Min Huifen, 1945, born in Yixing, Jiangsu on February 23rd, is a national first-class actor and a famous erhu player.
He worked as an erhu soloist in China Art Troupe, Shanghai Orchestra, Shanghai Art Troupe and Shanghai National Orchestra, and served as the vice chairman of China Musicians Association. He is a deputy to the Fourth National People's Congress and a member of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth China People's Political Consultative Conference.
20 14 May 12 died in Shanghai at the age of 69.
Chinese name: Min Huifen
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Yixing, Jiangsu
Date of birth:1945 65438+February 23rd.
Date of death: 2065 438+05 04 12.
Occupation: Erhu player
Graduate school: Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Main achievements: Shanghai Literature and Art Award
The Second Prize of the 12th Shanghai Spring Creation
The First China "Golden Record" Award
Baosteel elegant art award
Former Vice President of China Musicians Association.
He is a deputy to the Fourth National People's Congress and a member of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth China People's Political Consultative Conference.
Masterpiece: Random Thoughts on the Great Wall
Place of death: Shanghai Renji Hospital
life experience
Min Huifen,194565438+February 23rd, was born in Yixing, Jiangsu. My father Min Qianji is a disciple of Liu Tianhua, a famous erhu player. Influenced by family, Min Huifen loved music since childhood. At the age of 8, he studied erhu with his father Min Qianji and showed extraordinary talent in music. 1956,1/min huifen, aged 0/,moved to Nanjing, an ancient cultural capital, with his father's work, and entered the Red Scarf Art Troupe of the Children's Home in Gulou District of Nanjing as an erhu solo performer and orchestra conductor.
1958 13 years old entered the middle school attached to Shanghai Conservatory of Music to specialize in erhu, and studied under erhu educators Wang Yi and Lu Xiutang. 1963 In the 4th Shanghai Spring Concert National Erhu Competition, Min Huifen conquered the audience and the judges with a song "Singing with Sickness" and won the first prize.
Since 1979, she has performed in more than ten countries and regions such as the United States, Canada and France.
198 1 year, Min Huifen, who was in the prime of her art, unfortunately suffered from cancer. She has undergone six major operations and fifteen chemotherapy in five years, but she is tenacious and optimistic and strives to return to the stage as soon as possible. 1September, 987, she returned to the stage and was invited to participate in the first "China Art Festival" to perform "Random Thoughts on the Great Wall" with the Central National Orchestra; 1988, 1 In June, 2006, he was invited to participate in "Dragon Music Week" and premiered the concerto "Random Thoughts on Honghu Theme" with the Shanghai National Orchestra. Then she gave successful performances in Shanghai and Singapore.
Min Huifen, who is in her sixties, not only creates performances, but also puts a lot of energy into the popularization of folk music and the cultivation of new people. Almost every year, she holds more than twenty popular folk concerts.
In July 2006, Min Huifen participated in the Guangzhou Advanced Audio Exhibition with her masterpiece "Fairy".
On the morning of May 20 14 12, she died in Shanghai Renji Hospital at the age of 69.
Anecdotes of characters
Music enlightenment
Min Huifen said that her peers began to learn piano at a very young age. No one studied music, especially folk music, just after liberation. It seems incredible that girls play erhu.
Min Huifen's hometown is Yixing, Jiangsu, the hometown of silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River. Bamboo and silk in the south of the Yangtze River, playing in the south of Jiangsu, all kinds of folk songs and minor tunes, and even rushing to the temple fair as a child and the all-night music of monks and Taoist priests attracted her. Her fascination with folk music took root in her young mind. Min Huifen was born in a musical family. My father Min is a disciple of Liu Tianhua, a pioneer of national music. He can do anything about erhu, pipa and sanxian. Among all kinds of national musical instruments, Min Huifen especially likes erhu. Its charm is that it is particularly close to the feelings of China people, and its timbre is just like that of China people talking and singing.
Min Huifen still has the erhu when she first studied art, which was made by a colleague of her father after he got married and moved, and the tube was wrapped in cheap toad skin. At the age of 8, Min Huifen began to learn the piano with his father, and that ancient erhu made Min Huifen's brilliant career in the future.
diligent and eager to learn knowledge
During the Cultural Revolution, the music of Shanghai Conservatory of Music disappeared, the piano was smashed, the teacher was turned into a "double-faced spy" and put in a "bullpen". Min Huifen still focuses on learning, not only practicing erhu, but also practicing Jinghu and violin. Zhang, a classmate of the vocal music department, also gave Min Huifen an erhu record played by the blind, but Min Huifen didn't have a record player to listen to. Later, Min Huifen went to Shanghai Film Orchestra for rehearsal, where she found a recording studio. After the rehearsal, when everyone left, she took out A Bing's records and listened. While listening, pondering and practicing, the record made her listen badly, and later she was able to play the erhu exactly like the record.
Min Huifen realized that she should have her own understanding of A Bing and life. She said that the handling of the middle part of "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" is not as eager and yearning as some people say, but ruthless. Some people say that the way she plays "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" is very similar to the dry pen in calligraphy, and she agrees with this metaphor very much.
Special task
1975, Min Huifen received a special task: recording a batch of Peking Opera aria for President Mao Zedong. Playing Beijing opera aria with erhu should not only carry forward the charm of Beijing opera aria, but also maintain the characteristics of erhu itself. In order to master the characteristics of Beijing opera singing, Min Huifen traveled all over Beijing and Shanghai, consulting famous Peking opera artists everywhere, not only learning to sing by herself, but also carefully pondering the differences between different schools.
She recorded such famous songs as xiaoyaojin, Cut the Yellow Robe, Mourning of Wolong, Lian Yingzhai, Crying Spirit Card with erhu, and a large number of Peking Opera vocals won the favor of Chairman Mao. The success of erhu singing in Beijing Opera greatly expanded Min Huifen's artistic vision, so he became interested in trying traditional opera singing to broaden the playing space of erhu. Over the years, she has never given up the exploration of "instrumentalization" except for premiering a large number of erhu songs such as Rivers, Thoughts on the Frontier, Wedding Farewell and Late at Night.
Major achievements
Personal work
1973 played the northeast folk music River, which became his masterpiece. 1980 premiered the large-scale erhu concerto "Random thoughts on the fortress", which received rave reviews and was widely circulated. In addition, she is also engaged in the creation of erhu solo works, such as Man's Desire in Honghu Lake (adapted from traditional Chinese opera music), Three Chapters of Yangguan (adapted from ancient music), Baoyu Cry (adapted from Yue Opera music), Erhu and Band's Music Poetry-Heart Music (in cooperation with Qu Chunquan), etc., which have certain influence and have been included in the teaching materials of higher conservatory of music.
Instrumental music research
In 1960s, Min Huifen, an erhu performer, put forward the playing style and method of erhu vocal performance. During her decades of artistic career, she put the ideas and methods of erhu vocal performance into practice, and adapted them, creating some tracks with erhu vocal performance characteristics, such as excerpts from the opera Red Guards in Honghu and People's Desire in Honghu, which she created and performed.
The tonality of erhu is a special way of playing created by this famous folk music artist, which also makes her a leading master in the field of folk music today.
artistic style
Kicking style
Min Huifen is widely involved in folk opera music, such as Jiangnan silk and bamboo, Chaozhou music, Beijing opera, Yue opera, lyrics and songs. And learn the essence from it, and constantly explore erhu playing techniques to enrich the expressive force of erhu. Her performance is full of passion, and her handling of music connotation is delicate and vivid.
In the long-term artistic practice, Min Huifen has formed a performance style that is passionate but connotative, moving but not flattering, exaggerated but not crazy, sad and not hurtful. In the performance, she can grasp the artistic conception of music, combine her feelings with "momentum" and "verve" by using the law of big rhythm of inheritance and transformation, and arouse people's extensive imagination through the rhythm, intonation, strength and expressiveness of music on the stage, but all this is done naturally in a series of ingenious and uninterrupted moments, which fully embodies her superb erhu artistic attainments.
Min Huifen's opera music works can deeply grasp the style and charm of the works in the dynamic depth of the opera sound, and understand the spirit, which lies in not imitating the expression form of this style from the surface, but starting from the fundamental charm, and then carrying out perceptual feelings, experiences and rational thinking, so as to reach the superb artistic realm.
Aesthetic concept
Deeply influenced by Steiner's experiential performance, she integrated herself with erhu. She accepted China's operas in an all-round way, and the performance style of paying equal attention to experience and performance, represented by Mei Lanfang system, formed a unique stage music performance, which was closely related to her courage to explore opera music works.
In the comprehensive psychological activities of aesthetic re-creation, Min Huifen's aesthetic concept, aesthetic ideal and aesthetic taste directly affect psychological factors such as perception, experience, imagination and comprehension. She has a comprehensive aesthetic view of creative blending of subject and object, emphasizing overall grasp and comprehensive feeling. The emotional communication between the subject and the object in the performance, and the experience and communication of the aesthetic emotion between the subject and the object all reflect the aesthetic view of moving people with emotion.
Creative proposition
In the process of performing the vocals of various Beijing opera schools, Min Huifen highlights the intuitive images of his works, reveals the vividness of his works with creative expression methods, pursues the aesthetic theory of emotion, and advocates that music should reveal people's inner world. China's aesthetic ideas of unity of beauty and goodness, unity of reason and unity of form and spirit, as well as her balanced, moderate and implicit artistic style in music performances, can be clearly reflected.
win an honour
He has won the first prize of the 4th Shanghai Spring China Erhu Competition, the Shanghai Literature and Art Award, the 2nd prize of the 12th Shanghai Spring Creation, the first China Gold Record Award, Baosteel Elegant Art Award and the title of "National Excellent Literary Worker".
Social assessment
She strives for perfection in art, studies hard and practices hard, and her basic skills are comprehensive and solid. She pays more attention to the in-depth excavation of the connotation of music and shows it in details. The piano sound is full of artistic charm and the performance is full of passion. (Inner Mongolia Morning News)
Min Huifen has gradually become synonymous with "erhu". (Yangzhou Daily)
"One of the most famous string players in the world" and "Even the rest are full of music". "Play the sorrows and sorrows of the world". The first one walked into the golden hall with the erhu, letting the whole world know about the erhu and Chinese folk music. (xinhuanet)