Chapter 302: The Transformation of the Sultan
The resignation of the Sultan has caused a lot of turmoil in the West China Conservatory of Music. The school leadership team, including the principal, was also shocked, and asked her to do several jobs in private, but the Sultan had made up his mind, but these people spoke in vain.
At the same time, opposite the West China Conservatory of Music, a small art school called "Huayin Pavilion" also entered the sight of the teachers and students of the West China Academy again because of the incident in the Sultan.
Many students and teachers who didn't know about it before also came here to take a stroll around to see what kind of place it was, so that Sultan, the head of the piano department, gave up his work for more than ten years and went alone.
As a result, many people are disappointed and come back, because they don't see anything too special here, except for the decoration of the store, which is not bad, well, and the flutes sold are really expensive!
However, the name of the person, the shadow of the tree, and the Sultan's work here still attracted some piano students from the West China Conservatory of Music to come here to take her small lessons. Naturally, some of this was something I had learned from her before.
An interesting phenomenon is that after taking a few lessons with the Sultan, these people slowly found that the teaching style of the Sultan seemed to be different from before. In the past, the Sultan would spend a lot of time and energy emphasizing to them the importance of technique, and even that technique is the whole story of a lesson. But now, the Sultan will be more analysed with them about the background of the composition, as well as the "mood", these expressive things.
"Yes, you're a bit out of the realm of relying solely on skill now. At all times, don't forget that technique is always at the service of emotion. A piece of music, without emotion, no matter how gorgeous the technique is, it is meaningless. For example, this "Fantasia" does not require too difficult skills, but if you want to make it taste good, it is very difficult. You must analyze Schumann's mood when composing this work, and then combine it with your own state of mind to play it. "Huayin Pavilion, in a teacher's piano room, Chu Yang is telling the Sultan Schumann's "Fantasia".
Giving a lecture to the former head of the piano department of a national key conservatory, this kind of thing can only be done by people like Chu Yang. But the Sultan listened very carefully!
Chu Yang's theory. A lot she had never heard of before, or had heard of but never taken seriously. Because when she and her teacher were studying those things, the other party passed by and never talked about them carefully. For example, things like creative context and emotional expression. It's a very subjective and idealistic thing. It's hard to explain it clearly if you go to it. So the teachers just let her listen to some famous performances. Then experience it for yourself and imitate it.
Like Chu Yang, take out these mysterious and mysterious things. She broke it open and crumpled it and told it to her, something she had never imagined before.
However, an obvious change is that the Sultan found that the music he played under his hand was indeed different from before, as if there was a little more "style" of those great pianists, which was an indescribable thing, and she had studied the piano for more than ten years, but this was the first time she had such a feeling. Faintly, she felt that she had touched the "membrane" between "piano teacher" and "pianist".
The mood for Chu Yang, the new boss and "teacher", is also slowly changing. From the complex emotions of resentment and dissatisfaction at the beginning, to the current understanding, trust and even worship, this change is directly reflected in the attitude of the Sultan in class.
In the first class, although the Sultan was listening carefully, in her heart, she still regarded Chu Yang as a child, and the feeling was indescribably awkward.
It wasn't until she discovered that Chu Yang's amazing talent and understanding in the piano, the kind of confidence and difference she showed when explaining each piece, and more importantly, she gradually absorbed a lot of piano nutrition that she had never been exposed to before......
Finally, after a few lessons, Sultan, the once proud head of the piano department, became a "faithful believer" of Chu Yang.
She learned about Chu Yang's greatness!
Only a person who has an incomparably profound and systematic understanding of the piano can know how deep Chu Yang's attainments in the piano are!
Whether it's Beethoven or Mozart, whether it's Haydn or Chopin, any piece of music that he doesn't know very well even the last moment can play in less than ten minutes in less than ten minutes, and even point out the importance and difficulty of this piece, and what kind of emotions need to be used to play it. Many of these sayings are so subtle that they have not even been said by some of the previous masters.
Therefore, the Sultan finally believed that there is such a person in this world, who is born to be a genius! If someone told her now that Chu Yang was the reincarnation of great pianists like Beethoven and Liszt, she would probably not hesitate to believe it!
Chu Yang's hands gently rose and fell on the keys, bringing up a dreamlike melody. The sound of the piano seems to make people recall the warm embrace of their mother and the colorful childhood.
It was Schumann's Fantasia, a famous lyrical piano piece.
The Sultan listened to Chu Yang's performance, and in her heart, she unconsciously compared the sound of the piano at this moment with the famous versions she had heard, Li Yundi, Lang Lang, and Kissin...... Somehow, she actually felt that this version of Chu Yang actually sounded the most comfortable and pleasing to the ear.
There is no trace of pretense and profundity, and there is no trace of artificiality. All the rhythms and phrases are so natural, as if they flow from the bottom of my heart. The hands, as if attached to the keys, seem to deviate from the standard academic requirements, but every time the fingers are raised and touched, they look so pleasing to the eye, and the hands are like cats lazily walking on the keys, softly and silently, but full of elegance.
At the end of the song, the Sultan actually heard it, and he had a feeling that he was still unfinished.
"Alright, that's all for today. How was the piano teaching in the past two days? Chu Yang finished demonstrating this "Dream Song", got up and asked casually.
"There are more than 40 students who come to the class regularly, and the classrooms are a little insufficient, and I can't cope with it alone, so I suggest that you better hire a few more piano teachers, and if the art school can afford it, expand it a little more. With the current situation of students, it is cost-effective to build a separate classroom for piano students, with at least 20 standard piano rooms. The Sultan said.
"So many piano students?" Chu Yang was a little surprised, but then reacted, all this is the Sultan's credit, presumably under the influence of her fame.
Thinking of this, he said half-jokingly: "I didn't expect to make a bet, but I won back a famous teacher, and you will be the head of the piano department in Huayin Pavilion in the future." ”
"Okay, that's what you said, you can't regret it! Headmaster, why don't you give me an approval now? The Sultan was also joking with Chu Yang. With this period of contact, the unhappiness between the two people has already faded with time. And Jiang Hao, the original culprit of this matter, according to Tang Hong and Chu Yang two days ago, was also transferred from his post and now holds an idle position in the company, obviously Jiang Hao's behavior made Tang Hong really angry!
Tang Hong's piano skills during this period can be described as coming in by leaps and bounds. Almost every time Chu Yang went to teach her, she could feel this kind of progress. Now that Tang Hong has finished playing the 299 course, and Bach's three creative works have also finished playing most of them, Chu Yang has already considered giving her 740 and "French Suite" in the next step. To such an extent, in fact, Tang Hong played "Revolution" directly, and he could reach it with hard work, but Chu Yang still didn't let Tang Hong play this tune, what he wanted was to let Tang Hong play this piece at an absolutely condescending level!
And after this period of study, Tang Hong also admired Chu Yang's piano level so much that he directly deified him. Now for all the exercises that Chu Yang assigned her, Tang Hong can be said to be obedient. No matter how busy she is at work, she regularly dedicates an hour to practice every day. Under Chu Yang's efficient guidance, the efficiency of this one-hour practice is quite high, and it can be compared to the effect of two or three hours of practice by those professional students in the United States!
Hearing the Sultan's words, Chuyanhaluha laughed.
"Okay, no problem, I'll give you an approval later, but shouldn't I also give myself this principal's approval first?"
"How can anyone give himself an approval? However, Chu Yang is honest, if you can personally guide the teaching, I estimate that there will definitely be an explosive growth of Huayin Pavilion's students. You don't know how much my students adore you, and they want to hear your piano lessons. The Sultan said with a smile.
"Well, let's talk about it when we have time, it's too busy at this time. Tomorrow I will go to Baodao with Mr. Ma Di to attend his bamboo flute concert, and when I come back, if I have time, I will give a lesson to the students of our art school. Chu Yang touched his nose and said with some embarrassment. It seems that he, one of the three major shareholders of Huayin Pavilion, has never bothered about the work of the art school, the flute sales piece was thrown to his father and the employees in the store, the flute teaching piece was thrown to Ma Di, and the newly opened dance class has Xiaoyan there to top, saying that now there is another sultan, and the piano can just be handed over to her. In this way, Chu Yang is really being a shopkeeper.
"I really don't know where you get so much energy, others have practiced the piano all their lives, and they haven't seen you to this extent, you still have time to practice the flute." The Sultan smiled helplessly and shook his head.
"Husband? Husband, come over quickly, you're famous! Chu Yang was chatting with the Sultan when Xiaoyan's excited voice suddenly sounded outside the classroom. (To be continued......)