Fu Diao had a lot of chats with everyone at the Royal Conservatoire of England, discussing with them not only issues related to Chopin, but also a lot about his own thinking about music and the handling of some details.

In particular, Fu Tiao's thoughts on music and self-analysis were an eye-opener for all the students.

It is not a lot of experience for a musician who is basically a famous musician to discuss his thoughts on music with them when he was growing up and analyze how he grew up step by step.

These are things that are difficult to hear in master classes.

The students listened to Fu Diao's words and after their discussion ended, they almost performed the same operation in unison.

That is to go to the piano room.

Regardless of whether they have practiced the piano today or not, they all want to go to the piano room and practice some more today.

Fu Diao's music gave them a lot to think about, and they began to think seriously about what kind of interpretation their music should be.

Fu Diao's music is definitely not suitable for them. Fu Diao himself said this, his music is only the most suitable for him.

Everyone has their own interpretation direction. There is no need for them all to gather together and play the same music, otherwise the music will be too boring.

So what kind of interpretation should the music they want have?

Everyone returned to the piano room and couldn't help but start to meditate, looking for the most suitable direction for themselves.

Fu Tiao, on the other hand, returned to the hotel where he lived, took a short rest, and went to the Steinway sales point the next day. After explaining the situation to the people there, he got the key to a piano room.

I practiced piano there and waited for the performance on Saturday.

Time flies, especially for people who work repetitively.

Perhaps without even realizing it, time has passed without a trace.

…

Saturday, half past six in the morning.

It was still dark before Fu Tiao woke up early, took a cup of coffee from the capsule coffee machine in the house, stood on the balcony of the house, and looked around.

This is a four-star hotel. The number of stars is not high, but the location is very good. You can see the Thames River in the distance directly from the balcony.

Christmas decorations have filled the whole of London. Fu Tiao took a quick look and saw that the Christmas lights that had not been turned off were particularly bright in the night city.

On a winter morning, it was obviously not too early to get up, but looking at the gloomy sky without any light at all, I always felt a strange sense of satisfaction that I had worked extremely hard and started working before dawn.

Maybe it's self-satisfaction?

Fu Tiao just stood on the balcony blowing in the wind, thinking wildly in his head. Then he drank all the coffee in the cup, turned back to the house, put the clothes he needed to wear for today's performance smoothly in his bag, and walked away

go.

The main reason why he didn't dress properly before going over was that his suit was a bit cold.

This kind of clothing is most suitable for spring and summer. You will feel cold if you wear it in winter, and you will feel hot if you wear it in summer.

Therefore, Fu Diao chose to put on a down jacket and change into it when he got to the concert hall.

After he packed up everything, he walked unsteadily towards the concert hall.

His steps were not in a hurry, and he looked at London in the early morning in a leisurely manner.

This place seems to be slightly similar to China. Sanitation workers have been driving garbage trucks everywhere to collect garbage very early.

Many migrant workers were also dressed and running towards their units.

Everything is just like those big cities, extremely rushed and chaotic.

Fu Tiao seems to be somewhat incompatible with all of this.

But this is exactly the kind of feeling Fu Diao likes, observing the world as an outsider.

The distance from the hotel to Cadogan Concert Hall is not far. It only took two or three steps to reach the door of the house.

The conductor I saw before had already opened the door to the house and was slowly cleaning up the garbage around the house.

He didn't have any special reaction when he saw Fu Diao's arrival. He just stood up, held the broom in his hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead, smiled and nodded to Fu Diao.

"morning."

"morning!"

Fu Tiao smiled back at him and walked into the concert hall.

In the early morning, the lights had not been turned on in the concert hall, and the room was also dark.

However, this is actually not very important to Fu Tiao, and he will not practice in this place.

According to the address given to him by the person in charge, he walked up the stairs from the side, walked to the back of the house, near the big clock, and opened the door with the key.

This is his preparation room. He is the only one performing in this place tonight, so he is the only one using this preparation room.

This preparation room is different from many preparation rooms I have seen before. There is a small window here, and you can see the scenery outside the window.

Even though the view is not very good, the feeling with windows and without windows is completely different.

At the same time, there is a recliner in the house that can be used to lie back, a small coffee table, a wooden clothes hanger, and a protruding brick made of bricks on the side of the house against the wall.

About 40 cm marble platform.

There are some fruits that can be seen in all seasons such as bananas and apples on the platform, as well as capsule coffee machines and some mineral water for people to use.

Although it is not very expensive, it is quite comfortable.

After all, this is just a preparation room for performers, not a hotel or exclusive room.

Fu Diao looked at everything in the room with great satisfaction. He took out the clothes in the package and put them on the hangers. He patted the folds on them gently to make them as invisible as possible, then took out his music scores and put them on the clothes hangers.

On the piano in front of you.

The next step is to practice the piano, continue to practice, and prepare for tonight's concert.

Fu Diao put his fingers on the piano keyboard and pressed it slowly, feeling the flow of music and thinking about his own music.

Kaka...

About two hours later, around nine or ten in the morning, there was a knock on the door, and the person in charge from before appeared at the door holding the form in his hand.

He looked at Fu and said with a smile.

"Fu, let me confirm with you one last time that for tonight's repertoire, you plan to play Chopin's four Scherzos, as well as Chopin's Mazurkas and Polonaise in the first half, numbered..."

He reported a lot of numbers, then looked at Fu Tiao and asked tentatively: "Is that right?"

"Yes, no problem."

"Okay, then please come here and sign for confirmation."

Fu Tiao stood up and walked to the person in charge, took the form from his hand, confirmed it again, signed his name at the bottom, and handed the form back to the person in charge.

"I've signed it, are there any questions? For example, is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

"No, no more..."

The person in charge shook his head and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and asked Fu Diao: "Oh, by the way, I almost forgot, I just wanted to ask you, we have a video recording function here, do you want to record and archive it?

?Because Deutsche Grammophon didn’t tell us, I don’t know whether to archive it specifically, but this year should be your last concert, do you want to give it a try?"

"Archive..."

Fu Tiao was stunned for a moment, stroking his chin and couldn't help but think, and then asked.

"I think we can give it a try. Does this cost money? How much does it cost?"

"It's not much, it's very cheap, especially compared to renting our concert hall, which costs about a few hundred pounds. If you need it, we can even add an opening and ending to it for you."

"That's it..."

Fu Diao nodded silently and didn't say anything more, he just said to him.

"You can ask Deutsche Grammophon what their opinion is and see what they say. I am not responsible for this."

"Okay, then I'll go ask. You can continue to rest and prepare. I will inform you before the concert starts!"

The person in charge didn't feel sorry, he just smiled casually.

But just as he was about to leave, he thought of something, turned his head and said to Fu Diao.

"Before the concert starts, in the small lobby at the front desk, the bar will be opened. If you like, you can go there to have a drink. Our supervisor and orchestra manager will also be there. Everyone will be there when the time comes.

Let’s have a good chat.”

"Okay, I know."

Fu Tiao smiled and closed the door, letting the room return to calm.

He turned to look at the piano in front of him, shrugged helplessly, and continued to prepare to practice the piano.

For him, it is not necessary to know those people.

Before he has any intention of leaving the world, there is no use in getting acquainted with these people.

After all, it is difficult to rent these large concert halls to individuals. You must have a brokerage company and let the brokerage company negotiate to make it happen.

Especially for medium and large concert halls with more than 800 people, such as Cadogan Concert Hall and the previous Gavo Concert Hall.
To be continued...