"So, Mr. Fan Ning chose to premiere his new work here? Use works instead of arguments?"
"Is it a short piece, or a complete multi-movement work?" The guests whispered among themselves to see if anyone in the know had known more information in advance.
Music performance is an important element of the salon, and the premiere of a new work deserves more attention. As long as it is the premiere of an exquisite sketch, a certain salon can be mentioned frequently in other social occasions for a period of time, so people's interest is fully mobilized
stand up.
The lights in the hall went out briefly, and when they came back on, only the central circle remained.
Four chairs and four music stands formed a simple stage, with three ladies and a gentleman standing in front of their respective seats.
The waiters had entered without leaving a trace from around the hall, lighting candlesticks everywhere to create a contrast between light and dark, not making the stage too dazzling, but also allowing the guests to focus on the upcoming performance.
"A performance that was not announced in advance." The candlelight reflected the smile on the face of the Marchioness nearby, "This is our little hostess, Miss Roy McAdam, together with the young composer Mr. Carolne Van Ning, performing for you
Planned surprise…”
The Marquise introduced them one by one: "In addition to them, the others are also students from the Conservatory of Music of the University of San Lenia. The gentleman who plays the viola should be familiar to everyone: Lu from the Adair family, and these two others.
The beautiful little girl is Joan, the daughter of Lord Nehemiah, and Sheeran, the daughter of the late famous composer and conductor Anton Konard of the Conservatory of Music..."
The information from the four performers also allowed the guests to continue to interpret its meaning.
"Mr. Lou Adair, a member of the railroad tycoon family, stands for this, which has already foreshadowed some of Mr. Fanning's artistic personality..."
"The two violinists are the two beautiful little girls in the front row during the meal. That's it..."
"I didn't expect that the most noble and dazzling Miss Roy personally participated in this performance..."
Roy usually has some performances at school, but whether it is the symphony hall or the chamber music hall, he has a sense of distance from the audience "on stage and off stage".
At this time, it was "chamber music" in the true sense. This rare atmosphere of "cordial conversation" made the gentlemen and ladies sitting next to it, including many young admirers, very excited.
As for Huxley and several other professors, they were both surprised and found it quite useful.
After all, this is the home of the Bologna School, and the composers and performers are all students, which adds a lot of honor to their reputation.
"So is this Caron's initiative or Roy's push? Or is the relationship between the two closer than I thought?..." Vice President Huxley sat on the soft sofa, sipping a sip of red wine, secretly trying to figure out the details.
"This year's cooperation between the school and the city concert hall has received widespread attention from the art world, with both praise and skepticism. If the premiere tonight is good, it will be another round of momentum building in the mainstream media... Well, having said that, it still depends on the quality of the music.
How about this, this should be Caron’s chamber music work for his re-examination..."
After the four people on the stage saluted the audience, the three of them sat down first. The first violinist, Sheeran, walked to the piano on one side and pressed the keys for correcting the intonation. The last one took his seat.
"String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, 'Death and the Maiden', dedicated to Marquis Paul McAdam... Speaking of which, this is also a piece of title music... Let us leave the rest of the time to the music itself."
Amidst the friction of the open strings, the Marquise's introductory words ended, and then she walked off the stage.
Fan Ning put one hand on the armrest of the sofa, changed to a comfortable position of leaning on his side, and looked at the four people under the light from a distance.
On the stage, Xilan looked at the other three people, and then raised his right hand slightly while holding the bow, which acted as a preparatory shot while accumulating power.
The four of them pulled the bowstring cleanly!
The powerful strings play in unison, presenting the D minor triplet motive of the introduction.
This unison is impactful, pouring, opening in a tearing way, and finally pauses on the dominant chord of A major.
With 14 bars, an introduction of just over 20 seconds, and a distinct musical image, it has firmly grasped the tension of the audience.
At the beginning of the exposition, the first violin Sheeran played an ascending melody, and at the same moment, the other three imitated and developed the triplet motive in the introduction, forming a polyphony with each other, as if life was struggling to climb, and death was approaching step by step.
.Then the subtitle was played by the violin and viola ensemble, with a sweet pastoral style and a jumping rhythm full of vitality.
The conflict between the two is undoubtedly antagonistic. They are confronting and entangled with each other, but they are reluctant to start a fight. They are like two knights quietly dealing with each other in the duel field. They will not easily use their swords until they find each other's weaknesses. This makes the contradiction
It remains unresolved from beginning to end.
Finally we come to the core second movement.
The four musicians took a deep breath, and when they exhaled it slowly, they carefully held their bows and gently rubbed them on the strings, and played a column chord with a gloomy and sentimental theme.
"One piano, one note, a regular rhythm, a texture that is so simple that it is almost transparent... Isn't this just a regular four-part harmony writing? Why are the colors so deep and so touching..."
The vast majority of the audience present have received professional music training. At this moment, in comparison, they feel that the four-part harmony they usually write is just a homework question, but here it is a great work of art.
The theme is followed by five variations. Sheeran's bow plays a sad and moving melody, which is the wishful sentimentality of a girl in her best years. The pizzicato of the cello and the background of the middle part are like a grand song.
The wine is placed in a glass, and the wine is poured by Cello Roy in the second variation. This glass of wine should be bright red, very mature, mysterious and even terrifyingly dangerous, but fragrant and fragrant, tempting people to drink it down.
When many guests heard this, their hearts were filled with lingering melancholy. It was hard not to feel curious and curious about the composer. What kind of talent and experience did he have to write such an extremely sentimental and romantic passage?
"The resonance of the spirit has already occurred..." In the drunkenness of the third and fourth variations, the audience's mood changed from dancing wildly to falling asleep, and the strange spiritual connection was perceived by Fan Ning.
The last variation is like the white snow covering the dark tomb. The interpretation of death here is full of quiet artistic conception, peaceful and melancholy. The two violins end with ppp pianissimo at the end, reflecting the pale and gloomy illusion, suggesting eternal peace.
relief.
At this time, ladies with stronger empathy and more sensitive emotions have completely taken over the situation. Some have sore noses and red eyes, and some have shed tears or even sobbed imperceptibly.
The short scherzo was played, with a rough and strong syncopated rhythm in the beginning and end of the third movement, which turned into a gentle major key in the middle, and the final movement arrived with a brief alternation of light and dark.
The theme here has a heart-stopping development momentum. The confrontation between death and life in the first movement finally begins a thorough and fierce conflict. The jumping rhythm stubbornly promotes the walking words. Death fades away from the gloomy aspect, but still comes as expected.
Finally, the girl was given the ending of a failed struggle, and the seemingly triumphal and passionate ending actually coincided with the artistic conception of the last movement of the symphony conceived by Professor Anton.
After a strong performance, the four people raised their bows and the notes suddenly stopped.
Fan Ning drank the sweet and sour prune juice in one gulp.
The applause in the salon hall flooded the four musicians.