Dadong Live: The superstar fell, the mountains and rivers were filled with sadness. All colleagues from the Chinese Society of Social Arts expressed deep condolences for the unfortunate death of outstanding artists, Mr. Zhou Guangren, Mr. Li Guangxi, and Mr. Wu Zuqiang, who have made great contributions in the field of social art!
Pictures are Mr. Zhou Guangren
Pictures are Mr. Li Guangxi
Pictures are Mr. Wu Zuqiang
Memorial to Mr. Zhou Guangren, Mr. Li Guangxi and Mr. Wu Zuqiang's concern and love for the Chinese Society of Social Arts, recalling his unforgettable experience in personally organizing and actively participating in various social art activities organized by the China Society of Social Arts, and commemorating his outstanding contributions to the social art cause. The kind and kind smiles of the three gentlemen are still in front of them, which makes people infinitely grateful and nostalgic.
1
On March 7, 2022, Mr. Zhou Guangren, an art consultant of the China Social Arts Association, a tenured professor and former director of the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, honorary president of the Piano Society of the Chinese Musicians Association, a leading figure in China's piano music industry, and the most influential and authoritative Chinese pianist and educator in the international music scene, passed away peacefully at home in Beijing at the age of 94.
Mr. Zhou Guangren, whose ancestral home is Ningbo, Zhejiang, was born in Hanover, Germany. In her youth, she studied piano in Shanghai by famous Chinese and foreign experts such as Qian Qi, Ding Shande, , Mei Pachi, and Marcus. She learned from others' strengths and gathered together. In 1951, he went to Czech to participate in the "Prague Spring" music festival; in the same year, he went to Berlin to participate in the third World Youth and Student Peace and Friendship Festival and won the third prize in the piano competition, becoming the first pianist and educator in New China to take the international podium. She has served as the solo actor of the Central Song and Dance Troupe and the Central Orchestra. Since 1959, she has served as the director and professor of the teaching and research department of the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music.
In the past half a century of educational career, Mr. Zhou Guangren has integrated outstanding artistic practice and profound theoretical literacy in one pot, and has directly cultivated more than 300 professional piano talents. Many of her students have won many awards in a series of important competitions at home and abroad, and a large number of well-known young pianists such as 接源, shengyuan , Liu Ning, Wang Xiaohan , etc.
As an art consultant to the China Social Arts Association, Mr. Zhou Guangren has done a lot of work for the development of the association. For example, she keenly recognized the important role of standard construction in promoting the development of Chinese social art, led the team, and personally took the lead in guiding and formulating piano standards for the China Social Art Association. This is also the first standard for cultural industry associations in China approved by the National Standards Committee and was announced at the National Grand Theater. The former Minister of Culture highly praised her courage to innovate and was the first in the country to formulate cultural standards, filling a gap. She devoted all her efforts to the development of Chinese social art and made outstanding contributions.
Mr. Zhou Guangren led the piano industry in New China from domestic to international, from performance practice to creation and theoretical research; from professional fields to popularization of the public, and devoted his life to China's piano education. As an outstanding female musician in China in the 20th century, Mr. Zhou Guangren is known as the "soul of Chinese piano education" and has won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" of National May 1st Labor Medal, Baosteel Special Prize for Outstanding Teachers, Beijing Teaching Master Award, and Chinese Musicians Association 7th Golden Bell Award.
2
On March 13, 2022, the art consultant of the China Social Arts Association, one of the initiators of the "Children's Music Enlightenment Project" charity project of the China Social Arts Association, a national first-class actor of the Central Opera House, and a famous tenor singer, Mr. Li Guangxi, died in Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing due to a sudden cerebral infarction, at the age of 93.
Mr. Li Guangxi, born in Tianjin in 1929; in 1954, he was admitted to the Central Experimental Opera and Dance Theater.In 1956, in the first classical opera "The Camellia Girl", which Premier Zhou Enlai was very concerned about in New China, he played the male lead and succeeded in playing Askel in "The Prayer and the Miss" and Liansky in the Russian opera " Yevgeny Onegin ". In 1964, he sang "On the Songhua River" in the large-scale music epic " Oriental Red ". Over the years, he sang more than 100 popular songs such as " Toast Song ", "The Sun Comes Out", "The Song of Herding Horses", "Ode to Yan'an", "The Red Sun Shines on the Grassland", "Prime Minister Zhou, Where Are You", " Gulangyu Wave ", "When will we meet again", "Voyage", "Ode to Beijing", as well as more than 100 songs such as opera aria , foreign folk songs and art songs, and has become a household name singer in China. He won the first prize in the performance evaluation of the Ministry of Culture, the "First Golden Record Award", the "First Outstanding Songs in the Forty Years of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", the "Outstanding Singing Award in the Ten Years of Reform", etc., and served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Art consultant Mr. Li Guangxi, an art consultant of the China Social Art Association, has devoted a lot of effort to the construction of the association and the development of social art. He, together with the famous violin artist and former chairman of the China Social Art Association, launched the "Children's Music Enlightenment Project" public welfare project of the China Social Art Association in 2012, listening to the voices of children, reflecting the voices of the masses, doing practical things for the people, and committed to education and poverty alleviation work in remote and impoverished areas, old revolutionary areas, and ethnic minority areas. Over the past ten years, the "Children's Music Enlightenment Project" public welfare project has donated more than 10 million yuan in total, benefiting nearly 1.6 million children from more than 500 schools in 23 provinces, leaving a shining mark in the era picture depicting the Chinese Dream of . Mr. Li Guangxi has made outstanding contributions to the development of my country's social art cause.
3
On March 14, 2022, Mr. Wu Zuqiang, former honorary chairman of the China Social Arts Association, former vice chairman and honorary chairman of the China Musicians Association, former dean of the Central Conservatory of Music, former secretary of the Party Group and executive vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, director of the Art Committee of the National Grand Theater of China, and famous composer, music theorist, and music educator, passed away unfortunately due to illness at the age of 95.
Mr. Wu Zuqiang, graduated from the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music in 1952; in 1958, he received the Master's Degree from the Theoretical Composition Department of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow; served as vice president, president and honorary dean of the Central Conservatory of Music; won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" of the 6th Chinese Music Golden Bell Awards, the "Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" commemorative medal, and the "Glorious in the Fifty Years of the Party" commemorative medal; served as an alternate member of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Standing Committee of the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Mr. Wu Zuqiang is one of the main creators of China's first national dance drama " fish beauty " music and China's first national ballet " Red Detachment of Women ". His Pipa concerto " Grassland Little Sisters " (cooperating with Liu Dehai and Wang Yanqiao) and his orchestral ensemble "Erquan Yingyue" adapted from the original Hua Yanjun are pioneering attempts to integrate Eastern and Western music and successfully combine Chinese and foreign instruments, with profound influence. The performance of "Erquan Yingyue" actually moved the world-renowned conductor Sei-r Ozawa to tears. "HTM3 Songs and Works Analysis " compiled by him has had a profound impact on the field of higher music education in my country.
Mr. Wu Zuqiang made outstanding contributions to promoting the development of social art undertakings during his tenure as Honorary Chairman of the China Social Arts Association.
All colleagues of the China Social Art Association will inherit the will of Mr. Zhou Guangren, Mr. Li Guangxi and Mr. Wu Zuqiang; remember the outstanding contributions of the three gentlemen to the social art cause; learn from the noble character of the three gentlemen; keep in mind the earnest instructions of the three gentlemen and the trust and support for decades; strive to carry forward the noble spirit of the three gentlemen to the social art cause with all their might, continue to play the leading role of the industry association, unite social art workers across the country, work together, strive to be the first, and continuously promote the development of the social art cause, and contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The people have passed away, and the glory will last forever. Mr. Zhou Guangren, Mr. Li Guangxi, and Mr. Wu Zuqiang will last forever!
(text/Chinese Social Art Association Zhou Zhonghua)
