After watching "Roadside Picnic", I just want to talk to you about Li Taixiang and his music

"Roadside Picnic" is an art film, at least that's how the media characterized it.

For viewers like me, liveliness is often the first principle when choosing a movie, and access is secondary.

The film was relatively dull, and the dialect in the play also caused a lot of trouble for me.

But when this tape showed up, I decided to watch the video.

This is "Farewell", this is Li Taixiang's "Farewell".

After watching "Roadside Picnic", whether you understand it or not, whether you like it or not, I don't want to talk about anything else. I just want to talk to you about Li Li. Tai Siang and his music.

Li Taixiang was born on February 20, 1941 in a family of the Amis aboriginal people in Taitung County, Taiwan. His music creation spans classical, experimental and popular. After graduating from the Music Department of the National Taiwan College of Arts, he successively held important positions such as the concertmaster of the China Youth Orchestra, the Taipei Municipal Symphony Orchestra, the Taiwan Television Corporation Symphony Orchestra, and the conductor of the Provincial Symphony Orchestra. In 1979, he won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Film Episode for "Happy Face". In 1983, the album "You Are All My Memories" won the Golden Tripod Award for Excellent Recording. Suffering from Parkinson's disease in 1988, he struggled to resist the disease and continued to compose local folk songs and orchestral music. In 1997, he won the Golden Melody Award Special Award. In 2008, he won the 12th Taiwan Literature and Art Award, the highest cultural honor. In April 2013, he won the 32nd Taiwan "Executive Yuan" Cultural Award. On the evening of January 2, 2014, he died of thyroid cancer at the age of 73.

Li Taixiang's creations involve a variety of different musical forms, from songs, chamber music to orchestral music, dance dramas, operas, etc. His musical works are diverse and can be said to be unique in Taiwan. Li Taixiang composed nearly 500 songs in his life. His main representative works include "Farewell", "Olive Tree", "Walking in the Rain", "Happy Face", "Error", "Answer", "You Are All My Memories", " A Avenue of Sunlight" and hundreds of other songs.

In 1994, Li Taixiang released the album "Li Taixiang and His Female Disciples", which included 22 songs sung by Qi Yu, Xu Jingchun, Huang Qiongqiong, Pan Yueyun, Ye Qianwen, Tang Xiaoshi, and Qian Huaiqi, which can be called a classic. . The friendship between master and apprentice is also the most talked about.

1. Chyi Yu

Chyi Yu (born October 17, 1958) is a famous Taiwanese female singer. His ancestral home is Shandong and his native place is Taiwan. His mother is Manchu and was born in Taichung, Taiwan. His younger brother is the singer Qi Qin. Debuted in 1978. Bachelor of Anthropology from National Taiwan University, Master of Anthropology from University of California, Los Angeles.

"Olive Tree", "Happy Face", "Walking in the Rain", "Spring Story", every song when Qiyu debuted was written by the "godfather of music" Li Taixiang. Li Taixiang is Qi Yu’s mentor. When he was in college, Qi Yu participated in a folk song competition and was discovered by him. In 1978, Li Taixiang recorded the first album "Olive Tree" for Qiyu and immediately became famous in the music world.

2. Pan Yueyun

Pan Yueyun (born in 1957) (Pan Michelle), whose real name is Pan Yueyun, is a Taiwanese female singer. She officially debuted in the entertainment industry on October 31, 1980. When she debuted, she Her song "Everyday Sky is Blue" caused a sensation and she was a very popular singer in Taiwan in the 1980s. In December, Rolling Stone Records' first child, "Trio", was born. Pan Yueyun stunned the music world with his song "My Missing".

3. Ye Qianwen

Ye Qianwen was born in Taiwan on September 30, 1961. Her native place is Zhongshan, Guangdong. She is a Chinese female singer and film and television actress. She made her debut in the music industry with the album "Spring Relief" in 1980. She became famous in 1984 with the Cantonese song "Zero Hour Ten". She won the "Most Popular Female Singer" award for four consecutive years at the Top Ten Golden Song Awards from 1990 to 1993.

In 1994, she won the Taiwan Golden Melody Award for the Most Mandarin Female Singer. In 2010, she won the "Golden Needle Award", the highest honor award in the Hong Kong music industry. His representative works include "Autumn Goes and Autumn Comes", "Treasure", "Dawn Never Comes", "A Chic Walk", etc.

4. Xu Jingchun

Xu Jingchun (born November 21, 1963) is a Taiwanese female singer, radio producer and program host. He has won the Taiwan Golden Melody Award and the Golden Tripod Award for Best Record ten times. In terms of film soundtrack, it won the Best Soundtrack and Singing Award at the San Diego Film Festival in the United States and the Nantes Film Festival in France. She has been invited to perform at Lincoln Center in New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, Zhuhai and other places. Her singing was also appreciated by Japan's Boligain Record Company, who invited her to release a Mandarin album and perform on tour in Japan.

5. Tang Xiaoshi

Tang Xiaoshi was not called Tang Xiaoshi before. She was Zhang Xingmei, a Hankou girl who grew up in Taiwan. She formed a teacher-student relationship with Li Taixiang, including a little-known tortuous story. Tang Xiaoshi and Li Taixiang met in a singing competition. Based on her love for music and perseverance, Tang Xiaoshi became the master's second female disciple. In 1981, he won the Golden Tripod Award for Best Vocal Performance with the album "Dance". In 1983, he joined Rolling Stone Records and published "Tang Xiaoshi Album"; in 1986, he participated in the recording of the album "Encounter"; in 1987, he published the album "Addicted to You".

6. Qian Huaiqi

Qian Huaiqi used to be a fashion model. She met Li Taixiang at a gathering in the art and literary circles. She has a straightforward and strong personality and is also literary and has a good voice. Thread is considered by masters to be the most worldly appearance. During the Rolling Stones period, in addition to participating in the recording of the "Encounter" album produced by Li Taixiang in 1986 with Xu Jingchun and Tang Xiaoshi, he also participated in the recording of the "Happy Paradise" compilation album. Later, in 1990, he released the album "City Without You" on Kolin Records. .

7. Huang Qiongqiong

Although Huang Qiongqiong is a disciple of Li Taixiang, she is obsessed with music research, rarely participates in commercial performances, and has basically never released an album. Little is known to the world. However, from the album "Li Taixiang and His Female Disciples", Huang Qiongqiong wrote and sang "Miss You, Miss Your Tender Lips", we can see that it is possible to write such beautiful words and sing such a young and beautiful melody. , Huang Qiongqiong should be a hermit who does not eat the fireworks of the world!

The song "Farewell" and this tape are used throughout the film and appear four times in the film.

The first time it appeared was in the work scene between Chen Sheng and the old doctor Guanglian. Li Taixiang sang in the background, and then the female doctor turned off the intermittent tape recorder and talked about giving her this tape. The tape's old lover, Lin's lover.

The second time it appeared was when Chen Sheng was cupping at the old doctor's house and decided to go to Zhenyuan to look for Weiwei. The old doctor's tape recorder was repaired, and the female part of "Farewell" was playing on the machine. The old doctor gave Chen Sheng the photos, shirts and tapes left by Mrs. Lin, hoping that Chen Sheng would deliver these things to Mrs. Lin on his way to Zhenyuan.

The third time he appeared, Chen Sheng gave the "Farewell" tape to the female hairdresser.

The last time it appears is at the end of the credits, the screen goes black and "Farewell" finally sounds.

Every time "Farewell" appears in the movie, it is a farewell.

Farewell is actually the main theme of this movie.

Let’s end by borrowing three lyrics from “Farewell”:

“After sailing in the same direction, what’s yours is yours, and what’s mine is mine.”

"After sailing in the same direction, the original things return to the original, and the future things return to the past."

"Each has twists and turns, each is lonely.

Attached:

"Farewell"

Singer: Tang Xiaoshi amp; Li Taixiang

Lyricist: Li Gedi