"Okay, what a good young man... Alas, it's a pity that he is forty years old now, can he still be considered a young man?"
"Of course, teacher! You don't know how famous this singer is now in our Xia country. You have heard his voice just now. He is no different from someone in his early thirties. He can even sing with his dramatic voice. Everyone thought it was a girl who sang it!"
Liu Dehou hurriedly introduced Jiang Kan's profile to the teacher, and also explained all the songs Jiang Kan had sung before, as well as information about the "Xia Guo Good Singer" he participated in this season.
"Okay, not bad, really good!"
After hearing this, the old man nodded seriously and praised Jiang Kan three times!
"This child, with this voice, could have been born in our era. Even if I risk my life, I will take him under my tutelage and train him to become a world-famous actor! Ahem..."
Hearing the old man praising Jiang Kan so much, Liu Dehou felt a rare feeling of envy in his heart for some unknown reason!
But when he heard the teacher's cough, Liu Dehou quickly stood up, stretched out his hand and stroked the old man's back to help him breathe.
"It is only when young people like this emerge that the music and art of our Xia Kingdom can make great progress. And... Xiao Liu, Master, I am very impressed by his method of adapting and singing popular operas. Interested!」
As the old man spoke, his eyes flashed.
"You have experienced it yourself. Over the years, you have put in so much effort and suffered so much in order to promote and carry forward our Peking Opera art..."
"But let's talk about the results more seriously, haha... If we talk behind closed doors, we probably won't get much response from the public, right?"
The old man picked up the cup, moistened his mouth slightly, and then continued.
"Today's young people are all influenced by the West, or in other words, they are influenced by the increasingly popular and popular "modern" music style. Our traditional culture and art are gradually declining, and that influence My strength is also getting worse day by day. "
"I'm really afraid that one day, our generation will be gone, and the generation of middle-aged people like you who are willing to devote themselves to traditional opera art will also grow old. In this Xia Kingdom, no one will be willing to stand up and fight for ours. I ran and struggled for my career..."
"Originally, when faced with this situation, not only our Yanjing opera, but also the various opera schools across the country had no good solution."
"But the song you played to me, teacher, opened up a new vision for me and brought a new kind of inspiration!"
The Xia Kingdom on this planet also has rich and colorful folk opera art just like the earth.
But in recent years, it has gradually declined with the erosion of popular culture.
Some of the older generation of opera performers who are more flexible have begun to think about how to modernize and improve these classical operas so that they can once again radiate new vitality and vitality.
The specific method is to cut out a certain section of a specific opera, make the lyrics in vernacular, and make the song popular, just like the previous song "Soldiers on the Battlefield" sung by Hu Keqin.
That is to make the lyrics easy to understand, and make the soundtrack tend to be pop music. There will no longer be so many traditional percussion instruments such as drums, gongs, cymbals, and clappers that frequently sound too noisy and complicated, and then the Yueqin, Jinghu, etc. The proportion of melody instruments in the performance is reduced, and modern electronic keyboards, guitars, pianos, or various horns, shengs, flutes and other composite instruments are added.
It's a bit complicated to say it this way, but that's the overall idea of the adaptation.
But compared with the new development direction of opera art on earth, the way of doing this is a bit outdated and backward.
It will give people a situation where they want to be retro but still have a strong modern flavor, and they want to be popular but still retain too many classic elements, which makes them not popular.
The new trend of drama-style music on earth is a brand-new music form constructed with "drama" as the main idea. Its main body does not emphasize "absolute tradition", but uses "drama" as the main idea.
The "ancient" but "not ancient" lyrics are combined with the classical elements of the opera arrangement, and more importantly, the female voice of the "dan role" is used to sing the climax to highlight the "drama" part.
In other parts of the song, ordinary singing and popular vernacular lyrics are still used, leaning more on the "ancient meaning", making the lyrics appear literary and full of ancient style, not as complete as the lyrics in Peking Opera and Anhui Opera. It is the "antiquities" themselves.
Take the popular song "Guanshan Wine" as an example.
"For several years, the wind and snow have curled up, and the new wind has become the same as the lonely day."
"Looking at the rocks, they look rugged and thin..."
These few sentences are in ordinary vernacular and ordinary singing. The lyrics seem sophisticated and full of ancient style, but they are not really "ancient prose".
but
"I ordered wine from Guanshan, and it has been in my throat for thousands of years."
"There are also Feixuezu and Feng Yun..."
It is a typical part of the opera, which highlights the feeling of "opera", but does not break away from the sense of fashion, making the music seem too old-fashioned, refreshing the listeners, and at the same time arousing their curiosity about the "opera" itself.
In the same way, after listening to Jiang Kan's song "The New Royal Concubine Is Drunk", the old man's mind was completely opened, and the layer of membrane that had always been in his mind that could not be broken was suddenly Became more transparent!
"This is a new way to promote our opera art!"
Zhang Kuanhou has been an opera performer all his life and has always been a very flexible and open-minded person.
At this moment, he didn't think Jiang Kan's approach was "deviant."
On the contrary, I feel that such songs and such "dramatic" singing methods will arouse the interest of some groups that are not originally interested in opera, especially young people, and thus serve as an introduction to gradually become interested in opera itself, and then start to Study and research.
Even if there are only 100 or even 10 people out of 10,000 pseudo-opera fans who like this kind of "drama", they will truly fall in love with Wujiwu and fall in love with traditional opera because of this?
It's better than the current situation where one or two people out of 10,000 people don't like it, right?
"Xiao Liu, I am very interested in Jiang Kan. Look at this... When are you free, how about going to Rongcheng to visit him and talk to him about my ideas? This bad old man of mine is getting older. His health is not very good, otherwise I should have taken the initiative to visit him... ahem..."
The old man's eyes exuded a light called "hope", and the smile on his face became even brighter.
"No problem, teacher. When I'm done with this period of time, I will go to Rongcheng to visit Mr. Jiang in person, and discuss with him the creative ideas and ideas for this kind of "dramatic" song, and try to find a way This way we can achieve a long-term cooperation and make greater contributions to the promotion and development of our opera art! "
Liu Dehou nodded heavily and assured his teacher, with a happy smile on his face.
"Dingling bell~"
Jiang Kan, who had just returned home from get off work, was turning on the TV to watch a drama and relax when the cell phone on the table rang.
He picked up the phone and looked at it, only to find that it was Zhao Yu.
"Teacher Zhao? Haha, why did you remember to call me? What's the matter?"
He turned off the TV and put his phone into speaker mode.
"Well, I do have something to do. I want to ask if you can spare the time in the next two days? Because I am the singer of the opening song of "The Legend of White Snake", and some media are planning to conduct an interview with me to take some behind-the-scenes footage of the song. . I just want you to be the author of this song, so I want you to go to the set with me for an interview."
So that’s it?
A warm current flowed into Jiang Kan's heart. This queen Zhao is so kind. The crew probably wanted to take advantage of her queen's traffic before arranging this tidbit. As a result, they immediately thought of asking him to go with him to be interviewed. A wave of their heat.
Who said Queen Zhao is a cold person? She is so unenthusiastic!
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Haha, in that case, you must be free, but have you mentioned this to the program team? Wouldn't it be great if I went directly? "
Although he is a newcomer, Jiang Kan, who has been immersed in this Vanity Fair for half a year, will definitely not miss this opportunity to promote himself. ..
But he was a little worried that if Zhao Yu took him there on his own initiative, the program team would have any objections or embarrass him.
"Hey, my Teacher Jiang, why don't you go out and take a look? How popular are you now? You have ranked first in "Good Singer" for three consecutive issues. How can the crew still have any objections? Maybe they The one I want to interview is you, I’m just a supplement!”
When Zhao Yu heard this, he was also angry and laughed. You, the most popular champion at the moment, really don’t know how outrageous your fame is among the people!
"Hehe... Teacher Zhao is really humorous. I'm not taking advantage of you... OK, you can ask your assistant to send the schedule to my agent Zhang Lingling, and she will help me follow up. Okay, okay , Teacher Zhao, also have a good rest, you have worked hard these days, goodbye."
After saying goodbye to each other, Jiang Kan lay half-lying on the back of the sofa, holding his cell phone with the screen still on and started to stare.
"Hey, has my popularity reached this level now?"
After all, the previous decades of life and work have allowed Jiang Kan to develop a habit of squatting at home. In current terms, he is a bit "homey" and not outgoing.
Naturally, I don't know to what extent the netizens and the masses outside have already loved me.
Let's put it this way, now he is walking on the street without a mask or sunglasses, at least in this area of Chengdu, he will definitely be recognized.
And there is a good chance that you will be asked for autographs and photos.
But to say that superstars of diva level have to take the initiative to get close to me...
"Haha, on the one hand, it's because she saw the help I can bring to her. After all, I gave her "Waiting Once in a Thousand Years". On the other hand, maybe it's also because of Xiao Feiyan. After all, it's her My dear aunt..."
Thinking of this, Jiang Kan still had a headache. He didn't know how to face the little girl's feelings for him. He could only pretend not to know and treat her as a better friend.
It's been less than half a year since I divorced Xiaojuan. It seems a little early to talk about this.
"Dingling bell~"
Half an hour later, his phone rang again, it was Zhang Lingling.
"Hey, Brother Kan, you are so proud!"
As soon as I answered the call, it was Zhang Lingling’s energetic voice.
"Zhao Tianhou takes the initiative to invite you to take advantage of his popularity! You are the only one who can make someone as cold as her take such initiative in so many years!"
After all, everyone knows that Zhao Yu is quite difficult to deal with. He has outstanding talents, was taught by famous teachers, and graduated from a prestigious school. His father is also the childhood friend of the chairman of Feiyang Entertainment, one of the top three in the country... …
So it's been a smooth journey since her debut. Who would dare to block her path to fame?
You never have to look at anyone's face, and you don't have to worry about whether you are blocking other people's way.
Anyway, she can basically get what she wants, and people she doesn't want to care about can't interfere with her at all.
Haven’t you seen Jiang Lili before?
Well, the most awesome first-line singer has also been in the industry for more than ten years, and has a wide network of contacts and countless friends.
But when facing the competition from Zhao Yu, shouldn't he be able to retaliate as much as he wants in front of the camera? I will tear you apart without any hesitation at all.
Although Jiang Lili also resisted, was she eliminated in the first round? There’s no chance to even fight back!
It can be seen that in this music industry, strength still has to speak for itself.
Zhao Yu is really recognized as a queen-level eldest sister in the entertainment industry.
Jiang Kan, who can be admired by such a big sister and actively invited, is really the first time that Zhang Lingling has seen her in so many years of working in the industry.
People.
"Her agent said that she has contacted you directly and agreed, right?"
Zhao Yu directly called Jiang Kan first, also because of her straightforward and heroic personality. Otherwise, according to the usual rules of the entertainment industry, the managers of both parties would contact Jiang Kan first, and then tell the singer himself.
But Zhang Lingling didn't care about it. Although as a woman who had a little affection for Jiang Kan, she was indeed a little bit sour when she received the call from the other agent's agent. But as a qualified agent, she He quickly restrained his emotions and started talking about the matter.
"Yes, I would like to participate. After all, it can give me some exposure. Secondly, I also watched the old version of "The Legend of White Snake" back then and really liked the show. Visiting the crew can also give me a good experience. I want to get up close and personal with the actors and see how they film."
Jiang Kan didn't notice Zhang Lingling's little emotion, but chatted with her happily.
"Okay, then I will continue to communicate with her agent. It is expected to be the day after tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. You can make some preparations first."
After chatting for a while, the two parties hung up the phone.
"Kan has such a good appearance and is so popular. Director Hu Bin gave him another opportunity to star in a movie. This time he can visit the set of the TV series "The Legend of White Snake"..."
After Zhang Lingling hung up the phone, she began to force herself not to think about whether there was something going on between Zhao Yu and Jiang Kan, and let herself change the topic to think about.
"Is this an opportunity for Kan to change his career as an actor? If you sing well, you can act. Occasionally, it would be nice to be a guest actor!"
