910. Langton's first lesson, Xiaopang's semester task! 【Part 2】
"But I really want to go to Paris in July this year."
Langton added, "There will be so many festival visitors, they will never turn me away."
Qin Jian was amused by Langton's statement. To be honest, he just answered the question and had no intention of extending an invitation.
As for the blacklist mentioned by the other party, he speculated that it might be because Langton had written some "violent" music reviews for some music festivals.
After two days of getting along with each other, he could somewhat appreciate the critical spirit in the other person's thoughts.
Regardless of whether he is right or wrong, Langton dares to say anything.
He didn't like Shen Qingci's piano music, laughed at Norman for not understanding Beethoven, and said that the British did not have classical music.
In fact, in Qin Jian's view, this is the attitude that a serious scholar should have, and from the current situation, Langton does have something in his heart.
"Professor." Qin Jian suddenly mentioned last night, "I went to see Professor Norman's string quartet last night."
Langton was not surprised by this, "How does it feel?"
Qin Jian did not intend to hide anything due to the other party's suggestion, "I think the F major song is pretty good." But he retained part of his true thoughts after comparing it to the Weig Quartet.
"I didn't listen to it live, and I don't know how many string quartet works you've heard before."
Langton said earnestly, "But I reserve some personal advice, just for you."
"Regarding concerts, no matter what, I only recommend that you go and listen to the top musicians in the future."
"If you are lucky and encounter a good work, you will win."
"A top-notch musician or team, plus a good piece of music, is enough to make your ears remember this unforgettable night."
"It doesn't matter if you're not lucky, even if you only encounter some ordinary tracks."
"When you finish listening to it and walk out of the concert hall, you may even feel that tonight was a bit ordinary."
"But you don't realize it, and your auditory nerve is not polluted."
"Qin, this is an effective measure to ensure that your ears can remain in a highly sensitive state for a long time."
"For anyone who has the ambition to become a legendary performer, sensitive hearing is even more important than dexterous hands."
"On the contrary, in a concert, if the musicians on the stage can't even play the music clearly, then you will not only waste ninety minutes, but your ears will also bear extra burden."
"Over time, when your ears become extremely mediocre, your fingers will also become dull."
"After Beethoven's hearing system declined, his playing level plummeted to the level of a third-rate performer in Vienna at that time, so today people can only call him the greatest composer."
"After Mozart came to Vienna, he only listened to Haydn and Clementi, and when he suffered from tinnitus due to excessive drinking, he almost never played the piano in public again, except when summoned by the emperor."
"Speaking of Clementi, Clementi was almost the most self-disciplined performer of his era, so his piano playing skills were able to support him until he established a sect in his later years."
"Liszt had a personal otologist who performed hearing tests for him once a week. Liszt never attended anyone's concerts. In the salon, his attention was only on self-bragging and the praise of others.
The person sitting at the piano is Chopin."
After listening to Langton's speech.
Qin Jian summarized it as - the importance of ears to a performer - he understood this deeply even if the other party did not give any examples, although the stories of several musicians made him gain knowledge.
But the question lingering in his mind did not go astray, "How to define a musician as a top musician?"
Going back to the beginning of the concert topic, Qin Jian needed Langton to solve this problem.
Langton stretched out his hand and gestured to Qin Jian, "Aren't you a top musician?"
Qin Jian smiled awkwardly but politely. "I don't understand violin. Now I want to listen to a violin concert, so what criteria should I use to determine whether the other party is a top musician, or what are the criteria for a top musician?
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"Fame."
Langton gave an answer that Qin Jian couldn't accept for a while, "As long as a performer is famous enough, he is a top musician."
Qin Jian shook his head, "Professor Langton, I'm sorry that I simply cannot accept your point of view. I believe that there are too many people in the world who are talented and working hard. They just lack a stage."
"too much?"
Langton seemed to have heard a joke, "I bet you can't name anyone like this."
The atmosphere in the classroom became quiet.
fragment.
Qin Jian smiled helplessly and sighed, "Well, I really can't tell, but how can you prove that these people I mentioned don't exist." He had just looked it up in his mind for a long time, but there was only a vague figure.
None emerged.
Langton:
"First of all, your so-called talent, in my opinion, excludes 99.99999% of people with musical talent in the world."
"You don't understand what talent is at all."
"Secondly, hard work will only have some effect on the sporadic 0.000001% of people."
"In the end, almost all of them have become famous, or are on the way to becoming famous."
"Okay, Professor.
Qin Jian nodded for a moment, "So can I understand now that you admit that any famous performer is a top musician?"
Langton: "Yes."
Qin Jian: "So if a second-rate performer is just packaged by the management company as a famous performer, do you also admit that he is a top player?"
Langton: "You can go ahead and try to give examples."
The first figure that popped up in Qin Jian's mind was Adams, but he immediately gave up his idea.
He acknowledged Adams' level.
"Qin, there are five minutes to three o'clock, have you decided to give up the harmony class?"
As soon as Langton finished speaking, Qin Jian immediately raised his hand and glanced at his watch, "Goodbye, Professor, we are not finished with this issue yet."
"You're welcome any time." Langton gave way to the bookshelf gracefully.
Qin Jian stuffed "The Archaeologist with a Photographic Memory—Saint-Saëns" back on the bookshelf, then hurriedly left the No. 5 piano classroom with the sheet music.
After Qin Jian left, Langton went to the refrigerator and took out his strawberry pie, returned to his desk and ate it.
Looking at the new semester courses that he spent all morning reorganizing for Qin Jian, he hesitated again.
He has listened to all of Qin Jian's musical works, and his favorite is the Mozart works played by Qin Jian.
Before meeting him, he thought that a performer who could play Mozart's music as if he was Mozart himself would be a person with no distracting thoughts in his mind.
But after this afternoon's discussion, he suddenly became interested in Qin Jian's growth experience.
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"It seems that he is not suitable for Bach yet."
Following Beethoven, Langton once again crossed out Bach's works that belonged to Qin Jian's teaching plan in his work diary.