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Zheng Xiaoying, born in 1929, the first female conductor in New China. Former director of the Command Department of the Central Conservatory of Music and chief command of the Central Opera Band. She was the first Chinese conductor to board the foreign opera theater, and one of the founders of the New China symphony.

At 7 pm, the large concert hall of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music has only the lights of the four -story rehearsal hall. The air conditioner reduced the room temperature to 26 degrees. Zheng Xiaoying on the piercing table continued to converge on the fine sweat beads on his forehead, and finally along the white hair of the horns, dripping on the purple short sleeve.

"The chorus requires you to give it strength. You must look at it and shake your spirit. Even if you are tired, you have to think that you are a 'Commander', and you must call on everyone to move forward neatly."

Rehearsing the "Yellow River Chorus" at Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Zheng Xiaoying's sweat dripping along her hair

Not long ago, I was invited by the second China (Hangzhou) chorus command conference and chorus art festival organizer, and Zheng Xiaoying, 93, agreed.

"When I was 12 years old, I sang" The Yellow River Chorus "in elementary school. I wrapped all my solo and oral singing with my sister. A singing 'wind is roaring', everyone will feel that it is my own person, there is a kind of feelings of the same roots. . So when they came to invite me, I felt that the "Yellow River Chorus" could not be rejected. "

After the rehearsal, with the assistance of the assistant, Zheng Xiaoying slowly walked down the podium and slowly wiped the sweat on his face. The purple checkered short sleeves were attached to the back. "I look at young people who have an unspeakable jealousy now. I am very anxious now and want to do more."

Zheng Xiaoying's early command photos

"Explaimer" of opera music

In 1978, Zheng Xiaoying had just transferred to the Central Opera House as the chief commander and rehearsed the opera "Camellia Girl", and wanted more Chinese to appreciate different music. However, the first performance ended in failure.

"The listeners who have never heard of the opera started to be embarrassed when they met. The audience was very lively. The prelude could not start. The song was so quiet.

Zheng Xiaoying was anxious and more heartache. "To half, someone will lie on the Lochi and ask: Is there a person who shoots? How can a singing, not talking?"

Since the audience does not understand opera, it takes 20 minutes to tell you about it before the performance. "I am talking about opera and dramas and movies. Young people look forward to knowledge as hungry, so my twenty -minute lectures have become a highlight." This lecture is forty -four years.

After a 20 -minute lecture, Zheng Xiaoying quickly ran to the background to replace the performance service. "There were not many people in the first day, and the next day became doubled. I started lectures at 7 o'clock, and they slowly gathered at 6:30."

Zheng Xiaoying's music lecture before directing opera performances

Beautiful music should be returned to the public, to the people

In those years, the streets of Beijing had such a scenery: a middle -aged woman holding a spectrum with her left hand, a recorder with her right arm, and a small running bus. No one knows that this a little embarrassed person is the first female conductor of New China.

When asked why he was so enthusiastic about work, Zheng Xiaoying replied, "I have lived in the Literary and Art Troupe for more than three years, and there are many things that make me very curious, very excited, and very surprised. Walking around a big drum, pushing the board to go forward, the shock, the ethnic spirit, hit my heart and music cells. "

When Zheng Xiaoying went to the Central Plains Liberation Zone to participate in the revolution, she was just 19 years old. She stepped into the fiery wave of revolution and fought with the masses. "The beautiful music we created should be obliged to return it to the public and return it to the people."

Zheng Xiaoying learned to play Da Yangge Drum in the Jiefang District

The first New Chinese female conductor to appear on the international stage

Zheng Xiaoying was anxious to popularize the symphony to the domestic people, and also rushed to bring the nation's music out of the gate. There are evaluations, "For the eyes, watching her command gesture is also a kind of enjoyment."

In 1960, Zheng Xiaoying studied at the National Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow.

In the 1990s, Zheng Xiaoying was invited to lecture in Harvard University. A American reporter asked her a tricky question, "How did you defeat those men standing on the piano?"

Zheng Xiaoying replied, "I am the chief commander of our National Opera House, and the director and professor of the command department of our highest music institution in China." Later, she slowly learned that there was quite gender discrimination in the United States at that time. "In the age of my growth, our party advocated equality between men and women. I was really lucky."

In 1962, 33 -year -old Zheng Xiaoying commanded the opera "Tuska" at the National Moscow Music Theater, becoming the first Chinese to board the foreign opera podium

Three times of cancer, wearing wigs also need to be commanded

At the age of 68, Zheng Xiaoying was found cancer. When I saw a doctor during the day, I went to give a lecture at night. When I talked about the excitement, Zheng Xiaoying stood on the table and directed the students to sing on the spot. Before the hospitalization procedures, she only chased the doctor and asked: can I still command?

"I did radiotherapy for five consecutive days, about half an hour at a time. I took about a week for about a week and went to the command and lecture."

Just one month after discharge, Zheng Xiaoying appeared on the stage of Estonia wearing a wig and directed the opera "Carmen". At the moment the command stick rang the boiling melody, Zhang Hongyan, a young pipa player, cried.

"The theater is full. There is only one Chinese here, and only I know how Teacher Zheng is standing on this pier. So when the melody of the first sentence" Carmen "came out, I Tears came out all at once. "Zheng Xiaoying (in the back row) founded the" Philharmonic Girl "Orchestra of my country's first women's symphony orchestra

Sheng reputation, disease, old age ... these unable to drag Zheng Xiaoying's footsteps. After returning from Estonia's performance, Zheng Xiaoying flew to Xiamen to form the first "public aid private" professional orchestra, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra.

There are no funds, no horses, no performance venues, and even no rehearsal locations. Zheng Xiaoying simply moved her home from Beijing to Xiamen.

"My motto is: the need for the urgent society, do what you can. That is to say, the society needs, I will do it again, then I will do it."

In 2014, in 2015, Zheng Xiaoying's body discovered cancer cells twice. Cancer became a cooked guest, Zheng Xiaoying was treated and discharged in the hospital, and then was busy. No one can see the performers on the stage and the audience under the stage.

Zheng Xiaoying brought the Chinese symphony work to the stage of the world in the world

Walking on the road of "entrepreneurship" throughout your life

Zheng Xiaoying, 93, started a business again. In order to let the audience understand the opera, in January this year, Xiamen Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center was established. "Singing in foreign opera" has become her most distressed thing now.

"The cost of opera is very high. If you do not really receive social benefits, it is a waste. So now I say every day, it should be‘ sing in foreign opera ’.”

In April 2021, the National Grand Theater. After Zheng Xiaoying commanded the symphony poem "Echo of the Tulou", the members of the choir suddenly shouted on the stage: "Teacher Zheng, I love you!" One person on the stage called, and a hundred people responded.

"240 people sang together, shocking. Since society still needs it, it is order, I can still move, and I can do it. I have no reason to refuse to work."

In 2000, Zheng Xiaoying and Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra played the symphony poem "Echo Echo" in the Tulou of the hometown for the first time

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