545. Join Forces! Small Motivations and Big Themes
Indeed, on the fourth day after all the contestants' videos were released, Qin Jian's "Nocturne in B Major" was far ahead in the number of click-to-click views. At the same time, many contestants also led the way in the number of views of a certain work.
For example, the black keys etude played by the Chinese pianist Liang Kecheng, the Scherzo in C sharp minor played by Blair who came from the Royal Academy, Adams' Fantasia in F minor, Li Xianlong's Third Etudes, and so on.
There are even some eliminated contestants whose works are as much played as some of the finalists.
Of course, many music fans will look for the well-known works with their own popularity in the player's repertoire, such as Revolutionary Torrent Winter Wind.
Inadvertently, the winter wind from Little Fatty blew everyone down out of control.
She has good looks, figure, temperament and skills, and has an impeccable appearance. Men like her and women also love her.
Yes, Chopin’s arena also became more eye-catching because of the presence of outstanding women.
Whether it is Duan from China, purple-eyed Matilda from the United States, or Pereira from South Africa, etc., they have different skin colors, different hair, different temperaments, they represent
Different cultural symbols behind clothing.
They may be thin or plump, pure or charming, and their appearance is not just to decorate this super competition more gorgeously.
There is no vase among the 27 young female players in the 80-person short list.
Just like what a female fan of Duan Ran said about her: "No male player can play the winter wind as fierce and strong as hers, which makes people feel a trace of spiritual comfort at the end of despair."
Some people analyze the players' performance from a micro perspective, while others look at the results of this preliminary competition from a macro perspective.
A piano enthusiast from Japan wrote an article similar to a survey report through investigation and analysis of the list of 80 people selected this time.
listed in his article.
‘Among the 80 people promoted this time, 34 people are from Asia, 11 people from America, 32 people from Europe, 2 people from Australia, and 1 person from Africa’
He also recorded each player's piano playing based on the video he watched.
'More than 60% of the contestants chose Japanese brand pianos, which is 15% more than the number of contestants who chose Japanese pianos in the previous 80-person list.'
He did not give any textual explanation of these data, but just collected and displayed them for everyone's reference.
But he also mentioned some issues regarding the development of piano in Asia in recent years at the end of the article, especially regarding piano education.
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When the results are announced, in addition to seeing the surnames and nationalities of the 80 finalists, there are indeed some things to see outside the competition. Although the excitement cannot be compared with the competition itself, it can be appreciated by the melon-eaters who can't understand the music.
Still can’t read the text?
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But in the final analysis, the preliminary competition is just a preliminary competition. Even in the preliminary competition of the Chopin Competition, the topic did not last long.
The week passed quickly, and the melon eaters who passed by had new melons to eat, and their focus soon shifted from Xiao Sai.
Those who still pay attention to this matter have to take a break because there are still five months until the next round of competition.
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Five months is neither short nor long.
After the last Magic Flute performance ended the day before yesterday, Qin Jian announced the suspension of club activities for two months at the final celebration drink and told everyone to prepare well for the upcoming personal orchestral competition.
The day after the celebration banquet, Qin Jian continued to lock himself in the piano room.
Since the afternoon of the day when the results of the competition came out, he has not touched the keys for half a day. He has spent all his time watching videos of contestants from various countries, except for the one hour of literature translation and one hour of Baroque music and art that are set aside.
History reading time.
On the third day after the celebration banquet, Chen Tangjie, Ning Qianxia and others calculated the final income of this series of performances.
The result was as Qin Jian expected, there was no surplus. Although the ticket sales were good and he hardly invested any money in personnel rehearsals, the cost of the venue, costumes and stage far exceeded his expectations. Fortunately, there were several good sponsorships to fill the gap.
Lived in this cave.
And another thing is that from the beginning, his ticket price was very low.
But even so, Qin Jian ignored the two people's persuasion and insisted on fulfilling his previous promise by paying out his own pocket, giving one thousand yuan to each club member who participated in the performance, and two thousand yuan to each vocal chief.
For the few people who had been busy behind the scenes, Qin Jian took out another 100,000 yuan at once and prepared to distribute it to several people. Not only because most of them were his future team members, but more importantly, these people were members of the club.
His dedication is truly visible.
However, facing Qin Jian's generosity, several people refused for their own reasons.
Chen Tangjie: "Are we still buddies?"
Li Shuang: "Junior brother, I don't care about the money, but you have to come when I get married next year."
Li Shasha: "I don't have much help, I just use my part of the performance!"
Ning Qianxia: "I don't want such a low appearance fee!"
Huang Cheng: "I want to thank you, junior brother, for giving me such a good opportunity to show off, haha."
Needless to say, Qin Jian was deeply touched by this. He took note of everyone's words and kept them in his heart. This was a favor he owed.
But regarding Huang Cheng, Qin Jian still forced him to give him 30,000 yuan in the end.
Unlike anyone else, Huang Cheng takes on almost 70% of the behind-the-scenes work by himself.
Although Mr. Li Shuang and Mr. Li Sanli also participated, some of the ideas and actual operations were done by Huang Cheng alone.
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Having completely ended the current club affairs, Qin Jian gave himself a three-day holiday.
He didn't do anything during the three-day holiday, he didn't practice piano, and he didn't watch game videos day and night like he did in the days after the results came out.
He went to class every day, ate in the cafeteria, and chatted with a few people in the dormitory at night. During this period, he organized a werewolf killing and had a special drink with Xia Dong.
Three days later, the school ushered in the first short holiday of spring——
Labour day.
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On May 1st, Qin Jian got up early.
It can be seen that he is in good mental state. It seems that he has had a good rest in the past three days.
Facing the empty dormitory, he kindly expressed his feelings to the air.
"the holiday is over!"
After simply washing up, he left the dormitory.
On the way to the piano room, his brain had already entered working mode.
He plans to seize the time and decide on the repertoire to be played in the main competition within half a month.
After unanimous verification by the six branches last night, everyone received the email from the competition organizing committee at 22:13 Beijing time last night.
Judging from the content of the information, although there are still five months until the next round of competition - there is not much time left for the 80 contestants to choose the repertoire to be performed in the main stage.
‘The qualified players must submit the main competition repertoire to the organizing committee before 14:30 pm on June 1st, Warsaw time.’