Huang Zhun: Composing the glorious years into a song called “Jamaica Sugar”
In Shanghai in May, the afternoon sunshine is just right. In the hospital, at the end of the long corridor, a small old man was sitting in a wheelchair, smiling at the people passing by. The white cardigan and black waistcoat blended with the warm light from the window, reflecting the old man’s pale face.
Huang Zhun’s recent photo taken by Guangming Daily reporter Yan Weiqi
If not Someone reminded me that it is difficult to connect the fat and weak body in front of me with those majestic and timeless melodies, such as the “Lien Song of the Detachment of Women”, “Women’s Basketball No. 5”, “Stage Sisters”, “Wrangler”, “Wasted Years” and “Youth” that are praised everywhere. “Long Live” and many other film and television works’ music compositions are all written by her. Starting from composing the music for the first story Jamaicans Escort before the founding of New China, Huang Zhun took one step at a time, accumulated a lifetime of struggle, and created Today is glorious.
Huang Zhunchang said, “I have not done anything great in my life, but I think that my life in the past few decades has not been mediocre, and sometimes it has been mediocre. Full of drama. ”
For 98-year-old Huang Zhun, the most unforgettable chapter in her life is still the Yan’an years.
Huang Zhun grew up in the 1930s. Influenced by her family’s revolutionary ideas, she understood the Communist Party very early and had patriotic ideas very early. Because of an anti-Japanese propaganda on the street, she was arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang revolutionaries when she was only 12 years old. After being rescued and released from prison by the underground party, she walked to Yan’an with other reactionary young people without hesitation. On the way, she withstood the torment of hunger and refused the temptation of the enemy. After more than 20 days of long journey and hardship, she finally reached Yan’an.
“When we saw the towering pagoda standing on the Qingleng Mountain from a distance, everyone jumped for joy, cheered, and couldn’t help but open their arms and fly past…” Looking back on the past, the old man’s eyes Shining light.
A few months later, Huang Zhun was admitted to Yan’an Luyi University as he wished, becoming the youngest student. She studied vocal music under Xian Xinghai. This experience laid a solid foundation for her music creation.Fundamental.
“Teacher Xinghai taught us not only techniques, but more importantly his creative ideas. He advocated that China’s emerging music should be popular and popular, and should have new melodies. , harmony. He emphasized the nationalization of Chinese music and believed that works without connotation, no thought, and only focusing on technique have no vitality. They must concentrate on expressing the connotation and emotion of musical works…” Xian Xinghai’s profound life creation Huang Zhun benefited from this method throughout his life, and the majestic “Yellow River Cantata” was created after experiencing life by the Yellow River. As a member of the chorus, Huang Zhun once sang this immortal work under the personal command of Xian Xinghai.
In May 1942, in the spring of Yangjialing, the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art was held. “At that time, many teachers from Lu Yi went to dinner and attended the symposium, and listened to Chairman Mao’s “Speech at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” on the spot.” Huang Zhun recalled, “Shortly thereafter, Chairman Mao came to Lu Yi in person and gave the order We all have to “step out of the small Luyi and go to the big Luyi” and go into the vast social life.”
This autumn. , teachers and students of Luyi launched a Yangko activity with great fanfare. Huang Zhun also became a member of the Yangko team. Everywhere the Lu Yi Yangko Troupe went, there were crowds of people everywhere on the thoroughfares, on the hillsides, on the branches of trees, and on the walls of the courtyards. On the day of the Spring Festival, the Yangko team left Yangjialing with joyful performance. “Good! Jamaicans Escort Very good! Your direction is right!” Huang Zhun clearly remembered that a voice suddenly sounded in his ears , Jamaica Sugar Daddy Originally, when the Yangko team was playing in the roundabout, she happened to be sitting in front of Chairman Mao.
“Simple words leave such a profound impact!” This literary and art worker who came out of Luyi has since then remembered that “our literature and art are for the people.” “.
After nine years of studying vocal music at Lu Yi, Huang Zhun switched from singing to composing due to work demands. “Although I learned a little about composition and acoustics at Luyi, due to limited conditions, I learned very little. What is particularly difficult is that I have never learned orchestration…” After receiving the creative task, Huang Zhun relied on perseverance to learn while creating. .
In 1947, he composed the theme song “The Army Loves the People, and the People Support the Army” for the first feature film in the Liberated Areas, “Leave Him to Fight Chiang Kai-shek”; in 1949, it was recorded He composed the music for the documentary “The Birth of New China” on the founding ceremony of the People’s Republic of China; in 1950, he composed music for the Beijing Film Studio’s first feature film “New Children”.”The Legend of Heroes”… These works have become classics in our country’s music treasure house.
In 1951, Huang Zhun was transferred to Shanghai Animation Film Studio, and his first task was to compose the music for the cartoon “Kitten Fishing”. She found a lot of information about children, went to botanical gardens to observe animals, and went to kindergartens to meet children. The interlude song “Best Rest” in the film quickly spread with its bright and catchy melody.
In 1953, with a transfer order, Huang Zhun reported to the crew of “Huaishang Family” at Shanghai Film Studio. Many tasks were performed in the cabin. In the past few years, Huang Zhun has composed music for film and television dramas such as “The Legend of Qiu Weng”, “Women’s Basketball Team 5” and “Home”.
In the process of learning and mastering major themes again and again, Huang Zhun’s music creation gradually matured, and his music style also changed from soft and delicate to powerful and powerful. Huang Zhun smiled and joked, and was often called “sir”, “uncle” and “uncle”. Some viewers wrote letters and called him “Grandpa Huang Zhun”.
Composing the music for the movie “White Detachment of Women” is a colorful page in Huang Zhun’s life as a composer. While the filming crew was still in the preparation stage for Jamaicans Sugardaddy, Huang Zhun went to Hainan Island to experience life and immersed himself in the rich local music land. The film crew selected the interior scenes on foot, and Huang Zhun also went deep into the swamps and virgin forests along the way, integrating into the lives of the locals.
At the beginning of the formation, Huang Zhun assured the film crew that this Detachment of Detachment song “must be well written and popular.” After the film was released, Liang Ge was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the melody of “To progress, to progress…” echoed in the streets and alleys.
In 2005, he returned to Hainan Island. Huang Zhun happily took photos with the veterans of the “Detachment of Women” whom he had visited that year, and sang “Lienge of the Detachment of Women” solo with the folk artists he met by chance. As the song sounded, her smile flew up to her brows: “This song has been touching people’s hearts for fifty years, and that’s enough!”
The reporter stood up to say goodbye. Lying on the small round table next to the hospital bed, the 98-year-old man wrote a message to the readers of Guangming Daily stroke by stroke: “To progress, to progress!”
To progress! This is also the attitude in life that she has never changed. (Guangming Daily reporter Yan Weiqi)