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I’ve watched many live performances, but this is the first time I’ve encountered them-the singing on the stage is light and cheerful, but the audience tears down. For example, when my colleague sitting next to me, he turned around and asked me, “Why am I crying?” After the show, he was a little embarrassed to say that it was almost from the first second of the song, and the tears Out.

In fact, he may not be embarrassed, because everyone in the concert hall is crying. He met his good friend Qiu Chen in the midfield, and that day she had just rushed back to the city after recording “The Exquisite Story” in Daxing. The first thing she did was to listen to the concert. The two chatted for a while, Qiu Chen’s eyes flushed and said, what’s going on, can’t stand it, let me cry for a while …

November 17, Beijing Concert Hall, Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Choir “I Have a Pocket Full of Stars” concert. Because “Zhang Shichao, where did you put the keys to my house”, “I feel my body is hollowed out”, “Chinese New Year’s Guide to Self-help” and several other “Divine Comedies”, this choir, mostly rehearsed part-time by amateurs, exploded on social networks. After reading the beginning of the article, you might think that they brought a performance that took the tender tear line, but it is not. Before the show began, the audience laughed.

In this space where classical music is played, the following scenes are really uncommon-

The first person I met with the audience was not a choir member, but a “subtitle machine”. An unseen child voice, the task is to say hello to the audience and introduce the cast and the etiquette of the theater. But what she introduced first was not the cast members, but several audiences with the characteristics of “Emperor Capital”:

“Xi Erqi programmer Huang Wensheng, specifically to get off work early to prevent traffic jams, now he is still modifying the code on the shuttle. The wind blows his hair.”

After satirizing the programmer’s output, a navigation map from Xi’erqi to Beijing Concert Hall appeared on the screen. The distance is indeed bald.

“Food blogger Li Dingguo, who came to Beijing two days in advance and wants to experience the authentic flavor, has now punched in: old Beijing traditional rose cake, old Beijing black cloud ice cream, old Beijing flavored biscuits and old Beijing Chicken rolls. “

This is ironic to those non-descript Beijing tourism landscapes, under the sign of “Old Beijing”, buying flavors from other regions or new online celebrity food.

“Advertising rookie Zhang Longtian finally handed in a new plan just before the deadline for submission. On the way to the concert, he repeatedly pondered the reply from Party A: Hilarious. Praying silently, the other party could be thousands Don’t be a Beijinger. “

Classic dialect stem. The word-swallowing feature of Beijing dialect made this advertising rookie confused whether Party A’s father was talking about “burly” or “not funny”.

After introducing these three special guests, the “subtitle machine” began to broadcast the etiquette of the theater. In addition to the two general requirements of not taking pictures and recording videos, there are also some “exclusive taboos” for the audience of the Imperial City, for example:

Do not pan walnuts

Stir-fried chestnuts without peeling

Do not roast duck and sweet potatoes

Do not shout “Guo An will always be the first!”

This is very different from the classical concert in which everyone is familiar with sitting quietly and whispering, for fear that they don’t look serious and elegant, and destroy the atmosphere of the performance. In some parts of the show, you seem to feel that it is still following some of the conventions of classical concerts, such as not using a mobile phone, it is best to shut down. But its expression is obviously unconventional-whenever a songAfter singing the song, the choir’s artistic director and conductor Jin Chengzhi would turn around and talk to the audience with a tone and content like a talk show.

Regarding mobile phones, he said this: “If you find someone using a mobile phone next to you, grab it and throw it on the ground!”

This is of course a joke, but very few people in classical concert halls speak in this joking tone. At the end of the show, Jin Chengzhi even broke the general rules of not being able to watch mobile phones. When singing the Rainbow Choir’s masterpiece “Rainbow”, he stepped down from the stage, handed the microphone to the audience to sing, and asked everyone to pick up their mobile phones to turn on the flash, and take a group photo with the camera.

Before singing “Dad’s Broken Car”, Jin Chengzhi said that his mother would chase his performances all over the country, so he wrote a song for his family every music season, before writing After my grandfather and grandma, this year I wrote about an old car that his father had just “retired” this year. I hope this song will commemorate the 90s that the family spent together.

He asked the audience, “Are some of you 00 people?” The audience answered “Yes”. He immediately joked and said, “Well, then please go out! You don’t have this memory at all!”

When singing this warm and lively song, the members of the group held a colorful plastic mini microphone in their hands, posing an exaggerated 90s stage pose in the chorus section, echoing the background of the song’s era.

Similar scenes may make some classical music professionals very uncomfortable, and even feel outrageous. But in fact, Jin Chengzhi himself is a professional in the standard sense. He is 32 years old. He studied piano from an early age. He entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music’s Conducting Department at the university and received a complete orthodox classical music education.

Why did Jin Chengzhi later break the consistent performance form of classical music? Why did he produce a “Divine Comedy” that he called “interesting and brainless” for the masses? Why did I write “I feel like my body is hollowed out, I ’m tired like a Dog”, “I skipped the square dance in Chaoyang Park, and the haze did n’t conquer me” “I like Kimura Takuya ’s long hair” Lyrics for urban everyday life? With confusion and curiosity, I chatted with Jin Chengzhi after the performance.

Jin Chengzhi thinks that the above problem is not really a problem-classical music is not born as we know it now. When it was born, it was much more messy in the theater than it is today. The Shakespeare-era theater unearthed today is full of clam shells. People can listen to music and snacks. The dignitaries in the opera box are not sitting in a serious position, but rather listening to opera as a social activity. Only later, as the art of classical music became stronger, it was promoted to a high position. But who can judge that it must be so?

“For the Chinese, classical music is an exotic product, we inherited its final form, and this shelved form also means that it is out of touch with the audience, and what I want to do is Give classical music a chance to get close to the audience. “

“The concert hall environment is easy to make the audience nervous. When I walk in, I often have an attitude of education, and I want to make the audience sit down comfortably and listen to the concert. I am more like The owner of the pub, and the audience is like old customers who often come to the pub to kill time. “

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People remember the various magical songs of the Rainbow Choir, but not everyone knows that these works account for only 20% of Jin Chengzhi’s creations. In addition, he also has a large part of his composition, which is a more musical and narrative repertoire.

From “Ze Ya Ji” to “White Horse Village Travels” to the newly-created “Rakshasa Chronicle”, he has been writing the story of a fictional literati Gu Yuanshan. This character walks between the temple and the countryside, swinging back and forth between Jiaguanjinjue and indulging in landscapes.

Jin Chengzhi said that this character is actually a portrayal of his own situation-after several divine songs became popular, the Rainbow Choir began to be invited by various variety shows, received various orders for advertising songs, and performed with TFBoys on the same stage. The members were excited at first, but later they found that the unease began to spread. Jin Chengzhi’s friend Tokugawa Mimi once recorded such a story:

At a party, Jin Chengzhi and his team members waited for the show, and in front of them was a combination of Kings. A security guard came to open the road and pushed a few members away: “Give way and make way, what are you doing here?”

Jin Chengzhi jumped up: “What are you doing? Speak well, why push people?”

The security guard glanced at him: “What are you? Do you know who will step down in a while?”

On that day, the background lights were dazzling, the superstars were coming and going, and the figures were mixed. And Jin Chengzhi suddenly froze in place: what am I doing? Where did I take my members? Is this really what Rainbow wants?

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A similar scene took place on another variety show. The show was designed as a competition, and the director asked Kim Chengzhi to tell a story about canvassing: “Just say your dream is to take the Rainbow Choir to a bigger stage and let the world hear China’s choir.”

Jin Chengzhi said, “We have no such dream.”

“You are really … okay, then you can sing for a while, right? Just sing‘ Thank the audience, please vote for me ’. Come! Begin on March 21! Sing!”

“Director, that’s not the case. The choir didn’t come out of the mouth. It’s going to take a long time to rehearse.”

He and the director stared at each other for a while. The director chose to give up: “Then bow, then.”

So, in the eyes of everyone, Jin Chengzhi led everyone to bow for a minute.

After that, Jin Chengzhi spent a long time creating and rehearsing the suite “Travel to the White Horse Village”. He hoped to use this to find his inner balance. “Otherwise, the rainbow is over.”

While being serious and popular, professional systems and amateur interests, today’s Jin Chengzhi and Rainbow Choir have found a balance between the two states?

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