Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 129 126. Joe Hisaishi and Bach, the opening of a new story

Summer Piano Duo, Bach Two Inventions No. [-] in F minor.

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At 07:30 in the evening, the concert begins.

At the backstage entrance, two hosts in formal attire were talking about opening speeches.

After confirming ok with each other, the woman in front and the man in the back strode through the backstage door.

At this time, the staff standing at the door applauded.

The applause spread to the frontcourt first, and then immediately ignited the applause in the frontcourt.

"Wow------"

The enthusiasm of the auditorium seemed to make the lights on the stage brighter, and the long dress on the hostess' body was even more red.

Host, lights, audience, applause.

And of course the piano standing still on the stage.

The opening elements of a piano concert come alive.

"Respected leaders, distinguished guests, dear parents and friends, outstanding children—"

"Good evening, everybody."

The old-fashioned opening remarks made the scene instantly quiet.

And the backstage is still bustling.

Under the camera, the staff walked back and forth, and the teachers gathered the students together for the final psychological construction of the stage.

In the dark corner, Li An leaned on the grand master's chair, with no place to rest his two big legs.

He has not worn a corset dress for a long time, and his body feels a little restrained at this moment.

Liu Fengrui and Wang Xiaohu sat on both sides, surrounded by members of the octet.

Chen Xuan and Ji Yang are touching up some children's makeup.

The children looked at each other's makeup, and those who were polite just pursed their lips, and those who were not polite would laugh out loud
Wang Xiaohu felt that Ji Yang must have painted his face like a monkey's butt on purpose.

"Teacher, can I wash my face?"

Wang Xiaohu applied in a low voice.

Li An withdrew his gaze from Chen Xuan's back and looked sideways.

Holding back a smile, he gave a suggestion, "No need."

"You will be the prettiest boy in the audience tonight."

Seeing Li An's sincere eyes, Wang Xiaohu became confident and dared to look in Che Lin's direction openly.

Then he secretly glanced at Che Lin who was less than three meters away from him.

At this time, Che Lin was holding the music score that was going to be performed in a while, obediently watching.

On the small face with light makeup, there is still a girl's green pheasant, but a little more mature.

Wang Xiaohu thinks that Che Lin is really beautiful, a hundred times more beautiful than the four beauties in their class combined.
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As the third program came to an end, the three young performers bowed and stepped off the stage under applause.

After Chen Xuan applied Huang Ruyi's blush, she straightened up and put her hands on her hips. Finally, she was done with her work.

"Ms. Chen, your eyeshadow palette."

Xiao Ji, who has already figured out the situation, has successfully upgraded from Ang Lee's fan to Chen Xuan's fan girl after half an afternoon of Chen Xuan's teaching.

She had only heard rumors about taking the Huaguo Conservatory of Music major in music performance naked.

So he admired her teacher Li even more.

She is not a primary school student. Although there was a misunderstanding in the afternoon, she could tell that the two of them were at least in a relationship.

It's still kind of hot.

Chen Xuan took it and smiled kindly. Ji Yang should be the first child she harvested in Rongcheng, a cute little girl, and the alarm was lifted.

Then she came to Ang Lee with a makeup bag, and said with a smile, "You can draw one too."

The tone seemed to be speaking to Wang Xiaohu.

Ang Lee:?
Before he responded, Liu Fengrui made a fuss first.

Then several children shouted for fairness!
Wang Xiaohu had the loudest voice.
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After a burst of hilarity, Mrs. Li and Wang Xiaohu, who had put on make-up, came to the entrance of the stage after cheering and cheering from the crowd.

At this moment, Lin Pengfei and Hou Cheng's four-handed bombing on the stage was coming to an end.

From the beginning of this program, Ang Lee's attention was drawn to it.

Objectively speaking, Lin Pengfei and Hou Chengpai cooperated well.

The two have a clear division of labor in the process of coordination and cooperation. As soon as the music enters the melody of the bass part, the treble part immediately gives up the volume.

And when the high-pitched part is ready to take over, the low-pitched part will use the unique vibration of the low-pitched part to gradually increase the volume from strong to weak.

In the whole process, the alternation of themes is completed, and the treble part has a feeling of gradually appearing.

The tacit understanding between the two is far beyond the general relationship between colleagues.

The cheerful rhythm and bright musical theme run through to the last set of chords on the score.

The two raised their hands at the same time with a "dang".

"Wow————————"

Lin Pengfei shook the dovetail behind him in annoyance, got up from the piano, came to the stage with Hou Cheng and bowed.

"Wow————————"

The high-quality Mozart four-hands played by the two young teachers directly raised the concert to a new level, and the concert entered a feverish stage in the first half.
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Lin Pengfei left the stage, and the backstage door was opened.

A wave of heat with light came oncoming.

Wang Xiaohu felt that his calf was a little soft.

He was about to take the stage, and he felt his saliva start to secrete crazily.

At this time, a big hand stretched out in front of him.

He looked up, and Li An was looking at him encouragingly.

"It's time for us to play."

Wang Xiaohu raised his hand to hold Li An's big hand, and at that moment he thought of his father again.

"Don't look down the stage."

"Just keep your eyes on the piano."

"Are you ready?"

Wang Xiaohu nodded.

In the next second, a force brought his body forward involuntarily.

In an instant, his eyes lit up completely.

"Wow——————"

His whole body seemed to be wrapped by the piano.

When he realized it again, he had already walked from the backstage entrance to the grand piano in the middle of the stage.

"sit."

After sitting down, Wang Xiaohu felt less nervous.

"Start."

"Take a deep breath."

Wang Xiaohu followed suit.

When the scene was completely quiet, and feeling Wang Xiaohu's breathing was steady, Li An gently raised the corners of his mouth, leaving an extra warm profile for the audience.

"1."

"2."

"3."

The audience in the front row could hear the male teacher counting rhythmically, but they didn't feel any disobedience to this scene.

"4."

At this time, Wang Xiaohu pressed the first note of summer with a sense of ritual.

"clatter!"

A slightly heavy but not clumsy skipping sound bloomed on his left little finger, just like everyone who heard the sound of the piano, Wang Xiaohu hit the next "Da".

"clatter"

"clatter!"

Wang Xiaohu's fingers seemed to be a little bolder from the test, and the fingers involuntarily increased their strength.

The music score in my mind gradually became clear, and the lower fingers became more coherent.

Then one after another, it was like the joyful pace of outing, centering on the stage, rippling away to the audience.

The joyful two sections have passed, and by now most of the audience in the audience know this work without reading the program list.

Summer, more people like to call this work Kikujiro's Summer.

As the theme song of the movie "Summer of Kikujiro", Hisaishi's work is widely circulated in Asia.

The main idea of ​​the movie is to describe a little boy who misses his mother and embarks on the road to find his mother one summer.

The kind-hearted aunt let his husband, Kikujiro, a rogue who always used violence to solve problems, accompany and protect him.

There are not many twists and turns in the story itself, it is nothing more than the experience of the journey.

Plain people, plain things, no brilliant stunts.

But the film itself has a simple atmosphere of life and a childlike sense of humor that can make people feel deeply touched.

Simple but warm music should match such a fresh and timeless story.

When Li An joined Wang Xiaohu's Didi Da Da with a sense of recklessness, the two figures, one big and one small, seemed to weave a four-dimensional space with music.

The music is childish like a naughty boy, and at the same time has the fragrance of the cool summer breeze in the countryside.

The phrases are sometimes rapid, sometimes steady, and fluctuating.

Like the small ups and downs in a boy's journey to find his eyes.

Compared with the previous program, the audience seems to be more easily brought into the listening state by such a melody.

Surrounded by warm musical notes, it seems that the whole world is in a kind of tranquility and peace.

Listening to the music in her ears, Xu Li looked at the two figures on the stage for a long time, and occasionally she would have an illusion.

Taozi has no illusions. Even with scrutinizing eyes and ears, he has to admit that the program on the stage is not only well-designed, but also the music arrangement is very flattering.

Usually this kind of classic repertoire is not easy to change.

The bigger the knife is, the more the taste of the original will change.

If more content is added, the texture of the entire music movement will become bloated again.

How to add an appropriate amount of seasoning to the knife to make the music glow with another color without affecting the audience's inherent impression of the music, Ang Lee gave a high-scoring answer at this moment.

When the theme came again, Wang Xiaohu played the theme melody, he broke up the harmony of the accompaniment, and Wang Xiaohu escorted the two voices in the high and low range at the same time.

When the mood of the music needs to be advanced, he plays the bass octave for Wang Xiaohu with his left hand, forming an octave progression.

When entering the climax of the secondary part, his right hand turned into an angel's bell again, and his jumping wrist seemed to be full of magic power, leading the melody in Wang Xiaohu's hand forward with his staccato playing.

Before the end of the music, just listen to the melody of Wang Xiaohu and his hands becoming more and more vigorous. At this time, those who are interested will notice that Li An's finger movements are getting smaller and smaller.

Until the music on the stage was still advancing, he had already taken his hand off the piano with a smile.

Put it flat on your legs, turn your head to watch Wang Xiaohu's final performance together with all the audience at the scene.

The music returned to Wang Xiaohu's solo, but this time he was no longer as timid as he was at the beginning. Without Lai'an's escort, he still strode forward.

No one knows whether Xiaohu is seeing the vast and boundless pure blue sea at this moment, and the gently surging waves in the music may belong to him this summer.

The annoying mother doesn't go home, and it's hard for grandma and grandpa to take him somewhere to play, and they won't let him go out alone for fear of getting lost.

After finishing his homework, he can only play games. In fact, games are not that fun. He just wants someone to accompany him.

Until one day, Teacher Li, who was as tall as his father, suddenly said:
"Teacher Ni, I used to be called the seventh yuan song of the national uniform."

At that moment, it seemed that he was destined to be different this summer.

At this moment, he never imagined that the feeling of sitting on the stage and performing is so strange.

Gently pressing the last tone, Wang Xiaohu let out a soft breath.

Raise your hand.

Quiet.

At this moment, the first applause sounded on the stage.

He stared sideways with his big eyes. Teacher Li, who had rescued him in the canyon several times, was clapping for him with a grin.

"teacher."

"Wow————————————————————————"

next second.

There was a flood of applause from the audience.

At the entrance of the back stage, figures of all sizes were applauding the teachers and students on the stage.

They watched Li An take Wang Xiaohu's hand and walk to the front of the stage.
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bow.

Step down.
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Liu Fengrui couldn't take care of the excitement anymore, because the next show was his.

Before taking the stage, he walked up to the sweaty Wang Xiaohu in a dignified manner, and stretched out his fist like Li An.

Wang Xiaohu bared his teeth and punched him, his immature voice was not lacking in strength: "Come on!"

Teacher Li, who had already loosened the top three buttons of his shirt, was very pleased to see this scene.

It's just that teacher Chen stared at him the next second, and he lowered his head, as if he really showed a lot.

While fastening the button, he finally warned: "If you make a mistake, you will make a mistake, just keep flipping it down."

Liu Fengrui nodded, turned around and walked onto the stage to meet the applause.

"Wow——————"

Chen Xuan knew that Li An was going to watch Sun Fengrui finish playing this work here.

She just stood quietly behind him, her waist was a little sore these two days, and she held on to the iron frame with one hand.

The light from the stage passed through the backstage door and hit Ang Li, and the shadow fell on Chen Xuan's chest.

Ji Yang thought the picture was beautiful at this moment, so he secretly took out his phone.

"despair."

Liu Fengrui pressed the first note of his stage experience in life.

Bach's Second Part Invention No. [-] in F minor.

This sound obviously stimulated Li An's ears, and his piercing eyes were fixed on the back in front of the piano.

He is very satisfied with the length of this sound.
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Among the piano textbooks, I am afraid that there is no one that is as popular as the second and third Inventions of Bach, and it is so difficult to achieve perfection.

Bach's music is the existence of breaking time and space.

Even competitors who are good at difficult works may frown when they come back to play the Invention.

This kind of ditty is no more difficult than the complicated Beethoven or Liszt, so what scares them off is not technique, but something else.
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"Creativity."

On a hot afternoon one day, Li An whispered these two words while leaning against the window in classroom No. [-].

"Creativity may imply an idea and its various interesting developments."

Liu Fengrui squatted under the air conditioner thinking about what is an interesting development.

"It is neither like a prelude nor like a rigorous and huge fugue. It is even more different from other people's monotonous and boring finger etudes. The singing in it is completely at the forefront of the times."

As he spoke, he looked at the confused classmate Liu, and said with a smile, "You only need to memorize two words."

"Segmentation and imitation."

Liu Fengrui understands this.

During the recent period, the teacher has been emphasizing the paragraph division and structure of this work with him every day.

But sometimes he would suddenly become obsessed with talking about things he didn't understand, such as the idea just now.

Ang Lee was also summarizing the teaching of Bach's Inventions during that passage, and during this in-depth thinking process, his thoughts would occasionally fly to the boundless sky.

Music performance and music teaching have the same purpose, both need sudden inspiration from the sky.

All of them require a double test of the music itself and performance.

Sometimes teaching is even more difficult than playing.

Especially for children who are mentally immature.

He used simple divisions to teach Liu Fengrui how to play this work with vigor and vitality.

But in fact, the method of playing standard fugue music was used, and the texture of Bach's music and his creative performance were emphasized in the demonstration.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand.

After establishing a clear segmented structure, it's all about imitating.

This idealized teaching and demonstration method is as creative as the Invention itself.

The stage is the best place to test the effect of music teaching.
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Li quietly listened to the performance on the stage, just like all the audience.

It is different from the cooperation stage with Wang Xiaohu.

For Liu Fengrui, Ang Lee has more expectations.

A child with excellent talent who started to learn the piano from a training institution, after less than half a year of your training, how far can he play Bach on the stage.

Liu Fengrui handed over such an answer sheet.

His overall playing speed is not fast, but every sound has a solid finger drop.

In No. [-], where the motivational material is not complicated, he seems to be able to handle it with ease.

When the music entered the No.16 bar, he played a beautiful counterpoint embellishment.

The overall harmony outline is clear, and every move of the hands and arms has a faint shadow of Ang Lee.

Naturally, people can't expect a child to play Bach with vigor, and even his teacher can't do Bach's green, red and vermilion pink.

We only need to watch Liu Fengrui stand up from the piano after playing the last note, and the eyes of various teachers in the background looking at Ang Lee can detect a thing or two.

Maybe they regretted not taking Liu Fengrui into their pocket before Ang Li, or maybe they were wondering how Ang Li did it.

It doesn't matter anymore.

Now Li An has firmly established a firm foothold in Yudong.

Especially at the following meeting on the morning of September 9, when Qin Yong announced that the No. 6 in the Yudong Excellent Teacher Assessment was Li Ang.

It is destined that a new story is about to begin.

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As for the period from the end of Liu Fengrui's stage performance to Li An's official promotion to Blue Sky Elite Teacher, many things happened.

May be a good thing.

For example, in Teacher Li An's living room, the piano is already in place.

For example, Junior Brother Li An let Senior Sister Jia Mingyu earn two thousand quick money from Song Sheng, but he didn't get a cent of kickbacks.

For example, in the grand finale of the piano concert, my motherland octet was like a bomb, and Tian Yu in the corner of the audience was taken aback for a while.

Another example is the afternoon of the second day after the end of the concert of the wind group, Chen Xuan in classroom 4 was a little timid, she was timid about the situation at night.

The game that night was not about the people in the west office or Ji Yang and Li Minghao.

It's Li An's senior sister and junior, especially when she thinks about facing the senior sister who Li An said took good care of Li An during college, she feels a little ugly daughter-in-law meeting her parents-in-law for no reason.

Speaking of this matter, I have to talk about it after she and Ang Lee performed Spring is Coming at the wind group concert.

She almost gave her first kiss during the break.

To say that spring came, it was really wonderful.

Not only is the music wonderful, but the two young people brought their bodies closer to each other through music.

They didn't want to give in to each other in the understanding of this piece before. It's strange to say that after the music started, the two instruments were still facing each other.

But halfway through, the piano suddenly reached out and touched the flute gently at a small motive.

After just that one bar, it's like the two instruments are rolling on a sheet.

Spring has really come.

Otherwise, the scene in the backstage rest room would not have happened.

As for why Chen Xuan didn't send out her first kiss.

The story has to be told slowly by someone.
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In other words, it will be the morning of September 9th.

Outside the airport lobby.

After a long hug, Chen Xuan turned her head three times and walked into the security check with great reluctance.

It has been more than five months since I came to Rongcheng.

It's time for her to go home.

See her parents, and talk to them about her well-thought-out next steps.

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Sending off Teacher Chen, our Yudong's new boutique piano teacher took a taxi back to Yudong's office building.

It was supposed to be a day off today, but Qin Yong asked him to meet him in the office in the morning.

Ang Lee knew.

There are some problems, and it is time for the two of them to talk face to face.

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