Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 648 347. Journey Narrative 33: Tuscona’s imagination, in the name of the father
When Xiao Ji heard that the children were back, he went out to greet them as soon as possible.

"Senior sister!" "Senior sister!" "Senior sister!" 'Senior sister! '
"Did everyone have fun?"

"happy!"

"Wang Xiaohu, what's wrong with your leg?"

"It's okay, it's okay, I touched it while swimming."

"You don't know how to be careful."

At this time Li An came over and asked, "How was your afternoon class? Did you gain much?"

Xiao Ji nodded: "Teacher Anna is so meticulous!"

Li An laughed: "Yeah, we'll talk about it when we get back. Send them back to put their things first."

Xiao Ji grabbed the bag from Li An's hand and said, "Teacher, let me get it for you."

When the children returned, they were first organized to go back to the hotel room to put down their belongings, and then were taken to the concert hall by teachers from each team.

When they gathered again, everyone found that Tang Xiaoxing, Lin Zihan and Lu Hanwen had already changed into their performance costumes.

"come on!"

"come on!"

Everyone knows that the three of them have a show in the evening.

Children from the Beethoven team, Bach team, and Mozart team cheered for their teammates.

As the host of tonight's concert, Boss X also changed into a formal suit, "Children, come in quickly."

This summer camp is a private event, and this concert is also a private concert. The audience is teachers, students and parents who participated in this event.

There are no special seats in the church concert hall. There are eight rows of benches in the front and back, with an aisle in the middle. You can see the stage when you stand at the door of the church.

The children were not required to sit in any order and could enter as they pleased.

Since the senior sister was asked to sit in the front row by the teacher, the four children Xiaoche and Xiaohu could only sit by themselves. After entering the door, they walked to the middle seat and stopped. Wang Xiaohu asked: "Shall we sit here?"

Xiaobei didn't care, as long as he could sit with Linlin.

Marco didn't care. He was carefully observing the interior of the church concert hall. When he arrived here at noon, he was very interested in this Gothic-style building made of red bricks.

Xiao Qi felt that he could sit anywhere, so he took the lead and walked into the aisle.

Ma Ke saw that Liu Ziqian and Doudou were also walking this way, and said to the three people around them, "You guys sit inside, and I'll sit outside."

Liu Ziqian stopped and sat next to Marco, and one after another the children and parents were seated.

The teachers and the performers of tonight's concert all sat in the front row.

There is a small box at the entrance of each row, and a stack of track lists is neatly stacked in the box.

After a period of noise, the church door was gently closed and the scene became quiet.

The church is not as bright as a formal concert hall, but it gives people the feeling of a family gathering.

"Wow——"

As Boss X stood up, there was a round of applause.

Boss X walked onto the stage and looked around the audience with a friendly smile: "Welcome everyone."

"Wow——————"

Sitting in such a mysterious space, the children suddenly felt something when they listened to Teacher Chen's words.

After the applause fell, Boss

With a snap, every child raised his hand.

Old Charlie and the others were not like Martin, who had a Chinese wife or a Chinese husband. They didn't know what Boss X said, but they saw the children behind them all raising their hands. Fortunately, Martin translated for them in time.

At this time, Boss X looked at the first row and asked, "None of the teachers have played Bach?"

Old Charlie raised his hands immediately after hearing Martin's translation, and at the same time, he did not forget to look back and smile with the children.

Wang Xiaohu whispered: "This old man is so cute."

As old Charlie raised his hand, all the teachers in the first row raised their hands with a smile.

Boss X: "Then who can tell me about Bach's piano music?"

The children immediately put their hands down.

The scene was slightly quiet for a while, and Boss X didn’t ask any more questions. He extended his hand in the direction of old Charlie in the audience.

Then make way for the center stage.

"Wow——"

Mr. Charlie straightened his collar first, then got up and walked onto the stage.

The children thought there was another conversation session, but they saw the old man sitting in front of the piano.

This is different from what everyone usually knows about performers going on stage, walking directly from the audience to the stage.

novel.

But no matter which way the performer takes the stage, as long as he sits down in front of the piano, it means that the performance is about to begin.

The scene was silent, and all eyes were fixed on old Charlie in front of the piano.

The general expectation among the children is that a pianist who looks great will play next.

What teachers generally look forward to is that what follows is a performance by a world-renowned piano educator.

There are also children who are looking forward to hearing a foreigner play the piano in such a listening environment, which seems to give them a new and unique feeling.

Ang Lee's expectation is how such an old man who has gone through most of his life will interpret Bach's work.

Italian Concerto - a work full of epoch-making and genius, numbered bwv971.

Perhaps compared to the concertos written by composers after the Baroque period, such as Mozart, Beethoven and other musicians, this Italian concerto is simpler in form and slightly rougher in details.

But throughout the history of Western music, Bach's Italian Concerto is the only one that can be played on one instrument.

As we all know, no matter what kind of instrument a concerto is, as long as it is named a concerto, the composer will definitely write a large or small orchestra to compete with the lead instrument.

This tradition was uncontroversial in the Baroque period before the birth of the Italian Concerto.

It is worth mentioning that this tradition continued after the birth of the Italian Concerto.

The reason is that after Bach, not even Mozart could compose a concerto played on only one instrument.

This is the epoch-making aspect of this work, and it also demonstrates Bach's unparalleled musical creation conception.

However, this alone is not enough to explain Bach's genius.

During the Baroque period when Italian style was prevalent, Vivaldi and others dominated international trends.

Bach, who was considered a country bumpkin by Handel at the time, had never set foot outside the hundreds of miles of the manor.

Unlike Handel, who traveled all over Europe, Bach stuck to his pastoral life and never entered an international perspective or had any communication with the outside world.

In that era when you had to take a half-day carriage ride to see a concert, the piano had not yet been born.

As a mainstream keyboard instrument, the harpsichord and the harpsichord are simply incomparable in terms of the changes in tone.

Under such objective conditions, Bach relied on his imagination and perhaps a few tunes he heard from the public to start creating with his bare hands.Looking at it today, the form of Bach's entire Italian concerto is not inferior to Vivaldi's solo violin concerto at that time.

And it can clearly reflect the contrasting styles of solo and competition performances in Italian solo concertos.

On this basis, Bach boldly broke through the tradition structurally while maintaining a complete and unified aesthetic principle.

Bach, who had never been to Italy, was able to write a world-famous Italian concerto.

The first master in the history of human music, Johann Sebastian Bach, is worthy of the name of the father of music.

"when!"

When a set of brilliant and powerful chords rose from the soundboard of the church piano, everyone in the audience was shocked.

For just a moment, the children's attention was taken away by the music.

Old Charlie's wizened left hand landed calmly on the keyboard, and his right hand calmly played the theme.

He dropped his fingers lightly yet calmly, and the fun of the melody injected vitality into the scene as soon as his hands merged.

Feeling the ups and downs of the melody hidden under the fingers of the keyboard, Ang Lee's fluttering eyelashes seemed to hint at the turbulence in his heart at the moment.

Old Charlie's main melody in the bass part only made slight changes in strength and weakness according to the continuous change of the music score, but it seemed to bring him an extraordinary listening experience.

It is a completely unexpected phrasing by him. There is no heavy emphasis on the brush strokes, but it gives people an extremely full spirit.

The combination of sixteenth notes in the treble part is like delicate singing, complementing the pattern of the bass, infinitely increasing the tension of the music.

Between each set of modular intensity changes, a mysterious inner power will be generated, gradually accumulating power in the music, and finally pushing the music in a grand direction step by step.

It wasn't until the music came to the sixth major chord that this emotion was released.

It was so exquisite that Ang Lee had no time to sigh at the old man's perfect control over phrasing, before he was completely pulled into the music by the sinking of the next theme.

After listening to the entire first movement, Ang Lee would like to say that the connotation that Mr. Charlie gave to this piece is not so much a spiritual temperament as a kind of fun.

Unlike many Bach players of the divine theory, the old man abandoned all redundancy outside of music, and only used the clarity and sensitivity of his inner voice to express the breath of music smoothly, like beads falling on a jade plate.

There is no burden-bearing thought, but a familiar path, allowing the music to be presented in the most original way.

Concise, to the point, and endlessly evocative.

It was played so well that Ang Lee fell to his knees listening to it.

Old Charlie used a rare clarity to cover up the misunderstood side of Bach, and combined force and beauty to bring out the true side of Bach's music.

The old man's highly condensed playing wisdom is not a reproduction of Bach's musical thoughts.

It plays so well.
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As a passionate piano enthusiast, Ang Lee’s idea is not surprising at all.

Because in front of true piano lovers, every excellent live performance is worthy of worship.

Ang Lee can afford to be a true and pure piano lover.

Of course, he was by no means the only one there.

There is also a car. The master and apprentice both have a paranoia about the piano.

But unlike her teacher, she has never played this Italian concerto, and her teacher does not have enough historical reserves.

From her personal listening experience, the words she can use are just that it sounds good and she likes it very much.

But she still had an urge to practice Bach's great works. She seemed to have received a revelation from Grandpa Charlie's performance, and this is how Bach should be played.

Especially when it came to the slow movement, she didn't know that the second movement was dominated by the main theme style, and the melodious flowing melody only gave her a distant and otherworldly feeling.

Of course, in addition to the master and apprentice pair, there were also music enthusiasts present. They were teachers, students, Chinese, or foreigners.

Everyone has their own idea of ​​what old Charlie should be like.

Boss X and Tang Xiaoxing, the pair of masters and apprentices, have heard too many live Bach performances by masters. Boss No less than five times.

There wasn't much to say, otherwise he wouldn't have asked the old man to open the concert tonight.

In Tang Xiaoxing's eyes, Grandpa Charlie's left hand has a tranquil atmosphere, while his right hand is like a melodious song. The strength of the keys and the fullness of the tone can be described as perfect in her understanding.

She felt that Grandpa Charlie's playing skills were not any different from the teacher she was going to follow at Chai Yuan in the next stage, even though her next piano teacher had just won a very important international award.

The music reaches the third movement and returns to a vibrant image.

With a light and humorous melody and a dancing melody, Mr. Charlie never uses his nearly virtuosic fingers like Ang Lee, but he fully demonstrates his elasticity and precise strikes.

The children seem to like the last movement more, nodding along with the music, or leaning forward and leaning on the back of the front seat to listen.

The music reached its climax, and the children were unwilling to blink any more.

"when!"

Another exquisite sentence.

Suddenly, the music seemed to transform into two musical images.

Mr. Cha was precise with one hand and sang delicately with the other.

Two pronunciations appeared in his hands at the same time, like Zhou Botong fighting with each other at the divine level!

day!
Listening to the music again, the two sounds are like two sides of the music, but they are completely unified.

The meaning of the whole song is transformed into a complex artistic casting in this last lesson, where lightning and whispers coexist, presenting the grand polyphony of Bach's music.

Listening to the increasingly brilliant tunes in their ears, sitting in such an environment and looking at the pictures in front of them, the children could not help but open their mouths.

They seemed to feel the strong Italian style from their multi-dimensional senses.

Most of them have never been to Italy, but they feel like they are in the Medici Gardens among the beautiful hills of Tuscany. As far as they can see, they are full of colorful plants. The space is so wide, so happy, so gorgeous.

"when-"

As old Charlie gently put away his hands, the scene in front of them suddenly changed, and the children seemed to be brought back to reality.

"Wow————————"

The next second, all the teachers and students in the audience clapped their hands and gave the warmest applause to the old man on the stage!

All the teachers in the first row stood up and paid tribute.

A foreign old man traveled thousands of miles to China and gave such a perfect performance to all the children present. It was really hard to sit down and applaud.

Under the leadership of the teacher, the children and parents in the back row also stood up.

The children seemed unable to express their excitement in any other way at this moment except by applauding.

So the applause became louder again!

"Wow——————————"

Another burst of applause hit the stage. There were less than fifty people, but they managed to muster the momentum of 500 people in such a small church concert hall.

Old Charlie stood up from the piano and did not bow directly backstage as usual. Instead, he raised his hands to the children with a happy smile.

Just like the way he looked when he heard Chen's question in the audience and raised his hands together with the children.

At this time, his rather childlike expression was mixed with a hint of humor, as if he was naughtily telling every child in the audience.

'See, I actually played Bach. '

(End of this chapter)