Strauss conducted ten thousand people to play.
The famous Austrian composer johann strauss composed 400 waltzes from 1825 to 1899, and is known as the "king of waltzes" in the world. He made great contributions to music all his life.
1872, Strauss traveled around to enrich his creative materials. One day, when he came to America, local organizations immediately visited him and wanted to invite him to hold a concert in Boston. Stephens immediately agreed. But when it came to the performance plan, his entourage was stunned by the incredible scale of the performance.
Americans have always been famous for their fantastic ideas. They want to build the best music industry in the world with the help of music master Strauss, who will direct a concert attended by 20,000 people including vocal singers. Anyone who knows a little bit about music command knows that it is not easy to command a conductor with hundreds of people, let alone 20 thousand people. This is absolutely impossible. Because of this, Strauss's followers are very worried about him, no matter how superb his artistic conception is, such a large scale is powerless.
After listening carefully to each other's introduction, Strauss said easily, "This plan is really exciting. I am willing to make it a reality as soon as possible. " Immediately signed a performance contract with the other party.
The news spread, public opinion exploded, and people wanted to see such a huge performance.
That day finally arrived, and the building was dark and full of audience. Strauss actually conducted it very well. Nearly 20 thousand musical instruments played beautiful and harmonious music, and tens of thousands of audiences were fascinated and amazed.
People may ask, does Strauss have superhuman skills? It turned out that Strauss was the commander in chief, with 100 assistant conductors, and the opening ceremony was signaled by firing a gun. With a wave of his baton, Strauss watched the commander-in-chief 100 assistant conductors follow suit, 20,000 musical instruments broke out in unison, the chorus sounded harmoniously, and tens of thousands of spectators clapped their hands, which was really a rare spectacle in the world.
The tacit understanding of musicians with closed eyes
In order to concentrate and feel the subtle realm of music, contemporary famous conductor karajan and violinist Jules Stein have the habit of closing their eyes when conducting and playing.
The two talented musicians cooperated so well that people even thought that the conductor and the chief violinist had almost magical telepathy. Their first performance together was in Lucerne, Switzerland. The performance touched countless audiences.
Later, when people asked Jules Stein why he closed his eyes, he said, "We'd better not see each other. This can't be wrong. Music doesn't need eyes, but we need empathy. I only opened my eyes once in the whole performance and saw that karajan was conducting with his eyes closed. I quickly closed my eyes again, for fear of ruining the whole atmosphere. "
Cody who sticks to the spirit of music
Experts say that piano master Cody is one of the most authoritative Mozart interpreters. His performance in Shanghai was arranged for a wonderful evening. His attentive expression is like carefully selecting jewels. He made such a sweet sound when his fingers scratched the jewels. When he stood up from his seat to salute the applauding audience, the audience was already crazy. They clapped desperately, hoping to reload him. Almost everyone believes that polite Cody will give him better music. However, he returned to the stage again and again, standing by the piano again and again, saluting again and again. He didn't play any of the tracks in the most polite and gentle way. The audience is puzzled. So far, this is the only piano master who refuses to play.
Not kitsch, adhering to the spirit of music and insisting on the pure pursuit of high quality constitute Cody's unique musical taste and spiritual height. He doesn't even load it!
Looking through 1975 Canadian performing arts magazine, you can see a review article entitled "Anton Cody challenges fame". Now, he has won the challenge: no matter how cynical the media is, he just doesn't want to sign a contract with a big record company. Moreover, he would rather play at a small music festival in northern Canada than go to Salzburg or the "Proms" music festival in England. He is so noble, so detached and refined.
He has more details. He often goes to a small town called Manetho Bar to perform. That small town is in the most remote area of Canada, with inconvenient transportation and no special car to play the piano. However, he would rather put the piano on a rough truck and shake it on the winding mountain road. There were only 1500 people in that small town, but 750 people attended his concert. He tried his best to respect these 750 people. He was born for music, for real music.
It is reported that he once made a special trip to a place to perform, that is, Queen Charlemagne Island. He went there to play only for one person-an old lady. After listening to his recording, the old lady wrote to him, hoping that he could come to her town to perform. The old lady thinks that a famous pianist like him will never come, never. However, she didn't expect that he really came as soon as he received her letter. Facing his performance, the old lady couldn't believe the facts for a long time.