed his eyes and pondered for a while, there are a lot of such songs in his mind, but they are not very suitable for the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, but if you don't choose it completely according to the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, there are indeed a lot of suitable songs.

Li Yange thought for a while: "I have a new song, the song is also majestic, but it is quite suitable for the opening of the party." ”

"What tune?"

"There is no music score for the time being, but if Director Zhao thinks he can try it, I will try to write it these days, and then get a sample for Director Zhao to listen to, and if the effect is good, I will use it."

"No problem, Mr. Li can do it boldly, anyway, there are still two or three months before the Spring Festival Gala, I believe there should be enough time."

Director Zhao still believes in Li Yange's talent, and he has specially bought and listened to the two albums successively, and the music style is the type he likes. So when Zhang Xiaohai proposed to invite Li Yange to the Spring Festival Gala, Director Zhao nodded directly without thinking too much and agreed.

said that it would be a few days, but in fact, it only took Li Yange two days to come to the CCTV building again with the recorded song samples and scores.

"Elephant King Xing?!" When Director Zhao saw the name on the score, he seemed a little puzzled, this name was a bit weird.

"Director Zhao might as well listen to it." Li Yange took out the tape in his pocket, took out another Walkman, and handed it to Director Zhao.

The other party took it, loaded the tape, put on headphones and began to listen.

"Zizi ......" was accompanied by a little noise, a roar that seemed to come from the Colossus, and the unique tone of the Dafa horn immediately attracted Director Zhao.

In particular, the rhythm of the fierce drumming music at the back, accompanied by the accompaniment of guzheng, pipa, erhu and so on, gradually changed the style of the whole piece to a lively direction.

Perhaps because of the hasty recording, this piece has great flaws, and some of the rhythms are not very well grasped, but despite this, ordinary people still can't hear it.

Director Zhao didn't care about the flaws in the song, but he was deeply attracted by the lively and changeable music of this song.

After listening to the song, Director Zhao praised: "Not bad, this song is really good, by the way, Mr. Li, what does this mean by Wang Xing?" ”

This is a passage from the fifth volume of the "Buddha Says the Sutra of the Cause and Fate of the King": When the king walks, the wind is still changing. Roughly speaking, the elephant king walked as fast as the wind. ”

"But the main meaning of the name I picked is because I used the sound of the Dafa horn, which is a musical instrument in Buddhism that represents the roar of the elephant king."

Xiang Wangxing's music is a song that Li Yange loves very, very much, and when I first watched "The Water of the Great River Comes from the Sky - National Treasure", I thought this song was very good.

There are also previous works such as "Water Dragon Yin", "Youth Tour", "Qingping Music" and other works, which are also music that Li Yange likes very much. So when Director Zhao wanted a Spring Festival Gala song and didn't care whether it was festive or not, he thought of the song "Elephant King Xing".

As the opening of a party, this song is more than enough, and the overall style of the song is still biased towards a lively atmosphere, which is not to say that it is completely unsuitable for the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

In addition, the current Spring Festival Gala itself, the programs performed are more miscellaneous, and it is necessary to take care of audiences and friends of all ages.

Can you imagine that during the Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival Gala will perform the two Peking Opera programs "The Case of Quanmei" and "Su Sanqi"?

After listening to Li Yange tell the origin of the song's name, Director Zhao listened to this song several times, and the more he listened to it, the more satisfied he became, and he couldn't help but praise it again.

"Director Zhao has won the award, can you see this song?"

"Yes, that's pretty good!"

Director Zhao is not satisfied with this song, how can he refuse.

"Okay, then should I contact the orchestra myself, or?"

"Don't worry about contacting the orchestra, Mr. Li, we have communicated with the people of the Central Chinese Orchestra, and they will send some people to help this year's Spring Festival Gala. Of course, if Mr. Li has a special need for instrumental music, there is no problem in bringing it over. ”

"That's not necessary, since there is already a national orchestra, I don't think there is any need to contact others." Li Yange shook his head.

The Central Chinese Orchestra is all first-class music, and this time is different from Li Yange's last time, it is his private matter.

This is also a large-scale event for the people of the central generation, and the Central Chinese Orchestra will definitely send the best talents to come.

"That's okay, Mr. Li, then you communicate with the orchestra tomorrow morning, and after getting acquainted, we will officially start the rehearsal."

"Yes."

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