"Long March Suite" 1965 officially started rehearsing in early May, and the score was revised during the arrangement. The Gay Song and Dance Troupe launched the strongest performance lineup, with the main actors Ma Guoguang, Jia Shijun and Ma Yutao appearing.
After two months of intense rehearsal, on July 1965, in the Great Hall of the People, Xiao Hua first reviewed the Long March Suite composed by composers Chen Geng, Sheng Mao, Tang He and Qiu Yu and conducted by famous conductor Tang Jiang.
After watching the performance, he said, "Your performance moved me very much. You brought singing into life, because the Long March itself was great and touching. Your songs show the face of the Great Long March, and your performance is successful. "
1 965 August1day, "Long March Songs" was officially performed in the Auditorium of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Creative background:
From June 1934 to June 1936, the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants carried out an unprecedented Long March. With extraordinary perseverance, the Red Army overcame the encirclement and interception of hundreds of thousands of reactionary Kuomintang troops, crossed the inaccessible snowy mountains and grasslands, and experienced a journey of about 25,000 miles in ten provinces. Finally arrived at the destination-northern Shaanxi.
1965, in order to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, Xiao Hua, who had participated in the Long March, reviewed his real experience in the Long March and completed 12 epic with vivid images and sincere feelings.
Subsequently, composers Chen Geng, Sheng Mao, Tang Ke and Qiu Yu chose 10 to compose a group of songs, describing 10 interlocking battle life scenes respectively, and skillfully blending folk tunes from various regions with the tunes of traditional Red Army songs, and finally merging into a large-scale vocal suite with distinctive theme, rich content, novel form and unique style.
Refer to the above? People's Network-Zhou Enlai and the Publication of Long March Songs