Min Huifen

Min Huifen

Min Huifen (December 23, 1945 to May 12, 2014), born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, is a national first-class actor and a famous erhu player.

He has served as Erhu soloist in China Art Troupe, Shanghai Orchestra, Shanghai Art Troupe and Shanghai National Orchestra, and once served as 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 National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

He died in Shanghai on the morning of May 12, 2014 at the age of 69.

Life experience

Min Huifen was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province on December 23, 1945. His father min Jiqian is the second disciple of the famous erhu player Liu Tianhua. Influenced by her family, min Huifen has loved music since childhood. At the age of 8, he studied erhu with his father min Jiqian and showed great talent in music. In 1956, at the age of 11, min Huifen came to Nanjing, the ancient cultural capital, with her father's job transfer. She joined the red scarf Art Troupe, the youth's home in Gulou District of Nanjing City, as a young erhu soloist and conductor of the orchestra.

In 1958, at the age of 13, he entered the Affiliated High School of Shanghai Conservatory of music, majoring in erhu, under the guidance of Erhu educators Wang Yi and Lu Xiutang. In 1963, min Huifen won the first prize in the national erhu competition of the fourth Shanghai Spring Concert by conquering the audience and judges with a song "singing in sickness".

Since 1979, she has performed in more than ten countries and regions, including the United States, Canada and France.

In 1981, when art was in its prime, min Huifen unfortunately suffered from cancer. In five years, she had undergone six major operations and 15 chemotherapy. However, she was tenacious and optimistic, striving to return to the stage as soon as possible. In September 1987, 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. In January 1988, she was invited to participate in "dragon Music Week" to perform the Concerto "random thoughts on Honghu theme" with the Shanghai National Orchestra. Then she performed successfully in Shanghai and Singapore.

In his 60s, min Huifen not only created performances, but also put a lot of energy on the popularization of folk music and the cultivation of new people. Almost every year, she holds more than 20 popular folk music concerts.

In July 2006, min Huifen took her masterpiece Tian Xian to Guangzhou advanced sound exhibition.

On the morning of May 12, 2014, he died in Shanghai Renji Hospital at the age of 69.

Anecdotes of characters

Music Enlightenment

Min Huifen said that his peers began to learn piano at a very young age. Just after liberation, there was no one to learn music, especially folk music. It seems incredible that girls play erhu.

Min Huifen's hometown is Yixing, Jiangsu Province, which is the hometown of silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River. She is attracted by silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River, blowing and playing in the south of Jiangsu Province, various folk songs and tunes, and even the music of monks and Taoists all night when she was a child. Her infatuation with folk music has taken root in her young heart. Min Huifen was born in a musical family. His father min Jiqian is a pioneer of folk music, Liu Tianhua's second disciple, erhu, pipa, Sanxian and other Jiangnan Silk and bamboo can do anything. Among all kinds of national musical instruments, min Huifen especially likes erhu. Its charm lies in that it is very close to the feelings of Chinese people, and its timbre is like Chinese people talking and singing.

Min Huifen still keeps the erhu from her first study. It is a homemade erhu left by one of her father's colleagues after they got married and moved. The tube is covered with cheap toad skin. At the age of 8, min Huifen began to learn piano with her father. The old erhu made min Huifen's brilliant career in the future.

Diligent and studious

During the "Cultural Revolution", all kinds of music sounds of Shanghai Conservatory of music disappeared, the piano was smashed, the teacher was beaten as a "double agent" and put into a "cowshed". Min Huifen is still learning oriented, not only practicing erhu, but also Jinghu and violin. Zhang Qisong, a classmate in the Department of vocal music, once gave min Huifen an erhu record played by a blind man, an old folk artist. However, min Huifen didn't have a phonograph to listen to the record. Later, min Huifen went to Shanghai Film Orchestra for rehearsal, where he found a record room. When everyone left after rehearsal, he took out a Bing's playing records and listened to them. While listening, as like as two peas, she was listening to the music, and then she could hear the erhu and the record perfectly.

Min Huifen realized that she should have her own understanding of a Bing and her own understanding of life. She talked about the treatment of the middle part of Er Quan Ying Yue, which is not like some people's expectation and desire, but rather the indifference. Some people say that her bowing technique in playing Er Quan Ying Yue is very similar to the dry pen in calligraphy. She agrees with this metaphor very much.

special task

In 1975, min Huifen received a special task: recording a batch of Beijing opera singing for Chairman Mao Zedong. To play Peking Opera with erhu, we should not only develop the charm of Peking opera singing, but also maintain the characteristics of erhu. In order to master the characteristics of Peking Opera, min Huifen traveled to Beijing and Shanghai, seeking advice from Peking Opera masters everywhere, not only learning to sing by himself, but also carefully pondering the differences between different schools.

She used erhu to record a large number of Beijing Opera tunes, such as Xiaoyaojin, zhanhuangpao, Wolong diaoxiao, lianyingzhai and wailingpai. Min Huifen's artistic vision was greatly expanded by the success of Erhu playing Beijing opera aria, and she was interested in using Opera Aria to broaden the playing space of erhu. Over the years, she has not given up on the exploration of "instrumental vocal performance" except for the premiere of a large number of erhu music, such as "river water", "Capriccio of the Great Wall", "farewell to the new marriage", "deep night" and so on.

Main achievements

personal works

In 1973, he played the Northeast folk music river, which became his masterpiece. In 1980, the first large-scale Erhu Concerto "random thoughts on the Great Wall" was highly praised and widely spread. In addition, she also engaged in erhu solo creation, such as "Honghu people's wish" (based on opera music arrangement), "Yangguan Sandie" (adapted from ancient music), "Baoyu wailing Ling" (based on Yue opera music arrangement), erhu and band "Yinshi Xinqu" (with Qu Chunquan), which have certain influence and are included in the teaching materials of higher Conservatory of music.

Research on instrumental music

In the 1960s, min Huifen, an erhu performer, put forward the performance style and method of erhu vocal performance. In her decades of artistic career, she has put the idea and method of erhu vocal performance into practice, adapted and created some repertoires with the characteristics of erhu vocal performance, such as the opera Honghu Red Guard excerpt Honghu people's wish, etc.

Erhu tune is a special way of playing created by this famous folk musician, which makes her become the leading master in the field of folk music.

style of art

Performance style

Min Huifen has a wide range of folk opera music, such as Jiangnan Silk bamboo, Chaozhou music, Beijing opera, Shaoxing opera, CI music and so on, from which we can learn from the essence, constantly explore erhu playing techniques and enrich the expressive force of erhu. Her performance is full of passion and her treatment of the connotation of the music is exquisite and vivid.

In the long-term artistic practice, min Huifen has formed a performance style of passion but connotation, moving but not flattering, exaggeration but not crazy, sadness but not hurt. In the performance, she can grasp the artistic conception of music to express, and use the big rhythm law of starting, inheriting, transferring and combining her feelings with "momentum" and "verve". Through the rhythm, pitch, strength of music and the manner of performing on the stage, she can arouse people's extensive imagination, and all these ideas are naturally completed in a series of ingenious and uninterrupted moments Her superb artistic attainments are reflected in erhu.

Min Huifen's opera music works can deeply grasp the style and verve of the works, and understand the spirit in the dynamic sound of the opera. It is not to imitate the performance form of this style from the surface, but to start from the fundamental verve, and then carry on the perceptual feeling, experience and rational thinking, so as to achieve the perfect artistic realm.

Aesthetic concept

She was deeply influenced by the experience school of Stanny's system, and integrated herself with erhu. She accepted Chinese opera in an all-round way, and formed a unique stage music performance represented by Mei's system, 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, ideal and interest directly affect the psychological factors such as perception, experience, imagination and comprehension. She has the comprehensive aesthetic concept of creative blending of subject and object, emphasizing the overall grasp and comprehensive feeling. The emotional communication between the subject and the object, and the experience and transmission of the subject's aesthetic emotion to the object all embody the aesthetic concept of moving with emotion.

Creative ideas

Min Huifen, in the process of performing the aria of various art schools of Peking Opera, highlights the intuitive image of the works, reveals the vividness of the works with creative methods of expression, pursues the theory of emotion in aesthetics, and advocates that music should reveal people's inner world. The aesthetic concept of the unity of beauty and goodness, the unity of reason and reason, the unity of form and spirit advocated by the Chinese national cultural tradition, and the balanced, moderate and implicit artistic style shown in her music performance, can be clearly reflected.

Honors

He won the first prize in the fourth "Shanghai Spring" Chinese Erhu competition, the Shanghai Literature and Art Award, the second prize in the 12th "Shanghai Spring" Creation Award, the first China "gold record" award, Baosteel elegant art award, and the title of "national excellent literary and artistic worker".

Social evaluation

She keeps improving on art, studies hard and practices hard, and has comprehensive and solid basic skills. She pays more attention to the in-depth exploration of the connotation of the music and expresses it in detail. The music is full of artistic charm

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