A 174 -year -old performance!The 93 -year -old Zheng Xiaoying and the 81 -year -old Yin Chengzong played the "Yellow River"

Zheng Xiaoying and Yin Chengzong played together. (Photo by Li Le)

After the performance, Zheng Xiaoying and Yin Chengzong held the curtain. (Photo by Li Le)

On the evening of July 1, the Xiamen Jiageng Theater was full of seats.

When the 93 -year -old Zheng Xiaoying raised the command stick, the 81 -year -old Yin Chengzong shot the piano, and a magnificent piano concerto "Yellow River" pushed the concert to a climax. Two veterans of Chinese classical music scene-one is the first opera-symphony female conductor in the founding of New China, and the other is one of the most prestigious pianists in contemporary China. This pair of "golden partners", which is 174 years old, has joined for many years, and it is still together and tacit.

The music of Xingyun flowing water moved the audience. A "old fan" with tears in his eyes, and praised: "It's so exciting! It's so exciting! This is the music feast of two old artists who are obsessed with music for a lifetime. History. "

Performance moved the audience

The audience gets up to pay tribute

The "July 1st" symphony concert was organized by the city's 101st anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. In the first half, Gao Song was commanded by Gao Song. From the symphony of the symphony "Red Flag Song", the orchestra's "Haixia Group Song", the ballet music "Red Lady Army" selection section, to "Mao Zedong Poetry Symphony" selection section, song "Pilot", Selecting the music classics full of revolutionary feelings vividly show the endlessness of the Chinese nation and the unpredictable aspirations.

Before the second half, Zheng Xiaoying, 93, made his debut slowly, using the "Son of Gulangyu" in 10 minutes, with a affectionate manner -Yin Chengzong. "This is the first performance after Yin Chengzong's fallen leaves." Zheng Xiaoying said. Yin Chengzong was a famous pianist born in Gulangyu, Xiamen, and Gulangyu is his cradle of music. At the age of 9, he held the first personal solo conference on this island. He has been wandering overseas for many years, and now he has returned to his hometown again. He reads his contribution to his hometown of music. The first performance was scheduled to be on July 1, which has a different commemorative significance, expressing his deep nostalgia and love for the motherland and the people.

With the introduction of Zheng Xiaoying, the 81 -year -old Yin Chengzong took the stage on the audience's warm applause. He was sitting in front of the piano, and the audience was silent. Zheng Xiaoying waved the command stick and led the Xiamen Song and Dance Theater Symphony Orchestra to play the piano concerto "Yellow River". When the music was plays to the emotion, Zheng Xiaoying and Yin Chengzong were excited to play gently from the chair. When the last note was settled, thunderous applause sounded. In the enthusiastic applause of the audience, Yin Chengzong improvised a song "Happy Trouble". In the end, the fourth movement of the piano concerto "The Yellow River" sounded again, and the audience patted their hands with the music rhythmly, and the atmosphere of the audience reached a climax.

After two hours of performance, the audience applauded for a long time. Many people couldn't help standing up from the seat and paid tribute to them.

Knowing each other for sixty years

"Yellow River" sounds the strongest sound

After the concert, Zheng Xiaoying and Yin Chengzong met with the two musicians. The two musicians told their friendship in music.

Zheng Xiaoying and Yin Chengzong met in Moscow in the 1960s. The two were not only awareness of music, but also a partner of each other's career. Yin Chengzong once talked with laughter, "I have done a good thing in this life, that is, to recommend Zheng Xiaoying for Xiamen." In 1997, under the initiative of Yin Chengzong, Zheng Xiaoying came to Xiamen and formed the first "public aid private" nature in my country. Professional band -Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra has made Xiamen a city with symphony. Zheng Xiaoying said, "Because of trust in his art and people, I dare to come to such a completely strange city."

Knowing each other for sixty years, the two collaborated on the same stage for more than 50 times, and repeatedly performed the piano concerto "Yellow River". Yin Chengzong said that he was the most memorable in 2000. He invited Zheng Xiaoying to go to Russia to cooperate with St. Petersburg Philharmonic to record the "Yellow River". He said: "The cooperation with foreign commands is not the best tacit understanding!" And Zheng Xiaoying's impressive "Yellow River Memory" was in 2004. On the edge of the Yellow River in the "Yellow River in the World", she and Yin Chengzong collaborated on the "Yellow River " "When it comes to half of the rain, we are the movement of the rain in the rain. His keys are raining, all water, the performance is intermittent, I quickly hand the handkerchief to him and let him wipe it."

Experience life for creation

Love to make music touch people's heart

This "Yellow River" piano concerto was adapted from Yin Chengzong in 1969 with Chuwanghua, Sheng Lihong, Liu Zhuang and others. He brought this work that showed the strong and unyielding spirit of the Chinese nation, played the five continents of the world, and became famous.

That night, Zheng Xiaoying shared the behind -the -scenes story of Yin Chengzong's "Yellow River": In order to create the "Yellow River", Yin Chengzong spent two weeks to experience life along the Yellow River to northern Shaanxi from the mouth of the Houkou. In the mouth, he pulled the fiber with his husband; in rural areas in northern Shaanxi, he learned about the lives of the old guerrillas, eating potato skin and mixing peppers ... "Good works are rooted in the people, and they are rooted in the love of this land." This is also the "Yellow River "The long -term performance is endless, and the root cause of the strong spiritual impact to the audience again and again.

In Yin Chengzong's view, playing the "Yellow River" piano concerto not only requires pure skills, but more importantly, he must have a deep love for the motherland and understanding the history of the Chinese nation. The third movement of "Yellow River", "Yellow River", tells the Japanese invaders' trample on the Chinese mountains and rivers and the people's rising resistance, conveying the spirit of the unyielding struggle of the Chinese nation. But now many young musicians can't play the third movement. why? Yin Chengzong believes that "it is actually a lack of sadness and anger. The younger generation grew up in a happy era and has not experienced a war of smoke." Because of this, Zheng Xiaoying said that in order to help the players understand the works more deeply, before each performance, each performance In the rehearsal of Hele, Yin Chengzong will tell the cooperation orchestra to tell the background story and music processing details from the perspective of the creator. "Although he is older now, his performance skills are not as beautiful as young people, but the emotions he revealed through the notes have surpassed the skillful things, which is difficult to do."

"Post -80s" and "post -90s" strong heart

Still on the road of dreaming

Struggle never exists in the boundaries of age. Today, Yin Chengzong, 81, will persist in piano playing for more than 5 hours a day. 93 -year -old Zheng Xiaoying is walking on the road of "entrepreneurship" -creating Xiamen Zheng Xiaoying Opera Art Center in order to make "opera close to the public and the public enters into the public. opera". In the year of 次, the two joined hands to pursue the dream.

At the meeting, someone asked them what the dream was to realize? Yin Chengzong said with interest that playing the piano is also physical work. "I am not very good now, and I will start running. Maybe I will practice for 5 hours a day, and I can become a sprinter in the future!" After a period of hard work, Xiamen has made Xiamen a city with opera. "Although it is a bit difficult to do now, I think things always have to do a little bit to succeed."

Text/Xiamen Daily reporter Xu Shuxin

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