September 5th, 2023
Jiuzhou Conservatory of Music, Shanghai.
The freshmen's professional reevaluation is the college's reexamination of the quality of the newly recruited undergraduate students in the music direction.
The purpose is to test the music professional skills, techniques, and musical expressiveness that the freshmen have mastered scientifically, fairly, and effectively.
Let the teaching teachers have a certain understanding of the students' professional level and formulate corresponding education plans on this basis.
At the same time, for top conservatories of music, there will inevitably be various music competitions and foreign exchanges in the future...
Therefore, the top few in this reevaluation will receive more focused cultivation.
On the first floor of the comprehensive piano building.
All the piano students of the entire school gathered together.
They were divided into three columns: freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.
There were almost a hundred people in total.
"Xiaonian, are you nervous? Buddy, my hands are suddenly shaking a bit."
The orderly long queue in front made Chen Anhe couldn't help but think of the art entrance examination before.
"Didn't you still be full of confidence last night and said you would definitely be in the top ten?"
Shen Nian was calm and had his hands in his pockets. It was just a reevaluation. Small scene.
"That was last night. Now is now. Can it be the same!"
"But seriously, this reevaluation is very intense. I'm afraid that when I go on stage later, my hands will shake..."
"Why are you panicking? Why haven't I seen you so unconfident usually? Show the confidence you had when practicing the piano these days!"
Shen Nian made an encouraging gesture to Chen Anhe in front of him.
"Shen Nian!"
There was a sharp shout from behind.
Over at the sophomore side, Han Wenbin had been staring at Shen Nian's back since the assembly began.
"Uh... Han Wen..."
Shen Nian was still recalling the name of the boy with black-framed glasses behind him in his mind.
"Damn it, it's you kid!"
Chen Anhe immediately remembered that the other party was the thief who snatched his piano room three days ago.
Just as he was about to curse a few words, a middle-aged man walked in front of the queues.
"Now the college reevaluation begins. The students whose names are called next will go to the designated piano room.
"Freshman Zhang Haoran, Piano Room 101"
"Sophomore Han Wenbin, Piano Room 103"
"Junior Chen Dong, Piano Room 105"
"Freshman ***, Piano Room 101"
"Sophomore ***, Piano Room 103"
"Junior ***, Piano Room 105"
"..."
When Han Wenbin left, he threw an extremely provocative look at Shen Nian.
This made the veins on Chen Anhe's forehead bulge.
"Showing off your sister. Is being a sophomore great?"
Chen Anhe muttered curses in a low voice.
"Shen Nian, did you offend Han Wenbin?"
A classmate of Shen Nian who was watching the scene came over and asked. "It seems that he deliberately wants to pick on me."
Shen Nian analyzed. Although he didn't know what the motivation of the other party was.
"That's right. I heard from a sophomore friend of mine that the one named Han Wenbin used to be the person that the school leaders often mentioned..."
"Wow, can a good student snatch the piano room?"
Chen Anhe was very dissatisfied and spoke sarcastically.
Shen Nian also thought of something and looked at his classmate and said, "Do you mean that I stole his limelight, so he deliberately picked on me?"
"It should be like this. But don't say it was me who said it." The classmate nodded.
"Hehe. If you are not good enough, practice more. What's the point of finding faults for no reason?"
Chen Anhe was so angry that he laughed.
All those who can enter this school are the top artistic talents.
Anyway, in the eyes of their freshmen, Shen Nian is a god and not on the same level as them.
It's no exaggeration to say that in their hearts, they play the piano, while Shen Nian plays art!
...
Piano Room 103
After Han Wenbin entered the piano room and sat in front of the grand piano, he didn't start playing the piece.
Instead, he looked at the three teachers on the side and said, "Teachers, I want to go to Piano Room 101 to have the reevaluation after Shen Nian later."
After saying that, the three teachers frowned.
The middle-aged man on the far left immediately scolded, "This is simply nonsense! What do you think the reevaluation is? If you don't take the test, get out!"
"Hey, Lao Qin, that's too serious"
The middle-aged man holding the record board at the front made peace.
He was the professional course teacher for sophomores and was particularly familiar with Han Wenbin. He understood very well the reason and motivation for the other party to do this.
But he still shook his head and said, "Wenbin, I know you want to prove yourself"
"However, listen to the teacher's advice. Don't provoke that Shen Nian. You can't compare with him."
He was the one who heard Shen Nian's performance on the spot.
Compared with the videos circulating on the forum now, whether it's the musicality brought by the piece or the progressive emotions, there is a very obvious difference!
I don't know who posted the video on the forum. The picture and sound quality were so bad... One doesn't even know what to complain about.
"Teacher, we haven't compared yet. How do you know I can't compare!"
Han Wenbin was young and at the age of eighteen or nineteen. How could he be willing to be inferior to others.
In the past year, he had always been an excellent student in the teacher's mouth and a genius in the eyes of other students in the college.
Now he has been replaced by someone else. He can't swallow this.
In his opinion, Shen Nian doesn't deserve to be above him.
"Just you and compare with others? Other people's piano skills are at least ten years ahead of yours. What can you compare with others? Just based on the two-and-a-half-dollar sound quality you heard from your phone?"
"And you are a sophomore senior. Running to compare with a freshman? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at!"
The middle-aged man on the left said straightforwardly.
"I'll go and play the exact same piece as him later!"
"And you said that his piano skills are ten years ahead of mine!"
Han Wenbin said neither humble nor pushy.
He knew that there was an opportunity to go to a top foreign conservatory of music for an exchange during the National Day.
Originally, he was scheduled to go. But since Shen Nian emerged, according to his inside information, all the opportunities for competitions and exchanges that originally belonged to him were taken away by Shen Nian! "For the reevaluation, are you going to play or not? If not, get out!"
Another teacher who hadn't spoken yet couldn't stand it at this moment.
"Han Wenbin, if you really want to compare with Shen Nian, then you can go later."
"I'll go and say hello to the three teachers in Piano Room 101 now."
The middle-aged man at the front shook his head while standing up.
It's good to have a comparison.
Young people need to go through more setbacks.