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Chapter 80 So Amazing!

Hundreds of people assembled in the auditorium, but after being left on the air for more than an hour, the main committee members showed up.

"Everyone, I'm really sorry to keep you waiting for so long!"

A middle-aged man with a big beard, combed hair back, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses hung on the bridge of his nose. He stood on the stage and said with a microphone: "The list of groups has just been released, and we will announce the grouping situation now!"

"This morning is Group A, and this afternoon is Group B. From tomorrow onwards, there will be a total of seven groups of C, D, E, F, and G. It will take three and a half days in total."

"The grouping situation will be announced below. Everyone must hear their group clearly. During the competition, those who have not yet appeared on the stage after calling their numbers three times will be deemed to have abstained from the competition and will be disqualified from the competition."

The bearded man then picked up a stack of papers and read aloud: "This morning's Group A contestants: Zhao Zihan, Yu Siliang, Li Zhifan, Yin Lei, Tian Bingyu from the Beijing Division, Li Yi, Tong Feifei, Xu Weiwei from the Shanghai Division , Zhao Xuemei, Mo Huang, the Mountain City Division..."

This group A consists of contestants from the four major municipalities and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. There are a total of 35 contestants, and the preliminaries will be held this morning.

The remaining competition areas are divided into six groups according to East China, Central China, South China, Northwest and Southwest China, North China and Northeast China.

The number of people in each group is not fixed. For example, there are only three divisions in Northwest and Southwest, and only fifteen people competed in the last morning.

But don’t think that the players in certain regions are weak. In order to get promoted, many people fly to those inconspicuous competition areas to sign up for competitions. For example, in the southwest competition area where the popularity of pianos is low, none of the five qualified players are locals. , and its strength should not be underestimated.

After reading the group list, it was already 10:[-]. Group A preliminaries started at [-]:[-], leaving [-] minutes for the players who did not compete today to leave. Of course, it is also possible to sit and watch. Some non-professional groups who will compete next week came to watch.

After 10 minutes, the six members of the judging committee of the Huaxia District Qualifiers came out of the backstage stepping on the spot, and took their seats on the side of the stage one by one.

There are their introductions and photos in the brochure of the competition. They are all international-level pianists and music educators, and have participated in the professional review of many music competitions.

Two of them are Chinese, namely Xu Jie and Niu Zhaoyi, who have many titles, members of various associations, and the vice chairman of a provincial music association. Among them, Xu Jie is a popular pianist who has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage.

The other four are all foreigners, namely, Ukrainian pianist Karina Popova, professor of Ukrainian National Conservatory of Music Alex Kostenko, famous Dutch music educator and pianist Christian Zimmermann, Italian pianist and visiting professor at several conservatories Paolo Failo.

These foreign judges with a long list of names don't know what their tastes are, but from the first contestant on stage, their expressions are much more serious than the Chinese judges.

According to the order, Li Zhifan is the third, which is a very high position, and the situation is not optimistic.

When the second contestant stepped off the stage, Li Zhifan stood up shaking his spirits after reading his name, and walked onto the stage slowly.

There are no routines in this preliminaries, and every note on the piano is standard, and it is difficult for Li Zhifan to play tricks on these places, so he can only rely on technique to be tough.

After showing his registration form and ID card to the first judge Xu Jie for confirmation, he walked to the piano and took a seat.

Touching the keys, Li Zhifan took a deep breath, and his fingers began to dance lightly on the keyboard.

Etude is a piece of music written for the technical training of musical instruments, often with specific and technical purposes, such as training scales, arpeggios, octaves, double-tones, vibrato, etc.

There is also a kind of etude made for concerts, derived from the former, and gradually evolved into a virtuoso work of art to be played in concerts.

Any type of etude required by the competition is fine, but basically the contestants choose the first type, because relatively speaking, this type of etude is not a show of skill, but a test of fingering and playing skills.

The first two contestants who went down just now were all this very common textbook-style etude, and the purpose of this choice was nothing more than to be on the safe side.

What Li Zhifan chose was the latter—the No. 1851 "Etude in B Minor" composed for the concert by the Ukrainian piano king Ronnie in 78.

This piano piece has another name, "Hurricane Etude", which is a more difficult piece among performance-level piano pieces.

Li Zhifan's initial playing was relatively calm and dull, like the tranquility before the hurricane. After playing the song for more than 40 seconds, the atmosphere began to rise. Although the melody of the right hand seemed like birds flying in the air, the bass of the left The chords and rhythms in the area are still relatively depressing.

After more than two minutes, the melody in the middle section changed from a bit elegant and sad, calm and sad, to gradually becoming intense. This section must start to show off skills, because the difficulty increases and there are a lot of ornamental sounds.

The judges and the contestants in the audience could clearly see Li Zhifan's fingers fluttering over the keys, dancing like a ghost, like the shadowless palm in a martial arts novel, and it became faster and higher in the latter part , like a violent hurricane blowing toward the face.

Until the end, the notes stopped abruptly at the highest point, as if a disaster had just passed, but it gave people an endless aftertaste.

"Clap clap clap!"

Alex Kostenko was the first to stand up and clap his hands, "Very-well!"

"Good!" Karina Popova also applauded, looking at Li Zhifan with surprise and love, her whole body exuding the brilliance of motherhood... Uh, she is an old woman!
Xu Jie and Niu Zhaoyi were also applauding, but as Chinese people, their applause and expressions showed a little more pride. It was the biggest gain for the six judges to see such a player with such superb piano skills here today.

Li Zhifan stood up and bowed humbly to the judges. At least for now, it seems that the first image score has been obtained, and his performance has also put pressure on the contestants behind, especially Mo Huang and Xu Weiwei. From the dumbfounding just now to the present looking at each other, I don't know whether I should go up to the competition. With Li Zhifan here, can the others advance smoothly?

On the stage.

Li Zhifan sat back in front of the piano and began to play the second sonata, "Spring Sonata".

This is a relatively cheerful and soft piece, and there are not many showy elements. The first movement chosen by Li Zhifan is only 3 minutes long, but it needs to be played to express the artistic conception - the open stream in the valley, the tinkling spring water , the chirping birds on the branches, the gentle breeze, and the revival of all things... It is not easy to make these spring scenes come alive.

Those contestants who used to sneer at Li Zhifan and Mo Huang because their chatting voice was a little louder, now they can't wait to strangle the self just now, so they don't make friends with each other, so they still go to provoke them?It's too hard to open your eyes!

(End of this chapter)