Epigenetic

Before that, Zhu Weixing didn't know what the number of recommended places was. After listening to the words of No. 57, he felt something, but he didn't say much, and chose to remain silent.

Soon the semi-finals began, and the 64 contestants came to the stage to play one by one according to their number plates.I wish MSI ranked No. 60, No. 20 in the first game, and he will be in the third game tomorrow afternoon.Some players who were not on the wheel did not come to watch the game, fearing that they would be affected and perform abnormally.Zhu Weixing watched the whole process very seriously, and he can be regarded as someone who has experienced the golden rule.

Although these players are all students, many of them are already at the same level as professional pianists, or even better.In particular, the two are particularly eye-catching.One is Lu Feiqi, an outstanding representative of the U sound who met once in the "Hong Zixun Memorial Piano Competition" last time, and a boy with thick glasses.One is Cao Fu, a girl from the Conservatory of Music in City A, who is currently exchanged to a world-renowned music school in Country D. At the same time, she was also the gold medalist of the last Golden Rhythm Award for Piano Youth Group two years ago.

The content of the competition is to choose a technical etude to perform, basically to let the students show off their skills in an open and aboveboard manner, which is not difficult or embarrassing to play.

Most of the selections in this level are dominated by Chopin and Liszt.Sure enough, one of Lu Feiqi and Cao Fu chose Liszt's "Hunting", and the other chose Xiao Lian's third degree, and both of them played very well.

These two capitals are of the highest level of difficulty. In large-scale competitions, players generally choose to be on the safe side, and choose songs that are lower than their actual level to avoid nervousness. On such occasions, they can play like this, and there is almost no big mistake if they don’t listen carefully. It can be seen that the foundation of the past is high.

No. 57 beside him kept sighing.Zhu Weixing saw that Dong Shusheng and Zhao Bingran on the judging panel also nodded slightly, obviously very satisfied with this contestant.

"Cao Fu must have gotten the recommended spot in City A, but not Lu Feiqi, he didn't get a direct pass at his level. Who is so awesome in City U?"

After today's competition, Zhu Weixing went to the backstage to change clothes, but also caught students discussing this topic.

"I heard that two of the five judges recommended the person from City U, which is so curious."

"Anyway, it's definitely not in today's list. Let's see it tomorrow."

"Will there be more big cows tomorrow than today?"

"Of course, Guo Xuelu with the C sound in the morning, and Zhang Mingming with the M sound in the afternoon, and the one in the back just got back with Xiao Sai's No.5. The reporter was still interviewing her just now."

"Well, compared to them, our stepping stones are really running with us every year."

"Hush, take it easy, Zhang Mingming is here."

As soon as the words were finished, a girl came towards this place humming a song. She was very short, not like a college student, but like a high school student.She should be very famous among the contestants, and many people are quietly looking at her.But when she walked to Zhu Weixing's side, she cast a curious look at him.

Seeing that Zhu Weixing was confused, just about to ask a question, the girl left silently.

The next day, when it was Zhuweixing's official match day, he didn't participate in the morning game, and went to adapt to the field early in the afternoon.It was said that there was abnormal difficulty in the selection in the morning. It was chosen by Guo Xuelu, who has a C sound, and he played it very well, which shocked the onlookers a lot.

In the final round of the semi-finals, many players who had finished the competition came to watch, the top players were the few, and most of the contestants were in the middle of the ranking, the difference was only in the number of mistakes made on the spot.So everyone said they were flattering, but in fact, they secretly hoped that the other party would make more mistakes, especially when they chose the same song as themselves.

Zhu Weixing didn't have so many thoughts. Although he fell asleep in the middle of the night yesterday, he woke up very early today. He was a little weak, and his concentration was a little lax, so he didn't sit down and chose to stand in the back row to boost his excitement. .

Fortunately, the two people in front of him are both very good. One is Zhang Mingming, No. 55, who made Zhu Weixing wake up with a piece of Rachmaninoff's "Little Red Riding Hood".The other one turned out to be the black-skinned boy No. 57 who spoke to him yesterday. He played "Winter Wind", which was extremely difficult in Xiao's practice, and shocked the audience.Sure enough, you can't listen to other people's one-sided words in large-scale competitions. If you become a monk halfway and have no skills, how dare you go to the most powerful music competition in the country to break through.

Finally, during the performance on the 59th, Zhu Weixing from the 60th was invited backstage to prepare.

Compared to now, most of the players and judges in the arena are numb and tired, especially the seeded players are all on the stage. Although they are not sure who will be recommended for the U City competition area, everyone has guessed, and basically have no great expectations for the next contestants. Just wait for a complete estimate of your ranking.

So when MSI Zhu came onto the stage listening to his number, he saw several people yawning in the two rows in front.No matter how big the competition is, it is inevitable to be tired and lazy when encountering marathon selection.

Until contestant No. 60 appeared, until his competition song was played on the big screen.

Contestants: U City Art College, Zhu MSI.

Competing track: Liszt's "Wild-o'-the-wisp"

There was only a moment of silence in the venue, and then small pieces of discussion rang out.They asked who is this student?He's quite courageous.

No wonder they were a little surprised. Those who practice the piano know that apart from Chopin, Liszt is the most difficult to synthesize, and among Liszt's compositions, the most difficult to synthesize is "Wild-o'-the-wisps".

"The Bell" is just a younger brother in front of it.

In fact, many people present should be able to play this song, but the mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, and stars are separated by mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, and stars. The bigger the competition, the more cautious the players are in selecting songs. If you are not sure of a performance that will amaze the judges, there is no need to be on stage at all.

After all, the scene of the Golden Rhythm Awards is not a place for you to pretend.Therefore, it is rare for someone to choose such a difficult piece in such an important competition. To put it bluntly, they did not score 95 points. It is better not to play it to save embarrassment.

Those who can play "Wild-wild Fire" to 95 are very rare in the professional field, let alone the competition of the student group.This student No. 60, doesn't know how good he is, but his ambition is not small. With the jewels in front of him, I'm afraid the judges may not agree with him.

Yes, someone also chose this song, I wish MSI and others collided with each other.The collision is not terrible, whoever dies is embarrassed.Most people would not dare to choose it, but it was Guo Xuelu with the C sound that aroused a lot of praise yesterday.

He is a recommended contestant in City C, a gifted student who won the gold medal in the national competition.If you want to choose a popular song, the judges may not be so harsh, but if you push the standard to the top, there will inevitably be a contrast.

Now the boring audience in the auditorium became excited, and the tired ones regained their energy.

There was a good show.

With Zhu Weixing's temper, in fact, he would not consider such an extreme selection of songs, and it was Xuan Lang's idea to sign up for "Wild-o'-the-wisp".Teacher Xuan's meaning is easy to understand, since I wish MSI can play, why not choose the most difficult one.

The technical song wished MSI nothing to worry about, so he adopted the teacher's suggestion.

At this moment, he walked onto the stage, took out the lighting and mirror positioning that he had learned from other contestants in the previous games, and came to the center of the stage and bowed to everyone in the audience.

Because she was going to be on camera, the organizer arranged makeup for the arrangement. Zhu Weixing, who grabbed her hair and put on a thin powder, had a brighter color than usual. She was wearing a well-fitting black dress and stood under the spotlight, looking like a deep night and a cold moon. , shining a bend of white and clear.

After the judges signaled him to start, Zhu Weixing turned around and sat down in front of the piano, with his fingers on the keys, and began to play lightly.

Unlike other contestants, he entered at an allegro speed from the beginning. He started very slowly, with light notes and chords drifting away, like a light mist, spreading a cloud of chaos in front of the audience.

Just when the people in the audience were confused and confused, the fog began to disintegrate discretely, jumping and flickering, turning into beams of light in a sudden turn across three octaves, spinning and flying.

The audience suddenly understood that the light was the will-o'-the-wisp in the wind, eerie ghosts, wandering and erratic.

There are countless difficulties in "Wild-o'-the-wisps", such as multi-note coverage, ultra-high-speed running between fingers, double-tone left hand, right-hand melody, repeated coordination between five fingers simply violates the logic of the brain's nerves to control the body, and requires countless exercises to overcome The chain reaction of the body's original functions to achieve the appropriate playing skills.

Achievability is not enough. If you want to play well, you need to have enough atmosphere.When the fingers almost become ghosts on the keys, but there is still enough pause between each note to have a sense of jumping lightness like will-o'-the-wisp, fast but not urgent, powerful and elegant, mysterious and clear, full of contradictions but There must be harmony everywhere, multi-level progressive and coexistent harmony.And even though he is exhausted to death, he has to be able to do a job well on the surface. This is the essence of "Wild-o'-the-wisp".

The previous Guo Xuelu has done a good job, except for some ambiguous voices, there are basically no major mistakes in technique, and the relative lack is probably the last point.Although he was very calm, everyone could feel the deep difficulty from his body expressions. His whole body was showing the appearance of "I can play so well, and it is not impossible to be tired". People feel that there are a few will-o'-the-wisps flying with great effort. Since it is not easy, we can only encourage them.

As for the No. 60 contestant in front of him, perhaps because he started from the Andante, the audience didn't realize until the first group of octave bass appeared. The tail cloud is light and the wind is light, and it is easy to handle.

What's even more frightening is that the person with sharp ears can clear every sound of him, and the rhythm he strikes on the keys is coherent and clear, detached and stable, precise like a machine, but also has delicate emotional flow and alternation, rigidity and softness. And economy.

The will-o'-the-wisp of No. 60 is sometimes mischievous, sometimes mischievous, sometimes crazy, and sometimes silent, but no matter which one it is, it is full of accumulated energy and ever-changing.

Finally, as the arpeggios are decomposed with both hands for four consecutive bars and then to the end of the main chord, the will-o'-the-wisp dances wildly and faintly dissipates.

The audience wakes up from a bizarre and mysterious illusion.

At the end of the song, Zhu Weixing let out a heavy breath, bowed to the audience and left the stage with a straight back.

He came quickly and left quickly, without even looking at the wonderful expressions of the judges and audience.

When people went to the backstage, everyone reacted.The audience began to whisper non-stop, while the judges flicked through the contestants' profile pages, only to realize later on who would get the recommended spots in the U City Division.

Some judges asked: "Who recommended it? Where did you find the big baby?"

Dong Shusheng and You Rongyan drank tea, while Zhao Bingran smiled inscrutablely, and he didn't know why he was so proud there.

And at this level, the promotion is almost certain, and even the local media that followed the game published a report of praise on the same day

"The unnamed rookie broke out of the siege, and was selected for the first time to counterattack the semi-finals of the Golden Law!"

It was exactly as expected yesterday, but this time no one had any objections, and they just silently searched desperately on the Internet to find out how sacred this school is U City Art Academy.

This dark horse killed everyone by surprise, low players adjusted the difficulty of promotion overnight, and masters reassessed their hopes of winning the championship, and one stone caused a thousand waves.

Zhu Weixing didn't hear anything outside the window, and went back to the hotel after the competition, and continued to struggle with his sleep, but unfortunately the effect was still insignificant.

So on the second day, Zhu Weixing, who hadn't had a good rest, found that he had a tendency to get sick.

He has a fever.