302. The art of suona, a hundred birds and a phoenix!
Obviously, there is no one in China who does not know this instrument......
Although domestic folk music has been in decline for many years, this instrument has always been very popular among the people, and it is often used in some red and white ceremonies.
However, few people abroad know about it.
In particular, top musicians such as Charles and Howard, who focus on classical music art, have never paid attention to this Chinese national instrument.
Heidi asked in a low voice, "Is this a horn?" ”
After all, Phipps came to Huaxia for a while, shook his head and explained in a low voice: "This is not a horn, it looks like a horn." However, it is a wind instrument, just like a trumpet. This is called suona, which is a musical instrument often used by Chinese folks. ”
"In the past, when we auditioned for the musician program, there were Chinese players who participated in the competition with this instrument, but they were eliminated very early."
"It's a very loud instrument...... The requirements for lung capacity are high, and the technique of blowing is more complex. The last time I used this instrument to participate in the competition, the Chinese players learned from their families, and they practiced suona since they were five or six years old, and they were successful at the age of twenty and were recruited by Huaxia's central sound. ”
"Now, there are very few people who know this kind of musical instrument in Huaxia......"
Both Heidi and Professor Heicy glanced at Phipps in surprise, not expecting Phipps to know so much.
However, then their attention was once again attracted by Wang Cheng on the stage......
Since this kind of instrument is extremely niche in China, can Wang Cheng really play it? Or is it just a matter of picking it up and playing around?
And Tian Wen, Xu Chaohua, Fan Yu and other domestic folk musicians were shocked and looked at Wang Cheng speechlessly......
I all felt that Wang Cheng was simply too capricious.
Xu Chaohua said in a low voice: "Suona, a musical instrument, there are almost no people who can hold it on the table now." I don't know if Wang Cheng will be able to. ”
Yan Qing also said helplessly: "I used to have a friend who was very talented in suona and studied it for more than three years. But I was always ridiculed and ridiculed by relatives and friends, and finally I couldn't stand the pressure from my family and gave up! ”
They know that this is the living environment of many national musical instruments now!
For example, suona almost has a local flavor, and most people's perception of this musical instrument in society is that sentence - there is no soul that suona can't send away, and almost regard suona as one of the representative elements of white things.
In fact, suona is also one of the main elements of red affairs.
Of course, whether it is a red thing or a white thing, it is actually a folk matter.
Therefore, suona is extremely down-to-earth, and in the eyes of most people, it has nothing to do with music and art.
The Lower Riba people and the spring and white snow are almost inherently opposites.
If a serious suona major student who graduated from CCTV introduces himself and says: I am a graduate of CCTV suona major! That will definitely be ridiculed and ridiculed by many people in society.
Without the tall pretending attributes, you can't make a living from it.
Then, parents will naturally not allow their children to learn, which of course will be more and more withered.
And......
Suona is not so easy to learn, it is not as simple as getting started with piano and guzheng, and there is no sound examination ladder system of piano and guzheng, and you can see your level improvement step by step.
Therefore, everyone present couldn't imagine that Wang Cheng actually picked up a suona......
Throughout the concert, the folk music departments of several music academies in China came, and some folk music masters also came to join in the fun.
However, I couldn't find a music school professor or folk musician who could play suona.
Because......
The suona major is also an extremely unpopular major in the folk music department of the music academy, and few people apply for the examination to study, so such an unpopular major is naturally not qualified to be brought here by the academy to spend precious resources, and the folk performers who can play suona will not spend a high price to come here to join in the fun!
Therefore, the teachers and students of many domestic music conservatories at the scene looked left and right at each other, and they couldn't find a person who could play suona, and they were not so good at suona, so they could only say that they understood something.
Looking at Wang Cheng holding the suona on the stage, everyone was speechless for a while......
However, most people, with hope and luck in their eyes, hope that Wang Cheng doesn't really want to play suona, just pick it up and take a look, and hope that Wang Cheng will better play the instruments they are all familiar with, such as piano, guzheng, violin, etc.!
It's a pity......
Wang Cheng picked up the suona and didn't let go.
Tian Wen said with a little regret: "I knew that Wang Cheng would play suona, so I brought Professor He!" Professor He is now the only suona master in China. ”
Chen Yuqi said helplessly: "Uncle He teaches five students, so idle, he must be willing to come." ”
There are really few people who learn suona, and the five students brought by Professor He are all homeschooled, so they applied for the suona major.
And Professor He himself is also the successor of the suona master, and his uncle was the only famous suona master in China back then. But his uncle's children are not interested in suona, but Professor He, who is a nephew, wants to learn, so his uncle passed on the family suona skills to Professor He, and then the central sound recruited Professor He into the Department of Folk Music, as a professor specializing in teaching suona, and now the only suona player in China who can get on the stage, but he is far from being a suona performance master.
Because, it has been many years since Professor He's uncle passed away, and now there are no master suona players in China.
Many folk music experts predict that in about another 100 years, the national musical instrument suona will be lost.
It is said that in order to support national musical instruments, the state specially filmed a movie to interpret the story of a folk suona inheritance, and specially invited several famous folk music professors from the conservatory of music to serve as consultants.
Zhou Zhe and the other people from the central voice didn't speak, but just stared at Wang Cheng with a complicated expression.
The performance of Wang Cheng's two erhu works just now has conquered them all.
Now, they just want to know, what other surprises will Wang Cheng bring them?
And Wang Cheng didn't care about the whispers and many strange and expectant eyes at the scene, just took the brand-new suona in his hand, touched the lines on it, and then came to his mouth and blew gently, making a sound that was somewhat different from what she imagined.
With the sound of suona, everyone at the scene was shocked, thinking that Wang Cheng's suona performance was about to start, and they all sat upright, staring at Wang Cheng.
But......
Wang Cheng didn't start immediately, but after playing a few blows, he adjusted it a few times.
All the eyes at the scene who looked at Wang Cheng were a little surprised.
Because......
Looking at it like this, Wang Cheng may really be able to play suona.
Otherwise, how could the action of blowing and debugging look so professional?
Tian Wen, Xu Chaohua, Fan Yu and others are suona professionals, and folk music experts can see that Wang Cheng may really play suona!
It's just that......
Why?
This question is destined to have no answer.
I saw that after Wang Cheng adjusted it a few times, he picked up the suona and suddenly began to play.
Everyone's eyes were firmly on Wang Cheng, knowing that Wang Cheng was really here, and he was really going to play suona!
Everyone was also very curious and looking forward to it......
Will Wang Cheng play any suona?
When Wang Cheng began to play.
A loud suona sounded, like the rising oriental sun, with the louder and louder suona sound, a rising vitality began to brew in everyone's heart, and a festive atmosphere was mixed in.
Even if there are 3,000 people at the scene, most of them basically don't know much about suona, and a very small number of folk music masters who know some suona can't play.
However, most people understand music and the art of music......
For example, Charles, Howard, Heicy, Heidi and other foreign musicians can see a clear picture from the suona music played by Wang Cheng, as if a rising sun, fresh mountains, a group of birds flying by, each bird is extremely lively and beautiful, full of smart and festive atmosphere, every bird seems to be flying in the same direction, every bird is very excited......
This ability to express himself musically clearly and incomparably struck Howard, Scott, Crowder and others again.
And Xu Chaohua, Tian Wen, Fan Yu and other folk music masters who know some suona, are even more shocked.
Because, from Wang Cheng's blowing away process, they can clearly see Wang Cheng's difficult suona blowing away skills.
They all have suona majors in their respective conservatories, so they all know some suona, even if they don't know it very well, but they also know some of the difficult performance skills.
And at this time......
Wang Cheng is using his own practical actions to show them the difficult performance skills of suona one by one.
Articulation, portamento, tongue, finger flower, trill...... And, swallowing, spitting, padding, beating, wiping, pressing and other skills......
They can all see it from Wang Cheng!
There are also some difficult skills that they know that several suona professors have talked about, but they can't often use successfully, also appear in Wang Cheng's hands one by one, such as tongue punch sound, air punch sound, rebound sound, even bounce sound, air lip with vibrato, finger qi with vibrato, etc., their super difficult skills are faintly visible......
So many difficult skills are naturally and smoothly displayed on Wang Cheng alone, and they are also perfect enough to be integrated into this song, which is not a simple show-off.
This is extremely rare!
This illustrates......
The piece itself is very cleverly composed.
Moreover, Wang Cheng's performance skills are also beyond imagination.
They have heard that these difficult techniques do not need to be played smoothly in performance, they only need to be able to play smoothly once or twice during the exam to get a high degree......
And such a super difficult and smooth suona performance with a lofty artistic conception.
They had never heard of it in their lives......
Even if they listened to Professor He's uncle decades ago, the only suona master back then, it seemed that Wang Cheng's suona performance at this time did not have a meaningful meaning.
At least!
Wang Cheng's blowing is more picturesque.
Even if Wang Cheng didn't speak during the whole process, didn't interact with them, and didn't introduce the music of this work.
They can also rely purely on Wang Cheng's performance, listen to the music and sound, and emotional expression, to feel that this is a joyful work, and it may be related to many birds.
They could clearly see from the picture passed on to them by Wang Cheng's performance, in which birds flew happily in the same direction, and there seemed to be a great and mysterious existence in that direction that attracted them!
Such a feeling made them dare not make mistakes easily, and everyone listened to Wang Cheng's performance quietly and attentively.
Even though everyone at the scene was extremely shocked, no one dared to speak, for fear of disturbing this artistic conception, for fear of missing the clear picture transmitted to them by the music, for fear of missing the most wonderful moment......
And Wang Cheng himself is completely focused on the performance of this suona song that he only knows.
And this suona song is the famous suona song that he remembers most clearly in his last life, and it has a certain reputation in the world, and it is almost a work that can represent the suona instrument.
Wang Cheng threw away everything, and only had this piece in his mind, so he played this piece almost perfectly, and perfectly presented the artistic conception in it, so that everyone on the scene could experience it.
When it entered the climax, Wang Cheng played a long note, making everyone on the scene silent again!
This lung capacity amazed everyone, and some people who knew Wang Cheng couldn't help but sigh - Wang Cheng is still a top powerful singer.
With this lung capacity, it is difficult to succeed in the field of singers.
But......
Immediately, they stopped paying attention to it.
Because......
A burst of suona sound with a strong sense of impact hit.
It is as if a group of colorful birds are spinning and flying around a sacred bird in the air, and each bird makes a crisp and cheerful name, and the whole scene is extremely lively and exciting......
And Wang Cheng also showed a difficult blowing technique and played this section perfectly.
Let everyone listen to the blood boiling, immersive......
Howard unconsciously muttered to himself: "God, this is the most incredible live performance I've ever heard, I don't know anything about this instrument, and it's the first time I've heard this piece, but I can fully feel the mood and picture expressed in this piece!" It's incredible......"
Charles nodded, "Yes, so do I." This is something that no one in history has ever been able to do. It can only be said that he has mastered the essence of this instrument called suona, and this piece is also very perfect to play the strength of this instrument and himself, which is a perfect combination, so it has played a perfect musical and artistic effect beyond imagination......"
Scott: "It's the real art of music!" It is incredible that the Chinese folk musical instruments can be passed down for so many years, and there is a mysterious power in them......"
Several people were completely conquered by Wang Cheng's suona performance.
Xu Chaohua, who was not far away, said directly in a low voice: "This piece should also be composed by Wang Cheng himself." The artistic conception of the picture is a perfect fit with the hundred birds and the phoenix in folklore. If I could choose a name, I would like this piece to be called that. ”
Yan Qing also nodded in agreement: "Yes, a hundred birds and a phoenix, it is indeed a perfect match with what I feel and see!" ”
Xu Chaohua said with some excitement in his eyes: "This suona song is the most exciting, the most meaningful, and the most picturesque suona song I have ever heard, and it perfectly integrates almost most of the suona performance skills!" It's better than the most representative suona songs I've heard, and Wang Cheng's playing strength is definitely beyond all of our imagination! ”
"In the current era when the suona is about to be broken, the appearance of his suona song is of extraordinary significance!"
Xu Chaohua, as the director of the Sichuan Music Department and vice president, is also a rare authoritative expert in the Department of Chinese Folk Music, and he praised Wang Cheng's suona song even more, and also saw the great significance behind this song!
If he could, he really wanted to kneel down and beg Wang Cheng to join Chuanyin......
And when the people around Xu Chaohua heard the name Hundred Birds and Chaofeng, they all nodded in agreement!
At this time......
Wang Cheng on the stage also slowly ended the playing of this suona tune.
Everyone at the scene immediately began to applaud.
There was no cold field.
Everyone immediately stood up again and gave their warmest applause to Wang Cheng.
Although, they also stood up just now.
However, I have to stand up now, otherwise I seem to feel sorry for Wang Cheng's performance!
After all......
People who can blow suona to this realm, they are really the first time to see it.
Applause......
But.
Wang Cheng didn't pay attention to it, but just looked at the suona in his hand with a little regret.
This suona is too new, and the first time he used it, it was still not very smooth, so it actually did not reach the most perfect playing state.
Moreover, this is the only suona song he can ......
Shook his head helplessly......
All the people in the audience who saw this scene were speechless, and the corners of their mouths twitched!
It seems that Wang Cheng is still dissatisfied with his performance?
The applause gradually subsided.
And then......
Arms up again!
This time, there were more people raising their hands.
In addition to many musicians, teachers and students of the Conservatory of Music, and many music and art lovers also raised their hands, hoping to get the opportunity to have a dialogue with Wang Cheng.
But......
Wang Cheng still didn't look at them, as if he didn't see the existence of thousands of people on their scene, he turned around and walked to the instrument rack with his own eyes, and gently put the suona in his hand on the instrument rack.
Everyone at the scene saw this scene, a little regretful and a little relieved.
It's a pity that they can only listen to such a wonderful suona performance just now.
Relaxed, because suona is not their favorite and most familiar instrument after all, they still hope that Wang Cheng can change to a familiar instrument.
Now, Wang Cheng has put down the suona, will he change to a musical instrument that they are all familiar with?
A pair of eyes looked at Wang Cheng......
Looking forward to Wang Cheng's next choice.
At the same time, hundreds of people still raised their arms and did not put them down, looking forward to Wang Cheng being able to choose them to have a few words of dialogue, including Charles, Howard, Crowder, Scott, Hanks, Muller and other top music artists from the world's top music schools in Europe and the United States, as well as Xu Chaohua, Tian Wen and other top domestic folk music artists.
However, Wang Cheng still didn't look at them, and after putting down the suona, he still turned his back to them, and his eyes scanned the instruments on the instrument rack.
(End of chapter)