Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1136 396. Playing the game with my mother [Fifteen]

Chopin's Nocturne is an adolescent dream.
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In that era when the sun would burn your soul if you lowered your head, Chopin's fame surpassed that of all musicians in the history of Western music.

At that time, it didn’t matter whether you had heard of Chopin or not, and it didn’t even matter who Chopin was.

Because no matter how great Chopin is, he can't play out my sadness.

Later, because of a line of lyrics, Chopin finally had his own place in the world of the Funeral Family.

This time, Chopin seemed to have proved his worth with practical actions.

If you are a post-90s generation, you may not have heard Chopin’s music in middle school, but you must know about Chopin:

"I'll play Chopin's Nocturne for you, in memory of my dead love."

One day, a kid who was having lunch burst into laughter when he heard this.

Of course, we can’t blame a certain teacher who likes to tell children about music history at the dinner table. Isn’t dark history part of history?
There was a saying during that period, that is not black history! That is the way I came!
Hahahaha, Xiaoche burst out laughing on the spot x2.

Ang Lee is not just telling jokes to Xiaoche, the above are all his personal experiences.

In order to make Xiaoche believe that Chopin also had a dark history, Ang Lee also made public his QQ space that he had not allowed others to access for many years.

When Xiaoche saw the teacher's and Chopin's dark history, he asked a serious question.

She asked the teacher why he also made such a statement.

Because in her opinion, the teacher knew Chopin, had listened to Chopin, and had played Chopin's works.

After a conversation with the teacher, she developed a very special feeling, and after that, she seemed to have found a solution to a problem that had been bothering her.

She seemed to know how to understand Chopin's nocturne.

She remembered it very clearly. The teacher asked her: Why can't I make such remarks?
Xiaoche: Because you know Chopin!
Teacher: What does it matter?

Dolly: You know Chopin's melodies are elegant.

Teacher: So you think that this statement is not elegant enough because no matter how great Chopin is, he can't play out "My Sorrow".

Xiaoche was confused at the time. Isn’t this what you wanted to tell me?

Because before this topic started, she didn't know the relationship between Chopin and a cultural trend several years ago.

During the entire conversation, the teacher gave her a feeling that he was making fun of himself, so she just followed the teacher's ideas and kept moving forward.

In the end, he questioned her instead!
Aren't you telling me your dark history?
Then Xiaoche was completely shocked by this Lao Deng who was born in the 1990s.

At that time, Ang Lee said to Xiao Che again very seriously: This is not my dark history, this is the path I, your teacher, took.

If Ang Lee was joking the first time, this time he was serious.

He just wanted to use this incident to tell Xiaoche what Chopin's nocturnes could be like.

Because for a musical genre, the nocturne is too short.

It can almost be said to be a free form without a standard structure, just like the starry sky. The performer needs to use music to clearly show the starry sky like a painter.

And for this game, it is too important.

Because every contestant must play a nocturne.

Li An personally thought that there was no need for the organizer to let the children in this group choose a nocturne to perform.

In his opinion, although nocturne is not a performance for adults, what can you express by pointing your finger at a group of children who have not even graduated from junior high school?

The reason why Chopin's nocturnes are easily associated with affection and love is because these are the things Chopin was thinking about when he created these works.

When he was in high school, every time he played the Nocturne in E flat major, the image that came to his mind was of his female classmates sitting under the moonlight.

It’s not that she was always thinking about her female classmates, it’s that Chopin was always thinking about his female classmates when he was composing!

So when Ang Lee was choosing a song for Xiaoche, he was a little confused. Which song should he choose?

Which song is suitable for playing on a small car?
Forget it, let the car choose for itself first.

The next day, Xiaoche chose the first piece of Opus 62.

When Ang Lee heard it was the song in B major, he quickly waved his hands.

The small cars at that time could not play this piece.

The teacher rejected my suggestion. The car is nothing special, so can I choose the puppy waltz?

Ang Lee said yes.

Didn’t the teacher and the student agree that Xiao Che would choose one of the waltz and nocturne and Li Ang would choose the other?

Xiaoche chose Puppy Waltz, so the question of which nocturne to choose came back to Ang Lee.

After much deliberation, Ang Lee chose the first piece of Opus 55 for Xiaoche.

Firstly, the difficulty matches the car.

Secondly, the musical color of this work is actually very rich, which may resonate with Xiaoche’s rich inner world.

At that time, Ang Lee thought that perhaps this nocturne could serve as a killer weapon for the car on the track.

Because his experience and countless facts told him that children of this age could not emotionally handle a nocturne.

So how to guide the car into this nocturne? Ang Lee thought about it again and decided to start from his own dark history.

Even if it is a dark history, it is also the most realistic portrayal of Ang Lee's emotions at the time.

He shared with Xiaoche the whole process of how he was attracted by the nocturne and how he brought his own emotions into the performance.

During this sharing process, Ang Lee was also thinking that perhaps nocturnes might not be unsuitable for young people to play.

Because music is ultimately a completely subjective thing.

So those melodies that represent affection and love in the eyes of adults may just be a bowl of leftover rice in the eyes of children.

As he continued to communicate with Xiaoche over the days, Li An found that this seemed to be true.

Some of Xiaoche's ideas for this work struck him as novel and interesting.

For example, at this moment when the music turns to B major, the sense of direction that has just been established in the music suddenly fades.

The girl in the music began to wander around again.

"Ding-"

A jumping sound rose in the gloom, as if a girl looked up.

"when!"

This was followed by another counterpoint chord from the bass, like a huge hand from the abyss grabbing her ankle.

If Xiao Che heard someone understand and analyze her handling of this sentence in this way, she would definitely stiffen her fists, but if she was asked to refute this analysis, she didn't know how to refute it.

Because when she really started practicing this piece, she often felt a sense of confusion.

That was the second month since she left home.

Left home.

After leaving daddy Aunt Sang, the nails squeaked.

Left Shengli Street Primary School.

It seemed like in just one summer vacation, her life had changed completely.

She became a junior high school student.

I was even praised by the head teacher in front of the whole class at school!

This was something she had never dared to think about before.

She came to a completely new environment, met new classmates and made friends.

Wearing a brand new school uniform, I shuttle between the teacher's home and school every day.

Being with her teacher, she lives a very happy life every day.

This was true at first, until one day her teacher asked her not to practice the piano that day because she had too much homework.

For the first time she discovered the distress that her new life brought her.

It seemed that she could no longer play the piano whenever she wanted as before.

This left her confused.

It was also at this time that she found that she had changed. She began to really realize that she should study hard.

Whether for her father Aunt Sang or her teacher, she should start studying hard.

She cannot let the adults down.

But she couldn't practice the piano like before.

Deep down, she wanted to practice the piano, and practice it the same way she had before.

But she seemed unable to do so anymore.

What made her confused was not these, but because she seemed to feel that the teacher was also a little confused about this issue during that time.

Although the teacher never said anything to her and always encouraged her to balance piano practice and study, she could feel it.

The teacher clearly teaches her about music every day. Even if she has an exam the next day, the teacher will not talk to her about study problems unless she takes the initiative to mention it.

From here, Xiaoche can clearly feel that the teacher expects her to spend more time and energy on the piano, but at the same time, the teacher will criticize her for her sloppy handwriting in her homework.

She felt a little aggrieved about that incident, but she didn't blame the teacher at all.

This is actually the case. This is her situation. If she wants to squeeze out more time to practice the piano every day, she can only speed up her homework.

Xiaoche knows this, and Xiaoche knows that the teacher knows it too.

The little time she had every day was not enough to split the time between them for what she needed to practice and learn.

If the teacher said to her: Che Lin, let's put the piano aside for a while and focus on studying.

Then she would stop playing the piano without hesitation and devote all her energy to studying, not for anything else, but just because this was the teacher's attitude.

If the teacher said to her: Che Lin, concentrate on practicing the Nocturne Mazurka during this period of time.

Then she would not hesitate to spend all her time in school studying the music score, because this was also the teacher's attitude.

But the teacher didn't say anything to her, but asked her to do it: don't fall behind.

Then she could only balance her studies and piano practice as best as possible during that time.

She never said that she had a hard time during that period, including in her letters to Xiaobei.

Because even so, she still felt that she was already very happy.

But every day after falling asleep on the bed exhausted, she would stare at the ceiling for a while.

Then she listened to op.55, no.1 for a while. This was the happiest moment of her day.

Because behind the music is a beautiful dream and a brand new day.

It can be said that it was this nocturne that accompanied her through this confusing time.

Just like the subject she was pointing to, one could not see any color in it.

But in fact, confusion is just one of many emotions for the car in that section.

Besides the confusion during that period, she also had Aunt Sang's Wangzai dairy cow.

A nail secretly came to the school gate to bring her ice cream.

I have spiritual communication with my dearest Xiaobei every day.

Two good friends, Xiao Zhang and Xiao Guan, were bickering beside her.

She is like the axis of a Rubik's Cube. Although she is exhausted, the life around her is colorful.

It is these colorful trivialities of life that accompany her as she falls asleep every night while listening to Chopin's nocturnes.

Perhaps her adolescent nocturnes were not as romantic as her teacher's.

But this is her life.

Nocturne is a hotbed of the teacher's fantasy, so why not hers?

When the late winter morning breeze blew into her windowsill, she seemed to see her body being carried away by the wind.

"when."

"when."

"when"

The melody in the wind occasionally slips out a few irregular sixteenth notes, like the pleats on her skirt.

Notes should be flying freely in the wind.

The vibrato in the high register should be like eyelashes trembling in the wind in the daytime.

The grace note should be the wavy potato chips in the hands of the children in the park.

And those arpeggios that have not been fully stretched out may be the homework that has not been completed seriously.

Okay teacher, please forgive me for being a bad kid sometimes.

When the humming theme appeared on the stage again, the judges with good eyesight were surprised to find that contestant No. 01 actually laughed.

This smile was completely different from the one he wore during the opening bow.

It's like a naughty little girl secretly did something bad without anyone knowing.

Just when Novak wanted to get closer to the music, the music, which seemed to be hesitant to speak, slowly stopped.

Time seemed to be frozen at this moment, and the girl was still sitting in front of the piano, motionless.

The music had stopped and the stage was silent.

The gray and gloom surrounding her had quietly disappeared.

Everyone could only see the smile of contestant No. 01. This girl, whose expression did not change during the performance of three pieces, actually smiled at the end of this piece.

Maybe she even laughed out loud.

But it doesn't matter anymore, the music is over.

On the contrary, for Novak, this should be the best ending of this work.

Just like all the unresolved seventh chords that Chopin left in this work, let them sway and shine in eternal expectation along with the girl’s smiling face.

Perhaps Chopin's nocturne was originally an adolescent dream.

Novak stared at the stage, not daring to move, until he saw contestant No. 01 gently lift his hands from the keyboard.

For Novak, this was the final sign that the piece was over.

The end of the music does not mean the end of the performance.

And in the next second, Novak laughed out loud at what happened on the stage!

Instantly, the three foreign judges around him all looked at him.

Novak picked up the pen nonchalantly, and then wrote a number after the name of player No. 01 without hesitation: 10.

Even though contestant No. 01 still has two pieces to play, so what?
Just for this nocturne and the little move performed by contestant No. 01 just now, I, Novak, give him full marks!

Our young Brother Mao was certainly not blinded by love, on the contrary he was extremely calm at this moment.

Having heard this, Novak could say that he had finally heard a nocturne.

To him, the nocturnes played by the previous eight contestants sounded neither like nocturnes nor like Chopin. They all sounded like children wearing adult clothes.

It's impossible to evaluate.

There is no standard for judging.

Now, with contestant No. 01's nocturne as the standard, the following contestants can just refer to this standard.

So Novak didn't feel that he had done anything excessive.

It's just that he set the standard a little higher.

But judging from the ages of the contestants currently competing, contestant No. 01 is already the youngest.
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Everyone in the live broadcast room was dying of laughter!

I laughed so hard and loved it so much!
【Ruby: I’m going crazy! Why is Linlin so cute! ! ! ! !】

Just now, Xiao Che Gaomumi finished playing and withdrew her hand, then grabbed a corner of her skirt and began to wipe the sweat off her hands.

To be honest, it even looks a little vulgar.

(End of this chapter)