"Dear viewers and friends, hello! This is the scene of the biennial Jianghai Cup Youth Piano Competition, I am Jiajia, I am very happy to share this feast with our music lovers in Jianghai City...... "In the center of the stage of Jianghai Workers' Cultural Palace, Jiajia, wearing a red dress, is elegantly and generously presiding over the opening ceremony of the Jianghai Cup Piano Competition. I haven't seen her for a few years, and her hosting style has become more mature and atmospheric, and she has become the "first sister" in the hosting industry in Jianghai City. The Jianghai Cup was able to invite her to preside over the competition, which also reflects the importance that the city attaches to this competition.

Liu Yufan, Peng Tielin, and An Quantao sat in the players' seats, waiting for the start of the game. Looking at Jiajia in the center of the stage, Liu Yufan couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Three years ago, I met her for the first time at the city-level rehearsal, but I didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, three years have passed.

In the past three years, Jiajia has been a little resistant to "wedding hosting" from the beginning, and slowly began to get used to it. However, she still only insists on cooperating with "Yafan Celebration" and presiding over high-end weddings, although there are not many times a year, but the income brought to her is considerable.

"Next, let us use warm applause to invite Mr. Dai Qiang, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee and also the judge of our Jianghai Cup Piano Competition, to make an important speech, please!" Jiajia said, reaching out to the side and making a "please" gesture.

In the applause from the audience, Dai Qiang walked onto the stage, took the microphone handed over by Jiajia, glanced at the audience, cleared his throat and spoke.

"I am very happy to be able to serve as a judge of this Jianghai Cup Piano Competition. Piano art is a very elegant art, in recent years in our Jianghai City popularity is very fast, more and more teenagers, and even some Chengren joined the ranks of learning piano, it should be said that this is a very gratifying change. This Jianghai Cup piano competition, is the city's second large-scale, professional-level piano competition, compared with the previous session, it should be said that no matter from all aspects, there has been great progress...... "Minister Dai is worthy of a propaganda background, and he does not need a script, so he just took the microphone and talked eloquently, and the speech for a few minutes was clear and hierarchical, although there were some official clichés, but it was not annoying. By the time he finished speaking, the audience below still gave a lot of applause to his face.

However, from this link, it can also be seen that the "professionalism" of this competition is actually not enough. In a real professional-level competition, I am afraid that standing on the stage at this moment will not be an official at all, but a respected pianist or piano educator. Although the speech session arranged by the organizer made the competition more "classy", in the eyes of insiders, it was inevitably a little "nondescript".

Fortunately, Minister Dai was also very self-aware, and did not speak at length for half a day, but only a few minutes, ended his speech, and then returned to the judges' seat.

"Okay, thank you Minister Dai for your remarks. As Minister Dai just said, our Jianghai Cup, compared with the previous one, whether it is the number and level of participating actors, or the professionalism of the judges, there has been a huge improvement, especially today we are honored to invite Mr. Shi Shucheng, a professor of the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music, a famous pianist and piano educator in China, to serve as the judge of this competition, let us all welcome Mr. Shi with warm applause! ”

With Jiajia's introduction, Shi Shucheng, who was in the middle of the judges' seat, stood up and bowed slightly to the audience, and immediately, the audience burst into warm applause.

Most of the audience present today are piano lovers or parents of piano children, and there are also a considerable number of piano teachers, most of whom have heard of Shi Shucheng's name, and naturally know his weight in the piano world.

"Shi Shucheng is here?" Liu Yufan, who hadn't noticed the judges' seat before, was a little surprised and excited when he heard Jiajia's introduction at this moment. Shi Shucheng is the "big bull" in the Chinese piano industry, and he definitely belongs to the Taishan Beidou level. Being able to see the real person up close, Liu Yufan was naturally very excited.

"Mr. Shi's piano level is very good, I heard Mr. Yin say that in the entire Chinese Academy of Music, Mr. Shi's level can be ranked in the top five!" An Quantao looked at Shi Shucheng, and his eyes were also very eager. Compared with his teacher Yin Chengzong, Shi Shucheng's reputation is even greater. Of course, the level of the two people is higher and the lower is that the benevolent sees the people, the wise sees the wise, and the playing styles of the two people are different, but they should be almost the same in terms of level.

"I really didn't expect to see Shi Shucheng here today!" Looking at Shi Shucheng, who had just stood up, Peng Tielin also said with some excitement. He also led the team in the last Jianghai Cup, but the most powerful judge of that year was only the director of the piano department invited from the Tianjin Conservatory of Music. Being able to meet Shi Shucheng, Peng Tielin felt that the trip was worthwhile.

Regarding the enthusiastic reaction from the audience, Shi Shucheng's expression was very calm. After decades of piano education and performance practice, I have seen a lot of scenes much bigger than this. To be honest, if it weren't for Wang He's several invitations from Jianghai City, he was full of "sincerity", and it happened that he was relatively idle during this time and intended to come here to escape the summer, so he would definitely not come to serve as a judge this time. With his fame, it is really overkill to serve as a judge for such an "amateur" piano competition.

Naturally, he didn't expect to find any "good seedlings" in this competition, he has been the chief examiner of the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music for more than 20 years, and he has seen many outstanding seedlings, which are all "killed" layer by layer across the country. After watching that level, and then watching the so-called competitions and exams in various places, it is like a child playing at home.

After introducing the judges, Jiajia announced the rules of the competition and then directly announced the start of the competition.

According to the schedule of the sessions, the morning is the competition of the youth group, and the afternoon is the youth group. So Liu Yufan and the others have nothing to do, and the reason why they came here so early is also to feel the atmosphere of the game, and at the same time to see what level the general level of the game is.

"Okay, so much has been introduced, I believe you can't wait to watch the wonderful competition, and then I announce that the competition of the junior group of the preliminary round of the second Jianghai Cup Piano Competition has officially begun! First of all, I invited the first little contestant, Li Zimeng's child to the stage, and the track she brought to everyone was "Thunder on a Dry Day"

"Mengmeng, go ahead, don't be nervous, play well!" On one side of the stage, a mother is talking words of encouragement to a little girl who looks to be only eight or nine years old and wears a white dress. Thinking about it, this little player who is a little chubby and has a slightly nervous expression on his face is Li Zimeng, who is about to appear. On the side of her skirt, there is also a red number plate with a big "1" written on it.

With her mother's encouragement, Xiao Zimeng walked to the center of the stage with a little nervousness, and bowed to the judges and the audience according to the procedure taught by her mother before, and then came to the piano and began to prepare to play.

"Thunder on a Dry Day" is a very representative Cantonese music, which was later adapted into a piano piece, and is a very famous piece of Chinese piano music. In the textbooks of the Chinese Academy of the Chinese Academy of the Chinese Audio Association, the song is listed as the highest level - the ninth grade of the repertoire, which shows that its difficulty is not low.

Some immature hands rested on the keys, and as the fingers rose and fell, a very chinoiserieous melody came out of the piano.

At the beginning of "Thunder on a Dry Day", it was a melody played by both hands in unison, light and lively, but it was not very difficult, but it took a lot of effort to play that "charm".

It can be seen that the basic skills of this Li Zimeng child are still relatively solid, the hand shape of both hands is relatively standard, and the playing is basically close to the original speed, but in terms of understanding the tune, it is still a little worse.

Shi Shucheng only listened to the beginning, and he was not interested in listening to it. The sound board is dry, not flexible at all, and there is no such charm at all. Although he knew that it was only an amateur competition, and that he was only playing as a teenager at the moment, these were not his considerations. He is engaged in professional piano education, not universal piano education for the general public. At the moment, he regretted coming to this game a little. The thought of having three more days left made him a little big.

Li Zimeng played very seriously, the little girl's psychological quality was good, although she played a little boardly, but she was decent, and she played a song very completely. When she played the whole song, she also won a lot of applause from the audience.

"Okay, the performance of No. 1 contestant Li Zimeng has ended, and we ask the judges to score and make comments." Jiajia said, looking at the judges' seat.

"Her rhythm is very steady, which is very good, and her hand shape is more standardized, you can see that she has put a lot of effort into it. However, when playing in the future, we should pay attention to the handling of emotions and be more delicate in the handling of emotions, and the lively places should be lively. It was Chang Hua who commented, and he just said a few words before it ended. In his opinion, there is really nothing to comment on this level of performance.

"Okay, thank you for the wonderful comments of the judges, and then let's invite the No. 2 contestant, Sun Jiayun, he played the repertoire of "Turkish March"" With Jiajia's announcement, a little fat man about twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a tuxedo, came up to the stage, bowed to the judges and the audience, and sat down in front of the piano.

Listening to the familiar tune, it once again appeared in his ears with an "awkward" attitude, Shi Shucheng crossed his arms, did not say a word, and frowned slightly.

The students on both sides of him also shook their heads and sighed lightly when they saw the teacher's expression, they thought that the players in the Jianghai Cup could be basically the same, but now it seems that they have overestimated the level of piano education here.

"A boring game", the thought came to the minds of both people at the same time.

(To be continued)