Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 189 186. Mr. Li, who seeks stability, draws lots for Group A

Giger Piano Art Gallery.

The left horn room on the second floor.

Wu Fusheng's expression was somewhat regretful.

At this moment, the display on his mobile phone——

[Wu Fusheng, contestant No. 039 of Group D, went to Yunzhong Concert Hall at 16:14 pm on the 30th to draw lots for the order of performance. 】

In fact, he really wanted to experience the feeling of walking on the field not long after waking up.

However, most people do not have such thoughts, such as Lao Tang.

"Brother Sheng, I won't come with you tomorrow morning."

Lao Tang was also assigned to Group A. Just as he was talking, the phone in his hand rang, "It's Yuanzi."

Wu Fusheng nodded, "I guess they have finished checking the groups."

Lao Tang walked aside and picked up the phone.

Five minutes later, the two left with backpacks.

Tomorrow, the offline competition will officially start. Among the first players to represent Haiyuan, there are not only Lao Tang from Group A, but also two Haiyuan players from Group C.

As the big brother who leads the team, Wu Fusheng should really organize the younger brothers and sisters to meet up tonight.

Cheer everyone up.

"However, the strength of your D group is too strong."

On the way to dinner, Lao Tang was already looking forward to the match in Group D the day after tomorrow afternoon.

Liang Chunyu from the State Academy, and Wu Fusheng from the Haiyuan Academy.

The super-seeded players from the two top academies in the south and the north met in the second round ahead of schedule.

Not only that, but also in Group D there is Zeng Mengqiu, a talented woman from Tianjin Academy who won the No.1 in the Tianjin Division of the Singapore International Piano Competition last year.

"Is she a senior this year?"

Wu Fusheng said with emotion: "The girls with glasses are all in senior year."

"The last time we saw her was when Bachman held a master class summer camp last year, and she was just a sophomore at that time."

Speaking of Bachmann's master class summer camp, 14 people on the list for the second round this time participated in that summer camp.

Lao Tang felt a little nostalgic thinking about it.

In the hot summer, amidst the sound of piano and laughter, young students from major art colleges spent an unforgettable summer together.

The little friends who used to gallop in the ocean of piano together became rivals in the blink of an eye.

This feeling is actually quite good.

Lao Tang: "I still remember the last concert."

Wu Fusheng also remembered that Liang Chunyu racked his brains to compete with him for the last chance to play a duet with Bachmann: "This guy is good everywhere, but he is too utilitarian."

Lao Tang: "Is it a break this time?"

Wu Fusheng smiled: "It happened hundreds of years ago, who still misses him."

Lao Tang: "Magistrate, do you think there will be any dark horses in this open competition?"

Wu Fusheng: "The universe is undecided."

"Master, let's meet in three rounds."

Lao Tang touched the top of his bare head: "Let's go."

The two laughed and walked into the subway station. In fact, both of them knew in their hearts that 104 entered 12, and for most players in the second round, they were close to death.

Not long after the two walked into the subway station, Li An walked out from the same subway entrance while listening to his mobile phone.

"Yes, at six o'clock tomorrow morning."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

After setting a time with the Qinfang aunt, Li An felt at ease again.

After hanging up the phone, he just waited to warm up early tomorrow, and turned on his fingers two hours in advance as much as possible.
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Half an hour ago.

When he saw Li An in Group A, he couldn't say that he was flustered, he could only say that he was somewhat unlucky.

However, he has already done a good job in psychological construction. Half of the 104 players competed in the morning.

Besides, it's not like I didn't experience the morning exam during the art exam.

In the days before his departure, everyone around him created an atmosphere for him that he was going to come to Yanjing to do something important, which made him feel a little bit cautious.

But in fact, for him, it was a small trip for the purpose of self-examination.

Throughout the afternoon, he racked his brains and couldn't find a second purpose.

So what is there to worry about.

take it easy.

Just take another art test.

Being shortlisted in the audition is considered a successful registration.

Tomorrow's second round will be the initial test.

What is the most important thing to participate in the initial.

Seek stability.

As Li An thought about it, the last little fluctuation in his heart was gradually shrouded to the bottom of his heart.
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On the way back to the hotel, Li An had a simple meal, and there were still fourteen days left before the lottery.

His plan was to go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 5am.

During the period before going to bed, he wanted to relax. After a busy day, he didn't bother to experience the unique style of the hotel.

At 07:30 in the evening, he walked out of the hotel room with his tea cup in his arms and came to the lobby.

The Xiao Sai contestants on the big screen were still playing tirelessly, and Li An walked around in front of the book wall.

Stopped many times.

For the piano works of Falenke, he has been greedy for the etude in A minor for a long time, but he couldn't find the score.

There is also a black cover of Czerny's 861 left-hand etudes, a version that has never been seen.

But it was undoubtedly a non-musical book that attracted him most.

After inquiring and learning that all the books on the book wall can only be read in the lobby, he went back to the book wall and took out this slightly damaged book.

"On the Four Schools of Russian Piano"

When I hold it in my hand, the plastic color and old print on the cover give people a sense of age.

The author is a Russian named Yegor, and the translator is Chen Jian, so there is no further introduction.

Turn over the first page, the first edition was printed in 1979.

Li An carefully took the book to the wine counter, found a table and sat down casually.

Glancing at the wine wall, he thought that there was a competition tomorrow, so it was not suitable to drink, and then he put the teacup on the table generously.

Turn to the preface.

'When it comes to Russian piano music, we can't help but think of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Scriabin, etc. A master of Russian music."

'Under the influence of their playing and music, countless outstanding artists have emerged in Russia and the world. '

'In today's wave of serious music, these masters and their works not only represent the Russian school of music in a narrow sense, but also represent an era and a great legacy of world piano art since the [-]th century. '
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Time passed in Ang Lee's immersive reading.

During the period, Boss X came to the front desk to get the key once.

The contestants in group B from Xiyin returned to the hotel accompanied by their girlfriends.

A passenger who brought a child to Yanjing to see Tianmen checked out.

Until he raised his head and was about to move his neck, he found two faces with some memory points sitting at the table next to him.

Especially that shiny bald head.

Sea Academy player?

next second.

Six eyes facing each other?

This time, Ang Li saw clearly that it was this buddy. If you say that the two are really destined, not only the player numbers are next to each other, but they also chose the same hotel, and the groups are still in the same group.

But it's always impolite to stare at someone's bald head.

He was about to say something when Lao Tang took the initiative to smile and waved to him, and reported his family name: "067, just call me Lao Tang."

It seems that the other party also knows his identity.

So he also raised his hands and responded with a smile: "066, Li An."

It's not uncommon to say, just like when he checked his information on the official website of the event that day, there was this guy named Lao Tang beside him.

"039, Wu Fusheng."

Wu Fusheng also smiled.

Just like that, the three pianist youths who were not much different in age actually got acquainted.

After saying hello, Lao Tang continued to look at the big screen, Li An stretched his neck, took a sip of tea, bowed his head and continued to turn to the next page.

Only Wu Fusheng's eyes wandered back and forth for a moment on Li An's left hand flipping the book.

Obviously it was a big hand, but what caught his attention was how it felt so familiar to him.

Where have you seen it?

Time flies by.

At 35:[-], Li An went to the front desk to register, and returned the book to the original place with some reluctance.

In the rest of the game, he had something to do.

Before returning to the room, he went back to the bar to get a cup of tea.

Say goodbye to two new friends by the way.

Chen Xuan doesn't listen to stories tonight.

Xiaomi: Good night~ Panpan and I made an appointment to go downstairs to eat meat buns tomorrow morning
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Li An slept well that night.

He opened his eyes when the alarm clock sounded at five o'clock.

Perhaps due to excitement, his brain was sober.

He got up and took a shower, shaved and dried his hair, changed into his dress and sat in front of the piano for a while.

At five thirty, he left the hotel.

He arrived at aunt's piano room at [-]:[-] on time.

Accompanied by the bright sky, the warm C major scale cuts through the dawn at a slow speed.

Ang Lee only had an hour and a half to warm up.

He tries to open up his fingers with enough scales.

Use Rachmaninoff's Prelude in E-flat Minor and Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B Major in fast, medium and slow speeds to awaken the musical sense in your mind.

An hour and a half later, he took off the piano cover and wiped the sweat from his brow.

The question before him now was whether to use the vitality potion or not.

In fact, he felt that his state at the moment was better than expected.

After much hesitation, he gave up.

Then set all system prompts to off.

Bawanyi: wait for me

Arriving outside the gate of Taoyuan Concert Hall at [-]:[-], Li An sent Chen Xuan a message, turned off his mobile phone, put it in his schoolbag, and walked into the gate with his entry card.

The original site of the Taoyuan Concert Hall was a Peking Opera Theater, which was later refurbished into a concert hall.

This time, Taoyuan Hall, the main hall, was used as the sub-venue for the competition. When you enter the door, you can see a huge LED light board through the left-hand corridor to the second floor.

The words 'No. 18th Xinghai Cup National Piano Competition Youth Open Group Second Round Group A Taoyuan Hall' were scrolled on it.

Below the light sign are two entrances, where young people in Chinese costumes gather in twos and threes.

Someone was walking back and forth with headphones on, and someone was sitting in a corner holding a sheet music.

Someone is swiping their phone.

Lao Tang wore a blue dress today, and except for the bald top of his head, he looked more gentle and refined.

"morning."

Greeted Li An who was coming, Lao Tang had been here for almost 10 minutes.

"morning."

10 minutes before the lottery, Lao Tang chatted with Li An.

"Teacher Wei? It turns out that you are from the Rongcheng Academy."

Probably because of the county magistrate's affiliation, Lao Tang felt a little kind when he learned of Li An's background.

"Then you must know Lin Youyou, right?"

Li An nodded, "My two undergraduate courses are first-level."

It’s not a waste of time to break through the iron shoes.

"Group A contestants are ready to enter the lottery!"

At this time, a staff member came out from the door of the concert hall. As her voice fell, the originally quiet scene suddenly felt a little restless.

"Let's talk later."

Lao Tang and Li An walked into the concert hall behind a really petite girl.

Under the bright lights, a black nine-foot grand piano was placed in the center of the stage.

At a glance, there was no one in the auditorium wrapped in red velvet cloth, only a few busy staff fiddled with the cameras.

The six jury seats in the central area of ​​the front row of the auditorium were still missing.

There were no live audiences in the second round, only post-match video.

A group of players followed the team leader's staff to the largest lounge in the backstage, and the eleven players in Group A were assembled.

"We use on-site lottery to determine the order of appearance. After the lottery, we will provide each person with no more than 2 minutes of piano trial time according to the order of the lottery."

"The official match will officially start at [-]:[-]."

No one complained that the 2-minute piano trial time was too short, and most of the people present had participated in at least one major domestic piano competition.

Everyone knows that this is the true status quo of most domestic competitions. There is no free practice place before the competition, and the organizer has the final say on the trial time.

Because of the number of participants, usually the backstage and on-site order in the first two rounds is far less orderly than advertised on the official website of the competition.

Xinghai is not bad, the method of drawing lots is at least using APP software to draw lots.

According to the sequence number of the players, the eleven players drew their own numbers in turn with the cooperation of the staff.

Seeing that the order of appearances on the big screen in the backstage decreased one by one, Li An and Lao Tang, who drew lots at the back, could only smile at each other.

More than half of the people were drawn, so far no one has drawn the first number.

The little girl who is only 150cm is too conspicuous among the adult contestants. When the staff came up to her with a tablet computer, many people's eyes were focused on her.

She raised her hand slightly.

On the big screen in the background, the first pick finally appeared.

Jiang Sheng, No. 054 of Group A, was selected by Yangcheng music students, 01. '

This had to let a few people who followed up with the lottery breathe a sigh of relief.

Looking at the order of appearance he had drawn, Jiang Sheng didn't show any expression.

The lottery continued, and the players behind Jiang Sheng were drawn to play No. 9.

The staff came to Ang Li.

Right now, there are only three people who have not been drawn, and the numbers are 2, 6, and 10.

Li An silently said No. 6 and pressed his finger.

[No. 066 Li An in Group A, elected by Gansu Musicians Association, 02]

Ok.

At least a little better than the worst case, not the first appearance.

Li An spat lightly.

Lao Tang and the last player drew the final No. 10 and No. 6 respectively.

After half an hour, all the contestants left the stage after the piano trial, and sat in the contestants viewing area.

With 09 minutes before 30:10, six judges entered through the west gate of the concert hall.

The judges were seated, and with a buzzing sound, the second round of competition in Group A officially started.

Jiang Sheng, who was the first to appear on stage, walked to the front of the stage, bowed to the audience, and sat down.

As the No.1 contestant, she behaves very calmly.

Li Ang, who was preparing for his second appearance at the entrance of the stage, was adjusting his breathing, and his expression froze when he heard the sound.

Looking up at Jiang Sheng who had already started playing in front of the piano on the stage, his eyes revealed a trace of solemnity.

In the hall, the surging torrent etude has already hit everyone's hearts hard.

(End of this chapter)