Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 211 208. The clues left by the key are also the fallen people in the end of the world

In the next hour, Mr. Xie Ganzheng conducted Yan Jiao, and performed the orchestra part of the two piano concertos K466 and K271 consecutively.

The interpretation style is just like what the old man himself said in the lunch session, focusing on the speed change and requiring the absolute precision of the instruments in each part.

Regarding the point of absolute precision, through this hour of listening, Ang Lee has made it very clear, and has drawn a picture of cooperating with the old man on the stage in his mind.

In other words, how should he better integrate into the framework of the orchestra led by the old man.

With this in mind, it goes without saying that Ang Lee likes the old man's style of handling Mozart's works, which is clear and distinguishable, strong and weak in an orderly manner.

But he didn't notice that his playing ideas had been unknowingly taken a little by the old man's interpretation of Mozart.
-
An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

After performing the two works, Xie Ganzheng stepped down from the stage and had another exchange with the six young people.

Listened to everyone's thoughts and feelings.

According to the plan during the lunch, Wu Fusheng and Zeng Mengqiu will be the first co-producers this afternoon, and their final selections are both K466.

Tomorrow morning, Jiang Sheng and Yanev's k271 will be co-produced.

Tomorrow afternoon, the co-production of Ang Lee and Liang Chunyu will still be k466.

The old man arranged for Ang Lee to be co-produced in the final stage because in his opinion, Ang Lee has not performed with the orchestra before, and it is bound to encounter various expected difficulties if he proceeds directly.

So he provided Ang Li with such an opportunity to use the time from this afternoon to tomorrow morning to observe and study the co-production process of other contestants.

He hoped that Ang Lee would first understand what it is like to play with the band through observation, so that the personal co-production tomorrow afternoon can go smoothly.

The old man's intentions this time are also out of his love and care for every young man.

He is well aware of the scarcity of higher music education resources, and not every piano student has the opportunity to cooperate with the orchestra.

He has seen the video of Ang Lee's three rounds. From a commanding perspective, he can see that the other party is a young man with great ideas.

The opponent's ability to enter the final also shows from the side that the opponent has the strength not to lose to the other five.

But a game is a game, and the care he can provide is limited to this. As for whether Li An can understand anything through observing the first two games, it depends on the opponent himself.

"Okay, I won't talk about that much, let's start."

After Xie Ganzheng finished speaking, he asked Wu Fusheng and Zeng Mengqiu in the direction: "Which of you will come first?"

Wu Fusheng didn't care, looked at the glasses girl and shrugged, "Look at you."

"Then I'll come."

The girl with glasses has something to do later, so she is not polite.
-
As the rehearsal on the stage began, Yanev and Jiang Sheng left first.

About 10 minutes later, Liang Chunyu also left.

Only Li An, Wu Fusheng and Hou Zhentao remained in the audience.

Wu Fusheng sat quietly in a corner and waited, while Li An listened to the rehearsal details on the stage and exchanged lessons with Hou Zhentao.

"Hou Zhi, Mr. Xie just said how to shoot the pre-shoot with sub-beats."

Because of his back, Li An couldn't see the gesture the old man made just now, so he asked his side for advice.

Hou Zhentao nodded after listening, and enthusiastically explained: "In the Adagio movement, sometimes it would be too late to use a complete beat as the preparatory beat. Usually in this case, the conductor can use the split gesture on the previous beat."

As he spoke, he raised his right hand and demonstrated to Ang Lee the split-pat method used by Mr. Xie on stage, "This way, the conductor's gestures can be seen more clearly, and the conductor and performers can communicate more closely."

Li An looked at the band score in his hand again, digested Hou Zhentao's words, and then took a pen to write a reminder text here.

Hou Zhentao looked at the densely written score in Li An's hands.

During Jiang Sheng's intermission, he asked Li An: "Want to learn conducting?"

Li Ang probably guessed that the other party saw the score mark in his hand, and explained with a smile: "When I got the final repertoire, I didn't have a direction to start, so I thought about studying the band score and see if I could learn from it. Find some inspiration."

Hou Zhentao frowned when he heard it. He studied the band score for the performance of the work. It is not that he has never heard of such a thing, but it is the first time he has seen it.

"Can I see your score?"

Li An handed the score in his hand to the other party.

Hou Zhentao took it and carefully flipped through a few pages. The more he read it, the more he realized that Ang Lee was not simple. law-like.

Since he knew that the other party had never cooperated with the orchestra, he preconceived that the other party had completed the reading of the score by himself and filled the notes.

After returning the score to Li An, Hou Zhentao joked: "It's a pity, you should learn to conduct."

Ang Lee sighed with a smile: "The competitive pressure of commanding is even greater."

These words really hit Hou Zhentao's heart. Most of the people who graduated from conducting studies were forced to change careers in the end.

It’s not that I don’t love this industry. Since I was able to choose the major of conducting and be admitted to this major, there is no such thing as lack of talent and love.

But the reality is that there are too few opportunities to practice on stage.

Conducting comes from rehearsals and performances, but even higher music institutions with independent conducting departments such as the National Academy of Music and the Haiyuan Academy do not have the resources to give you the resources to practice like this one after another.

This is why the audience generally sees that most of the people standing in front of the podium are middle-aged and elderly faces, and young faces are rarely seen.

Although Hou Zhentao is the assistant conductor of the final stage, he does not have much stage experience.

To be able to get this opportunity, I have to thank him for studying hard by Mr. Xie's side all these years, and getting the appreciation of the teacher, so I got this opportunity that I almost never had the chance to be on stage.

But even if he can't make it to the stage, it will be an extra addition to his future resume.

Assistant Conductor of the Youth Open Group Final of the No.18 Xinhai Cup National Piano Competition.

It can be regarded as a gain.

Of course, having said that, he could only hold back in his heart and sighed: "There is no industry with less competitive pressure now. What do you do now?"

Knowing that Li An is currently a piano teacher in a training institution, Hou Longtao actually felt a sense of sympathy. His main job now is to be the conductor of a private children's choir.

"Come on."
-
The time came to 16:40 pm.

After watching Wu Fusheng's rehearsal, Li An intuitively believed that in the interpretation of this work, the other party is obviously better than the glasses girl.

Perhaps at this stage, the investigation of players is not limited to finger skills and handling of music, but more to examine whether the players can control a band at a comprehensive level.

When playing with the band, you should pay attention to the contrast of tone, melody, sound strength, undulating lines, and performance structure presented on the entire stage.

Whether a concerto can be successfully staged is a complete challenge for pianists.

Wu Fusheng's k466 sometimes turns into a conductor, guiding the direction of the music of each part, and sometimes turns into a butterfly, dancing in the sound valley formed by the band, which is too beautiful to behold.

This is the embodiment of absolute strength.

In comparison, the glasses girl seems too well-behaved, not because she doesn't play well, but because her opponent is too strong.

The opponent of the glasses girl is naturally Li An's opponent.

Everyone plays K466, which can be said to be an opponent among opponents.

But at this moment, Li An no longer has any psychological pressure. Being able to enter the final has already exceeded his goal. In the words of Mr. Xie, he will try to keep the best of himself on this stage for the last match.
-
After staying in the Grand Theater for a day, Li An and Wu Fusheng bid farewell to the two conductors Xie Ganzheng and Hou Zhentao, and it was already dark when they came out.

On the way back to the hotel, a Christmas tree had already been erected in front of the shopping mall in the distance.

The flow of people in the streets and alleys is no longer as hurried as in the morning, and a strong festive atmosphere blows over us.

Seeing the couples coming and going around him, Wu Fusheng was a little envious, and Li An said he was also a little envious.

"Isn't your girlfriend coming to see you?" Wu Fusheng was puzzled.

Ang Lee explained: "I'm busy with work at the end of the year."

Wu Fusheng also thought about it, "Then you and Lao Tang will go to Houhai together tomorrow night?"

Li An: "Forget it, there will be crowds everywhere tomorrow night, why not just stay in the hotel honestly."

The two returned to the hotel, and Li An rested in the room for a while, then took out the score of K466 and studied it.

Chen Xuan had to rehearse in the evening, so he decided to use this time to go downstairs and read the last two chapters on the development of Russian piano.

As expected, the rewards of the salon event were as expected, and he could only choose the score, so he was destined to never take this book with him.

Since you can't take it with you, just read it here.

I don't know when the next time I will come.

Two hours later, Li An finally read the last word.

Quietly closing the book, my heart is full of emotion.

It seems to have fully witnessed the process of how the Russian school of piano grew from scratch, from its birth to its glory. He wondered whether the term Huaguo piano school would appear in the history of music 100 years later.

Obviously this is a hypothetical that has no ground.

From the perspective of the history of the piano school, this possibility no longer exists.

In the last chapter, it is written that Negoz predicted in the last century that the future will be an era of great fusion of schools,
Combining this sentence, looking at the young performers who are active on the world stage today, it is indeed difficult to see the shadow of a pure school in them.

At this time, the door of the lobby was pushed open, and Yuan Xiaoyu's figure appeared.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Li An, and walked over.

Seeing the book in the other party's hand, he couldn't help but ask, "So you can't put it down?"

Ang Lee: "I really like it."

Then he asked, "Why are you free again today?"

After getting along during this time, she knew that Yuan Xiaoyu usually only came to take a look when he had something to do.

"I'm coming to find you."

Yuan Xiaoyu directly took out a key from his bag and pushed it in front of Li An.

Ang Lee: "This is?"

Yuan Xiaoyu: "The teacher left, and he said that this book cannot be given to you, but this key can be given to you, so that you can keep it as a souvenir."

Li An looked at the size of the key and suddenly thought of something.

Without waiting for him to ask any more questions, Yuan Xiaoyu said goodbye and hurried away.

This inexplicable rush
Li An put away the keys with a smile, put the book back on the book wall, took out the phone and looked at it, a series of missed calls.

Half an hour ago, Yuan Xiaoyu called him four times
Sure enough, they came to find me.

Li An went upstairs and returned to the room, and went directly to the piano and sat down.

Staring at the lock on the piano cover for a while, he felt that the key in his pocket was most likely used to open the lock.

Taking out the key, Li An slowly inserted it in, the size was just right.

Gently twist it to the right, click, and there is a crisp unlocking sound.

Suddenly, Li An was a little nervous.

With a light breath, he pushed the piano cover up with both hands.

A scent of spruce hits my face, and then the black and white keyboard appears in front of my eyes.

Good violin.

Judging from the color of the paint on the keys, this should be a handmade piano.

At this moment, his eyes fell on the inset on the left side of the piano cover, where a row of sticky notes full of words was pasted there.

He couldn't help but move closer out of curiosity.

Judging from the yellowed paper and handwriting, this row of sticky notes should have been posted here for a long time.

'Ye Xiao, you are not human, not human, not human! 03.08'

Li An didn't know who this Ye Xiao was, but he could tell that Boss X had some conflicts with this Ye Xiao on a woman's day in a certain year.

'One of the dangers of playing on stage is being too concerned about the presence of the audience. '

This makes sense. If you care too much about the audience, you will have a strong attempt to create a certain musical atmosphere, which will affect the primary color performance.

Suddenly, he felt a feeling that he was peeping at someone's privacy.

But then I thought about it, since Boss X knew that he lived in 4005 and gave him this key, this should change the direction to show that the other party didn't care that he would see this.

And if you look at it all--

Sitting cross-legged on the spot, Li An changed into a comfortable position and continued to watch.

Then he found that there were only two things that would appear on these sticky notes, one was Boss X's emotional monologue, and he skipped it when he encountered it, he was not interested in other people's gossip, he was interested in another thing— — Interpretation of piano performance.

Although there are only a few strokes, it can bring people some thinking and reflection.

Saw the last one soon.

Finally, there is another piece about music, which has quite a lot of words.

"As for the piano performance, let it take its course. '

'With any score, you can play it as you understand it, and try to go beyond pure entertainment. '

' Just be careful not to feel that if the music you play doesn't push the listener into the abyss of thought, it must be superficial. '

'We, as interpreters of music, should never be servants of the composer. '

'If we are the servants of the composers, to what greater power do the great composers owe their allegiance? '

‘致老陈的第一次比赛失利，2010年8月27日，00:24。’

We, as interpreters of music, should never be servants of the composer.

Li An muttered these words, and his thoughts couldn't help but return to the last scene of the real and fake Czerny night.

After the carnival, everyone left, and Lao Tang sent the glasses girl back to another hotel, leaving X's boss Yuan Xiaoyu Wu Fusheng and him at the bar.

The four had a discussion about the style of piano performance, and finally he asked Boss X a question.

"Should the performer play according to the composer's thinking?"

Boss X asked him a question, "When you played the storm, did you play according to the composer's composing ideas?"

He was thinking about this question at the time, but Boss X answered the phone and left early.
-
At [-]:[-] am the next day, Mi Qiao walked out of the subway station.

stopped.

【Changshun Street Station】

Then raised the corners of his mouth, hesitated for a second, turned and walked in the direction of Huaguo Conservatory of Music.

(End of this chapter)