As the first of the three major elements supporting musicals, music defines the existence of musicals and is the soul of musicals. It allows people to wander in dynamic melodies and immerse themselves in situations beyond time and space, and plays a significant role in musicals.

"The Sound of the Silk Road", the first large-scale musical jointly produced by Chinese performing arts and American Broadway in the United States, pays special attention to the creative team. The composer and music director of the cooperation is the famous Hong Kong composer who won the Silver Bear Award for Best Film Music at the Berlin International Film Festival. Teacher Jin Peida.

(Composition and music director of "The Sound of Silk Road": Jin Peida)

Jin Peida, a composer, well-known musician, and creator of popular songs and film soundtracks in China Hong Kong, is associated with many film works, such as the films "If Love","Chills","October Besieged City","July and Ansheng" and other soundtracks are all written by him. In his more than 20 years of film soundtrack career, he has won 11 Hong Kong Academy Awards for Best Original Film Music. In 2006, he won the "Best Film Music" at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival for his film "Isabella". The Silver Bear Award is the first Chinese musician to receive this award.

In recent years, Jin Peida has been active in the music creation of stage plays and musicals. After the first musical stage play "Eight Parts of the Dragon" was staged in 2008, he successively created musicals such as "Falling in Love with Teresa Teng","Mom Loves Me Again","Lin Huiyin","In the Distance", among which "Mom Loves Me Again" won the Five-One Project Award of the 13th Central Propaganda Department.

(Representative works of Jin Peida's musical soundtrack from left to right: "Mom Love Me Again","Lin Huiyin","In the Distance")

This time, Teacher Jin Peida served as the composition and music director of the musical "The Sound of the Silk Road". Let us walk into him together and listen to his unique opinions on musicals and music.

Q: Teacher Jin, please introduce yourself to your responsibilities in the musical "The Sound of Silk Road"? What are the job content of composition and music director?

Jin Peida: I was the composer and music director in the musical "The Sound of the Silk Road". Composition is creation, and content that is not available is produced for it. The music director is the producer. When the melody comes out, it matches it with the lyrics. It also has to arrange, revise, think about some concepts, what type of song to use, and what instrument to use when arranging the music. The division of labor is obvious.

Q: Teacher Jin, in your opinion, what is the significance of music to musicals?

Jin Peida: What exactly is the function of music in a musical? We can use it to compare it with dramas and movies to explain it more clearly. In dramas and movies, many times, every character's feelings and feelings are not stated. When we talk about blank space, there are many long shots in the movie. One thing happens, the character doesn't speak, and the shot moves forward slowly. If an actor plays well, you can feel it, but you won't say it. It's a close-up; the same is true for dramas. Sometimes you can't say it's too white.

But in musicals, on the other hand, if you also leave blank space, what should you sing? The music of the musical is a close-up in the movie, but it is not left blank and must be said. Foreigners always describe it like this. If you talk in musicals, you don't know how to talk again, then you can only sing. So the function of music is to sing some parts that you can't tell with dialogue, because dialogue may feel weird and hard, so you must sing that feeling and let the audience know.

Q: Teacher Jin, what would you like to say to the audience who are looking forward to this musical?

Jin Peida: Every era has its own voice and its own music."The Sound of the Silk Road" is when we return to the Han Dynasty and listen to the voice of the Han Dynasty. Perhaps the voice of that time, the music of that time, the story of that time will have extraordinary enlightenment to us modern people. I hope everyone will come to the musical "The Sound of the Silk Road" to discover what this voice can bring to us.

On July 23,"The Sound of Silk Road", which took three years to create, will kick off its premiere at the Shaanxi Grand Theater. After the performance, in accordance with the international vision and "going global" strategy deployed by Shaanxi Brigade, this musical with the theme of ideas will be allowed to take the tourist express and sail to the international stage along the Silk Road.