beauty winner

After seven o'clock on Sunday morning local time, Yang Jingxing said goodnight to his girlfriend on the phone.He Peiyuan hadn't finished her dinner yet, and she was exhausted from shopping with her mother and aunt and cousin all day and didn't want to talk to Yang Jingxing.Li Diya is called brother-in-law and brother-in-law affectionately, but she is criticized by her aunt but supported by her mother.

Curtis's receptionist was smart today and picked him up at the hotel wearing a coat, otherwise the cold wind at [-] o'clock in the morning would be more difficult for him.The receptionist apologized and explained that the situation on Curtis's side had changed, and hoped that Mr. Yang could arrange an additional meeting. It was proposed by Hillary Cole's mentor, the famous violin professor Kushner.

Kushnier is now seventy years old, and he has been Curtis's dean for several years. Although famous teachers have cultivated some outstanding students, Hillary Cole should be the most popular so far.Kushnir probably heard that Yang Jingxing's comments on her lover were full of theoretical theories, but Director Yang is not afraid, so let's see each other.

Both parties were on time and met at the front desk at 08:30, but Curtis was even more outrageous than yesterday. Only the dean came out alone, without an assistant or secretary, and even the waiter turned around and disappeared. This made You The teacher was a little at a loss as to what to do.

Rousseau, the dean of Curtis, has just been in office for two or three years. He should be less than 50 years old. He has worked as the principal cello in the Philadelphia Orchestra for nearly ten years, and later became a soloist for several years on his own. Not big stars like Qin Mengli and Hillary Cole, but they can barely tie for the level of Chen Qunguan.It's even worse now, the name of Dean Curtis is bluffing, and the level of the concert is definitely unquestionable, let alone the box office.Moreover, as the dean, Rousseau did not disappoint the board of directors. It can be said that he is very good at diplomacy, especially in the expansion of fame and strength. Although the school has not expanded its enrollment, it must be very helpful in attracting sponsorship.

Yang Jingxing chatted with Rousseau in a cordial and friendly manner for an hour, more than a quarter of an hour longer than the scheduled time. However, the two did not discuss high art, and basically talked about education and business.Yang Jingxing clearly knows that since [-], the major orchestras in the West, especially in the United States, have been living a tight life. In the past two years, Curtis has held master classes and other activities in various countries around the world. But the popularity and income may not be very optimistic, and China's music education market has been growing rapidly in recent years, and this growth is only at the stage of the industry.

After all, Rousseau is a dean. Although he has never been to China, he can bluntly say that what China needs most is not to cultivate practitioners. This country has grown many great musicians.What China lacks most is the audience, and Chinese practitioners should focus on cultivating the audience.In Rousseau's view, cultivating listeners is much more difficult than cultivating musicians, and it will take at least 50 years of vigorous investment to bear initial results.

Yang Jingxing unceremoniously pointed out that Mr. Rousseau is obviously too ignorant of the Chinese people's yearning for a better life and the unimaginable hard work and perseverance of other peoples who are willing to pay for it. For those born in the 21st century.

Although Rousseau did not pay special attention to it, he also felt it. Even as far as Curtis is concerned, Chinese students are obviously more eager to succeed and become famous. They all have a very strong sense of competition, but it is precisely this kind of excessive and limited competition. Consciousness limits these students' holistic development that Curtis advocates, such as the neglect of humanities courses.

Director Yang acknowledged some of the initial stage limitations that he is currently facing, but he also analyzed with Director Lu that the future development of serious music culture in China will inevitably be different from the traditional model of Europe and the United States, because it is an extremely fertile and vast culture. Although the soil has been deserted for a period of time, when the weather is good and the weather is good, after a little cultivation and irrigation, the deep and never-broken roots that have been laid down for thousands of years will definitely rejuvenate the land. Western music is here. A piece of land will not only be imitated, transplanted or consumed.

Rousseau also became more and more straightforward: "I want to know what we need to do in Mr. Yang's good expectations? And the sufficient reasons for doing so?"

Yang Jingxing almost crossed his legs: "As Mr. Rousseau said, we are all responsible for music. I think you have a much broader understanding of the content of this responsibility than I do. Of course, achievements and honors are inseparable from responsibilities. It depends on how much responsibility we have fulfilled. Many people, including me of course, will think that Mr. Rousseau deserves more respect, because of your enlightenment and contribution, my respect for you will be long-lasting and not just today."

Rousseau nodded: "Yes, responsibility..."

Yang Jingxing was a few minutes late for the meeting with Curtis's piano department. Fortunately, Rousseau sent him to Graffman's side and helped him explain, although Rousseau was not qualified to ask Graffman to show face.

The piano department didn't give Director Yang any face. Besides Graffman, there was another teacher who was born in Taiwan.The Taiwanese is nearly 40 years old. He used to be a talented student of Graffman. If it wasn’t for fate’s joke that he suffered from a serious illness that caused muscle problems, he might be a character like Chen Qunguan now. It is also unique to be able to hold some small concerts and be praised.

Although it was the first time we met, Yang Jingxing and Graffman already had some connections. Graffman’s students had performed commercial performances of Yang Jingxing’s piano sonatas. His Israeli pianist friend also went to Puyin and married Yang Jingxing. Made some friendships.However, Graffman, an amiable old man, does not have any relationship with young people. After impatiently entering the state of old acquaintance, he turned out the score of "Friendship Variations" and began to gossip without any scruples. I think that here is strange and there is abnormal, here is confusing and there is not clear, so I will soon use derogatory terms.

Jiang is old and hot, and Graffman didn't give Director Yang a chance to have a friendly conversation, and directly pointed to the piano: "Sit, please sit!" His tone was more polite than that of Li Yingzhen, but there are not many people in the classical orchestra nowadays. You can order Director Yang like this.

Yang Jingxing said slowly, "This piano must have a glorious history."

"30 years." Graffman said and sat down in front of the piano opposite: "Do you need another score?"

Yang Jingxing shook his head: "I am very familiar with it."

The Taiwanese laughed, and Teacher You also laughed.

Grafmanzi completely suppressed Yang Jingxing in terms of momentum: "Twelve to sixteen measures."

In a clip of more than ten seconds, Yang Jingxing came over as soon as he raised his hand. The timbre of the piano is really good.

The smiles of the Taiwanese people completely disappeared and even showed some seriousness, but Graffman looked very ordinary. This little white-haired old man was like teaching students.

Yang Jingxing smiled: "I want to hear the details, Professor."

The advantage of being a teacher is that you can just use your mouth, or simply demonstrate an arpeggio and ask the students to play the four parts accurately. This is what Graffman did, succinctly and skillfully put forward his requirements, as if there is Little did he know that the one sitting across from him was the composer himself.

Yang Jingxing had to flatter: "It's very interesting, I think I can keep this as a repertoire." Then he played it again.

After listening, Graffman still looked normal and asked the bystanders: "What do you think? Which one do you like?"

Of course, Mrs. You would not express his opinion, and the Taiwanese were also very embarrassed and hesitant to speak.

Graffman didn't delay: "22 bars..."

Director Yang got off his horse, and Graffman not only did not marvel at the genius's skills, but also unabashedly showed that he had a more detailed and original research on the super technical work "Friendship Variations" than the creator himself. Yes, and confidently pointing fingers at things that have no past experience and theoretical reference.

Yang Jingxing was under the eaves and he was facing a master of a generation. He couldn't say that the other party was wrong, so he had to let others dictate. Graffman said he could play whatever he wanted, and he didn't dare to discount it.

I have to admit that Graffman's technical requirements for the piece are coherent and self-contained, and it is not just talking about it and deliberately making things difficult.Faced with a piece of music that most skilled pianists would only consider whether it is possible to complete it successfully, Graffman can still make so many detailed and ingenious requests. This is the ultimate master, even if it is on paper.

Fortunately, Yang Jingxing was not stumped by his own creation, and he didn't give the old man opposite him the chance to say "No, let's do it again" in the face of various demands. He looked quite relaxed.

Of course, a master like Graffman would not teach sentence by sentence step by step. He only took 6 or [-] bars out of the [-]-minute piece to give some pointers.However, the old man’s selection of these dozens of places is indeed very precise. If these stumbling blocks in the work are slightly modified, even if the difficulty is only reduced by [-]%, the performers’ ability to try this virtuoso composition will be greatly improved. .

Yang Jingxing seemed to have entered the role of a student. After passing the last difficult point, he realized: "Professor, do I want to play it again?"

Graffman was still kind: "Okay, please."

The scheduled meeting time of half an hour passed by another six or seven minutes, and there was not much left. The room was well heated, and Yang Jingxing danced with both hands so that his forehead was sweating.After playing, he looked at the professor and waited for instructions.

Graffman, who had listened to the whole song seriously, stared at the students as if preparing to teach severely, and then suddenly laughed: "I don't need to look at your passport anymore, you are Yang Jingxing, I am very sure!"

Yang Jingxing haha, so did the Taiwanese and Mr. You.

Graffman almost sighed: "I have to agree with them... It's a pity that I can't hear your concert."

Yang Jingxing was a little surprised: "It's the first time I've heard this statement."

Graffman also explained: "When you give up something, there must be better options. I wonder what can give music more value than your own recital, composing?"

Yang Jingxing shook his head: "About the value realization of music, that's why I'm so honored to meet you..."

Curtis was in a wheel battle, and Graffman was seriously overtime here, leaving Yang Jingxing with no time to rest, and Graffman personally supervised him and sent him to the composition department.

As far as history teaching achievements are concerned, Curtis's composition department is far inferior to that of the performance department.Graffman has a dozen students who are much more famous than the virtuoso Yang Jingxing who are active in the international piano arena. Compared with the composer Yang Jingxing, especially after the night before, the Composition Department of Curtis is really not good enough now, so The professor representatives of the composition department were far less aggressive than Graffman when facing Director Yang, at least they were on an equal footing.Things went smoothly and there were not many time-outs.

According to the plan, Yang Jingxing and Mr. You would leave Curtis to rest and prepare for afternoon activities at eleven o'clock, but it was already half past eleven when they met the violin professor Kushnir.

There is not much difference in age between the two, but Kushner's status in the industry is actually lower than Grafman's, but he is more imposing than Grafman.Graffman would at least look amiable, while Kushnier was on par with Vice President He, and his curly hair and beard were even scarier than He Hongchui.

However, academics in art cannot rely solely on momentum, and Yang Jingxing did not apologize for what he said yesterday. He also pretended to be wrong about the matter and had a careful theoretical discussion with Kushnier, and then he also took action.

Maybe there was no rumor in the industry that Yang Jingxing had any in-depth knowledge of the violin, and there was no agreement on how long to talk, so Kushnir would talk endlessly, but he still couldn't stop Yang Jingxing.What's ridiculous is that Kushnier also moved out Ding Sangpeng, probably because he thought this composer's violin suite was even more unpopular.

Facts have proved that Curtis’s famous professors are not all invincible in the world professionally. If he did not deliberately hide his strength during the competition, Kushnir’s academic coverage and proficiency would not be much better than Xu Linxi from Puyin. On the contrary, both of them have a lot of friends.

After going back and forth for nearly an hour, Kushnir didn't take advantage of it. Did he want to use the students to overwhelm others? He actually asked Yang Jingxing if he could tell Hillary about the conversation between the two of them.

Yang Jingxing said it was fine, but he didn't know him anyway, and he didn't say anything out of the ordinary.

At 12:30 noon, probably feeling that he was wasting the time of the guests, Curtis finally showed a little sincerity when he sent Yang Jingxing away. Several professors and administrators sent them outside the school gate. It would be more thoughtful if they could say something about arranging lunch.

In fact, Yang Jingxing and Mr. You didn't plan to eat and drink at noon, but yesterday they set their sights on a fast food restaurant and went to buy some sandwiches and burritos to fill their stomachs.The business of the store is so good that you have to queue up. It feels like Yankees deal with it so coldly in the winter. Teacher You can't help but imagine that opening a ramen restaurant or rice bowls will definitely make a fortune.

Let's talk about work. It seems that the planned goal can be achieved, and I will write a report when I go back.Director Yang communicated with Mr. You that this report should be written conservatively and economically. The two of them are just here to stand in the front line. The real work is still done by the principal and the exchange office.

After all, after working together for so long, Mr. You became more and more aware of the director's intentions, that is, Director Quandang Yang only conducted a simple investigation this time, and did not mention other things that could not be mentioned in the report, such as academic exchanges.

After eating the cold bread with the cold wind blowing, there is no hot tea to pour but coffee, so let’s go back to the hotel and take a rest.Teacher You also imagined that if the hotel here saw a Chinese guest and equipped the room with a kettle, it would be almost the same: "...It's like mentioning the piano and thinking of you first."

Director Yang simply criticized: "I don't feel comfortable eating, can you stop being disgusting?"