At nine o'clock in the evening, the Impressionism Art Exhibition closed on the first day, and the symphony hall was brightly lit.
The 2040 seats were packed, and the decoration, with Banff porcelain, gold leaf and brass as the main elements, was very attractive.
The layout here follows the shoebox style that is mainstream in the current era, and is in the same category as the famous Vienna Golden Hall in its previous life.
Its main acoustic characteristic is "balance". The six groups of relatively flat surface reflections make the dynamic changes of music interpretation extremely clear. The sound in each listening direction is rich and abundant, making it easier for the audience to grasp every detail of the orchestra.
If we have to talk about shortcomings, perhaps it is the number of shoebox concert halls built in the first two centuries of Theoline. They are relatively small in area and the seats are relatively "crowded". However, the new venues behind them have all been designed in high-rise layouts.
Improvements include, for example, the Turner Art Hall, which has seats on the second and third floors surrounded on three sides, and several better locations with staggered boxes extending forward.
The only regret may be that the acoustic design is only "professional" and does not reach the level of "work of art", mainly because of time constraints. If the territory is expanded in the future, Fan Ning will visit those acoustic masters in advance.
There was a wave of applause, and the musicians entered one after another.
The initial tuning process for the piano concerto performance changed slightly. The principal violinist stood up, played the standard A note on the piano, checked with the principal oboe, and then returned to the normal process, with the oboe in turn guiding the tuning of the woodwinds, brass and strings.
Of course, in fact, every musician should solve the tuning problem by himself in advance. Before the performance, it is just a final check to prevent accidents caused by unintentional light touches or changes in temperature and humidity.
In order to balance his commanding position and show respect, Fanning chose to enter the venue almost at the same time as Viadrin, but just a few steps further away, so that he was still in the formal final appearance.
"How come the second price area is full of female music fans?" Amidst the sudden applause, Fan Ning waved sideways and responded to the audience with an elegant smile, but he began to feel a little puzzled in his heart.
The VIP tickets are in rows 7-12 in the middle area, and the second price tier is in the front row. At a glance, the ratio of men to women in the first few rows is seriously unbalanced. The hostesses in colorful evening dresses are eagerly looking forward to it. Among them, the highest age group is
There are mainly ladies in their thirties and forties, but there are also quite a few younger girls.
Amid the excited cheers, Fan Ning's spiritual sense felt rapid breathing and heartbeat, and even revealed a certain state of dry mouth and flushed skin.
"This is obviously not directed at me, but President, why are you so indifferent to the music fans? I remember you were not like this before. You blew kisses when you came back to the performance, and they also used personal jewelry to greet you.
If you look at it on the stage, these ladies today are probably the same group as the girls at that time." Fan Ning kept a smile on his face, but looked at the back of Lee Viadrin in front of him and secretly cursed.
The impression left on Fan Ning by that New Year's concert at the turn of the century when he was a child still makes him dumbfounded when he thinks about it.
Fan Ning, who climbed onto the podium, watched everyone take their places, and the distracting thoughts in his heart quickly calmed down. He adjusted his breathing a few times while turning over the score, held the baton, and started shooting.
"fa,(b)re,do,(b)xi——fa,(b)re,do,(b)xi——"
Under his instruction, four French horns played the B-flat minor introduction of "Chai Yi" with a sonorous breath.
Magnificent, solemn, and with a hint of the heavy and desolate theme unique to the North, it instantly makes the audience's minds soar into the sky.
"Keng!——Keng!——Keng!——"
Like steel hitting gold and stone, Viadlin lowered his arms, grabbed the keys with his ten fingers, stepped deeply on the pedal, and played a brilliant column chord in the key of D flat major.
The firm 3/4 rhythm pattern gradually fades into a solid sound foundation, on which the violin and cello combine to create a broad and melodious band theme.
At a certain moment when the band's atmosphere was going downhill and the emotional tension seemed to be about to be released, Viadlin finally returned to the main position and began to present the theme with a more exciting and empty-breaking force.
The musical character here coincides with Theoline's Hoffmann-style national spirit. The intervals and lines appear a bit "thick", and there is no complicated and trivial rhythmic texture.
Likewise, both hands are used to play major chords in unison throughout the piece, as if a strong wind is blowing against one's face and the sun is shining directly on one's face. It is extremely joyful and refreshing.
Just like the vast and magnificent scenery of the North Country.
The legendary pianist "Li"'s brilliant skills and domineering momentum have made some loyal fans of the past return to fanaticism, and also made young music fans who have only entered the concert hall after an era finally understand the music of the previous generation.
The words of the critic are by no means exaggerations——
People who listen to "Li" playing live cannot have their own emotions at all, nor can they breathe on their own!
Like the theme of the first movement, passages played with high enthusiasm will make your mouth dry and your tongue will go dry; when it comes to the subtitles and connecting parts, certain passages that are full of contemplation and confusion, you will also shed tears.
As for some dramatic or scherzo musical ideas, which breathing method he chooses to use to process the phrases, you can only follow this rhythm, but cannot breathe at different ups and downs from the pianist!
It’s no wonder that during some of the stormy and continuous octave cadenza passages, some girls or ladies with weak lungs would suffocate and faint due to excessive emotions.
"The ultimate musical appeal. There is the inspiration of 'chi', 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 the performance thing is more inclined to "pool". Finger function, force exertion method, how to maintain physical fitness, how to breathe scientifically, how to listen to the effect of one's own voice and how to make adjustments at the tactile level, these are all sensory methods. If I
If you want to achieve higher attainments on the piano in the future, you may want to 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 of the third movement instantly brings the audience into a song and dance scene rich in folk flavor.
In measure 5, the piano plays the rondo theme, and Viadlin uses his hands to jump three times, and the accentuated and playful decorative music on the second beat to show a cheerful and fiery dance.
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 be the same in a concerto. This is not only a matter of competing with the orchestra on acoustics, but also involves how to maintain cooperation and competition with the conductor's will.
relation"
"Now my performance in these three steel concerts is that my personal status is wandering between the first-class performance and the second-class performance. The practice and thinking 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 use your own piano to initially test the results. Who will the orchestra conductor ask to cooperate with you?"
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 one after another. Finally, the orchestra and the piano push the music to a dazzling peak, and 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 bowed out 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
Bow twice.
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 in the past? If there was no need to pay attention to body shape on the 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 has to 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 venue in the second half found that there were some novel changes here.
More than 40 impressionist works from previous art exhibitions appeared 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", Marais' "Pleasure Pool", Cumier's "The Last"
"Foggy Window in the Cold". There are ten paintings in total, 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 repertoire 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 to create a diatonic cadenza with vague tonality, and quietly disappears after two bars. Then the flute and clarinet play a wandering and dreamy theme, which serves as the original image of water in series.
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 "Water Imagery Collection", 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 already been postponed for an hour. By the time Fan Ning returned to the corridor and arranged for staff to move the paintings, it was almost early in the 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 underneath the original poster for today's performance, it was covered with densely packed sticky notes. There were 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. Facts have proved 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 overthrow the opening season of Turner Hall."
"Second, if it is born in any academy, it will make its teacher famous. No matter how harsh the music critic is, he will have to keep his mouth shut when facing it."
"Miss 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 novel ways of playing that I have never seen before? What is this message wall for?" Sheeran asked after reading a few messages.
"This is 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..." Fan Ning explained, "They are media forms spontaneously generated by our guests, which can be rational discussions, or
It can be written out of emotion, it can be a penetrating systematic discussion, or it can be a few words of insight, it can be posted alone, or it can be attached to other people's comments... In the future, we will also consider making some collections and publications 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 such a 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, and found that the comment had nothing to do with the performance, but was a criticism of today's impressionist art exhibitions.
The first one that bears the brunt is Mallet's "The Concert After Luncheon" which was collected by Fanning.
"Oh my God, how obscene! A lady's body is sitting without any protection next to two serious gentlemen. This is simply unheard of!" - Macaulay, editor-in-chief of "The Hustle"