Wang Xin, born in 1918 in Dangkou Town, Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, is a famous contemporary composer who has composed more than a thousand songs, including the masterpiece Singing for the Motherland, and has successively served as the head of the Tianjin Troupe of Sound Workers, the deputy director of the Tianjin People's Art Theater, the director of the Tianjin Opera House, and the president of the Tianjin Branch of the Music Association. Born in a middle peasant family, Wang Xin was smart and studious at an early age. After the outbreak of the "12-9" movement in 1935, Wang Xin was inspired by the revolutionary songs and joined a popular singing organization at that time, and then met some famous musicians such as Lv Ji and Xian Xinghai, and got their guidance, and was full of love for the music career. Later, he led a team of more than ten musicians. Later, he led a Ningbo anti-Japanese rescue propaganda team consisting of more than ten people to Yan'an. Soon after, he went to the front line of the anti-Japanese resistance, and composed the songs "Jinchaji" and "Children's Troupe in the Border Area", which were widely popular in the border area. 1949 was the birth of the new China, and Wang Xin inspired his passion for creation, and composed the famous song "Singing of the Motherland", which soon became popular all over the country. This song has a powerful melody, high and exciting, very rich in national characteristics, with its strong infectious plucked the Chinese children love the motherland, love the people, love the peace of the heartstrings. It with the Chinese people **** and the national anthem, permanently included in the annals of music, became a symbol of the new China, but also became our national ceremonies and international activities must be played in the classic songs. 3 "Red Plum Praise" Lyrics by Yan Su, Music by Yang Ming Jiang Chunyang. --- 1964 ---
The main theme of the opera "Jiang Sister", "Red Plum Praise", has captivated fans across the country. It came about by chance.
At that time, Commander Liu Yalou on the creation of Jiang Sister, put forward 8 words: refinement, to create a fine product. In the opera "Sister Jiang", the beginning did not want to write the theme song, then Liu Yalou found Yan Su said: "I was in Moscow, watching the opera "Carmen", they have a theme song, "Sister Jiang" also write a good?" Yan Su wrote the lyrics are: "rowing on the Yangtze River, even if the wind and waves ......" Liu Yalou felt dissatisfied, Yan Su then took out a piece of manuscript paper from his pocket and said: "This is the Shanghai Conservatory of Music comrades asked me to write a lyrics, the original intention was to The original intention was to write about the plum blossom, I named 'Red Plum Praise', do you think it's okay?" The first time I saw it, I said yes, so "Red Plum Praise" became the theme song of "Sister Jiang".
In the spring of 1962, at the age of 28, Yang Ming accepted the task of composing the music for the opera "Sister Jiang" together with Jiang Chunyang and Jin Sha. The song "Praise for Red Plum" alone had eight drafts and was revised more than 20 times.
Yang Ming, one of the composers, first wrote a prototype of the theme melody "Red Plum Blossoms on the Red Rock", which triggered Jin Sha's inspiration, based on which he added a fluttering cantata, which was greatly expanded, compressed, added flowers, and melted into some of the tones of the Jiangnan beach reeds, which penetrated the Yangqin music of Sichuan, and formed the relatively complete "Praise of the Red Plum", which was composed by Jiang Chunyang and Jiang Chunyang. Relatively complete "Red Plum Praise" theme song.