Chapter 1194 Perfect Interpretation
Li Xiaoru's voice made Jiang Chengfeng look up. A smile suddenly appeared on his face. Thinking of Liu?'s words and everyone's cold faces towards him, he said at a loss, "Although I don't know what I did wrong, I'm sorry first. Don't be angry. Don't let me affect your performance in the game."
Jiang Chengfeng's apology was sincere. He looked at Li Xiaoru nervously, as if he was afraid that she would scold him.
How could Li Xiaoru get angry at such a boy? She deliberately kept a straight face, and couldn't help but curl her lips, "Well, I received your apology, and I'm not angry with you anymore. Go back to the audience, I'm about to go on stage."
"Oh, okay."
Jiang Chengfeng breathed a sigh of relief and responded timidly. Seeing Li Xiaoru turn around and prepare to leave, the question lingering in his mind became more urgent. He couldn't help but ask her, "Why are you angry?"
Li Xiaoru paused, and without turning her head, she said, "Think for yourself, feel for yourself, and experience for yourself."
Jiang Chengfeng: “????”
Li Xiaoru didn't explain much and walked quickly into the backstage.
Jiang Chengfeng sat back next to Liu? silently, feeling even more confused. Liu? didn't ask him what he had said to Li Xiaoru. Everyone was listening to the piano performance attentively.
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Everyone listened to the same piece of music four times. On the fifth time, it was finally Li Xiaoru's turn. She walked to the center of the stage in a black dress, bowed deeply to everyone, then walked to the piano and sat down.
The 12 judges were already a little aesthetically fatigued at this point. No matter how good a song is, if you play it on repeat several times, you will get tired of it. What's more, it is difficult classical music. The judges have to use their brains to think and feel.
The judges still remembered Li Xiaoru's performance in the last round. The three judges who gave her a low score were particularly disgusted with her and always thought that she was not qualified to enter the second round. Among the 20 people who were eliminated before, there were obviously people with higher skills than her. Just because she graduated from Juilliard, and she was Chinese, they had to balance the racial ratio, and she was also a little-known Internet celebrity, the other judges gave her a break. They were not the kind of people who followed the crowd. The competition had to be fair. They planned to give Li Xiaoru a low score in this round as well!
But when they heard Li Xiaoru's performance, their thoughts began to waver.
Li Xiaoru's version of "Egmont Overture" presents an unusually heavy and dead atmosphere from the very beginning, as if the whole place is covered with dark clouds, everything is shrouded in darkness, without a trace of light.
"Egmont Overture" describes Count Egmont, the national hero of the Netherlands five hundred years ago. It praises his rise against the rule and oppression of the Spanish, extols his noble image, and laments his tragic death.
In today's peaceful times, who among the young pianists in their early twenties or even teens can understand the heroic feats and social unrest of hundreds of years ago? Even the contestants from the Netherlands or Spain cannot do it. Therefore, their performances are essentially the same as students answering Chinese appreciation questions, reading from the book or answering this question in a standard official format.
But Li Xiaoru didn't do so. When she heard Jiang Chengfeng ask her why she was angry, she didn't know whether to be angry or laugh. It was because she was depressed these days, but the other party acted as if nothing had happened?
How can a man be so slow!
Since he didn't know, she would use the music of the piano to tell him why!
The sad music has the same tone. Li Xiaoru thought of the piano music of "White Soul" and used a lot of slow and rapid pauses to create a sense of discontinuity, especially in the scene when the male protagonist was on the verge of death. At that time, Liu? and others were watching the movie, but Li Xiaoru's attention was on the background music. Without such a perfect soundtrack, the movie would be much less colorful.
She wanted to try to apply the soundtrack techniques of "White Soul" to this performance, because what was the difference between her feelings when she rushed back from the United States exhausted and was scolded by Jiang Chengfeng's parents, and the male protagonist of "White Soul" facing the misunderstanding, accusations and contempt of others in pursuit of love?
Li Xiaoru's performance was dark and heavy from the beginning of the prelude. The audience's hearts tightened involuntarily. It was a kind of despair that life was about to come to an end, despair for oneself, and despair for the whole world.
Was Count Egmont also in despair when he walked to the guillotine? This feeling is so sad that it can even overwhelm a person and make it difficult to even breathe.
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