The answer is yes.
It can be said that all post-80s and even post-90s grew up listening to his Journey to the West episode.
This is Xu Jingqing.
In Chinese mainland in 1980s, the music environment was very conservative. Cui Jian's "Nothing" doesn't sound out of line today, and it was besieged on all sides when it came out; The rise of "northwest wind" is called "popular music"; Electro-acoustic instruments have just entered the mainland, and are often regarded as the symbol of western bourgeois music standing on the opposite side of national music. At that time, the Journey to the West crew collected composers with music scores. Before Xu Jingqing, seven people applied to sing national music or Gao Daquan's hymn. Yang Jie, the general director, is very dissatisfied. It was not until Xu Jingqing's works appeared that the score was determined.
"When writing songs, I am not afraid of anything, and there is no frame for writing songs. ..... Journey to the West itself has no framework. Does the Monkey King have a framework? He has no rules. It is wrong to frame the music of Journey to the West. "
Xu Jingqing wrote 15 episodes and hundreds of pieces of music for The Journey to the West. Among them, Yun Gong Yin Xun, Dare to Ask Where the Road Is, Daughter Love, Tianzhu Girl and Pig Back Daughter-in-law are widely circulated and have great influence. His works can be said to be born and become pioneers of the times. Even today, they are still clearly audible. So, what's special about them?
Take the hit song "Yin Xun in the Cloud Palace" that netizens relish as an example. It has several characteristics:
First, in that era when songs were not called without words, it boldly adopted the form of pure instrumental music, which was refreshing and had outstanding practical effects.
Secondly, the combination of electronic music, orchestral music and folk music was pioneered in China TV soundtrack, with rich levels, beautiful melody, complex colors, exquisite arrangement, ups and downs, freedom of retraction and release, which is highly compatible with the plot, and integrates many elements of Journey to the West, such as miraculous, fighting, romance and religion, which is natural and amazing. Especially in expressing some unique concepts of China culture, such as "immortal" and "fairyland", cloud worker Yin Xun can be said to have set the tone and created a real "Chinese style".
It is said that the episode and soundtrack of Yungong Yinxun and Xu Jingqing's Journey to the West is one of the best soundtracks of China TV series and a monument in the history of China TV series soundtrack.
The netizen lamented: "With such classics and such masters, we China people can create very good works ourselves, so we don't have to blindly worship foreign countries!"
However, at that time, some people thought that it was inappropriate to praise China's four traditional classical novels with electronic music, a western bourgeois thing, and it was suspected of mental pollution. The leader asked director The Journey to the West to replace Xu Jingqing, and Yang Jie managed to squeeze through the crowd so that these works could meet the audience.
Although his works have been widely recognized and appeared in various film and television dramas, video works and parties for countless times, his creators have always lived a poor life indifferent to fame and fortune.
How many times did The Journey to the West win the prize? It was always the lyricist Yan Su who won the prize. No one informed the composer Xu Jingqing. "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is" was once rated as one of the top ten hits, and the media simply sent the trophy directly to the reception room of Lao Xu's unit, even if it won the prize.
He seems to have been forgotten intentionally or unintentionally.
A few years ago, music paid websites paid Lao Xu less than 8,000 copyright fees, and one of them only paid 2.7 yuan.
Xu Jingqing is not particularly concerned about these things. His biggest dream in 30 years is to hold a concert in Journey to the West.
"This concert will be held anyway, and I'm going to throw caution to the wind. In the end, I couldn't raise money. I will put my house in the bank, even if I live in a shack! "
However, this matter is more difficult than he imagined.
After Weibo asked for help, dozens of people asked him out and said countless words, full of hope and disappointment again and again.
Once, a boss who claimed to be worth billions said he wanted to help. As a result, the boss was already drunk when Xu Jingqing took out the accumulated manuscript fee and asked him to listen to the music again. In his snoring, the music is over and the concert will be over.
20 16 years, Xu Jingqing is 74 years old. Not long ago, he just recovered his life from the intensive care unit because of a large area of heart paralysis. This incident prompted him to make up his mind to hold the concert anyway. He accepted the way of "crowdfunding" and raised most of the funds in a short time. Together with his life savings, the Journey to the West concert was finally staged in the Great Hall of the People on the evening of February 4, 2016,65438.
This is a concert completed by 29,000 netizens through crowdfunding, which is very successful. From gray-haired old people to children of several years old, they all came, and the Great Hall of the People was packed. Several gray-haired uncles heard tears at the scene.
Some netizens said:
"I came here by plane for two hours, not for anything else, but for pilgrimage and saw Mr. Xu Jingqing's Journey to the West theme concert."
The protagonist of the concert hid in the empty dressing room. For a time, he was worried that the audience was "cold and clear, and the applause was sparse." For a while, he was afraid that the scene would be too warm. When he gets excited, his heart can't stand it.
Near the end, the host asked him what he wanted to say to the audience.
Xu Jingqing's tears fell down.
"I just want to cry, I can't help it." He said thank you, bowed, and finally bowed again. I can't remember how many times he bowed.