提起新艳秋,老戏迷都还记得,五十年前,她曾以演程派戏红极一时,唱做俱佳,一度曾同程砚秋打了“对台”! 新艳秋可算程派艺术的第一个传人。但她不是程砚秋的弟子,程砚秋一句也没教过她。新艳秋的程派,完全是苦心自学的。新艳秋原名王玉华,从小学的是河北梆子。二十年代中期,程砚秋初创程派艺术,风华正茂,震惊剧坛,一下就吸引住了十五岁的新艳秋,迷得她如醉如痴,立志要改学京剧,唱程派。那时,程砚秋常在北京华乐园(今大众剧场)演出。每演,新艳秋和她哥哥(琴师)必去“偷”戏。兄妹俩躲在楼上角落里,哥哥专记唱腔和胡琴的工尺 Mention the new Yan autumn, the old fans are still remember, fifty years ago, she was the acting faction play a smash hit, singing to do all the best, once with Cheng Yanqiu hit the “Taiwan”! The first successor. But she is not a disciple Cheng Yanqiu, Cheng Yanqiu did not teach her a sentence. The new Yan Qiu Cheng school, completely painstaking self-study. Yan Yan autumn formerly known as Wang Yuhua, Hebei primary priests from the child. The mid-1920s, Cheng Yan Qiu Chuang creation art, flourishing, shocking the theater, what attracted a 15-year-old Yan Yan, fascinated by her enthralled, determined to change their school of Peking opera, singing Cheng school. At that time, Cheng Yanqiu often performed in Beijing China Paradise (now the public theater). Each performance, the new Yan autumn and her brother (Luthier) will go to “steal” the show. Brother and sister hiding in the corner upstairs, my brother specializes in singing and piano feet