Golden Greenery

After Zhuo Yang said goodbye to Riccardo Muti, he walked out of the Mayflower Opera House in Florence, picked a random direction outside the gate, and left the place in a leisurely pace.

Although it is still midsummer, the sunny weather in Italy today is not scorching at all. The sunshine seems to have a bit of the breath of the sea, shining on the arms and cheeks, like the touch of a lover. The breeze from the Mediterranean Sea was teasing the world, and Zhuo Yang walked aimlessly in the gentle breeze.

Tomorrow is the last day of August. This season Serie A starts a bit late. AC Milan will usher in the season opener at San Siro tomorrow night. Their first-round opponent is Bologna.

September is the beginning of the semester, and freshmen and old students from every university are reporting back to school in the past two days. Today is the team’s rest day. Zhuo Yang originally planned to go back to Hannover University of Music today to see if he could do anything for his junior students. The professors didn’t like the messy look, but his tutor Mr. Norman asked him to come to Florence. Visit Mr. Muti.

It has been two years since I moved from Hannover to Milan. I left two years ago because I encountered limitations in my creation. In order to broaden his horizons, to see more scenery, to meet more people and more things, to travel for music, to read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, Zhuo Yang left Hanover and Madiburg.

But two years passed quickly, and it cannot be said that there was no progress at all. However, Zhuo Yang was never able to make a real breakthrough in creation, and he did not produce a piece of his own music.

In the past two years, Zhuo Yang has piled up many etudes, some of which are of quite high quality, and have been highly praised by professors. If Zhuo Yang can become an admired piano master many years later, those few etudes will become more and more popular and will be remembered throughout the ages. If Zhuoyang can't, then they will be little known and slowly disappear, as if they never existed.

An etude is just a combination of various playing techniques and emotions. It can be long or short, and it does not emphasize the layout. It is not a complete movement. Just like a writer who is growing and tempering, he uses imitation, reference, and even plagiarism to build up pieces of chicken soup and seasonal novels bit by bit.

If Lu Xun did not have "The True Story of Ah Q" and "Diary of a Madman", the world would not know that he also had many spicy essays, and there would be no Lu Xun in the world, only a teacher named Zhou Shuren.

Zhuo Yang needs a breakthrough in feeling and perception, a deep touch with the world around him and even the universe. He needs this change to bring him irrepressible creative impulses again and again.

Zhuo Yang wants to create music that comes from the soul, and that is music that truly belongs to him.

However, two years have passed, and Zhuo Yang has never been able to find a breakthrough point of inspiration. The colorful flower buds in the garden have never encountered the last ray of sunshine that can make them bloom brilliantly.

Zhuoyang often talked about his troubles in front of his mentor, Professor Norman, and Carl Norman was helpless. He was the one who suggested Zhuoyang to leave Hanover more than two years ago. At that time, Professor Norman did not expect that Zhuoyang is still here today. I have a lot of money in my stomach, but there is still no work to come out. I should have one or two raw and slightly childish songs.

Then Norman thought of Riccardo Muti.

Benti is one of the most famous conductors and composers in Italy. He currently serves as the chief conductor of the chamber orchestra of the Mayflower Opera House in Florence.

He also serves as the honorary conductor of many opera houses and orchestras in Orici, France and Italy.

Mr. Muti studied at the Milan Conservatory of Music when he was young, and after graduation he traveled around the European classical music scene. When he started trying to create, he also encountered Zhuoyang's current predicament. In the ten-year process, Mr. Muti was still unable to compose a piece of music that satisfied him, and he racked his brains to find teachers and friends, but to no avail.

At the age of 38, Mr. Muti suddenly enlightened and composed ten high-quality pieces of music in a year and a half, covering a wide range of styles. He successfully became one of the famous contemporary composers and became a legend in the classical music world. .

This experience of Ricardo Muti may be able to give Zhuo Yang some inspiration in his difficult situation. Professor Norman was a good friend of him in the industry. When contacted by phone, he learned that he happened to be stationed at the Mayflower Opera House recently, so he immediately led his student to this line. Let Zhuo Yang come to visit him and see if he can get some guidance and reference.

After receiving the news yesterday, Zhuoyang was full of expectations for this meeting with the master, just like when he was still in the C-level Madiburg a few years ago and learned that he would meet Sforza and Klose the next day. The joy of becoming a famous football star. However, after meeting Mr. Muti, he humbly asked for advice, which made Zhuoyang a little disappointed. It was far less rewarding than competing with Sforza and Klose in the DFB Cup that year.

Ricardo Muti is elegant, humble and approachable, but he is not very talkative. He is even a little awkward. In the communication between the two, it is entirely Zhuo Yang who leads the conversation, otherwise they will fall into an embarrassing silence. Mr. Muti couldn't explain his experience that year. He talked intermittently for a long time. The core idea was actually one word - wait!

Let Zhuo Yang wait patiently. He has been waiting for ten years. Zhuo Yang is only 23 years old. If he continues to wait, he will wait until the day when everything comes to fruition.

Apart from this, Mr. Muti did not give any advice, and it seemed that the trip was in vain. The conversation that was originally planned to last all day soon became boring. As noon approached, Zhuo Yang could no longer find any topics to talk about. After politely inviting Muti to lunch—it stands to reason that Zhuo Yang was the guest, and it was Muti who invited him—Zhuo Yang left as if he was relieved.

The scheduled flight back to Milan was at around 5 p.m., an air minibus via Milan to Hannover and then to Stockholm. Nothing happened when he returned to Milan. Zhuo Yang did not change his contract in advance. He liked the city of Florence, so he took advantage of the rare afternoon leisure to take a leisurely stroll.

In addition to two league away games, Zhuo Yang had been to Feilengcui twice before today. Once last spring, he was dragged by his niece Fia Meta to see the Renaissance painting exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery. It was nothing. mean. That day, Fia Meta attempted to stay in Florence overnight. This was her cute and cunning purpose, but in the end she was tricked by Zhuo Yang into getting on the train back to Milan.

Another time was last fall, when Zhuo Yang made a special trip to his left bank branch in Plaza Michelangelo to admire the dreamy flower alley opposite. Autumn is the most colorful season. Zhuo Yang liked autumn and the flower alley. He sat there quietly and watched it all afternoon.

After walking past the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, we went to see the quiet and elegant Boboli Gardens of Palazzo Pitti. Although it was not autumn yet, Zhuo Yang decided to go to Michelangelo Square and see the mesmerizing flower alley. .