In the end, he didn't leave.
The rehearsal room is bustling with activity, with a familiar smell to Jing Xiaoqiang.
In fact, it is an auditorium the size of an indoor basketball court. On one side is a dance pole with mirrors covering the wall, and on the other side there are blackboards, musical instruments, and audio equipment piled up.
The scale of this art troupe is actually not very large. It seems that there are only dozens of young singers and dancers practicing separately.
But it is full of the unique discipline of the army, and military uniforms and troop props can be seen everywhere.
Several older musicians, all wearing military uniforms, were surrounding a young man and singing with accordions, keyboards, guitars, drums and other instruments.
Anyway, Jing Xiaoqiang frowned when he walked in.
He is not frowning about singing technique. It has to do with talent and training. Everyone's circumstances are different and there is no one who is higher or lower.
But it's the way to sing "Rhapsody in the Blue Sky".
However, Jing Xiaoqiang held back and tried his best to put on a professional fake smile.
The female soldier introduced to everyone that this was the composer of "Blue Sky Rhapsody" and came to guide the singing of the song. Then he found a folding chair and sat next to her, ready to listen twice before leaving.
The symphony orchestra put a lot of thought into this song, and the rhythm and melody are very playful, so it is named Rhapsody of the Blue Sky, but the song is not targeted at the proud pilots.
Instead, it expresses the desire and pride for the blue sky from the perspective of ordinary ground crew members.
This is the foundation of artistry.
The same work, if positioned differently, will produce completely different artistic effects.
When everyone mentions the Air Force or blue sky combat, they are referring to pilots.
However, behind every pilot there are a large number of maintenance and inspection ground crew members who provide support.
Even though it was an essay praising the system and choosing to showcase the brilliance of this unknown part, Jing Xiaoqiang found it very innovative and outstanding when he read it.
I accompanied him to rehearsal without saying a word.
But the guy in front of him had a build similar to Jing Xiaoqiang, and when he opened his mouth he sang in a manner close to bel canto, but he used popular singing style, a standard big stage hymn style, and with a flower on his military uniform he looked like a general.
His voice was powerful and clear, and his eyes were filled with unquestionable righteousness, just like an underground party member hanging in chains and denouncing the reactionaries before his heroic death.
Hearing this, Jing Xiaoqiang subconsciously raised his arms.
From the perspective of behavioral psychology , he instinctively resists this way of interpretation.
Then from the perspective of fitness and fighting experts, he might be controlling himself from hitting others.
What a nonsense!
But after the song was over, the singer, the people watching nearby, and the musicians asked him if he had any opinions.
They all smiled and nodded: "Very good, very good, it would be better if you could relax a little, very good, very good."
He has a round waist and a broad body, so he looked like a bodhisattva when he said this, and he crossed his arms, which made him look more stable.
Moreover, people with strong stature sit with their arms and legs spread out, looking very honest.
Speaking of Jing Xiaoqiang, since school started after the summer vacation, Zhou Qingyun, Lu's mother, Cheng Laotai, and the teachers and students in the school have easily classified him as a down-to-earth and reliable young man. His body shape may be a big reason for this.
Now, everyone, whether you are wearing military uniform or not, nodded and said "oh" after hearing this.
The singer, who was about twenty-four or twenty-five, also started singing again, no difference.
Jing Xiaoqiang still had a smile on his face and said, "All right, all right," and then he prepared to slip away.
He knew very well that in the literary and artistic system, the Pingjing Drama Academy was positioned to train cadres for the literary and artistic front, and below it were the Film Academy and other drama academies as higher education institutions in the literary and artistic circles. In fact, art troupes and song and dance troupes also had their own channels for recruiting students and training new talents.
To make an inappropriate analogy, art troupes and song and dance troupes are similar to vocational high schools.
Because singing and dancing profession is very age-sensitive, one has to be discovered at a very young age and practice hard for ten years off stage, and one is close to retirement in his twenties.
Therefore, the ordinary compulsory education system is not very suitable for singing and dancing majors.
Those who go to drama academies, dance academies, and music academies are basically high-end talents who are not well-educated, so Jing Xiaoqiang feels it is a pity that Du Ruolan is so lovesick.
Look at these people who have been trying every means to join song and dance troupes or art troupes since they were a few years old.
It all depends on the little talent and hard work I have since childhood. Whether I can succeed depends on luck and opportunity.
There are also countless geniuses who have lived their entire lives as ordinary people. They may have never opened their voices or danced, and completely missed their talent points.
Now he could finally tell that this young man was probably from a self-taught singing troupe or art troupe. He had good talent, but he had been singing for many years, especially in a military art troupe with a fixed singing style, and had not received any systematic and comprehensive training.
It's still what Jing Xiaoqiang meant when he evaluated Pan Yunyan. If you keep working on what you are good at, you may strive for excellence, but most of the time you will get stuck in a dead end and won't be able to do anything else.
At this point, it's not the right time for you to talk to him about professional use of voice, breath, style, or emotions. He won't do that at all.
There is no such culture.
So Jing Xiaoqiang’s attitude became clearer. Yeah, yeah, that’s it. It’s pretty good.
In his eyes, this is only 30 or 40 points. If he pulls hard, it may increase by 30 or 5 points, but it is still far from the passing line.
Why bother? He said this as he stood up and prepared to leave.
This is also standard practice on Broadway.
First there is the script, then there are the roles. Once a role is confirmed, outstanding singers and dancers from all over the world come to sign up for interviews.
All of them are geniuses with scores ranging from 90 to over 100, and hundreds of people are competing for one role.
Where is the time to tell actors what their shortcomings are and how to correct them?
So it is just like Jing Xiaoqiang misjudged the development of relationships between men and women in China and abroad, in the 1990s and after 30 years.
Now he also underestimated the professionalism of the art troupe in 1990.
Even the dancing female soldiers who were crowding on the side and peeking at him could see through his business-like fake smile.
They were whispering to each other secretly.
Not to mention the group of art troupe members who have formed a research team and have been eating, living, researching and honing together for more than ten days.
This was an era when people believed that man could conquer nature and there was nothing that was too hard to tackle. This style was originally a magic weapon for the army.
An older man immediately spoke up: "Comrade Composer, since we invited you here, we hope you can sincerely offer valuable suggestions. Keeping things secret will not help us win this battle!"
This resounding statement is absolutely true.
In the 1980s and 1990s, some things in the outside society had not yet spread here, and there was still a strong sense of responsibility and fighting spirit here.
Jing Xiaoqiang was in the wrong, so he was brief and to the point: "I don't know if you have heard the original English version of this song. It is very cheerful and playful, and it is not suitable for singing in front of a symphony orchestra on the stage of the National Grand Theater. Do you understand? The style we want to reflect is the spirit of young ground crew soldiers who yearn for the blue sky and remember that even if they are maintenance workers or loaders, they are also an indispensable part of the fighter plane flying into the blue sky. I have told you many times to be relaxed. If you can't meet this basic requirement, what else can I say?"
The rehearsal room fell silent instantly.
It turns out that the seemingly understated comment just now already contains an insurmountable peak.
That's how the art industry works.
Many masters or experts give people guidance. They don’t say anything harsh, but just point out seemingly simple indicators.
Relax a little more, elevate a little more, invest a little more emotion.
Little do people know that just this little bit may be the other side that many people will never reach in their lifetime.
Everyone at the scene was silent for a moment, and the musicians first suggested: "Let's play the demo tape sent by the symphony orchestra. That one is indeed more cheerful."
One of them even whispered: "Xiao Chen felt that singing like that would make the breath uncomfortable, so he asked us to accompany him. We can't use a symphony orchestra for grassroots performances."
This is the problem with the wild way. Once you are used to a certain pattern, it is difficult to change it.
Sure enough, the demo tape of the symphony orchestra is definitely a masterpiece that was made with great effort.
It is even different from the playful teasing and even provocation in Jing Xiaoqiang's previous song "Does Your Mother Know". It is full of cheerfulness, brightness and grandeur.
This is a temperament that cannot be expressed by a few performers of simple musical instruments or at the level of an art troupe.
Being able to perform with grace is already a master's level.
Even in an art troupe, those who could reach this level would have been promoted to a national team long ago.
This is just a regional art troupe of a military branch.
Jing Xiaoqiang has been very polite. Given your level, this is probably the case.
Because the twenty-something Xiao Chen gritted his teeth and started playing the accompaniment of the demo tape from the beginning, and then he sang along with the rhythm which was half a beat faster, and immediately he stumbled and fell, unable to focus on one thing while accommodating another.
If your breath, sense of rhythm and technique are not right, you will be very busy.
It's like a fat man like Pavarotti wants to switch to pole vaulting, which requires strength, skills and flexibility.
Naturally, I fell again and again.
Finally, he threw the music score in his hand to the ground fiercely: "Such a high note, and it must be so cheerful and rapid, how is it possible? You are teasing me by writing it like this!"
In fact, Jing Xiaoqiang is innocent.
Originally, "Does Your Mother Know" was not that difficult.
When the symphony orchestra arranged the lyrics, according to the habit of working with him...
To put it simply, this song "Blue Sky Rhapsody" was tailor-made for Jing Xiaoqiang.
He was also a little helpless: "Turn on the recorder, I'll show you a demonstration..."
Otherwise I won’t be able to get off work.