Hu Liwei's anecdote.

Hu Weili, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, was born in Hongkong. 1937. He happened to be at war that year. I stayed in Hong Kong for two years, then moved to Guilin and Chongqing, and returned to Shanghai after winning the prize. 1955 went to Beijing normal university to study, 1960 stayed on as a teacher after graduation. He has taught in Beijing Art Institute and China Conservatory of Music. 1973 taught at Beijing film academy until 1986 came out to work hard in hong kong.

At that time, he was nearly 50 years old. He just arrived in Hong Kong and didn't know him from the beginning. Although I wrote 10 movies in Beijing before my debut, there were also many TV dramas and tapes. As early as 1958, he wrote a violin music "Country Minor", which was published and selected into the "Violin Collection" compiled by the official string department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Then it was selected as the textbook of the National Conservatory of Music. At that time, students of the Conservatory of Music and violin learners all studied with his textbooks. I also wrote a lot of things after that. Because I am a descendant of a capitalist, I was born in a bad family and was keen on creation, so I was labeled as "White Road".

Many of his works had to be made public in the name of "collective creation", such as "Guzheng Playing and Singing", and went to Zhongnanhai to perform for national leaders. For this reason, Guangming Daily also wrote a full-page comment on this piece; In the following years, I wrote Ming Girl, Acacia Inn, Biography of Flying Tigers, No.5 Garden Street, Home and so on. And his creation has made great achievements and is also famous in China. He believes that it is not a bad thing for him to give up his existing success and start a new life. After arriving in Hong Kong from 65438 to 0986, he began to study and reinvent himself. As soon as he arrived in Hong Kong, he had a commercial atmosphere, which greatly impacted his academic thoughts when he was teaching in China. In retrospect, he thinks that business is still unique. Although in China, there has always been prejudice against Holloway's business behavior and operation. But in Hong Kong, all this has become so natural and helpless. For survival and development, do as the Romans do.

Hu Weili believes that it is not easy to really do something vulgar, and it takes a lot of work to make a movie popular and impressive. In the bustling and fast-paced society of Hong Kong, people pay more attention to the immediate things, and busy people have no time and energy to absorb the deep connotation and connotation of their works. In the past, when he was teaching in the Film Academy, he absorbed realistic techniques such as the "new wave", and there seemed to be high and low here. In Hongkong, he found that it continued holloway's "storytelling" technique and was basically a closed structure, in which music played a great role. It can affect a person's mood, give people a shock, and the playing of music is very effective.

In Hong Kong, he experienced the artistic expression in the commercial atmosphere, everything was concrete and realistic, and he pursued practical results. There is not much time for people to think and try. He wrote a musical score. At that time, there were very few directors in Hong Kong who could read music scores. What I want here is something with a strong sense of the times. I have no choice but to force myself to learn computer. I had never touched a computer before I went to Hong Kong. I am a computer illiterate. The total score written at that time was as high as a table. I haven't written for more than 20 years, and the cocoon on my hand is still the same, remaining on my hand. When you let someone study in Hong Kong, they make a living. If he wants to teach you, he will lose his job, so he will hardly teach. When you go to a video store to buy electronic equipment, they only tell you the necessary operations and functions, and then throw you a manual for you to read.

I study Russian in Hu Weili University. I looked up the English dictionary, and nine of the ten words were not in the dictionary, all of which were professional words. I guessed it myself. I bought the equipment. He watched and thought, working until 4 o'clock in the morning every day. He will go to work after 7 o'clock the next morning, so he only sleeps for 3 or 4 hours a day on average in Hong Kong. From the age of 50, he came out of the mainland, with no money in his pocket and nothing to live in a strange environment. What should he do when he is old? In his view, time waits for no one. Hard work is a portrayal of Hu Weili in Hong Kong. He thinks there are many people here who are more knowledgeable and talented than he is, but when it comes to hard work, he is second to none.

In Hong Kong, he wears everything and does everything. The first job was to play ballet accompaniment for children in ballet school. Other teachers were carrying a big bag and a lot of grades, but he returned empty-handed. He was asked, "Where's your score?" He said, "I don't need music. My music is all in my head. " People quickly put the tape recorder aside, fearing that he would not remember or hold it, and would take necessary "first aid measures".

In class, Hu Weili plays corresponding music to match the students' movements. He plays skillfully, as if he had cooperated for a long time. After a class, he won the great favor of the school. He spent an hour in 35 yuan, then increased to 38 yuan. He was soon comforted, playing for two minutes to earn a dollar, and playing for another two minutes to earn a dollar; This kind of feeling is something he has never experienced on the mainland. After graduating from Chinese mainland University, he earned forty or fifty yuan, and he took it for more than 20 years. When I came here, I felt humiliated at the thought of asking for money for everything. But, you know, how much less money can you spend on cooking and buying food at home? My wife went to Hong Kong first, where she taught piano and earned the tuition for her children to study abroad. The children also lived up to expectations and went to the United States and Canada to develop their careers. Hu Weili is the last member of this family. The couple started a new life journey in Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong, I teach children piano and violin, accompany ballet schools, accompany choirs and participate in performances. All around Hu Weili's own major and occupation. The purpose is to support the family first, and he is willing to do it as long as he can make money. Only three months later, he went to TVB (tvbi), the largest TV station in the Far East, which is very famous. He had a brother who worked in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong at that time. He thought that a musical genius like Hu Weili would have a bright future here, so he wrote letters of recommendation to both ATV and TVB, recommending Hu Weili.

At that time, TVB happened to be suing the Hong Kong branch of the International Recording Association for copyright fees; Record companies have banned them, and the records of the Record Association have not allowed TVB to use them. Most of TVB's programs need music support. After arriving here, seeing this situation, Hu Weili felt that it would be a dead end if it went on like this; So, I bought a music synthesizer, plus music equipment such as a tape recorder, which changed into different emotions according to the melody of its theme song and made variations on different themes. Once put into the program, it is unified with the theme style.

He also brought a lot of music and recording materials he created when he was in the mainland and provided them to TVB；. Free; Since then, many TV dramas of TVB (Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Company Limited), such as Fire Rose, Barefoot Gentleman, Raging Sword and Quicksand, Great Times and Burning Years, have been produced by Hu Weili. Here, he creates more than 300 episodes of TV dubbing soundtrack a year, which can be described as a prolific composer. His schedule is called "08-26", that is, he enters the shed at 8 am and comes out at 2 pm. And those young people complain bitterly every day "08- 17".

Do several jobs at the same time, there are no sundays and rest days at all. A lot of work is as hurried as "burning your ass". There was a movie called Dong Fangbubai, and he rushed out without sleeping for 72 hours. From watching movies to designing music passages, arranging and recording music to finding someone to sing and synthesize it in one go. The reporter asked him if he could eat such a high-intensity job. He thought, "I just think that people with our background have been tempered and willpower has played a decisive role."

Because he knows very well that if he doesn't work so hard at this stage, he can't survive, let alone move forward. In addition to composing music for thousands of TV series, he also served as the deputy chief of the Hong Kong Pan-Asian Symphony Orchestra, composing music for the Hong Kong Pan-Asian Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the Hong Kong Dance Company, the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, the Hong Kong Arts Association, the Taiwan Province Symphony Orchestra, the Taiwan Province Chinese Orchestra, and a large number of advertisements and films.

Hu Weili returned to the mainland in his second year in Hong Kong. When visiting the Conservatory of Music, the branch secretary asked him, "Mr. Hu, what was your biggest feeling after you went to Hong Kong?" He replied: "The biggest feeling is that I only spend 65,438+00% of my time doing my professional work in the Mainland, and 90% of my time dealing with political study, personnel wrangling and trying to get through roads and joints in order to find a job." When he arrived in Hong Kong, he told people that 90% of him was doing what he wanted to do. For many years, Hu Weili has kept a low profile, disliked talking about himself and rarely appeared in public. Because of too much experience, he is very calm to face the world. This concert of Hu Weili's works "Days with You" really pushed people onto the stage because of his 70th birthday. After moving to Canada, he prefers fishing, playing tennis, surfing the Internet and playing computer at home. 1997, Hu Weili retired, which was his own decision. After training and fostering two students, he decided to "quit the Jianghu" and settle in Canada.

The two students in Hu Weili confiscated tuition fees, mainly because he studied under Mr. Ma Sicong; 1962, he found Mr. Ma in class. Teacher Ma listened to him play the piano and learned about his situation, so he confiscated his tuition. Hu Weili believes that this is the most sincere mutual trust between people. Mr. Ma Sicong is a talented person and has expectations for him. Hu Weili and Ma Sicong were together for three years, and they never met again until Ma Sicong came to the United States. 1986, they made a phone call. When Mr Ma heard that Hu Weili had come out, he was very happy. Speaking of Mr. Ma Sicong, a master musician, Hu Weili is full of gratitude and affection; Students' gratitude to their teachers will never be forgotten.

1964, China Conservatory of Music was to be established, and Hu Weili was required to change her career organizationally. His first major was violin. By that time, he had contacted the Shanghai Film Symphony Orchestra, and the personnel files were all ready to go. As a result, in the middle of a joint school performance, he performed a violin solo and an accordion accompaniment for a while. He is the chief of the band, playing his own works, and it is a comprehensive attack. At that time, the president and vice president of China Conservatory of Music were Amber and Kyle respectively. After watching the performance, they decided not to let the man go. He told the dean that he was engaged in western musical instruments and it was useless to stay. He might as well go to the Shanghai Film Symphony Orchestra to give full play to his strengths. They told him that a music department might be established in Asia, Africa and Latin America in the future. "You have a special play." As a result, Hu Weili was kept in China Conservatory of Music, which he called "a panacea, a handyman" in his own words. He takes the theory class when no one takes it, and he takes the composition class and the harmony class when no one takes it. During the "four clean-ups" in 64, he went to Xi 'an to go to the countryside. After going for a few months, I visited the poor and accidentally fell into the well and broke my waist. I came back to raise it for a year. Since then, he has basically left the violin and has been doing odd jobs at school.

Later, I went to the Film Academy. Besides teaching, I was mainly engaged in writing. At that time, he mainly engaged in movies, TV series and cassettes, such as famous singers Li Guyi, Liu Bingyi, Su Xiaoming and Guan Mucun. He wrote many songs for them. Talking about his works after immigrating to Canada, Hu Weili said that out of his social responsibility and conscience as an artist, he didn't want to go against his principles to cater to some so-called fashions. He looks down on fame and wealth and has his own code of conduct.

He thinks that as long as a person can save his own life, eating delicacies is also the stomach, and eating whole grains is still the stomach; Stay in a few more houses and have a bed in thousands of feet. Modern people pursue more and more things, waste more and more, and become more and more possessive. The more possession you have, the emptier your heart, the more material things you have, and the poorer your spirit.

So when he is 60 years old, he should reflect and precipitate himself and make a summary of himself. In this country of Canada, it is quite pleasant for him to do something beneficial to society and people. His hand was broken in 2003. Before that, he had been a volunteer in the scarborough Band. My daughter teaches piano and often takes some children to perform in nursing homes. He also went with them to sympathize with the old man. Some old people in the building where he lives have nothing to do after retirement, so they organize everyone to sing together. In 2000, he held a half-time concert here. Besides, some groups in Hongkong and Chinese mainland often ask him to write something. Piano Prince Lang Lang came to Toronto to perform, and he wrote a piano and band version of the song "Tomorrow will be Better" for him.

When the reporter asked, "Are there any works that you are most proud of in all these years of creation?" He said: "every time a creative person writes something, it is like his own child;" Of course, there are many famous works, but there are also many unnamed things that I like myself. "For example, there is a movie called" Barefoot Boy "in Du Qifeng, which is not good at the box office, and the Hong Kong production is only over 3 million; As far as the box office is concerned, it is a failure. However, this film is his favorite; There is also Tsui Hark's movie "Knife", and the box office of this movie in Hong Kong is not satisfactory. Later, after the release of this record, it was still loved by the audience, and Hu Weili himself appreciated it.

He claimed that many western composers such as Bach, Beethoven and other classical composers had a great influence on him, as well as modern impressionism. He listens to all kinds of things, including folk songs. He has been exposed to many folk songs and is familiar with national musical instruments. "I like to eat, not picky about food." Hu Weili said humorously. In the aspect of drawing lessons from eastern and western music nutrition, Mr. Hu pursues the principle and attitude of "takenism", and everything is used by me, taking its essence and discarding its dross. In terms of creation, his threshold is very high, no matter what works have to pass their own customs; Especially for some new things or new things, you may not be used to it at first, so you might as well put it for a while and think it over before using it. Listen to what you are not sure about before you have the right to speak; Don't jump to conclusions easily, but carefully consider the reasons for existence.

When it comes to Toronto's cultural and artistic market, he is optimistic. He feels that although the art market here is immature, it has great potential and good momentum. The China art stage in Toronto, a metropolis, will become more and more prosperous. In 2000, a large-scale solo concert of orchestra, chorus, electro-acoustic band, Chinese music and solo was held in Roy Thomson Concert Hall in Toronto.

During his stay in several cities from 65438 to 0998, he also composed music for Tsui Hark's Hollywood film mortal kombat. Toronto has gathered Chinese from four places on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, some like pop songs and some are keen on classics. He really wants people who like pop songs to listen to classical things and people who like classical songs to appreciate pop songs. In Chinese mainland, pop concerts are sometimes clearly distinguished from elegant concerts, but in Hu Weili's view, there are only good music and bad music; In your own music, you should convey a positive and optimistic outlook on life and real and beautiful valuable information so that everyone can understand his music.

White hair and flowing white beard are Mr Hu Weili's appearance. He said he showed his true colors and made no secret of himself. He admitted that he had made many mistakes, but he admitted and repented. Many young people like him because of his true nature. When he was 70 years old, many students from the Conservatory of Music, some of whom had retired, got together and held a party for him. In Beijing, there is a kind of love that emphasizes "over 90", which makes him very moved.

When talking about his teaching career, he said: "In the process of teaching, there are certainly many things that can't be learned, especially the information is so developed that everything can be found online. You can't talk nonsense. " "Being a teacher means taking more detours. I took this detour. You don't go here, you go there. You step on my shoulder, you are not as good as me now, you are not as good as me in this life, you are worthless; You must be better than me. " Many of his students were assigned to the North Film Recording Workshop after graduation, and the master there said to him, "Mr. Hu, why are your students so awesome?" He told the students: "You are now twenty or thirty years old, not arrogant, afraid of everything, and have no future;" After 30 years old, I have seen so much, and you are still so awesome and worthless.

See more, you have to know that there are mountains outside the mountain, and there are days outside; At this time, you should calm down, look back at yourself, settle down what you have and stop trespassing. "When Hu Weili returned to the Film Academy to tell students about philosophical problems and methods, he thought that only by studying philosophy can your thoughts play a guiding role; He taught the students the golden mean. Everyone knows that you are so young now that you will be satisfied if you do nothing. Do you have any promise in your life? You must work hard. Fight. You can't fight forever. If you don't go up the mountain, you have to work hard. It's wrong to stay at the top of the mountain. You should keep a very natural and unrestrained posture and go on. You should give your seat to the young man behind you on the mountain. Then he talked about feelings and truth. People who engage in art are very emotional and must find a balance between emotion and reason; Where should we put this point in different periods of life? This is the art of living.

Work and rest should also be arranged properly and reasonably, so the reporter asked him what his hobbies were in his spare time. He said with a smile that he likes so many things that he wants to try to dabble in everything. Besides fishing, he also likes photography, and his oil paintings are posted on his website. In his sixties, he went rafting on the Ottawa River with young people. He is not arrogant and has many common topics with young people. Last time Li Chuanyun came, he said, "You are an old urchin". He said seriously that his generation was criticized a lot in those years, and this thing was harmless; Without that painful life and will training, there would be no today. He felt that this was God's arrangement, and it was these experiences that made him what he is today. With so many friends coming to help the concert, he felt very moved and had a lot to say.

He feels blessed in his life. One is to choose your favorite job as a career and earn money. The second is that I have a very happy family. Indeed, at the concert that day, the whole family came to help out and wished him a happy birthday. Hu Weili said emotionally and excitedly in his speech that he was very grateful to his wife for putting up with his bad temper for decades, tolerating him, understanding him and providing him with the same support and encouragement as the home front. In the days when I walked with her, I was simple and more brilliant.