pianist from the sea

Chapter 91 The Ultimate Self

Fu Tiao opened the door and stood in the corridor backstage of the concert hall, surrounded by staff.

Many of them are in charge of the competition process, and some of the rest are photographers in various places, and interviewers.

The first player had already walked off the stage, and was pulled aside by the staff for a post-match interview before taking a break, asking him about some of the content of the game.

Just like those Olympic Games, or some variety show channels.

After all, the Chopin International Piano Competition is more of a springboard, a springboard that pushes players from an unknown person to the whole world.

Those who are in charge of interviews naturally need to be more serious, and can't deal with it casually.

And the Dongying man standing in front of him also stepped onto the stage after the host's announcement.

There are many screens on the side of the staff. On the screen is the performance of the Japanese player. Fu Tiao just glanced at it, and did not continue to stare. Instead, he leaned against the wall and waited silently for his turn. Second-rate.

The performance of the person on the stage seems to be okay, but it always feels a little bit off. The surrounding staff have finished interviewing the first player and are laughing casually.

Fu Tiao just stood there, waiting for the last player to finish playing.

when……

The last sound on the stage fell, and the applause sounded, but it didn't seem enthusiastic.

"Fu! Please take your place at this place!"

The staff at the entrance of the stage waved to Fu Tiao and asked him to stand under the steps of the stage.

The previous contestant just came down from the stage at this time. She looked at Fu Tiao, couldn't help but smiled, nodded and bowed slightly to Fu Tiao.

"come on!"

"Thank you."

The person walked past Fu Tiao, although she didn't show any particular emotion, but her walking posture seemed a little uncomfortable.

It may be that my performance has not reached the upper limit I want.

Fu Tiao couldn't help shaking his head, all of this had nothing to do with him.

From the very beginning, he should not place his attention on other places, but should be completely on himself.

His opponent is not others, but himself.

Only when he defeats himself can he barely be considered a success.

Playing the piano is inherently lonely. No matter how exciting or shocking your performance is, you should keep yourself calm.

Even when interacting with the audience, your brain should always remain calm and not let your emotions fluctuate because of any little things.

It's like staying out of the way.

Let the body control the emotions to play, instead of letting the emotions control the body.

After Fu Tiao took a deep breath, he let it out slowly, making himself more relaxed.

"The next contestant, Dior Fu! China, please pay attention to the judges and teachers, the contestant number is 13, the piano choice: Steinway D274"

"Choice of Works: Chopin Nocturnes 37-1.

Chopin etude Op10, No4.
Chopin etude Op25, No12
Chopin Scherzo Op52"

Whoa!
The applause sounded, and everyone's eyes were on the entrance at the edge of the stage, waiting for Fu Tiao to come out from the steps below the stage.

"Fu Tiao contestant, you can go on stage, the piano has been moved to the designated position."

"Ok!"

Fu Tiao nodded, rearranged his clothes, nodded slightly to everyone with a smile, stepped onto the stage, and walked to the center of the stage.

The concert hall was incomparably quiet, the surrounding lights were a bit dim, and there was a trace of darkness from the stage to the stage, making it impossible for people to see the faces of those people under the stage clearly.

It feels like everyone is a blur, not refreshing.

But what can be seen is that the stage is full of people, and everyone is watching Fu Tiao, waiting for his performance.

Fu Tiao looked at everything on the stage, and was in a daze for a moment. He put his hand on the edge of the piano, took a deep breath, and bowed gracefully to everyone.

Whoa!
The applause sounded again. Fu Tiao sat on the piano and unbuttoned the front of his abdomen so that the clothes would no longer bind his body. After that, he slowly closed his eyes, put his hands on the piano, and froze in mid-air.

The concert hall was so quiet that you couldn't even hear the breathing under the stage.

All you can hear at this moment is your own heartbeat and the glow of the hot lights above your head.

When you sit on the piano bench, you will find that there seems to be only you left in this world, and there is no one else except you.

But in Fu Tiao's world, he still has music.

What is your first piece of music?

Fu Tiao was in a daze for a while, he was a little dazed when he heard his own heartbeat, and for some reason he felt as if he was back on the big ship.

The ground under his feet is no longer the incomparably flat land, but the sea with a slight sway.

Chopin was vacationing on a small island in the sea, and encountered a torrential rain.

And what about myself...?

What exactly exists in your own music?
Perhaps the sea is also an island.

Rainstorms, bumps, humidity, boredom, depression.

Is he really just very irritable?

Is what he expresses with music just irritability?
If it is yourself, what should you do?
Perhaps... I should come to the concert hall on the ship, remove the anchor from the piano on the ship, and let myself turn around with the shaking of the ship.

It's like... in the cradle of the sea.

Fu Tiao took a deep breath, raised his hand that had been frozen in mid-air, and then lowered it very softly.

when……

At this moment, the Huaguo auditorium in the distance.

The Internet is not like a concert hall, where players are not allowed to speak while they are performing.

So when they listen to music, they often start evaluating.

It was still Faol's live broadcast room, but this time his live broadcast was not just him bragging and chatting in front of the screen in that place, but with other people.

There were probably three or four people sitting in front of the sofa at Fao's house, cracking melon seeds and chatting to the Chopin International Piano Competition.

In Warsaw, it was [-]:[-] or [-]:[-] in the evening, and it was already eleven or twelve o'clock in Huaguo.

Many students have already fallen asleep at this time, only a few classical music lovers are still watching their sharp comments in front of their channels at this time.

When Fu Tiao first stepped onto the stage, the few people in the live broadcast room didn't really pay much attention.

According to their previous analysis based on the preliminaries of the Chopin International Piano Competition, the chances of Fu Diao passing the first round are really very small.

However, because he is from Huaguo, and he was cultivated by pure Huaguo education.

Therefore, these people in the live broadcast room are very concerned about Fu Tiao.

"Hey, I just said it. Although Fu Tiao probably won't pass the first round this year, but the average level of our Huaguo players is still good. What do you think?"

"I seem to have heard of Fu Tiao before. When he was in the attached middle school, he won the top few prizes in the Huaguo Golden Piano Awards, but he is not particularly famous."

"By the way, I don't even know how Fu Tiao entered the Chopin International Piano Competition. Although he was very professional and had a good sense of musical beauty in the preliminary round, I have to say that Chopin is in his music. It really isn't enough."

"Yes, the Chopin in his music is definitely not enough. According to the current direction of the Chopin International Piano Competition, plus there is only half a year to continue to improve, no matter how you think about it, it is impossible for Fu Tiao to play Chopin well. ? If he can reach this level in half a year, then what else is he going to practice? Just win the prize."

"that is!"

None of those people were particularly optimistic about Fu Tiao, after all it was normal, not everyone was like Jiang Ruijia who could observe Fu Tiao up close.

All their knowledge of Fu Diao was obtained from Fu Diao's previous competitions and recent comments from other people.

They don't know much about Fu Tiao, but they know a little about Fu Tiao, and they seem to play with He Shen, and then they have exchanges in various conservatories, and have held concerts in every city with a conservatory. Nothing is clear.

After all, tickets for He Shen's concert are really hard to get. Unless they spend several times the money to listen, there is no chance at all.

At this moment, the picture of Fu Tiao playing also appeared on the screen, followed by Fu Tiao's own information.

Compared with the honors of other contestants, which can hardly be written on a page, Fu Tiao's experience is pitifully small, just a very simple birth history, the champion of some small competitions, and a student of Haicheng Conservatory of Music.

That's it.

"Tsk, why didn't Fu Tiao get a prize before the Chopin International Piano Competition? Compared with other people, this resume is really pitiful. Look at the current resume, which is weak and mediocre. This one is too passer-by. right?"

"It's true that it's a bit passer-by, but music competitions are ultimately about listening to music. I don't think the impact of this resume difference is that big."

"Well, you are right. I also think that a poor resume is not important for the Chopin International Piano Competition. The most important thing is to look at the performance of the players in this competition. After all, if you have no way to enter the finals, the previous Such a small amount of exposure doesn't do anything."

"Hey, tell me, is it possible for Li Diyun to give Fu Diao a little help because he is from Huaguo? Help him raise his score?"

"Impossible, Li Diyun is not qualified to rate Fu Diao!"

After the words fell, the others did not speak, but the barrage exploded. Countless people were asking why Li Diyun was not qualified to rate Fu Tiao.

A few people who were knocking on melon seeds to watch Fu Tiao come on stage couldn't help but look at Faol who was in the main seat. Faol shrugged and said to the crowd.

"Actually, there's no big problem. It's just a simple sentence, for the sake of fairness."

"For the sake of fairness, all people of the same nationality as the contestants are not allowed to score points. There are restrictions on scoring points for those who have had contact with contestants, and there are restrictions for scoring points for players who have taken master classes. "

"To put it simply, it is to be able to rate the players. It must be the kind that has nothing to do with the players. For example, Argerich and I know Argerich but she doesn't know me. We I haven't even met face to face! Only such a relationship can be scored."

"If you meet a player and say you didn't meet, and you are found and reported by others later, not only will all your previous scores be invalid, but you will also be punished accordingly."

"Although there may still be suspicions of cheating, cheating within the framework of the Chopin International Piano Competition is already very, very difficult, to the point where the gain outweighs the gain..."

"Even though we can see that the number of cheating in the history of the Chopin International Piano Competition is almost zero, and it is more due to different opinions on the performance of the players, but recently the restrictions on the judges have become more and more strict, and there are even rumors that there may be Check your phone to see if these judges have practiced with certain contestants."

"Of course, I think it's unrealistic to check your mobile phone. The protection of personal privacy in Europe is a bit different from ours. You have to know that there are no cameras outside Europe, just to protect privacy. If you have a camera, you can even Looking outside, passers-by can report you to the government and ask you to pay compensation if they see it, and when you place a camera, you must also place reminder signs around it to tell others that there is a camera in this place, otherwise you will commit a crime without prompting The evidence is obtained, and criminals can also complain to the government about violating privacy."

"It sounds a bit weird, and it doesn't even fit our logic, but it's normal for people to have their own culture. I feel that even if the restrictions on judges become stricter, they won't Strict to a particularly weird level, otherwise why would the judges use so much energy to come and listen to the competition?"

While everyone was talking, Fu Diao had already sat down on the stage, raised her hand and put it on the piano.

From Fu Tiao's point of view, he meditated on stage for a very long time, and he had a lot to think about.

But from the perspective of outsiders like them, it didn't take long for Fu Tiao to put his hand on the piano, about three or four seconds, which is a normal time for emotional transformation.

After Fu Tiao's hand shook slowly in the air a few times, he gently placed his hand on the keyboard and pressed down the keys on the piano.

After the sound of the piano was transmitted through the specially customized stereo in Faol's home, and the equipment was as fidelity as possible, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and just wanted to laugh and complain about the mediocrity of Fu Tiao's performance.

But when the voice behind Fu Tiao came out, everyone's bodies couldn't help but a little bit stiff.

They turned their heads hesitantly to look at the big screen in front of them, their eyes filled with incomparable doubts.

etc?What was the sound that came out just now?
What was played just now... was the Fu Diao they discussed earlier?
The piano sounded, and an extremely calm voice came out. It sounded very ordinary. There was nothing in the music, it was just extremely indifferent.

But as the music behind it flowed out, everyone was shocked.

Calm and thick, with a majestic force hidden under the piano.

Just like the sea in the middle of the night, the surroundings are pitch black, and nothing can be seen, but there is a danger shrouded in the darkness.

And the blandness in Fu Tiao's music is not really blandness.

Obviously, it seems that there is not much change, and there is not even a special difference in the level of the volume.

But... Under Fu Tiao's performance, this small contrast has an extremely powerful tension.

The light decorative sound played, it seemed a little naughty, but under the music, there was no way to conceal the confusion and melancholy shrouded in the music.

Such a performance, such an opening, directly amazed countless people.

Among the music of Fu Tiao, there are not many performances that belong to Chopin alone, and it can even be regarded as very few. It is just a very simple shell over there. When you hear his music, you will know that this is a song. Chopin's works, there is a taste of Chopin in the works.

But if you really taste the past, you will find...

The taste of Chopin in the music is not particularly strong. His Chopin is not Chopin, but an ordinary shell.

And under the shell of Chopin is Fu Tiao himself.

His extremely strong personal style rushes out to everyone through Chopin's shell, and no one can ignore his existence.

Completely different from the previous Zhao Chengzhen, Zhao Chengzhen hoped that others would ignore his existence, but Fu Tiao was different, he did not allow others to ignore his existence.

Such performance, such interpretation, such beauty.

Also almost reached the extreme.

All of this made people watch Fu Tiao's emotions change slightly.

From the original indifference, it gradually became extremely serious, and began to seriously think about what Fu Tiao wanted to express in the music.

Some of the judges who were more inclined to Chopin couldn't help but think at this moment, and began to think about what kind of score they should give Fu Tiao.

After all, Fu Diao's performance is really beautiful, although it is not exactly what he expected, but there is no problem at all in giving a high score.

Only those judges who were particularly focused on Chopin frowned suddenly at this time, they were extremely entangled.

As for the performance at the beginning of Fu Diao, there seemed to be no mistakes, but all this was not what they wanted to hear at all.

"No, I can't listen anymore, Chopin is just a decoration in his music! I don't allow..."

"Why don't you...have another look?" When one of them was about to give Fu Tiao a low score, the judge next to him suddenly said, shaking his head slightly at him, pointing at Fu Tiao with a strange expression.

"Or, listen to it again, don't worry."

"..."

The man was silent, he picked up the hand that he wanted to give Fu Tiao a low score, put it aside, and sighed softly.

"it is good."

The previous few also expressed their feelings for Chopin on top of Chopin, but the judges were not moved by it.

The reason is simply that their music is not strong enough for them to start questioning.

They have not even reached the dividing line, and everything expressed in the music has not yet reached the perfect state.

What do they use to select branches?

It's like when you play games, people start to choose a career choice branch at level ten. You, a player at level five or six, start thinking about branching. Isn't it too early?
And Fu Tiao has obviously reached the tenth level, which is why the judges started to frown.

Fu Tiao has already started to give them a headache.

The root of the Chopin International Piano Competition is the ultimate Chopin, or...

The ultimate self?
(End of this chapter)