Looking at the excited Huang Wencan, Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Congratulations, Teacher Huang."
Hearing Zhou Yan's congratulations, the smile on Huang Wencan's face grew stronger, and he quickly responded, "Thank you, Thank you, Teacher Zhou.”
He had something more to say to Zhou Yan. Hu Zhaoyuan had already announced all the winning tracks on stage and invited the winners to come to the stage to receive their awards.
"Teacher Zhou, I'm going up."
Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, let's go up."
They were seated relatively far back, but Huang Wencan was very active and moved quickly. He was the first to step onto the stage, looking as excited as a dazed young man.
Zhou Yan thinks Huang Wencan is doing this well. Since he is happy, there is no need to put on airs.
The third prize comes with a certificate and a medal. After Hu Zhaoyuan announced the list, he did not go down and stayed on the stage to award the winners.
Zhou Yan roughly counted the twenty-four award-winning tracks, and there were quite a lot of them. Twenty-three people came up, but only one didn't come to the scene, and he didn't find anyone to help pick it up on his behalf.
Among the twenty-three people, there are many acquaintances of Zhou Yan, such as Tang Jianping, who is also a teacher in the composition department.
Seeing that Tang Jianping only got third place, Zhou Yan was quite disappointed, because he had read the score and heard the live performance of Tang Jianping's submitted work "Hua Yun", and the level was very high. In Zhou Yan's opinion, the first prize Needless to say, the second prize is still very promising.
The gap between the third prize and the second prize is very big. It is a pity that Tang Jianping only won the third prize.
Most likely, it’s because the work is not relevant enough.
There is also Du Mingxin, a colleague of Zhou Yan, whose award-winning work is "Symphony Overture".
Compared to others, Du Mingxin’s qualifications are much higher. Generally speaking, Zhou Yan should call Du Mingxin his uncle. This is because of the credit of his teachers Shi Wanchun and Wu Zuqiang, otherwise they would still be separated by generations. Woolen cloth.
Du Mingxin taught in the Composition Department of Yangyin University in the 1950s and served as the director of the Composition Department in the 1970s. He had a good relationship with Wu Zuqiang and Shi Wanchun.
At first glance, it is not easy for Huang Wencan to win the third prize. There are many big names among the third prize winners, and Huang Wencan is the youngest among them.
After the awards were presented, the winners took a photo together on the stage, and the third prize was considered over.
After this round of award presentation, two pieces were played in succession, both of which were second prize winning works. One was Luo Zhongrong's "Eternal Life in Fire" and the other was Zhu Jian'er's "Fourth Symphony" song".
So far, three of the four winning tracks for the second prize have been announced, and all of them are big shots. Compared with the next two, Xu Zhenmin’s qualifications are a bit underwhelming.
Seeing the names of these winners, Zhou Yan estimated that he would not win any prizes today.
Actually, he is in a similar situation to Huang Wencan. The one who has the best chance of getting a medal is the third prize. After all, the first and second prizes are based on seniority.
But he didn't have any troubles in his heart. If he couldn't get a medal, even if he only got an excellence award or a fourth prize, he felt it was okay.
After the performance of the two second prize pieces, the fourth prize list began to be announced.
This made Zhou Yan a little confused. Originally, the list of third prize winners was announced in the first round. He thought that the fourth prize was not going to be announced, but he did not expect that the organizing committee actually put the fourth prize in the list. The third prize will be announced later. I don’t know what the officials think.
There were more winning tracks for the fourth prize than for the third prize, a total of thirty-five. The host read out the names of the thirty-five winning tracks on the spot, and did not let the winners come on stage to receive a group photo.
There is no Zhou Yan’s name in the fourth prize.
Huang Wencan secretly observed Zhou Yan's expression. Seeing that Zhou Yan had no reaction, he raised his eyebrows again, thinking that although Zhou Yan was young, he was really calm.
Even though he was a few years older than him, he still looked a lot more frizzy, which made him feel a little ashamed.
Now that the third and fourth prizes have been announced, there are still two first prizes and one second prize, and only the excellence prize is left below.
Everyone has an excellence award. As for the first and second prizes, it is really difficult.
Of course Huang Wencan recognizes Zhou Yan's strength, but if you want to win the first and second prizes, you don't just have to have strength, you also need qualifications.
Seniority is a common situation in all walks of life, and musicians are no exception.
Now it seems that Zhou Yan will most likely only win the Outstanding Composition Award.
Thinking of this, Huang Wencan couldn't help but feel a little pity.
He actually really wanted to listen to Zhou Yan's new song, but there was definitely no way for excellent compositions to be exhibited live.
The key point is that Huang Wencan also hopes that Zhou Yan can get a better ranking. After all, he, like Zhou Yan, is a young man. If Zhou Yan can get a better ranking, it will open the way for the younger generation.
Huang Wencan once wanted to speak to comfort Zhou Yan, but he still held back because he really couldn't tell what Zhou Yan was thinking. This was the first time the two of them had come into contact, and he was worried that his words of comfort would cause Zhou Yan to misunderstand.
After all, he had just won the third prize, and running to comfort others at this time seemed a bit like showing off.
Zhou Yan didn't know Huang Wencan's inner struggle. He just looked at the stage quietly.
After the fourth prize was announced, two more pieces of music were played on the spot, both of which were the third prize that had just been missed, one "Early Spring Overture" and one "Hundred Years".
When they heard these two pieces of music, many people at the scene were quite surprised. They thought there would be no second prize or lower works on display, but they didn’t expect that two third prizes would appear. work.
However, the performance time of these two works was very short, and not even one movement was completed.
Although Zhou Yan doesn’t know the total length of the complete version of these two pieces of music, it sounds like it should be more than half an hour. Now each piece only plays for seven or eight minutes, which feels a bit like an audition. In fact, the songs played earlier are not complete versions, they are all excerpts. However, the previous songs were carefully selected. Although they are excerpts, they still sound complete.
These two pieces of music only played the first few minutes of the first movement. This also shows that the organizing committee does not attach much importance to the third prize.
The pieces played today must all be excerpts. Otherwise, the two first prize pieces alone would be close to the length of a concert.
And to perform it completely requires too much of the orchestra. Even a top orchestra cannot complete a multi-movement symphony work in a short time.
After the performance of the two third-prize winning works, special guest Li Yinghai delivered a speech on stage.
When Li Yinghai came on stage, there was warm applause.
In selecting Li Yinghai as a special guest to deliver a speech, the organizing committee must have considered many aspects.
Among the composers of the same period, Li Yinghai is not the most outstanding, but his experience is more special than others.
Li Yinghai was born in the 1920s and experienced the Anti-Japanese War. It can be said that during his teenage music studies, there was a lot of fire.
His main achievement is actually not in music creation or music theory research, but in music education.
He first taught at Hunan Music College, and later went to the School of Literature and Art of Zhongyuan University and the Central and South Central Military Academy of Art. However, his stay in these three schools was relatively short, and he went there not long after. Upper tone.
He stayed at Shangyin for more than ten years. When the China Conservatory of Music was established in 1964, he was transferred to BJ to teach alto, becoming one of the first teachers of alto.
After that, he went to Yangyin again.
And when he was at Yangyin, it was when Yangyin exploded, and Tan Dun's students were all there at that time.
Guo Wenjing, who just won the third prize, is also a student of Li Yinghai.
If the music industry is divided into different factions, then Li Yinghai is definitely an elder who can speak in all the factions.
He is a native of Sichuan Province and has inextricable connections with the music industry in Sichuan Province. He has taught at baritone, alto and central yin one after another. He has basically stepped on all the big hills in the music industry.
So today he stood on the top and spoke as a representative of the composer, and all parties had no objections.
The old gentleman is almost seventy this year, but he is still in good health. He walked up to the microphone and laughed heartily a few times before he spoke.
After laughing, he glanced at the audience and then said, "The event has not started yet. When I first came in, I observed it for a while. I was worried that I was the oldest person present today. , but fortunately, Mr. Zhu Jian'er and Mr. Luo Zhongrong were sitting next to me. Compared with them, I was a little younger. Now I went up to the stage and looked around, and saw Mr. Guo Zurong and Mr. Su Xia again. , I feel a little younger. If I remember correctly, they are all older than me."
"Confucius said, at thirty, you will not be confused at forty, at fifty you will know the destiny, and at six. When you are ten, your ears are attuned, but when you are seventy, you can follow your heart without going beyond the rules. Before I was forty, I had never doubted this sentence. However, when I was forty, I suddenly realized that at the age of forty, I was actually ambitious. The biggest and most confusing time at the same time.”
"Before I was forty years old, I was trying to get into music. I have been teaching for so many years, and the question I have heard the most is how to get into music. Over the years, I have no way to get an accurate answer, but I can say Let’s talk about how I got started in music. I entered three majors.”
“I was born in Sichuan Province. I listened to my mother and sister singing folk songs since I was a child, and I followed them. There are many bamboos that can be blown by cutting them into a few holes. In this environment, I have loved music since I was a child. This was the first school I entered. Later, during the Anti-Japanese War, the National Conservatory of Music in Chongqing was established. 43 When I was in 2007, I passed the entrance examination of folk music and entered the Western music field. This was my second entrance. "
"Of course, the most important door for me is to enter. I entered the door of revolutionary music, and participating in the revolution allowed me to enter the third door..."
Li Yinghai seemed to be telling his own story, but in fact it was very relevant, and he quickly introduced the theme to revolutionary music. above.
Today they gathered at the Yanjing Concert Hall to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Since we are commemorating Mr. Sun, we must talk about revolution.
Then the old man talked about the revolution and music teaching, and mentioned the characteristics of the Chinese nation. He said that both the younger generation and the older generation of musicians should learn Western music and absorb the strengths of others, but We must not lose our national tradition.
“I have always told my students to always pursue creations with Chinese national characteristics. I say, as Chinese, you were born in China and grew up in China, then the traditions of the Chinese nation are engraved in In your bones, this is your innate talent and expertise.”
“Western musicians have the expertise of Western musicians. We don’t have to admit it, but we don’t need to envy it, let alone use it deliberately. If you don’t have anything, go and compare it with others. We are like flower seeds that have been growing in this kind of soil, and they will inevitably grow into flowers that are suitable for this soil.”
” If the water flows from the west and the wind blows from the west, we will not become other flowers. I will make good use of the water and the wind to make myself stronger."
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At the end, Li Yinghai smiled and said, "I'm afraid that many people will be too cautious about Western music after listening to my words, so I have to say one last thing, when creating, I still Be bold and believe in your own national character, national feeling, and national aesthetics. These cannot be easily thrown away, nor can they be easily dispelled by exposure to some Western culture. Only with this belief can you build ambition. He has great ambitions and believes that he can make new contributions to the music culture of all mankind."
When Li Yinghai finished speaking, the audience burst into applause.
Like a teacher, he taught the audience a lesson on stage, but everyone did not feel offended. Instead, they thought he said it very well.
When the applause gradually stopped, Li Yinghai took out a piece of paper and said, "Finally, I have another task, which is to read out the list of second prize winners."
He held the note and smiled, "This list is quite interesting."
Everyone in the audience was a little confused when they heard what he said. What is an interesting list?
At first, everyone was a little confused as to why the other three second-prize winning songs had already been released, but one song had not yet appeared.
The first three winners are Xu Zhenmin, Luo Zhongrong and Zhu Jianer.
These three people should not let Li Yinghai say this. After all, the names have been revealed just now, so the interesting one is the last one?
Li Yinghai slightly aroused the mood of everyone in the audience, and then directly began to read out the list, "The winners are Zhu Jian'er's "Fourth Symphony", Luo Zhongrong's "Eternal Life in the Fire", Xu Zhenmin's "Jinling Nostalgia" and... ..."
At this point, he paused for a moment before announcing the answer, "Zhou Yan's "Third Symphony" (End of Chapter)