051. A master’s beautiful exit

While Song Jae-ik and Lee Jong-woo kept silent about the controversy over the premiere, the controversy continued to grow in size.

Of course, the parties couldn’t afford it because they were pressed for time, but they didn’t confirm or deny or prove it.

I was more excited here and there, so I poured oil to make the fire burn, and I was confused as self-proclaimed experts appeared in Cyber Lecca.

On the other hand, as a broadcasting company that is obsessed with viewership ratings, I was in the position of being unconditionally grateful. Controversy, anyway, doesn’t it have anything to do with them?

“flaw. Amazing, Great. look at this interest It hasn’t even started yet, but we have exceeded 100,000 YouTube users.”

“Is it 100,000?”

“right. Besides, those gentlemen outside are the same. No matter what the outcome is, we have no choice but to benefit unconditionally.”

Although this premiere was mainly for broadcasting, it did not attract an audience, but the Recital Hall of the Music Hall of the Seoul Arts Center was already full of people from the classical world who came to hear the premiere. Where university professors, pianists, violinists, conductors and so on.

First purpose, to hear first-hand the national premiere of Tchaikovsky.

The second purpose, to directly check how well the YouTuber Song Jae-ik can play the piano. With their own reasons.

Of course, the top priority was broadcasting and YouTube broadcasting, so the camera is the priority, so even if the view from the audience seats is not perfect.

“Is it the second song?”

“They haven’t given me a name yet. Just the second piece.”

“I’m not a winner of a competition, and I’m not a student studying abroad. What the hell was the teacher thinking?”

“It’s clearly ignoring us, who have devoted themselves to classical music for decades.”

“greatness. Still, you have to listen and judge.”

“Even if you don’t listen, it’s obvious! It’s not like I’ve been doing music for a year. did you see that? On TV, you said you had an interview saying you had only been playing the piano for a year!”

“What? only 1 year? What crazy!”

Joo Young-woo frowned at the words of people around him saying that he was using his strength in the music world.

I wondered how many people actually heard the piano playing properly on Jaeik Song’s You Tube channel among the people who said that.

At the same time, I wondered how many people would maintain that expression even after listening to Song Jae-ik play.

Of course, on the surface, he might not have admitted it. Wasn’t it like that originally? If it boils, it will rot. Because they were just like that.

The beings of stubbornness and stubbornness. How much they wanted to divide classes and sides, they divided schools among themselves, divided Confucianism schools and metaphor schools, and even shared whose disciples they were.

I wish I could have pressed the noses of those nasty old people.

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“Did you practice enough?”

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Lee Jong-woo hasn’t contacted him even once since he entrusted the sheet music to himself. I’m worried about it, but I’m worried about it.

“yes. I practiced hard. Master has entrusted you with this, so would you waste it?”

“Well, since you won’t be talking nonsense. This will all be your experience. I will be able to fill in what you lack.”

In Lee Jong-woo’s view, there was only one thing Song Jae-ik lacked. experience.

Not just the experience of playing the piano a lot in front of people, but also including the experience of interpreting and agonizing over the song in order to play it.

“I think I know what you mean.”

Because Song Jae-ik felt the same thing. No, to be precise, I felt it once in a one-point lesson with Kim Dong-chul in the past, so I think I realized it a little easier in this process. Exactly what was missing.

It is the ability to interpret the piano piece that makes it one’s own. It didn’t have lyrics like today’s songs, and we couldn’t ask the original author.

You only have to agonize and ponder and create results,

“Yeah, it seems you’ve already realized it.”

“Isn’t it because of Master’s good teachings?”

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Lee Jong-woo looked at Song Jae-ik with a proud expression. In the interview, he expressed it as a teacher-teacher relationship, and although Song Jae-ik often called himself master or teacher, he did not remember teaching Song Jae-ik a lot. I watch you tube videos and sometimes give advice other than advice.

Since the first time I saw him, he was already a pianist close to perfection.

“Don’t listen to the chimes out there and talking on the internet. All you have to show is your piano, not the piano others are talking about.”

“That’s fortunate. full of confidence That’s my specialty.”

It was nice to see him full of confidence, as if he wasn’t intimidated by the situation. Even when I first saw him, didn’t he dismiss himself saying he should be a youtuber?

“Uh ha ha. Good good. You just have to do that in the future.”

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“Teacher, it’s time.”

Along with the station staff’s words, Song Jae-ik and Lee Jong-woo walked down the long aisle alone. It was for seeing off.

“Since when have you been like that?”

“What?”

“A hand.”

“When did you notice?”

“Today.”

“Tsk. When you get old, of course it follows.”

Apparently, he saw his hands tremble for a moment before taking the medicine in the waiting room.

“Either the first or the third. I’m watching my performance. Maybe this is the first and last lesson I give you. It’s an award for doing well in homework to upload at least one piano video every week.”

“Yes. Master.”

Can you be called a teacher only if you spend a year or two?

Song Jae-ik thought absolutely not.

Receiving applause, Lee Jong-woo walked toward the piano with a different upright posture than before.

All sheet music was perfectly in my head. It was a short time, but I practiced endlessly without a break.

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Last but not least, how could it be?

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Lee Jong-woo exhaled a long breath right before the performance, and as he pressed the keys, he recalled the later years of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The most unfortunate last years. And even to an unwanted death.

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Lee Jong-woo felt that this Tchaikovsky song was despair and anguish.

Tchaikovsky’s first unpublished piece, entirely interpreted by himself.

What is Song Jae-ik thinking as he listens to this song behind that door?

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‘Despair, agony, frustration, regret.’

All kinds of negative and dark emotions were unfolding at Lee Jong-woo’s fingertips.

‘These are the emotions Master felt in Tchaikovsky’s songs. Is it similar?’

That was all. Just like people are different, we have different thoughts and different interpretations.

close to 2 minutes. To be exact, for 113 seconds, the piano keyboard made sounds without a break, and the audience was accepting the song holding their breath.

The last key is pressed.

As soon as Lee Jong-woo got up from his chair, applause and cheers erupted from the audience.

The old man’s piano, as well as himself, gave everyone who listened to it an indescribable feeling.

Perhaps the reaction on the Internet was similar. It’s like seeing Kang Seok-yi sitting in the audience and staring at the screen of his cell phone with a nervous expression on his face.

It’s probably a jackpot, isn’t this enough that Lee Jong-woo should have hit it alone. There must be words coming and going that you will be compared too much with yourself.

The door opened with endless applause, and Lee Jong-woo, sweating profusely, walked in. sad expression. There were no mistakes, and everything was performed according to one’s will.

“How did you hear?”

“I felt despair, anguish, frustration, and regret.”

“This is Tchaikovsky’s song I interpreted. I wonder what kind of song you will play for me.”

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Lee Jong-woo before Song Jae-ik started the next song. After leaving for a while, Song Jae-ik stood in the hallway and took a deep breath to calm his beating heart.

The preparations were completed immediately.

“You can come out.”

It was just something to show off.

again – again –

The sound of heels walking on the podium was clearly audible. It was a completely opposite situation from Lee Jong-woo’s time when applause was heard. perfect silence.

Even the people behind the camera taking pictures of you are feeling awkward and embarrassed.

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A few small applause came through the silence. Um Kang-seok and Go Ye-rim, who followed all this far. And Joo Young-woo, whom I had a relationship with in the past.

Song Jae-ik, who slightly bowed his head toward them, sat down in front of the piano with a slight smile.

Then, he glanced at the door he came out of. Maybe Lee Jong-woo was listening to my piano there now.

In fact, until an hour ago, I had no particular thoughts about this premiere.

‘I just had to finish the given situation well and show the things I was ignoring.’

Was Kang Baek-ho like that in Slam Dunk?

It was said that there was something called a firm resolution.

“Whoa.”

This second sheet music he interpreted. This score was similar to Lee Jong-woo’s. Because I glimpsed despair and regret.

But it wasn’t the same. Because there was one more emotion in his piano.

‘Hope.’

That despair, regret, and anguish. However, in his own interpretation, there was definitely hope crouching in it. that someday it will get better Or the hope that it will, even if it does not come. This hope was also a word for Lee Jong-woo.

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Like Pandora’s box. Hope hidden in all kinds of negative emotions.

That hope exploded through the keyboard.

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Lee Jong-woo, who was listening to Song Jae-ik’s piano behind the door, clearly felt that emotion and smiled brightly.

Isn’t it really perfect for your retirement stage?

time too. place too. Even when. And even circumstances.

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Song Jae-ik’s performance, which was short but full of impact, came to an end.

But still. The recital hall was not free from silence. But the meaning of silence was the exact opposite of the beginning.

Because it was evident in the facial expression. It was a look of shock, astonishment, and denial. I couldn’t believe it and I didn’t want to believe it.

That something like You Tube, which he had so neglected and looked down upon, could present such a shocking song. It was something they couldn’t deny because they also had ears to hear.

Through the silence, Song Jae-ik made eye contact with some people cheering enthusiastically and greeted them.

“It really was.”

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Lee Jong-woo, who had a different expression from the beginning, greeted Song Jae-ik brightly.

“yes. This is Tchaikovsky’s second piano piece I interpreted.”

“okay. Perhaps your interpretation is closer to the correct answer than mine. Hope anytime, anywhere. Because it’s everywhere. Even to me.”

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After all the performances, Song Jae-Ik was talking to Lee Jong-Woo in the waiting room, avoiding many people who wanted to meet him.

“Have you not changed your thoughts on retirement?”

“right. But the meaning has changed. It’s not simply because I can’t play the piano anymore. I am an old man over 80, but I want to look at the piano in a different way.”

Song Jae-ik, who heard that answer, just smiled instead of answering. Sometimes you don’t even have to answer, because there are times when you get an answer.

“I have a question. When I first heard your piano, I thought it was literally a talent. I thought I could never come out without liking the piano. Am I right?”

Well. Do I like the piano? It would be true that I didn’t think much of it until I first played the piano at DDP.

I like it ever since! It’s not because it’s fun, it’s just because it was so amazing and overwhelming to digest my talent.

But now? No, exactly now, at this moment, I think I can answer with certainty.

“yes. I like. I really mean it.”

“okay. That’s it. It doesn’t matter if you’re a YouTuber or a celebrity. If you play the piano well and like the piano, then you are a pianist and a musician. All you have to do is play your own piano.”

“My own piano.”

Hearing those words, Song Jae-ik felt something refreshed. It was as Lee Jong-woo said. I didn’t have to be tied down.

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And after a year or so, I heard an unfamiliar sound that seemed familiar to my ears.