辻井さんのピアノ妨害 Noise during Tsujii's Piano Performance

辻井さんのピアノ妨害雑音

昨日、女房と豊田市コンサートホールで世界的に有名なピアニスト、辻井伸行さんのピアノを聴いてきた。彼のピアノは二回目で、一回目は2年ほど前に岐阜のサラマンカホールで聴いている。今回も期待にたがわず、素晴らしい演奏であったが、一つ怒れてきたことがあった。

コンサートホールの照明が暗くなると、辻井さんが拍手喝采を浴びて登場し、ピアノの前に着席した。ドビュッシーのアラベスクの曲が流れ始めた。うっとりとして聞いていると、鈍い雑音が近くから聞こえてきた。見ると、私の席のすぐ左斜め前の通路で録画技術者と思われる人が三脚足の大型録画機で辻井さんのピアノを録画している。録画の電源のモーターの音がするのである。ピアノが静かな旋律になるたびに、ジーという鈍い音が聞こえてくるのだ。次のベルガマスク組曲の「前奏曲」「メヌエット」「月の光」「パスピエ」も、それに続くすべての曲の演奏中に、録画中の雑音が聞こえてくる。また、会場の薄暗がりのなかで録画中の赤い豆ランプがピカピカ光っており、ピアノを楽しむどころではなかった。8500円も払って、わざわざ名古屋から来ているのにコンサート中いらいらしていた。やっと第一部が終わり、休憩時間になった。

   私は怒れてきて、会場案内の女性に文句を言い、カメラマンに「録画の音がやかましい」と抗議した。カメラマンは「ええっ、気がつきませんでした」という。私は、「カメラの位置を二階にあげるか、一番後ろに移動してほしい。コンサートが台無しだ」と強く抗議した。女房も加わり、会場係も来て、ようやくカメラを撤去することになった。第二部が始まる前に、会場責任者が来て謝ったが、全く無神経であきれた。スマホをマナーモードではなく電源を切れと言っておいて、主催者はコンサート中、雑音を流していた。

第二部が始まっても初めのうちは怒りがおさまらず、やっとアンコールに入るころに辻井さんのピアノを聞くことができた。

疲れた。

Noise during Tsujii's Piano Performance

I went to Toyota City Concert Hall with my wife to listen to a world-famous pianist, Nobuyuki Tsujii’s performance. That was the second time for me to listen to his piano, since I had been to his concert held in the Salamanca Hall in Gifu City about two years ago. This time I hardly enjoyed his piano,because I  was irritated all during the first half of his performance.

When the lights of the concert hall became dim, Tsujii appeared on the stage in the midst of loud applause, sat in front of the piano, and began to play Arabesque No.1 composed by Debussy. I was instantly charmed by the sound of his piano and was listening to the music enchantedly, when I heard a faint noise coming from somewhere nearby. I looked around in the dark and saw a cameraman recording the piano performance with a huge camera on the tripod in the aisle diagonally forward left from my seat. The recording machine was making a low continuous noise. The noise sounded louder especially when the pianist was playing a soft and quiet piece of melody.

The noise lasted all the while when Tsujii was playing “Prelude” “Menuet” “Clair De Lune” and  “Passepied” in his Suite Bergamasque and the following pieces of music. Moreover, I noticed a tiny red lamp blinking constantly at the bottom of the camera tripod in the dark. What with the noise and what with the red flashing lamp, I was so irritated that I failed to enjoy his piano. I came all the way from Nagoya to Toyota paying as much as 8,500 yen for the concert; the noise and red light damaged the concert. After an hour’s performance the first part at last ended and the intermission began.

Immediately I went to the nearest usher to complain about the noise. I also told the cameraman that he had been making a terrible noise all during the first half of the performance. He said, “Oh, I wasn’t aware of the noise.” Furious, I protested against him saying, “I insist you move the camera to the second floor or to the rear of the concert hall. Otherwise, the concert would be disastrous.” My wife also joined me. Soon the woman in charge of the concert hall came and in the end, she said she would remove the camera. She  apologized to me before the second part started. I told her that she was irresponsible because the audience were requested to switch off the smartphones so that they would not make any noise while the cameraman was making an irritating noise all during the concert.

My anger did not abate for 30 minutes or so even when the second part had started. The piano performance I really enjoyed at all was the encore.

I was exhausted.

Noise during Tsujii's Piano Performance