Poster News reporter Li Jinshan reports.
Recently, the cold northwest wind has brought the high-pitched and heroic singing of the loess slope to the people of Qilu, sending the red and glamorous revolutionary feelings and the hot loess wind to Jinan Spring City on the shore of the Yellow River. On December 18-19, for two consecutive nights, the Northern Shaanxi Folk Song ** Meeting (Jinan Station) was grandly staged at the Grand Theater of Shandong Provincial Capital, presenting an original and hot audio-visual feast of Northern Shaanxi folk songs to the audience in Quancheng. The singing of the loess high slope resounded in Quancheng and received an enthusiastic response from the Qilu audience.
The Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Association is a national tour sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism that brings together the essence of traditional arts such as songs, instrumental music, and storytelling in northern Shaanxi, and will be performed in 9 cities in 7 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) including Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi from November 10 to December 19, 2023.
* The lineup of performances is very strong, not only well-known performing artists from northern Shaanxi, but also suona team, waist drum team, and Yangge team from Yulin area, presenting a wonderful performance of "full of Shaanxi flavor" for the audience. Shandong Song and Dance Theater, which has a history of more than 60 years, has sent a symphony orchestra, Chinese orchestra and choir of more than 100 people to form a strong assistant team, and sincerely cooperate with artists in northern Shaanxi to draw a perfect and wonderful end to the national tour. The whole performance selects more than 20 tracks, divided into three sections, in a variety of forms, respectively presenting the original traditional northern Shaanxi folk songs, classic red songs and new creations that have become popular in recent years. The repertoire includes the well-known and well-known "Shandandan Blossoms Red Yanyan" and "Orchid Flower", as well as the patriotic song "Yellow River Boatman's Song" from the "Yellow River Cantata", and "Brother and Sister, Husband and Wife New Song" adapted from the Yangyang opera "Brother and Sister Open the Wasteland" and "Husband and Wife Literacy". The whole performance integrates ideology and artistry excellently, so that the audience can feel the strong northern Shaanxi style at the same time, but also be infected by the surging patriotism. The performance stimulated the enthusiasm of the Qilu audience. After the performance, the applause lasted for a long time, and the admiration and cheers were endless.
*After the meeting, the performing artists from northern Shaanxi felt a lot of emotion. Teacher Luo Shengjun, the provincial representative inheritor of northern Shaanxi folk songs and a folk song actor who is a representative project of national intangible cultural heritage, said: "The last stop of the concert came to Jinan, Shandong, and I felt the enthusiasm and warmth from the people of Qilu on this cold winter day. This time, the folk songs of northern Shaanxi stood on such a big stage, and there was such a high platform to display and promote the folk songs of northern Shaanxi, which was loved and supported by so many audiences. As folk singers from northern Shaanxi, we feel very proud and proud. Northern Shaanxi folk songs have a long history, which reflects the joys, sorrows, sorrows and daily life of the people in northern Shaanxi, and has a strong atmosphere of real life and profound humanistic feelings. I have a deep affection for northern Shaanxi folk songs. This time, the folk songs of northern Shaanxi stood on the big stage, and the symphony bands from China combined with our local folk songs, with the soil in the ocean, with the beauty in the soil, and the singing taste was full, and I think there is a more style of presentation, which is the creative transformation and innovative development of culture. I hope that through this concert tour, more friends will know northern Shaanxi, understand the folk songs of northern Shaanxi, and sing the folk songs of northern Shaanxi, so that the folk songs of northern Shaanxi can become a cultural and artistic business card of northern Shaanxi, and invite audiences and friends from all over the country to come to our northern Shaanxi to understand the culture of northern Shaanxi, listen to the folk songs of northern Shaanxi, and welcome you to the great beauty of northern Shaanxi. ”
The success of this performance also made the cast and crew from Shandong excited. Wang Zhaofeng, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Symphony Orchestra of Shandong Song and Dance Theater, said: "The success of the Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Association is inseparable from its distinctive regional characteristics. In the promotion of regional culture and local art, this is a valuable experience that we in Shandong can learn from. The artistic efforts of the Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Association are even more commendable. They integrated symphony and ethnic instruments, and rearranged such well-known classic songs as "Shandandan Flowers Bloom Red and Beautiful", making such songs more suitable for performance in the Grand Theater and more in line with the audience's Xi of appreciating ** meetings, which are the successful ways for folk songs to move to the modern stage. ”
A local young literary and artistic worker who has been engaged in vocal music work for a long time said: "I didn't have much contact with northern Shaanxi folk songs before. Through this concert, I truly and deeply experienced the high-pitched and heroic style of northern Shaanxi folk songs. ”
The choreography of modernity and the performance of the strength of the artists made this meeting leave a deep impression on the audience. Mr. Zhang, a post-80s audience, said: "I used to listen to northern Shaanxi folk songs on TV or radio, and I was not impressed. Today, when I heard the original folk songs of northern Shaanxi at the scene, I really realized that "the northwest wind and the southeast wind are my songs" sung in "Loess High Slope", and I really felt the free and bold beauty of northern Shaanxi folk songs. This kind of loudness and high-pitched is too enjoyable. Ms. Sun, from a cultural department, said: "Folk songs, a primitive art form, have entered the contemporary theater, but they are surprisingly suitable for the modern stage. This performance is so wonderful that I didn't expect it, I can not only feel the style of northern Shaanxi, but also enjoy the high-quality ** performance, I must praise it. Mr. Wang, a citizen born in the 60s, said: "I started listening to many folk songs when I was young, and now I hear them again at the Grand Theater in the provincial capital, which is emotional." Folk song performances are becoming more and more modern and refined, but they still feel so heroic, so full of original ecology and vitality. Hopefully, there will be more and more performances like this. While "praising the performance", the general public also expressed "looking forward to the Shandong Folk Song Society" and "hoping that Shandong folk songs can also be on the stage through this form".
So far, the national tour of the Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Association lasted 40 days, passing through 9 cities in 7 provinces including Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Shandong, and 18 performances were performed successively, and the Jinan Station ended successfully.