Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 228 223. Four Era Wars in One Era

This should be Ang Lee's solo concert so far.

Although it was only held in the school's concert hall, the sponsor was named after the Chengdu Conservatory of Music.

The Rongcheng Conservatory of Music and the Piano Department of the Rongcheng Conservatory of Music are two concepts, the former is a serious hall-level unit.

For Deng Shiqi and others' graduate graduation music concerts, the organizer is only the piano department.

As for how much the school attaches importance to this concert, Ang Lee is hard to say for the time being, but Wei Sanwan told him to design the repertoire carefully, and report immediately when he has ideas.

At least this shows that the piano department attaches great importance to this concert.

That's right, there is no reason for the piano department not to attach importance to this concert at this time.

As the largest department of the Conservatory of Music of the Rongcheng University, the Piano Department of the Rongcheng Conservatory of Music has been steadily overwhelmed by the two brother schools next door in terms of teaching achievements and educational and scientific research achievements in recent years.

Last year, he signed up for the piano performance of Rongyuan Academy, which was the first major in the province, and finally turned around and went to Guangyuan Academy. This incident is still talked about by insiders from time to time.

It is said that Rongcheng Institute is a simulated examination room of Guangyuan.

As the current head of the Piano Department of Rongcheng Academy, can he not be angry when he hears this.

Fortunately, Li An's results in this competition brought back the victory for Rongcheng Academy.

On the second day after the results of the competition came out, the leaders of the compound approached Wei Sanwan to find out the specific situation. After learning that Li An was indeed a graduate of the Piano Department of Grade 14 of the school, he directly proposed that the Piano Department take the lead, and the compound as support, organize the competition for Li An. A personal concert.

For this proposal, the piano department also held a special meeting, and finally set the date of this concert in the third week after New Year's Day, January NO.17.

So when Li An learned that the school was going to hold this concert for him, the date of the concert had already been knocked to death.

There are still fifteen days until January NO.17.

Fifteen days is enough time for him to prepare one medium-sized track and two small-sized tracks, but he has not yet decided whether to prepare new tracks.

Secondly, he is not sure whether the quality of the new songs can meet the standards in his heart.

The root cause is the importance attached to this concert from the heart.

According to Wei Sanwan, this concert will be divided into two halves, that is to say, he will prepare nine and 10 minutes of repertoire.

Minus the on and off time, there should be at least eight 10-minute tracks in the repertoire.

In addition to the final encore track, it is assumed that there are two encores, one track lasts two to three minutes, adding up to 3 minutes.

Therefore, a total of 86 minutes is in front of him, and he needs to carefully design how to allocate these 86 minutes.

If you don't consider other things, just make up the time, it's very simple, just play three complete sets of Beethoven sonatas once.

Then the title of the concert is called - Ang Lee 2022 Beethoven New Year's Special Concert.

Adapt to the occasion.

But in fact it doesn't work at all.

Not to mention that he couldn't pass Wei Sanwan's test, he couldn't pass this test himself.

It's the first concert in my life, how can I not have a sense of design.

The repertoire of a piano concert represents the performer's musical aesthetics and how much he attaches to the concert.

Ang Lee believes that he has a personal musical aesthetic, and this concert is extremely important to him.

However, after half a morning, the straw paper in front of him was almost full, but he still hadn't sorted out a set of repertoire that would satisfy him.

"I'm going to class."

Chen Xuan's voice came from the bedroom, Li An looked at his watch, it was almost 10:30, Chen Xuan's students were coming soon.

After getting up to clean up the front of the computer, he decided to go out and have a change of mind.

"Go ahead, I'll go out for a walk."

Chen Xuan came to the living room and said apologetically, "It's only 45 minutes, you can lie down in the bedroom for a while."

Li An smiled: "You can go to class with peace of mind, and I just want to go out for a walk."

Chen Xuan: "Is it not going well in the morning?"

Li An: "It's okay, I'll think about it again."
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After giving up the living room to Chen Xuan for class, Li An walked out of the unit and started walking around the community.

I don't know whose child is playing the Turkish march. The wrong sound is all wrong at my grandma's house, and no one is in charge.

The cold wind really helps to help one think.

In less than half an hour, Li An came up with a plan.

Just divide it by time.

Choose one piece from each of the four periods, two or three pieces in one half-time, so that you can’t distinguish between playing works from two periods in the first half, and playing works from the other two periods in the second half. small works.

In this way, it can be said that he used a concert to connect the four main periods according to the timeline of the development of classical piano, which can be regarded as taking care of all aspects.

As the first scene in life, it can be considered complete.

Perhaps the only shortcoming is that it is a bit of a panacea, and it does not highlight the characteristics of personal performance.

In addition, he had to practice another modern piece.

For the time being, it's decided.

Let's see what the teacher has to say this afternoon.

After deciding on a plan, Teacher Li went to the downstairs of Harmony Plaza to buy a cup of milk tea with ease.

Aren't people talking about XX's first cup of milk tea on the Internet?

Our teacher Chen also has it.
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Chen Xuan drank the first cup of milk tea in the New Year today, but Li An was looking forward to the first wave of complaints in the New Year.

"No."

In the afternoon, when he arrived at Wei Sanwan's house, Li An was rejected by the old man Wei before his butt was hot.

Li An was dumbfounded, Teacher Wei actually felt that he was perfunctory.

After returning home at noon, he began to design the repertoire according to his vision, and he couldn't help admiring himself when all the repertoires were designed.

Perfect.

The idea of ​​replacing Bach's works with Scarlatti's sonatas as the Baroque works on his repertoire not only avoids the limitations of Bach's works that are not popular, but also reduces certain risks. He is not sure about the Bach he plays. Can have a nice start.

The audience's aesthetic requirements for Bach can always be described as harsh.

In addition, from the perspective of the timeline of piano music development, Scarlatti, as the most important composer in the late Baroque period, is recognized as the pioneer of classical composers such as Haydn and Mozart.

So with Scarlatti's work as the opening first piece, there is an almost perfect logical transition to his second piece, a Mozart piece.

He only needs to play an Allegro single movement by Mozart.

Then it was logical to come to the third piece, the most important piece in the first half, and also the main course of this concert. His specialty, Beethoven's Farewell Sonata.

In this way, the 45 minutes of the first half are fully scheduled.

The second half begins with Chopin's ballad, which is a medium-to-large work in the Romantic period, with both lyricism and technical extension.

A prelude by Rachmaninoff is added to embellish it, and finally a Carmen Fantasia arranged by Busoni is used to end.

In the last main work, the audience can see his crazy finger running skills.

Both halves were over, he left the stage under applause, and then returned to the stage under applause, playing a Chopin Nocturne.

If the audience's enthusiasm is high enough, he adds a dreamy piece from Schumann's childhood scenes series or seriousness.

Wouldn't such a set sound wonderful on such a night?

"No."

Wei Sanwan didn't say it was bad, he said it was not.

This concert was regarded by the Chengdu Piano Department as a concert with the nature of a report performance, and it was more about showing the teaching achievements of the Rongcheng Conservatory of Music to the inside and outside the circle.

Thinking about it, he didn't make it so clear to Li An last time.

"Ann Li, this concert represents the piano department of our college, and our Rongcheng Conservatory of Music, do you understand?"

moment.

"Teacher, I understand."

Wei Sanwan's earnest words made Li An realize that his thinking was wrong from the beginning.

He thought it was a relatively pure concert.

He won honor for the school, and the school rewarded him with a concert.

He knew that the school put the time of this concert at the time point between the registration of the art test and the start of the art test. Naturally, there are also factors of publicity for the college, but he may still think about the problem too simply.

But think about it from another angle. Since it is propaganda, isn’t his set of repertoire not comprehensive enough? Don’t children nowadays like fancy things?
If according to the teacher's idea, Beethoven in the first half and Mozart in the second half, wouldn't this become an academic report concert about the era of classicism?

He bet that Ji Yang would not even listen to such a concert.

On the way to teach Ji Yang, Li An was thinking over and over again.

Furthermore, concerts with a strong academic theme are usually exclusive to the master. With his level and reputation, there is nothing that can qualify him for a special concert.

And if Mr. Wei's idea is really followed, how should the title of his concert be determined.

When they arrived at Ji Yang's house, Li An went upstairs after drinking two sips of tea.

"Recite the score, go through it again."

Listen to the Black Keys first, then Moonlight III.

After listening to the two songs, Ang Lee picked out what he thought Ji Yang was lacking and explained to demonstrate.

At this final stage, what Ji Yang can do is to dig out the details infinitely within the scope of his ability, all the way to the examination room.

"It's still too light on the pedal here."

Ang Li pointed to the music score and said emphatically, "I have already emphasized to you countless times, there are pedal marks written here, so you must step on all of this foot."

"And how do you do it?"

Ji Yang stuck out his tongue and said in shame, "I separated the pedals, and only lightly stepped on the first note and the second note."

Hearing that Ji Yang knew what his problem was, Li An was still satisfied, which meant that the other party knew what he had done.

It's easier to change that way, "So remember now?"

Ji Yang said in a deep voice, "Remember, you have to keep pushing on the pedal here."

Li An nodded: "Come again."

The piano sounded again, and this time Ji Yang replayed the clip according to Li An's correction, and it immediately became thicker.

But still not enough.

"Grab with your left hand!"

Standing behind Ji Yang, Li An shouted while waving his left hand, wishing he could go up and play, "Yes, that's it, the whole arm has to be pushed forward!"

"Come again!"

He played it four times in a row, and the last time Ji Yang finally played this piece to Li Ang's satisfaction without any hints from his ear.

"Okay, let's look at this next, the index finger is not active enough."
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Four or ten minutes later, Ji Yang's back was wet.

Finally back to this state again, although tired, she is very happy.

The teacher was too gentle in the last class, so I listened to it, not only didn't say anything to her, but also praised her.

To be honest, that made her feel a little uneasy.

It's better to be told, after being told, she will know where to work hard.

"Teacher, please sit down and eat some fruit."

On the way, Ji Chengguang came in to deliver the fruit. Seeing Li An standing behind Ji Yang, he didn't even dare to stay for too long, so he put down the fruit plate and went out.

"You eat too."

The teacher and the student replayed the content of the class just now while eating fruit, and the atmosphere in the kung fu piano room relaxed after a while.

"You should recite the score well this week."

In Ang Lee's view, most of Ji Yang's problems today are caused by off-note performances.

"We don't just memorize notes, we also have to memorize paragraph structure and phrase division."

"Use more snacks."

Every time Li An said a word, Ji Yang nodded, "Yeah, give me another three days, and I promise to memorize the thickness of every bar line."

Ang Lee: "The purpose of asking you to recite the score is not to let you draw the score in your mind."

Ji Yang chuckled: "I know, don't worry."

Overcorrecting is not what Li Ang wants to see, "Okay, that's it for today."

Just as Li An was about to get up, Ji Yang picked up the phone on the piano, "Teacher will show you something fun."

After picking up the phone and looking at it for a while, Li An laughed out loud, Wu Fusheng is still acting very well.

What Ji Yang showed him was a small video released by the Haiyuan Douyin official account at noon today.

Video Title: The Other Side of Dreams
The content is roughly to tell the story of a piano art candidate's art test.

The lead actor is Wu Fusheng.

At the beginning of the scene, in a small dark bedroom, the male lead playing the revolutionary etude got stuck in one place and kept making mistakes.

His expression was full of annoyance.

Then the scene switched to night again, the moonlight cast through the window and sprinkled on the bed, the male protagonist stared blankly at the ceiling, and the monologue was that my dream was to be admitted to the piano department of Haishi Conservatory of Music.

This is followed by practice revolution segments one scene after another.

Make a mistake, do it again, make a mistake, do it again.

The last scene finally came to the art examination room of the Haiyuan Academy. Under the scrutiny of the seven judges, the hero used a perfect and amazing revolutionary etude to make all the examiners stop their movements.

At the end of the video, the pop-up sea is a phantom of the Conservatory of Music, with subtitles—"How many times do you have to do it all over again to reach the other side of your dream"

It's a promotional video, but it's really well done.

In particular, Wu Fusheng's last performance of body and expression coupled with piano music full of unyielding and fighting spirit was really exciting. He even recalled his experience of preparing for the art exam when he watched it.

However, he seriously doubts that the last revolution was edited in the post-recording. He knows Wu Fusheng's playing habits, and his body movements are very small. If he plays according to the video, he may have to repeat it N times.

I flipped through the comments casually, and as expected, all the 2022 autumn sea courtyards saw such inspirational messages.

It is also mixed with some netizens' comments on Haiyuan, which are mostly positive.

Only a few are directed at the hero himself.

It can also be seen that the influence of the Xinhai Cup in China is only so great. If Wu Fusheng wins the championship, the comment area will probably be bombarded by fans.

Of course, Li An didn't scroll back. There may be many comments about Wu Fusheng later, but it has nothing to do with him.

"Teacher, is he really powerful?"

"If you are not good, how can you be the champion."

"That's because your tune was wrong."

"It's okay with that, I'm not as good as him."

Ji Yang pouted, "Anyway, I think you play better than him."

Li An shook his head and smiled, that's all.

"Ji Yang, help me find and see if there are any promotional videos from other colleges."

"Yes! I got several at noon."

Speaking of which, Ji Yang helped Li An find a few videos she had found, which were basically the same, either a short story, or a handsome senior or a beautiful senior directly introducing their respective colleges.

To sum it up, it's—'The art test is coming soon, I wish all the students good results in the test, and by the way, welcome to apply for the XX Conservatory of Music. '

"Teacher, why is there no Rongcheng Institute?"

Li An didn't know about it either, logically the group of students from the Student Union should also be mobilized, "Maybe it will happen in a few days."

"Ji Yang, let me ask you a question."

"Ok?"

"Now there are two piano concerts for you to choose, which one do you want to hear more?"

Then Li An reported to Ji Yang the repertoire under his thinking and the repertoire under Mr. Wei's thinking, and Ji Yang resolutely chose the latter after hearing it.

Li An frowned: "The reason?"

Ji Yang said without hesitation: "I have never heard of the works of Scarlatti and Solini."

It's that simple?
It's that simple.

On the way home, Li An called Lin Youyou.

She didn't believe that Lin Youyou didn't take his side either.

In fact, he wanted to make this call this morning, "Hey Master Lin, are you busy?"

On the phone, "I'm busy."

(End of this chapter)