Chapter 311: Radetzky's applause
It's just that no matter who it is, they didn't think of why the Grandmaster would do this. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The reason why the Grandmaster did this was to create a unique opening in this world for the upcoming performance of the Radetzky March.
In previous lives, the finale of the Vienna New Year's Concert was also the Radetzky March, and almost every conductor conducting the Vienna New Year's Concert, whether Karajan, Zubin Mehta, or Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, or Jansons, would have performed the Radetzky March in almost the same way.
That is, the conductor is still outside the orchestra pit, and he has already begun to conduct the performance of this piece.
This kind of command style has been commonplace in previous lives, but in this world, no conductor has ever had such a command style. All conductors in this world will only start conducting after standing on the podium in a serious manner.
Therefore, the Grandmaster wants to create a precedent for the world, a precedent for a conductor to conduct an orchestra!
Therefore, when the grandmaster walked out of the backstage entrance, whether it was the eyes of the audience or the footage of the live broadcast, almost all fell on this conductor who suddenly withdrew but suddenly appeared on the stage.
No one could figure out why the Grandmaster did this, but today the Grandmaster was good enough, so good that the vast majority of the audience had already ignored his age and completely accepted him.
However, this kind of behavior, which is obviously contrary to the performance process of the concert, really confuses the audience.
Was it a mistake or something else?
The grandmaster's only one exit and reappearance made all the audience's eyes focus on him.
Then, almost everyone saw a very peculiar scene, but afterwards it was a very wonderful action.
I saw that the grandmaster with a smile on his face suddenly raised his baton as he walked, and then tapped lightly at a certain position in the orchestra, as if he was directing a certain musician to start playing.
This kind of action is undoubtedly a command action, but where is there a command from this position? Isn't this a joke?
Just as the question almost arose in the minds of all the spectators, they heard a sudden chord of snare drums in the orchestra pit.
Obviously, the action of the Grandmaster just now was the same action that commanded this snare drummer to play!
"Huh, is this the beginning? This opening is really unprecedented!"
"This opening is really special!"
This is the thought of almost all the audience at this moment, even including His Majesty the Emperor and the Queen Mother in the royal box.
The fierce snare drum struck three syllables, and the grandmaster walked to the podium to stand still with the sound of the snare drum of these three syllables.
Then the fourth syllable, the timpani, the bass drum, and the cymbals were added, but the sound of these instruments was not very strong, and the deep sound seemed to be brewing something.
Sure enough, when the fourth syllable ended, all the percussion instruments, all the strings, all the woodwinds, all the brass instruments, all began to play together, and it was a very unrestrained and passionate melody at the beginning. And this short melody is the introduction to the "Radetzky March".
The Radetzky March is a typical trilogy-like march, and the whole work is in D major, in 2/2 time.
Almost all the audience at the scene were shocked by this little passionate melody, and after this short introduction, the melody entered the theme of the A section.
At this time, all the audience members realized that the conductor, who was supposed to be facing away from the audience, turned away from the orchestra musicians.
The Grandmaster turned around with a smile on his face and made a clapping gesture to the audience, but then his left hand also made a slight downward gesture.
These two gestures are linked, and even those who have never watched a concert understand that the conductor is asking the audience below to join in with applause.
In all the concerts before, there has never been a conductor who has asked for applause in such a way. However, the A-section beat of this "Radetzky March" is too suitable for the rhythm of applause, and all the audience at the scene also found it very interesting to clapping and harmonizing with the conductor on stage.
I've never seen anything so fun before!
As a result, a part of the audience began to applaud softly to the beat of the Grandmaster's gestures.
One person applauded, ten people applauded, and soon, the audience applauded gently.
Not to mention, this passionate melody is intertwined with rhythmic applause, and there is an indescribable sense of tacit understanding, as if this melody was born to clapp.
After the six-bar applause, the musicians in the orchestra pit suddenly strengthened their pitches, and although the next six bars of the melody were the same, the momentum of this short melody was far beyond the small melody that had just been gently clapped and joined.
At this time, the grandmaster facing the audience suddenly raised his hands at the audience!
Of course, the audience understands what this action means, and this is to increase the intensity of applause!
So, with smiles on their faces, everyone suddenly increased their applause. The entire Tiandu Music Hall was instantly enveloped by the melody of the instruments and the uniform applause......
It's just that after this melody ended, just as all the audience was applauding, the melody changed, and the grandmaster also made a gesture of waving his hand.
At this moment, the audience, whose hearts were all hooked, immediately understood what the grandmaster was asking for. He was asking the audience to stop clapping and singing in unison.
As a result, almost all the audience who were applauding immediately stopped what they were doing.
But at this time, almost all the audience had a big smile on their faces.
It's fun, it's really fun!
I've only seen an orchestra conductor and a musician play before, but I've never seen the conductor turn around and direct the audience to "play" alongside it!
That's right, in the eyes of these applauding audiences, isn't their own applause also a kind of performance?
Even the crown prince and princess in the royal box put down their hands, ran to the side of the father and the queen mother and said with a smile: "Father, I think the master will turn around and command us to applaud together in a while, and the father and the queen mother will also come together! This feeling is really amazing, but it is really fun." Just now I saw the Prime Minister and Uncle Huang all applauding!"
The queen mother touched the crown prince's head with a smile, and said to His Majesty the Emperor Hua with a smile: "Your Majesty, this master is really very thoughtful, and I want to applaud and sing along with such a conductor." ”
His Majesty Emperor Hua laughed and said, "This kind of command style has never been seen before, it is very interesting and very good. This kind of conducting method can combine the audience and the orchestra very well, and everyone here must obey the baton in this kid's hand, as if even I, the emperor, are embarrassed to avoid it!
Even the emperor's family had this idea, and the audience who applauded and sang in unison just now was even more happy.
It is really great that a concert that was originally very serious and elegant has become extremely accessible to the people under such a conducting style.
And those spectators who didn't applaud just now because of their face also regretted it at this time -- it seems that playing like this is really fun! Even the Prime Minister and His Royal Highness King Qin seem to be applauding in unison!
Many of the more viewers on the Internet and watching the live TV broadcast put down their hands with laughter at this time, listening to the extremely beautiful and passionate melody while looking forward to the next turn of the grandmaster.
What the audience thinks, the grandmaster naturally doesn't know, but the grandmaster knows very well that once such a command method appears in this world, it will definitely cause a sensation.
In the previous life, this kind of applause had a very loud title, called "Radetzky Applause", as the name suggests, this way of clapping and harmonizing began to circulate from this "Radetzky March".
It's just that the era of "Radesky applause" began, this grandmaster is not very clear. But there is no doubt that there was already "Radetzky applause" in the days of Postowsky (principal violin of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, who was the annual conductor of the Vienna New Year's Concert for twenty-five consecutive years from 1955 to 1979).
It has been said that in the earlier days of Klaus (who conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert from 1939 to 1954), there was also a "Radetzky applause".
Regardless of whether "Radetzky applause" is appropriate, this way of using applause for chorus has indeed formed a tradition in previous lives. In the previous life, the Vienna New Year's Concert began to implement the annual conductor system of rotation in 1987, and in that year, Karajan's Vienna New Year's Concert refreshed the world's eyes, and at the same time, Karajan, who had only served as the annual conductor of the Vienna New Year's Concert, also let the Chinese people know about the Vienna New Year's Concert, and know the "Radetzky March" with applause and chorus.
Since Karajan, the Vienna New Year's Concert has changed its conductor of the year every year, and although there are also famous conductors such as Jansons, Abbado, Mehta and others who take turns to be the annual conductor of the Vienna New Year's Concert, the conductor of the year for the two Vienna New Year's Concerts will definitely not be the same person.
Each of these conductors of the year conducted the final Radetzky March in a different way of directing the audience to applaud and harmonize. Like Karajan, he is calm and not playful like an old child, like Zubin Mehta, who is as rigorous as ever, even when conducting the audience to applaud, just as rigorous as he conducts the orchestra musicians, like Maris Jansons, who is very chic and interacts with the audience very deeply: like Daniel Barenboim, it is very balanced.
In order to make the "Radetzky applause" take root and spread in this world, the grandmaster also spent a lot of brain cells, and he combined the style of several famous annual conductors in his previous life to conduct this piece, and finally formed his own set of conducting methods.
Because the Radetzky March is a trilogy structure, there are three A-section melodies and three "Radetzky applause". The first time was because the audience had never seen such a way of conducting, so the applause was not very enthusiastic, after all, there were still some audience members who did not applaud.
But when the melody reappeared in section A for the second time, when all the audience saw that the grandmaster had turned around again, they all lifted their spirits at once.
Even His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress Mother in the royal box stood up.
The next moment, when the familiar A short melody sounded, the Grandmaster made a clapping motion again, and this time, almost everyone, including His Majesty the Emperor Hua, the Queen Mother, the Crown Prince, and the Princess in the royal box, applauded to the rhythm of the melody.
From His Majesty the Emperor to His Royal Highness the Prince, to the Prime Minister, to the Cabinet members, to the ordinary audience, even the old mother sitting in the center of the first row of the audience applauded.
It's just that this applause may be a little too loud because the audience is too excited, so the grandmaster immediately made a gesture of pressing down with both hands, followed by a "shhhhh
This extremely people-friendly action immediately made all the audience laugh. But it is precisely this almost child's play that also makes the atmosphere of the scene more enthusiastic.
Even His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress stood up and applauded in unison, can this atmosphere not be warm?
But the atmosphere was warm, and the applause became smaller when the second melody arrived.
At this time, the Grandmaster made another unbelievable gesture, this guy actually put his left hand next to his ear and made a listening gesture.
The meaning is obvious - guys, now your applause is too small for me to hear!
This action was like a fuse, quickly igniting the entire concert hall, and the next moment, the applause in the entire concert hall increased tenfold!
All the audience were laughing and applauding desperately, and the live broadcast camera also captured a classic shot of His Majesty Huahuang.
In the live broadcast footage, I saw His Majesty Emperor Huahuang, who was originally smiling on his face, pointing in the direction where the command was, and then suddenly laughed out loud, and His Majesty's Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Princess also laughed, looking extremely happy. The family then laughed and clapped harder.
Obviously, this family, which can be called the most noble family on this planet, is also obeying the command of the grandmaster at this time!