Wu Dajiang

Wu Dajiang

Wu Dajiang is a famous musician in Hong Kong. In 1958, he joined a professional cultural performance group. He moved to Hong Kong in 1962. He has taught Chinese music in the Music Department of Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also performed in concerts, radio and television. He has composed more than 100 films, including chivalrous woman, tiying, Yingtai weeping blood, new dream of Red Mansions, biography of heroes in the desert, fire and warlord. He has also provided theme songs for many TV series.

Main works

The avant-garde works "Yuan" and "Hu Jia 18 Pai" are excellent works with excellent acoustics. In addition, Wu Dajiang is also a favorite of the famous director Hu Jinquan. He won the best feature film score award of the 16th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Golden Horse Award for the score of "legend in the mountains". He has worked as composer and soundtrack for nearly 100 Hong Kong and Taiwan films, including "chivalrous girl", "rain in the empty mountain", "legend in the mountains", "tiying" and "biography of the father of the nation", and has won many awards. He created and adapted a wide range of works, including the famous "Yelin dance", "fate", "Hujia 18 Pai", dance drama "strange fate in the East China Sea", Gaohu Concerto "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", etc. Until 1985. He is good at many kinds of musical instruments, especially Banhu and erhu. He has also created a large number of Chinese and western music works, including song of Hainan, love song of tea mountain, beside the pool of malizhi, dance music of Coconut Grove, Symphony poem "Singapore La", "fate", dance drama "strange fate in the East China Sea" and "Cai Wenji". In June 1982, he went to Paris with his work fate to attend the International Conference of modern composers, which was highly praised.

Life of the characters

Wu Dajiang was born in Shanwei, Guangdong Province, China on October 16, 1943. He is from Haifeng, Guangdong Province. He loved music since childhood. When he was 15 years old, he joined a professional cultural group (Guangdong song and dance troupe). Under the guidance of famous teacher Ma Sigong, he studied violin, erhu and music theory. He performed everywhere with the troupe and gained a lot of playing experience. After that, Peng Xiuwen taught him how to compose music and how to play various musical instruments. At the age of 17, he won the Composition Award for a song of the South China Sea, showing his talent in music creation. Wu Dajiang moved to Hong Kong in 1963 and won the recognition and encouragement of many national music predecessors. He began to work hard for the development of traditional Chinese folk music. He was invited to be a lecturer in the Chinese music section of the Music Department of Chongji College of Chinese University, and also taught in Tsinghua University. Later, he joined Shao's company to do film music work. Since 1969, he has worked for major film companies as film music composition and music work, with a total of 100 films, including "chivalrous woman", "tiying", "biography of desert heroes", "blood weeping in Yingtai", "dream of Red Mansions" and so on. In addition, he also provided theme songs for a number of TV films, which sold well in Southeast Asia at that time. Due to the unique style of his music, Wu Dajiang's name is also widely known around the world, paving the way for his future development in Singapore. After the mid-1970s, he gradually reached the peak of his career. In 1972, Wu Dajiang initiated the organization of the Hong Kong National Orchestra of orchestras and adopted new training methods, which became a new start in his music development. In the same year, on the way to Japan, he was invited to perform in the imperial palace of Japan to compete with the Royal Chamber Orchestra in the palace. In October of that year, he was invited to Singapore to serve as a guest conductor of the Chinese Orchestra of the National Theatre and people's Association. Due to the success of the performance, he was employed as the full-time conductor and CO ordinator of the troupe in 1974. Under his leadership, the troupe's standard was greatly improved, and the orchestra was professionalized. In November 1976, Wu Dajiang led the troupe to go abroad to participate in the first Asian Games in Hong Kong It's a performance at the Hong Kong Art Festival. In June 1977, at the invitation of the Hong Kong Municipal Council, Wu Dajiang returned to Hong Kong to plan the professionalization of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. He was appointed as the music director and conductor of the orchestra. After leaving his post in 1985, he moved to Taiwan for development. He was invited as a guest conductor by Taipei National Orchestra, China Broadcasting Corporation National Orchestra and Kaohsiung experimental National Orchestra. He also sang in Taiwan Production and sales of musical instruments. In June 1991, he was employed as a permanent guest conductor of Taipei Municipal National Orchestra, but only for one year. he died in Taipei at 12:30 noon on September 4, 2001. He was only 58 years old.

Work style

Integration of China and the West

Wu Dajiang's works have many forms. In addition to film and TV music, there are both large orchestral music from China and the west, and small orchestral music from China. In addition, a large number of Chinese folk songs and operas have been adapted with new techniques. In addition to composing and conducting, he is good at playing many kinds of Chinese musical instruments, especially Banhu and erhu. He has recorded many records for record companies. In 1981, yuan, a large ensemble of folk music, was published in the Sixth Asian Arts Festival. In 1982, Hong Kong participated in the international music of composers sponsored by the United Nations Association for science, education and culture in Paris for the first time and was selected as the top 15. His representative works include Singapore La, dance music of Coconut Grove, by the pool of Merritt, watching from the door, and sky clean sand, dance drama strange fate in the East China Sea, and adapted work of Butterfly Lovers Concerto by Gao Hu. The basic principle of Wu Dajiang's music creation is to incorporate western theories into Chinese music with an objective and calm attitude. He first affirmed the value of traditional music, incorporated the advanced western composition theory, and tried to give full play to the new playing methods of Chinese musical instruments, as well as the timbre combination of different musical instruments to expand the expression of music. From Wu Dajiang's works of Chinese national orchestral music, we can find that he has been vigorously promoting the reform of the playing method of Chinese musical instruments, exploring new sound combinations, in order to produce new timbre. How to make Chinese National Orchestra symphonic has always been one of his creative goals. From his Western orchestral works, he pays more attention to the local ethnic color of different countries.

Promoting folk music

On the other hand, his music generally focuses on the image, which is quite visualized, and mostly uses percussion music. At the same time, in his works, he often gives people a sense of freshness, with interesting, vivid and lively character. For example, coconut shell is used as a percussion instrument in "dance in the Coconut Grove", beside the Merrich pool, and the calls of birds are one of the characteristics of his works. Of course, Wu Dajiang's greatest contribution lies in laying a solid foundation for the development of the professional Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, especially in the promotion of symphonic folk music works, which has a far-reaching influence. His "fate" gives full play to the effect of introducing modern music style into folk music works. since then, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra has just been able to develop independently from the government, which is the realization of Wu Dajiang's previous dream.

anecdote

The birth of the first pure national music version of "Liang Zhu"

In December 1968, EMI commissioned Wu Dajiang to produce the album. In that year, Wu Dajiang spent a week writing a complete record at night and recording in the daytime. Wu Dajiang played Gao Hu himself and the recording concerto was a piece of orchestral music Team, this record was once quite popular. In 1977, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra became a professional orchestra. After Wu Dajiang became the music director, he changed "Liang Zhu" into a large-scale Concerto by a large-scale orchestra composed of traditional Chinese musical instruments. The first large-scale Concerto of pure national music was performed in 1978. It has been more than 30 years since it became a witness of the "Symphony" of national music! In August 1983, Wu Dajiang, a large-scale Concerto by Gao Hu, was performed by Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra under the direction of he Zhanhao. At that time, he highly praised Wu's adaptation as a successful work, and said that he would not consider another adaptation.

Chronology of works

Thunderstorm (1957) Longmen Inn (1967) Li Houzhu (1968) dragon and tiger (1970) dragon city on the 10th (1970) flame (1970) marry or not (1970) joy, anger and sorrow (1970) chivalrous girl (1971) fan miss (1971) cloud girl (1971) deception Fantasy (1971) big warlord (1972) iron finger tang hand (1972) tang hand Taekwondo (1972) world first fist (1972) heidian (1972) Big killers (1972) fighting the Northern Kingdom (1972) kung fu boy (1972) only admiring mandarin ducks but not Immortals (1972) Shaolin gaotu (1973) man (1973) deception qizhongqi (1973) indomitable (1973) Beidi Rouge (1973) travelling in the river and lake (1973) death row (1974) Beijinger (1974) head gambling (1975) blue blood sword (1976) four sects (1977) ten killers (1977) ）thirty six magic Boxing (1977) Diao nu (1978) dream of new Red Mansions (1978) Kongshan Lingyu (1979) legend in the mountains (1979) xunjiaofang (1980) Chaozhou Xiaohan (1980) alligator drum ghost sword Langyan (1982) Wusong (1982) family in Hong Kong (1983) Shaolin Temple disciple (1984) 800 Luohan (1985) Sun Yat Sen and founding hero (1986)

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