The song "Shepherd's Flute" has been enduring for a long time, bringing "Chinese style" to the world music stage

"I remember in my third year of studying abroad, I happened to hear the piano performance of" The Shepherd's Flute "by chance. The lively and lively allegro took me back to my childhood. This sweet and melodious piece was perfect for playing with two guitars. The upper and lower parts kept talking and echoing. Playing with two guitars ensured that the sound was similar while maintaining their own independent lines." International classical guitar young performer and guitar professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Su Meng, recalled, "We specially placed the double guitar premiere of this work at the NewYork Carnegie Hall in the United States as the return to the entire concert." Highly favored by the audience. "

Su Meng provided by the organizer of the Life Reading Club

On the afternoon of September 2nd, the guitar version of "Shepherd's Flute" was once again played at the sixth "Summer Han and Autumn Solid Embracing Park and Truthfulness" He Luting Special Session of the "Life Reading Club" held by Zhongfu Group, Community Morning News, and Jiading District Library. Nicolas, a Spanish classical guitarist and guitar professor at the Montpellier Conservatory in France, was deeply moved by this "Shepherd's Flute" and improvised a piece of Spanish national music on site.

Provided by Nicolas, a Spanish classical guitarist and guitar professor at the Montpellier Conservatory of Music in France, as an impromptu performer

88 years ago, a lively and distinctive piano piece called "Shepherd's Flute" brought Chinese style to the world music stage, and also brought the young composer He Luting into the international vision. This year marks the 120th anniversary of He Luting's birth. At this life book club held at the Jiading District Library by Yuanxiang Lake, multiple guests from both inside and outside the industry and readers reviewed He's music life and tasted the internationalization process of national music.

Life Reading Club enters Jiading District Library to commemorate He Luting, provided by the organizer

Due to physical reasons, He Yiqiu, the eldest daughter of He Luting, was unable to attend the event. In the video, she shared her father's legendary experience and life story. When she mentioned his deep emotions towards Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the audience was very moved. "He always says, 'He carries a music academy on his back,' He Yiqiu sighed. Whenever it's related to Shanghai Conservatory of Music, his father always steps forward and runs around, and his mother Jiang Ruizhi sometimes even says helplessly, 'The music academy is your destiny!'"

He Yiqiu also revealed that after his death in 1999, He Luting was buried in the Yixiayuan of Fushou Garden in Shanghai. She and her family gifted a "Lean" brand piano that He Lao had been using for many years to the Fushou Garden Cultural Memorial Hall. He Luting used the prize money he received from participating in a competition for creating the "Shepherd Boy Piccolo" and his savings to purchase this piano, which also accompanied him for most of his life.

He Luting not only made important contributions to the development of modern Chinese music, but also was an outstanding music educator and university administrator. Wang Yong, Dean of the School of Music at Shanghai University, shared his vision of the "He Luting Spirit" through a video: "There should be great love for the country, universal love for students, and deep love for the profession." He said, "Today, it seems that" The Shepherd's Flute "may not be very difficult in terms of the complexity of the so-called creative techniques. However, as a student's composition, it has been passed down for so long because it captures the basic direction of Chinese audience aesthetics. That is to say, He chose a relatively familiar Chinese melody and used a non-technical polyphonic writing technique to create this piece. Many of his works are like this." Whether it is a piano sketch or a revolutionary song, there are many commendable aspects from a technical perspective, but he never deliberately pursues the difficulty and complexity of using techniques. Instead, he focuses more on the audience and pays attention to 'who my work is intended to be written for and for whom it serves'

My father and I are both fans of He Lao. Especially my father, when he started to be exposed to Western music as an outsider, he was deeply moved by He Lao's piano compositions such as "lullabies" and "shepherd's piccolo". In my father's eyes, He is always the composer with the most Chinese flavor. In the 1980s, my retired father accepted an invitation from his friend Mr. Zhang Pinzhen and wrote a small booklet about music under the pen name of Xin Fengnian, called "Music Fans' Idle Talk". One of the passages mentioned Mr. He Luting - in 1934, there was an enthusiastic foreigner named Qi Erpin, who was a fan of music. His Chinese name was Che Levny. His father also taught the Russian musician Prokofiev. With the sponsorship of Zilpin, authentic Chinese style piano pieces such as "The Shepherd's Flute" and "Lycra" were released. This may be a sign that "the 'foreign' piano has finally been 'used' by China." Yan Feng, a professor of the Chinese Department at Fudan University, said, "He Lao pioneered the integration of national style into Western music, allowing us to better experience the charm of Chinese music.". To this day, the piano pieces created by He Lao back then are still performance pieces in many concerts. I also really enjoy listening to these songs, and I often listen to them as new. Every time, there is a different kind of emotion

Provided by the organizers of Yan Feng and Su Meng

Li Jingheng, the person in charge of Zhongfu Industrial Group Life Bookstore, the organizer of the event, donated a batch of He Luting themed books to the Jiading District Library. He said, "Reading is actually reading people. Mr. He Luting's life is a heavy book, and the more he reads, the more flavorful it becomes. His legacy to us is not only classic music, but also a precious attitude towards life."

To support this event, the Jiading District Library has arranged an exhibition area, reading area, and appreciation area to introduce readers to He Luting's life and music. At the same time, books, music exhibitions, and documentaries have also been displayed. This event is also one of the new aesthetic education service projects launched by the Jiading District Library this year, known as "Jiatu Art Education · Big Boss Coming" series of activities. This project fully leverages the advantages of professional venues and institutions in the library, introduces more professional art resources and converts them into social aesthetic education resources, provides citizens with more high-quality public art education, attracts more citizens to enter the library, and has close conversations with masters and masters.

Little readers provided by the organizer on site