"Fu Tune"

Fu Tiao stretched out his hand and grasped Jacek Kaspuchik's huge left hand, obviously just holding each other, but he felt that his hand was wrapping Fu Tiao's hand, and the furrow in his hand was clearly displayed between the two, rough but warm and powerful.

This is a hand that has experienced a lot of art, and these hands are the expression of Jacek's thinking about art, and he passes all his thoughts about art to the band under the stage through his hands, so that they become a whole.

Jacek was no ordinary conductor, he was the artistic director and chief conductor of the Chopin Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, and his career began in Karajan, the Karajan Conducting Competition organized by the Conductor Emperor, where he was one of the two laureates and subsequently held major positions in the vast majority of orchestras in Poland.

He is best known for his accurate interpretation of all Polish works, you could even say that all the conductors in Poland have conducted Polish works with no precision and beauty, and his interpretations of works from the Romantic period to orchestral works from the 20th century to the present day are also very good, and his symphonic concertos and operas from Mozart to Puccini Verdi, from Strauss to Wagner, have received wide acclaim.

Therefore, as the conductor of the Chopin Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, he is undoubtedly the conductor of this year's Chopin International Piano Competition, which is why he came to greet Fu Tune as soon as he saw it.

He doesn't care who wins in the end, he only cares about one thing, and that is to make the music as perfect as possible.

Seeing Fu Tiao shaking hands with him, Jacek smiled gently, and shook his palm harder, expressing the importance in his heart, and then slowly let go and said to Fu Tiao.

"There's still a little bit of time now, and the people in my orchestra still need to eat now, so please wait a little longer, wait for them to rest after eating before starting, don't worry about this will encroach on your time, the 3 hours of practice time we give you is calculated according to the time we started, not a fixed time."

With that, Jackek walked towards the seat under the stage with Fu Tuo, he pinched the toast sandwich he hadn't eaten and stuffed it into his mouth, then took the coffee, drank it all, let the coffee soften the sandwich, he chewed it casually, and then swallowed it vigorously, not caring about his image at all.

He leaned his body on the back of the seat, looked at Fu Diao's somewhat restrained figure sitting on the side, couldn't help laughing, and spread his hands: "You look very nervous, do I make you so nervous?" ”

"No, I'm just ......" Fu shook his head, and before he could say anything, Jacek raised his hand to stop him.

"Okay, since you're not nervous, I'm just reminding you not to be nervous, after all, the two of us are in a cooperative relationship, not a relationship between superiors and subordinates, what we care about should be how to express our music more perfectly, not how to talk to make each other happy, so ...... Wait a minute, don't pay attention when I say you're bad, and in the same way, you can just interrupt me if you think I'm not right. ”

After that, he seemed to be afraid that Fu Tiao would not understand clearly, so he reiterated again: "We are cooperating, don't be nervous." ”

"Okay." Fu took a long breath of relief, smiled at Jacek, and handed him the score in his hand: "This is a record I made on the score, it just hasn't started yet, you can take a look, if there is something unclear, you can ask me questions, I will answer, music...... Just follow my direction. ”

"That's right, we're working together!" Jackek laughed as well, and seemed to enjoy Fu Tune's way of speaking, and did not feel Fu Tune's offense.

He took the sheet music in Fu Tuo's hand, raised his watch to look at the time, put the sheet music on his lap and clapped his hands at the group of orchestra members who were still eating baguettes on the stage.

He gave the orchestra another 20 minutes of rest, and he wanted to understand as much as possible what Fu was thinking about Chopin during those 20 minutes.

When the members of the band got the news of Jacek, they didn't talk in that place like they were messy, but were led by the leaders of the various voices, first tuning, and then starting to rehearse in advance some things they hadn't played well before.

Even though Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 was almost etched into their souls, they still needed to practice constantly to make their musical performance more perfect.

For a while, only the sound of the band members practicing in the entire concert hall remained.

Jaccek looked at the sheet music in his hand with a calm expression, and he seriously thought about all the marks on Fu tune, thinking about what effect it would be if he played it with an orchestra.

He looked at it for a long time, probably understood what Fu Tuo meant, and asked.

"So...... Do you want my band to feel more like the waves of the ocean, to push the power of the music forward, wave after wave, and to express the music as little as possible? ”

"Well, almost, but not completely, all the movements of this piece, I hope to be able to make a whole as much as possible, so that the change of mood is smaller in the scheduling between movements, and it is better to add a little more emotion, such as this place ......"

Fu pointed to some notes at the end of the music and spoke.

"For example, in this place, I would like you to play with me in this place without too much dynamics and with a little bit of harmony, especially with the second movement."

"Hmm, I probably know what you want, let the whole movement form a whole, let the music push the mood wave after wave, don't give everyone too much breathing space, and press it directly with the general momentum, right?"

"That's right."

"Then what do you think of how I interpret it in this way?"

Jacek hummed lightly, his fingers dangling in the air, expressing the mood of the music.

Fu Tiao thought for a moment and nodded slowly.

"Yes, but it's not perfect, I want it to be ......"

The two quickly exchanged ideas about the issues between the music, and before they even began, they had a simple collision of ideas.

Jaccek pulled a memo out of his pocket, looked at the notes on the score, wrote them all down in his little notebook, and began to think about how to get the orchestra to play along with Fu and his ideas.

Many people have a stereotype that the conductor is just a humanoid metronome, beating the beat in front and pretending to perform with a small stick.

But in fact, the work of a conductor is not easy, first of all, you have to be an absolutely precise metronome, you can't have any problems with the rhythm, you can't follow the rhythm of the orchestra, you should run to the rhythm in your own mind.

In terms of rhythm, the conductor may be only a little short of the percussion professionals.

In terms of listening, the conductor has to do more than that, he has to be very proficient in all the details of the music, know what he wants and what he doesn't want, and be able to hear everyone's mistakes.

In the midst of countless musical resonances, dozens of musical instruments can hear a problem with an instrument in unison, and even know what he has done wrong, which is also his basic skill.

The same goes for being able to adjust the proportion of music in the orchestra through sensitivity to music, so that the acoustics can be perfected.

If the indiscriminate Dong Guo were to perform in a Western orchestra, he would not have any chance to be kicked out of the door, because these conductors could really hear the problem in the dozens or even hundreds of instruments that resonated.

Of course! If you have something to do with the conductor, that's another story.

Rhythm and accuracy are the most basic skills of conducting, and even if you say that you are a mature conductor, you must master these two skills.

Then, it's the conductor's performance in command.

The baton is not a special instrument, it can even be a pencil, because its main function is the derivation of the fingers, so that everyone can see the direction of his finger movement more clearly.

Even in smaller orchestras, it is okay to conduct without a baton.

The more powerful the conductor, the deeper his understanding of music, and the clearer he can express what he wants to express with his own body, and then use his body and finger movements to drive the whole orchestra.

One thing is very simple, if you use language to say, the music you say may not be able to express it very accurately, and even entanglement between several synonyms for a long time, I don't know which word can express the music you want to express more clearly, and will not cause any misunderstanding.

And the conductor, without singing, needless to say, can simply rely on some small details of his own body to express the music he wants to express very clearly, this is the strength of the conductor.

You know, the conductor is not an instrument, he doesn't control the orchestra as if he were playing an instrument, and the people in the orchestra are not robots without any consciousness, they all have their own ideas about music.

Compared with the director, he is more like a commander, commanding his troops.

And if your commander is too outrageous, the group of people under your command will also resist and refuse to play, causing the music to form a mess.

As a conductor, you have to not only express your own ideas, but also combine the ideas of everyone in the orchestra and find a suitable angle to cut into.

The more powerful the conductor, the more precise his conduct, like a scalpel, directly poking the pulse of everyone's music, showing everything in front of everyone, and integrating all the music together.

This is why many people say that Jaczek is accurate in his expression of Polish music.

Because accuracy is already a very high evaluation.

In the same way, to say that a conductor is like dancing is the worst kind of swearing, because it means that he has no connection with the music or the orchestra, he is just a pure marionette who is carried away by the orchestra.

It's like a boat.

After confirming what Fu Tiao wanted, Jacke nodded slightly, got up directly without any hesitation, clapped his hands at everyone, and after attracting everyone's attention, he turned his body sideways and nodded slightly at Fu Tiao.

"Fu, come to the stage and start our cooperation."

"Good!"

The two walked towards the stage at the same time, and after shaking hands with the principal violin who sat at the front of the violin, Fu Tiao sat directly in front of the piano and waited for the start.

Jackek, on the other hand, leaned slightly on the piano and did not take out his baton, but raised his large hand and stretched it out to the front, slightly parallel to his line of sight.

The concert hall fell silent for a moment, except for the faint breathing of everyone.

Jacek turned his head to look at Fu Tune, and after waiting for Fu Tune's accurate and confirmed response, he didn't hesitate, and after giving a preview with the big hand in front of him, he looked at the string part and waved it vigorously.

Airplanes......

The sound of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 burst out of the orchestra, and at the very beginning, the breath of music filled the entire concert hall.

All the members of the orchestra have followed Jackek's footsteps with great trust and brought out everything in the music.

Jackek didn't change much about the beginning, because forcibly changing it would not help Fu Tune, on the contrary, it might make his musicians confused and unsure of how to play.

What he has to do is to give the orchestra a little hint in some small details, such as a little faster in a certain place, a little weaker in a certain place, a softness in some places, and a turbulent expression in a turbulent place, without changing the original rehearsal of everyone and their thinking about music.

At this time, in fact, you can already see the gap between a good conductor and a bad conductor, Jacek is worthy of being a national conductor in Poland, he seems to have done nothing, not a word to the people in his orchestra, but under his leadership, Fu Tune was extremely pleasantly surprised to find that the orchestra already had a little bit of the feeling he wanted.

It was a very comfortable feeling, as if the music was in perfect harmony with him.

Although there is still a little bump in it, and it is not smooth enough, you should know that this is the first time to play.

Fu Tiao looked at the conductor, silently thinking about his place in his heart, waiting for the conductor's signal.

Sure enough, in the first three measures he was about to play, Jaczek had already set his eyes on Fu Tune.

His left hand gestured to the people in the orchestra, and the music gradually became quieter, while his right hand reached out towards Fu Tune, shook slightly, and then fell hard.

While!

The moment his fingers fell, Fu Tune slammed down his first chord, and everything in the music immediately came out of his music along the stereo.

An extremely strong shock smashed directly on the stage, and some of the players in the orchestra were obviously stunned for a moment, and some even slowed down a little when they entered the band, which made the music feel some dissonance.

This dissonant timbre instantly stunned Jackek, who snorted as he stared at the players who had gone wrong, his eyes narrowed, as if remembering their faces.

When the musicians looked at Jacek's appearance, they couldn't help but feel a stump in their hearts, and they craned their necks, and immediately confessed, so hated that they disappeared into the orchestra.

Several of them glanced at each other and found that in addition to cowardice, there was a lot of shock in each other's eyes.

They were shocked by the feeling they felt when the first note came out.

Even though they had heard an unknown number of players play before, they didn't know how many times they had played this piece, and they knew that this place needed a piano to enter, and they had an expectation in their hearts.

But when they really heard Fu tune playing, they still couldn't help but chuckle, still a little shocked.

When the first note falls, the aura in the music has already emerged, and with the end of the first emotional expression, everything in the music has been vividly displayed.

It's not just the Fu tune that's due, Jackek's subtle control of the orchestra on the side allows the orchestra not just to weaken the sound, but to add a foreshadowing to the Fu tune.

It's a very comfortable feeling, a comfort that everyone in the orchestra can feel.

We're all working together on music, trying to create a perfect piece, not just working.

Of all the people present, who doesn't have a little bit of musical talent? Who doesn't have a love for music from the bottom of their hearts?

When they treat their hobby as their work, they may not love the hobby so much, but they really hear that when they see their hobby become a job, they show a sense of perfection and artistry, and they don't just regard it as a success in their work, but they will feel a sense of joy from the bottom of their hearts.

Excited about their own interpretation.

The orchestra proceeded smoothly, and after the music came out, the slight impetuousness that had been carried by the band before the performance had dissipated completely, and no one would ever wonder if the playing of the Fu tune would not be imperfect, causing problems with their performance.

Everyone began to work in earnest, looking forward to the music in their hands being displayed in front of everyone and amazed everyone.

Fu played as he pleased, and everyone in the orchestra followed happily, except for Jacke, who frowned and looked at the score in his hand.

It's not that Fu or the orchestra is not doing well, but he needs to remember all the problems that arise in the orchestra and make changes next time.

During the rehearsal process, he was the most tired of all, after all, he had a lot to remember.

At the end of the first movement, Jaczek found a suitable angle to calm down the mood a little, and then went straight to the second movement, followed by the third.

It was not until the end of the music that everyone realized what kind of music they were interpreting when they collaborated with Fu Tune.

Jackek took out his notebook, swiped through it, and called several of the principal voices over, told them what they needed to improve, and told them to start looking for the chief instrument under the chief voice, and then to the corresponding individuals to make changes.

Jaccek then asked Fu to start playing, leading the crowd to make adjustments in a few problematic areas, followed by a second and third passes.

Perhaps it's because the Fu tune performance gives them a lot of confidence to look forward to the version they're composing, and they take it very seriously.

Even if they are not particularly convinced by some places in their hearts, under the communication with Jacek and Fu Tuo, the three of them found a suitable entry point and worked together to make the music more comfortable.

The music is becoming more and more perfect little by little, and everyone is becoming more and more confident in the music they want to create, and they are a little reluctant to rehearse until the end of the music.

They felt that if they continued to rehearse, they might be able to make them wait for a version to be played, and it would become one of the most perfect versions in their playing history.

It's just that the time has come, and the next player has already arrived, standing in the distance and waiting.

For a moment, everyone in the orchestra inexplicably developed a trace of hostility towards the next contestant.

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[At the end of the month, I asked for a monthly ticket, and suddenly found that I was on the star list, but unfortunately it was the tail of the crane, and it could fall down at any time.

(End of chapter)