Old-time musicians

Chapter 610 Cannot be imitated

After the salute, Fan Ning's eyes slowly looked around every audience present.

Until everyone's small movements tended to stop, some people with itchy throats unconsciously suppressed the noise they made next.

Turn around and face the band.

I also glanced at the musicians, but I may have stayed longer on the violin, cello, flute principal, and timpanist.

Only Sheeran on the left was still there, and even Lu was sitting among the audience. As his career and family status rose, he spent less and less time playing timpani.

Distracted thoughts were cleared away, and the reminder click on the wrist came out.

The tip of the baton pointed downwards, revealing a short and sharp shadow.

Uneasy string tremolos tore from the silence.

What follows is the rough and chilling "questioning motive" segment of the double bass.

The first movement is a funeral march.

"It turned out to be this kind of experience. Speaking of which, I've been writing about it for so long. It's really long overdue."

The double bass wanders and sweeps in a fractured form. On the first theme in C minor, Fanning introduces phrases from the oboe, alto oboe, clarinet, horn and violin parts one after another. Starting from the whole note, it climbs up in a long and difficult line.

No matter how many conspiracies of the apostles were involved in the life of the old organist Vienne, his struggle for life itself still has the significance of being remembered and respected.

Connecting sentences, the band follows Fanning's palms and trembles uneasily.

Continuous dragging and descending stretched the conflict of the harmony to the limit, and his eyes looked at the rolling timpanist from a distance.

The other hand decisively cuts down on the node of the downbeat.

"Crack!——"

The big and small snare drums were smashed together, the big gongs and big cymbals struck with a shocking and harsh sound, and twenty or thirty brass and wooden pipes followed his instructions and roared to the sky.

“Perfect start!”

"It's so refreshing, so shocking."

The backs of the audience were numb, and the finger joints holding their seats were exerting force uncontrollably, making it difficult to relax for a while.

Among them are many professional conductors who have brought scores and are ready to observe and learn on the spot.

Some of them frowned deeply, and some even sighed in embarrassment.

You can’t learn it, you can’t learn it at all.

"Where should I start imitating this?"

Fanning's palms made an arc in the air, smoothing the band's first struggle. At this time, the double bass appeared with lingering triplets and the colors began to transition.

The second theme in E major, the violin plays a simple ascending scale, and then meanders down melodiously, and the horn supports warm four-part harmony.

In the pastoral-style melody, Fan Ning recalled the time when he drove Joan and Sheeran to investigate the "non-existent town". It was a summer with blue sky and white clouds, the country roads were sunny, and the car's "big nose" engine compartment Speeding through the shadows of rows of sycamore trees

In fact, most of the first movement of "Resurrection" was completed in a hotel in the small town of Gogol. In the past, the sunset there was the color of red wine and chocolate, the cobblestone streets were lined with flower beds, and street performers played accordions and violins. There are pink sparkling waves on the river.

Tonight, as the musical thoughts gradually progressed, many of Fan Ning's experiences and sketches during the creation of "Resurrection" finally began to be wiped back one by one.

At the end of the funeral march, amid the low steps of the harp and violin, the C major chords of the flute and oboe suddenly penetrated, and dropped half a degree of mi in the sustained sound, bringing with it a hint of ominous warning.

"Alert Chord", Fan Ning suddenly and unconsciously named this technique.

This ominous undertone is very suitable for melancholicists, suggesting a certain tragedy, and perhaps there will be opportunities to use it in the future.

The diminished seventh chord of the French horn suddenly appeared, and the whole orchestra played a descending chromatic phrase. After two weak pizzicatos, the first movement ended.

Fan Ning stood there silently, faithfully implementing the rules he had set in this music world: "take a rest for at least five minutes."

After the music score was widely published, more people knew and understood the composer's instructions.

The audience was letting themselves go to temporarily dilute the terrifying atmosphere, and many professionals tried to take advantage of the gap to "review", but after a while, some people chose to give up, closed the score, and decided to continue. It is better to simply listen.

This is simply not something that other artists can imitate!

If Kaplan's conductor at that time was the explosion of the afterglow of life, the sudden surge of emotions, the perfect presentation of daily thoughts and accumulation in a unique historical moment, allowing the audience to feel the silent sublimity, then at this time Fan Ning's command is to control with ease and show off his skills in an all-round way - in fact, he doesn't mean to show off, but if he has to say "with ease" and "show off skills", then just use a few Something as heavy as a celestial body can be held in the hand and turned into various trajectories according to the needs of the music!

In this musical ceremony, the audience has no emotional autonomy. They read and write this epic of life entirely in accordance with the artistic program of the work and the inspiration given by Fan Ning!

In the second movement, the moderate Allegro, after taking a few breaths of the turbid air to dissipate, the pictures of the past lingering in the white mist jumped out one by one.

Carefree "Leanderer" dance moves.

The funeral of the poet Bassani, the discussion-style concert in the church, the performance of "Goldberg Variations", the obsession of choral creation born from the moment of the coffin being buried.

In the interlude, the string instruments marched solemnly with triplet streams, the flute and clarinet sang desolately, and then the old friend responded to the dance steps with a mellow ballad, which made the nasal cavity pass through the sweet pain.

The third movement, the scherzo, the ballad full of warmth and nostalgia ended hastily, and the audience woke up from the daydream and returned to the muddled reality.

Eat, sleep, live, work, the imperial capital of Santaramburg, the city machine made of steel, the subway travel day after day, the exhausting repetitive consumption, chaotic events come one after another

The sound group gradually becomes dense, making it difficult to breathe, until a completely unfamiliar and dangerous sound door is suddenly pushed open

The hideous and evil phrases recede like waves, the low hum of the big gong lasts for a long time, and the uneasy breath hovers in the air

Fortunately, during that period of depression, hesitation and uneasy creative desire, there was also a short summer time spent solemnly in Saint-Euvergne.

"Oh, little red rose!"

The simple "one-one-two-three" scale in D flat major is sung from the mouth of a simple but extremely solemn mezzo-soprano.

The trumpet, French horn and bassoon respond with solemn chants.

"The world is in great trouble!

People live in great pain!"

The fourth movement, the initial light, the poem recorded by Ms. Hamilton on the cover page of the workbook.

An ordinary old man who devoted his life to public health and the prevention and treatment of occupational diseases in labor, and was still sorting out the results of his work in front of his bed in the last days of his life.

"Ding-dong~"

The bells of the celesta and harp rang, the triplets of the clarinet sobbed, and the violin solo played a deep and sad melody in B-flat minor.

Sheeran and Fanning looked at each other, probably remembering Fanning's explanation of the "initial light" in "The Magic Horn of the Boy" when they visited in the hospital, and the inspiration and tears he gained when he listened to the choir's hymns at the funeral in the early morning of winter when the water was freezing.

After realizing that "the living must die", Fanning had indeed been fantasizing that redemption really existed, so that those who missed those who were no longer in the world, and those who were afraid of leaving in the future, could still look at this spiritual garden.

And I don't know why the works I write now are becoming more and more "realistic".

Fortunately, what I am performing now is still what I used to be?

Fanning suddenly smiled and shook his head for no apparent reason, and then led out the fifth movement without interruption.

"Chachachachachachachachachachacha... Boom!!!————"

The expanded sonata form, the last day, the resurrection hymn.

The double bass's "questioning motive" once again tore out of the silence, bringing out a wild and uncontrolled loud noise, the entire orchestra poured out a tidal wave of broken chords, and the panicked horn sounds of the trumpet and trombone spanned up and down across the octave.

At the beginning of the exposition, the oboe blew the vast triplet "Announcer Motive", and began to sing a solemn hymn in the face of the endless darkness.

"At this moment, I finally understand what an epic is, what a real epic is!"

"This is a miracle! In fact, tonight, whether you choose to appear at the main venue or choose to spend 1 shilling to listen to the radio in other theaters, it will not make a big difference, but those who did not come are destined to regret it, and the original owners of those empty seats are destined to regret it!"

Countless threads of inspiration are surging across the boundaries of time and space.

The audience seemed to be experiencing an epic dream, and they had an almost trembling expectation and excitement for the coming of the greatest moment!

This performance is simply difficult to retell to those who have not experienced it!

He is not a conductor at all, and he does not need to spend energy to figure out the question of "which part of the score should be performed"!

A symphony is a world. In the world of "Resurrection Symphony", he is the creator and master. Any revelation and foreshadowing in the movement, the grand mountains and rivers, the subtle grass and trees, the thrilling struggle, the lonely walk in the dark night. Everything is extremely concrete and real!