The sound of the piano is like a sea, and the applause is like a tide!

The Liszt Cup International Piano Competition, like a piano feast, has been splendid and climaxed in the past few days!

Whether it is a music fan or a journalist, in the past few days, they have been addicted. Watching these top players show off their skills on the stage, these people are both full of ears and eyes!

And all the piano-related media in the world have also worked hard in the past few days and have begun to report this grand event in the piano world!

"The Liszt Cup is hotly started, and the dark horses in the preliminary round are frequent!" This is the cover title of the latest issue of Gramophone magazine.

"The quadrennial Liszt Cup is rekindled, who can laugh at the piano world?" This is the front-page review of the journal "The Sound of Music" in the United States.

"Utrecht Competition Starts, Chinese Legion Huge" is the cover title of China's Piano Art magazine.

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Overnight, the city of Utrecht became the centre of attention for piano lovers and children from all over the world. With curiosity, envy and other moods, people have set their eyes here in various ways.

In China, the CCTV music channel also began to broadcast the whole game for the first time. This has never been done before. The reason why this is so is because in this competition, the lineup of the "Chinese Army" is too large. Lang Lang, Li Yundi, Sun Yingdi, Wang Yujia, Chen Sa, Liu Yufan, a total of 50 contestants, China alone actually accounted for six places, which is really a huge progress!

The most excited are the Chinese music fans. For those who like the piano, they know too well what level of competition the Liszt Cup is. Because of this, seeing that there were six Chinese players in this kind of super-first-class competition, their mood was like chicken blood. became incredibly excited. When I met acquaintances, I had to talk about the game, and when it was time to broadcast the game, I firmly controlled the TV channel and didn't let others get involved. During this time, the ratings of CCTV music channels skyrocketed. There is a faint tendency to chase a set, which makes the editor-in-chief of the music channel happy every day, and can't wait for this competition to continue.

And in the homeland of these players. All piano-related places, including piano shops, training institutions, art schools, cultural bureaus, and publicity systems, have carried out enthusiastic publicity without exception.

In Lang Lang's hometown of Shenyang City, the piano shops and art schools on the street are as lively as the New Year, and you can see "Celebrate Lang Lang's advance to the Liszt Cup preliminaries", "Lang Lang is our pride", "Lang Lang come on!" and other enthusiastic slogans. And in those piano shops that Lang Lang once patronized, the occasional group photos were enlarged into huge sizes and placed in the most obvious places in the store. Not to mention, in this way, it really attracted a lot of customers.

Lang's father and mother have also been very beautiful in the past two days. Especially Lang Dad. When I was raising my son, I suffered a lot. Now it's finally about to keep the clouds open and see the moon. Although my son has only advanced to the preliminaries, it is far from the time of finalization. But for him. This is already a huge success.

"My son doesn't have any secret to learning the piano, it's just a word. Train! ”

"When I was the hardest, I pulled him to stand on the top floor of the music building of the Central Conservatory of Music, and I said either you practice, or we can jump from here together!"

"The house has been sold, and we are now living with relatives, but we have no regrets. For my son to practice the piano, all the efforts are worth it! ”

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In the past two days, in the face of media interviews, Lang's father said the most about these few words, and "jumping off the building" and "selling the house" have quickly become the keywords of music media hype. Even because of Lang's father's remarks, there was a big discussion in China about "how to support children to practice the piano". …,

In Liu Yufan's hometown, Jianghai City, the lively situation is similar to Shen Yang. Jianghai is an open coastal city, and compared with Shen Yanglai, the atmosphere of learning piano is stronger. In the city alone, there are more than 30 large and small piano training institutions, not counting those "wild teachers" who attend classes in school on weekdays and tutor children at home in their spare time. Liu Yufan's deeds in the past two days have also been very hyped here. And those training institutions that have a relationship with him are also really on fire.

The first to bear the brunt is Fu'an County, the county where Yufan is located, and now Wang Baocheng's "Yucai Piano and Electronic Organ Training Class" has a small scale. After Liu Yufan participated in the Liszt Cup and successfully entered the finals, Li Baocheng, who had a flexible brain, immediately realized that this was an excellent publicity opportunity, and regardless of whether Liu Yufan wanted to or not, he immediately gave him the name of "Visiting Professor of the Art Training Center". Anyway, this guy is also a member of the "Legendary Orchestra", and some time ago he also revealed the intention of developing in this area, and Li Baocheng also has many photos of him in his hands, so this little thing can naturally be done in minutes. He is not afraid that Liu Yufan will find trouble with him, with his understanding of Liu Yufan, he will definitely help with this "little favor".

Also very busy is Manager Zhao. The sales manager of Zhujiang Piano in Jianghai area, the most successful thing last year is probably to invite Liu Yufan to be the image endorsement. Although it was just a publicity campaign for Pearl River Piano. However, the results of that publicity campaign are well known, and the song "He is a pirate" swept the country at the same time, it also made many people remember the Pearl River Piano, and even the sales of the piano during this period were particularly good. The quality of the Pearl River piano is very good, but the previous fame has not been too big, this time borrowed Liu Yufan's east wind, and the natural sales volume is "sesame blossoming is high", and Manager Zhao will wake up with a smile when he dreams.

After hearing the news that Liu Yufan participated in the Liszt Cup International Piano Competition and successfully reached the semi-finals, Manager Zhao also immediately decided to do a huge publicity campaign immediately, and take this opportunity to raise the Pearl River Piano to a higher level! With his previous experience, the main factory was also very supportive of him this time, and even sent a special event planning team for him. Once Liu Yufan reaches the finals and even achieves the top three results, they must ask Liu Yufan to carry out another publicity regardless of their blood costs!

All the people or units related to Liu Yufan are actively publicizing, as lively as a festival. Even Yafan's celebration, although it is no longer under Jiang Ya's management, but after Ma Wendong took over, his support for Yufan has not diminished at all, and he has already put "I wish my county player Liu Yufan excellent results in the Liszt Cup International Piano Competition!" The big red banner hung up.

In Dazhai Village, these days are also like a festival.

When Liu Yufan entered the semifinals, Liu Jianjun called his son's two little brothers, Wang Xiaoyong and Xue Dongzhe, and the grandfather and his son set off fireworks in the courtyard for a full hour. In the past two days, the cadres and comrades of the propaganda departments in the town and county, as well as the reporters of the TV station, have not been less "troublesome" with him, and they have inquired about Liu Yufan's recent situation with great concern. At the beginning, Liu Jianjun didn't think it was a big deal for his son to participate in a piano competition, but now that he saw that it had attracted so much attention, he realized that this competition was not simple. Seeing that his son is so promising, he can actually gather together to compete with a bunch of people who play the piano best in the world, and he is naturally very proud in his heart! As for Chu Qing, she has to talk about her son when she meets people in the past two days, and the funny thing is that in the past two days, there have been two or three times more people who have stepped on the door to propose marriage to her son Yufan, and Chu Qing is busy giving her son a "blind date"! …,

Yufan's little sister Xiaoran, in the past two days, has also become the school's "star" figure, as the only one in the school who has passed the most difficult piano major examination in China as early as primary school, she is now in the limelight in Shuangshanzi Middle School. Not only is the music class in the class, but the music teacher directly gave it to her, and even the big and small performances in the town and county have been scheduled until the end of this year! Liu Jianjun is now the principal of Shuangshanzi Middle School, strictly speaking, he was able to become the principal so quickly, and he really borrowed a lot of strength from his son and daughter. When he was focusing on the special education of Shuangshanzi Middle School, his daughter won several weighty awards for him in the city and county competitions, which made him stand out from the limelight. The son is even more generous, and he leaks between his fingers, and directly invests in the construction of a high-standard piano classroom for the school. These are all real achievements, and the town education office also knows what is going on. So when the former old principal was worthy of the second-tier age, Liu Jianjun naturally took over the principal. Now, he can be said to be in good spirits at happy events, proud of the spring breeze, humming a little song every day, with a smile on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.

However, Liu Yufan entered the semifinals, some people were happy, and some people were also unhappy.

In Jianghai, the most unhappy is Wang He. In the past, because of Liu Yufan's examination, the two of them had a big contradiction, originally in Wang He's style of holding grudges, this account was to be calculated with Liu Yufan, but he didn't expect that before he could do anything, this Liu Yufan was like a rocket tied under his buttocks, and he actually soared into the sky. Now, even if he wants to do something to others, he can't do it. On the contrary, because Liu Yufan didn't know much about his piano store and art school before, so he didn't have any video information about Liu Yufan in his hand.

However, it's not his style to just suffer like this, right now, this old boy is rolling his eyes, suffocating.