Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1196 456. Butterfly and Puppy, the Final Round That Is Hard to Evaluate
Although the rehearsal ended successfully, Tang Qianfeng still had to stay in the theater to handle some work.

"Teacher Li, you go first, I will be there soon."

Ang Lee wasn't sure if "you" included Mr. Tang, but it didn't matter, "Mr. Tang, you go ahead and do your work."

After packing his schoolbag, Li An left with Tang Qianfeng's deputy.

As he expected, Mr. Tang, dressed in casual clothes, was already waiting outside the concert hall with a smile on his face.

"Hello, Mr. Tang."

Li Ang quickly stepped forward and stretched out his hands. Apart from teacher, Li Ang couldn't think of a more appropriate title.

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Li."

Tang Zhongfu was full of energy, and the strength of his big hands did not seem like that of an old man at all.

The word "Teacher Li" made Ang Lee feel uncomfortable, but fortunately Tang Zhongfu did not give him a chance and turned to Assistant Feng who was beside Ang Lee.

"Xiao Feng, drive the car to the west gate. Teacher Li and I will go out for some fresh air."

Assistant Feng nodded and left.
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The red glow in the sky was looming in the dark clouds, the lights were turned on, and the whole city looked like it was covered with a layer of light gray glass.

The two of them walked slowly towards the west gate, and Tang Zhongfu said it would rain tomorrow.

"Is Chengdu hot at this time of year?"

"It's hot, very hot. I have to turn on the air conditioner when I sleep at night."

"Haha, I went to Chengdu in June 2013 and it was terribly hot there too. Your hometown should be relatively cool these days."

"Well, the temperature difference between day and night is big in my hometown. Even if the temperature is high during the day, it will drop at night. Teacher Tang, have you ever been to the northwest?"

"I went there a few times when I was young, but I was there for performances. I don't remember much. I just remember that the noodles there were very delicious. We even had a bowl of noodles when we were leaving Xishi. We almost missed our flight."

"You are still young now, you can have another bowl when you have the chance."

"Haha, now I can't do that. I can't even eat a few bites of a bowl of noodles because my blood pressure is high. I hope your parents are in good health."

"My mom is in good health, but my dad has a bit of rheumatoid arthritis."

"Oh, that's really painful. What's the reason? It should be drier over there."

"Yes, mainly because my dad worked in a mine. When he was young, he went down the mine all day long. It was too humid underground, and his job hurt his health, so he got sick."

"Your father worked very hard. Is he retired now?"

"He just retired this year, but he could have retired a long time ago, but he kept putting it off until now. He wouldn't listen to anyone who said anything. In fact, he could have applied for retirement at the age of 55 for this type of job."

"I can't stay idle."

"You're right. He just can't sit still. Sometimes he has to go to the company for a walk even when he's off duty."

"Hahaha, that's good too. Your mother is retired too."

"It can be considered retired. When my mother was young, she didn't have a fixed job. Sometimes she went out to do odd jobs. Her main job was to cook at home."

When Tang Zhongfu heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He never thought that Li An was born in such a family.

Li An then smiled and said, "Now my dad is in Chengdu helping me with the renovations. She doesn't have to worry about our food and drink now that she's alone at home."

Tang Zhongfu nodded: "When are you getting married? I know your girlfriend, she plays the flute, Yun'er said she's very beautiful."

Li An laughed again: "We are currently planning it, it should be by the end of the year. Our situation is quite special. She is still studying in France. It depends on her vacation time. It will probably be this year. We are actually quite anxious."

Tang Zhongfu: "It's better to be anxious. We have to be anxious about this matter. If you can get it done sooner, your parents will feel at ease."

Li An: "You are right, Mr. Tang, please be careful."

After crossing a puddle of water, the two arrived at the roadside of the west gate.

Assistant Feng opened the car door, and Li An stepped forward to support Tang Zhongfu.

"It's okay, you sit down."

After locking the car door, Assistant Feng drove out of the auxiliary road.

Tang Zhongfu: "Fang Yongbo must be very busy recently."

Li An: "Busy. It's almost the Chengdu Summer Music Festival again. I'm running around all day."

Tang Zhongfu sighed: "Finally I made it through."

Li An thought to himself that it seemed like the old man knew everything about this circle, "Brother Bo's life is really not easy."

Tang Zhongfu: "It's really not easy for him. I heard from Yan Qiu that you are going to hold a summer camp in Rongcheng this year."

Li An: "Yes, in Chengdu this year, around August."

Tang Zhongfu: "If you have any difficulties, just tell Yan Qiu directly."

Li An said, "Thank you, Mr. Tang. Everything is going well. Yun'er should still be in China this summer."

Tang Zhongfu smiled and nodded: "She hasn't been to Rongcheng yet, come."

Seeing that Li An took the initiative to start, Tang Zhongfu took out his cell phone and said, "Help Yun'er listen again."

what?
Li An carefully took the phone handed to him by Tang Zhongfu, and when he saw the picture on the screen, he thought to himself, isn't this what Tang Xiaoxing had recorded before?

He thought Tang Zhongfu wanted him to listen again.

So I clicked on the video.

"Ding-"

However, less than twenty seconds later, he frowned slightly.

This was not the recording he had heard before.

He continued to listen attentively.

Not until the end of the song did he look up with some emotion.

"How?" Tang Zhongfu asked.

Ang Lee: "Okay."

It’s indeed good. Compared to the previous recording, Ang Lee can only say that Tang Xiaoxing is completely in his own state this time.

"Teacher Tang, is this the recording Yun'er made recently?"

Tang Zhongfu: "She recorded it yesterday and I received it this morning."

Tang Zhongfu also smiled and sighed as he spoke, "This is what her uncle asked her current teacher for, and then it came to me."

"You should know something about Yun'er's situation. She rarely takes the initiative to play the recordings for us now. Sometimes we have to wait until the very end to know."

Li An smiled and said, "She must be under a lot of pressure when facing you. I was like this when I was a kid. The most stressful thing was always handing in homework to professional teachers."

Tang Zhongfu followed with a smile and said, "I am not her teacher."

Li An waved his hand: "I have to object to what you said. I think you are her most important teacher."

"When the kids were chatting at the summer camp, she would tell me what music my grandfather had played for me when I was a kid and what music he had told me about."

Tang Zhongfu: "Did she say that?"

Li An: "Did you make a violin bow for her when she was a child?"

Tang Zhongfu nodded: "Her third birthday."

Li An: "I don't know if you know this, but she still has this bow."

"From my experience with this child, you are not just important in her heart in a general sense. In my opinion, you are her music enlightenment teacher and the person who has the greatest influence on her musical path. Even today, I still think so."

a long time.

Tang Zhongfu sighed, and his tone suddenly became a little melancholy. "Teacher Li, I have been thinking about this a lot this year. Do you think I am wrong to do this?"

"You can just call me Xiao Li," Li An really couldn't bear the title of teacher. "You are not wrong. You arranged a path for her according to your own ideas, which you think is right." Tang Zhongfu met Li An's gaze and nodded seriously.

Ang Lee: "Like all parents and elders, you are doing this for the good of your children. And indeed, when children have not yet developed self-awareness or are unable to make judgments on a matter, they also need guidance from their parents and teachers. This is true at all times."

Tang Zhongfu nodded again. Li Ang's words were his truest mental journey in recent years. He just felt that the child was still too young.

Lee An: “But, um, how should I put it.”

Tang Zhongfu: "Teacher Li, please feel free to speak."

Li An was sweating. He didn't expect this situation to happen before he even met with Boss X.

Another moment.

Li An slowly spoke again: "In my musical growth process, including some of the children I have taught, I discovered a phenomenon, there is a kind of music called children's music."

Tang Zhongfu immediately thought of the Puppy Waltz played by Che Lin in the Group C race.

"Children's music belongs only to children. An adult cannot play children's music."

“What I want to talk about is not childishness in a certain sense, but having a childlike heart is the key to playing children’s music.”

Tang Zhongfu nodded.

Ang Lee: "I really like the childhood scenes recorded by Mr. Hogwitz in his later years. Many music critics have given high praise to this work."

"This includes big music critics like Rosen, who all mentioned a point."

“I think this set of works perfectly interprets the childhood described by Schumann.”

“I cannot completely agree with this, or I would rather describe this work as a re-enactment of childhood.”

“Reproduction is a kind of recollection, a kind of tracing back to something that has already happened in the past.”

"In my opinion, real childhood should be in present tense, and all emotions should be happening in the present moment."

"I am happy, I am unhappy, I am sad, I am disappointed, I was scolded by my parents, and I ate delicious food."

"These aren't just for kids, adults have all kinds of emotions, too."

"But here's the problem. Can the happiness of an adult be equated with the happiness of a child?"

"When a beautiful butterfly flies past, the first reaction of children may be to chase it and see where the butterfly flies. This is children."

"And an adult might just think it's a pretty insect."

"When the butterfly lands on a flower, what will the children do next? Approach quietly."

"At this time, adults may also calm down and lighten their steps. Here, we can see the difference between children and adults in their physical reactions to this beautiful butterfly."

"If we put this kind of silence into one of Chopin's works, at least up to this point, there is no difference between how children and adults handle it."

After a pause, "until the next part of the music started, the adults took out their phones to take pictures, but the children suddenly stretched out their hands towards the butterfly."

Wonderful!

Upon hearing this, driver Assistant Feng couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Mr. Li Ang in his heart!

This kind of music emotion analysis that completely fits the real scene is so vivid.

Assistant Feng finally understood why the Tang family invited this not-so-famous piano teacher to visit their home.

Tang Zhongfu couldn't help but show appreciation, "Well said."

Facing Tang Zhongfu's appreciative expression, Li Ang did not feel at ease, because the ultimate purpose of giving this example was not to distinguish the instinctive differences between adults and children in processing music.

She said softly, "Teacher Tang, Yun'er is not lacking a pair of eyes that can discover the world. Her heart is very delicate, far more delicate than many children of the same age."

Tang Zhongfu: "She has been like this since she was a child. She understands everything but doesn't speak."

Ang Lee: "Just listening to the recording she made yesterday, those big chords are so imaginative. She intentionally amplified the low part. What kind of imagination does it take to play like that?"

Before Tang Zhongfu could even laugh out loud, he heard Li Ang's tone suddenly become regretful.

"Unfortunately, there is still something missing in this version, even though it is much more specific than the previous one."

He sighed, "Teacher Tang, I'd better call her Xiaoxing, otherwise I'm always afraid of calling her the wrong name. In fact, the child I know also prefers to be called Tang Xiaoxing."

Just then the car slowly drove into an ancient gate, and for a moment even the air became quiet.

Assistant Feng parked the car and got out first.

"Teacher Tang."

Ang Lee was extremely sincere at this moment, without any distractions: "What Xiaoxing lacks is not a butterfly, but a chance to chase a butterfly."

"She has no feelings, so she can only imagine."

“So sometimes her music sounds like it’s played by adults.”

"You are not wrong, and she is not wrong either."

"If you're going to let Xiaoxing and I discuss the piano, I hope you can give her a little more time to herself."

"I can't guarantee that I can make a big change in her, but I can make sure that she can have more of the feelings that she deserves."

"In my piano teaching philosophy, feeling is sometimes more important than practice."

"You should also know my student Xiao Chelin. This child seems to be full of expectations for life every day."

"She has a lot of strange ideas."

"She said that the dog in the Dog Waltz should be the protagonist, but why is it described as the dog always revolving around the person in many appreciations of the work?"

Tang Zhongfu grinned.

Li An grinned and said, "Then I asked her, is there any conflict here?"

Tang Zhongfu: "How did she answer?"

Li An: "She said, 'Teacher, do you admit that the puppy is the protagonist?' I said yes, and then she was very proud and said that's it, since the puppy is the protagonist, people should revolve around the puppy."

Tang Zhongfu was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

What a nice guy is circling around the puppy.

Tang Zhongfu finally understood why the Puppy Waltz played by Xiao Chelin gave people such a joyful picture.

Yes.

Is it more interesting for dogs to revolve around people, or for people to revolve around dogs?

He also experienced again the phenomenon that Ang Lee mentioned at the beginning.

Tang Zhongfu savored it and said calmly: "There is a kind of music called children's music."

Li An clasped his hands together and bowed: "I am sorry to show off my skills in front of you."

"No." Tang Zhongfu waved his hand, "Teacher Li, I heard that you can drink quite well."

Li An's heart trembled when he heard this. He had heard that when Tang Zhongfu was young, he was known for being able to hold three kilograms.

"They are all rumors. Teacher Tang, I can drink a lot."

"Eh? I heard that your alcohol tolerance is as good as your teacher's. Don't be polite tonight. Anyway, I won't be polite with you."

"You have high blood pressure, drink less."

"So I asked you to drink more."

Looking at the courtyard gate behind him, Li An couldn't help swallowing.

I'm afraid tonight is going to be bad.
But judging from the situation, Mr. Tang should have passed this stage, right?
"Teacher Li is here."

Just as Li An followed Tang Zhongfu into the house, Tang Xiaoxing's father trotted out of the kitchen.

Unspeakably friendly.