1987 at the new year concert, when the cheerful melody of the last Radsky March sounded, the audience couldn't help clapping with the beat. At this time, the conductor herbert von karajan turned around imaginatively and motioned for the audience to applaud with the strength and rhythm of the music. From then on, whenever the last Radsky March of the concert sounded, the applause of musicians and audience became the reserved program of Vienna New Year Concert.
I. The Life of Anthony dvorak
Antonin dvorak (184 1- 1904), a Czech composer, was born in the family of a small hotel owner and butcher. /kloc-entered the Prague Organ School at the age of 0/6, and then entered the Prague Temporary Theatre (later converted into the National Theatre) to play the viola, and officially started writing. The work that attracted the attention of the music industry for the first time was the hymn "Children of Baishan" which showed patriotic enthusiasm. The following year, I quit my job as a theater band and went to church as an organist, so that I could have more time to write and get to know Brahms. Brahms strongly recommended his Moravian duet, making it popular all over the world. He also maintained sincere friendship with Hans Richter, Hans Feng Biao, Tchaikovsky and others. He has been invited to visit Britain for 9 times, traveled to Germany and Russia, and personally directed the performance of his works, which is very popular. 189 1 professor of composition, orchestration and form at Prague Conservatory of Music. In the same year, Cambridge University awarded him an honorary doctorate in music. 1892 was invited to be the president of new york National Conservatory of Music. During this period, he wrote the most famous New World (Symphony No.9). After returning to China, he continued to teach and perform at Prague Conservatory of Music. 190 1, promoted to dean. His chamber music, overtures, symphonic poems, operas and songs are all well-known works.
Second, the artistic characteristics of dvorak's symphony
The nine symphonies left by dvorak, a great Czech composer, are the most important works in his life, and they are also the representative works of national music symphonies in the19th century, which can not be ignored in the whole music history. Because dvorak's symphonies are deeply influenced by the classical music school, his works have a solid structure. Besides, because he has a natural rotation.
Because of his legal ability and rich and keen sense of melody, his works give full play to the charm of melody, instead of simply exerting techniques like traditional classical symphonies. This is the characteristic of dvorak's symphony. Dvorak's orchestral method did not reflect the trend at that time. Although there are no gorgeous colors, it is simple and lovely. Because of this, his orchestral method was misunderstood by some music critics at that time. In fact, dvorak's symphonies can not only give full play to the characteristics of various musical instruments, but also have endless fun in the combination and application of musical instruments.
Third, the background of the ninth New World Symphony.
1892, dvorak was hired as the president of the National Conservatory of Music in new york, and dvorak was invited to the United States. This ninth symphony was completed in May 1893 during dvorak's nearly three years in the United States. This symphony is actually the embodiment of the author's impression of the "new world" where the United States is located.
Although there are melodies similar to "Black Soul Songs" and "American Indian Folk Songs", dvorak did not take these folk songs as the theme intact, but blended the spirit of these folk songs into his own creative thoughts to express 2. It was the composer dvorak himself who named this symphony "From the New World". (Some versions have also been translated into "New World" or "New World" symphonies)
Fourth, the whole song appreciation guide
The whole song is divided into four movements:
Overture to the first movement, adagio, e minor, 4/8 time. This prelude is quite grand, and its theme has a very subtle relationship with the allegro parts in succession in the main part, which undertakes the special task of coherence, and can even be called the central melody of the whole spirit. In the introduction of the movement, stringed instruments, timpani and wind instruments compete to play a strong and warm rhythm, which is a metaphor for the busy and fast-paced life in the United States. The main theme of the movement runs through the four movements of the whole song, and its characteristics have the nature of * * * communication with the inherent folk music of Mazar people living in Hungary and Bohemia. Through ingenious development, this special theme conveys the news of a "new world" different from the previous music world, which has a strong shocking effect. Dvorak left his hometown at that time, and his homesickness accumulated over time, so he quoted the characteristics of folk songs that he was familiar with when he was a teenager to express his homesickness. Another beautiful melody in the movement reveals a deep homesickness, which is the embodiment of the author's mood.
The slowest board in the second movement, D flat major, 4/4 beat, compound trilogy. This movement is the most famous movement in the whole symphony and is often put forward for solo. His strong homesickness is precisely the embodiment of dvorak's infinite attachment to the motherland when he was in a foreign country. The woodwind part of the whole band played several sad songs in the bass zone.
After 20 chords, the solo of English wind music produced an adagio theme full of strange beauty and wonderful taste, and the strings were accompanied by simple chords, which was the first theme of this movement. This part is considered to be the most moving adagio movement in all symphonies. In fact, it is precisely because of this melody that this symphony has won the heartfelt love of people all over the world. This beautiful melody, full of infinite homesickness, was written by later generations and adapted into a song called "Love for Hometown", which was widely circulated and known in the United States. The second theme of this movement is played alternately by flute and oboe, with beautiful melody, which reveals a silent desolation in the ups and downs of mood and still reflects the author's homesickness. The third theme of this movement turned into lively and lively melody, some Czech folk dance styles.
The third movement, Scherzo, was inspired by the Indian dance in The Wedding Banquet in Warsaw. The dance kept spinning from fast to slow. Music has two themes. The first theme is light and lively, with jumping mood. The second theme is beautiful and vivid, full of pentatonic features; These two themes correspond to each other and imitate each other. The theme of the middle part of the movement is long and tactfully, which is a typical Czech folk music style.
Allegro in the fourth movement, sonata form. This summative movement is magnificent, which reproduces the main themes of the previous movements one by one, and at the same time breeds new themes, interweaving with each other into a torrent of feelings, expressing the author's imagination and the happy scene of family gathering. The main theme of the movement is played by horns and trumpets, which is magnificent; The theme of the vice part is soft and lyrical melody, which is played by clarinet. All this has developed into a brilliant ending.
Written in 1866. At that time, Johann Strauss II was the conductor of the Viennese court ball. Hellbeck, the conductor of the Vienna Men's Choir Association, invited Johann Strauss II to write a chorus for his choir. At this time, although Johann Strauss II had composed hundreds of waltzes, he had not created any vocal music. The lyrics of this choir were featured by the poet Gunnar.
There is an interesting story about the creation of the Blue Danube. Once, johann strauss came home and changed into a dirty shirt. His wife found that the sleeves of this shirt were covered with sticks. She knew that this was recorded when her husband was inspired, so she put this shirt aside. She came back a few minutes later and was about to give it to her husband, only to find that the shirt was gone. It turned out that at the moment she left, the washerwoman took it away with other dirty clothes. She didn't know the washerwoman's residence, so she sat in the car looking for it everywhere and ran for a long time, but there was no whereabouts. When she was desperate, fortunately, an old woman in a hotel took her to the washerwoman's cabin. She rushed in and saw the washerwoman throwing her shirt into a bucket full of soapy water. She quickly grabbed the washerwoman's arm, grabbed the dirty clothes and kept the precious music on her sleeve. This is johann strauss's immortal masterpiece "Blue Danube" waltz.
1867, this work premiered in Vienna. Because Vienna at that time was under the siege of Prussia, people were pessimistic and disappointed, so this work was unfortunate and its premiere failed. It was not until February 1868, when Johann Strauss II lived at No.54, Brett Street, not far from the Danube River, that this chorus was changed into an orchestra, and many new contents were added, named "Blue Danube Waltz".
In the same year, this piece was a great success when it was performed in Paris. Only a few months later, this work was released in the United States. In an instant, this waltz spread all over the world and later became the author's most important masterpiece. To this day, this piece of music is still deeply loved by people all over the world. At the "New Year Concert" held in Vienna on New Year's Day every year, this song even became a reserved track.
This piece of music consists of an overture, five waltzes and an epilogue:
At the beginning of the overture, the violin played a slow roll in A major, as if the water waves of the Danube were turning gently. In this context, the French horn plays one of the most important motives of this piece of music, symbolizing the arrival of dawn.
The first waltz described the scene where people intoxicated with nature danced by the Danube.
The second waltz first appeared in D major. The ingenious and varied second waltz described the little girls in southern alps dancing happily in goose down skirts. Suddenly the music turned to B flat major, and the changing colors were particularly touching.
The third waltz is a singing melody, which adopts syncopation rhythm and gives people a cordial and novel feeling.
The rhythm at the beginning of the fourth waltz is relatively free, and the arpeggio melody is so beautiful that even the composer himself is very proud, as if the spring is full and refreshing.
The fifth waltz is the continuation and development of the artistic conception of the fourth waltz, but it is transferred to A major. The undulating melody is reminiscent of carefree boating on the Danube. The next part is the climax and ending of the whole song. There are two kinds of music endings, one is the chorus ending, which is very short after the fifth waltz. The other is the end of orchestral music, which is longer and reproduces the themes of the third waltz, the fourth waltz and the first waltz in turn, and finally ends in a stormy carnival atmosphere.
This song was born in Vienna, Austria, which is known as the goddess of the Danube.
Symphony of consternation
Symphony 179 1, Haydn left his hometown to perform his music works in London. In the18th century, the ladies of high society in London were frequent visitors to the concert hall, and showed their "elegance" by enjoying elegant symphonies. In fact, they don't understand symphonies and often doze off when the symphony orchestra plays. Haydn was not happy to see this, and he sympathized with their ignorance. He said to people, "I must write a wake-up song to wake them up from their dreams and listen to my music."
The news spread quickly. On the day when this new work is about to be played, everyone wants to see what it is. The concert hall is packed. The concert began and the audience was silent. The intoxicating melody continues, and it is played more softly when repeated. Listening to hypnotic music, it is not surprising that women feel similar to their previous works and begin to fall asleep again.
In a flash, the band kept playing, and suddenly there was a strong chord and the thump of the timpani, just like thunder. It's terrible. The sleeping ladies are scared to panic and covered in ugliness. Some people jumped up from their seats in fear, while others went straight to the door, thinking it was an earthquake. However, the music remained stable until the end of the third and fourth movements. Those ladies couldn't help laughing at each other after being woken up. Haydn was very happy when he saw it. "Now they can be fooled!"
The "giant thunder" of this sport is just a joke. Since then, people have called this work "Symphony of Surprise".
This piece of music was warmly welcomed by the British audience at that time, and the second movement was often asked to be repeated separately, because it not only has amazing design, but also has an inherent beauty and charm, which is interesting and intriguing.
1986, 100 singers sang "Let the world be full of love" in the first chorus, which left an unforgettable stroke in the history of China pop music. Not long ago, our reporter interviewed Guo Feng, the initiator of the incident, and he excitedly recalled many touching stories about 17 years ago.
Challenge the convention that "three pop singers cannot perform on the same stage"
In the early 1980s, people generally could not accept or even reject pop music. There was a rigid rule that "three pop singers can't perform on the same stage", which made pop musicians never have a chance to hold a music evening in public.
1986 At the beginning of this year, it was freezing in Beijing, but a flame was burning in Guo Feng's heart. At the age of 22, he really couldn't agree with the evaluation of pop songs in the big environment at that time: pop songs (called pop songs at that time) could only express small emotions, but could not express big themes with connotations at all. Hot-blooded Guo Feng secretly made up his mind that he must make a cohesive song to change this prejudice in the music industry.
At that time, it was the International Year of Peace. Around this theme, there were two chorus songs that attracted the most attention that year-one was WEARETHEWORLD sung by American stars such as Michael Jackson and Madonna, and the other was Tomorrow will be Better written by Tayu Lo and sung by many stars in Hong Kong and Taiwan. One day, influenced by the World Peace Concert held in Hongkong, a young female editor of China Audio-visual General Corporation made a suggestion to Guo Feng: "They dare to hold a concert of 60 singers. Why can't we hold a concert of 100 singers for World Peace Year? " This proposal coincides with Guo Feng's idea.
At that time, Guo Feng happened to have a newly written "Running to Tomorrow", so on the basis of this song, Guo Feng, Chen Zhe and Kobayashi temporarily formed a creative team. In the creative process, Wang Jian and Sun Ming also participated. With the support of China Audio-visual Publishing Group and Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, the pre-recording of "Let the World Be Filled with Love" can begin immediately, but the trouble comes: the lyrics written by Chen Zhe for this song have never been determined, and even on the last night before recording, Chen Zhe was still writing the lyrics on the floor of the recording studio. On the recording day, when hundreds of singers entered the recording studio one after another, Chen Zhe, who had already felt cornered, handed over a satisfactory answer sheet.
Most singers are in the mood to join in the fun.
At that time, Cui Jian was particularly depressed-the first Peacock Cup National Pop Song Grand Prix was eliminated in the first round, because it was still difficult for people to accept his songs. However, "Make the World Full of Love" extended a hand of friendship to him-as one of the lead singers with him. This decision surprised the singer who was eliminated in the first round.
Subsequently, Chang Kuan, Fu, Wei Wei and others also received a phone call. Guo Feng recalled: "When I told them the news, everyone was very excited and agreed with it. Among them, except for some singers of pop music at that time, most singers came from Oriental Song and Dance Troupe. To tell the truth, the mentality of everyone participating in those days was mostly to join in the fun, because everyone had nothing to do at that time. At the same time, I also want to give China pop music an outlet and turn over. "
Shortly after the recording of Make the World Full of Love, a large-scale concert called Make the World Full of Love was held with the support of the cultural department. Guo Feng believes that this is the first time that the cultural department has made an exception for pop music, which is enough to show the recognition of pop music in that year.
Singers gather in the first place by bus and bike.
1one day in may, 986, the capital gymnasium was packed, and everyone turned their attention to the stage of basketball court reconstruction. The stage was surrounded by pots of flowers and lined with gouache paintings, which constituted the most fashionable performance scene at that time. In this atmosphere, the prelude of "Let the world be full of love" sounded. Wei Wei, Cheng Lin, Fu, Cui Jian, Chang Kuan, etc. 100 many famous singers took to the stage from both sides. They hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, the original huge stage disappeared in their shadow. This chorus of 100 people, which shocked the music scene at that time, wrote an extremely important stroke in the history of mainland pop music. Although now it seems that the costumes at that time were too rustic, the stage at that time was too outdated and the performances at that time were too dry, this is how the pop music scene in Chinese mainland came.
In addition, in the performance of 1986, except for the singers belonging to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe who took the bus sent by the troupe to the Capital Gymnasium, most of the other actors crowded on the bus or rode bicycles. Compared with today's celebrities, as long as they go out, even if they are tens of meters away, they all want to drive their own private cars, which is a world of difference.
The stage is full of "workers' clothes"
1986, the most popular clothes in China were upper leather jacket and lower jeans. At that time, fashionable men and women were proud of this dress. "Let the world be full of love-100 Singers Concert", as a concert representing the highest level of pop music at that time, naturally took this dress as a performance costume. As a result, the best 100 actors at that time, including Wei Wei, Cheng Lin and Cui Jian, wore jackets at the top and jeans at the bottom. Red and yellow jackets neatly covered the small stage. Now it seems that I can't help but sigh: "If this dress is put now, it is definitely a performance team from the first-line working class, full of strength."
However, there is one person who is special. She is Cheng Lin who became popular in the Mainland with songs such as Little Screw. At that time, the "big sister" in music did not wear jeans step by step, but wore a quiet and lively red plaid skirt. She stood in the center of the stage and really stood out. There is another person, also can't help but mention, that is, Cai Guoqing, who has now entered the army, Cai Guoqing, who was only 20 years old at that time, is handsome and thin. Although everyone is wearing uniform clothes, this can't hide the beauty of a man who is just right. If F4 is called a modern man of flowers, then the title of 1986 music circle belongs to Cai Guoqing. Unfortunately, Tian Zhen, who participated in the recording, did not attend the first concert for some reason.
Cui Jian sang and danced "Space Walk"
Although the concert was performed by 100 singers on the same stage, the pioneers of pop songs did not hesitate to show off their personalities. For example, when Cui Jian sang the third part of Let the World Be Full of Love, Cui Jian, standing in the third row, paid no attention to the singers around him and took a "space walk" with rapt attention to the melody. And Tao Jin, the dancing king who fought with Cui Jian. Tao Jin, 25, danced beautifully throughout her singing. It seems that this is not a concert for him, but a beautiful dance. 1Chang Kuan, who just won a mainland pop song award at the end of 1985, was in the leading position at that time. When singing, he often closed his eyes and spread his arms intoxicated, which was very avant-garde at that time. Sun Guoqing, who also took the rock route at that time, left a particularly interesting punk head, although now it seems that this hairstyle has an anime flavor.
Many people think that Guo Feng should stand among hundreds of singers and sing with them at the concert. In fact, Guo Feng didn't start singing until 1995, when he was just a music producer. So, as a songwriter, he played the piano on the far right of the venue that day. Guo Feng said, "The musicians who accompanied hundreds of singers in those years have now become big names. The drummer Jin Chen is now the boss of Kirin Company, and the keyboard player Wang Xiaoran is the boss of Zhonglu Company. At that time, the guitarist was Zhang Yong. "
/kloc-List of 0/00 singers (in alphabetical order):
Ding Wu, Yi, Yu Haiyan, Yu Jingyan, Ma Xiaoyi, Ma Lingyan, Wang Lan, wang hong, Wang, Wang, Fang Pei, Wei Wei, Mao Amin, Tian Ming, Tian Zhen, Zhuang Luxun, Lv Bangyin, Lv Yangping, Fu Disheng, Liu Wei. Wu Xiaoyun, Wu Xiaohong, Wu Jingjing, Xing Yan, Lao Junhao, Shi Yanyan, Xu Lijuan, Chen Lili, Chen Meirong, Ying Nan, Song Minghua, Zheng Li, Li Taibo, Li Aiping, Li Fangfang, Li Lingyu, Zhang Baomo, Zhang Shizhu, Zhang Weijin, Zhang Yanni, Zhang Haibo, Zhang Qing, Zhang Jing, Zhang Baoguo, Zhang Tong, Zhang Jing. Liu Peide,, Hu Bin,, Hu, Hu,, Guo Mingfeng, Qi Zhu Lei, Xu Xiaoyan, Xu Ming, Suobaoli, Jia Yan, Huang Hongying, Huang Qiang, Cui Jian, Chang Kuan, Liang Zhu, Zeng Yongxian, Cheng Wei, Jiang Qiang, Zi Sally, Cai Qiping and Cai Baoli.
Children's Choir: Central Youth Radio Choir
Conductor: Meng Dapeng
Performance: Oriental Song and Dance Troupe Record Company Band
Song: the sea, hometown
Lyrics: Wang Liping
Singing: Zheng Xulan