After Shen Qingci finished handling the matters at hand, he went to the piano room to give Fang Xiaoyu his first professional class after the National Day, which was probably also the last class of this month.
As soon as he stepped out of the piano room building, he encountered several sophomore orchestra students carrying instruments on their backs. He knew that these faces were members of the Le Figaro Club.
"Teacher Shen."
"Teacher Shen."
The students greeted Shen Qingci cordially, and Shen Qingci smiled politely back.
Looking at the energetic figures walking towards the theater, he also walked towards the school gate.
‘After autumn, the movements of these children become more and more loud.’
He couldn't help feeling that it seemed like the entire National Day holiday had been occupied by them for rehearsals.
This reminded him again of the vocal girl who had been busy replacing Qin Jian.
"not simple."
Shen Qingci admires this kind of capable young man.
He got in the car and left the school.
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20:13.
He appeared at Yanjing International Airport pushing a small suitcase. He sent a message to Liao Linjun. He originally wanted to send another message to Qin Jian, but after thinking about it, he installed his phone.
21:45.
The flight from Yanjing to Warsaw departed on time.
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The camera returned to the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, where the first set of competitions in the morning had ended.
At this time, only the audience who bought the second round of ticket evasion were sitting in a few seats in the concert hall. They were waiting for the second game of the day.
On the stage, a tuner was adjusting the yamah used by the first contestant in the afternoon.
From time to time, he would press a few 'dah-dah' notes on the keys, and then he would lean half of his body under the soundboard to operate.
In the rest room backstage of the concert hall, competition interviews are in progress.
The interviewer is a reporter from the organizer, and the interviewees are all the contestants who have entered the second round of the competition.
This work was started after the competition entered the second round, and each interview video will be broadcast in the following "Daily Competition" column.
It will also be uploaded to the Internet for music fans around the world to learn more about the competition and the players.
The interview work will not take up too much time of the players. They only need to return to the backstage after participating in the second round of competition and follow the staff into a rest room.
Starting from Feng Ziyan, several subsequent players have been interviewed.
The person being interviewed now is player No. 29 from Russia.
Reporter: "So you said that the reason why Ballade No. 1 has special meaning to you is that you rejected it before?"
Ksenia: "Yes, at that time I felt that this piece was too complicated for me. The teacher always said that I could not understand the content of the music score. This was the most painful part for me. I didn't know what to do at the time.
continue."
Reporter: "You put it as the last song today, and the audience gave you a warm round of applause."
Ksenia smiled: "Maybe. I was quite surprised after playing (Speech 1), but after leaving the stage, I thought it was my performance that impressed them."
Reporter: "As the last player in the first group, can you comment on the players before you, or whose performance do you like better?"
Ksenia pondered for a moment: "Fang, I think he is a pianist with great potential."
Reporter: "Do you think you can pass this round?"
Ksenia continued to laugh: "This question is difficult to answer, but my performance today was also good."
Reporter: "Okay, so last question, what do you think of the national character of Chopin's music?"
Ksenia: "I have never considered such a problem. For me, piano is just a simple performance. Maybe I am slow by nature? (laughing)"
Reporter: "Okay, thank you."
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After the interview, the audience became quiet behind the stage.
Until the whole concert hall became noisy again an hour later, and after a while, the bell rang again,
The afternoon session will continue, with the same format as the morning session? There will be a group of five people, and each person’s playing time shall not exceed 40 minutes.
The five players are No. 34 British player Guabi Green, No. 35 Russian player Mykta Guzowski, No. 37 Singapore player Li Xianlong, No. 38 Chinese-American player Liang Kecheng, and No. 39 Hungarian player Jukash Mi.
division.
The entire competition process was more intense and exciting than in the morning.
The players are nervous and the audience is excited.
Guabi's mistakes in the first round were obvious to the audience. Miraculously, he advanced. So the second round was an opportunity for him to prove himself and to vindicate the judges.
As soon as the young man came on stage, he calmly walked to the Yamah piano and then started his performance.
The first two songs are quite satisfactory, not outstanding but not wrong, but the next 20 minutes are the 20 minutes that will make the audience feel excited.
He really told everyone a story in the third ballad? The name of the story is - the scene of the car rollover turned over and over again.
Perhaps he was under too much mental pressure. On the last right-hand note of the third measure of the introduction, he dropped his finger and landed on the word 'reducing fa'? It should have been 'rising fa'.
This wrong sound made many people in the audience laugh. It was really joyful.
He pretended to be calm as if nothing had happened? He continued to perform affectionately.
But then it turned out that the wrong sound made him panic.
When the music enters a fast running section, its rhythm is a mess? The wrong audio frequency cannot be described as outrageous? The music is rushing towards an out-of-control situation.
This scene is rare in the history of the Chopin Competition.
In the following Polonaise, he almost continued the performance of the ballad until the applause started.
Yes, the audience's applause was full of indescribable flavor.
The judges' table was so quiet that no one wanted to admit that they were the ones who gave this contestant the chance to take the stage again.
Should there be a close-up of Sister holding her forehead? The high priest was also defeated this time!
History is always surprisingly similar? The Russian player No. 35 Guzowski who came up next was once again blessed with Guabi.
His stable performance once again showed an outstanding feeling after Guabi's car accident foreshadowed it.
In Guzowski's five consecutive works, except for two wrong notes in the F minor Fantasy, there are no other obvious errors.
However, as a Russian player, his performance in this round did not further reflect the delicacy of the Russian piano. In the ballade that needed to be filled with emotion, he still used the crisp and direct expressions of the previous round, and his performance was still smooth.
But it lacks drama.
Then *** came on the stage, and in the second round *** showed the style that a contestant needs.
His choice of repertoire and the order of performance were the most reasonable among all the contestants today. The opening of the Polonaise in A flat major gave him momentum on the stage.
The huge chord effect he hit made the frail boy with glasses in front of the piano seem much taller at that moment.
At the end, he arranged a ballad, and his soft playing technique was completely different from the fierceness of the opening. The delicate handling was filled with a touch of sadness and indignation, giving the audience a hidden and subtle feeling.
Echoing the beginning and end, the five works were completed in one go, winning applause from the audience.