Liao Changyong's story is loved by everyone, and his talent and personal experience are amazing. Growing up in a peasant family in Sichuan, he stepped into the position of the dean of the Shanghai ** College step by step, and married a girl from a ** family.
He is a model of "a noble son from a poor family", inspiring countless people to move forward bravely.
In October 1968, a baritone singer named Liao Changyong was born in an ordinary peasant family in Chengdu, Sichuan. His family is not wealthy, but a family of six lives happily ever after.
However, life is not always smooth sailing. When Liao Changyong was 7 years old, his father unfortunately died, which made the already poor family even worse. In the face of difficulties, Liao Changyong's mother, with great perseverance and firm belief, firmly believed that knowledge can change fate, and resolutely took on the heavy responsibility of raising four children.
In this process, she has always been committed to her children's education. Liao Changyong also did not live up to his mother's expectations, he has been studying hard and has excellent grades, especially in terms of culture and sports.
He had exceptional athletic prowess, ranking among the best in the county's high school competitions in sports such as shot put, javelin throw, and relay run, and even considered applying for a sports academy.
In addition, since he was a child, Liao Changyong likes to imitate the loudspeaker in the village or the radio at home to sing, no matter what the song is, he can easily sing along, deeply loved by the villagers, known as the "little radio".
New copywriting: When Liao Changyong was 7 years old, his father died tragically, and the family was in trouble. However, the mother firmly believed that knowledge could change fate, and no matter how difficult life was, she insisted on providing her children with education.
Living up to his mother's expectations, Liao Changyong excelled in his grades, especially in terms of style and sports, not only ranking among the best in sports competitions, but also being praised for imitating the village loudspeaker or the radio at home for singing, and was known as the "little radio".
During a school art performance, Liao Changyong sang a song "That's Me", which amazed everyone. Then, he represented the school in the county competition and won the championship in one fell swoop, and a ** teacher saw his talent and encouraged him to switch to ** college.
However, at that time, Liao Changyong did not receive formal ** training, did not understand music theory, did not know staves, and it was almost an unattainable dream for him to be admitted to ** college.
But this suggestion lit his path like a light at the dawn. Fortunately, his ** enlightenment teacher was Zhou Weimin from Chengdu, who taught seriously, and saw his family difficulties and exempted him from all his tuition.
It was this kind of support that made him successfully admitted to Shanghai ** College in 1988 and became the only vocal music student in the Sichuan examination area that year.
As soon as the news came out, the villagers were happy and praised its promising. However, in the face of her only son's study in Shanghai, his mother had mixed feelings in her heart. With great effort to raise tuition, Liao Changyong carried his bags and went to Shanghai alone.
In order to save money, he walked in the rain, and could not bear to tarnish his mother's new shoes, so he resolutely took off his shoes and went to school barefoot. In this way, Liao Changyong, although incompatible with Shanghai ** College, shows incomparable tenacity and determination.
After entering the university, Liao Changyong's "heterogeneous" characteristics became more prominent. Everyone knows that art majors often need a certain economic foundation, but Liao Changyong is a poor boy from a poor family.
His living expenses are only 60 yuan a month, which his three sisters send him in turn.
Liao Changyong was withdrawn and unsociable due to financial difficulties, and he often chose to dine alone for fear of being treated, so as not to fall into the embarrassment of not being able to return the invitation. At one point, he was even mistaken for a criminal in a dormitory money throw, simply because he was poorer than everyone else.
These experiences made Liao feel inferior, and he chose to devote his time and energy to his professional studies to add points to his self-confidence with excellent grades. With unremitting efforts, he has achieved excellent results in music theory, vocal music and culture classes, and has always been at the top of his class.
He spent a long time in this difficult period. One day, he received a remittance slip of 50 yuan, which left a message asking him to eat more food. However, the sender column is blank.
He thought that it was a teacher who saw that he was having a hard time and reached out to help, but he never knew who it was, so he had to hide this gratitude in his heart and decided that one day he must find this person and return it twice.
However, half a year later, he learned that it was Wang Jia who was silently sending him money. Wang Jia is a native of Sichuan, but her family conditions are relatively superior and she was born in a ** family. In Liao Changyong's most difficult time, Wang Jia was attracted to this poor boy, but she was worried that it would hurt his self-esteem, so she chose to secretly send him money, hoping that he would live better.
Later, Liao Changyong recalled that he didn't know why Wang Jia chose him, but he was always very grateful to Wang Jia because she reached out to him in his most difficult time.
Wang Jia chose to fall in love with this "poor boy", in addition to love, the impact of family education is also very great, because her parents are very open-minded and don't care about the difference between families.
In Liao Changyong's past relationship, most of the woman's parents looked down on his family background. However, on the contrary, Wang Jia's parents were very supportive of him. For example, when his family couldn't make up for the tuition, Wang Jia's parents not only solved his tuition problem, but also said that he had food just like them.
In addition, Wang Jia's parents were also very concerned about him, and he was very touched to buy him new shoes as soon as they found out that his heels were misaligned. Later, they got married, Wang Jia chose to be a piano teacher at ** College for the sake of his family, and Liao Changyong thought that their careers were together.
After each performance, although everyone praised him, Wang Jia would rationally point out the shortcomings of the performance, although this sounds like "pouring cold water", but Liao Changyong knows that only by knowing his shortcomings can he continue to improve.
Liao Changyong's achievements today are inseparable from the careful guidance of his mentor, Professor Zhou Xiaoyan, in addition to his own efforts. Since his sophomore year, Professor Zhou Xiaoyan has begun to train Liao Changyong and has given him great help in **, which has made a qualitative leap in his ** level.
In 1993, due to his excellent performance, Liao Changyong was given the opportunity to be promoted to Professor Zhou Xiaoyan's master's degree without examination, and continued to study with her.
1. "I remember that after studying with Mr. Zhou for nearly 30 years, our relationship has gone beyond master and apprentice, and is more like a deep relationship between mother and son. From Professor Zhou Xiaoyan, I learned not only professional knowledge, but also a profound attitude towards art and life. "
I was most impressed by two things, the first is to be humble, although this sounds a bit ugly, but it actually requires us to keep a low profile. Professor Zhou Xiaoyan treats people very kindly, no matter who she greets, she greets them with a smile and politely thanks.
After I returned to China and won the award, Professor Zhou Xiaoyan told me to be humble, because for an unfamous person, if you don't greet people on the road, others may not care.
But if a person passes by acquaintances without saying hello after they have achieved fame, it will make people think that you are arrogant, or even think that you are nothing remarkable, which will only attract more negative perceptions.
The second point is that there is no so-called"Size"Perform.
When the artist Liao Changyong received an invitation to perform a small performance, he did not pay attention to the size of the stage. However, it wasn't until the night before the performance that he discovered that the performance time conflicted with the time of his class with Professor Zhou Xiaoyan.
So, he temporarily called ** to ask the teacher for leave. Professor Zhou Xiaoyan expressed surprise in **, why didn't he tell her about the performance, and didn't tell her what works he sang?
Liao Changyong casually explained that this is just a small performance, so you don't have to pay too much attention to it. However, Professor Zhou Xiaoyan expressed her dissatisfaction with this, and she told Liao Changyong that no matter how big or small art is, whether it is standing on the stage of the county cultural center or standing on the world stage, it must be worthy of the trust of the organizers and the audience.
If you only look at the situation, you will not go far on the road of art.
Liao Changyong recalled a lesson from his teacher, which deeply shook his heart and made him have a deeper understanding and awe of art. He believes that as long as he performs on stage, he must be worthy of his profession.
In international competitions such as the Toulouse International Vocal Competition and the Domingo World Opera Competition, Liao Changyong has won many awards, shocking the entire world music scene. At that time, many famous theaters such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York extended an olive branch to him.
In this era of popular going abroad, Liao Changyong was also very tempted, but he still decided to listen to Professor Zhou Xiaoyan's opinion first. Professor Zhou Xiaoyan wants him to stay in China, because Chinese audiences also want high-quality works.
In the end, it was an old leader in Shanghai who persuaded him. The old leader told him that going abroad only made a yellow** and black-eyed "working boy" on the Western stage, but in China, with more than a billion viewers and a broad stage, he advised Liao Changyong to "take root in the motherland and look at the world".
In the end, Liao Changyong chose to stay in Shanghai ** College to teach, and he is also active on the international stage.
Liao's professional talents are obvious to all, and he is also a model of innovative thinking. He once transformed pop songs into art songs, which caused great repercussions in the art song industry at that time, and can even be said to be a "shocking" innovation.
For example, he adapted "Conquest", an aria work full of tension, so that people can experience a completely different "Conquest".
The word bel canto is derived from the Italian word and originally referred to "beautiful singing", whether it is a popular song or an art song, as long as it can move people's hearts, it is a beautiful work.
Liao Changyong was promoted from an ordinary teacher to the vice president of Shanghai ** College and the director of the Department of Vocal Music and Opera. Although he has no overseas study experience, he is very proud.
Through his own efforts, he "fished" back the "returnee" singers in the department and became the "golden signboard" of the department. Even though he is a teacher and an administrator, he still sees it very openly, and believes that performing more and gaining stage experience at a young age can prepare him for his future teaching work, and the two are not in conflict.
In 2022, Liao Changyong will once again serve as the president and artistic director of Shangyin Opera House, and he proposed to show Shangyin's teaching achievements with high-quality performance works, and build it into a platform for the release of new works in the Yangtze River Delta and even the world.
He hopes that through the national tour, people all over the country can enjoy the excellent repertoire of the Shangyin Opera House. In addition, he plans to complete the overall upgrading project of Shanghai ** Academy in 2023, so that it can better integrate into the city and further expand the opera market in China.