Chapter 127: Xia Dong and His Symphony Orchestra
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Looking at the scene where the orchestra teachers were playing on the stage from afar, Qin Jian took out his mobile phone again and confirmed the time.
There are 35 minutes left until the agreed 15:20.
At this moment, Qin Jian established a good impression of this orchestra.
Including many big orchestras in the world, the rehearsals are basically stuck.
Rehearsals usually start at 15:00, but for a variety of reasons, the actual rehearsal has to be postponed until at least 10 minutes later.
The orchestra in front of me had already started to play quietly and neatly 35 minutes before the start of rehearsal.
The quality of such an orchestra is by no means unusual.
Although each member of the ensemble is dressed in casual clothes, the uniform performance and the efficiency of the counterpoint once again reflect the essence of this orchestra.
High professionalism and strong discipline.
This is the Yanjing Philharmonic Orchestra that Qin Jian saw.
But this also made him even more ashamed, after all, the protagonist of the afternoon was himself.
It wasn't until the antiphon on the stage was over that Qin Jian walked to the first row of seats.
After showing the player ID card to the staff, he walked towards the two figures in the center of the seat.
"Huh, Commander Kobayashi is also there?"
Qin Jian's gaze passed, and he secretly thought in surprise in his heart, a man with gray hair was looking at this side with a smile.
When the two looked at each other, Kobayashi Zell had a look that he knew this way before.
Qin Jian hurriedly nodded in response, and then his gaze moved to the middle-aged man on the other side.
The face is simple, the body is bloated, and the eyes are small.
Xia Dong is the music director and chief conductor of the Yenching Philharmonic Orchestra.
The conductor's style is unrestrained and passionate, and he is creative and bold in the orchestration of musical works.
He was even evaluated by foreign media as a 'madman on the command platform'
For this man, Qin Jian's understanding is limited to this.
It's just that judging from the other party's cute face and slightly bloated figure at the moment, it really makes people associate him with the evaluation of the outside world.
"Hello Commander Xia. ”
"You're here. ”
Almost at the same time, the two sentences sounded at the same time, Qin Jian clasped his hands together, and Xia Dong also stood up.
"We still have thirty-four minutes to communicate. Xia Dong looked at his watch, then smiled and stretched out his left hand, "Can you start now?"
"Then I'm sorry for you. Feeling the other party's friendly smile, Qin Jian bowed slightly, and stretched out his left hand neatly.
He feels better about this orchestra.
After a brief exchange of views on this musical work,
"There is only one version of this set of works in the world, so when your work was reported, I didn't arrange for an assistant to find you to match the version again," Xia Dong said and took out a sheet music score with a sense of age from the seat on the side and handed it to Qin Jian, "You take a look first, here are some of my marks and treatments for the work." ”
Qin Jian took it, and was greeted by an extremely familiar cover.
"In addition, I have watched the video of your three rounds of matches many times," Xia Dong emphasized 'a lot', and his eyes showed approval, "You are very good." ”
"Thank you. ”
Qin Jian had already quickly flipped through the score in his hand, but he didn't ignore the detail of looking up and thanking him.
Although the score in his hand was the same as that in his backpack, the marks and marks in many places inside made Qin Jian's eyes shine.
Seeing this scene in front of him, the smile on Xia Dong's face became heavier.
"Sit back and watch, there's still time, don't rush. ”
After 25 minutes.
Qin Jian sighed lightly.
After reading the score in less than 30 minutes, this situation is almost non-existent, but Qin Jian already has a backup of this score in his mind.
So in the process of flipping through quickly, all his attention was put on the places marked by the red pen in summer and winter.
After going through it again from beginning to end, Qin Jian had some new ideas for his understanding of this work.
From Xia Dong's perspective, the piano plays a role in the whole symphony, and he classifies the piano as a color instrument in the symphony orchestra, just like the trumpet in the wind band, the timpani in the percussion group, and the viola in the string group. ”
His collection of coloured instruments also includes harps, celesta, bells and other instruments with unique timbres.
Seiji Kobayashi once said, 'The challenge of a concerto for a pianist is not limited to completing the two lines of music in front of him. ’
Shen Qingci's 'listening' can even be understood as 'using the ears to guide the body to subconsciously control one's hands, but the premise is that the keyboard is like an extension of the hands for the player'.
Conductor Xia Dong put the piano into the standard configuration of the symphony orchestra more simply, so that the piano itself became part of the symphony orchestra
In this way, the conductor can more fully coordinate every position in the orchestra, whether it is the sound or the music itself.
And the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is itself a piano concerto.
Therefore, in this work, the piano, which belongs to the color instrument, naturally comes out of the crowd and becomes the protagonist.
But now he is no longer a concertist, but a member of the orchestra.
A real member, and there is no longer any gap with the orchestra.
Qin Jian didn't know how much impact this kind of thinking from reverse thinking and analysis would have on the work, but his curiosity had been mobilized.
Eyes move to a few lines of handwriting on the last page of the score.
'2004, January 25, Carnegie Hall, Zilhoff'
July 3, 2007, Boston Symphony Hall, Hubard'
'2011, 12 December, Klinka Hall, Peracia'
One great concert hall after another, one great pianist after another
Qin Jian closed the score and handed it back to Xia Dong beside him.
Don't wait for Qin Jian to speak.
"Now that we're done with it, let's listen to the orchestra first,"
Xia Dong said as he stood up from his seat again and slowly walked to the side of the stage.
There was an instant silence on the stage.
"Let's get started. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he started from the first petty position.
The string group, the wind group, and the percussion group, each player is ready to play almost at the same time, and even the posture of the player of the same instrument, the posture of holding the piano and holding the horn is the same.
Before the music started, Qin Jian was a little excited that he couldn't controllably.
Kobayashizel, who had not spoken for a long time, looked at the stage with deep admiration.
Then.
Xia Dong carried his back to the stage, and then simply lifted his right arm above his head, and stayed in the air for about three seconds.
Seeing this scene, Qin Jian held his breath.
I saw Xia Dong squeezing his eyes at Qin Jian with a smile, and when he exhaled, his right hand lightly touched the violin group.
Moment.
A sharp and neat wind, with a Paganini devilish roar, blew from the string section.
Everywhere I went, I shuddered.