musicians of old

Chapter 147 Crazy Proposal (4K [-]-in-[-])

In the quiet summer night of the school, the sound of the piano and the violin intertwine. Mendelssohn's abbreviated version of the "Violin Concerto in E Minor" flows in the lights and tree shadows of the villa area.

After the ending sound faded away, Fanning lifted his hands from the keyboard and turned to look at Sheeran: "How do you feel?"

"I remembered that sentence." The little girl was still in the posture of holding a bow, her eyes were a little lost.

"talk?"

"Turangarian rhetorical sentences discussed last year."

"I walk across the fields in the morning?"

"Another sentence."

"Oh, isn't that easy for you?"

"It can be read directly, but there are many delicate places that need to be carefully considered and processed." Sheeran put the violin down from his shoulders and tidied up his hairpins.

"Caron, I thought about it. It really seems to be the simplest violin concerto I have ever played, but it is also the most beautiful and touching violin concerto. Dad's violin concerto written in his youth is also good, gorgeous. Showmanship has won him the reputation of a young composer, but your song, I think, presents the most beautiful melody and the deepest emotion with the least skill.”

Fan Ning said with a smile: "It seems that after I finish the arrangement, I can directly lead you to play with the orchestra."

Sheeran made a "hmm".

Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto in E Minor" is indeed not very difficult in terms of technique. In his previous life, its first movement was a repertoire for amateur violin grade [-], which is similar to the difficulty of "Fantasia Impromptu" for piano. Sheeran was able to sight-read with steel accompaniment for the first time, and he was not surprised at all.

And the choice of this song also has a little personal understanding of Fan Ning.

Among the "Four Violin Concertos in the World", if the three "Violin Concerto in D Major" by Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky are full of masculinity and boldness, this one by Mendelssohn It is elegant and sentimental, gentle and soft, a concerto with femininity... Although Sheeran can handle all four of them, Fanning still wants to hear her play this one first.

The night passed quickly, and the two performed a few more pieces together, and agreed on some personalized processing methods. Fanning recorded them one by one on the piano score, so that he could transplant his own performance processing to the conducting symphony in the future. on the regiment.

"Caroun, what should I do if my heart is full of its melody now?"

"Does the first movement begin?"

"I like it the most... In addition to the theme of color in the minor key in the middle of the second movement Andante, it makes me feel that I am in a gloomy afternoon, gazing at the autumn scenery in the back garden of a gorgeous palace, with a solemn and poignant sense of tragedy. "

Fan Ning sat in front of the piano, imagined the scene she described, and agreed: "Wonderful description, now you finally don't call me that?"

"I'll call it again next time." Sheeran gave him a blank look, but then she laughed, stretched out her bow, and lightly poked his back, "Carolne Van Ning, help me refer to a few The bow technique of a certain place."

Fanning left at about ten o'clock in the evening. He walked alone on the gas lamp path in the villa area, and began to think about the conversation during the day and investigate the problems of the former workhouse of the hospital. In my own words:

"Dean Graham of the Chemistry Department spent a lot of money to prepare a medium- and long-term elixir for the two injured principals, which should be able to rule out permanent damage..."

A strange idea came to his mind, and he walked around the villa area a few times without stopping.

Vice-principal Huxley seemed to have mentioned his school address in a chat one day. Fanning had no memory of it. After some inspiration, there seemed to be several possible number plates, but the house was pitch-black. Not sure if it's here, after all, he doesn't have more than one house in Uvransel.

So Fan Ning turned around and walked towards the main administrative building. When he saw that the office of the vice principal was empty, he went back to the former office of Professor Anton of the Conservatory of Music—the title on the house number has now become an honor Associate Professor and Permanent Conductor of Symphony Orchestra.

Fanning called Roy's private phone: "Are you asleep, Miss Roy?"

"Not asleep yet." The girl's very light and tired voice came from the receiver, "Good evening, Mr. Fanning."

"I'm sorry to disturb you too late, just to confirm something, you said earlier that Dean Graham prepared the elixir for the two injured principals, right?"

"Hmm." The girl's voice was very long.

"I won't be able to find anyone for a while, can you get a sample for me?"

".I'll ask someone to pick it up. Can I bring it when you meet with the orchestra tomorrow morning?"

"Okay, ask the refining price for me."

"No need. Is there anything else?"

"No, thank you, see you tomorrow."

".Good night then." Roy hung up the phone.

At [-]:[-] in the morning of the next day, Fanning walked into the Conservatory wearing a formal dress and carrying a black briefcase.

In the office with the nameplate of the music director of the St. Lania Symphony Orchestra, Fanning met the chief conductor, Professor Commons. He was in his early fifties, neatly dressed, thin, and his brows were always tightly knit. A pair of thick square citrine glasses perched on his nose.

"Professor Fan Ning, take a look at the repertoire plan for the commercial performance, and please put forward any comments."

Apart from a simple hello, the head of the symphony orchestra did not show any politeness. After Fan Ning sat down opposite, he slowly turned the notebook open in front of him and pushed towards Fan Ning.

Fan Ning looked at the handwriting of the two sets of repertoire above, and read it slowly: "The first half of Swellinck's symphonic poem "Lebicki's Summer Night" and Niemann's "Piano Concerto No. [-] in C Minor", the second half Schillings's "First Symphony" or "Fourth Symphony"?... Except for the opening piece, which can be double-pipe or triple-pipe, the rest are romantic works with three pipes?"

"That's right, they are all classic masterpieces of masters." Commons said, "...at the same time, the difficulty of playing is relatively easy, which not only has a certain market popularity, but also takes care of the students' level. The piano concerto can be signed by a professional pianist. Contract, improve the professional level of the performance."

"Professor, I don't think it's appropriate." Fanning said bluntly.

"Oh?" Commons raised his eyebrows.

The professor with the oldest conducting qualification is exactly the kind of academic musician who comes from an orthodox family, has a solid foundation, and has a serious and rigid personality. Although he admits the influence of Fanning's "First Symphony" premiere, He also admitted that Fanning has the qualifications to be called a "young composer" by the music industry, but this does not prevent him from thinking that those musical styles are deviant.

He had long expected that Fanning might have objections to the selection of the symphony, for example, switching to a few symphonies by Anton Könard, or switching to Fanning's own "First Symphony".

"Professor Fanning, what repertoire do you think is more suitable?" Commons was ready to criticize Fanning.

For example, Fanning proposed to perform the works of Anton Connor, and he would immediately point out that "the music is not accepted by mainstream music fans, and it is unwise to bet on the box office of this performance related to the ranking of the orchestra with an adventurous spirit...

"For the second half, we will choose "Symphony No. [-] in F Major" by Master Gilles," Fanning said.

"... Acting in works from the Bengeism period? It's not impossible, but why this one? What's the reason?"

Naturalist works are naturally also an extremely important part of serious music performances today, just as Beethoven's music was still performed every day around the world when Chopin and Liszt became famous in the previous life.

For Fanning's suggestion, Commons couldn't put any hat on it other than music. He could only ask him for further ideas and discuss the matter as it stands.

So the old professor was very surprised. Seeing Fanning's objection, he thought that he would export private goods as soon as he took office, but he didn't expect that Fanning would not follow the routine at all.

Fanning explained: "The Third Symphony is similar to those songs in terms of popularity and performance difficulty, and meets the basic conditions. But what is special is that it is a milestone work for Master Gilles to establish his mid-term style. Although it still has the scale and structure of the original style, but the length has been greatly increased, the use of harmony is bolder, the polyphonic texture is more complex, and the development of the brass group is also innovative... This gives us more processing space in the interpretation , will not be lacking in highlights due to 'too simple'."

Commons did not directly refute Fanning's point, because Fanning was absolutely right, but he raised a point of doubt that needed further explanation:
"I don't know if Professor Fan Ning thinks that those romantic works also have a broad space for interpretation, and they won't lack highlights because of being 'too simple'?"

Fan Ning nodded slightly: "I agree, but there is one big difference between them."

"Oh? What's different?"

"Maestro Gilles' Third Symphony is a double-management arrangement, while Master Schillings' symphonies are all three-management arrangements."

Commons had a ridiculous smile on his face, as if a middle school student was repeatedly popularizing the difference between algebra and geometry in front of mathematicians.

"So what does that mean?"

"It means that we only need about 60 members on the field."

The old professor continued to shake his head and smiled: "Professor Fanning, on the day you took office, you didn't know that there are more than 80 official members of the Saint Lania Symphony Orchestra, and they have already met the requirements of the three controls?"

"Of course I know." Fanning also smiled slightly.

"The excess number, during this rehearsal time, I will eliminate them one by one."

The air in the office was quiet for a moment.

During this time various thoughts passed through Professor Commons' mind.

In fact, he never thought that Fanning, who had just graduated at the age of 23, was qualified to be an honorary associate professor of this world-class public school and the permanent conductor of the symphony orchestra.

But he knew that this was a decision made by the "high-level school" behind the school, and he also vaguely knew what happened in the symphony hall on the day of the graduation concert.In his view, the school put Fanning in this position solely because of the extraordinary factors behind this series of events, not because of the music at all.

So what does the extraordinary factor have to do with his conductor Commons?
There is a vacancy in the leadership of the symphony orchestra, and he is in charge of both operations and music. He is indeed too busy to attend to one thing and lose another, but the school parachuted Fan Ning, the "second in command", here, purely to make trouble for himself!

The eyes under the thick-soled citrine glasses of Commons are very serious at the moment: "Professor Fanning, the school hired you for this important position in the symphony orchestra with a high salary. I think what they trust is your rehearsal and command ability, not your personnel management ability. .”

Fan Ning looked as usual: "A rehearsal is a rehearsal of musicians, and a conductor is also a conductor of musicians. The ability to select and employ people is a kind of command ability."

"...Since I agreed to the school, my name will always be written on the records of the orchestra's permanent conductor during this period, so there is only one goal: performance effectiveness and related orchestra rankings...I can't guarantee the future of St. How about the ranking of the sub-symphony orchestra, but in the annual evaluation of the Imperial Culture and Media Committee in 913 of the new calendar, it must be ranked first among the student orchestras."

"..." The old professor was stunned by Fan Ning's words.

After a long while, he murmured, "You're crazy, but if you read the rankings of the Saint Lania Symphony Orchestra in the past ten years, you wouldn't set such an outrageous goal..."

The top three of the list of the Imperial Student Symphony Orchestra have been firmly occupied by the "Imperial Royal Academy of Music", "Theoline National Academy of Music", and "Santa Lambert University" for many years, and the quantitative score is still far away Throw away a large part of the back.

As for Saint Lenia University?It competes with the Eagles Conservatory of Music for the fourth and fifth positions all the year round... Of course, the top ten universities are all top-ranking music major universities.

"The Saint Lania Symphony Orchestra shouldn't be at this level long ago." Fan Ning said indifferently: "A hundred years ago, this was the place where the graduation concerts of Master Meyer and Master Tarakani premiered. Except for the master Gilles of the Holy Janus Kingdom, the other two have come out of here... Isn't it just trying to compete for the top spot of some student orchestra?"

"Although the nature of the student orchestra determines that the musicians who grow up will graduate soon, it should at least occupy a place in the world's top professional symphony orchestras."

Professor Commons' eyes changed.

Although he still does not accept Fanning's ideas in the field of symphony, five generations of his family's musical family have all studied and taught at St. Lenia University. Fanning's words made him feel a sense of glory and impulsiveness that had been silent for many years. Something like a sense is awakened.

Moreover, the top-ranked student orchestra can reap a lot of music resources and practical benefits!Just a large grant from the empire and a music master exchange program set up by the committee
After a short period of excited reverie, he returned to the calm reality: "If you really want to rank Gilles' Third Symphony, you can do it, but you should not take the ranking for granted, even if it is just over a month or so. It can really make a leap in the level of performance, but there are other repertoires... The response from the music industry and the mainstream media will not favor us because of an excellent "Third Symphony..."

Fan Ning said: "The repertoire was also changed in the first half. My new violin concerto is about to be finished, so let this concert have a premiere gimmick..."

Professor Commons looked at Fan Ning behind the thick-soled glasses: "It's that kind of orchestral work that is bigger than four pipes? You chose a double pipe work in the second half, and you may not need a large group of people to finish the performance." Is it okay to leave halfway through your work?"

Fan Ning shook his head: "No, this will be a work in a pure romantic style, similar to my string quartet "Death and the Maiden", I guarantee that it will be favored by mainstream academic musicians, the orchestration I will still maintain unity so that dual control can do the job..."

"Pure romantic style? Guaranteed to be favored by the mainstream?..." The expression and behavior of the old professor changed several times in a row. First, he gripped the pen tightly, his eyes brightened, and then hesitated and doubted again.

He has heard "Death and the Maiden", and at this moment he is obviously moved: "...if the orchestral work you write this time can really reach the level of chamber music before, instead of like "Symphony No. [-] in D Major" " is such a mess, the premiere is indeed a bonus gimmick, you can try it if you want, at least this time, try to make a firm comparison with the Eagles Conservatory of Music..." But as he spoke, he sighed again, "But Don’t even think about the top three, we can’t compete even in terms of attendance and box office revenue, their popularity has accumulated for a long time...these are all factors that affect the annual evaluation ranking.”

Attendance and box office receipts? …By the way, this is a commercial performance, and the pricing plan is also an important part.

Fan Ning's heart moved, and he continued to look at the content written behind the old professor.

“演出场地2760席，区域划价档次为：6磅（尊客票）、4磅、3磅、2磅、1磅，平均价格3.25磅，总票房8970磅？…”

于是范宁提出建议：“划价方案改成18、12、9、6、3磅吧。”

As soon as this remark came out, Professor Commons' serious and rigid face couldn't hold back completely.

"I always thought you were crazy, but now I realize that you are indeed crazy!"

"Do you want us to perform an empty show at that time!?"

　Thanks to Hughes, Xianxianxianxianyanyu, Xuanyoukong, Osmanthus sour plum soup, the season of Youcao, and the monthly pass that is clear and cold~
　　
　
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