Second Piano Concerto

The students’ questions are not only related to the content just mentioned, but also more macroscopic questions raised from the perspective of music art, or problems and confusion encountered in learning and practice, from daily piano practice When it comes to how to overcome creative bottlenecks, there are all kinds of questions.Since this was a teaching activity organized by the school, the media present only stepped forward to take some photos, and did not join the ranks of asking questions.But some of the issues that the media are concerned about are also issues that everyone is concerned about, so after several rounds of questions and answers, some students asked Qin Haiou what his plans are in the future and whether he will continue to perform.

Qin Haiou answered in the affirmative, but did not disclose the specific schedule.Except when performing on stage, he seldom gives people a sense of distance. At this time, the topic suddenly changed from answering questions to himself. The students had no scruples. Soon someone asked a sensitive question: "Why did you You suddenly stopped performing, why did you decide to come back now?"

As soon as this question was asked, not only Qin Haiou was silent for a while, but also the whole audience fell silent instantly.Everyone wants to know the answer to the question, but everyone also knows that this question is too sensitive.Some of the teachers and students present were surprised, some waited and watched, some looked forward to it, and some thought it was inappropriate to ask such a question in the lecture, so they cast dissatisfied eyes on the students who asked the question.But there were only two kinds of reactions from the reporters. One was to wait for Qin Haiou's answer with great interest, and the other was to think that it was useless to ask. After all, this question has been asked directly or indirectly by countless media, but they can only get Yu Doudou gave an extremely official and brief answer, Qin Haiou appeared here today, it is impossible to be unprepared for this.

In fact, Yu Doudou did tell Qin Haiou before, and even Tan Shuo was forced to write down some "notes" just in case.At this time, Yu Doudou was watching Qin Haiou on the stage, waiting for him to answer this question according to his arrangement, but the latter suddenly showed a somewhat relieved expression after a short silence.Yu Doudou's heart tightened, and she suddenly had a bad feeling. She thought she probably guessed what Qin Haiou was going to do, but it was too late, and she couldn't stop it.

Qin Haiou picked up the microphone and brought it to his lips, paused, and calmly scanned the audience.His gaze was clear and stable, and the people in the audience were swept away by his gaze, and they couldn't help but hold their breath.He said frankly: "Last year I stopped performing suddenly because I had serious psychological problems during the performance."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the audience. From students, teachers to media reporters, everyone was stunned by his answer.The people present today have more or less paid attention to the news of Qin Haiou's comeback, and some of them have even been to the concert site. Now that they suddenly heard this answer, everyone realized that it was different from Yu Doudou's "official explanation". Rather, what Qin Haiou said was the truth.But this is not what shocked them the most. They never thought that Qin Haiou's departure was due to such a reason, and he actually disclosed this secret in today's lecture.The amount of information contained in the sentence itself and Qin Haiou's unexpected candid attitude made the crowded concert hall explode.The reporters present were even more excited, sighing to themselves that they came today at the right time, they had just made the trip out of luck, but they never expected to hear such an astonishing inside story from Qin Haiou himself.

Yu Doudou sat in the front row near the piano, and could hear the commotion behind her clearly. She was frightened and inevitably had a headache.Wang Yifu was several seats away from her, so he couldn't see his expression at the moment, but it was impossible for the old man to be at peace.Yu Doudou never expected that Qin Haiou would not play cards according to the routine. This has never happened before. When communicating with him before, he did not see any objection to the way he prepared in advance. It can be seen that he is just now Temporary decision to tell the truth.Although the severity of this matter cannot be compared with the hellish 3 minutes on the day of the concert, it is still enough to make Yu Doudou anxious and suspenseful.Now Qin Haiou's words and deeds are completely out of control, not to mention that the words have already been uttered, and it is difficult to take them back. What will he say next, and what will be the reaction from the audience, Yu Doudou is really a little way other than worrying secretly and patiently watching nothing.She subconsciously looked at Tan Shuo behind Qin Haiou, only to see that Tan Shuo just glanced at the back of Qin Haiou's head in a little surprise, and regained his composure in an instant, his expression and posture were very relaxed, as if he was waiting for Qin Haiou to say something. go down.Only then did Yu Doudou feel a little relieved.At the same time, the arena became quiet again. People were looking forward to hearing a more detailed explanation from Qin Haiou, and all eyes were on him.

Qin Haiou kept his composure, and waited until the audience was completely quiet, and then began to speak calmly - from the initial discovery of his nervousness, to the deterioration of the situation and the decision to withdraw from the stage, to the encounter with Tan Shuo, the two sought a solution until finally completely overcome obstacles at the concert, with clear thinking, concise speech, objective and calm presentation and analysis, just like a doctor explaining a case, displaying the symptoms, causes, treatment plans and treatment results one by one for others’ reference .All the teachers and students in the audience listened attentively, especially the performance majors. Each of them experienced similar on-the-spot tension, but to different degrees. They did not expect that a top performer like Qin Haiou would also Beset by the same problem, even to the point of being so bad.Now that Qin Haiou opened up his own problems in public, the students in the audience were astonished. They finally realized that what Qin Haiou shared with them was a hard-won and precious experience.This accomplished virtuoso has long been the object of their admiration. Now that he has returned to the music scene, his brilliance has been unparalleled. If he does not speak out, the frustration and pain he has experienced will never be known to the public .But now, he was calmly telling all this in front of them. This courage alone cannot but be admired.

After explaining the process, Qin Haiou finally said: "Over the past year or so, I have really seen what my problem is. In fact, the simpler the truth, the easier it is for people to ignore it." He had been very calm before, But at this point, there seems to be heat in the words and eyes, and every word is directly burned into people's hearts, "Whether it is creation or performance, in the final analysis, it is the creation of music, and we all need to accept the guidance of music. If you don’t want to get lost on this road, you should never stop your desire and pursuit of music.”

After he finished speaking, the audience was still silent, and even the host teacher listened intently, completely unaware that he had finished speaking.Seeing this, Qin Haiou smiled and said, "This is the end of today's lecture, thank you all." Then he turned around and put the microphone aside.But at this moment, someone in the audience finally applauded as if waking up from a dream. The applause was like sparks splashing into a frying pan, instantly igniting the entire concert hall. The tide, the students jumped up from their seats and from the ground while applauding, and the applause rang out.

At this time, Yu Doudou had completely calmed down, and began to think about the follow-up arrangements for the media—in fact, there was not much to consider, and she was originally worrying too much.Although Qin Haiou made a temporary decision, he was definitely not willful. He knew exactly what he was doing, and he was no longer the same Qin Haiou in the past.Yu Doudou felt a piece of relief in her heart and a lot of relief on her shoulders. She poked her head to look at Wang Yifu, who was talking to Yang Qisheng in a low voice with a look of relief on his face.

At this time, the host teacher announced: "This is the end of today's lecture, let us applaud again--" Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, the students in the audience rushed towards the stage uncontrollably. Those who moved quickly had already reached the stage, and everyone quickly surrounded Qin Haiou and Tan Shuo. Some continued to ask questions, and some asked for group photos or autographs. The audience shook their heads and smiled wryly.

Qin Haiou has long been used to such scenes, and he usually would not refuse the students' requests.While answering questions, he signed his name and took a group photo. He even took time out of his busy schedule to check on Tan Shuo's situation.But Tan Shuo was far less calm than him. While talking to the students, he shrank behind the piano, but was grabbed by a group of students from the composition department, who just called out "Teacher Tan" one after another.Qin Haiou looked interesting, so he didn't go to rescue him. The two of them were blocked on stage for more than half an hour before leaving the concert hall with the help of the teachers.

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It is another off-season for tourism.The busy streets and alleys of Longjin Town gradually became quiet.After a light rain, the whole town was soaked in the cool damp, the wet roof tiles and stone roads were glistening under the smoky blue sky, finally exuding some chill after winter.

Tan Shuo leaned on a table near the door of the shop with his back bent, concentrating on pasting an old sheet music under the light of the sky outside.This score was borrowed from the school library when he was in college, and the stamp on the cover was old and dark. It was taken away by him in a messy pile of books, and he hadn’t read it much these years. I found it by chance two days ago, and when I opened it, the page crashed.He stared at the dark red stamp on the cover, and gathered those pages. Since there were few customers in the store, he wanted to mend it while looking at the store, and return it to the library when he returned to school next time.

Anyone who works in the composing business, no matter where they go or what they write, is always inextricably linked with their former alma mater, just like those who come out to travel in the rivers and lakes will always automatically bring the background attributes of the teacher's sect.But Tan Shuo was an exception. For quite a long period of time, he was floating outside like a kite with a broken string, and had nothing to do with the industry.Originally, this line would never be connected one day, but the appearance of Qin Haiou changed everything.After the comeback concert, the school not only reissued the graduation certificate and alumni certificate for Tan Shuo, but the composition department also contacted him from time to time, or invited him to participate in school activities, or invited him to return to school to give lectures to the students. The reasons and intentions were different. It's hard to guess—he first became a blockbuster at the concert, and then he benefited the teachers and students a lot at the public lecture. Naturally, the Composition Department refused to let such precious resources go outside. Tan Shuo's appearance is a gratifying event no matter how you look at it.

Now that Tan Shuo has no worries, he does not resist the invitation from his alma mater, and sometimes accepts it.But in addition, there were many other aspects that came to him, and he was too lazy to deal with them, so he handed them over to Yu Doudou.This arrangement was originally proposed by Qin Haiou. He knew that Tan Shuo was used to idleness and had no interest in fame and fortune. He only liked to write quietly. Someone took care of other activities for him besides creation, so Qin Haiou asked Yu Doudou to act as Tan Shuo's manager concurrently.Tan Shuo naturally had no objection to this, and Yu Doudou also believed that it was in the best interest of all parties involved to take over by himself, so the matter was settled in this way.However, Yu Doudou found out that he underestimated the small owner of the rice noodle shop after Qin Haiou's tour started.

As the influence of the works spread with the tour, people showed more enthusiasm and interest in this unfamiliar composer than expected.Not long after, Yu Doudou received commissions from various parties one after another. At first, she was worried that Tan Shuo would not be able to write, but Tan Shuo actually conjured up a bunch of unpublished works. The commission asked to be seated according to the number, and then make some corresponding revisions, and a batch was quickly completed.For those commissions that cannot be used in ready-made works, he will write new ones.So for a period of time thereafter, in addition to the piano concerto commissioned by Qin Haiou, Tan Shuo's other works were also performed at an astonishing frequency. The genres of the works were very diverse and the quality was guaranteed.It was only then that people realized that Tan Shuo was not a newcomer in the composing world at all, but a mine that had been buried for many years and was rediscovered. Due to the accumulated resources, it could not be excavated in a short time, which made the excavated parts appear a little strange. A state of blooming everywhere.Such a mature and profound accumulation is by no means achieved overnight, nor can it be achieved by a newcomer who has just emerged. Now the sudden outbreak not only stunned the industry, but even Yu Doudou was caught off guard, causing her to spend a while in Tan Shuo He spent more time on the work than on Qin Haiou's performance.

In addition, "Return", as an excellent piano work, soon attracted widespread attention from the piano circle.Some pianists found Yu Doudou, hoping to get permission from the composer to perform this work.They thought that this matter would not go so smoothly, and they mostly had the mentality of trying. After all, this is a work commissioned by Qin Haiou. Qin Haiou spent a lot of time and effort to make it a successful premiere, and took it to various places. It is completely understandable if Qin Haiou wants to "monopoly" the work for a period of time, and it is also a very common agreement between the commissioning parties.But what they didn't expect was that Qin Haiou didn't have any restrictions on this. Not only that, he seemed happier to see other pianists intending to play this work than to play it himself.

Yu Doudou had objections to Qin Haiou's attitude at first. She had considered such monopoly clauses as early as when she was drafting the commission contract with Tan Shuo, but Qin Haiou firmly opposed it at that time. When Shuo saw the contract, he decided to delete these clauses first.Later, Yu Doudou officially took over the management of Tan Shuo's works. Considering that there are still many works by Tan Shuo, he specifically asked Tan Shuo for his opinion on the issue of "Return", and asked him if he could suppress the authorization of this work for the time being. Once pressed, Qin Haiou was left to play exclusively for a while.

Tan Shuo never thought that this problem would become a problem. His mind was very simple. This work was originally written for Qin Haiou. will intervene.Yu Doudou saw that he didn't mind, so she planned to do it according to her own ideas, but Qin Haiou still objected.Qin Haiou finally waited until this day. The popularity of Tan Shuo's works was the result he wanted to see most, and he would never stop the spread of his works because of himself.He blamed Doudou for bringing this matter up to Tan Shuo, and by the way, he also criticized Tan Shuo, saying that he was too careless about his work.Tan Shuo felt that Yu Doudou had done nothing wrong, and he didn't want to go against Qin Haiou's wishes, so he simply hid and said nothing.This time, Yu Doudou couldn't screw Qin Haiou even more, so he finally had to give up and responded positively to the pianists who came to ask.

Shortly thereafter, other pianists also began to play "Return", but they found that the third movement that Tan Shuo originally wrote for Qin Haiou was too difficult. It will take greater performance risks, so many pianists choose Tan Shuo's modified version to play, just to be on the safe side.As a result, two versions of "Return" appeared on the stage: one is the normal version chosen by most pianists, and the other is the super-difficult "Seagull version", which is often ridiculed as the "abnormal version". The latter, except for Qin Haiou, is rarely challenged successfully, and over time it has become a new benchmark for measuring the technical level of professional pianists.

However, no matter how the outside world boils, Tan Shuo's life is generally peaceful and comfortable, and there is not much change from before. During the first tour of "Return", he was invited by Qin Haiou to watch the overseas premiere, and took a trip by the way.After I came back, my residence and work and rest were all the same, and it was still the same in the off-season. I stayed alone in the store. If I needed to write something, I simply closed the store and did not go out. Only in the peak season did I hand over the rice noodle store to Amao and the newly hired clerk Zhang Luo. .This gave him more time to travel around, and it was also convenient for Doudou to arrange some important music festivals and industry events for him.In his spare time, he would also listen to concerts that he was interested in, and occasionally appeared unexpectedly at the concerts of Lu Liqiu or Chen Chen, which surprised them both.In the eyes of others, Tan Shuo can always avoid the favors and interests in the industry, but he is very friendly and close to Lu Liqiu and Chen Xu, let alone Qin Haiou, so when other people invite Tan Shuo When they were young, they started with these three people around the corner, but unfortunately the results were often unsatisfactory.

After Qin Haiou's concert ended, everyone in Longjin returned to the ancient town and continued to live their lives.Liu Yang was reluctant to move out Qin Haiou's piano for others to use, so she bought a new piano and put it in the store; now she no longer has to worry about Qin Haiou's performance tickets, as for Qin Haiou's new record , She even collected everything from herself.Zhao Fei pasted the poster of the concert on the wall of the photo studio, and enlarged the photo used in the poster and hung it next to him. Whenever a guest came to the door, he would always show it off to him first.On the surface, Cao Nan disdained Zhao Fei's actions, but secretly asked Tan Shuo for a scrapped manuscript, framed it in an exquisite frame, and placed it in the store, with a label of "not for sale". The label, discovered by Zhao Fei later, laughed at him for a long time in turn.Farther away in the mountains, the sisters and sisters in the village never forget the handsome elder brother who jumped into the wrong pool. Every time Xiao Hei came home, he would be pestered and questioned. He resorted to a ruthless move, saying that elder brother had already married a wife and had three children, which solved the problem once and for all.

After Nalanjin's tea garden harvested, she once went to the rice noodle shop to deliver freshly picked tea leaves to Tan Shuo.When the two chatted about Qin Haiou's recent situation, Tan Shuo learned that Nalan Jin was also there on the day of his comeback concert.She didn't tell anyone, and after seeing it alone, she left quietly.Tan Shuo asked her what her plans were for the future, and Nalan Jin smiled and said that everyone has their own way to go, and this is fine now, if Qin Haiou comes to Longjin Town again, then I will invite him to drink the tea she planted.

Tan Shuo knew that Nalan Jin had taken that incident lightly, but Qin Haiou still did not come to Longjin Town as the days passed.He is too busy.Tan Shuo realized that Qin Haiou was so busy under normal circumstances after he had more contact with Yu Doudou.Fortunately, no matter how busy they are, they can also meet at some joint activities or concerts. Whenever this happens, the two will try their best to spare time to have a good talk, because it is just a topic of music. They have a lot to say.

Tan Shuo buried his head in pasting the old music pages, and his mind gradually became empty.Recently, he is creating new works, but he is stuck at the critical point. This kind of hands-on work is a kind of adjustment for him, which can relax and rest his mind.He dawdled and glued a page, and reached for the adhesive paper, but saw that the tabletop suddenly went dark, and someone came into the store and stood in front of the table to block his light.

Tan Shuo straightened up, and when he looked up, he saw a familiar person with his hands in his coat pockets. He was dusty and rushed over just after putting down his luggage.But at this moment, the other party was not looking at him, but turned his head to look at the side before changing to the off-season menu that hadn't been two days old. It seemed that he was a little hungry.

This scene looked familiar to Tan Shuo, and before he had time to ask the other party why he wanted to come without saying hello first, the shop owner's instinct was aroused.

"How about a bowl of rice noodles?"

(End of the article)