The captain and coach of this old choir is Liu Tiefan, a 65-year-old retired senior lecturer. He has a "strange" "songbook" in his hand-a songbook of more than 700 Chinese and foreign songs compiled by him according to recordings and CDs. It is a thick one, which is 2.5 kilograms!
The joy of "the room"
Liu Tiefan's home is an old-fashioned unit building built after the 1976 earthquake. He proudly said that this building is particularly strong! Absolute earthquake resistance! Small apartment, only 40 square meters, two bedrooms are "dead inside and outside", the one inside is his and his wife's bedroom, and two single beds fill the cabin, leaving only a passage less than half a meter in the middle. My son's bedroom is not spacious, and a single bed accounts for almost half of the country, which makes the 5 1 inch rear projection large-screen color TV particularly "outstanding", and DVD players, video recorders, tape recorders and other home appliances are also full. There are two big TVs in a family of three (there is also a 25-inch TV in Teacher Liu's room), which is also a major feature in the "fighting room". Liu Tiefan laughed, the room can be small, but the TV can't be small! Big screen color TV, it looks comfortable! Besides, the stereo is good.
I didn't expect that as a retired senior lecturer, he didn't have a desk.
He said, your judgment is wrong. I have a "desk". He set up a small folding table with short legs on the bed. I said, this is a kang table. He said, this is my desk, too It turned out that more than 1000 songs were composed by him sitting on the bed and on this small "kang table".
When it comes to singing and reading music, the couple are particularly excited. He hummed a ditty, and his wife sang "Our life is sweeter than honey" with him.
People who love singing are always happy.
In this crowded "room", on the wall next to the door, I found an oil painting board. A copy of an oil painting brought my eyes to the vast forest ... this may be a portrayal of the inner world of the owner of the "fighting room".
He said it was another hobby of mine and a "dream" of my junior high school. My son and wife supported me and bought me canvases, brushes and paints. My son graduated from technical secondary school and joined the work. The year before last, he "bought out the length of service", went to a junior college and took an undergraduate course, and soon got a diploma! We also have a big house, more than 80 square meters very spacious! Dagang, located in our campus, has a beautiful surrounding environment and fresh air.
Today's life makes them happy, and tomorrow's vision makes them still happy.
Spoony songs
Liu Tiefan likes singing since he was a child. In junior high school, he met an excellent music teacher, which laid a solid music foundation for him. He has a good sense of music. After listening to the songs played on the radio twice, he can write nearly 99% of the music score. The teacher praised him for his musical talent and encouraged him to enter the Conservatory of Music in the future. However, after graduating from high school, he went to Northeast Institute of Technology. After many twists and turns in his work, singing has always been with him.
After retiring from secondary school, I heard that there was an elderly choir in the community and actively signed up for it. Soon, his musical talent was "outstanding" in the team. It turns out that this chorus is purely amateur. Basically, the leader takes the "tape (tape or CD)" to study, and the team members follow the leader to learn. Out-of-tune, out-of-tune, and inaccurate beat are "routine". No wonder learning to sing doesn't even have a score. How to do this? This is an embarrassing situation: on the one hand, the singer's audio-visual products flood the market, on the other hand, the corresponding "music score" is rarely sold in bookstores. Liu Tiefan played his own specialty and arranged the songs that everyone learned to sing into a score. This is a hard and meticulous job, which requires repeated listening to tapes or CDs. A small "kang table" accompanied him through one burning moment after another, sorting out music scores, and he was intoxicated with it. Sometimes he woke up suddenly in the middle of the night and remembered that a syllable or a note was not "translated" accurately, so he put on headphones, listened to it again and corrected it again until it was accurate.
In order to arrange the music score, he used three tape recorders.
He copied the arranged music score, one for each person, and taught his teammates to read ABC's music score. He teaches singing meticulously. On one occasion, he practiced chorus. When a player sings incorrectly, he lets others leave and repeatedly "teaches" for nearly ten minutes, which makes people very embarrassed. Afterwards, he realized that "hating iron does not produce steel" should also pay attention to teaching methods and not hurt teammates' self-esteem. Therefore, he took the initiative to "review" and improve his methods. Individual issues were "discussed" in private, and the effect was better. Liu Tiefan said that these achievements were achieved through the joint efforts of Qi Xin, and Sun Zhixin, an old party member, and Zhang Xiuhua, an elder sister, both served everyone enthusiastically.
Mutual assistance between husband and wife
Liu Tiefan is the captain and coach of the choir for the elderly, and his wife Zhou Guizhen is the captain and coach of the dance morning exercise team. Two "leaders" who only enjoy the treatment of volunteers (selfless dedication, no money) are busy all day.
As the saying goes, "brothers are fighting and father and son are fighting", and their husband and wife also support and help each other. The dance team is going to audition in the district. When rehearsing the program, his wife invited him to "guide". After reading it, he unceremoniously found out a bunch of problems, such as irregular movements, weak sense of rhythm, lack of passion and so on. He said that singing and dancing are interlinked, and both should be "attentive"! You should devote yourself wholeheartedly, dance with emotion, express your passion with body language, especially facial expressions and eyes, and be able to "speak" and express your feelings. If everyone does this, the whole dance will be full of soul and exciting!
His "guidance" made the members of the dance team open their minds and dance better and better. He always feels a little "weak" when he studies in the field of hope. What's the problem? I won't find it for a while. When I got home, I was still thinking when I was eating, and suddenly I shouted, head shape! The problem is the head shape! Scared his wife and son. My wife said, what should I do? Can't we all have the same hairstyle? He came up with a good idea-everyone has a headscarf that matches the clothes, which solves the problem.
The choir is becoming more and more professional, and there are more and more opportunities to be invited to participate in community summer parties, festivals and other performances. In order to render and contrast the atmosphere, it is necessary to sing and dance. Whenever this time, my wife pulls the dance team to "help out" support. A friend suggested that, in short, it would be great if you and your husband cooperated to form a song and dance team!
Trust is priceless.
The choir has more than 50 registered members, and about 30 backbone members often participate in activities. The oldest is 74 years old and the youngest is 47 years old. Except for five or six male members, they are basically "female soldiers."
If there are any temporary tasks or activities in the team, you need "telephone contact". Liu Tie, the "Party Representative", is an old party member who is conscious and self-disciplined. He thinks it's inconvenient for a man to call a female player's home. There happened to be a female player who was enthusiastic about serving everyone, so he simply asked her to contact you. Usually, when you get along with your teammates, there are many people you may contact, few people you contact and many people you talk about. Therefore, the rumor that "the captain is partial to someone" reached the ears of his wife Zhou Guizhen. She didn't "doubt" her husband, but confidently explained that our old Liu is not that kind of person, and I know his character and life principles best.
The wife's trust dispelled other people's doubts and let everyone know that their husband and wife are loving each other.
Liu Tiefan said with deep feelings that the most precious and rare thing between husband and wife is mutual trust, and trust is priceless! My wife's trust made me let go of my hands and feet to serve everyone. Now, the relationship in our team is very harmonious, and everyone sings life for one goal!
With the support of community neighborhood committees, a group of happy old people are singing their lives. They cultivate sentiment in singing life, enjoy spirit in singing life and keep healthy body and mind in singing life. They are singing happily!
In many parks and residential areas, ballroom dancing, yangko, disco for the elderly, fan dance teams and so on are indispensable for middle-aged and elderly people.