粮食局长的婺剧情怀

2006年岁末，让人如痴如醉的婺剧首次以编队的阵容，浓彩重墨地亮相省会杭州，《铁血国殇》《吕布与貂蝉》《百寿图》《江山本色》和《姐妹易嫁》等5部经典剧目，由金华地区的5个剧团依次在胜利剧院隆重献演。这不仅让婺剧迷们一饱眼福，而且也让许多不知婺剧为何物的观众大开眼界，他们发现这株经历了400多年岁月的江南奇葩，竟如此光彩夺目！

这场浓墨重彩的婺剧演出所以能在省城隆重举行，全靠浙江省内众多社会贤达和热心人士的推动，当“婺剧演出周”的帷幕刚刚落下，由这帮社会热心人士悉心筹组的浙江省婺剧促进会便宣告成立。这一非公有制民间文化团体非同寻常，她的成员大都是省内外文艺界的知名人士和专家、学者，中央音乐学院院长王次等名家，还担任了这个团体的顾问。而担任这个促进会会长的，竞是掌握浙江全省粮食的官员――浙江省粮食局局长李林访。

有人好奇地问：粮食官员李林访与婺剧有何关联？他为何如此热爱婺剧？笔者就此采访了这位自号为“铁杆婺剧迷”的粮食局长。

李林访系浙江丽水缙云人，生长在山区的他，从小就受婺剧的耳濡目染，年长日久，婺剧渐渐地成了他的挚爱。上高中和大学时，出于爱好，他开始学习板胡、徽胡、唢呐等婺剧演奏乐器，把这些乐器操弄得有板有眼。从上世纪80年代李林访先后任青田、缙云等县领导和丽水行署副专员、金温铁路总指挥时，尽管工作忙，但心中仍然不时记起他心仪的婺剧和他热爱的婺剧演奏乐器。1998年他调到省城杭州任省粮食局长后，由于省城的文化环境好，他那难以割舍的婺剧情结进一步涌上了心头，于是他在领导工作余暇向省里的专业人士学习板胡、徽胡、唢呐和葫芦笙的演奏技巧。

李林访有很高的悟性和音乐天赋，学习也很刻苦认真，每次练习拉胡琴时，一弓一弓地连每一个滑音和装饰音都不含糊，后来当他与专业琴师两人同时演奏一只曲子时，竟达到了听起来如同一人演奏的效果。李林访琴练得认真，他的工作也像练琴，认真细致，一点也不含糊：他在金温铁路总指挥部任职时，由于在大学学的是数学专业，为了工作对口，他很快就自学完了大学铁道专业的全部课程，并主动担纲完成了一座地势险峻的高难度桥梁工程的设计任务。铁道部长来视察时，发现他这般精通业务，对他开玩笑说：“要是不了解你的底细，人家还以为你是哪个铁道学院毕业的呢！”由此推理，有人说，如果当初李林访进了婺剧团学演奏，他也会成为一个出色的演奏家。

如今他在粮食局长任上，由于业余爱好，他发动婺剧票友们成立了一支专门演奏婺剧音乐的乐队，乐队成员也许受到局长那种认真执著的感染与熏陶，大家一个个练习得十分投入。

2006年11月初，全国首届粮食储藏技术与管理论坛在杭州召开，其间粮食局作为东道主，专门为200多位代表举行了一场婺剧演奏演唱晚会。晚会首先上场的是局机关女声合唱队用婺剧演唱的《八荣八耻歌》。接着，李林访亲自登台，与浙江婺剧团的乐队人员一起，演奏了婺剧音乐中著名的大型器乐套曲《花头台》。演奏毕，赢得了观众一阵又一阵的热烈喝彩。此外，粮食局还邀请许多名家在晚会上演唱了许多婺剧经典唱段。晚会结束后，一位代表回到住地仍然十分激动，欣然提笔在灯下写了一首长诗，长诗的结尾这样写道：“钱塘观潮潮不尽，余音绕梁梁有声。从来皆知听国粹，可知国粹要归宗。扬琴鼓曲惊四座，满座同贺李先生。”

最令李林访难以忘怀的，是2000年为婺剧表演艺术家郑兰香从艺45周年举行的一次纪念活动。纪念会上，这位年过六旬的老艺术家没有陶醉在为她祝贺的海洋般的鲜花丛中，而是几乎用啼血的声音呼吁：“我知道，不只是我，我的老师和圈内外众多热爱婺剧的人们，都在用不同的声音呼唤婺剧的再崛起，呼唤婺剧的新生，……”李林访，这位深爱婺剧的粮食局长，这次发起筹建婺剧促进会，分明是在用行动响应这位杰出婺剧艺术家的呼唤。

李林访虽然对婺剧音乐已经颇有造诣，但他并不满足，近年来李林访又在浙江歌舞总团著名笛子演奏家杜如松和唢呐演奏家杜竹松、浙江婺剧团首席琴师诸葛智屏指导下，进一步学习婺剧乐器演奏技艺，最近已成功录制了他以板胡、徽胡和唢呐主奏身份与浙江婺剧团专业工作者们一起演奏的婺剧经典音乐与名家唱段，共13个节目，这些节目不久将用VCD形式出版发行。

婺剧促进会成立后，李林访说近两年内他要办两件大事：一是与电视台合作，搞一场全省性的婺剧大奖赛，为普及婺剧和为专业剧团发现人才作点贡献；二是要像搞《梁祝》小提琴协奏曲那样，在提高上下工夫，协助专业工作者创作一部高水平的婺剧交响乐。

还值得一提的是，李林访在金温铁路总指挥的任上，有幸与台湾著名国学泰斗南怀瑾先生结成“忘年交”。最近南先生细细欣赏了由李林访参与的婺曲录制节目后大加赞赏，南怀瑾表示：“婺剧的唱腔和音乐都很美，你们要好好挖掘，创作出像纳西古典音乐那样富有鲜明的民族地方特色的作品，我一定把它推荐到台湾和东南亚去演出。”李林访还欣喜地告诉笔者：在新华网站上建立的“中国婺剧网”开播后，海内外的点击率很高。欧洲华人在当地开设的餐馆中也在播发“中国婺剧网”的视频，用餐的不少老外看了，都对婺剧艺术发生了兴趣，他相信婺剧在全国、全世界，一定会有更多的知音。

（本文照片除署名外，均为应孺牛摄）

Director’s Passion for Wu Opera

By Pan Guojun, our staff reporter

In early December 2006, Wu Opera, a 400-year-old theatrical tradition in central Zhejiang Province, displayed its magnificent charms in Hangzhou. Involved in this grand one-week performance were five Wu Opera troupes from Jinhua and neighboring cities and counties, which exhibited five classic plays at the downtown Victory Theater. The gala event not only gave enthusiastic fans an opportunity to celebrate and enjoy, but also exposed the first-timers to the splendors of Wu Opera.

The triumphant gala was made possible by a large group of enthusiasts from all walks of life across the province. After the weekly event, the Zhejiang Council for the Promotion of Wu Opera was founded. The organization consists of celebrities, scholars, and experts within and without the province. Director of the Grain Administration of Zhejiang Province, Li Linfang is the director of the ZCPWO and is probably the most fanatic fan of Wu Opera in the country.

So how come he has such an ardor for the traditional opera? And how fanatic he really is?

The full exposure to the charm of Wu Opera in his early childhood years in the southern Zhejiang province made him infatuated with it. In high school and college years, he learned to play several musical instruments used in the Wu Opera. In the 1980s, he worked in the southern part of the province as a government official, which brought him back to the region where Wu Opera is a popular entertainment. In 1998 he was transferred to Hangzhou and assumed the directorship of the provincial grain authorities.

His work and life in Hangzhou enable him to find more fans of Wu Opera and a more amenable cultural environment. In his spare time, Li Linfang took musical lessons from professionals to play musical instruments used in the Wu Opera. Now he is a good player. He has organized a band that consists of Wu Opera enthusiasts. The band meets regularly to play Wu Opera pieces. Li has collaborated with professional musicians in recording thirteen Wu Opera musical pieces, which will be released soon.

In addition to the aforesaid Wu Opera gala in Hangzhou, Lin has been a motive force behind other Wu Opera activities in Hangzhou. For example, he organized a Wu Opera performance to entertain his 200 colleagues who came from all over the country for a conference in Hangzhou in November 2006. It was a huge success. In 2000, he was instrumental in an event in celebration of the 45-year career of Zheng Lanxiang, a Wu Opera master.

Li Linfang looks forward to more promotional activities to be conducted by the Council. One big plan is to sponsor a province-wide Wu Opera competition on television so as to give opportunities to promising Wu Opera artists. Another big plan is to see to the possible to have a symphony composed on the basis of Wu Opera musical elements.

Now, a national Wu Opera website is established in conjunction with the Xinhua website. The Wu Opera website has become the primary source for some Chinese restaurant proprietors in Europe to download Wu Opera performances and play them to their customers. The European feedback is highly positive.

(Translated by David)