Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 909 169. Victory vs. Adagio! Mr. Bei's Flowery Road after the Rain

"Let me do it."

Haitao volunteered to go first.

Li An asked with a smile, "You're not nervous, are you?"

Haitao: "Why are you so nervous?"

In Haitao's opinion, according to the rules of the first round, the other party would definitely not send a car up.

No matter how talented Xiao Che is, he is just a child. It is impossible for his repertoire to include works by so many composers. If he draws an unpopular composer, it would be a direct failure.

Therefore, he could only possibly meet Lao Tang or Mu Xin. He knew the strength of the two, and he was aware that his own strength was not as good as theirs, so he just had to give it a try, without being nervous.

"Brother, you can go in the second round?"

Li An nodded, then looked at Ji Yang: "The third round is up to you."

Senior Sister Xiao Ji: "Teacher, I will try my best."

Ang Lee: "The third round is not certain, you know what I mean."

Senior Sister Ji smiled shyly: "Hey."

Li An followed with a smile and said, "Relax."

Senior Sister Xiao Ji: "For the fourth round, you and Teacher Zheng will do it. For the fifth round, who will do the sight-reading? Teacher Zheng, please don't look at me. My sight-reading is too bad."

Haitao: “Let’s play.”

Li An: "Let me take the fifth round. You two can come up with a name for our team."

Hai Tao: "Ji Yang, you decide."

Xiao Ji thought for a moment and said, "How about a slow tempo?"
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Unlike the other side where the team name was decided at the end, here we discussed the team name right from the start.

At the suggestion of Mu Xin, seconded by Xiaoche and Lao Tang, the three named their team Victory, with Lao Tang as the captain.

"Let me take the first round," Lao Tang said bluntly, "I think Li An will definitely play in the first round. I'll go and give away a kill. In the second round, Mu Xin, you try to take down Hai Tao. This way, we can almost tie in the first two rounds."

Mu Xin: "What if you win and I lose?"

Lao Tang laughed: "Then why can't we both win?"

Mu Xin: “Come on!”

Mu Xin looked at Xiaoche and said, "Linlin, do you want to learn improvisation or sight-reading?"

Xiaoche thought for a while and said: "I choose improvisation."

Mu Xin asked casually, "Do you usually practice improvisation more?"

Xiaoche: "Fortunately, I can play it relatively completely."

Lao Tang: "Linlin, improvisation and sight-reading are all up to you."

Xiaoche shook his head: "I'm afraid I'll run into the teacher in the last round."

When Lao Tang heard this, he exclaimed in his heart. He didn't expect Xiao Che to have such concerns. Seeing that Xiao Che was not very enthusiastic, he thought Xiao Che didn't want to participate.

"Tell me what you think."

After a moment, "I don't know which teacher will be the first one to go, but I guess the sight-reading teacher will go last. I'm worried that the teacher will let me go, so I'd better leave it to you and Teacher Mu."

Lao Tang smiled and said, "What if he doesn't let you? What if he doesn't go? Don't worry. Among the three of us, Teacher Mu and I have both gone on twice, so you should also go on twice, right? If you lose, you lose. The process of our competition is the most important, don't you think? And don't you want to compete with your teacher on the same stage?"

Xiaoche thought about it again, then nodded.

"Okay, then it's settled." Mu Xin stretched out his hand, which was not even as big as a small car, and said, "Victory! Come on!"

Then two hands came up, "Victory! Come on!"

After shouting the two slogans, Xiao Che felt much more comfortable. When she thought about the possibility of challenging the teacher face to face in a while, she felt an indescribable excitement in her heart.

"Adagio! Come on!"

Li Ang and the other two were not willing to be outdone.

The "gunpowder smell" between the two sides suddenly appeared.

Wang Xiaohu was also ready on the stage, "Please invite the captains of both teams to come on stage."

From the Victory team, Lao Tang was the first to walk onto the stage, while on the other side, Li Ang pushed Hai Tao onto the stage.

Wang Xiaohu glanced left and right and said, "Captains of both teams, please tell me your team names."

Lao Tang: “Victory.”

Haitao: "Adagio."

The audience burst into applause.

After taking the deployment chart handed over by the two captains, Wang Xiaohu handed it directly to the notary Xu beside him without even looking at it.

"Next, the notary will draw the questions for the first round of the competition." Wang Xiaohu picked up the cardboard box at his feet in a serious manner.

Under everyone's gaze, Xu Li reached into the box and took out a paper ball.

She unfolded the sticky note and showed it to everyone, "Ludwig van Beethoven, any Allegro movement."

Beethoven.

The two captains on the stage let out a sigh of relief at the same time.

In fact, both of them were afraid that Wang Xiaohu would come up with some unpopular composers, otherwise it would not be a question of whether they could be played or not.

Wang Xiaohu pushed aside and said, "Please ask the notary to announce the first round players for both teams."

It's not easy for Xu Li to be a mother. In order to help her son create the atmosphere of the competition, she opened the two lists one after another, then looked around and said in a clear voice: "In the first round, Mr. Zheng from the slow team will compete against Mr. Tang from the victory team."

really.

really.

As expected by both sides, the first round was between the two people who had threatened to duel before the game.

According to the general process, the host would announce who would come first, but Wang Xiaohu just ignored this issue.

"The two teachers used rock-paper-scissors to decide who would play first, and the winner would play later. Uh, the winner was decided by one bag."

Everyone laughs.

Rock, paper, scissors, Haitao's rock won over Lao Tang's scissors.

The two shook hands and said, "Come on," then Haitao stepped aside and left the stage to Lao Tang.

"Come on, Teacher Tang!"

"come on! Come on!"

With the encouragement of his teammates, Lao Tang walked to the piano with a smile, played the piano, turned around and bowed, his movements flowing smoothly.

When he heard the name Beethoven, Lao Tang already knew what piece he wanted to play.

He raised his hand and pointed, and instantly everyone seemed to be cleansed.

The long and fast melody attracted everyone's attention as soon as it appeared.

Within ten bars, when the gradually accumulated power of the music reached a critical point, Lao Tang effortlessly brought the first live climax to everyone.

Beyond the silent chanting, all the emotions in the music are revealed, from quality to form.

Lao Tang chose the third movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17, The Tempest.

Although there is a lack of two movements to set the stage, Lao Tang uses his steady opening layout to bring the listeners into the piece right from the start.

It seems that Lao Tang has put in a lot of effort over the past year. Since the end of the Xinhai Cup, Ang Lee has never seen Lao Tang play the piano so seriously.

Compared with the gentleness on the court at that time, there are now obvious edges and corners under Lao Tang's fingers. Perhaps this is related to Lao Tang's hard work in the past six months. All in all, in Li Ang's opinion, this is a good thing for Lao Tang, and Lao Tang has ushered in a new starting point.

You play it well.

Mu Xin did not expect that there was such a big time difference between Lao Tang’s live concert and the live broadcast. They were two completely different styles of performance.

The music is delicate, the timbre is rich but not heavy, and the phrases are extremely refined. Mu Xin feels that it would be a different experience if he could listen to it from the first movement.

Awesome, awesome! Mu Xin was impressed and felt that Lao Tang should be the winner. Mu Xin did not look down on Hai Tao, but Lao Tang's three movements of the storm were too amazing.

Xiao Che was already addicted to Lao Tang's performance, and she heard a feeling of endless motion.

It was the first time for Senior Sister Ji to listen to Teacher Tang play the piano live. It was amazing, but as a teammate of Teacher Zheng, oh.

"teacher."

"Ok?"

"Isn't Mr. Zheng under a lot of pressure?"

Different from Wang Xiaohu's perspective, as a college student, Ji Yang is clear about some things. Teacher Tang plays much better than all the graduate students he has heard in the academy, so.
Li An whispered: "If it's really this one, it's not certain."

Ji Yang: “Ah?”

Li An: "Ji Yang, remember, the first movement of a sonata is always more important than the third movement. That's the first point. Second, forget it. Just listen to it yourself later."

It is hard to comment on whether Lao Tang gave Ang Lee a break. If Lao Tang chose to play the first movement, Hai Tao probably would not have any chance of winning, but Lao Tang chose the third movement.

If Ang Lee were the judge, Lao Tang's opening still had some shortcomings. Lao Tang did not make the rhythm clear at the first time, and at the same time gave too much emotion. As a third movement played alone, this is itself contradictory.

If he were Lao Tang, he would have two choices.

First, make the rhythm clear instead of rushing through it, and then slowly inject the emotions, so that the emotional outburst will be smoother.

Second, it starts off quickly, and then gradually adds emotions until the end of the theme, leaving only a big climax when the theme returns at the end. At that time, you can make at least five sudden crescendos in a row to emphasize the dominant note, and then gently close it at the end to point out the tranquility after the storm, all in one go.

Now the ending part of the old soup sounds a bit monotonous because too much has been released in the previous part.

Of course, it was played very well. Perhaps Lao Tang played it this way based on the musical idea of ​​three movements. Without hearing the first two movements, Ang Lee could only comment on this.

So just talking about the current situation, Li An doesn't think Haitao has no chance at all.

Haitao has a fatal flaw when playing multi-movement works, which is that he lacks coherence. Teacher Wei has scolded Haitao for not using his brain more than once because of this.

But Teacher Wei also publicly praised Haitao for his good playing of certain individual movements on many occasions.

Which movement would Haitao play? Ang Lee was a little worried that Haitao might act on impulse, so he chose the third movement to be fair.

There is really no need for that. If Haitao really wants to compete, he should show his best.

"Wow————"

As Lao Tang stopped, applause broke out from the audience.

Lao Tang stood up, played the piano, turned around, smiled and bowed, then gave up his seat in front of the piano.

At this time, Haitao walked to the piano, bowed and took his seat, and the scene became quiet again.

As Ang Lee expected, Haitao had indeed been thinking about whether to play a third movement. It would be fair to play the third movement against the third movement.

But in the end he still chose the first movement and showed his most confident side, which was a sign of respect for his opponent.

"call."

Haitao exhaled lightly and raised his hand under everyone's gaze.

"when."

When Ang Lee heard the first re note, he felt relieved.

Okay, brother, you've matured.

Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, Allegro, first movement.

Lao Tang and Mu Xin were a little surprised when they heard the song Haitao chose.

If the beginnings of all of Beethoven's sonatas were put together, the beginning of the Tenth would definitely be at the top in terms of difficulty.

Often performers will try to make the listener or themselves aware of the rhythm by emphasizing the beginning of each measure, but this often backfires.

This will not only destroy the baggage left by Mr. Bei in the film, but also destroy the suspense left by Mr. Bei at the end.

It can be said that the beginning of Number 10 has too many traps, and if you are not careful you will end up at an intersection full of countless forks.

However, Haitao controlled the melody steadily, paving a unique path with each note as if he had a map.

In this path of surprising length and complexity, which also includes a return to the theme, Hai Tao fills the road with flowers with his sweet timbre throughout.

The fragrant music reminded Lao Tang and Mu Xin of Hai Tao's words in the cafe almost at the same time:
“I personally pay more attention to how students can perform a piece of music beautifully.”

At this moment, Haitao is using his own hands to tell everyone what he did before teaching his children.

At this moment, an extremely expressive bass line suddenly appeared in the piano sound, flashing by, like the last moment before dusk.

Lao Tang: Brother Haitao was too low-key before.

Mu Xin: I want to listen to Teacher Zheng play works from the Romantic period.

Wang Xiaohu: Is this Teacher Zheng?
Xiao Ji: Pastoral idyll!
Xiaoche: I like it.

Perhaps in the eyes of most people, Zheng Haitao is just a number one follower who only says "brother" all the time, but Li Ang knows very well that Haitao has his own unique understanding of music, which cannot be corrected by teacher Wei no matter how much he is beaten or scolded.

But what's the problem with that? Doesn't it sound good?

Shouldn’t music bring people aesthetic enjoyment?

The academic school has its own aesthetic, which is balanced and elegant. But who can say that the fragrance of flowers along the way to the college is not worth stopping for?
A sketch full of humor and freshness finally came to an end in the singing sunset, returning to the normal rhythm and solving the mystery left by Mr. Bei. At the end of the music, everyone seemed to see a road leading to all directions.

Where will Teacher Haitao take us with his sweet voice this time?
Perhaps this question can only be left until next time. After playing the first movement, Haitao stood up and played the piano.

Turn around and bow.

"Wow————"

There were cheers from the audience one after another, including from Captain Dragonfly on the stage.

On and off the stage, the two brothers from the Wei Family Class smiled at each other.

Looking at this scene, the adults including Xu Li also realized the truth belatedly -

Why was Zheng Haitao, just an undergraduate, able to become Ang Lee’s first professional piano teacher? Is it really just because he has a close relationship with Ang Lee?
"Each team please discuss and give scores, with a maximum score of 10."

The captains of the two teams shook hands and returned to their respective teams to discuss with their teammates. Half a minute later, the winning team submitted their scores first, followed by the slow-paced team.

Notary Xu put away the score sheet and then took out the second round competition question that Wang Xiaohu gave her before the competition started:
"The second round of competition topic is a designated piece, Mozart's work, number K.265."

little stars?!

After Xu Li finished speaking, both teams in the audience were stunned.

Who could have thought that Wang Xiaohu would do this!
"The second round of contestants, Teacher Axin from the Victory Team versus Teacher Li An from the Slow Combo Team."

Then Wang Xiaohu was also confused.

Why not Che Lin!!!!

He prepared this song specifically for Che Lin.
Wait, if Che Lin doesn't participate in this round, it's bad! !

Che Lin won't participate in the final sight-reading, right? !

Oh my god! Wang Xiaohu is in despair!
If so, then it's all over. The sight-reading score he chose for the final round was specifically designed to make things difficult for the teacher!

Che Lin, don’t participate in the last round, don’t participate in the last round, Wang Xiaohu could only pray over and over again in his heart.

At this moment, no one cared what Captain Dragonfly was praying in his heart. The ace players of the two teams were going to compete with a nursery rhyme. What could be more eye-catching?
If it was an extremely difficult song, everyone would assume that Ang Lee would win, but now there is a change!

How will the two masters among masters interpret the little star full of childlike fantasy?

Teacher Xiaoche has wanted to listen to the full version for a long time!
It’s been a long time!! It’s always a clip!!
Xiaoche finally put aside all emotions other than the piano for the time being.

"rock-paper-scissors."

Li An's stone lost to Mu Xin's cloth.

"Thank you, Teacher Xin."

Li An walked to the piano first and began to take off his watch.

This scene instantly made the three children extremely excited. They knew very well what it meant when the teacher took off the watch before playing the piano.

(End of this chapter)