While the audience was either thoughtful or looking forward to it, conductor Lausanne on the stage started the beat of the overture to "Bat".
The passionate ensemble sound instantly filled the air of the symphony hall with cheers.
"Professor Fan Ning is really a master of melody. As long as it is his work, the theme will always have a flavor that has the potential to be passed down from generation to generation..."
"Also, although the language of these 'guided tours' he wrote is easy to understand and the length is very short, why do you feel like you have everything?"
Several college students majoring in music in the audience waved their palms leisurely to the beat. After enjoying the overture of "Bat", they gradually realized that although those few paragraphs were only two or three hundred words, the form structure of the entire piece, the music
Image, rhythm changes, main orchestration, important modulations, emotional atmosphere...all kinds of analysis and explanation are included!
Many upright gentlemen and ladies have also discovered that although they are considered frequent concertgoers, without these "guided tours", there are still many key elements that they may not notice.
They are very meaningful, and the process of listening to music to them is also very interesting!
When the four parts of the "Bat" overture were reproduced one after another, and the music concluded with the passionate overture theme, the first round of warm applause erupted from the audience.
"The most important pitch and uniformity of the string section are already 80% satisfactory. The timbres of the woodwind and brass principals are stable and long-lasting, which well support the harmonic colors and passages. The trumpet principal
His performance was particularly outstanding…”
After the first piece ended, many music critics or academic teachers began to judge and think according to professional habits.
"If you look at this orchestra alone, it is of a higher standard among amateurs, but if you also look at Miss Lausanne's solid conducting skills, accurate and passionate terminology instructions, fascinating and unique typhoons, and Mr. Fanning's famous songs
'Creative quality bonus... So, this already has the performance characteristics of a third-rate professional band. The exclusive ticket is eligible to be set in the range of 6-8 pounds. Under the special aura of Mr. Fanning, it can be even higher. And now
, 2 shillings? I’m afraid the difference is close to a hundred times!”
The rules of basic skill training between instrumental music and vocal music are not logical at all.
Considering the background and training time of this group of young musicians, these professionals feel that the performance of the Youth Symphony Orchestra is more surprising and admirable than that of the choir.
Professionals are thinking professionally, but other conservative scholars and media reporters are waiting for another moment worthy of attention.
——When these rude people applaud indiscriminately during the music, you must glare at them with mocking eyes, and publish their crimes of destroying the integrity of music and emotion in the newspapers afterwards!
The familiar "Symphony No. 15 in G minor" by master Tarakani sounded, with the restless background of the woodwind section and the beautiful sentimental theme of the cello...
About 15 seconds before the end of the first movement.
A young gentleman in a suit pushed a small cart with a banner from under the stage from left to right. The height was very suitable, and it basically stopped at the calves of the musicians and conductor, without blocking the stage.
Sight.
The banner clearly stated: There is no need to applaud between movements.
After the timpani ended with the last chord, several workers still cheered loudly in their hearts and clapped their hands subconsciously.
There were a few sparse applause on the stage, but these people were immediately stopped softly by other workers around them.
"Hey, man! Even if you weren't paying attention to the cart, it's on the set list!"
Fortunately, given the warm and cheerful ending of the first movement, these sounds did not cause too much sense of dissonance, because the suppressed coughs from the audience also came out at that time.
Before the end of the second movement, the little gentleman repeated his old trick and pushed the cart past.
This time the Andante movement ended with a relatively quiet and beautiful atmosphere.
However, no one reached out to applaud.
"Those people seem to be so-called 'maintaining art' for such trivial matters as applause between movements, but in fact it is a condescending sense of superiority. It should be noted that in previous opera performances, the audience frequently applauded actors who were singing, but that was still
As a manifestation of respect and affirmation, this convention was slowly formed starting from Romanticism..."
"Today, we can slowly guide and cultivate the habits and tacit understanding of new listeners. If a concert hall or theater has been open for a while, and there is still a phenomenon of applause between movements, at least 80% of the blame should be attributed to the management problems of the hospital.
, and this problem is not difficult to solve, why don’t they solve it? In the final analysis, it is because of insufficient ideological understanding..."
——Fan Ning said this to the staff of Turner Art Hall when he arranged this work before.
Now, this ritual-like temporary end has made many people feel the wonderful tacit understanding and touching feeling.
It wasn't until seven or eight seconds later that the afterglow of emotions was almost released, and the suppressed coughs began to sound in the symphony hall.
The third movement... the fourth movement... ended with warm cheers.
Front-line media, music critics and academics were surprised, while critics such as Macaulay, the editor-in-chief of The Hustle, and the moustachioed reporter of The Affair were very disappointed.
It's true that tendentious negative reports can attract attention, but you can't just say it's heavy rain or make it out of thin air, right?
The concert went on smoothly in an enthusiastic and orderly manner.
At the end of the show, the mustachioed reporter from "The Event" finally started his interview.
"Sir, may I ask which piece you like best?" He caught a middle-aged man wearing a gray-brown coarse cotton coat with a rough face and dark skin.
This was a farmer from the suburbs who had set out two hours in advance and came back. It still took two hours to get back, which made him a little hasty. But suddenly he heard someone asking, and he instinctively stopped.
"Polka, I like all the songs called polka."
"Then do you think you understand these symphonies?" the reporter with a mustache asked.
"I am a farmer, why can't I understand?" The middle-aged man rubbed the back of his head, showing a simple but confused expression.
"'Lightning and Thunder Polka' is about us catching up in a heavy rainstorm while we were dancing to celebrate the harvest, and 'Chatting Quick Polka' is about the wife, daughter and aunts chatting about family matters in the courtyard, and there is another song..." He lowered his head and glanced at the track list,
"Oh, "Peasant Polka", the musicians also sang "Come, come, come" during the performance... Sir, why don't I go home in a hurry, I am a farmer, there is no need to explain this...
"
"..." Seeing the farmer excuse himself with some embarrassment, the mustachioed reporter from "Event News" felt like he was choking on his saliva.
There must be something wrong somewhere. Am I asking the question in the wrong way?
The audience members passed by him one after another, and suddenly, Mustache's eyes lit up.
“Excellent opportunity, what a coincidence!!”
He quickly walked toward an exit in the next area.
Two pretty young girls wearing high-collared dark cloaks and leather boots entered his field of vision.
Although the two women only wore a moderate amount of makeup and were dressed relatively modestly today, with his sharp eyes, he could still recognize them immediately. They were the women who were photographed in the long ticket queue that day and were suspected of being dressed up as sluts.
!
"Two... ladies." After a few breaths, Mustache jumped up to them, followed closely by the two assistants carrying equipment.
"We are a newspaper that has a column about audience appreciation. Could you please interview the two of us and tell us what you heard in Master Tarakani's "Symphony No. 15 in G Minor"?"
This question can be said to be based on lessons learned from past mistakes, and is not "open-ended" at all.
Moreover, he avoided all the premieres of Fanning's new works with titles, and directly chose the only master piece! This early and mid-term work of Authenticism has almost no title at all.
The assistants are ready.
The two girls looked at each other.
"Classic and balanced beauty." The girl in the black cloak on the left smiled politely.
The moustachioed reporter was stunned for a moment.
"Can you expand a little bit? Our entertainment column requires a little... space for each collection of experiences! Yes, a little longer!"
The girl paused for a few seconds, as if she was organizing or recalling something, and then quickly started speaking again. Her words were a little stuttered and convoluted, but the meaning was basically clear.
"For example, the first movement begins with a woodwind accompaniment, um, a minor-key background, a bit sad and uneasy, but very restrained. Then the cello plays a melancholy theme, and the horn and oboe exchange warm subtitles. They have different tones. There is a
Contrast and conflict... The middle section is very complicated, with colors, tones, and intensity all changing many times, like a very tangled struggle... Later the theme and subtitles reappear, and their tones are unified together, as if the conflict has been resolved, this is
Very harmonious, very balanced and rigorous, well, very classically beautiful..."
Mustache and the two assistants next to him were stunned.
The point is not her answer, because the content is actually similar to the "guide" written by Fan Ning on the track list.
The main reason is that I am convinced that when this girl is talking, she is holding the playlist in her hand!
She didn’t follow what she said!!
"You...have you memorized the information on the track list?" Mustache laughed dryly, trying to point this out.
"Yes." The other party nodded calmly, "I didn't buy the cheapest ticket. It cost me 1 shilling. I have watched Mr. Fan Ning's 'guided tour' many times in advance in the past ten days. I think
It’s very interesting, and it’s even more interesting after hearing real music today.”
"Can't this kind of sharing be included in your column?" The girl wearing a blue and black cloak on the right confirmed doubtfully, "We learned it from the materials, but the music majors also learned it from various materials.
To be continued...