Lang Lang quickly sat in front of the piano, obviously not unfamiliar with this situation.

After moving his hands and ten fingers a little, he calmed down for a while, Lang Lang began to play the famous "Paganini Theme Rhapsody"

Lang Lang's playing style is still so arrogant and passionate. Although the song was very clever and monotonous at the beginning, Lang Lang's signature arms movements and the large swing of his body still showed his requirements for the level of strength. The obsessive expression on his face showed how devoted he was at this moment.

The slightly exaggerated expressions of Lang Lang when playing have always been a question for music fans to argue. People who like Lang Lang admire his expression very much and think it is a full commitment to music. However, many people also criticize that Lang Lang is too artificial. Of course, Lang Lang is far from so famous now.

Grafman stood next to the piano, his left arm casually supported the back of the piano, and his eyes fell on Lang Lang's hands flying around the keys. Sometimes he raised his head to look at Lang Lang's facial expression. Grafman did not show any dissatisfaction with Lang Lang's exaggerated expression, which shows that he still agrees with Lang Lang's playing style. Lu Wei also felt that there was nothing about this. After all, most Americans' personalities are passionate and unrestrained, which is not only reflected in their behavior, but also in their music.

The performance of this song "Paganini Theme Rhapsody" is piano and band. Since there is no small band in the music classroom, and no symphony accompaniment recordings are played, Langlang's performance will appear intermittent when it sounds. However, students who are sitting in the classroom who knows a lot about music naturally know that Langlang has pauses waiting for the time value of the band. Sometimes the time value here is particularly long. If there is no reference, it is difficult to grasp it accurately. Therefore, you can often see Langlang keep talking about something in his mouth and his body is swinging rhythmically when he is not playing. Lu Wei knows that it is him humming the rhythm of the band.

The music theme of "Paganini Theme Rhapsody" is based on the 24th violin random music by the genius violinist Paganini, but the author is Rakmaninov, a famous Russian composer. This inevitably makes this rhapsody have a clear Russian folk music style. The whole song has been changed twice in a single music theme, which can be said to be a stunning skill. Although this work is not the most difficult one among all Rakmaninov's works, it is far more famous than his other works, and is even more famous than the most difficult "Rachmaniniv" (Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto) recognized in the piano world. As a music critic said: If all Rakmaninov's music is forgotten by the world, the last thing that remains is "Paganini Theme Rhapsody".

Seeing Lang Lang's performance, Grafmann next to the piano occasionally followed the gestures, and even followed the band to sing, which looked so casual, without any teacher's airs. However, those students watching the ground below did not care about this at all. Lu Wei noticed that almost every student had a focused look on his face at this moment. He looked at Lang Lang who was playing in the center of the stage seriously. This situation made Lu Wei sigh in his heart again. It seems that Curtis Conservatory has a high reputation in the music industry and is indeed extraordinary. Just looking at this high level of consciousness, you can see that every student who can sit here is not an ordinary person. Of course, Lu Wei also knows that the enrollment rate of this school is strict, with only 5% annual enrollment rate, which makes it difficult to study here, even higher than that of world-renowned institutions such as Harvard and Cambridge.

After nearly thirty minutes of playing, Lang Lang's music was always like flowing clouds and water, without any awkwardness. When the last change of the theme ended under Lang Lang, a burst of applause sounded in the quiet music classroom. Although it was the classroom, Lang Lang still showed the same politeness on the stage, got up and bowed to the students in the classroom, and then returned to his position under Grafman's signal.

After a short period of time, Langlang welcomed countless admirational gazes. Curtis' academic atmosphere is very strong. Here, the so-called ethnic and racial discrimination almost does not exist. Whether you are a yellow, black or white person, as long as you have good enough skills, you will be respected by people. On the contrary, no matter how prominent the background you have or how much money you have, you will not be worshiped by others here.

Compared with the enthusiastic reactions of the students, Grafman's face seemed very calm. He simply said thank you for Langlang's performance and nothing else was left. Then, he sat next to the piano again and began to explain the song.

Grafman's explanation is very concise, but every sentence hits the point. Not long after he spoke, Lu Wei was surprised to find that what Grafman just said almost included every key detail of Lang Lang's performance in the past thirty minutes. From the grasp of the style of the music to the level and strength control of a phrase, Grafman could easily say it. Of course, if this alone is not enough to surprise Lu Wei. What he really surprised was that every technical difficulty in Grafman would always play a paragraph on the piano, and the entry point almost contained every detail in the entire score. No matter where it was, the mark on the score was marked.

Grafman was always able to speak out the requirements of the strength, speed, expression, etc. with extremely accurate performance and explain what he said, which surprised Lu Wei. Because for a piano teacher or performer, it is not difficult to be able to do a sonata or rondo to such a level, but this is a music that is almost inconsisting with the nature of a concerto. In the past thirty minutes of playing, most of the parts are extremely fast and colorful. Lu Wei knew that this piece of music alone would have to be nearly a hundred pages! How much effort would it take to accurately remember every detail on the score? The difficulty in this is self-evident.

Some people may ask, did Langlang just memorize the score? In fact, here is a common term in piano performance, called muscle memory. Generally speaking, if a person memorizes the score and plays such a large-scale work, as long as a professional pianist can do it after about two or three weeks. However, if you want to write the score well, it will not be a problem for two or three weeks. It may take several times of time, and it may not be possible for anyone to do it. The reason is very simple, that is,

Because of muscle memory. From the beginning of familiarity to performance, performers need to use a variety of memory methods, including melody memory, rhythm memory, etc., but the memory that ultimately occupies the most important position is muscle memory. After reaching such a level, the performance becomes an instinctive activity. All the details of the music score are blurred in the performer's mind and become an almost instinctive reaction. On this basis, performers can focus more on grasping the music emotionally, which is the so-called second-degree creation.

Speaking of this, some people may understand that it is actually easier for the performer to play a song from beginning to end, but like Grafman, you can pick out any place and skillfully play the pieces and express his technical requirements. This is much more difficult than simply playing it.

From Grafman's explanation, Lu Wei also felt Grafman's profound piano knowledge. It is different from some teachers' pretentious or long-term discussions in class. Grafman's explanation is very intuitive. He always hits the point with the simplest words, and there are not many preaching things. Everything starts from the perspective of actual performance. This explanation makes Lu Wei feel very satisfied and often feels refreshing.

Grafman's explanation lasted for nearly forty minutes in total. While he was talking, he explained almost all the key parts of this large-scale piano work. Even the students who were first exposed to this work had a very clear understanding of the structure of the entire work after listening to it. Lu Wei was very clear that Grafman's class was only 40 minutes long, and if it was completely digested, it would probably take at least one week even if he was at his current piano level. However, Lu Wei fully believed that after a week of practice, even if Lu Wei could not match Grafman's level in this piece, at least he could reach the level when Lang Lang had just played it. This was entirely due to Grafman's teaching method that started from the performance, which made every student choose the most correct path from the beginning.

Grafman left the classroom, but most of the students still looked unsatisfied on their faces. Some people had already walked onto the stage and sat in front of the piano to play. The heated discussion showed a strong academic atmosphere.

"Okay, you, such a long song, it will be played out as soon as you say it. It's amazing." The two of them walked outside, and Lu Wei said to Lang Lang with a smile.

"Haha, this game is very skillful. I have practiced it for two weeks to play it. If you want to be awesome, it must be you. I heard that in the school entrance exam, you actually took more than ten minutes to play Liszt's "Clock". It's ten minutes. To be honest, I really want to snatch your brain and see how it grows." Lang Lang said jokingly.

Time flies quickly. In a blink of an eye, it has been nearly a month since Lu Wei came to Curtis. During this period, Lu Wei's life has been very peaceful and fulfilling. Under Curtis' strong musical atmosphere, Lu Wei is like a dry sponge, thirstyly absorbing music knowledge. His diligent performance also made Grafman very appreciated. Last week, Grafman officially informed him that he could follow him to take a small class. This news made Lu Wei excited for several days. You must know that such treatment will definitely not exceed ten people in Curtis.

The development of domestic companies is also very good. With Lin Xue's careful operation, Ailing Entertainment has become the most popular entertainment company in China. Under Lu Wei's instruction, the company specially set up a scout team. According to the list Lu Wei's outline, it began to gradually contact those artists. It has now launched its business to Hong Kong.

Lu Wei had already prepared for the arrangements of these people. Before going abroad, Lu Wei had already written out the excellent works of the past few years one by one and handed them over to Xiaoling, the only one who knew the secret of her rebirth, and told her to hand over the corresponding songs to Lin Xue as long as the newcomer on the company was on the list. Therefore, although Lu Wei was not here during this period, the launch speed of Ailing Entertainment's new album has not slowed down, and almost maintaining the speed of at least one per week. This speed can be regarded as a very amazing speed even among top-notch domestic record companies. What surprised the industry even more was that although it maintained such a high publishing speed, every new album of Ailing Entertainment Company is a fine product.

As soon as it was launched, it immediately sold out. Now, the works of Ailing Entertainment Company occupy most of the list on the mainland's pop song list. Such achievements, not to mention those small companies, even large record companies like Rolling Stone and EDA, are very jealous. However, although they rely on various means to attack Ailing Entertainment, they can only maintain their own market share at most. The impact on Ailing Entertainment is not big. Because every album of Ailing Entertainment has an accurate and almost magical grasp of the popular elements. Not to mention the classics, they definitely have the most cutting-edge rhythm of the popular music industry, and a group of new generations of stars are also rising rapidly and have begun to have a strong impact on the traditional pop music circle.

In terms of the Internet, Lu Wei's new - Piao Tianyi - has now become the most influential Chinese original novel website in China. The daily click rate has exceeded 10 million, which is a miracle in the domestic Internet environment where the country is just starting out. Tengxun has also launched new content - game hall. Although there are only a few mini games such as mahjong, Tetris, chess, etc., this online interactive game method quickly attracted a large number of young people, and the number of users in Tengxun has increased sharply. Of course, Lu Wei did not forget to remind Ma Huateng to pay attention to online games. It is said that Ma Huateng is now eyeing an online game called Legend of the Hot Blood and is discussing with developers. Of course, this is indispensable for Lu Wei's "unintentional" reminder.

However, Xiaoling, who had graduated, rejected Lu Wei's request to let her manage the company. Under the assignment of the school, she chose a middle school to become a teacher.

The Qinglong Gang that Lu Wei had been worried about had not been moved. This was the only thing that made him uneasy. Lu Wei also gave orders to Gao Chuang and the others, and once he found any suspicious moves, he allowed them to act cheaply. Although he knew that his approach did not comply with the rules, Lu Wei, who regarded his family as extremely important, did not care about that much.

Everything is moving in a good direction, and Lu Wei is in a very good mood. In addition to practicing piano every day, he occasionally goes to the 76ers to play a few balls. As his honorary player, this is naturally not a problem.

It was Friday. Lu Wei had just finished his piano lesson from Grafman when he saw a striking message on the small blackboard in front of the door:

Please ask students from the piano department to come to the classroom on time at 5:00, thank you for your cooperation.

Looking at this news, Lu Wei was a little surprised. When he was in Master Chang, such notices could be seen every day, not only were they seen, but it was almost the same. However, it was different in Curtis. Although the school still divided freshmen into three classes in name, in fact, every student was very few when he was actually teaching in the class. Because the professionalism here is very strong, most of the courses of each student in a day were almost performed in different music classrooms. For example, vocal music, such as violin, piano, composition, etc., unless those public classes that are not related to music will be conducted in teaching. It is the first time that Lu Wei has seen this publicly published news in more than a month of study.

"It's so strange. I don't know if there is anything, but I actually need to use the class meeting to notify me. Wouldn't it be enough to just write it on the blackboard?" Lu Wei looked at the news on the blackboard and thought to himself.

In the past month, in addition to music, Lu Wei's biggest gain is English. Lu Wei's mind was not stupid, and he has been in an English environment every day during this period, which has improved Lu Wei's English proficiency a lot. Although he cannot have fluent conversations, at least some words used for daily communication are enough. As long as the other party does not speak too quickly, he can basically understand the meaning. At this progress, Lu Wei believes that at most two months he can speak fluent English.

When Lu Wei came to the class, it was less than five o'clock, but Curtis's students were disciplined. Looking at the almost full seats, Lu Wei quickly came to his seat and sat down.

"Hi, Lu, do you know what the class meeting is because of?" A boy with short brown hair looked over and greeted enthusiastically when he saw Lu Wei coming.

"I don't know, I saw the news on the blackboard. You came so early, Buck." Lu Wei smiled. Buck was a classmate next door to him, from the famous casino Las Vegas. His parents both worked in the casino, but he was very interested in music and had a very good talent. He was admitted to the vocal major of Codys. He was cheerful and lively by nature and soon became friends with Lu Wei.

The two were chatting, and the tall Andrew, the squad leader of Lu Wei and his class, walked in.
Chapter completed!