Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 800 59. The girl chasing stars [Part ]

After the National Day holiday, I took classes for eight days in a row, plus I had to drive home for a few days. This period of time on the car was really hard.

After the meal, the teacher and the student finished cleaning up the kitchen together, and the car was going to practice the piano, but was "stopped" by Li An.

"There's no piano practice tonight, and there's no homework to do."

Xiaoche thought the teacher had some plans, but the teacher asked her to play.

"what?"

"Ah, what? Today is just a break. Go play. You can play on your phone or your tablet. If you want to play on the computer, go to the study."

Xiaoche scratched her head, she wanted to practice the piano.

"You must learn to balance work with rest." Li An said, "You won't be able to achieve results if you practice tonight, and it will be the same in the future. You must learn to relax properly when your body is tired."

Xiaoche: "I understand, teacher."

Li An: "Are you tired? Tell the truth."

Xiaoche: "Yes, a little bit."

Ang Lee: "Go relax."

But Xiaoche didn't know what to do. She didn't want to look at her phone anymore. She couldn't be happy when she saw her phone.

On her way home from school this afternoon, she turned on her phone and was so happy when she saw Xiao Bei's profile picture. But when she opened it, she saw "bad news".

"teacher"

"What's the matter."

After a moment, "Xiao Bei, do you really want to stop for a while?"

Li An was stunned, "Xiao Bei told you."

Xiaoche told the teacher what happened in the afternoon.

"sit."

Xiaoche heard the sound and sat on the sofa nearby, his eyes couldn't help but have a bit of hope. Maybe the teacher still had a way.

But then Ang Lee's words extinguished the remaining hope in Xiao Che's heart, "I'm afraid Xiao Bei has to stop his piano studies."

The day before yesterday, Xiaobei's mother called Li An and said that it was already early October and Xiaobei still had not adapted to the rhythm of life in junior high school. The pressure on homework was really high, so she had no choice but to stop Xiaobei's piano lessons first. a period of time.

Ang Lee can understand this.

Xiaoche can actually understand, she is just afraid that Xiaobei's mother will never let Xiaobei learn from it in the future.

Li An: "Xiaobei's mother said that when Xiaobei gets used to it, she will come back for piano lessons immediately. I believe Xiaobei will be fine."

Xiaoche: "I believe it too!"

Li An smiled: "So don't worry, we will wait for her, she will definitely come back."

Car: "Yeah!"

Li An: "When you were chatting in the afternoon, how did you feel about Xiaobei's condition?"

Xiaoche: "I feel pretty good, but they have too many homework assignments every day in the experiment, and she has to work very late to finish them. Also, she said that the classmates in her class are very perverted, with all kinds of papers."

Ang Lee: "Your generation is really unlucky."

Xiaoche: "Well, teacher, didn't you have a lot of homework when you were in junior high school?"

Li An: "In my impression, I didn't feel like I had more homework until I was in high school. In junior high school, it was still about playing."

Xiaoche didn't believe it.

Ang Lee: "Really."

Xiaoche explained: "Teacher, it's not that I don't believe you don't have much homework. I don't believe you said you mainly focus on playing. You must practice piano every day when you have time."

Ang Lee: "Isn't practicing piano just about playing?"

When Xiao Che heard this, he looked resentful: "Teacher!"

Amused by Xiao Che's expression, Li An was in a good mood, "Come on, we won't practice the piano today. Let's do some interesting musical experiments."

Music experiment! ?
"Okay!" The car came alive.

The teacher and student came to the study room, and Li An replied to Chen Xuan's voice.

Xiaoche asked: "Teacher, is it still daytime at Mistress's place?"

Li An: "Well, she just finished lunch and is going to take a nap."

Xiaoche: "Does the teacher's wife also live on campus?"

Li An put down the phone: "She hasn't taken the exam yet. She will live in her overseas teacher's house for the next two days. After renting a house, they will have their own small home. After the exam is completed and she officially enters the school, she can live in the school. ”

Car: "Oh."

"Che Lin, do you remember the Orff music game we played at summer camp?"

Dolly certainly remembers, "Body Percussion."

Ang Lee: "Now let's play this game. I play a piece of music. You listen to it first. After listening, you describe your feelings to me. Then I play it a second time. You join in the rhythm according to your inner feeling. Listen. Understood?"

Car: "Yeah!"

Ang Lee dug out Mozart's score K.265 from the cabinet, then sat back in front of the piano and unfolded it.

Xiao Che sat aside. Although she couldn't understand the English on the piano, she could understand the music score.

Wherever her eyes went, the sound effects on the score seemed to automatically ring in her ears. She showed a surprised expression, thinking to herself, this, this, is this? !
She really couldn't connect this children's song she had learned in the first grade of elementary school with the real score in front of her.

"Go and turn off the lights."

Just as the car was about to turn off the lights, she suddenly realized that the teacher would not be able to see the score if the lights were turned off!

"Go to Guan."

As the study room connected to the window and turned into a dark world, Li An pressed the switch on the side of the piano, and a small white light on the piano board suddenly lit up.

"Wow." Xiao Che always thought that this small light was just for decoration, but it turns out that it really lights up!

Although the light was weak, it just covered the music on the music stand, enough for people to see clearly.

"Are you ready?"

"Ready teacher."

After a moment, Li An raised his hand and lowered his fingers, and a crystal clear note sounded.

The soothing melody seemed to come from the distant horizon, soft and melodious, instantly filling the entire study room, and then spread towards the night sky.

Xiao Che was singing softly in her heart along with the beautiful piano music in her ears. She was not surprised that this nursery rhyme could be like this.

As the theme ends, one colorful variation after another is like an endlessly changing starry sky, and the car quickly becomes immersed in it and cannot extricate itself.

In front of the piano, Ang Lee has a grander world in his mind.
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Mozart K.265, 12 Variations on, Ah, vous dirai-je maman, Little Star Variations.

In 1778, Mozart created twelve variations based on the original song "Mother, Listen to Me". Later, the first variation was composed by the British poetess Taylor with lyrics for the theme, and became the well-known nursery rhyme "Little Star".

The rhythm and melody of the piece are simple and simple, and the twelve variations written by Mozart have their own characteristics, making the music flow happily and naturally without losing the childlike interest.

Last night, Ang Lee was looking at the night sky and suddenly got inspiration and decided on this song immediately.

Since communicating with Fu Tianming that day, he has been thinking about what he wants to express in this program every day.

He wanted to express the beauty in classical music, and he wanted to convey this beauty to everyone.

He wants these children to truly feel the charm of music and the energy contained in music by learning an instrument. He hopes that this energy can help guide children to face life correctly.

Based on the concept of the program, he believes that it is completely in line with the correct values ​​​​guidance required by the school.

And how to show the campus culture of the scholars through such a program, and show the vibrant side of the scholars through the children's stage, of course music is the focus here, but the children's performances are equally important. Going back to the performers of the show itself, how the children as performers embody the characteristics of the children will be the key to the success of the show.

What should the characteristics of children be? Be cute, be bright, be dreamy, be like the rising sun, be curious and have a desire to explore, be lacking in the ability to express emotions, etc.

Then Ang Lee's angle of music selection gradually shifted to the other side. He concluded that as long as the positive characteristics of the children can be expressed through the stage, then he will meet all the requirements raised by Liu Zhen.

Because children themselves represent positivity and hope.

But despite this, after clarifying the stage communication, although everyone in Ang Lee's team broadened their thinking, they still made no real progress.

At that time, it will be up to the children to score their own music. The children’s performance skills and the difficulty of the piece itself are two objective problems that cannot be solved in a short time just by changing the way of thinking.

What's more, some of the tracks proposed by everyone did not impress Ang Lee. Ang Lee always believed that there must be better ones.

While he was thinking this, he was thinking hard, and time passed like this day by day.

He was anxious, but there was more to his life than just this one thing.

No one expected that just last night, while searching for his lost lover in the night sky, Li An was struck by inspiration from the stars.

At that moment, all the details about this show were generated in his heart.

When he returned to the hotel, he wrote down all his thoughts about the program in one go.

How to simulate the night sky on the stage, how to let the children simulate the stars in the night sky through props, how to insert the soundtrack, how to sublimate it, he has it all.

Stars, which contain multiple meanings, are the core of this show, and the person who will play the role of the star-chasing girl has been selected.

All that's left is to integrate rehearsal modifications.

He had an idea just now. It happened that the car was fine at night, so he would let the car have a try.

He also wanted to see how the car would experience and feel about this concert without knowing anything about it.

After playing the last variation, Ang Lee stopped and the study became quiet. He asked Xiao Che to close his eyes first, and then he got up and turned on the light.

After a while, he let the car slowly open its eyes.

"Tell me about it."

The teacher and student sat down facing each other, and Li An encouraged, "Say whatever you want, whatever you want to say."

Xiao Che blinked his bright eyes and said, "Teacher, I want to play this piece of music."

Li An coughed: "We don't need to talk about this for now, let's talk about music."

Car: "A very nice Mozart variation. There are twelve variations in total. The first accompaniment is based on a large number of sixteenth notes."

The car was interrupted by Li An as he was talking, "Linlin, this is a game, not a class. Feeling is not an analysis of music form. It is an intuitive, an expression of emotion without any modification, just like when you practice Pug When you were playing Nini, you didn’t understand the musical form, so what drove you to play and handle it that way?”

Xiaoche: "Teacher, I understand."

Ang Lee: "You first thought of analyzing music, which is very worthy of recognition, but you remember that music was born first and music analysis came last. This order will always be remembered."

Xiaoche nodded: "Teacher, I remember."

Ang Lee: "Relax and tell me how this music makes you feel."

Car: "It's very cute, teacher. The first time I heard Little Stars was when I was very young. At that time, the music teacher taught us to sing Little Stars. I still remember it. Twinkling and twinkling, the sky was filled with little stars."

While talking about the car, she started singing. After singing two lines, she continued, "At that time, I really wanted to jump around with the little stars."

Li An smiled: "Well, continue."

Xiaoche: "I rarely listened to it after that, but I always keep this song in my mind."

Ang Lee: "Everyone of us could sing this song at that time. It was also the childhood memory of our generation."

Xiaoche: "Listening to it now, I feel like it has grown up with us."

"Oh?" Li An was instantly interested in what Xiao Che said, and a few more ideas suddenly came to his mind, "How do you say it?"

Xiaoche: "The little stars I heard when I was a child are just like us. There is no homework, no worries, and a simple day has passed. Well, if I listen to it now, even though it still has a lively side, it also has its moments of silence. No, it’s not silence.”

"Um--"

Xiaoche paused, trying to express her thoughts clearly, and then continued, "It has become complicated. When I am happy, I will suddenly feel depressed. It seems that there are many, many kinds of emotions included in it, um——"

After a moment, Xiaoche scratched his head and said, "Teacher, I don't know what to say. I just like this melody very much. I liked it before, I like it now, and I will like it when I grow up."

He seemed a little embarrassed when he said he had grown up. He bared his teeth and said, "Teacher, I don't know how to talk anymore."

Li An smiled, wasn't the scene in front of him a manifestation of a child's characteristics, insufficient emotional expression.

But he understood what the car meant.

Li An once again lamented the richness of Xiao Che's inner world. This child's perception function is too powerful.

At the same time, Xiaoche’s words also gave him inspiration again.

Has the little star grown up, or has the child grown up?
This is a good question, about music, about growth, and about life.

Maybe everyone has a little star in their heart.

Even when they grow up to be adults, that star in their hearts still pops out and twinkles from time to time.

That flash of magic was huge.

"I won't say it doesn't matter now," Li An looked at the car and said seriously, "One day you will be able to learn to express yourself. Then let me ask you in another way, what is the purpose of Teacher Chen's trip?"

Xiaoche blurted out: "Chasing the stars."

Li An smiled and raised his finger: "Smart."

After a pause, "Go and turn off the lights."

The room became dark again.

Li An turned on the phone's camera, then placed the phone on the piano board. The camera pointed at the ceiling, which was dark.

"The second time is about to begin."

"Yeah!" Xiaoche clasped his hands on his chest and got ready.

Li An: "Fight as you please, fight however you want."

After saying that, he raised his hands and lowered his fingers, and the soft melody sounded in the room again.

Mozart k.265.

Not long after, crisp claps sounded behind him.

Then it quickly merged into the music, as if singing Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle, the sky is full of little stars.
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Half an hour later, Ang Lee sent the video to the group.

Then he sent a private message to Zhang Miao, asking Zhang Miao to make modifications based on the rhythm of the car in this video.

Finally, '@everyone, the name of the show is Girls Chasing Stars, what do you think? '

This name was decided together by the teacher and the student just now.

"Teacher, I have another question."

Xiaoche already knew the ins and outs of the book show week, but she still had a doubt in her mind.

"how?"

The teacher and student returned to the living room, and Li An washed two apples.

"Teacher, there are less than three weeks left. Can Wang Xiaohu play it?"

"Listen to me Linlin, let's make today a little more successful. Don't be such a spoiler. Come and eat an apple."

"Uh, um!"

(End of this chapter)