1973, Liu Dehai, Wang Yanqiao and Wu Zuqiang created a pipa concerto "Little Sisters of the Prairie Heroes", with the touching story of Mongolian children Yu Rong and Long Mei protecting the sheep in the snowstorm as the theme. This is the explanation written by the author on the title page of the score.
Prior to this, an animated film of the same name was released nationwide, which caused great repercussions. The main theme of Pipa Concerto is taken from the theme song of this animated film. The song premiered in 1976, and then went to the United States twice in 1978 and 1979, which was appreciated by audiences at home and abroad. This pipa concerto is one of the works of blending Chinese and western cultures.
Track background:
Little Sisters of Prairie Heroes is a combination of Chinese and Western musical instruments. Under the contrast of western musical instruments, the unique charm of pipa musical instruments is fully displayed, which provides more imagination space for the development of national musical instruments. Tong Tong * * is divided into five parts, which are played continuously: grassland grazing; Fight against snowstorms; March on a cold night; The care of the party is in mind; Thousands of red flowers are blooming everywhere.
At the same time, the concerto extracted the tune fragment of the movie cartoon Little Sisters of Prairie Heroes composed by Wu Yingju and the tune fragment of an Inner Mongolia song composed by Alateng Ole as music materials. The introduction of music shows us the vibrant Inner Mongolia grassland, which is the background of the work. The brief overture of the band leads to the heroic theme of "Little Sister" played by Pipa throughout the whole song.