episode_0153

‘… ‘Was it too high an expectation?’

The chairman was quite excited when Winter Wind was played. I just didn’t show it.

Twenty.

For a player at an age where he is not yet perfect, it was truly excellent emotional control.

To express a feeling like a paddle in the winter wind, a complex layering of images is required.

You must be able to recall your angry feelings on one side of your head, while controlling that anger on the other and expressing it appropriately with your fingers.

To be a good performer, you need to be able to co-exist with emotion and reason.

Anything in excess is poisonous, and anything in excess is regrettable.

Only those who are good at walking the middle line will rise to the top.

You can be recognized as a better performer and make your name known to the world.

‘Still, my expectations… ‘Maybe we can try some more.’

Fortunately, the chairman now views Jeong Si-woo very favorably.

The first performance, the winter wind, healed his heart.

This is why human emotions are interesting.

It wasn’t long before he left his wife. Fortunately, as time goes by, I am gradually emptying my mind. Compared to the first day she left, now she eats and sleeps like a human being.

In his view, Siwoo’s winter wind was close to pure despair.

There is no one in modern times who knows exactly how Chopin composed The Winter Wind. Some say that he, who had weak lungs, expressed his fear of winter.

Well, it could simply symbolize the fear and panic caused by winter. It may have symbolized his situation of having to endure the difficult winter. Perhaps, looking back on his life, which was not easy. “Ah! It may be that he shouted instead in song, “It’s so hard to live!”.”

No one knows the truth, but Jeong Si-woo added just a little bit of his own color to Chopin’s interpretation. Despair was maximized.

Similar to the senses. Emotions leave a bigger mark on the mind when they are biased in one direction and then yanked in another direction.

Jeong Si-woo’s way of describing it was exactly like that.

Before moving on to the fast-paced theme melody, the introductory melody was calm and emotionless.

It’s like a person who didn’t feel anything, but one day suddenly falls apart due to something shocking.

His keyboard sang the voice of a person holding back tears in the face of overwhelming despair.

But next song.

After Debussy’s Arabesque begins. He was somewhat self-indulgent.

‘This… ‘I can’t say I did a good job of interpreting it.’

At first, it was a scene from a suspenseful romance. It reminded me of a reunion with an old lover who stabbed me in the back and ran away. At the end, I felt like a child was holding on to his mother’s pant leg and throwing a tantrum because he couldn’t get the toy he wanted.

The expression was also quite extreme, to the point where I wondered if it was intentional.

What on earth are you trying to express?

My worries about how to evaluate this are deepening.

I glanced at the other judges, and they all had similar reactions.

The performer who made such a strong impression in the first song must have suddenly felt weak.

‘Once you make a strong impression, it’s easy for that evaluation to continue… .’

The finals are like a 50-minute personal recital.

If it peaks at first and then gradually declines, the audience’s disappointment becomes even greater.

You wouldn’t know it if they made up for it in the last song, but young pianists sometimes have problems because they are too good at building empathy with the audience.

I personally feel the audience’s disappointment. As a result, they feel too much pressure and end up self-destructing.

As soon as there was a moment after the performance of Arabesque, Professor Cha Kook-hyun, who had praised Jeong Si-woo in the finals, scratched the back of his head with an embarrassed expression.

“I just praised you, and it looks like you didn’t have an easy day today. Is it because there are so many audiences?”

“Maybe so. I’m not an experienced friend yet. Except for our competition… Isn’t this your first time participating in a youth competition in another domestic competition when you were in high school?”

“That’s right.”

“Then let’s wait and see. I haven’t even played the assignment song yet, and the first song was pretty good.”

The chairman subtly hinted that he would give Winter Wind a fairly good score.

The other professors nodded in agreement.

“It’s the next song.”

Debussy’s Arabesque No. 1 is elegant and romantic.

Arabesque No. 2 is fresh and refreshing.

Since the feeling was completely different from the beginning, it was easy to evaluate how the performer expressed the different emotions through each performance as it was played.

Follow me, follow me.

Follow me, follow me.

Unlike the left hand, which has a monotonous touch, the right hand moves quickly.

It was a liveliness reminiscent of a seven-year-old child running around the garden with a small dog.

‘Hmm… .’

The emotional description is different from when I hit number 1. The only similarity was that they all naturally brought to mind children.

To conclude, what Jeong Si-woo wanted to portray in number 1 was not a romantic thriller. However, it seemed that the storm of emotions that followed from the previous song, Winter Wind, only extended to Arabesque No. 1.

Ira.

It describes a growing child… .

So, what was the first winter wind?

It was not suitable for a child at all, it was almost like playing the shock of death.

In any case, the evaluation of the performer’s technique and technique will be very accurate to the point of being picky by other professors present. The chairman wanted to know the identity of the program that Jeong Si-woo wanted to express.

‘death. Near death… .’

Even the death of a close person that the chairman could sympathize with.

‘Family history is not listed in the applicant profile… .’

Since Professor Baek Jung-eon had wide feet, the chairman also knew about the situation of the boy named Jeong Si-woo.

You said that you lost your parents when you were a child who didn’t know anything, and that you were raised by Baek Jung-eon ever since.

‘When you’re a newborn… It would be difficult to feel anything in particular.’

If so, it means that the death he described was not the death of his parents.

But the deep pain I felt while playing said that it had to be someone very close to me.

Could this be your girlfriend?

But if it’s your girlfriend. Why were the next two songs child-like?

‘no way.’

Was it the sudden death of my first love when I was young?

Even though death can be difficult for children around the age of five, the shock will be several times greater than that of adults. The chairman could have felt greater despair than the sorrow of losing his wife.

‘that… ‘Something sad.’

I lost my parents, and even the girl I liked as a child.

Is this a boy who has lived such a hopeless life?

Losing three close people before the age of ten is absolutely not an experience that an ordinary person would go through.

‘Is that why he plays so maturely… .’

The boy’s performance, which had matured after experiencing a lot of pain, was rich in color, although not as good as that of a professional.

It doesn’t exceed the standards of the competition, but there is a feeling of being a little selfish. Since he is young, this can be forgiven to some extent.

And since it was not just Jeong Si-woo’s problem, it was an extra point for Jeong Si-woo, who was relatively trying to follow the rules of the competition.

I wonder if Miss Touch can happen twice in one song. Even that is difficult for the general public to notice because it is buried in the chords. The pedal goes up and down naturally like your own feet. There was nothing too much or too little about its intensity and length.

The speed, the accent, the neatly connected notes.

It is a flawless performance.

Add to that your own sad story.

How can you reject this, saying it is poor?

All that remains is to continue the current atmosphere and conclude the story excellently so that the chairman can make a satisfactory evaluation.

Now, the chairman was like a web novel reader impatient to read the next episode. There was no way to know where the life of a boy who lost his parents and girlfriend would turn out.

At least we can infer to some extent from the list of programs submitted by Jeong Si-woo… .

Interestingly, most of the remaining songs sing about lovely, peaceful, or calm emotions.

If you want to depict a child gradually maturing, it is likely that you will go through the two Nocturnes before heading towards the dream of love. At the end, La Campanella will be played, as if to signal the end of the concert.

But there is a twist.

The thing is that Dream of Love No. 2, which is not played well at the moment, is on the list… .

The reason why this song has a twist in the atmosphere in which it flows is because its subtitle is ‘The Happiest Death.’

Why on earth did they include all three songs of Dream of Love, including this second song?

What does he want to say?

I couldn’t help but feel curious.

Are you really going to place Dream of Love No. 2, ‘The Happiest Death’, after La Campanella?

If there was only one death, there would be no need to play it separately from Winter Wind.

After a fantastic love affair with a new woman. Are you trying to break up with her because of her death again?

The contest would be a perfect love poem by a heartbroken boy. Aside from the great stage, the chairman felt pity for Jeong Si-woo.

The dam that blocked the chairman’s tears might burst again in just a week.

‘I guess I should hope not… … .’