我第一次听程桂兰演唱是20多年以前的事了。那时,她还不满20岁,刚从部队基层业余演出队调入南京军区前线歌舞团,唱的是苏州评弹。又过了几年,她到北京参加全军第四届文艺汇演,唱的还是评弹,但很有些新意。我感到程桂兰小小年纪,虽还有些稚气,但声音甜美,很有表现力,这个年轻人有根底、有发展前途。80年代以来,有些青年演员从民歌的舞台上“转移”了,民歌似乎不那么被人重视了。就在这个时候,程桂兰在全国民族民间唱法汇演中用方言演唱的《太湖美》,引起了轰动,得到了广大群众和专家们高度的赞许。程桂兰演唱《太湖美》的成功,使人们更加坚信中国民族歌唱艺术具有强大的生命力,拥有广泛的群众基础。程桂兰演唱成功的意义远远超出了演唱本身的范围。 I first listened to Cheng Guilan concert more than 20 years ago. At that time, she was under 20 years old. She just transferred from the amateur performance team of the army to the frontline song and dance troupe of the Nanjing Military Region and sang the Suzhou Pingtan. A few years later, she went to Beijing to attend the fourth theatrical show in the army, singing or criticizing the bomb, but it was quite new. I feel Cheng Guilan a very young age, though still somewhat childish, but the sound sweet, very expressive, the young people have a foundation, promising future. Since the 1980s, some young actors have “shifted” from the stage of folk songs, and folk songs do not seem to be taken seriously. It was at this time that Cheng Guilan’s “Taihu Beauty” sung in dialect in the national folk singing performance attracted great sensation and was highly praised by the masses and experts. The success of Cheng Guilan’s concert “Taihu Lake” has made people believe more firmly that Chinese national singing art has a strong vitality and a broad mass base. Cheng Guilan the significance of singing success goes far beyond the scope of the concert itself.