Ren Tongxiang.
In 1953, on the stage of the First National Folk Music and Dance Festival in Beijing, when "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" was selected to participate in the performance program of the Fourth World Youth Festival, Ren Tongxiang, a folk musician, processed the piece with the assistance of professional musicians, and in response to the shortcomings of the original piece, compressed the sound of the bird's call, deleted the sound of the chicken's call, and designed a long phrase that utilized a special cyclic air change technique, expanding the fast end section to make the whole piece more colorful, and making the whole piece more beautiful. A colorful phrase using special cyclic air change method was designed, and the end section of the Allegro was expanded to make the whole piece end in a warm and joyful atmosphere. The piece later won the Silver Medal in the Folk Music Competition at the Fourth World Youth Gala.
His performance of "Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix", "A Flower", "Carrying a Sedan Chair", "Celebrating the Harvest", "Wedding Song", "Residence in the Clouds" and many other oboe masterpieces made the audience marvel at them, and they had a long and unforgettable aftertaste. Ren Tongxiang take the lead in making our national musical instruments in the international music competition, for the motherland won the honor, for the national instrumental music added luster.
Expanded:
The Hundred Birds Praying for the Phoenix is not only a suona tune, but has also been adapted into guzheng, accordion and piano tunes. In the 1970s, China's famous composer Wang Jianzhong wrote a solo piano piece of the same name based on "Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix". On the basis of retaining the characteristics of the original suona piece, Wang Jianzhong combined the western music aesthetic and compositional methods to make adjustments to the melody and paragraph structure of the original piece suitable for the piano playing techniques, and while absorbing the characteristics of the suona blowing, he also used the developmental methods of the traditional Chinese music to streamline and unify the piece, and added harmonies rich in national colors.
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