pianist from the sea

Chapter 122 Invitation from the Music Academy

Wang Kai and the cameraman have been waiting for Fu Tiao in future generations. They have even set up the interview curtain and piled up the luminous panels for the bottom light, side light and front light in the room. Wang Kai watched Fu Tiao come in, couldn't help but smiled and waved his hands.

"Fu Tiao! Here, here, come, let's take a picture first."

After all, Wang Kai took Fu Tiao, who was still a little dazed, and stood in the middle of the black curtain, quickly adjusted the position of the light-emitting panel, and after showing the outline of Fu Tiao's face more clearly, he asked Fu Tiao .

"Fu Tiao, just think of a movement. If you can't think of it, I can give you a few choices. Stand normally, with your hands crossed, sitting on a chair, leaning on the piano next to you, and resting your chin with your fingers. You can choose any It's all right."

"Action? What action do you want?"

Fu Diao didn't know, so he glanced at the piano next to him hesitantly, leaned his body on the side of the piano, put his hands naturally in front of his body, looked at Wang Kai and asked, "Is this so?"

"Well……"

Wang Kai looked for a few angles, his expression was a bit tangled: "It feels average, not handsome enough, or should it be simpler? You sit on the piano bench and put your arms on the edge of the piano? Or bend your body slightly, with your elbows on your legs Come on, put your palms together and put them in front of you?"

"so?"

After Fu Tiao made a few moves according to Wang Kai's instructions, Wang Kai quickly and fine-tuned the light-emitting board, and asked the photographer next to him to take several photos of Fu Tiao with the camera hanging around his neck. nodded.

"Okay, the momentum has come out, it would be great if the eyes were more sharp."

Fu Tiao was full of doubts, tried his best to sharpen his eyesight, and stared at the camera without moving.

He had no idea why Wang Kai asked him to take pictures.

He was tense, staring at the camera, and asked with the smallest possible movement: "What is this photo...?"

"Propaganda."

Wang Kai flipped the camera around his neck to Fu Tiao, and said with a smile.

"Three days of competition, four days of rest, you have a week to rest, and three days later, after the Organizing Committee of the Chopin International Piano Competition notifies us of the fourth-round promotion list, we can make your photos The posters are posted in this city, and you can even sell some of your photos, and sell your photos in the form of blind boxes, increasing the popularity of the Chopin International Piano Competition."

After all, he looked at Fu Tiao's expression as if he was still a little puzzled, and immediately opened his mouth to add.

"Of course! If someone buys your peripherals, you can get a subsidy! You don't have to worry too much about this! We will definitely not let you lose money! After deducting the production costs of photos and other items, the organizing committee They will give you 50% of the gross profit share, the more you sell, the more you earn! But the blind box is shared equally by everyone, oh yes, we’re done shooting, you can accept your actions.”

"Is that so..."

Fu Tiao nodded blankly and sat down.

It never occurred to him that the Chopin International Piano Competition could still be played like this.

However, it is not surprising that the Chopin International Piano Competition, as the most commercialized competition, is actually very normal to be able to get such an operation.

You must know that the Chopin International Piano Competition itself only charges 100 euros for registration fees, and the total registration fees for all the players are only more than 3 euros.

But you have to know that the winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition will be rewarded with 4 euros, the runner-up will be 3 euros, the third runner-up will be 2 euros, No. rewards.

In other words, if 10 people enter the final, then at least 12.8 euros will be rewarded, and more people who enter the final will be given more rewards.

In addition, the best concerto selected by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the best mazurka selected by Polish Radio, and the best Polonaise selected by the Chopin Association will all be rewarded with 5000 euros.

And the best Chopin piano sonata, awarded by Christian Zimmermann, is exactly [-] euros!
If all the awards are given enough, then the Organizing Committee of the Chopin International Piano Competition may directly give a reward of 15.3 euros. This is still the case where there is only one person for each award. If there are 2 winners for each award, 3 people, then the price to pay is more.

Although the Organizing Committee of the Chopin International Piano Competition has many sponsors, they also need to do some marketing to make some money.

After all, there is always a feeling of softness simply eating other people's money.

Cannibalism is short-mouthed and soft-handed is not just talking about it casually.

They are actively marketing these players, and increasing their influence is also preparing for their future.

After Fu Tiao, Wang Kai and others confirmed a suitable makeup photo, Wang Kai took him to a deeper place in the room.

At this place, the old photographer put down the camera on his neck and replaced it with a bigger, darker and thicker camera, opened the dust cover and aimed at Fu Tiao silently.

And Wang Kai also turned on the recording pen in his hand, took out the small notebook in his pocket, smiled kindly at Fu Tiao, and said.

"Okay, it's time for the interview, which is a must-have after each round of our competition. Fu Tiao, you should be very familiar with the interview, right? Then let's stop talking nonsense and start directly. It's still the first one." The question is, how do Fu Diao contestants view their performance in the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition? Are you very satisfied with your performance?"

The red light of the camera was on, and it was obvious that the recording had started. Fu Tiao sat on a chair in the corner of the room, cleared his throat, nodded, and spoke with a little ease.

"It's quite satisfactory, because it has reached the level I expected. I think about my music again, think about some problems in my music that I have never noticed, and think about how I should resolve these problems. Let me Chopin's music and Chopin itself become a complete whole again, rather than a pure self. For example, the chord progression I played at the beginning, a simple TSpDpDD5DT, we should not just think about the problem of TSpDpDD5DT, but should go to Thinking about what this TSpDpDD5DT means to me, what it means to Chopin, why he chose DD5 to go to D instead of directly going from Dg to Dp and then to T..."

The corner of Wang Kai's mouth twitched, and he immediately reached out to stop Fu Tiao from continuing.

"Okay Fu Diao player, we got it. It goes without saying about terms like DD5, D, Dp, Dg, T, Sp. Simply speaking, this performance makes your music more complete. , your thinking about Chopin can be integrated into your music, making Chopin in your music more concrete, and your interpretation of yourself clearer, probably this is what it means?"

"Well, yes," Fu Tiao nodded.

"Okay, I see." Wang Kai turned the page of the record in his hand, looked at the question on it, and continued to ask Fu Tiao: "Although it's a bit early to say this, I really want to know what you think about it. What do you think about Zhao Chengzhen? As far as I know, he should be the most difficult player you will encounter in the Chopin International Piano Competition, especially in the first two rounds when he kept suppressing you. Now in the third round, Do you have the confidence to defeat Zhao Chengzhen and win the first place in the third round?"

Fu Tiao didn't speak, but looked at Wang Kai with some puzzlement, and said hesitantly, "The third round? Haven't I finished the competition with him? I won."

"what?"

"Zhao Chengzhen's performance in the third round was very good. If his perfect state in the second round was used as the benchmark score of 80 points, his performance in the third round should be able to score around 90 points. Putting it on top of music, thinking about Chopin’s perfection, he has also reached what he can achieve, the most extreme Chopin, even the acme of this competition, if we only talk about Chopin, I think no one can beat Zhao Chengzhen Bar."

"Huh? But Fu Diao contestant, you just..."

"But what I play is not the acme of Chopin."

Fu Tiao looked at Wang Kai who was a little bit stunned in front of him very seriously, and explained to Wang Kai bit by bit.

"What Zhao Chengzhen played was the ultimate of Chopin. What I played was not the ultimate of Chopin. What I played... was the ultimate of myself. What I have been pursuing is to maximize myself without destroying the composer himself. interpretation, and I have also achieved the ultimate self in this game, the music I pursue."

"It is still based on Zhao Chengzhen's score of 80 points in the second round, his score in the third round is 90 points, and my score..."

"It's a perfect score."

Fu Tiao's expression didn't imply any joke in it, it seemed very natural, and he didn't blush or shy at all because he was praising himself, as if he was stating a very simple thing.

"He's strong, there's nothing wrong with that, he's been improving, there's nothing wrong with that, it's just that I'm stronger than him now, and I'm improving faster than him, that's all."

Wang Kai looked at Fu Tiao, and the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably. Then he gave a wry smile, indicating that the camera behind him should be turned off first, and then said to Fu Tiao.

"Fu Tiao, are you sure you're saying that? I think it's a little too arrogant to say that? As a Chinese, don't you value humility the most? Saying this, I feel that the public opinion in Hua is not good, and you may be scolded by many people. Arrogant? It's not a good thing to give those people a point of attack."

"But, is this true?"

Fu Tiao was puzzled: "It's true that Zhao Chengzhen's playing is not as good as mine, didn't you hear it?"

"I……"

Wang Kai was at a loss for words and didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only helplessly spread his hands and waved them in the air casually.

"Well, you can say whatever you want, even a little bit of arrogance. This may make some people in foreign countries like it. After all, many of them like people who are a little bit arrogant and have personality, and don't like people who are like Machine factories produce identical robots."

"But I'm really not arrogant..." Fu Tiao said weakly.

"Okay, okay, I know you're not arrogant." Wang Kai didn't bother to listen to Fu Tiao's sophistry, and gestured to the camera next to him, asking him to turn on the recording function again, and continued to ask Fu Tiao.

"Okay, now the last question, if you make it to the fourth round, do you have anything to say?"

"What I want to say..."

Fu Tiao thought for a while, then shook his head slightly: "There's nothing to say, I shouldn't have much problem getting into the fourth round, right? If I can't get in, none of the three of us can get in today, so I'm going into the fourth round There should be no problem... But if Zhao Chengzhen's limit is only in this place, then he should still not be able to beat me in the final of the Chopin International Piano Competition, probably like this."

"Good guy, you seem to be more arrogant like this. If Zhao Chengzhen hears what you say, she might be pissed off. Later, I will remind the staff in charge of editing to cut the interview between you and Zhao Chengzhen together to make your sparks stronger. "Wang Kai smiled, got up and signaled the staff next to him to turn off the camera in his hand, then turned off the recorder, put the notebook back in his pocket, rubbed his waist, and reminded Fu Tiao.

"But even though your current performance is better than that of Zhao Chengzhen, I still need to remind you that the final of the Chopin International Piano Competition is the most uncertain round. All the players can suddenly stand up and get a very high ranking."

Fu Tiao's body, which was about to leave, couldn't help but freeze, looking at Wang Kai behind him, a little puzzled.

"why?"

"Why? I don't know why, maybe it's because they have less time with the band? Or is it some other reason? I don't know..."

Wang Kai shook his head, signaled the photographer to go out first, and said to Fu Tiao: "The day after tomorrow, that is, after the announcement of the fourth round contestants, you have 4 days to prepare for the finals. If I remember correctly, it seems that someone has 3 hours, the band does about 3 people a day, the specific time depends on the deployment, after all the work is done, take a day off and start the final, probably like this.”

"If you play the Chopin Piano Concerto normally for an hour, you only have 1 practice sessions with the band, so many contestants and the band didn't get along perfectly before going on stage. Before the competition, there were some ideas that I didn't explain clearly to the conductor. It is very easy to cause a mess of bombs, it is normal for top players to overturn, and it is rare not to overturn.”

"So in the fourth round, you just need to ensure your condition. Don't pay too much attention to the other players. This is what I heard from one of my seniors. He listened to Xiao Sai and listened to the experience he summed up four times. I Only listened to it twice, so..."

Wang Kai shrugged his shoulders at Fu Tiao, walked to the door of the lounge, opened the door and waved at Fu Tiao, and said with a smile: "Okay, don't talk so much, see you later, I hope I can make it for you Champion interview."

"Well, see you later."

Fu Tiao watched Wang Kai disappear behind the door, moved his body, opened the door and walked out.

Wang Kai had disappeared, and only the sound of Han, the player behind him, was left in the background.

The expressions of all the people around them were not very good-looking, and they were all sitting at their workstations frowning.

After listening to Han's performance briefly, Fu Tiao probably understood why these people frowned.

Korean bombs...too childish.

Especially after comparing it with his performance, it looks very boring, very similar to the performance of a child.

This is probably the reason why the others frowned.

Han actually plays very hard, and if he is placed in the back, he can even be regarded as a type of person who performs very well, but he has a problem, that is, he seems to be not very lucky, playing behind Fu Diao, even if he It might be better to be able to play later.

But it's actually normal. After all, luck is also a part of strength. If you are not strong enough, no matter how good your luck is, it doesn't matter. Even if you enter the finals, you have no chance to get a ranking.

Unless it is so good that everyone is hospitalized with food poisoning and he is the only one left to participate in the competition.

But luck is so good, you don’t buy a lottery ticket and win 5000 million, you come here and expect all your opponents to be hospitalized, isn’t this a bit reckless?

Fu Tiao continued to listen to Han's performance for a while, and after confirming that he had no chance to enter the next round, he shook his head, pushed open the backstage door of the concert hall and walked outside.

Now that Han was the last one, he couldn't listen to Han De's performance even if he went back to the concert hall, because the door of the concert hall would not open unless he changed players, and it was useless to go back.

In addition, I just chatted with Wang Kai for a long time inside, and Han probably won't be playing for a long time.

So Fu Tiao didn't have any idea of ​​waiting for the end at the entrance of the concert hall, but went directly outside the concert hall, bought a cup of street coffee outside, leaned against the pillars on the side of the concert hall, stared at the gray sun above his head in a daze .

He just sipped the coffee in his cup one mouthful at a time, completely letting go of his brain, carelessly.

He drank until the last sip, glanced at the coffee shell in his hand, suddenly thought of Yu Tianyou, hesitantly squeezed the paper cup into a ball, and planned to stuff it behind the pillar, but when he put his hand behind the pillar, I found that three or four paper shells had been stuffed into the back, and one of them looked very familiar.

Fu Tiao couldn't help coughing a few times, picked up all the paper shells and threw them into the trash can far away. When he came back, Han probably had almost finished playing, and some people had already started to go outside, excitedly Discussing today's game.

Among them, [-]% were discussing Zhao Chengzhen, [-]% were discussing him, and the remaining [-]% were discussing what to have for lunch.

Fu Diao stood at the side of the crowd, and after waiting for a while, He Shen and Yu Tianyou walked out of the crowd, but they were not two, but three.

There is also a very old-looking man chatting casually with He Shen, and the two seem to have a very pleasant chat.

When they saw Fu Tiao, their eyes lit up, and they immediately walked towards Fu Tiao.

Before Fu Tiao could ask, He Shen spoke first, walked to Fu Tiao's side, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"Fu Tiao, you played well today! Very good! You are worthy of being my student of He Shen."

After all, without waiting for Fu Tiao to speak, he spoke to the man beside him.

"Chris, you don't need me to introduce you? This is Fu Tiao, my student! Although I didn't bring it up personally, but it is also a student I have taught for a long time. You should listen to the contrast in his music. It's very clear, don't I need to say more?"

"Ok, I know!"

The man named Chris nodded, looked at Fu Tiao stretching out his hand, which was bigger than ordinary people, and said with a smile.

"Hi, Fu, my name is Chris Lister, not the historical Lister, in order to avoid misunderstanding, you can just call me Chris."

"Then, I want to ask you a question, that is... are you interested in studying at our Eastman School of Music? If you are willing, I can introduce you to a very powerful tutor."

Fu Tiao couldn't help being stunned, the hand he was about to extend was fixed in the air, he didn't know whether he should retract it now or I should go up.

He didn't expect that this person who just came here would say this to him and invite him to study at the Eastman Conservatory of Music. He couldn't help being a little dazed, and couldn't help but look at He Shen beside him, and blinked.

"Eastman... Conservatory?"

(End of this chapter)