pianist from the sea

Chapter 128 Why did the next contestant come so early?

"Fu Diao"

Fu Tiao stretched out his hand and took Jacek Kaspchuk's huge left hand. He obviously just shook hands, but it felt like his hand was wrapping Fu Tiao's hand. The gap in his hand was clearly displayed between the two, rough But warm and powerful.

This is a hand that has experienced a lot of art. These hands are the expression of Jacek's thoughts on art. He passes all his thoughts on art to the band off the stage through his hands, making them a whole.

Jacek is not an ordinary conductor. He is the artistic director and chief conductor of the Warsaw Chopin Philharmonic Orchestra. His career originated from Karajan, that is, the Karajan Conducting Competition held by the emperor. One of the two prize-winners of this competition, and went on to hold major positions in the vast majority of Polish orchestras.

He is most famous for his precise interpretation of all Polish works. You can even say that the Polish works conducted by all conductors in Poland are not as precise and beautiful as his. His works from the romantic period to the orchestral works from the 20th century to the present His interpretation of the symphony concerto is also very good, and the symphony and concerto operas he has conducted have received wide acclaim, from Mozart to Puccini Verdi, from Strauss to Wagner.

Therefore, as the conductor of the Warsaw Chopin Philharmonic Orchestra, he is undoubtedly also the conductor of this year's Chopin International Piano Competition, which means that he came to greet Fu Tiao as soon as he saw Fu Tiao.

He doesn't care who will win in the end, all he cares about is to make the music performance as perfect as possible.

Seeing Fu Tiao shaking hands with him in greeting, Jacek smiled gently, squeezed his palms harder to express his inner importance, then slowly let go, and said to Fu Tiao.

"There is still a little bit of time now. The people in my orchestra still need to eat, so please wait a little bit and take a rest after they finish eating before starting. Don't worry that this will infringe on your time. We will give you The 3-hour practice time is calculated according to the time we started, not a fixed time."

After all, Jacek led Fu Tiao to the seats under the stage. He squeezed the toast sandwich he hadn't finished eating and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he picked up the coffee and drank it down, letting the coffee soften the sandwich , he chewed a few times casually, then swallowed hard, not caring about his own image at all.

He leaned his body on the back of the seat, looked at Fu Tiao's cautious figure sitting on the side, couldn't help but smiled, and spread his hands and said, "You look nervous, do I make you so nervous?"

"No, I'm just..." Fu Tiao shook his head, before saying anything, Jacek raised his hand to stop him.

"Okay, since you're not nervous, it's fine. I just want to remind you to not be nervous. After all, we are a cooperative relationship, not a relationship between superiors and subordinates. What we care about is how to express our music. It's more perfect, not how to talk to make the other person happy, so... Wait a minute when I say something bad about you, don't worry about it. Similarly, you can also directly interrupt me if you think what I said is wrong. "

After all, he seemed to be afraid that Fu Tiao would not understand clearly, so he reiterated again: "We are cooperating, so don't be nervous."

"Okay." Fu Tiao breathed a sigh of relief, smiled at Jacek, and handed him the music score in his hand: "This is the record I made on the score, and it just hasn't started yet, you can take a look , if there is anything unclear, you can ask me questions, and I will answer, for music... please follow my direction."

"That's right, we are cooperating!" Jacek also laughed, seeming to enjoy Fu Tiao's way of speaking very much, and did not feel offended by Fu Tiao.

He took the music score from Fu Tiao's hand, raised his watch and glanced at the time, put the music score on his lap, and clapped his hands to the band members on the stage who were still eating baguettes. After comparing two tens, he nodded to Fu Tiao, and began to read what Fu Tiao had written on the score.

He asked the band to rest for another 20 minutes. During these 20 minutes, he wanted to understand Fu Tiao's thoughts on Chopin as much as possible.

After the members of the band got the news from Jacek, they didn't chat in that place like a mess. Instead, the team leaders of each part led the team, first tuned, and then began to rehearse in advance some of the performances they hadn't played before. content.

Even though this Chopin Piano Concerto No. [-] is almost engraved into their souls, they still need to practice constantly to make their music performance more perfect.

For a while, only the practice sounds of the band members remained in the entire concert hall.

Jacek looked at the music score in his hand with a calm expression. He seriously thought about all the marks on it by Fu Diao, and thought about the effect if he played with a band.

He looked at it for a long time, probably understood what Fu Tiao meant, and asked.

"So... you want my band to be able to feel more like the waves of the ocean, pushing the power of music forward, one wave after another, and the expression of music should not stop as much as possible. Is that what you mean?"

"Well, almost, but it's not complete enough. I hope that all the movements of this work can be made into a whole as much as possible. In the scheduling between the movements, the emotional changes will be smaller. It is best to add a little bit of succession. Emotions, like this place..."

Fu Diao pointed to some notes at the end of the music and said.

"For example, in this place, I hope that when you play with me in this place, you don't need to be too strong, and you can make a sense of harmony, especially the succession to the second movement."

"Well, I probably know what you want to feel, let the whole movement form a whole, let the music push the emotions wave after wave, don't give the crowd too much breathing space, use the general momentum to directly overwhelm it, that's it ?"

"correct."

"Then I will perform it in this way, what do you think?"

Jacek hummed softly a few times, shaking his fingers in the air, expressing the mood of the music.

After thinking for a moment, Fu Tiao nodded slowly.

"Okay, but it's not perfect, I want this..."

The two quickly communicated on the issue of music, and had a simple thought collision before it even started.

Jacek took out a memo from his pocket, looked at Fu Tiao's marks on the score, recorded all those things in his small book, and began to think about how to let the band play according to Fu Tiao and his ideas.

Many people have a stereotype that a conductor is just a humanoid metronome, beating the time in front of him and performing with a stick in his hands.

But in fact, the work of conducting is not easy. First of all, if you are an absolutely accurate metronome, you can’t have any problems with your rhythm. You can’t follow the rhythm of the band, but you should follow the rhythm in your own mind. move.

In terms of rhythm, the conductor may be only slightly behind those professional percussion players.

In terms of listening, the conductor has to do more. He must be extremely proficient in all the details of the music, know what he wants and what he doesn't want, and be able to hear everyone's mistakes.

Among the countless musical resonances, dozens of instruments can hear a problem with an instrument, and even know what he did wrong. This is also his basic skill.

The same is true for being able to adjust the proportion of music in the orchestra through sensitivity to music to make the sound effect more perfect.

If Dong Guo is performing in a Western orchestra, he will be kicked out without any chance of pretending, because these conductors can really hear problems in dozens or even hundreds of instruments that resonate one piece.

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Rhythm and accuracy are the most basic skills of conducting. Even if you say you are a mature conductor, you must master these two skills.

Then, it is the performance of the conductor in the command.

The baton is not a special instrument, it can even be a pencil, because its main function is to derive the fingers, so that everyone can see the direction of his fingers more clearly.

Even for an orchestra with a smaller number of people, the conductor is fine without a baton.

The more powerful the conductor, the deeper his understanding of music, and the more clearly he can express what he wants to express with his own body, and then use his body and finger movements to drive the entire band.

It's a very simple thing, if you say it in words, the music you say may not be able to express it particularly accurately, and you may even struggle with several synonyms for a long time, not knowing which word is more able to express what you want The music expressed is clearer and does not cause any misunderstandings.

As for the conductor, he doesn't need to sing, needless to say, he can express the music he wants to express very clearly simply by relying on some small details of his body. This is the strength of the conductor.

You have to know that a conductor is not a musical instrument, he does not control the orchestra as if he were playing a musical instrument, and those people in the orchestra are not robots without any consciousness, they all have their own ideas about music.

Compared with a director, he is more like a commander, commanding the troops under his banner.

And if your commander is too outrageous, the group of people under you will also resist and refuse to play, causing the music to form a paste.

As a conductor, in addition to expressing your own ideas, you also have to combine the ideas of everyone in the orchestra to find a suitable angle to cut in.

The more powerful the conductor is, the more precise his command is. Like a scalpel, he directly hits the pulse of everyone's music, presents everything in front of everyone, and fuses all the music together.

This is why many people say that Jacek's expression of Polish music is precise.

Because accuracy is already a very high evaluation.

In the same way, saying that a conductor is like dancing is the worst curse, because it means that he has no connection with the music and the orchestra, he is just a pure marionette, being led away by the orchestra.

Just like a boat.

After confirming what Fu Tiao wanted, Jacek nodded slightly, stood up without any hesitation, clapped his hands at everyone, and after attracting everyone's attention, he turned his body sideways and looked slightly at Fu Tiao. nod.

"Fu, come on stage, let's start our cooperation."

"it is good!"

The two walked towards the stage at the same time. After Fu Tiao shook hands with the principal violin sitting in front of the violin, he sat directly in front of the piano and waited for the start.

Jacek, on the other hand, leaned slightly on the piano, did not take out the baton, but raised his big hand and stretched it forward, slightly parallel to the line of sight.

The concert hall fell silent in an instant, only the slight breathing of the crowd remained.

Jacek turned his head to look at Fu Tiao, and after waiting for Fu Tiao's accurate and confirmed response, he did not hesitate. After giving a pre-beat with the big hand in front of him, he looked at the string part and waved it vigorously.

hum...

The sound of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. [-] burst out from the band in an instant, and at the very beginning, the breath in the music instantly filled the entire concert hall.

All members of the orchestra followed Jacek's footsteps with great confidence, showing everything in the music.

Jacek didn't change much at the beginning, because forcing the change won't help Fu Diao, on the contrary, it may make his musicians confused, and they don't know what to do. play.

All he has to do is to give hints to the band in some small details, such as a little bit faster in a certain place, a little weaker in a certain place, where to show softness, where to show turbulence, in different places On the basis of changing the rehearsal of all the people and their thinking about music, cooperate with Fu Tiao's performance to express the music.

At this time, the gap between a good conductor and a bad conductor can already be seen. Jacek is worthy of being a Polish national conductor. He seems to have done nothing, and he has not said a word to the people in his orchestra. But under his leadership, Fu Diao was extremely pleasantly surprised to find that the band already had a bit of the feeling he wanted.

This feeling is extremely comfortable, as if the music fits him perfectly.

Although there is still a little bit of bumps and bumps, it is not smooth enough, but you have to know that this is the first time to play.

Fu Tiao looked at the commander, silently thinking about his own place, waiting for the commander's signal.

Sure enough, in the first three measures he was about to play, Jacek had already set his sights on Fu Tiao.

His left hand gestured to everyone in the orchestra, and the sound of the music gradually became weaker, while his right hand stretched out towards Fu Tiao, shook it slightly, and then dropped it hard.

when!
The moment Fu Diao dropped his finger, he slammed down his first chord, and everything in the music immediately came out of his music along the sound.

An extremely strong shock hit the stage directly, and some players in the orchestra were obviously stunned for a moment, and some even entered the band a little slower, which made the music feel a little dissonant.

Jacek was taken aback by this discordant tone for a moment. He stared at the contestants who had problems and grunted, narrowing his eyes, as if he was remembering their faces.

Seeing Jacek like this, the musicians couldn't help but feel a sting in their hearts. They shrunk their necks and immediately confessed, wishing they disappeared into the orchestra.

The few of them glanced at each other, and found that there was a lot of shock in each other's eyes besides embarrassment.

They were shocked by the feeling when the first note of Fu Tiao came out.

Even if they have listened to an unknown number of contestants before, they have played this piece for an unknown number of times, and they know that this place needs a piano to enter, and they have an expectation in their hearts.

But when they really heard Fu Tiao playing, they still couldn't help but thump, and they were still a little shocked.

When the first note fell, the aura in the music had already emerged, and with the end of the first sentence of emotional expression, everything in the music had been vividly displayed.

It's not just Fu Tiao's credit, Jacek's subtle control over the band, so that the band not only weakens the sound, but adds a foreshadowing to Fu Tiao.

This feeling is extremely comfortable, the comfort that everyone in the orchestra can feel.

Everyone is making music together, trying to create a perfect composition, not just work.

Of all the people present, who doesn't have a little bit of musical talent?Who doesn't love music from the bottom of their hearts?

When treating hobbies as work, although they may no longer love hobbies so much, they really hear that after seeing their hobbies become jobs, they show perfection and artistic sense, and they don't just regard them as Instead of success in work, there will be a burst of joy from the heart.

Excited for my performance.

The band progressed smoothly. After Fu Tiao's music came out, the slight impetuosity in the band before the performance had dissipated. There is a problem with their playing.

Everyone began to work seriously, looking forward to the music in their hands being displayed in front of everyone and astonishing everyone.

Fu Tiao played freely, and everyone in the orchestra followed happily. Only Jacek frowned and looked at the score in his hand.

It's not because Fu Tiao or the orchestra is not performing well, but he needs to remember all the problems that have arisen in the orchestra and make changes next time.

During the rehearsal process, his conductor was the most tiring of all, after all, he had to remember a lot of things.

At the end of the first movement, Jacek found a suitable angle to calm everyone's emotions a little bit, and then directly started the second movement, followed by the third movement.

After playing until the end of the music, everyone probably realized what kind of music they should be interpreting by cooperating with Fu Tiao.

Jacek took out the notebook in his hand, quickly scrolled through it, and called several voice chiefs over, told them what they needed to improve, and asked them to start looking for instruments under the voice chief Chief, and then go to the corresponding individual to make changes.

Then Jacek started Fu Tiao to play, and led everyone to make adjustments in several problematic places, and then performed the second and third times.

Perhaps it was because Fu Tiao's performance gave them great confidence and made them look forward to the version they were creating, so they were extraordinarily serious.

Even though they are not particularly convinced about certain places, but after communicating with Jacek and Fu Diao, the three of them found a suitable entry point and worked together to make the music more comfortable.

The music is becoming more and more perfect bit by bit, and everyone is more and more confident in the music they want to create. Until the end of the music, they are a little bit reluctant, hoping to rehearse more.

They feel that if they continue to rehearse, it is entirely possible for them to wait for the version they are going to play, which will become one of the most perfect versions in their performance history.

It's just that the time is up, and the next player has arrived, waiting in the distance.

For a moment, everyone in the orchestra felt a little bit of hostility towards the next contestant for no reason.

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[Ask for a monthly pass at the end of the month. I suddenly found out that I was on the star list. Unfortunately, it is at the end of the crane, and I may fall down at any time. Please give me a monthly pass to help me secure my position.]

(End of this chapter)