I am really a language teacher

The Four Great Piano Competitions are the best shortcut for newcomers in the piano industry to go from being unknown to being famous, so the qualifications for the Four Great Piano Competitions are always sought after by countless people.Since the four major piano competitions basically adopt the invitation-based qualification distribution method, the peripheral events of the four major piano competitions have become a new hot spot.The same is true for the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, which is the most unpopular among the four major competitions. The number of applicants for the Moscow Piano Competition, which is its qualifier, has already reached thousands.

Because so many people participated in the registration, the initial screening was a bit simple and rough.All the contestants are divided into several groups according to the participating groups and go to different concert halls for the review of the judges. There are three judges in each group, and the contestants will perform on the spot for 3 minutes.If the three referees pass unanimously, enter the rematch; if only two referees pass, then enter the pending; if only one referee passes, then eliminate.Of course, if the performance is really bad, the judges can call a stop and directly rule out the competition without finishing the performance.The contestants who are directly promoted can have a day off; the contestants who are pending will continue to compete on this day. They will be ranked according to the judges' scores, and then the top few will fill up the list of insufficient qualifications for the rematch.

Sun Ping looked at the rules of the competition and knew very well that the undecided group is actually too risky, because you can't know how many places are missing in the rematch.Moreover, based on such a simple and crude preliminary screening by the judges, the level of the undecided group may not be much lower than that of the direct promotion group, and even in terms of individuals, there may be some big pearls that have been missed.

"As far as the rules of the competition are concerned, the selection system for the first round of the Moscow Piano Competition is indeed very imperfect, and very simple and rude. But in terms of the number of applicants and the number of judges, we have to admit that this is the only reasonable competition rule at present. "Sun Ping said to Jin Weijia, "Although I personally object to showing off my skills on the piano, in order to attract the judges' attention, we'd better choose Liszt's piano pieces in the first round. The player’s performance requirements are very high. I estimate that as long as we can play the next piano piece completely and smoothly, we can basically advance to the semi-finals.”

After formulating the competition strategy, Sun Ping and his team went to the competition site of the Moscow Piano Competition.The scale of the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition is naturally incomparable. The preliminary round of the Moscow Piano Competition was held at a local piano school, and then a few classrooms were selected as the venue for the competition.Sun Ping participated in the main competition group, so the conditions are a little better, and the place on the second floor is relatively Anjiang.

As for the youth group, juvenile group and children's group, they are all concentrated on the first floor, and each other will be affected by the sound of the piano.Although the piano music is melodious and beautiful, but all kinds of piano music that don't match the world are almost the same as noise.Being able to conduct the selection under such an environment, Sun Ping also has to admire the judges' hearing and emotional control.

In fact, it was similar to Sun Ping's competition strategy. Everyone chose to show off their skills to try to make themselves stand out.However, the reason why the virtuoso repertoire is a virtuoso repertoire is that its requirements for the performers are too high.To Sun Ping's surprise, many people not only failed to achieve the skills, but even lacked familiarity with the repertoire.So when playing, many people were stopped by the judges with disgust and kicked out before playing for a full minute.Therefore, some down-to-earth performers won the affirmation of the judges with some conservative repertoires. Anyway, at least these people can finish playing skillfully and smoothly, can't they?

When it was Sun Ping's turn to play, Sun Ping chose a piece of medium difficulty among Liszt's virtuoso piano pieces.When Sun Ping started to play, many judges frowned.Because there are too many people who fell on the show of skills today, the judges felt that their ears should not be tortured anymore.But Sun Ping's playing is really too proficient, and not only the skill is passed, but the most important thing is that the emotion can be integrated into it.

Sun Ping's performance was like a breeze blowing away the irritability in the minds of the judges, and several judges began to look at Sun Ping seriously.They looked at Sun Ping's information, the occupation is "Chinese teacher"?Graduate school is "Jiangnan Normal University"?When did normal universities produce such talented pianists?And more importantly, why did he want to be a Chinese teacher?It is understandable for him to become a music teacher!Such an outstanding and talented young man has actually become a Chinese teacher. The Piano Association of this country should die!His hands can only touch the keys, how can he touch something as dangerous as chalk?Don't they worry that the lime in the chalk will corrode the delicate touch of the fingers?Undoubtedly, Sun Ping's performance conquered the judges, and all three judges unanimously approved Sun Ping to participate in the semi-finals.

After the curtain call, Sun Ping went to the first floor to wait for Jin Weijia.Compared with the main competition group, there are more participants in the youth and children's competitions.After all, there is generally no threshold for this kind of event, so local and neighboring fans want to try their luck.When Sun Ping came to the youth group, Jin Weijia's competition needed several players to start.

Compared with those nervous players, Jin Weijia is obviously much more relaxed.After listening to these people's performance, Sun Ping found that Jin Weijia was far behind. It seemed that he was too conservative to let Jin Weijia participate in the youth competition.In fact, based on age, Jin Weijia should participate in the junior group.However, compared with the race group and the youth group, the juvenile group and the children's group basically do not receive media attention.After all, the youth group is considered to be the star of tomorrow, so the media is still willing to spend a certain amount of space to report.So Sun Ping put Jin Weijia in the youth group, in fact, hoping to be reported by the media.After all, the principal had something to ask for, so he still had to compromise.

After waiting for about half an hour, it was finally Jin Weijia who came on stage to perform.Sun Ping looked at Jin Weijia's clothes and frowned slightly.Piano competitions generally require boys to wear formal clothes to play, so a three-piece suit is inevitable.But suits are imported after all, and it is difficult for most oriental men to dress well.Especially for some immature boys, wearing a suit is even more ridiculous.

Although Jin's mother helped Jin Weijia choose the best suit, the shape and style were really not suitable for Jin Weijia. The suit that was supposed to be close-fitting was a bit baggy on Jin Weijia.So when Jin Weijia came on stage, one of the judges frowned slightly.No way, many people still regard piano performance as an extremely elegant artistic activity, so many people actually reject this kind of rough performer.But fortunately, Jin Weijia's performance skills are much higher than the average level, so the judges let him advance to the semi-finals.

But when Jin Weijia got off stage, Sun Ping took him to change into a suit.Jin Weijia's suit adopts the American style, which is a very scary suit style.Due to the casual style of Americans, the suit that should have been a formal style has gradually become a very casual clothing in the United States.It is difficult for this kind of suit to give people a sense of elegance or uprightness. On the contrary, once you wear an American suit, it will immediately make people think that this person is a boring person like an accountant.

The real suits belong to Europe, but European suits are also divided into British style and Italian style.British-style suits pay attention to self-cultivation, because British-style suits actually combine the style of military uniforms, so the colors of British-style suits are conservative, but they give people a feeling of James Bond.Italian-style suits pay attention to close-fitting and have very high requirements on the figure, coupled with the enthusiasm of the Italians, so the colors of Italian-style suits are rich and colorful.Sun Ping himself has a candy pink suit, which is extremely flamboyant.

Of course, Sun Ping didn't want Jin Weijia to take this kind of playboy route, so he still chose the style of British suits.After all, Italian-style suits need a figure to support the clothes, and Jin Weijia, an older child who is still in adolescence, feels ridiculous wearing Italian-style suits like stealing his father's clothes. On the contrary, British-style suits are better for self-cultivation.

But good British suits are all in Savie Row, and there are very few chain stores.Fortunately, there are still English-style suit shops, and Sun Ping finally found a suit shop that can provide modifications.After finding a three-piece suit suitable for Jin Weijia, Sun Ping asked the clerk to work overtime to modify it so that it was more suitable for Jin Weijia.Fortunately, the contestants who directly advanced to the semi-finals had a day off, so Sun Ping was not worried that the clothes would not come out.

The rules of the rematch are different from those of the preliminary round. Firstly, the number of judges has increased to seven; secondly, it is no longer a voting system, but seven people score, and finally they are promoted according to the total score; finally, the repertoire played by the contestants has also changed, and the contestants need to perform two rounds. The first round is the prescribed repertoire, and each contestant will choose the prescribed repertoire that he needs to perform from the repertoire selected by the organizing committee. The second round is free performance, and the contestants will choose the repertoire to perform.Compared with the simple and rude preliminary round, the rematch immediately became regular.

But yes, there were more than a thousand people participating in each group in the preliminary round, but in the semi-finals, the number of places was controlled within a few dozen people.As for whether there are any regrets, there must be.Sun Ping would not be so stupid as to question whether the competition was fair, after all, there is no absolute fairness in this society.The youth group was chosen as the opening for the rematch, followed by the youth group and the children's group, and finally the main competition group.This prevents the media from running away after reporting, and also prevents the audience from turning a blind eye to the juvenile group and the children's group.

Jin Weijia's suit really fits well, and the upright style of the suit is also reflected.Jin Weijia, who was originally a bit weak, was decorated with a suit, and she looked a bit like an artist.Before Jin Weijia took the stage, there were about a dozen people playing. After listening to Sun Ping, Jin Weijia really had an overwhelming advantage.

Sure enough, after the prescribed repertoire was played, the judges and teachers all smiled with great satisfaction.In the main competition group, the judges and teachers are all serious.But in other categories, the judges are happy to smile and encourage young people to continue in the piano world.Seeing the smiles of so many judges and teachers, Sun Ping knew that as long as Jin Weijia didn't have a convulsion in the optional repertoire, he would feel that he had advanced with a high score.In fact, this is also the case. Jin Weijia entered the final with the No.1 result in the rematch.

As for Sun Ping, Sun Ping retained his strength and advanced to No.3 in the rematch.There are only ten places in the final, so don't worry about the main competition group, because if you enter the final, you will definitely be able to enter the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. The so-called final is basically an exhibition competition for everyone.But for other groups, only the top five can advance, so there is still a lot of fighting.However, Jin Weijia, No.1 in the semi-finals, will naturally not lose the chain in the final, and No.1 still got the ticket for the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition.

Sun Ping had no doubts that he and Jin Weijia could get tickets to the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, but Principal Mi Wenbai was very happy to send the results and photos of the competition back to the Propaganda Department of No. [-] Middle School. China desperately needs such positive news right now.