After the other party greeted him politely, Qin Jian introduced himself to his family in a sincere tone.
Out of etiquette, he did not indicate his intentions for the call right away.
Yegor was not too surprised after hearing Qin Jian's name, "I know you." Then he asked Qin Jian what happened.
At this time, Qin Jian briefly explained his purpose of coming. He told Yegor that he intended to introduce "The Development and History of Russian Piano Art" written by Negoz to China for publication.
He said it very carefully.
After saying that, there was a brief silence on the phone.
After about five or six seconds, the other person said, "I need to see you about this issue."
The tone of voice on the phone changed slightly from just now.
This is not a problem for Qin Jian, he is already prepared.
It sank.
"I'm in Moscow now, what time is more convenient for you?" Qin Jian said.
"I heard this."
For a moment, Yegor seemed to have issued an invitation, "I will have a public class tomorrow morning. Are you interested in attending?"
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Early the next morning, Qin Jian declined Zhou Kai's company and took the subway to the Negos Conservatory of Music alone.
A phone call last night made him feel that Yegor did not seem like a difficult person to communicate with.
Maybe it was just because he had some personal quirks as a pianist that made him disliked by his peers, he guessed.
After all, among the old guys he knew, probably only Glissbeck's character, who didn't even pay attention to the other person's outstretched hand when meeting him for the first time, could be considered weird.
Old artists like Fu Hua, Sayevi, Argerich, Talibek, and the old bartender Bao Bao are all polite people.
Of course, the old bartender also has his quirky side - he loves to teach young girls philosophy lessons about life.
After the subway arrived at the station, Qin Jian arrived at the door of yesterday's classroom in only ten minutes.
It was 9:00, and he came here an hour early.
There was no one in the classroom with the open door, so he went straight to the last row and sat down.
Then I opened the space and continued to look at the Aegean civilization.
With the beginning of the new semester, he also began his personal learning journey.
He was very engrossed in watching it. He didn't know when the second classmate walked into the classroom.
Until the class bell rang, and when he closed the space and raised his head, the white-haired old man on the podium wearing a sheepskin coat and holding a lesson plan was looking in his direction.
"Class begins now."
The oncoming voice was as gentle as the voice on the phone last night.
It has been a long time since Qin Jian saw a university teacher holding a lesson plan in class.
The number of people attending class today is significantly less than yesterday. Counting him, there are only 6 students in the entire classroom.
Everyone sat in various corners.
This is a piano teaching course that studies "five-point positioning training". Yegor clarified the topic at the beginning.
At the beginning of the class, Yegor first reviewed the content of the previous class, which seemed to be a special care for new students.
"I mentioned at the end of the last lesson that in the early stages of teaching children, we need to follow the "Piano Finger Exercises" of Clementi, Czerny and Liszt, and conduct them in an orderly manner with different rhythms and dynamics.
training to maximize the development of their finger flexibility."
Qin Jian agreed with this.
By comparing children's piano education in China and reviewing one sentence of Yegor's lessons, we can see the current gap between China and Russia.
Then Yegor gave a detailed explanation on how to train and gave examples.
"Let children play some of Czerny's etudes in different keys, but they must use the same fingering method. This will expose them to the mutual conversion of black and white keys in the same etude."
When Qin Jian heard this, he subconsciously thought that this would allow children to experience different technical difficulties, even in the same piece.
"This will not only maximize the flexibility of their hands and fingers, but also allow the coordinated development of their hand, brain cooperation and active hearing abilities.
This is a basic training that is repeatedly emphasized and attached great importance to in the Russian school of piano. Qin Jian saw it more than once during the translation process.
...
Throughout the class, Yegor shared this topic with the students in a leisurely manner.
From time to time, he would increase his tone in places that needed to be emphasized, reminding people under the podium, "This is the key point."
Sometimes he would sit in front of the piano and demonstrate, using the extremely iconic Russian playing method to let everyone understand what he was describing in words.
When Yegor announced that class was over, Qin Jian realized that two hours had passed.
After class, other students left one after another.
Qin Jian stood up and walked towards the podium. Yegor put away the lesson plan and asked him if he wanted to have lunch together first.
"certainly."
Qin Jian paused and said, "Your course sounds very practical."
He used the word "practical".
"For example?" Yegor asked.
"for example."
Qin Jian coughed.
"For example, you provided me with some new teaching ideas about Russian piano."
He listened for a moment when he said this, and noticed that the attention in Yegor's eyes had been attracted by his words.
It seems he was right.
Then he said, "It's a wonderful idea to combine the finger exercises of the Gordon Weiser school with the voice training methods of the Nietzsche school."
An imperceptible look flashed across Yegor's eyes, "Then Feinberg advocates rational performance or emotional performance."
moment.
"A cool head, a fiery heart."
Qin Jian smiled without thinking.
“The Feinberg School has always advocated a performance that combines sensibility and rationality.”
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The Negoz Conservatory of Music did not have a special canteen, so Yegor took Qin Jian one kilometer south and arrived at a small restaurant from the school gate.
Seeing Yegor's arrival, the waiter in the store enthusiastically served two portions of stewed beef soup rice to the two of them.
"Tell me, did Ruggiero ask you to come to me?"
Qin Jian just picked up the spoon, and the oncoming question made him nod involuntarily.
Yegor smiled, then moved the spoon, and he signaled Qin Jian to do the same.
moment.
"I guess the publisher would be happy to see you take this work away, and you can take it away without going through me. You know, the copyright is not in my hands."
Yegor paused: "Why did you come to me?"
Qin Jianzhi said: "Maybe it's a bit presumptuous. I didn't know you before, but after I listened to Professor Ruggiero's suggestion, I immediately realized that I should meet you."
"oh?"
Yegor continued to ask: "Why?"
"Put yourself in my shoes, if it were me, I wouldn't want my school's works to be taken away by a foreigner."
"Some things have nothing to do with copyright ownership. I respect Mr. Negrze's contribution to the development of the piano industry."
Qin Jian said as he thought, "You are known as the most orthodox third generation successor of the Negoz School, so I came to see you this time to ask for your consent."
Yegor put down his spoon and sighed, then shook his head.
——
"Some things have less to do with national borders."