Old-time musicians

At 9pm, the Impressionist Art Exhibition closed on the first day, but the Symphony Hall was brightly lit.

All 2,040 seats were filled, and the decoration with Banff porcelain, gold foil and brass as the main elements was very fascinating.

The layout here follows the mainstream shoebox style of the current era, which belongs to the same category as the famous Vienna Golden Hall in the past.

Its main acoustic characteristic lies in "balance". The reflection of six sets of relatively flat surfaces makes the dynamic changes of music interpretation extremely clear. The sound in each listening direction is rich and abundant, and the audience can more easily grasp every detail of the orchestra.

If there is a disadvantage, it may be that the shoebox-style concert halls built by Theolian in the first two centuries were relatively small in area and the seats were relatively "crowded", but the new venues later have made improvements in the high-rise layout, such as the Turner Art Hall with seats on the second and third floors surrounded by three sides, and several better positions have boxes arranged in a staggered manner and extending forward.

The only regret is that its acoustic design is only "professional" and not at the level of "art work", mainly because of time. If the territory is expanded in the future, Fanning will visit those acoustic masters in advance.

The applause was overwhelming, and the musicians entered one after another.

The initial tuning process of the piano concerto performance was slightly changed. The first violinist stood up, played the standard a note on the piano, and checked with the first double yellow pipe, and then returned to the normal process, with the double yellow pipe guiding the tuning of woodwind, brass and strings in turn.

Of course, in fact, every musician should solve the tuning problem in advance, and it is just the last check before the performance to prevent accidents caused by unintentional touches or changes in temperature and humidity.

In order to take into account the conductor's position and show respect, Fanning chose to enter the venue almost at the same time as Viadrin, but with a slight gap in pace, so that he was still in the form of the last appearance.

"Why are all the fans in the second price range female?" Amid the sudden applause, Fanning waved sideways and responded to the audience with an elegant smile, but he began to wonder in his heart.

The seats for the VIP tickets are rows 7-12 in the middle area, and the second price is the front row. At a glance, the ratio of men to women in the front rows is seriously unbalanced. The hostesses in colorful evening dresses are eagerly waiting. Among them, most are ladies in their thirties and forties, and there are also quite a few younger girls.

Amid the excited cheers, Fanning's spiritual sense felt the rapid breathing and heartbeat, and even revealed a state of dry mouth and flushed skin.

"This is obviously not directed at me, but why are you so cold to the fans, President? I remember you were not like this before. When you returned, you blew kisses, and they threw their jewelry onto the stage. These ladies now are probably the same group as the girls at that time." Fanning kept a smile on his face, but he looked at the back of Lee Viadrin in front of him and secretly complained.

The New Year's concert at the turn of the century when he was a child left a deep impression on Fanning.

Fanning stepped onto the podium and watched everyone take their positions. His distracting thoughts quickly subsided. He adjusted his breathing while flipping through the music, then took the baton and started the beat.

"fa, (b)re, do, (b)xi——fa, (b)re, do, (b)xi——"

Under his instructions, four French horns played the B-flat minor introduction of "Chai Yi" with a resounding breath.

The theme, which was grand, solemn, and had a hint of the heavy and desolate nature of the north, instantly made the audience's mind soar.

"Keng!——Keng!——Keng!——"

Like steel hitting gold and stone, Viadrin's arms sank, his ten fingers grasped the keys, and he stepped on and released the pedal deeply, playing a brilliant and gorgeous D-flat major column chord.

The firm 3/4 beat rhythm gradually fades into a solid sound foundation, on which the violin and cello play a broad and melodious band theme.

At a certain moment when the band's atmosphere is going downhill and the emotional tension seems to be about to be released, Viadrin finally returns to the main position and begins to present the theme with a more passionate and air-breaking momentum.

The musical character here coincides with Theolian's Hoffmann-style national spirit. The intervals and lines seem a bit "rough" and there is no complicated and trivial rhythm texture.

The whole piece also uses two-handed major chords, like a strong wind facing the face and the sun shining directly, which is extremely joyful and refreshing.

Just like the broad and magnificent northern scenery.

The brilliant skills and domineering momentum of the legendary pianist "Li" have made some of his former loyal fans fall into fanaticism again, and also made the young music fans who entered the concert hall after a generation finally understand that the words of the previous generation of music critics are not exaggerations-

People who listen to "Li"'s performance live cannot have their own emotions or breathe independently!

You will also feel dry mouth and tongue when playing the passionate passages like the theme of the first movement; you will also shed tears when you reach some contemplative and blurred passages in the sub-theme and the connecting part.

As for some dramatic or scherzo music ideas, he chooses to use a breathing method to handle the phrases, and you can only follow this rhythm, and you can't breathe at different ups and downs from the pianist!

It is no wonder that in some stormy continuous octave cadenza passages, there will be those girls or ladies with weak lungs who fainted due to suffocation due to excessive excitement.

"The ultimate musical appeal. There is the inspiration of 'pool', and there is also 'candle', but looking at it this way, I seem to realize for the first time that if creation and theory tend to be 'candle', and conductors tend to be 'key', Then, when it comes to playing, it is more about 'improving' finger functions, how to exert force, how to maintain physical fitness, how to breathe scientifically, how to listen to one's own vocal effects, and how to make adjustments at the tactile level. These are all sensory methods. If I will do it in the future If you want to achieve higher attainments on the piano, you should probably take the secrets of blood and senses as your third direction of study.”

When it came to the second movement, in the gentle, sweet, dreamlike and lingering warmth, Fan Ning had a small amount of energy to think about the interpretation techniques that Viadlin had shown before. Although his role tonight was different, What he gained from piano lessons undoubtedly deepened his overall understanding of the works.

The delicate and graceful Andante coda is broken by the sound of drums, and the very short orchestra prelude in the third movement instantly brings the audience into a folk song and dance scene.

In the 5th measure, the piano plays the rondo theme, and Viadlin shows a cheerful and fiery dance through the third jump of his hands, the emphasis and the playful decorative sound on the second beat.

The use of a large number of staccato rhythms makes the music as light and wild as tap dance steps.

The melody of the subtitle is more lyrical and melodious, like a pastoral carol filled with the fragrance of soil and grass during the busy farming season.

"The president is right. What I can do in a solo may not necessarily be the same in a concerto. This is not only about competing with the orchestra acoustically, but also about how to maintain cooperation and competition with the conductor's will. relation"

"Now my skills in these three steel concerts, that is, the state of practice and thinking that fluctuates between the first-class performance and the second-class performance depending on the state, need to be further deepened. Well, the finale of the New Year's Concert, my The choice is quite good. You can drag the choir up to practice, and you can also initially test the results on your own piano. Who will the orchestra conductor ask to cooperate? "

For Fan Ning, cooperating with Viadlin to conduct the Piano Society at this time is undoubtedly another vivid perspective of piano lessons. While performing, he has been feeling various details and thinking about them.

At the end, there are climaxes. Finally, the orchestra and the piano push the music to a dazzling peak. The rondo sonata-style theme appears again, forming a torrent of joy and enthusiasm at the end of the music.

The opening effect of "Chai Yi" was undoubtedly explosive. Fan Ning and Viadlin took a final bow amidst the applause that nearly lifted the roof of the hall. After bowing hand in hand for the first time, he quickly changed to a slightly farther position before taking the second Second bow.

Although he received flowers very frequently, and his hands were full in an instant, Fan Ning discovered that the pianist's flowers contained personal items, such as accessories with the residual warmth of a lady's body wrapped around the flowers.

These accessories are not cheap, right? How did he deal with them before? If there was no need to pay attention to body shape on stage, Fan Ning would definitely make a small gesture of holding his forehead.

The screams of "Lee! Lee!" were mixed with applause and bravo at a very high frequency. He suddenly understood why there were so many sarcastic comments from conservative music critics at the end of the last century. In their view, these music Fans should go to operetta singers for live revelry, rather than serious concerts to show their infatuation without regard for etiquette.

However, other voices will always take advantage of "Lee"'s overwhelming applause and huge box office revenue to ridicule these conservative music critics who are jealous of others.

“It’s almost 914 now, and the artistic atmosphere must be more open. It’s not a bad idea to engage in a little ‘idol worship’ in Turner Hall.” Fan Ning continued to smile and nod in response to the audience’s burning gazes.

The audience who entered the room in the second half found that there were some novel changes here.

More than 40 impressionist works from previous art exhibitions appear in the exterior corridor to create an artistic atmosphere.

And in the symphony hall... "The Shoal with the Steam Ferry", "Dense Fog on the Winter Quay", Claude Claude's "Fountain at the Palace of Fontainebleau", "Waterfall and Reflection", Malay's "Passion Pool", Cumier's "The Last" There are ten paintings in total called "Foggy Window in the Cold," but they were moved to the stage at some point.

Four of them were placed at the front of the stage and displayed on easels, while the other six were removed from the frames and hung on the hollow wall behind the symphony orchestra, forming a well-organized arrangement that is easy to observe.

Many music fans reacted that this was the "combination of music and video" method mentioned in the previous promotion content that they were not clear about.

The second half of the program list is a new work by the impressionist female composer Lausanne: the orchestral suite "Images of Water".

As soon as the music begins, the harp boldly plays up and down the diatonic brilliance of the tonal model lake, and quietly disappears after two bars. Then the flute and the single brass ensemble play a wandering and dreamy theme, which is the original form of water. The image motive connects the whole song and organically combines ten groups of fragments that metaphor the content of different paintings.

Fan Ning's unique guide method obviously greatly accelerated the audience's acceptance of impressionist music.

The blurred changes in tone, color, light and shadow in "Image Collection of Water", coupled with the free techniques, flowing colors, and straightforward and indulgent brushstrokes displayed in those paintings, soon brought the audience into something transcendent and spiritual. The state of swimming in light and water.

The performances of the opening season had a great impact. Of course, Impressionism is still controversial, but as a new trend of thought, it has completely entered the mainstream art world's vision.

The performance had been postponed for an hour. By the time Fan Ning returned to the corridor and arranged for staff to move the paintings, it was already close to early morning, and the stage was still being cleaned and unloaded.

"Hey, Carol, what is this? When did you arrange it?" Joan suddenly exhaled softly.

Her eyes were focused on the starting point of the movement outside the symphony hall.

On a slightly higher part of the wooden wall, posters for the ten currently scheduled performances are hung. They are arranged in a timeline. With such a wide corridor, it seems that the decorator wants to make a record and arrange posters for future performances all the way to the back. Go down.

What really attracted attention was that under the initial poster for today's performance, there were densely packed sticky notes, with over a hundred of them at a glance.

Sheeran first found the special paper and markers locked on the counter somewhere nearby.

"This is called a message wall." Fan Ning said.

"Hey, this is really written by music fans!" Qiong, who had walked near the wall, exclaimed in surprise.

Xilan also followed quickly curiously, and then read out a few paragraphs.

"Wonderful opening night, it turns out that whether it is elegant academic style or romantic music with national characteristics, conductor Fanning can write eye-catching words at the beginning" - Kent owner xxx (per photo There are some special traces of a unified hot stamping signature on the back)

"Impressionism, a controversial new trend of thought. But with the great pianist "Li" and the equally great "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat major" as the ballast stone, even those academic conservatives cannot Use criticism to overturn this opening season of Turner Hall.”

"Second, if it is born in any academy, it will make its teacher famous. No matter how mean the music critic is, he will have to keep his mouth shut when facing it."

"Ms. Lausanne's works are a bit shocking at first, but they complement the paintings and are so beautiful and reasonable. Looking back on Mr. Fanning's "Symphony No. 1" in this way, the orchestration methods seem mature and stable."

"Caron, why do you always come up with new and novel ways of playing that I have never seen before? What is this message wall for?" Sheeran asked after reading a few messages.

"It's a form of media," Fanning said.

"Media?" The two little girls were confused.

"Well, the difference is from traditional media that are organized, programmed, have strict content requirements and fixed contributors..." Fanning explained, "They are media forms spontaneously generated by our guests, which can be rational discussions, or Sent out of emotion, it can be a penetrating systematic discussion, or a few words of insightful insights. It can be posted alone, or attached to other people's comments... In the future, we will also consider publishing some collections of selected content. The content of these publications Generating logic will be unprecedented”

Speaking of this, he smiled; "In the future, this will become a unique and beautiful scenery of Turner Art Hall, and it will also be an important place for the public to understand the latest trends in the art world... Of course, it needs to accommodate both positive and negative views, but everyone needs to Be responsible for your words and deeds, and only responsible speech can gain everyone's attention..."

"The current plan is that when receiving special paper and pen, you will be required to sign and keep a record. I believe that under this mechanism-"

"Caron, why are there people swearing here!?" Before Fan Ning's eloquent story came to an end, Joan suddenly covered her mouth in surprise.

A few people came over to take a look. The comment had nothing to do with the performance, but was a criticism of today's impressionist art exhibitions.

The first one to bear the brunt was Malay's "Concert After Lunch" collected by Fan Ning.

"My God, how obscene! A lady's body is sitting without any cover next to two serious gentlemen. This is simply unheard of!" - Macaulay, editor-in-chief of "The Hustle"