musicians of old

In Kaprun's mind, the old symphony orchestra will undoubtedly surpass the Saint-Lenia Symphony Orchestra in the future.

From assistant conductor to permanent conductor?From 12.5 pounds a week to 80 pounds?
This was Professor Fanning's previous position, and his salary was more than six times!
From initial astonishment to excitement and surprise, Kaprun's expression became uneasy, and even a little anxious: "Professor Fanning, the job of being a permanent conductor is too... at least I don't think my status is comparable to that of Miss Sheeran, In your salary plan, the head of the vocal department is 60 pounds a week, and Miss Sheeran is only 72 pounds as the head of the orchestra..." He shook his head embarrassingly, "It's higher than her, it's true, it's true Do not…"

"Think about how much time you have," interrupted Fanning.

Kaplan clutched his notebook tightly.

"It's still what I said in the opening ceremony last time. Since you have found the meaning of life, you need to take some steps faster than others. I will give you this opportunity. By the way... New Year's concert, you go."

Seeing his complicated expression, Fan Ning added: "The issue of weekly salary is also the same. When you arrive, you will know how heavy the orchestra's workload is. Believe me, this is a 'black-hearted employment'." He intentionally Just kidding.

"Olga, come to the administration department. You are welcome as a manager. Compared with serving large companies with much more complicated businesses in the imperial capital, this place may treat you a little less talented, but it is also to better accompany your family, right?"

"Not at all, Mr. Fanning." Olga said in surprise, "I can't get a weekly salary of 36 pounds in Fort Santaram, and I have a hunch that there is a better team atmosphere and a brighter future here."

Kaplan bowed deeply to Fanning as if he had made up his mind, and then took his family out.

"Good night, Mr. Fanning." The little girl in Olga's arms said goodbye in a childish voice.

After they left, Xilan sighed: "Caroun, I want to learn conducting from you. How on earth can you analyze such deep-level essential things and explain them so profoundly in simple terms?"

There was admiration in her eyes: "One-on-one courses like yours, let alone 60 pounds a session, even if it is 600 pounds, I think there are many people in the world who are willing to pay this money. Others have gone through years or even ten years. A few years of detours, maybe you can avoid it with a few small calls, or you will accept another student?"

"Can't we exchange music anytime?" Fanning smiled at her.

"Really?" Sheeran lowered her head and began to tidy up the scattered objects on the long table, "Is it because of his health that you gave the Kaprun family such an important position?"

Fanning nodded immediately, but shook his head after a few breaths.

Sheeran said slowly: "From an emotional point of view, everyone has worked together and experienced success together. I also hope to continue to work with them in the future. But the facts remind me that with the predictable platform height of the old symphony orchestra , an annual salary of three or four thousand pounds, the title of permanent conductor, this can be exchanged for a 'famous conductor' as your deputy, or according to the theory you once told me, a 'blade holder'."

Fanning helped her clean up everyone's used cups and saucers, and they rushed in the sink: "I dare not say that Kaplan is a genius or a high-potential person, but there are One point, his character is very special, and his ability is also very special, it can even be said to be rare."

...

"On the surface, he is easy-going, attentive and courteous, which seems to be the service quality brought about by his professional experience of "providing financial consulting for the rich" all the year round. In fact, this is just a very superficial thing."

"The biggest character trait in his heart is an extremely heavy 'rational inferiority complex'. Really, I have never seen such a 'rational' and such an 'inferiority' person. Reflected in his favorite music In fact, it is to be able to clearly perceive the gap between "what I think in my heart" and "what I produce in my hands", and I compare "music made by others" with "music made by myself" all the time."

"His accumulation of appreciation and sensitivity to music is far beyond your imagination. No matter how unpopular a piece is, he will know which composer and which movement it is from. When someone else plays a piano sonata, he can hear it. How is the handling of every measure, every clause and pedal, and any expression terms different from that of a certain master version, and of course you can hear how this is far better than yourself."

"And when he can read scores and study music theory systematically, this kind of literacy will be realized quickly. He actually knows all the problems of the voice parts when rehearsing the orchestra. You don't need to point it out at all, but he doesn't know how to do it. He is not very good at dealing with musicians, those academic teachers can conduct but not teach, one desperately wants to learn, and the other is trying very hard to let him learn, but it just backfires."

"So he often gives you a diligent and even submissive feeling, because he really thinks 'I'm too bad' and 'the people around me are too strong'."

"Whether it's conducting, composing, piano or other musical instruments, he really admires and envies us people. He can clearly find the reason for every inferiority complex he has, even if he has actually surpassed it. A lot of professionals."

"The vast majority of people in this world, if they have never been exposed to music, will never be able to work as an assistant conductor of a first-class student orchestra in a first-class conservatory after two and a half years as a monk halfway through."

"Strange guy." Listening to Fanning's dissection, Sheeran also felt that Capron was respectable and subtly worthy of sympathy.

This is completely different from some people who are arrogant and arrogant when they don't know much about art, but it is also different from those who are incompetent, weak or have simple personality defects.

"You're right. How can a normal person's talent be able to do this in such a short period of time? He just lacks a guide like you."

"However, is a trait like his good or bad from the perspective of an artistic career? It stands to reason that since you decided to teach him, you should think that he can achieve great achievements, right?"

"I can't answer." Fan Ning shook his head, "The stage needs self-confidence and freedom, which alone is not good, but this kind of 'rational inferiority' will drive him to devote all his energy to study and explore, and constantly fill in what he lacks." s things."

Sheeran sighed softly, "...Perhaps, the only regret is that he has too little time, too little in the past, and too little in the future."

"Ah."

From the first floor to the second floor, Fanning helped her clean up the house as usual without saying a word, then picked up the briefcase and walking stick leaning on the stairs, and prepared to go downstairs.

...

"I heard that the song you composed at Bassani's condolence last time was very, very long, right?" Sheeran asked suddenly.

"Yes, a large keyboard piece with variations, with two themes and thirty variations."

"I've been a little sleepless these past two days."

Fanning turned around, she was at the other end of the room, not looking at her, she was tiptoeing to collect clothes from the roller rack that had been shaken down.

"Ah, do you suffer from insomnia too?"

"A little bit." Sheeran didn't stop moving.

Fanning thought for a while, took off the top hat he put on, and re-entered the room with the door closed.

"I'll play it for you tonight."

"Do you have a lot of affairs to deal with recently?"

"It's okay to start again tomorrow."

"Okay." Xilan, who was squatting on the ground, folded the clothes one by one into the storage box, but a faint smile appeared on her cheek.

"Then you go downstairs and wait for me. I'll come down when I'm done with my own business, um. Some of your personal belongings are still in that guest room. The bathroom and shower room on the first floor belong to you." She happily made the arrangement.

More than half an hour later, Xilan, who had changed into an elegant black long dress, walked down the stairs with the thin blanket in her arms, and threw it on the sofa closest to the piano in a "Peng" manner.

The sofa in the living room is soft and spacious, comparable to a small bed, and there are no armrests on three sides. Although it is used to sleep with closed eyes and listen, it will make her feel no alienation from the piano when lying on her side.

"Well, can it be considered that I monopolize all the box office of a concert?" Sheeran whispered, lying down on the sofa and stretching comfortably.

She is very happy and satisfied with the results of her active or semi-active attempts today.

"No." Fan Ning sat in front of the piano and unbuttoned the first two buttons of his pajamas, and adjusted the distance between the piano bench, "First of all, I'm not wearing a tuxedo, and secondly, do you think the VIP ticket can be so close to me?"

For some reason, although his tone was calm, Xilan seemed to hear a faint sense of pampering, she smiled and said: "You make me want to lie on the side of the piano and look at your hands, but it's too much here. It's comfortable, I can't get up. By the way, will turning off the lights affect the performance?"

"Of course you have to turn off the lights when you sleep." Fanning got up and turned off the gas lamp before walking back. "Theoretically, it doesn't matter if you are blindfolded."

"Then let me say: good night." The girl giggled.

Fan Ning raised his hands in the night and wind, and played the aria theme of "Gothenburg Variations" on the keys with only hazy light and shadow in his vision.

It has a simple, delicate and spotless melody, a calm and mellow bass line, and a decorative note with a pleasant musical taste. This time Fanning did not have any thought baggage of being "in the center of inspection" or "focus of the stage". He adopted a more contemplative approach. sexual or personal treatment.

He doesn't worry about a detail getting out of control or accidentally going out of the stable range, or even about playing a wrong note or stopping, because it doesn't matter here.

Sheeran felt that every note dripping from his fingertips carried meaning and thoughts like an intimate dialogue with himself.

Gentleness is too pure, but it makes people sway.

After the theme is drawn out, the possibility of counterpoint one after another is explored and deduced, the rigorous underlying logic is steadily advancing, and various dance music, touch music and canon music emerge in endlessly, sometimes cheering, sometimes praying and meditating , sometimes displaying fascinating ingenious structures.

...

I'm currently the happiest person in the world. That's right. The girl's legs swayed slightly, enjoying the soft feeling of skin and fabric touching and rubbing after the bath, and couldn't help breathing deeply with those emotions.

Generally speaking, the speed of this interpretation is slower, and the pedals and clauses are handled more freely. Fan Ning's purpose is to help sleep, so naturally he is not as competitive as before, "immediately let you see how strong the next one is" Xin, he repeated each theme and variation according to the original sheet music, which had not been done before, so this time his playing time was much longer than an hour.

After the reunion aria of the music ended, he stayed for about ten seconds, and then heard Sheeran whispering as if in class: "It's so-good-listen-la-la-"

"Ah, the hypnosis failed." Fanning spread his hands that had just been put on the piano cover.

"I really can't bear to fall asleep and then, I want an encore." She said.

"You still want an encore?" Fanning smiled unconsciously.

"Well, I still want to listen to last year's "Boat Song", is that okay?"

"can."

Coincidentally, it was the continuation of the previous song with the same name. Fan Ning struck the gloomy g note in the bass area with his left hand, and then turned into groups of sad half-decomposed chords, and the song-like melody floated out from the sparkling waves.

At the end, the cold Boeing swayed and disappeared.

"It's very beautiful, but it's too melancholy." Sheeran put her fingertips together and patted her lips in the dark as if thinking: "I'm a little sleepy, and finally I want to listen to a song that fits the characteristics of a 'bedtime story', but it's sweet. kind of."

"A bedtime story, so it means wishing good dreams?" Fan Ning's hand slipped back and forth on the keys, "But I still want sweetness, um, you"

After thinking for a while, he moved his left hand to the bass area, and lightly played an e-flat.

Then the melody jumped into the upper sixth, and was taken over by the middle voice c of the thumb of the right hand. At the same time, the left hand played the warm bass, while the other four fingers of the right hand began to present the broken chords flowing in the high voice.

In the background of such an accompaniment that symbolizes gentle eyes, a dreamlike and sweet melody in A-flat major is slowly sung from the middle part.

The third piece of Liszt's "Dream of Love" (s.541 no.3).

Delicate and rich sweetness, crystal-clear cadenza, interspersed echoes of the infra-voice, the musical thoughts go from subtle whispers to fiery pouring declarations, and finally dissipate in the long and deep sleep.

"Do you know what I was thinking just now?" Sheeran asked quietly again.

"I wonder what kind of song I want to listen to at the end."

"No. I've been fed. I was thinking, after you asked me to leave first on the runaway train last time, I was a little annoyed. I always felt that every time I did what you wanted, it seemed that what you said was What's the same."

"There's another thing."

"But I suddenly discovered that you will follow me, right? As long as I say it."

"There's another thing."

"...you go and lie down there, the blanket is ready for you."

"Ok."

The two lay in an L-shape on two sets of vertical sofas in the living room, with their heads at right angles.

"I also found out." The sweet breath came from a little distance behind the head.

"Ok?"

"Your recent state is very positive, um, although there are some depressed things, such as the subway accident, such as visiting laborers, such as Mr. Kaplan's incident, but they affect part of the emotions. In terms of life or work 'state', you It's actually getting better."

...

Staring at the dark ceiling, Fanning sorted it out carefully in his mind and said: "Yes, because I realized that I will usher in a time when I can devote myself to my artistic career. Although the orchestra was initially risky There are many problems and difficulties, but I am purely rushing to solve them, although the last movement of the "Second Symphony" has no clue, but I am purely experiencing and thinking, these are fascinating things."

"I hope this state can be maintained forever." Sheeran closed her eyes, still with a smile on her face.

"It's lucky to have had a decent amount of time."

"Will you take me with you next time you go to the countryside to gather folk songs?"

"Next summer, wait for the orchestra to get on the right track."

"Then tell me about your 'composing cottage' by Lake Murtraun."

"Okay." Fan Ning also closed his eyes, "It's not far from your former residence, Yin Geshi. I chose the southeast direction of the lake, and the view is very wide. In the distance is the rolling Dolomets Mountains."

"What does it look like?"

"It's very high and steep, and the vegetation only covers half of the top, while the other half of the rocks are bare, and the bottom is a particularly beautiful and clear lake."

"The kind that can't climb up?"

"It's not impossible to go up, but what are you going to do?"

"Where's the house?"

"A room? It's less than 20 square meters, but the display specifications are not low, but that piano needs to be tuned next time."

"It's time to go and cook, right?"

"I can't cook food. Fortunately, I can walk to the town in only six or seven minutes. The gentry, residents and musicians there are very enthusiastic. They sent me flowers and fruit baskets."

"Scenery. Specialty products. I didn't lie to you, did I?"

"Well, the most impressive thing is that in the evening, you will feel that the sky is condescending, and there is a feeling of magnificence in the dark blue."

"When I was writing a song there, I often heard the noise of wild ducks or the splashing of big fish."

“The roasted whole lamb in town is very good, but you may not be interested in that spicy taste”

There was no response from "zzz" in the ear, only the sound of the girl's light and even breathing remained.

musicians of old