Characters' Life in Huang Huaihai's Works

Huang Huaihai has been fond of drama since he was five years old, especially obsessed with music. He often goes to the theatre to watch plays, listen to music and learn the huqin. When you meet a fortune teller who plays erhu in the street, you will always follow him. You often get lost by listening to music and don't know how to return. It is a famous "piano crazy girl" in the local area. 1952, Huang Huaihai, 17 years old, was admitted to Pingxiang Middle School and concurrently served as the deputy head and teacher of Pingxiang Street Amateur Troupe. After entering high school, he practiced the piano harder, almost to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep. In order not to disturb others' rest, he always takes the erhu to threshing ground after finishing his homework, and often practices it until late at night. At this time, his musical expertise was fully displayed, especially the erhu performance.

From 65438 to 0955, Huang Huaihai was admitted to Zhongnan Conservatory of Music (now Wuhan Conservatory of Music) with excellent musical achievements, and studied erhu performance under Mr. Zhou Hua. After that, he systematically studied and studied the playing styles of Jiang Fengzhi and Aring Zhang, and his music theory and playing skills reached a mature level, which laid a solid foundation for his later music creation and practice. At school, he was often invited to Hubei Radio Station to play erhu for the audience. There are famous songs played by celebrities and songs created by themselves, and each performance has won enthusiastic praise from the audience. From 65438 to 0958, Huang Huaihai was detained as a teacher because of his excellent grades.

From 65438 to 0959, Huang Huai Hai Chuang composed the erhu solo Horse Racing. Horse Racing is an erhu solo that describes people in Inner Mongolia grassland racing in festivals. It uses erhu, a simple national musical instrument, and uses a variety of playing skills to show the spectacular scenes of Ma Benteng and hoofbeat in horse racing. It sounds as if people are among the galloping horses on the grassland. With the rhythm of jumping, people are excited and fascinated by the vast and mysterious Inner Mongolia grassland. In this song, Huang Haihuai plucked the strings and played a whole tune, which made this song unique and unique, and became an immortal erhu famous song.

1962, Huang Huaihai transplanted the northeast folk song River into an erhu solo. The sad melody of this song makes people cry. Some people even think that "The River is Declining" can be compared with A Bing's "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon". In 1965' s large-scale music and dance epic Dongfanghong, a tragic scene of a blind man betraying his granddaughter, coupled with the sad melody of Erhu solo River, profoundly shows the miserable life of the people in China in the old society. This song and Horse Racing are still popular today.

At the 1962 Yangcheng Music Flower Festival, Huang Huaihai was cordially received by Chen Yi, Vice Premier of the State Council. He is always proud of it, and he devoted himself to the music career. During the period of 1964, Shanghai Culture Publishing House recorded and published a generation of famous songs "Horse Racing" and "River Water", which established Huang Huaihai's position in China's music industry.

His erhu works not only develop traditional playing skills, but also dare to learn from western music, so they have both national characteristics and certain innovation. His masterpiece Horse Racing is one of the best erhu works since the founding of New China.