sing a song

Barrett 2022-01-04 08:01:24

There are many films depicting the relationship between teachers and children, and there are many touching ones. In the movie "The Spring of Cattle Class", the children of secondary school are attracted by the new school supervisor and music teacher, Mr. Matthew, and fall in love with them. Music fell in love with chorus. Afterwards, I discovered that the process of watching this movie was a purely private event.
The junior high school I attended used to be very bad. It was located in the suburban area. At that time, there was no direct public transportation. I walked along the main road into a small town, crossed the farmland, crossed the small bridge (for unknown reasons, people locked the iron gate on the small bridge, and they had to turn over the iron gate), and crossed the river. After walking along the nursery, there is a huge construction site on the side of the road, and we will arrive at the newly opened school in 45 minutes.
We are the first class of enrolled students, and we are all unsuccessful candidates in key high schools. Teachers are divided into three categories: people from other places who are waiting to return to Shanghai, college students who are newly assigned to the school, and teachers who are embarrassed in the city. This combination effect is natural and interesting. There was once a sissy boy in our class practicing Peking Opera in class, but was stopped by the old girl's head teacher. The two scratched their faces and beat each other all the way to the office of the Director of Academic Affairs. The latter prevented the violence from continuing. There was also a juvenile delinquent in the class. He was very handsome. He was a master of the fencing team. He was very kind but he liked to steal things. For a long time, I was proud of him. I even organized my classmates to the juvenile management office behind my teacher. Visiting prison. It can be imagined what a chaotic time, the students in that school lacked the concept of right and wrong.
Our music teacher's surname is Gu. Forgive me for not asking about his past and present. If you really want to know what kind of person he is, you can refer to "Spring in the Cowherd Class".
Teacher Gu told the students that he was organizing a chorus. Since everyone is free, it is better to grind their teeth in the past. He has a piano. Standing in front of the piano, you can stand in groups with a few babbles. I was assigned to the mezzo-soprano group.
In the movie, Mr. Matthew’s face and face, Mr. Gu, have all demonstrated: "Tighten your belly, keep your chest straight, raise your head, and pull your eyebrows high, so you can hold your breath firmly." In the form of a bunch of things, he lightly grabbed the Baihui point on the top of his head, as if he was trying to lift himself up in the air by pulling a handful of hair, and then he said, "Let the voice stand up, like a pipe. The same goes to the sky." Teacher Matthew has done this action in the movie. The expression and momentum are all the same, but unfortunately there is no line with it.
When Teacher Gu grabbed it like that, our voices turned into pipes, and we went up all the way, but unfortunately we didn't have enough skill, and suddenly fell down in midair with a bang. Teacher Gu stopped the piano and ran over to turn on the loudspeaker. It was the first time I saw the loudspeaker. The sound of the Vienna Children's Choir came from it. Teacher Gu pointed to Dan Tian and said: "If you use the breath here to hold back the sound, the pipe will go all the way to the sky, and it will sing like them." We continued to push the pipe. Pushing the tube is an individual effort. Unfortunately, the simple pens are used in the movie. The audience will mistakenly think that the children in the cattle-raising class have jacked the tube in one day, especially the student of Mo Hangzhi. In fact, there is no equal sign between a good voice and a straight tube, and it takes a while to step on the spot.
Once when I was trying to push the tube, Mr. Gu recruited my classmates to me. He asked everyone to look at my mouth. He said that you look at her tongue, and your mouth is filled with tension. He said that the sound is a purely natural thing, the tongue is so dishonest, the sound is dead in the stomach, and the tube can't climb up. I was blushing, but the classmates didn't laugh, and I suddenly realized that their tongues were not honest and embarrassed to laugh at me. After this battle, as long as a vertical tube, my tongue was limp at the bottom of my mouth, and I didn't dare to move around, so I was frightened.
But the sound is something that cannot be figured out. How to make a sound naturally, this secret cannot be explained clearly in lectures. One day my classmate on the second floor shouted to Teacher Gu on the third floor: "Teacher Gu is late for work." Teacher Gu praised this classmate during class. He said you can hear her voice? Threw it at me like a little skylark, and it made me feel comfortable. "Finally someone made the right voice." He said with a smile. Hearing what he said, I realized that he was busy teaching us how to speak correctly.
The children’s ignorance are all connected, and the children in the cattle breeding class don’t necessarily know that they are studying music or chorus after singing for a long time. They are just walking on the path pointed out by Teacher Matthew. The smartness of children is also interlinked. They know which way can bring happiness to people, and they will go to heaven if they keep walking. The road from school to home is very long. Originally, we played all the way, playing a few cards under the bridge hole and stealing a few corns on the road before going home. But now it's a bit different, so I hum and practice sight singing all the way, and time flies much faster.
Like the cattle-herding class, we naturally achieved small achievements. We won the second place in the Shanghai Chorus Competition in the second year of the second year because this competition spans all age groups, and our school is a poor school. It's also a miracle. It is a pity that there is not a musical genius like Mo Hangzhi among us, otherwise Mr. Gu's coaching career will be even more intense.
As far as I am concerned, the five tones are not too complete, and the sense of rhythm is even worse. Teacher Gu must understand this. He remembered that he tried to make me take on the triangular iron beating work during a certain chorus rehearsal. Obviously my performance was in a mess, and Mr. Gu did not dare to let me do any work related to rhythm. When you see that the little boy in the movie can't grasp the pitch at all, Teacher Matthew arranged for him to do the music frame. This paragraph reminds me of the triangle iron, smiling.
But Mr. Gu didn't have many choices for mezzo soprano, so I was still put into a trio to rehearse alone. We participated in another competition and we were brushed down in the semifinals. Teacher Gu may be a little disappointed, but his emotions have not been seen by others. He only said that other schools choose small children. He hasn't changed his voice. There is still a big difference, but we are strong enough. Now everyone We all know that the children in our school know how to sing.
Teacher Gu is in his fifties and has a slightly fat body. His voice is very nice, soft and delicious like freshly baked bread. I think he should be able to sing quite beautiful songs, but unfortunately there is no such blessing. His fingers are thick and soft, and sometimes powerful and sometimes dexterous when hitting the piano. Such fingers are really appropriate for accusing the choir. If you don't believe it, you can look at the fingers of Teacher Matthew. Later, I saw a man with the same hand as Teacher Gu. This is one of the reasons why I am obsessed with him.
The difference between Teacher Gu and Teacher Matthew is that he has never intervened in our personal life or ideological education. Now I think he is a very professional teacher. Apart from music, he has nothing to do with us. After two years of close contact, I only know that he has a musician's daughter who specializes in certain musical instruments. It is precisely because he only asked about music and Teacher Matthew was also involved in the lives of the children, I was even more surprised by his success. He only changed the lives of the children through his passion and focus on music.
I didn’t have any enlightenment education in art. I came from a family of science and engineering. My mother was a worker who never watched movies, read books or listened to music. The junior high school was three years of fooling around. The high school time was spent preparing for the college entrance examination. Spent in medical school. I am not a lover of literature. According to a friend's reasoning, I lack the humanities education. If I still have a little enthusiasm for life and even art today, it would be a gift left by Teacher Gu. In this sense, he changed my life. Music can change a person's life, even the simplest music. The way it changes people can be surprisingly consistent, such as Teacher Gu and Teacher Matthew.
I went to my alma mater once when I was in college, but Teacher Gu was not there that day. When I wrote this memory, I went to Google and couldn't find any record of him. This shows that Teacher Gu is very old and lagging behind this era. It also shows that he will not be famous in the future. I don't know where most of my classmates are scattered. I guess no one has become a musician.

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The Chorus quotes

  • [Chabert is dragging a boy off for punishment]

    Clément Mathieu: What are you doing?

    Chabert: He stole my watch. From my room.

    Clément Mathieu: Where are you taking him?

    Chabert: Dungeon.

    Clément Mathieu: Wait!

    Chabert: Why?

    [Chabert and the boy disappear into the school]

    Clément Mathieu: He's my only baritone.

  • Pépinot enfant: I don't know any songs.

    Clément Mathieu: Well, I'll teach you some. For the moment, I'll name you assistant choir master.