pianist from the sea

Chapter 297 Review and Challenge.

Fu Tiao actually didn't know Wang Jia very well.

The only thing he knew about Wang Jia was that Wang Jia was Lang Liangyue's junior sister and studied with Lang Liangyue at the Curtis Institute of Music.

At the same time, both of them belong to the type that prefers technical schools.

Among the technical genres, Lang Liangyue pays more attention to the expression of personal emotions and wants to express more musical content.

And Wang Jia is the kind of more pure boss who uses technology to crush everything.

To put it simply, in terms of technical schools, Lang Liangyue’s direction is somewhat similar to the French School of Music.

Wang Jia is somewhat similar to the Russian music school.

This is Fu Diao's only understanding of Wang Jia.

Maybe a bit like Hiromi Ishihara?

This understanding is actually not wrong, and can even be said to be very normal, but it is actually not very suitable for Wang Jia.

Although Wang Jia is a very skilled person, he is somewhat similar to Hiromi Ishihara, whom Fu Diao met in jazz.

But their personalities are a little different.

Ishihara Hiromi is a bit like a very simple and verbal person. She doesn't particularly care about anything, whether it's music or other aspects.

What she cares about is whether she can express her thoughts about music through music.

That's it.

Wang Jia, on the other hand, is the kind of person who is very casual and easy-going. He seems to be non-competitive, but in fact he is extremely persistent.

And only she herself knows what she is obsessed with.

Fu Tiao looked at Wang Jia and knew exactly what she wanted to do when she came here today.

If I guessed correctly, I wanted to compete with him for Pollini’s concert opportunity.

This is a very good opportunity. Even those top musicians who have become famous will not relax at all for such an opportunity, but will do their best to fight for it.

After all, who would dislike his high ranking in the world?
Although Wang Jia has never said or stated her relationship with Lang Liangyue, basically everyone will know that Wang Jia has never given up the opportunity to surpass Lang Liangyue.

She's been working on it.

Let everyone call her by her name instead of calling her the female version of Lang Liangyue.

Fu Diao looked at Wang Jia who was smiling in front of him, nodded and asked her.

"Have you been waiting at the door? Aren't you going in?"

"Go in? What are you going in for? There is no air conditioning here in Europe. It's very stuffy inside. There are so many old men and women sitting inside discussing things without even turning on an electric fan. The room is very agitated. You can go in if you want. Try to go in and have a look, I don’t want to go in anyway.”

Wang Jia shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly.

"Because of Pollini's incident, a lot of people came today, and many pianists similar to you also came to the scene, intending to compete for Pollini's performance opportunities, but... I'll watch their performance. It may be a bit mysterious, after all, that group of people has actually made a similar form, and it is actually clear at a glance who is the first pick and who is the second pick."

"Huh? The first and second picks are already out?"

Fu Tiao originally just wanted to have a casual chat with Wang Jia to increase their feelings.

After all, both of them are pianists from China, so it is not easy to meet.

When overseas fellow countrymen meet fellow countrymen, why don’t they just catch up on old times?
The competitive relationship between Fu Tiao and Wang Jia is far less than the competitive relationship between her and Lang Liangyue.

Therefore, Fu Tiao was not particularly wary of her.

Fu Tiao asked her directly.

"So who are the first and second place people this year?"

"It's not me anyway, I'm pretty sure."

Wang Jia did not answer Fu Diao directly, but leaned against the wall and stretched out her left hand, yawned slightly, revealing her beautiful figure, then smiled gently at Fu Diao and replied.

“Because I have already had my own solo concert here. Although Pollini’s solo concert here will invite many, many people with similar directions to him to complete the whole concert. But they definitely don’t want the same person to play several shows in a row, so you know, I probably won’t be able to get on.”

When she mentioned this place, she couldn't help but raise her head, looked at the ceiling with murals above her head, thought for a moment, and pondered.

"Well, I feel like it's not particularly accurate to say it this way, because it's not that I can't reach it at all, I just don't have much hope, because my concert is very late, so even if my ranking is Among all the people, they are closer to the back, and not too far back, because..."

"Because I actually have the least hope, right?"

Before Fu Diao could speak, another voice came from beside him.

Fu Diao looked in the direction of the sound, and sure enough, an acquaintance appeared in front of him.

Lang Liangyue.

Behind him was another acquaintance, Gina Alice, who was of mixed German and South Korean descent.

The two of them walked towards Fu Tiao and the others so easily.

Lang Liangyue first greeted Wang Jia and raised his hand.

"Hello, I haven't seen Wang Jia for a long time. How are you doing?"

Wang Jia smiled softly and said directly to Lang Liangyue: "I'm not as happy as you, but I still received a lot of invitations to concerts. What's wrong, what about you?"

"Me? I'm much more chic. Didn't I just attend a performance at the Ruhr Music Festival with Fu Diao a few days ago? After the performance, I followed my friend to a music festival in France next door. The French Music Festival just ended I just came to this place.”

Lang Liangyue seemed particularly satisfied with his concert arrangements and said with a smile.

"When the Salzburg Music Festival is over, I probably still have some music festival arrangements to run. From the second half of this year until Christmas, I will probably be wandering around Europe. After all, there are too many music festivals here. , Oh, by the way, Gina, is there the Lucerne Music Festival coming later?"

Lang Liangyue suddenly remembered something and asked Alice behind him.

Alice flipped through the manual in her hand fairly and said.

“The Lucerne Piano Festival is in November, so there’s still a long time left, so there’s no need to be in a hurry.”

"That's good. There have been so many music festivals recently that it's a bit of a headache. I have no choice but to ask Gina to help me."

Lang Liangyue scratched his head at the two of them and laughed twice.

But Fu Tiao suddenly asked.

"What kind of stuff do you play at these festivals?"

"Selection of works? It's still the same thing. Lang Liangyue is in Paris. What's wrong?"

Lang Liangyue looked at Fu Tiao with a little confusion. Seeing his not so good expression, she immediately understood something and said sorry.

"No, Fu Diao, don't think everyone is a genius like you, okay? It's actually very tiring for us people to perform a whole set of concerts. It takes a long time to prepare every time. For example, this Lang Liangyue I have been preparing for the show in Paris for several months!"

"So, brother, what are you going to play in Salzburg this time? Or are you going to play the works from the album you did in Paris?" Wang Jia saw that the mood between the two was not quite right, so he immediately interrupted them and said to Lang Liang Yue asked.

"I remember that your arrangement this time is not a solo, right?"

"Certainly not solo."

Lang Liangyue nodded, smiled playfully at Fu Diao, and added.

"The work I performed this time is a concerto by Mozart, a piano concerto, because if we remember correctly this year, the theme is opera. At the same time, this year is also Mozart's birthday... um, death anniversary? Anyway, it is a commemoration of the 240th anniversary. It was a busy day, so I had to play something by Mozart, so I prepared a set of Mozart’s concertos.”

He waved to Gina Alice behind him, and Alice immediately took out a sheet of music from her pocket and placed it among the crowd.

Lang Liangyue pointed at the score and smiled.

"I will play this this year, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23. How does it feel?"

"Do you feel... okay?"

Fu Tiao did not answer Lang Liangyue's question immediately. Instead, he looked at Wang Jia beside him and nodded.

"Although I don't know how well you play, I hope you can play better than the Chopin you played at the Ruhr Music Festival."

"Hahahaha, of course, that's for sure. No matter what, I will definitely be able to play with my own feelings. Don't worry, I will definitely not disappoint you and Wang Jia this time."

Lang Liangyue laughed loudly and reached out to pat Fu Tiao and Wang Jia on the shoulders.

Just looking at the two of them, he didn't know why he couldn't move, so he could only retract his outstretched hand and scratch his head.

"Um...don't you two go in now?"

"Wait a minute and come in. There are too many people inside and it's a bit hot." Wang Jia shook his head, then thought of something and asked Lang Liangyue.

"Oh, by the way, what did you mean when you first came here, your least hope?"

"That's what it means on the surface, because my concert is tomorrow and I don't have time to play Pollini's concert. Even if I play, my playing style is different from Pollini's. Plus I already have a It’s a personal concert, so even though they invited me, I basically won’t be selected.”

Lang Liangyue waved his hand indifferently, pointed into the room and said casually.

"I came here today just to hang out and see how you're playing. If you perform well, I'll cheer you on. It's also a way to relax before the performance."

"Indeed, then you go in first, we will go in later."

"Okay, I'll go in first, see you later!"

"it is good!"

Wang Jia nodded and let Lang Liangyue enter the concert hall first, then looked at Fu Diao and sighed helplessly.

"I didn't expect him to come anyway."

"Lang Liangyue? What's wrong with him?" Fu Diao didn't know if there was any problem between Wang Jia and Lang Liangyue. He just looked at Wang Jia and asked her.

"Does it make any difference that he's here?"

"It's no different. I just don't want to see him come to my assessment. It always feels like I've gone back to the past. I'm still the person who has always been in his shadow, and is called the female version of Lang Liangyue. Wang Jia, that’s all.”

Wang Jia shook his head slightly and walked around the outside of the concert hall a few times, but did not go directly in.

While they were waiting, several more people walked in.

After these people entered, Wang Jia looked at Fu Tiao, who was not clear about these people, and explained the origins of these people one by one.

Not much different from what he thought.

They are all top pianists in various countries.

There are countries he knows, and there are countries he doesn't.

For example, national treasure pianists from Iraq, national treasure pianists from India, and young national treasure pianists from Iran have also come here.

Of course, these people definitely did not grow up in these places. This group of people were basically born there and then immigrated with their parents.

Although they still retain their local nationality, top pianists like them just carry the title of national treasure-level pianists. No one would think that they were trained locally.

At the same time, there are actually many other countries in a similar situation.

The exception is China.

The Chinese side is very complicated, because you can't tell whether they were trained locally. Many people were trained in China, and then went abroad to improve themselves.

There are also those who purely perform abroad. For example, there is a very famous young pianist who seems to be in the limelight recently, named Liu Xiaoyu, whose English name is Bruce Liu.

He is just a young pianist who grew up and studied at the University of Massachusetts.

This time he also came to the scene.

Although he came with his senior brother.

He did not qualify for the selection, but because of his reputation, he obtained the qualification to watch the game.

What Pollini's temporary withdrawal brought to the organizing committee this time was to organize enough people to let them campaign for the most suitable replacement.

Although there is a ranking list, you can just test them one by one.

But the draft list is just a plus.

For example, if A and B have the same score, and A is ranked higher than B, then A will be selected and B will be eliminated.

After choosing the right performers for Pollini, it is also important to ensure that the festival is completed as much as possible.

This is the main selection method for Salzburg Music Festival candidates.

As for music festivals elsewhere…

Although the methods of selecting candidates are different, they remain the same.

Basically, after determining the candidate, choose the most suitable person.

After Fu Tiao and Wang Jia stood at the door for a long time, someone finally opened the door and invited them in.

When entering the room, Fu Diao immediately knew why Wang Jia kept saying not to enter the room. The room was simply a steamer.

The reason is simple. There is no air conditioning or even an electric fan in this room.

The sunlight outside shone on the room, making it seem very warm.

If there is no one in this room, or there are only one or two people, it will naturally be particularly comfortable for you to sit in front of the window and look at everything outside the window.

But the problem is...

There are too many people in this room.

There were about ten people in the group of people sitting in the organizing committee in the shadiest spot.

Then there was the group of spectators and the pianist who became a substitute.

All in all, there were almost a hundred people occupying this room, which was about dozens of square meters.

This makes the room, which is not particularly well ventilated, appear even hotter.

Fu Diao followed Wang Jia's footsteps and walked close to the chairman. He kindly asked the people around him to give him a seat and then he finished.

Sure enough, sometimes being famous is good.

Even if there are many people here who are not particularly familiar with Fu Diao, there is no one who is not familiar with Wang Jia.

The reputation of the female version of Lang Liangyue is not something that ordinary pianists can resist.

Now Lang Liangyue's reputation around the world even has a chance to become the world's number one pianist.

Then the female version of Lang Liangyue, Wang Jia, who is said to be equally skilled as Lang Liangyue, naturally also received preferential treatment from everyone.

Although Wang Jia was a little reluctant, he still took advantage of it and sat in a relatively cool place and looked at the group of people in charge.

Under the eyes of everyone, the person responsible for the selection of candidates for this concert stood up from the crowd and walked to the middle of the crowd. After scanning the crowd with the document in his hand, he spoke to everyone. .

“Everyone, I think all of you should know one thing, that is, Maestro Pollini has temporarily left our Salzburg Music Festival due to some family problems. This is a very regrettable thing.

But it's a pity. The Salzburg Music Festival cannot lose its integrity as the world's top music festival because of the operation of Maestro Pollini. We need to choose the best replacement for Maestro Pollini within today's time. top pianist.

In order to be able to choose the most suitable pianist, we will give everyone here 30 minutes. During these 30 minutes, we will first give you a piece of work, a piece that you must choose, and you will play it. Leave us a review.

After the performance, you need to select other works that match this work based on this work, and jointly construct a concert program.

Next, the staff of the organizing committee will give each of you a key to the piano room. You can enter according to the room number indicated on the key, and then practice.

After 10 minutes, all of you will be invited back to this room by the staff. In the center of the room, we will move a piano for all of you to use.

Everyone...do you understand? "

No one in the crowd spoke. Seeing everyone like this, the person in charge nodded and continued.

"Since you don't have any questions, let's get started."

"I'll see you here in 10 minutes."

Say it, he returned to his seat.

And Fu Tiao also got his own key to the piano room.

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(End of this chapter)