Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1198 458. Preview of the accident caused by the concerto story!

Looking at Ang Lee's entire rehearsal process in the afternoon, Tang Zhongfu saw many shining points on stage in Ang Lee.

Music: Have unique personal understanding and dare to innovate

Technically: Flexible touch style, good at combining multiple single techniques

Attitude: Diligent in studying scores and extensive knowledge of various instruments
These are all qualities needed to become a high-level solo pianist.

But there was only one thing that he thought was not good, that is, Ang Lee's understanding of the concerto took a detour.

Perhaps it has something to do with Fang Yongbo's conducting style.

Mr. Tang knew that the only two times Ang Lee performed concertos on a large stage were both with Fang Yongbo.

There are no soloists under Fang Yongbo's baton, the orchestra must be a complete whole, including the principal part.

As a newcomer, Ang Lee's only conductor was Fang Yongbo, so it was inevitable that he thought that he had to completely obey the conductor when playing the concerto.

This can be seen this afternoon. Ang Lee was so well prepared, and even when Tang Qianfeng took the initiative to express his desire to follow Ang Lee, Ang Lee still chose to follow Tang Qianfeng for the first time.

At first, Tang Zhongfu thought that this was Li Ang's performance being affected by the situation. After all, as a young performer from a local place, he would have more or less some concerns on a stage like today.

But after listening to the final part he found that this was not the case. Ang Lee even dared to put forward his own clear requirements to the musicians of each part.

This shows that Ang Lee is not afraid of today's stage.

So the only conclusion that can be drawn in the end is that Ang Lee is willing to let the piano part serve the orchestra.

To put it more bluntly, Ang Lee treated the main piano part in the concerto as one of all the parts.

How can I put it? For a conductor like Fang Yongbo who needs to have complete control over the orchestra, this is definitely a plus.

As for another group of conductors who like creativity, such as Casado, the music director and conductor of Rotterdam who will bring his orchestra to China next month, this type of conductor may not think that the soloist's humility is a noble quality.

However, Tang Zhongfu is not worried that the cooperation between Ang Lee and Rotterdam will not go smoothly, because in the second half of today's rehearsal, Ang Lee has already demonstrated his creativity as a soloist in advance.

All Lee needs to do now is adjust his understanding of the concerto.

"You need to be more proactive."

As soon as Tang Zhongfu finished speaking, everyone at the table had their own ideas.

Since the old man was giving Ang Lee advice, what he meant was that he thought Ang Lee was not proactive enough in some aspect.

Boss X didn't attend the afternoon rehearsal, so it's hard for him to comment, but Ang Lee does seem a bit passive at times, as he doesn't fight or compete.

Assistant Feng is the conductor himself. He listened to the old man's teachings the whole night. When it comes to why Teacher Li Ang was not proactive in the afternoon, he really doesn't know where this initiative should be reflected. He thinks that Teacher Li Ang has been very proactive.

Although Tang Jingren didn't know what the old man was referring to, he was very impressed by Ang Lee's Mozart performance at last year's Chengdu Summer Music Festival. He liked the second movement of the performance, as its indifferent temperament made him feel very comfortable.

As the on-site conductor for the afternoon, Tang Qianfeng understood what the old man wanted to express and his intention after working with Ang Lee. If he were to say, he would not agree with the old man's point of view, but he wanted to hear what Ang Lee said first.

The person involved, Mr. Li An, also understood the old man's meaning at the first moment.

It’s just this question, but how can I let him answer it?

"Actually, this is the matter."

Seeing Li An's hesitation, Tang Zhongfu asked Li An to tell the truth: "Is it Fang Yongbo?"

"No, no." Li An waved his hands quickly.

Everyone laughed, and Tang Jingren filled Boss X's glass with wine.

moment.

Ang Lee: "It's like this. Before, my concept of concerto was just a piano genre. When we were young, there were some concerto clips in our exam textbooks. Who explained to us what a concerto was at that time?"

Boss X: “I understand.”

Assistant Feng: "Me too."

Li An continued to explain with a smile: "Anyway, they are all piano pieces, all with two lines of five-line staves. The right hand plays the upper part and the left hand plays the lower part. We play whatever piece the teacher assigns. This is how I divided piano pieces before the art exam. There are only three types."

“The first is the musical scale.”

Boss X: "The second type is etude."

Tang Qianfeng: "Then the third type is music."

Li An laughed: "Tang Zhi, you really overestimate me. My third type is not an etude."

Hahahahaha——

Everyone at the table burst into laughter. What a joke! This isn’t an exercise.

“You have to drink this!”

Tang Qianfeng raised his glass and everyone followed suit.

After taking a sip of the spicy flavor, Ang Lee pursed his lips tightly and put down the wine glass with a "ha".

"All the pieces that are not etudes are called piano pieces by me, no matter whether they are sonatas, nocturnes, minuets or waltzes, they are either in triple time or not. I just do it when the score comes, regardless of anything else."

"I didn't understand. I really didn't understand at the time. Sonata, what is that?"

"Don't play the wrong notes, don't play the wrong rhythm, if there's a p in the score it's soft, if there's an f it's strong, that's it."

Li An laughed at himself and said, "It should be when I was in the second grade of junior high school. My piano teacher at that time was a female teacher. Her last name was Zhou Rui. Teacher Zhou stood in front of all the students who were going to take the exam, pointed at me and praised me a lot. She praised me so much that these students laughed at me for the whole summer."

Everyone looked at Li An with interest. Boss X asked, "Are you being praised? How can people laugh at you if I praise you?"

Li An sighed, "Teacher Zhou pointed at me and said, look at Li An, he never makes a sound when playing the p!"

Hahahahahaha——

This time even Mr. Tang couldn't help himself. The six people at the table were several hundred years old in total.

Boss X raised his hand and said, "No problem. Our teacher Li has been able to read music since he was young. The p must not be loud."

Ha ha ha ha--

Assistant Feng stood up and said, "Teacher Li, I'll toast to you with this glass of wine!"

Li An quickly picked up the wine and stood up: "Thank you, Brother Feng."

As soon as the two touched each other, Ang Lee took a sip of spicy taste which felt just right.

The more he drinks today, the better he feels?

"Keep going!"

Tang Qianfeng's face was already flushed red. At this moment, his left leg was crossed over his right knee, and he was leaning back against the back of the chair. He looked like an old man who picked his toes. There was no trace of the conductor style he had on the stage in the afternoon.

moment.

With Li An's sigh, the dinner table became a little quieter. In fact, everyone present had understood.

"I didn't understand. I really didn't understand at the time. I didn't know the word "xie" in concerto until I went to college and watched a concert. It turns out that "xie" means to assist."

“Whoever plays the concerto, will be assisted.”

"In a piano concerto, the piano is the one being assisted."

"In a violin concerto, the violin is the one being assisted."

"I understand now. What I played when I was a kid wasn't called a concerto because there were no other instruments to assist."

"By the time I was in my sophomore year, I thought a concerto had to be accompanied by other instruments, otherwise it wouldn't be considered a concerto. Then I learned that there was a situation where a classmate could play piano accompaniment for your concerto."

"I was shocked again. To be honest with you teachers, the piano has always had two functions in my mind: one is to play for fun, and the other is to accompany others." Boss X: "No problem."

Li An: "That's a problem. Now we all know that playing alone is easy, but playing accompaniment for others is difficult."

"But I didn't think so when I was a kid. In music class, the teacher would just play a few chords back and forth, and everyone would sing along on the stage."

"It just left me with a simple feeling of piano accompaniment, until one day I asked a female classmate of the same grade, "Can you play an accompaniment for me?"

"She said yes, and then asked me what accompaniment I wanted to play."

"When I said Mozart, she didn't understand and asked me what I meant."

"I'll show her the piano accompaniment of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 5."

Assistant Feng: "k219."

Li An: "Yes, I wanted to play it at that time, and wanted this classmate to accompany me. After she looked at the score, she told me that she couldn't play it."

"Then I realized that this thing was too difficult, because this female classmate was the best in the entire piano department at that time, and all the seniors were not as good as her. So when she said she couldn't play it, I felt desperate."

Tang Qianfeng: "Is it because the female classmates don't want to play for you?"

Li An emphasized: "It's really not true. I don't dare to tell others, but she definitely won't lie to me."

Assistant Feng continued gossiping: "Teacher Li, how can we listen to your words?"

Li An: "No, no, Brother Feng, you misunderstood. My classmate is an upright and warm-hearted person. It's not because of me. She said she couldn't play the piano and that's it. If anyone else found her, she wouldn't be able to play the piano."

Boss X: "Lin Youyou."

Li An nodded: "Yes, I couldn't play it, so forget it. The concerto was shelved. When I officially came into contact with the symphony, I had a new understanding of the concerto."

"It turns out that a concerto is also a type of symphony."

“From here on, my understanding of the concerto had a theoretical foundation.”

"Since a concerto is a type of symphony, a piano concerto is also a type of symphony."

"The format of the symphonic work is the most complex of all musical forms. It stands on the top of Mount Olympus. It is the highest form of classical music and the only heir to classical music."

Tang Jingren: What a wonderful person
Tang Zhongfu: Well said.
Assistant Feng: You are worthy of being able to eat at the Tang family's table.
Tang Qianfeng: Insightful
Boss X: You can use this sentence in your next book.
"So in front of a symphonic work, every instrument is equal. They will be prioritized according to the content, but no one is above the rules. The conductor is the initiator of the symphony, and the soloist should follow the conductor's ideas."

Everyone was filled with emotion after listening to the song. It is just a musical genre, but it has gone such a long way in Ang Lee's spiritual journey.

For a moment, Mr. Tang Zhongfu didn't know what to say to Li Ang.

"Li An." Tang Zhongfu raised his glass.

Li An quickly raised his glass and stood up.

Tang Zhongfu: "Sit down."

"Hey." Li An sat back in his chair.

As soon as the two of them touched each other, Tang Zhongfu raised his head and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Teacher Tang, please slow down." Li An was frightened, "Pay attention to your blood pressure."

"This is just the beginning." When Tang Zhongfu listened to Li An's story, he couldn't help but think back to his school days. He couldn't help but recall the past.

After a pause, he said, "You said it very well. I also hope that you can continue to keep an exploratory heart towards music."

Li An nodded: "Hey, thank you for your advice."

Tang Zhongfu: "But I still have to talk about you, for your own reference."

Ang Lee: "Yeah."

Tang Zhongfu looked around and spoke slowly: "The concept of concerto originated from a kind of psalm sung by multiple people in the late Renaissance."

"When there are many people, there are voices."

"The voices need to maintain collaboration and conscientiousness, while also containing the certamen of competition."

"Later, these two Latin words were combined to form the Italian name we are familiar with today, concernto."

“Before the concept of concerno was born, conducting was just a general concept.”

Tang Qianfeng: "Conducting starts with clapping the beat."

Tang Zhongfu: "There's nothing we can do. Someone has to coordinate the speeds. Otherwise, if you and I go at different speeds, it will just be a mess."

"In the beginning, the conductor was always the composer himself, because he understood the works he wrote."

"Let's take Beethoven's fourth performance, which was premiered by Beethoven."

Boss X: "Beethoven's last stage debut."

Tang Zhongfu: "Alas, at that time, the identities of conductor, composer and soloist overlapped. I conducted my own works and played them myself."

"I was really too busy to handle it, so I found a commander."

Tang Qianfeng: "I have mentioned this point of view to you many times before. It is one-sided."

Tang Zhongfu: "Which period of history is not one-sided?"

Tang Qianfeng: "Yes, I knew it would be this sentence."

Boss X: "Any industry is born out of history in its development."

Tang Zhongfu: "That's what I mean. Later, the works of these people remained, but they were gone, so gradually the conductor took on the most important position."

"Qianfeng, you always argue with me. The details of the first Beethoven Op. 5 you conducted were inherited from the time of Beethoven."

Boss X laughed and said, "Brother, let's have a drink."

Tang Zhongfu looked at Boss X again and curled his lips, "Yan Qiu, you are the same as him. Although I am old, I am not confused. All the things that are integrated have their own roots. There is no such thing as something that comes out of nothing."

The old man stopped talking to the two of them and looked at Li An: "Don't take the conductor's thoughts on the piano part so seriously."

“Because from the birth of the concerto until now, the person who has participated in the collaboration and competition has never been the one on the podium.”

Tang Qianfeng couldn't help interrupting again: "Dad, it's meaningless for you to tell Li Ang these things. Now whoever stands on the podium has the final say, unless there is no conductor for this performance."

After a pause, he said, "Or you can let Ang Lee play the instrument on his own. You said it yourself that the soloist and the conductor are the same person."

Tang Jingren: "Brother, what you said makes sense."

"Okay." Tang Zhongfu waved his hand and looked at Li An, his eyes serious but with a bit of expectation, "Li An, do you want to direct this performance?"

Li An was stunned. Mr. Tang was not drunk.
Then, Tang Qianfeng also looked at Li An: "Li An, you say, now I just need your words."

Li An looked at Boss X helplessly. Boss X's smile seemed to say that it had nothing to do with him.

moment.

Maybe he drank too much, Li An's brain was no longer working properly, and he didn't know why, but he nodded in response to Tang Zhongfu's gaze.

Tang Qianfeng: "Then it's settled. Yan Qiu, pour some wine for the old man."

The meal continues.

Ang Lee belatedly realized that he had no conductor for next month's performance.
A moment of clarity!
This won’t do! If we don’t give proper instructions, something bad will happen! !

But he didn't have time to think and filled Tang Jingren's glass again.

Later, in a daze, he seemed to be toasted by Tang Jingren with a glass of wine, and Tang Jingren also said to him: "Teacher Li, Xiaoxing will be left to you from now on."

He seemed to pat his chest to assure himself that there was no problem.