beauty winner

It was not easy to interrupt Yang Jingxing's applause to pay tribute to the performer, he could only wait for about ten seconds, his expression seemed a little bored and helpless.After most of the people stopped clapping, the lecturer hurriedly said: "Chopin has made a great development of the piano. New harmony, dissonant intervals, semitones, etc. have formed new expressiveness. Compared with what he personally completed, I think Chopin The greater contribution is the guidance and inspiration to later musicians. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, it was a great era, and the art of music is changing with each passing day.”

The audience listened solemnly to the platitudes.

Yang Jingxing suddenly smiled: "The lovely granddaughter of my respected Professor Li was once told that a smart baby who doesn't want to be a sports star is not a pretty princess. She found that she couldn't refute it. She realized that this sentence has magic power, and then she learned , she began to say that a father who doesn't help his daughter eat is not a good son, and her grandma can't refute it..."

Due to cultural differences, the audience is still stern, and even the Chinese students don't smile much.

Yang Jingxing continued: "One day when we were playing the piano, she suddenly told me that Beethoven who didn't want to be Chopin is not a good Mozart."

Many people in the audience suddenly grinned happily, revealing rows of masterpieces of dentists. The situation is simply weird.

But Yang Jingxing stopped laughing: "I didn't refute her, I probably thought it made sense. I even imagined how the genius Mozart would use Chopin's techniques to create Beethoven-like profundity."

Those people stopped laughing again, as if what was raised on the stage was really a serious academic proposition.

No wonder the lecturer didn't stand up, he was about to start again: "Even if I just try to imitate the most shallow parts of their talents, it is difficult, and it is even more difficult to combine these imitations, please don't laugh." Fingers dropped.

After being reminded, some smiles appeared among the already serious audience. These smiles were not plump or dry, insincere or hypocritical, but seemed to practice facial muscles in order to better laugh at the lecturer later.

Yang Jingxing played a piece of music for nearly 2 minutes. It was not a particularly complicated two-voice part. It is going in the direction of delicate and elegant.

Not all audience members are so intent on their eyes, academics are whispering and taking notes are flying like a fly.

Before his fingers left the keyboard and the piano lingering, Yang Jingxing laughed at himself first: "My friend said it sounded like Chopin got tired of Mozart imitating his hated Beethoven."

Self-deprecating doesn't count, the audience still laughs and applauds after laughing.

Yang Jingxing's voice was a little louder: "I didn't feel depressed for too long. I quickly discovered the same attempt made by a third-year student from the Composition Department of Puhai Conservatory of Music. I think he did at least much better than me. Let's listen Check out his talent."

Curtis' teachers and students also showed great interest.

The piano piece that Yang Jingxing wants to demonstrate is the result of a lot of hard work from the students and the teachers. It can be regarded as incorporating a personal style on the basis of learning from others' strengths and not lagging behind the times. However, when the school is full of confidence, the work is sent to Poland to participate in the old music competition. The International Composition Competition didn't even get a consolation prize, and it's impossible for the composition students to disdain the competition like Director Yang. Even Gong Xiaoling feels sorry for the students.The work is about 8 minutes long, and Yang Jingxing played the full version very seriously.

After showing respect for the work on the stage and playing with sincerity, the audience also responded, and the expressions of those who were waiting for the battle began to generally change to listening and appreciating.

After finishing playing, Yang Jingxing stood up to face the warm applause, this time he seemed more modest and patient, then nodded and said, "I would like to say thank you on behalf of this student named Zhang Mingjie. If it goes well, he will come back to Curtis next year to visit and study. , I also welcome you to the Puhai Conservatory of Music."

A young teacher or graduate student exclaimed: "Excellent work, perfect performance!"

"Thank you." Yang Jingxing took a look and guided: "Let's see what makes this work outstanding, why my attempt is so far-fetched and this one can be appropriate and wonderful..."

"The person who plays the piano." Curtis also has a grandstanding style.

Yang Jingxing laughed with everyone, and put it another way: "Then what is the quality of this work that I value?"

The amused audience quickly became serious.

The lecturer also selected a piece of music as an example to analyze the work done by the composer. After a little judgment, at least 90.00% of the content in this piece is not new, and the composer just showed himself in decoration and connection. Yang Jingxing's point of view is: "...we admire the talents of learning geniuses, but don't ignore your own talents, even if these talents seem insignificant."

The students just love chicken soup and yearn for it.

"Chopin..." Yang Jingxing continued: "We have to mention Liszt when lamenting his extraordinaryness."

The students and audience were so excited, they felt that the lecturer had finally met their appetite, and even the teachers and professors were very pleased.

But Yang Jingxing stood up: "In my knowledge, Liszt is the musician who is best at appreciating the talents of others, and we know that he does not just stop at verbal appreciation, but his appreciation of talents is more advanced than most of us... "

The listeners lamented Liszt’s mind in a clichéd way. Although the students agreed with it, they were not very satisfied. They also reminded the stage: “Isn’t Liszt’s contribution to the piano not great?”

Yang Jingxing nodded: "Of course he has made a very outstanding contribution. I think his contribution is also based on his appreciation of others. This kind of talent comes from the spiritual realm and moral character. I am in awe of it."

A girl with heavy make-up suggested: "Maybe we can find and feel this quality from his adapted works?" Hearing the tone of speech, he probably learned vocal music.

Yang Jingxing bit the bullet and praised: "Good suggestion, maybe we can find something..."

Seeing the lecturer being forced back to the piano by herself, the girl with heavy make-up proudly held her head high.

After sitting down, Yang Jingxing said first: "Liszt has never been hesitant to let his talent be covered by the word "adaptation". He made his talent serve other composers as well as the audience. Let's take "Song on Water" as an example. ...

The lecturer played the melody of the song, which was familiar to the audience, and some people sang along silently.

Yang Jingxing only played a short part of the melody of the original song, and then played the piano piece adapted by Liszt, and analyzed how the arranger reconstructed the structure of the music, how to connect the sections, and how to cleverly add vibrations. Tones and octaves are elements of showmanship that audiences love to hear, and of course we have to demonstrate them while talking.

The students in the audience beamed with joy, and finally drove the speaker into the alley.It has been more than half an hour since the lecture started. Although a lot of things were demonstrated on the piano on the stage, it has always been quite satisfactory. Although it is shocking that Pollini's performance of Chopin's etude is almost exactly the same, it is only a few bars. That's all.Including the lecturer's so-called perfect performance of unknown piano pieces, that is all under his own control. Since he dares to come here to communicate, he must be fully prepared. Who hasn't got the unique skill of pressing the bottom of the box with both hands?But as a selected talent among his peers, Curtis cannot be so easily bluffed by the lecturer.

It's all right now, the stage has started to be difficult, so everyone can feel welcome.Although the lecturer has nothing wrong with the elementary demonstrations of a few virtuoso techniques for the time being, they can't fool Curtis's students. They can easily do it in the piano department, and it's not a real test for professionals at all. .

When Yang Jingxing wanted to chat with Schubert from "Song on Water", Curtis's students became more and more impolite: "Why don't you talk about Paganini?"

Yes, how can we talk about Liszt without involving Paganini?Liszt turned the piano into a new musical instrument, and Paganini changed the violin. It can be said that Liszt was inspired and inspired by Paganini, and Liszt's adaptation of Paganini is a reflection of the two. A concentrated expression of personal talent.The audience looked eagerly at the lecturer, if not for the sneer on some faces, they would really seem to be thirsty for knowledge.

Yang Jingxing couldn't pretend not to hear: "Yes, Paganini, an incredible violin genius, he influenced not only Liszt, let's see the composers he inspired..."

Seeing that the lecturer had the courage to sit down, some audience members applauded in admiration.

Yang Jingxing announced himself: "The first is Liszt's Paganini etude, the first one, I believe you remember the violin, let's compare..."

The first piece of the Paganini Etude adapted by Liszt is considered the least thoughtful adaptation, basically following the original form with a little embellishment. Of course, the difficulty of playing has not been reduced because of this.

After Yang Jingxing played a short section, he said to the audience: "If Liszt used this method in the adaptation of "The Bell", what would happen?"

The audience also seemed to be thinking, but no one spoke.

Yang Jingxing gave the answer directly and played it again.Alas, the sound of bells copied from the original song is completely incomparable with Liszt's favorite work "The Bell", which has been revised several times. Although it is difficult to play, it sounds boring.

The audience was still very serious and listened with their eyes wide open.

I believe that Curtis's students don't need to elaborate, Yang Jingxing went straight to the next part after a demonstration: "Let's see how Schumann did it..."

There are many people who have paid tribute to Paganini. After Schumann, Brahms and Yang Jingxing have demonstrated and compared their methods, and there are many people who have paid tribute to Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini". Let's talk a few words, this is also a classic representative work of the composer, which is wonderful.

After the lecturer demonstrated what it would look like to reorganize Paganini's No. 13 Capriccios with emphasis along the lines of Rachmaninoff, he looked at the audience.

For five or six minutes, I could only watch as the audience on the stage who was talking to himself quickly seized the opportunity to do what they could, applauding vigorously and expressing opinions and asking questions.The applause was very united, but the words spoken were not neat, it was a mess.

The situation was bad, and the lecture might be ruined, so Yang Jingxing hurriedly stopped him and raised his hand to signal silence.

The audience is really quiet, what are you going to do in the stands.

Yang Jingxing hasn't finished yet: "Compared to these, there is another composer who may not be valued much but I think he has done better in some aspects, the two piano works adapted by Luto Slavsky."

There are some people who know the work and nod their heads.More people are surprises, two pianos, see how you demonstrate.

Yang Jingxing was not ready to demonstrate: "If you are interested, you can read and practice, and there will be surprises. Okay, let's take a break first." It was time for a class, and he got up and left the stage after speaking.

The audience was unmoved, completely deaf to what the lecturer said, and no one left their seats.

Yang Jingxing, who had already stepped off the stage, realized his embarrassing situation, so he had to look at the audience and try it out gently: "We will continue after a quarter of an hour break, thank you."

The students looked at each other, and some stood up first. Although they stood up and stopped moving, they also brought more people to move.

Yang Jingxing went directly to curry favor with the veteran, and smiled at Graffman: "I hope you didn't waste your time."

Graffman seemed to have heard it: "Do you really think that the Resurrection Rhythm Sonata was written by Fanny?"

With so many people around listening, Yang Jingxing couldn't go back on what he said: "Yes, my inference."

Graffman is serious: "Although it sounds like that, I think it should be more rigorous."

Yang Jingxing said: "Yes, I added some guesses."

Kushnier is interested: "I think the new idea of ​​Paganini is worth pursuing and it will certainly not disappoint."

Graffman advises guests: "You should build a new ladder yourself, since they say you have walked the last step of piano art."

Yang Jingxing was embarrassed: "I may have reached the top, but I missed a lot of scenery along the way. I want to go back and have a look."

In the midst of the haha, the academic director came up brilliantly and happily suggested: "Why don't we go have a cup of tea? What a wonderful lecture, I should send invitations to every teacher."

Let's drink tea, a group of people lead experts to invite and have to go one after another. Curtis seems to be influenced by Chinese culture.The academic director is also good, remember to greet Mr. You.

During the so-called tea time, Yang Jingxing took the initiative to chat about the cooperation between the two schools, and even proposed some preliminary plans.Kirsty seemed easy to speak, and Teacher You couldn't help but be overjoyed.

After drinking tea, the school accompanied the lecturers to the second half, and the group entered the concert hall talking and laughing together, which felt like Puyin.The number of students increased a little compared to the first half, but they were also influenced. Seeing that the leading experts immediately quieted down as soon as they entered the door and took their positions quickly, they were all upright and serious.