Chapter 43: The Merciless Singing Machine
Zhou Qingyun also asked Yu Shufan to accompany Jing Xiaoqiang to choose a store after class, and she would ask the college for the one she liked!
However, Yu Shufan had already become numb by then and had no feelings of dissatisfaction at all.
Because Jing Xiaoqiang actually dared to overturn Zhou Qingyun's course arrangement, the other three or four graduate students were trembling with fear!
Zhou Qingyun's attitude had been quite biased before. She sat there expressionlessly, examining the graduate students' topic selections with dignity. Everyone was silent.
As a result, when Jing Xiaoqiang arrived, she started to ask about his well-being, like a doting mother, asking whether his voice had been affected these days. It turned out that she had secretly gone to the drama academy to watch him, and found that Jing Xiaoqiang was actually leading the team in shouting slogans.
Oh my God, this voice, which should be used to sing the most beautiful aria in the world, is being used to shout slogans such as one, two, one, turn left and right. Isn't this a waste of talent?
Zhou Qingyun felt heartbroken when talking about this.
Jing Xiaoqiang was casually flipping through the graduate thesis topics on the table. It was OK for various vocal technique theories, but he unexpectedly found "A Preliminary Study on the Music Culture of Qinhuai Brothels since the Ming and Qing Dynasties"!
You won’t feel sleepy anymore after exploring this.
He immediately picked it up and asked which senior brother wrote this masterpiece.
The result is Yu Shufan’s topic! ! ! !
Jing Xiaoqiang immediately looked at this fairy-like senior sister with new eyes. It turned out that she was so reserved and reserved. "This is too profound. Let's discuss and learn together!"
Zhou Qingyun is the kind of mother who is so spoiled that she can help the sky pick the moon: "Ah, Shu Fan, remember to add a signature for Xiaoqiang."
Yu Shufan?!
I have been busy in libraries and various folk art galleries for more than half a year, and this is it?!
But immediately I felt excited again, and he called me Shu Fan for the first time!
So when other seniors saw Jing Xiaoqiang translating their papers, they were simply terrified!
It's like a junior high school student watching the teacher flipping through the list and answering questions.
Fortunately, Jing Xiaoqiang looked down on the others. Zhou Qingyun was pleased that the child was actively reading the paper as soon as he arrived, but she felt sorry for the camouflage military uniform with salt and alkali spots, which was simply insulting: "Did you rest well? Do you want to warm up your voice first? Are you interested in singing a musical or opera excerpt today..."
The seniors must have had their blood pressure soaring. When have they ever seen Lao Zhou caring for them like an old mother and doting on them to such an extent?
Unexpectedly, Jing Xiaoqiang actually said: "Foreign musicals and operas are just so-so. I think we should still focus on domestic singing repertoires."
Zhou Qingyun and they were all staring in astonishment, "Tsk tsk, what a tone of yours!"
The full name of the Vocal Music Department is Vocal and Opera Department. The pop songs that we usually listen to are basically popular singing styles, which are not taken seriously at all in the Vocal and Opera Department. They are regarded as semi-professional players fooling ordinary people.
Almost all professors, leaders of vocal music departments, and deans of music schools are former bel canto singers.
If you haven’t won a few international awards, you’d be embarrassed to call yourself a singer.
Well, most of those who can be called singers are of this type. Only a very few can become famous with popular singing style. Moreover, this situation was not so serious in the 1980s and 1990s because there were channels such as military art troupes. After the new century, there were basically no art troupes, and bel canto became the mainstream everywhere.
Then the Bel Canto series is a completely imported product. Jing Xiaoqiang actually said that those abroad are just so-so!
No one in the entire domestic vocal music world dares to say this.
This is like a foreigner singing along with Peking Opera and saying that Mr. Mei is just so-so. Wouldn’t he be drowned in spit from the fans? !
If any other student dared to say that, Zhou Qingyun would definitely yell at him to get lost. But now, she looked shocked and asked gently, "Why?"
Now it was the turn of all the seniors to look at each other, and from each other's eyes they saw truckloads of MMP pouring out to each other.
Then Jing Xiaoqiang began to conquer them: "Two points. First, the foreigners' stuff is an art form based on their culture. Even if we try our best to learn and follow it, it will never be orthodox, let alone accepted. Even if we are better than them, they will say that we have tarnished their art. On the contrary, they will give us some titles when we are not as good as them. You can know this by asking yourself what you really think of foreigners who perform crosstalk and sing Peking opera. It's quite interesting to have everyone participate. If all the top ones are foreigners, our ancestors' coffins will not be able to hold down the lid..."
Why does the art world like to lick the boots of foreign countries? Because everything they learn is imported.
Not to mention the 1990s, even 20 years later, no one said this in the 2010s.
Everyone was shocked, but they couldn't tell what was wrong.
If Jing Xiaoqiang only talks nonsense like this, he would be nothing but a boaster.
What follows is his own real experience: "Secondly, the European and American markets have actually shrunk greatly. Most of the very talented actors can only be considered part-time workers, and they have to work part-time. The contestants we have trained at great expense may not be as good as those who wash dishes. Take Broadway as an example. Even the leading actors are not well-known outside the industry. Many of the really talented ones have gone to the film and television industry. This is an inevitable situation of the development of the times. When there were no film and television dramas, operas, musicals, and song-and-dance dramas were the darlings. Once film and television dramas came into being, they were simply self-admiring. This can also be referred to as Peking Opera."
The vocal music world can be said to be a typical example of the emperor's new clothes.
They also look down on popular singing, but in fact there is not much market for such high-brow stuff. They always say that there is a larger audience for classical music abroad.
In fact, Jing Xiaoqiang is the one who understands it best: "On Broadway, there are only a few plays that can be performed for a long time. Most of the others will go bankrupt after a few years or even a few months. Think about it, this is equivalent to an industry. Most companies only have a lifespan of a few months to a few years. After the crew goes bankrupt, you don't know if you can find a new job, because every year there is a lot of fresh blood pouring in from all over the world."
He gave examples and feelings without hesitation: "But musicals are indeed more vital than operas, and have a larger market than our traditional Chinese operas. In musicals, there are singing and dancing, and even the singing style is not strictly required. As long as the audience likes it, it can be anything from bel canto to rock and hip-hop according to the plot. In this case, musicals are a kind of output of Citigroup's values and are widely accepted. Only with high-quality performances and perfect market-oriented operations will the audience's reputation get better and better. In this case, is it useful for us to try hard to follow? We always produce works and beg for recognition from the international community. It is better for us to be ourselves and let domestic audiences recognize us."
In the industry's contempt chain, operas with bel canto singing are at the highest level, musicals with bel canto and various singing styles are in the middle, and musicals with basically popular singing are at the lowest level, but all of these are more elegant than popular singing.
The main difference between musical and the other two is that it requires both singing and dancing.
This requires too much from the leading actor, almost requiring him to be both civil and military.
Jing Xiaoqiang, who has the added bonus of being a hot-tempered person in addition to Hudelsson, is good at both ends and has rich experience as a theater manager.
Naturally I disdain it.
But if this had been said in the 1990s, even on Broadway, the entire industry would have banned and criticized it.
Not to mention that the domestic music majors in Europe and the United States are following suit in everything.
Even nowadays, people from all walks of life from top to bottom think that Europe and the United States are extremely good, so English training for studying abroad can develop into listed companies.
How could I have the helpless feeling of Jing Xiaoqiang who was accidentally injured by Hei Jingui and lost his life by ZZZQ...
Zhou Qingyun's first reaction was not to scold, but to coax the child: "Okay, okay, there's no need to say this publicly. First, consolidate your skills and personal abilities, then you will have the opportunity to express your wishes."
Jing Xiaoqiang is not actually interested in these big topics. It’s just like every man who discusses China-US topics when he’s drunk.
Now I am just thinking about what it will be like thirty years later. Seeing a teacher like Zhou Qingyun, whom I respect very much, putting all his emphasis on foreign standards, I feel a little uncomfortable.
In fact, everything is based on foreign standards these days.
He didn't say much. He looked at the upright piano next to him and stretched his fingers: "Then I will sing three passages for you to enjoy. The first one is a famous passage from the opera Madame Butterfly, "A Sunny Day..."
This is a fucking soprano!
The graduate students didn't know what to say. Even those who were studying soprano among them didn't dare to just sing like that. Moreover, this was a notoriously difficult song, and Jing Xiaoqiang even played and sang by himself!
Are you a master of both piano and sound?
But it was obvious that his broad and strong chest was much stronger than the last time he tried Mozart's "The Magic Flute" for Zhou Qingyun. The displacement was directly upgraded from 2.0 to 3.6, and a turbocharger might have been added.
From the first high-pitched Italian utterance, Zhou Qingyun was so happy that she clasped her hands together and immersed herself in listening.
The MMPs that the seniors had just said a moment ago all turned into WCNMMP. Are they still human beings?
This play is about the Meiji Restoration written by Europeans. After Citibank conquered RB, a Citibank officer found a local woman to ensure that the engine did not idle, and said goodbye to her when he returned home after completing his service. This deeply reveals the hypocrisy and ruthlessness of capitalism.
This part is about a silly woman who is waiting on the top of a hill for her man's warship to return to the port, singing with joy.
This is one of the most famous arias in opera, and many sopranos love to perform it at festivals.
Jing Xiaoqiang's expressionless face accompanied by simple chords and his singing alone brought out the excitement and enthusiasm of the silly woman's expectations.
Only with such emotional support will there be a huge sense of artistic gap when the following tracks are abandoned.
If you don't look at the face or the person, you would really think it was a tall foreign horse singing with his neck stretched out. And he must have a long face, because only he could sing out so many melodious variations.
Just the threshold of authentic Italian is something that only a few people in China can reach.
When it came to the high notes, the seniors who were familiar with these passages felt their hair stand up!
Everyone passing by the teaching and research room stopped to look, but no one dared to disturb them.
Judging from the pronunciation, he must be a foreign expert...
Only Jing Xiaoqiang acted calmly. After finishing his performance, the piano even played a final note: "The second one is Bui-Doi, the key piece from the musical Miss Saigon..."
He is just a ruthless singing machine!
