In 2013, the musical "Zhang Ailing" was invited to the 2nd International Women's Theater Festival and performed for 10 consecutive performances at the Dayin Theater in Beijing from May 14th to 23rd. The play is currently being revived. In addition to retaining the classic songs "Become Famous Soon", "Her Majesty the Queen", and the well-received "Bloom", director and composer Yan Yue will compose a beautiful new song in this new version of the musical.
The 2010 drama "Zhang Ailing" will be held in Beijing from October 21st to October 31st. As the most anticipated large-scale musical of the year, the play is jointly created by many creative leaders from the Chinese cultural circle and strives to comprehensively reshape the concept of contemporary Chinese drama in many aspects. The joint creation of many cultural and creative leaders from different fields made the musical "Zhang Ailing" not only a cultural gathering convened in the name of "Zhang Ailing", but also became a topical event in the Chinese drama industry in 2010.
2010 coincides with the 90th anniversary of the birth of the famous female writer Zhang Ailing. Composer Yan Yue, theater director Yan Yongqi, music producer Wu Tao, senior planner and screenwriter Tao Ran, designer Hansey, and senior sound engineer Li Jun, Senior creative leaders from different industries, working together to create a cross-border musical "Zhang Ailing", will be auditioned in Beijing from October 21st to 31st this year. The musical "Zhang Ailing" tells the story of Zhang Ailing's experience of becoming famous in Shanghai in the 1940s, and her love and emotional entanglements with Hu Lancheng and Sang Hu. The creative team of this drama spent two years reviewing a large amount of information and literature related to Zhang Ailing. The creative members are all fans of Zhang to varying degrees. They will use their own understanding of Zhang Ailing and different professional perspectives to create the drama: Old Shanghai The costumes and stage design, various singing and dancing music expression techniques, etc. strive to break through the audio-visual enjoyment of traditional stage plays. This play has entered into intense rehearsals and creation. It will be a very anticipated annual drama and will become one of the most watched events in this year's community commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Zhang Ailing's birth.
Creative Background
Yan Yue started preparing for the drama "Zhang Ailing" in 2008. Over a total of 2 years, she consulted a large amount of information about Zhang Ailing and the people around her, and researched it. It explores the culture and fashion of Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s, Chinese contemporary music and Jiangnan folk music, etc., and builds the basic framework of the play. The music creation part was basically completed at the end of 2009, so we began to invite the remaining six creative leaders to jointly create this gorgeous and beautiful stage play, making the legendary story of Zhang Ailing, a Shanghai-style talented woman, come to life and make the world laugh. Let’s talk about Eileen Chang in my heart: I am full of love for her. The unsatisfactory life comes from Eileen Chang’s inability to control the fate of the characters in her works at will, so all kinds of unwillingness bring sadness and loss. About this cross-border cooperation: A group of very rock and roll people are doing very rock and roll things, and that’s it, the drama has already begun. Album: "Dunhuang"
Category: Original popular piano music, healing music
Composer and performance: Yan Yue
Produced by: Foreign Sound
Release date: December 2012 This is a concept album related to Dunhuang. It originated from Yan Yue's trip to Dunhuang. It tells about her experiences and insights during her trip to Dunhuang. It is a woman's inner journey of growth. The piano album "Dunhuang" was completed in 2009 by the famous musician Yan Yue and assembled a top domestic production team. For Milk Coffee's Ge Fei, Wu Tao, the record producer of He Jiong, Qiao Renliang and others, served as the arranger, and Zhang Yadong served as the producer and was responsible for part of the music production of the album. Also participating in the recording were singers Peng Tan, Zhang Yuan and Wu Xiaoyu, and famous pipa player Zhao Cong. The later stage of the album was completed by Li Jun, the recording engineer for singers such as Girls Twelve Band, Faye Wong, Na Ying, etc. The master tape was completed by Hamasaki Ayumi's producer Nobuto Ikehata in Tokyo with Yan Yue.
Yan Yue said: "If one day you travel to Dunhuang, I hope you can bring this record with you. Music can help you record the journey and preserve your mood.
When life is unsatisfactory in the future, please listen to this album again, and all the memories will flow into your eyes like a tide. It will be your best comfort. "The ten healing songs in this album can help people return to their human nature and find themselves.
The album includes: "She", "Lonely Dream Chaser", "Comfort", "Dunhuang", "Carving Time", "Fantasy World", "Missing You", "The Sea", "Elegy", and "Backpacker" are ten pieces of music. The film continues Yan Yue's consistently beautiful artistic style, using beautiful music. The innovative film expression technique of "novel style" tells the story of the cruel youth and ego among piano composer Meng Fei (played by Zhang Yuan), cellist Tian Na (played by Wu Xiaoyu), and Xiaohui (played by Yin Shuo) who loves taking photos. The process of growth. Focusing on the inner growth of the characters is the most attractive core of Yan Yue's works. In addition, the music in each film she directed is composed and performed by herself. The theme music of the film is composed by the two leading actors Zhang Yuanhe. Sung by Wu Xiaoyu. Produced by Beijing Yangzhiyin Cultural Development Co., Ltd., Gansu Radio, Film and Television Bureau, produced by Zhang Ji, produced by Kang Jian, produced by Ma Lin, planned by Cui Fei, written by Tao Ran, directed by Yan Yue, starring Zhang Yuan and Wu Xiaoyu. , Yin Shuo, Yang Chenjia and other honors, "Black Eyes" was selected as a special recommendation film by the Jiayuguan International Short Film Festival. It was broadcast on Gansu Satellite TV in September 2012. "Meet in the Cold Season" Plot Introduction
Micro The movie "Meet in the Cold Season" tells the story of a pair of painter lovers who fell in love on campus and worked separately in different places after graduation. The boy (played by Amulon) became disabled after a car accident and became decadent and depressed. The girl (played by Wu Xiaoyu). ) resolutely gave up his career and returned to the boy, and helped him regain his hope in life. The micro-movie "Meeting in the Cold Season" is a youth inspirational micro-movie that continues director Yan Yue's consistent inspiration. Style and humanistic care, the current situation reflected in the film not only reflects the pain that people have to face when encountering great changes in life, but also the courage to take responsibility because of love and help their loved ones face life. "In the Cold Season" is also Wu Xiaoyu's 2013 music masterpiece. Produced by Beijing Yangzhiyin Cultural Development Co., Ltd., produced by Zhang Ji, produced by Yang Zhuo, produced by Wen Liwei, produced by Song Ziqin, planned by Cui Fei, composed by Shang Lili, and written and directed by Wu Tao Yan Yue. Starring Amulon, Wu Xiaoyu, Guaiguai, etc. It was broadcast at the end of December 2012. In 2009, Yan Yue joined forces with Annie Baby and Hansey to create the most anticipated cross-border cooperation graphic and music book "Moon" ("Flower" in 2009). Birthday Special Issue of "With Alice" magazine)
Among them, four of Yan Yue's piano pieces, "The Sea", "Dunhuang", "Elegy" and "Her" were made into CDs and sold with the book. The page cover is very exquisite, reflecting the design concept of the creative staff.
It is reported that Anne had the desire to create a work that combined music and text, but she never found a musician with the same temperament. musical composition. When she received Yan Yue's four piano works "The Sea", "Dunhuang", "Elegy" and "Her", she quickly replied: "I can feel the emotions expressed in these works." Texts are triggered by music The inspiration completes the two creators’ perception of love. Yan Yue expressed a woman's attitude towards life in her music: "Love is impermanent, just like the moon, changing unpredictably in different periods. The next step in life is often unknown, but in fact it has already been planned... Therefore We must cherish our feelings even more." Influenced by music, Anne's creative style has also changed. The rhythm of music flows between the lines of "Moon": her sentences and prose are the piano she plays with her words. song.