Chapter 62: Principal Violin

Zhang Dabao's mood these days is quite complicated, if you use a more cliché sentence to describe his current mood, that is, "one side is the sea, the other side is the flame". Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

That's right, Comrade Zhang Dabao, the head of the Tianqu Symphony Orchestra, and Comrade Zhang Dabao, who is affectionately called "Zhang Touer" by those musicians in the orchestra, are now in a mixed mood.

The worry is that because the orchestra's performance has not been good recently, many musicians in the orchestra are now ready to move and are ready to jump ship to find another job, and even the principal violin, whose status is second only to the conductor in the orchestra, has secretly run away, which is really a headache.

A symphony orchestra relies on a large number of highly skilled musicians, and without professional musicians to support a symphony orchestra, then the orchestra is an empty shelf. For a symphony orchestra, a musician is what a good voice is to a singer and inspiration is to a composer.

"These bastards! Bastards who don't pay attention to righteousness! Bastards who forget their righteousness! Bastards who don't have the spirit of sharing hardship! Now that the orchestra hasn't closed the door yet, all of his sisters are like rabbits! Especially Zhao Le, a bastard, is simply a white-eyed wolf, and he can't raise it well!" Zhang Dabao will inevitably blurt out when he thinks that the orchestra principal violin he has carefully cultivated has run away when the orchestra needs him the most, and his swear words will involuntarily blurt out.

But what can be done? As the so-called catastrophe comes, who can't make the orchestra leader more profitable?

But if you think about the three tunes in your hand, Zhang Dabao's mood will suddenly improve.

"That is definitely a killer feature that can change the current embarrassment of the orchestra! Although the band is almost practicing together, but Zhao Le's bastard actually ran away at a critical moment, isn't this flashing Lao Tzu's old waist!" No matter how good the mood is, once he thinks of that white-eyed wolf, Zhang Dabao will scold.

The three pieces provided by the grandmaster were originally practiced by the entire orchestra altogether, and now they are waiting for the publicity to be in place, and they can be performed in the concert. Zhang Dabao is very sure that with these three pieces as the foundation, a concert will definitely be extremely successful. But the band's principal violin actually jumped ship at such a critical time.

It's like a racer who is about to be the first to cross the line and the car bursts or a tire, or a pole vaulter who is about to take off and the pole vaulter suddenly breaks......

It is not easy for an orchestra to train a principal violinist, quite not easily.

Principal violin is not only a good performer for you, but also a hub of communication between the conductor and the orchestra in order to become a qualified principal violin. A person who is not good at communication will not be able to be the principal violinist.

In this world, the development of the symphony orchestra is no different from that of the previous life. In the beginning, the symphony orchestra was unconducted, but at the end of the seventeenth century, the four-part string orchestra was stable, which was the basis of the modern orchestra. In the mid-eighteenth century, the violin family replaced the violin family, the transverse flute replaced the recorder, the oboe replaced the chaums and the Cuban pine winds, the orchestra horn replaced the hunting horn, and the orchestral parts were established: strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion.

But until the end of the nineteenth century, all French conductors were violinists, and they conducted the orchestra with a violin bow, and by 1878 the conductor in Paris was holding a violin bow instead of a baton. At this time, the principal violin has an assistant conductor who is next to the keyboardist, who is responsible for guiding the keyboard to strike the correct melody as he plays the key positions, while the principal violin continues to guide the entire orchestra.

However, at the end of the eighteenth century, as the music became more and more complex, and at the same time the harpsichord withdrew from the stage of history, the violin principal had too many tasks to estimate more things, and the violinist's stomping and keyboardist's clapping made the musicians very easily distracted, so an independent control force was needed to control the performance of the whole piece, so a full-time conductor appeared, and the violinist gradually retreated to the second line, only responsible for leading the pitch and tuning of the entire orchestra and responsible for some solo parts.

Therefore, in terms of the history of the orchestra, the principal violin is the second person in the orchestra.

In fact, even now, the role of the principal violin in the orchestra is extremely important. When the orchestra begins to learn a new piece, the principal violin needs to develop a standard of bow and fingering for the entire violin part, and then make modifications and adjustments based on this basis. When playing, the principal needs to "communicate" with the members behind him with more exaggerated body movements, such as obvious breathing, or raising the headstock.

In addition, the conductor is the intermediary between the orchestra and the conductor, and the orchestra is the instrument used by the conductor to express the music, so it can be assumed that the conductor is a transmitter of information, and if there is no conductor, all the orchestra members are the recipients. Everyone has a different understanding of the conductor's movements, so the first time a band plays a piece is a mess. At this time, the principal needs to communicate with the conductor (including verbal communication and observation and interaction during performance) to determine what the orchestra's understanding of the conductor should be, and then communicate with the orchestra members (including good descriptions, training and agreed action prompts) to unify the musical feelings created by the whole orchestra.

Therefore, the more important role of the principal violin is to communicate. And it takes a lot of effort for an orchestra to train a conductor who can act as a hub for such exchanges. It is not an exaggeration to say that the conductor can be changed at any time, but if the principal violin is missing, then the whole orchestra is equivalent to half of the collapse!

That's why the principal violin is irreplaceable in the orchestra. That's why the Principal is the last member of the orchestra to come on stage every time he performs, sits closest to the conductor, stands up to tune the orchestra before the performance, and shakes hands with the Principal when the conductor enters and exits.

The principal violin is called the "second conductor of the orchestra", and that is not for nothing.

But on the contrary, the most important principal violin in the Tianqu Symphony Orchestra ran away so quietly, can this not make Comrade Zhang Dabao thunderous?

However, Zhang Dabao's mood that had been impatient for several days was relieved a lot by a piece of news yesterday morning. According to Li Wei, the pianist in the troupe, the first violin of their Huangyin year, Yan Tianjiao, who had won the first place in the "Greater China United Kingdom Youth Violin Grand Prix", wanted to come to the Tianqu Symphony Orchestra.

This news is undoubtedly good news for Zhang Dabao, because Li Wei said very clearly that when Yan Tianjiao graduated last year, he was directly named by the Jinmen Symphony Orchestra to leave, and he also studied under Rong Lao for more than half a year, and was trained by Rong Lao as a reserve principal violin......

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