Chapter 291 290. What is the ultimate in musical expression? What did you say? (Subscribe!)

When David stood up.

Applause broke out all around. Everyone knew what David had gone through, and they understood and sympathized with his crying just now.

We are all artists, or people who like art, and we all know that each other's emotions are very sensitive and it is easy to cry or laugh.

At this moment, David bravely stood up and communicated with Wang Qian, which was recognized by everyone.

Perhaps, because of the poem and Wang Qian's performance, the Eastman College violin professor, who was immersed in grief, was able to walk out of the shadow of losing his beloved? Everyone had more recognition and expectations for Wang Qian.

There was applause for a while...

Two old men on either side of David stood up and gave him a gentle hug to comfort him.

Wang Qian on the podium seemed to have suddenly become a supporting role.

Although David is not well-known in the European and American music and art circles, he has never held a world-renowned top-level world tour, nor has he performed in the Vienna Golden Hall. He has only taught at the Eastman School for decades and occasionally held small-scale concerts in small theaters in New York, and the attendees were all his own relatives, friends and students.

However, David has been teaching at one of the world's top schools, Eastman, for decades. The reputation and background he has accumulated in the circle, as well as the hundreds of students he has taught, have made him a highly respected figure in the field of music and art. In particular, students who graduated from the Eastman School of Music all respect him very much.

Moreover, people in the circle who know and are familiar with David all know that his violin playing level is definitely at the world's top master level, but he is not so pursuing fame and fortune, so it has not been widely spread.

This is a very common phenomenon in top prestigious universities, where there are many hidden talents and many people are very focused on their own fields and don't like to be in the spotlight.

That is, the outside world may not have heard of this person, but he is truly a world-class expert in his professional field.

Wang Qian also clapped his hands gently towards David to show his respect.

Although, he didn't know who the other person was, where he came from, or what his representative works were.

However, seeing that everyone was applauding, he joined in.

The applause lasted for a few seconds and then slowly stopped.

Taylor attended the Curtis Institute and was familiar with several top music schools in nearby New York.

Three top classical music schools, including Eastman, Juilliard, and Manhattan, together with Curtis, form the world's number one New York Classical Music Art Alliance.

These four colleges almost always occupy the top five or even the top four places in the ranking of famous classical music schools in the world. The top rankings are circulated back and forth among these four colleges. They have an extremely strong foundation that is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Therefore, there is a lot of communication among the four colleges. As a talented piano girl from Curtis, Taylor has studied and exchanged in the other three colleges, and is familiar with some of the famous professors and talented students.

Taylor whispered to Sophie, Qin Xuerong and the others, "Professor David is a violin professor at Eastman College. He ranks in the top two among all the violin professors at Curtis, Eastman, Juilliard, and Manhattan Colleges. He plays the violin very well. I have heard him play twice and I remember him vividly."

"Payton, one of the top ten famous violinists in the world today, was a student he taught more than 20 years ago."

After hearing this, Sophie, Qin Xuerong, Qin Xuehong and others all showed great respect for the old man who had just cried so hard.

He Chaohui, Yang Jiansen, Peng Donghu and other teachers and students from three famous music schools in China have great respect for Professor David, who is a true old artist.

Although the violin is far less popular than the piano, it is more difficult to practice than the piano, and it is a musical art that poor people cannot afford.

Now that China's economy has developed and risen, many people have money and are willing to spend money on their children's education. Most children will learn one or two art courses from a young age, including dance, music, singing, musical instruments, painting, etc.! Ten or twenty years ago, if a primary or secondary school student could play the guitar, everyone would think it was amazing. If he could play the piano, it would be even more amazing. The guzheng was also rare, with only one or two people in a class. As for the violin and cello, many students had never seen them at that time, and there might not be a single student who could play them in the whole school.

However, many wealthy families now let their children learn violin or even cello to improve their artistic accomplishments and to differentiate themselves from other children who learn musical instruments!

In the musical instrument training circle, there is a chain of contempt!

The harp is at the top of the contempt chain, followed by the violin and cello, and then the piano and guzheng! In the past, parents thought that learning the piano was very expensive. A normal piano costs thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan, and hiring a teacher to give a lesson costs hundreds of yuan. It is simply not affordable for rich families. However, practicing the piano for a year or two will show initial results, and you can play a few simple songs. It is very suitable for learning as a hobby, and it can also be presented as a talent.

However, compared with the violin, it seems cheap and simple. Buying a slightly better violin will cost tens of thousands, and violin teachers are even rarer. A lesson costing thousands is a good deal. The violin requires longer practice time and is more difficult. You may not be able to find the right notes after practicing for one or two years. If you want to play a piece of music seriously, it is impossible without more than a few years of practice. This is still a talent. Ordinary people may not be able to really play a piece of music even after practicing for ten or eight years.

However, cello is more expensive. A good cello costs tens of thousands, almost nearly one hundred thousand. Some better cellos can easily cost tens or even millions. Most of the time, they are not available for purchase and need to be reserved in advance, and you have to wait a long time to get them. Cello teachers are even rarer. There may be only a dozen or twenty cello teachers in a small city with a population of one million, and there may be only one in a training institution. The classes cost thousands of yuan each, and they are not taught individually, but by several students together. If you want to achieve something, you need to practice for a longer time.

As for the harp, you may not be able to buy it even if you want to. Many music stores don't want to sell it to you. If you can buy it, the price is shockingly expensive. More importantly, even in mega cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it is very difficult to find a teacher who can teach the harp. It is normal to charge several thousand yuan for a lesson. In smaller cities, you may not be able to find a teacher who can teach the harp in the entire city!

Therefore, although the piano is recognized as the king of musical instruments in the world, it is no longer rare in China and is even more popular in Europe and the United States.

If a junior high school class in China is going to have an art performance, and the teacher counts the number of students in the class who can play musical instruments, there may be more than a dozen people who can play the piano and the guzheng. However, if you want to find someone who can play the violin, there may be no more than a handful of people in a grade. If you want to find someone who can play the cello, it is estimated that there are one or two people in a grade. As for those who can play the harp, there are basically no such people in ordinary schools. Only famous schools have one or two.

This situation is actually the same all over the world.

The same is true in North America.

If you say you can play the piano, people will just smile because maybe many people there can play a piece.

However, if you say you can play the violin, others may be impressed and think you are great! However, if you say you can play the cello, others may immediately look at you with new eyes and think you may be an artist.

And when you say you can play the harp, then you are definitely at the level of a giant panda, and you have the aura of an artist.

Scarcity makes things valuable.

The piano department is the largest department in almost all classical music conservatories.

Instruments such as violin, cello, harp, trumpet and French horn are relatively niche compared to the piano.

Therefore, there are fewer accomplished artists in the field of violin than in the field of piano.

This is also the reason why He Chaohui and others respect David very much!

Not to mention, Professor David is also a violin professor at Eastman College, the world's top classical music school. His status in the field of classical music is definitely very high.

The teachers and students of the Chinese delegation also gave Professor David a round of applause.

The applause stopped!

Everyone looked at Professor David, expecting what kind of musical sparks would be created between David and Wang Qian.

Wang Qian looked at David and asked, "Sir, what's your name?"

Professor David took the microphone handed over by the staff and said solemnly: "David, you can call me David."

Although Wang Qian didn't know David's identity, he knew from everyone's applause and respectful looks at him that David's identity might not be ordinary. Those who could sit in the first two rows were all heavyweights in the field of world classical music and art. He said with a little respect: "Hello, David, you can tell me your ideas now."

Professor David thought for a moment and said, "I really like the poem you just wrote, When You Are Old. This poem is almost a true portrayal of my wife and I's life. We have lived together all our lives. Unfortunately, one of us will die first, and that person is not me."

The scene fell silent and the atmosphere was depressing. Everyone expressed sympathy for David's experience.

Wang Qian said apologetically: "I'm sorry, the person who stays behind may suffer more."

David stared at Wang Qian with a gleam in his eyes. He knew that Wang Qian really understood him, and said with emotion, "Yes."

His voice was choked again, and he felt like crying again.

When two people love each other until old age, the one who passes away first must be the happier one, because he or she will not have to endure the pain of loneliness and will be able to see his or her lover before dying.

Therefore, the person who is left behind will endure more pain, the pain of loneliness and the pain of losing his or her loved one. When he or she leaves the world in the end, he or she will go alone and will not be able to see his or her loved one for the last time.

Only those who truly understand love can understand this kind of pain.

Many emotional people at the scene, as well as those who have unique ideas about love, are very respectful and kind to Wang Qian.

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Because they felt that Wang Qian really understood them and really understood love.

David quickly controlled his emotions, his voice became hoarse, and he looked at Wang Qian and said, "Mr. Wang Qian, you are a truly talented and powerful artist. I like your music and this poem very much. Your expression of your emotions is simply god-level."

"I have been teaching violin for decades, and I have never seen a performer like you who can play music so clearly. Whether it is violin, piano, or other instruments, I have never seen anyone perform live at your level."

Wang Qian smiled and said, "Thank you Mr. David for your recognition. I am honored."

There was a little applause at the scene, as many people expressed their approval of Professor David's words.

Similarly, this is also a recognition of Wang Qian’s performance level.

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It was the first time for them to hear Wang Qian’s performance of this level. While everyone was shocked, they also recognized Wang Qian’s ability.

Professor David looked at Wang Qian and continued, "The song Goddess of Luo River by the Water that you just played was like a painting, not a piano piece. I would like to ask Mr. Wang Qian, how did you do that? I have studied music performance for decades, and I really want to go one step further and reach the level that Mr. Wang Qian just played. I hope you can give me some advice."

Professor David looked at Wang Qian with extremely serious and eager eyes.

After losing his lover, he devoted his whole heart to music, determined to pursue the most perfect level of violin playing.

He originally had no concrete concept of this state. He just believed that he had definitely not reached that state yet and there was still a lot of room for improvement.

I came to Curtis to attend a class today, just to relax and see if the so-called musical genius from China is a real genius...

I didn't expect to have such a harvest.

Wang Qian's performance of "Lotus Goddess by the Water" just now showed Professor David what a truly perfect and ultimate performance realm looks like...

It is to make the listeners forget the music, the notes, the instruments, and even the people performing it, and only see the pictures.

This is how Professor David felt when he listened to Wang Qian playing the piano just now.

He was completely drawn into the scene, seeing clear pictures one after another, and seeing everything the song wanted to express.

However, when he tried to recall the notes and rhythm of the song afterwards, he found that he was not very clear, as if he had never heard it before.

However, the images that I felt and saw while listening to the music are still permanently remembered in my mind.

This shocked him greatly.

He vaguely felt that this might be the perfect level of musical performance he was pursuing.

The purpose of music performance is to allow people to hear the music clearly and let the listeners feel the essence of the music.

What is the perfect ultimate musical performance? In the past, David could not explain it and had no specific concept of it.

And now, he wanted to say it.

The perfect and ultimate music performance is to make people forget about the music!

This was the inspiration that Wang Qian’s performance just now brought to him.

He remembered a sentence from the Eastern philosophy he had studied: Everything will turn into its opposite when it reaches its extreme! Therefore, the ultimate musical expression is no music! He did not expect that when he did not know what the ultimate musical expression was, a young Chinese man had already reached this level and made him feel it clearly on the spot.

So, regardless of his status and the occasion, as well as his recent emotional breakdown, he insisted on standing up and asking Wang Qian how he could reach this state, how he could make the audience forget the music itself while playing it, but clearly remember all the images expressed by the music.

When many music artists at the scene heard Professor David's question, they all looked at Wang Qian with eager eyes.

There is almost no one at the scene who doesn’t understand music, and most of them are a small group of people who understand music the best in the world.

They all knew that Wang Qian's piano playing had surpassed all of their pianists, and his musical expression was even better than everyone present.

So, now they also want to know how Wang Qian did it? Can they also reach that level? Many people's eyes became eager and hot.

Even Max, Malone, Dawson, Kalman and others looked at Wang Qian with anticipation, hoping that Wang Qian's answer could help them, because they also wanted to reach that level, which was also the level they were pursuing.

When Wang Qian heard what David said, he thought about it carefully and then asked, "Mr. David, you said you teach violin. Where do you teach?"

David answered truthfully, “At the Eastman School of Music.”

Wang Qian's heart trembled slightly. Although he guessed that Mr. David might be an extraordinary person and might be from a top prestigious school, he still didn't expect that he was from the Eastman School of Music, a top classical music school currently ranked first in the world.

However, Wang Qian's face was very calm, as if the Eastman College the other party mentioned was no different from other ordinary music colleges.

Wang Qian asked again: "How many years have you taught violin?"

David thought for a moment and said, "Forty-six years."

Wang Qian: "Can you play the piano?"

David said seriously, "I know a little bit. I can play a few simple songs, but that's it. I focus on the violin."

The scene returned to extreme silence again!

Everyone looked at the two of them carefully, listened to their conversation, and looked forward to their final answers, expecting Wang Qian to bring them inspiration and progress.

Wang Qian looked at him and frowned slightly, saying, "You don't know much about piano, and what I just played was a piano piece, so if I explain this piece and the piano, you may not understand it very well. Moreover, your question itself is difficult to express in detailed and objective language, and it is difficult for me to explain it clearly."

"The best way is to play a piece of music to show you. Piano is not in line with your major. You have studied violin for a lifetime, so your attainments in violin must be very high."

"Well, who can lend me a violin?"

After Wang Qian said this, everyone was still looking forward to his answer!

But, at the end, he asked a question, which made the whole place even quieter, and even the breathing of many people could not be heard.

All the eyes widened and looked at Wang Qian again, with obvious doubts and question marks -

Say it again? What do you want? (End of this chapter)