This star is wrong

Chapter 278 Violin Concerto "Blessed Lovers"

After the performance of Chen Wenhan and Zhou Mingqiao's team, there was applause at the scene.

Most of the audience who come to see the show are people in the industry.

After all, it is a selection performance for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, not a formal performance, so it is semi-public.

Since most of the audience are professionals in the industry, they all have a good level of music appreciation.

The piano in charge of Zhou Mingqiao, together with the violinist who won the third prize of Paganini, is of course not low.

What's more, the symphony orchestra they are cooperating with is a top symphony orchestra hired by Chen Jiahua with a lot of money, and its hard power is indeed very strong.

After the show is over.

Chen Wenhan was very satisfied with the effect of the performance. He came off the stage and shook hands with Zhou Mingqiao. Then the two sat together in the first row of the auditorium, ready to watch the next performance.

Since the performance is to select the performance program for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, although it has a competitive nature, it is not a competition in essence.

The director's office for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games arranged consultants from various fields to score the works on display for the selection of outstanding works, but the results of the scoring were not announced.

Only the list of entries to the next round of shows will be announced.

The Chen family has a very wide network, so as soon as the symphony orchestra by Chen Wenhan and Zhou Mingqiao finished playing, someone from the Chen family went privately to ask for feedback from the director team of the opening ceremony.

After two more performances, Chen Lipeng's secretary came to the auditorium from the backstage, and whispered in Chen Wenhan's ear: "The chairman has asked someone to ask, the director team is very satisfied with today's performance, you should ask Not big."

Chen Wenhan's eyes sank, and he said, "It's not a big problem, but you can't be 100% sure. Is that what you mean?"

The chairman's secretary explained: "Today's performances are not all over, and the final results have not yet come out. After the performances are over, the director team of the opening ceremony will have a meeting with the advisory group, and the results will not be known until tomorrow at the earliest.

"But Mr. Chen, don't worry, the chairman is familiar with many consultants of the advisory group, and since he said the problem is not serious, it is indeed not a serious problem.

"Besides, this time we invited a first-class symphony orchestra in China, and there are basically no competing products."

Such a performance for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games does not necessarily mean being selected if it is excellent, and it often needs to stand out from the competitors.

In other words, the symphony orchestra of Chen Wenhan and Zhou Mingqiao's group does not need to be better than all the programs, it only needs to be better than other works of the same type.

Chen Wenhan thought for a while, and then asked: "Is there anything else to say from the director's team?"

For this kind of performance for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, in fact, it is not enough to have excellent works, and it is also necessary to find out the direction of the director team's selection of works.

After all, this time the Olympic Games will be held in China. In a sense, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games next year will be a window for the country to show its culture and national power to the world.

Therefore, in terms of the form of the performance at the opening ceremony, the country must have content and form requirements.

The secretary nodded and replied: "Indeed, I have asked, the internal information disclosed by the director team hopes to select works that can promote national culture.

"So, what the chairman means is that if you can integrate more national culture into the performance, it will be easier to stand out."

When Chen Wenhan heard this, he couldn't help but sneered, and said: "The director team is really funny how the symphony can be integrated into the national culture."

The secretary was not easy to answer, so he could only keep smiling.

Chen Wenhan heard that there would be no results today, and since someone at home asked about it and said that the problem was not serious, he basically entered.

Now that they have all entered, he has no interest in staying here to watch any performances.

After all, this is only the second round of performances, and the level is still somewhat uneven.

He stood up and pulled the collar of his suit, and said to Zhou Mingqiao, "Mr. Zhou, I still have something to do, so I'll go first."

Zhou Mingqiao made a gesture of please do not speak, but prepared to watch the following performance quietly.

Chen Wenhan was about to step out.

Just then.

The show host on the stage read out the name of the next show: "Thank you for the 12th show today, Fang Xing, Lu Xianger, and the First Symphony Orchestra of Donghai Conservatory of Music, Violin Concerto "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai"."

When Chen Wenhan heard the names of Fang Xing and Lu Xianger, his footsteps froze immediately.

He never expected that he would hear the names of these two people here.

What's more, the two of them actually wanted to perform on stage.

His originally very happy mood suddenly sank.

A month ago, he kicked Lu Xianger out of the school's symphony orchestra, and then participated in the first round of performances.

However, that show went straight to the round.

However, that doesn't matter.

After failing in the first performance, he decided that the school's symphony orchestra was too rubbish, so he didn't make it to the second round.

He decisively changed the symphony orchestra he cooperated with, and as expected, he successfully entered the second round of performances.

However, no matter how much he thought about it, he never expected that Lu Xianger and Fang Xing would also sneak into the second round.

Since he participated in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games this time, he didn't pay attention to the other competitors in the second round at all. Before the performance, he didn't even look at the list of performances.

He was so surprised to hear the names of Fang Xing and Lu Xiang'er at this time.

Seeing that Fang Xing and Lu Xianger were about to take the stage, at this moment, Chen Wenhan didn't intend to leave, and sat back in his seat, ready to see how embarrassing Fang Xing and Lu Xianger were.

Seeing Chen Wenhan sitting back again, Zhou Mingqiao asked doubtfully, "Isn't Mr. Chen busy?"

Chen Wenhan casually pointed to the stage and said, "Look at their performance."

About Chen Wenhan, Lu Xiang'er, and Fang Xing's matter, Zhou Mingqiao also heard a little bit.

After all, they are all from the music circle, and the Paganini International Violin Competition has a high reputation in the music circle.

Although Zhou Mingqiao is in the field of piano, he also knows something about violin awards.

After all, the piano often needs to cooperate with instruments such as the violin, and knowing the new violinist is the best way to choose a partner.

Therefore, seeing Chen Wenhan sitting down again, he knew that he wanted to watch Lu Xianger's performance.

Zhou Mingqiao said: "I often saw Lu Xianger and Fang Xing working together before, but I didn't expect to meet them this time."

This is not the first time he has competed with Fang Xing.

On the "Song" program last year, he was already an opponent.

Of course, he only went to help Li Siqi play the piano, so he was not considered a direct opponent.

Chen Wenhan didn't want to talk about this topic, so he sat there without saying a word.

Zhou Mingqiao also felt the low air pressure around Chen Wenhan, so he didn't speak any more and watched the performance quietly.

……

On the stage.

The show host began to introduce the works that will be performed next: "The next work is the violin concerto "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai".

"This violin concerto is based on the folklore 'Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai', and at the same time absorbs the tunes of Yue opera as the material, which promotes the national culture very well.

"Now we invite the performance team, Fang Xing, Lu Xianger and the First Symphony Orchestra of Donghai Conservatory of Music to come on stage."

On Earth.

"Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" was composed by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang, and it was based on folklore.

The work premiered on May 1959, 5 at the Lyceum Theater in Shanghai as a tribute to the 27th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

……

The Olympic Opening Ceremony Office's requirements for the performances at the opening ceremony do include the promotion of national culture.

Since the Chen family was able to find out the direction of the director team's selection of works, Fang Xing and the opening ceremony program team were already very familiar with each other, so they could naturally find out.

Therefore, this performance directly went to the classic violin concerto "Blessed Lovers".

After the host of the show introduced the works of the show.

Fang Xing, Lu Xianger, and the Dongyin No. [-] Symphony Orchestra went on stage together and began to adjust the instruments.

Most of the instruments are brought by the musicians themselves, but not the piano.

So, after Fang Xing came to the stage, he sat in front of the piano and played a set of arpeggios to check the scale of the piano.

Because this time the performance is very important.

The leadership of Dongyin attached great importance to it, and the principal personally spoke, demanding that the symphony orchestra must win this performance.

Therefore, many of the orchestra principals performing this time are Professor Dongyin.

Normally, when the Dongyin No. [-] Symphony Orchestra goes out to perform, it is basically composed of undergraduates and graduate students. Professors rarely participate, and at most one or two professors lead the team.

This time most of the musical instruments are headed by professors, so it can be said that the lineup is strong.

After a few minutes of adjusting, all are ready to go.

Professor Li Xiuqin, the director and conductor of the symphony orchestra, gestured towards the judges, and after receiving confirmation, he formally raised the baton.

Professor Li Xiuqin glanced around to confirm that everyone was in the right state, and pressed down with his baton.

The performance officially begins.

The melodious flute made its sound first, and the fresh and melodious melody floated out from the flute, which was so beautiful that it made people's heart intoxicated.

And this flute player is none other than Ni Yuesheng, Dongyin's professional flute supervisor.

A flute master at Ni Yuesheng's level cannot be hired by any top symphony orchestra.

In order to promote Chen Wenhan to the stage of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the Chen family really spent money and invited the top domestic symphony orchestra.

The overall level of this symphony orchestra is indeed high.

However, in fact, a true musical instrument master will not serve in a symphony orchestra for a long time.

When the symphony orchestra performs, there is a name called "guest".

Zhou Mingqiao, for example, does not belong to any symphony orchestra.

Because most of the symphony orchestras can't keep him, he cooperates with the symphony orchestra, which is called "guest guest".

It may be a collaboration, or it may be a tour.

However, at the pianist's house, Zhou Mingqiao was considered easy to invite.

And Ni Yuesheng is Dongyin's doctoral supervisor, and he rarely has guest visits.

Flute masters like Ni Yuesheng are usually only seen at important evening parties.

Now, for Dong Yin's opportunity to perform at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the principal personally said that he must win the performance.

Therefore, from flute to oboe, all are professor-level masters.

Chen Wenhan sat below, looking at the circle of more than 50-year-old professors on the stage, his face was a bit ugly.

When he and the Dongyin No. [-] Symphony Orchestra went to participate in the exhibition, all the students who went there were undergraduates and graduate students.

Now Fang Xing and Lu Xianger are leading the team, and there are more than [-] professors. This lineup makes him very angry.

There was only one question in his mind: why?
It didn't take long.

The symphony orchestra told him the answer with music.

Along with the melodious melody of the flute, other instruments continued to join in.

Violin, piano, viola, cello, the addition of each instrument pushes the tune to a higher level.

The effect of the final ensemble is like weeping and complaining, as if people's ears are floating along with the tune, as if they can hear the story told in the tune.

The more Chen Wenhan listened, the more unhappy he felt.

Especially when Fang Xing and Lu Xianger were so young, they were accompanied by a group of Dongyin professors and even doctoral supervisors.

He couldn't figure it out, how could Lu Xianger be the main instrument of such a lineup?
In fact, Lu Xianger thought so too.

During the rehearsal, the more professors joined the rehearsal, the more guilty she felt, and even proposed the idea of ​​giving up the position of the main instrument.

However, Li Xiuqin reassured her, thinking that she could only play the main instrument.

Because this violin concerto is based on "Blessed Lovers", it is about love.

Lu Xianger's violin and Fang Xing's piano have different reactions when playing together, which is what many music masters have been pursuing all their lives.

Although the feeling of Lu Xianger and Fang Xing playing together is still a little green, it is precisely this greenness that completely fits the artistic conception of "The Butterfly Lovers".

It's not just Professor Li Xiuqin who thinks so, other professors Dong Yin also think that the duet between her and Fang Xing is the highlight of this piece.

Therefore, these professors with high status in the music circle are willing to match the two.

Of course, for Fang Xing to come up with this violin concerto, the prerequisite is that Lu Xianger be the lead instrument.

If it wasn't for Lu Xianger to play the main instrument, it would be meaningless if the other party woke up and said this piece of music.

If it is only for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, there are too many works to choose from.

Lu Xianger was a little guilty at the beginning, but as she rehearsed, she became more and more fond of this violin concerto, and finally mustered up the courage to take on the responsibility of the main instrument.

What's more, it is only the second round of performances, and there is still more than half a year before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games next year, so there is still a long time for practice.

……

The audience at the scene had a refreshing feeling when they heard the tune of "Blessed Lovers", and felt the sweetness and lingering of this tune.

Zhou Mingqiao, who was in the audience, originally had the same idea as Chen Wenhan. With their symphony orchestra, there is no problem at all in passing the second round of performances.

However, when he heard the song "Blessings of Love", he began to feel something was wrong.

Because the piece was so good, he even felt for a moment that it would be great if he could cooperate with the symphony orchestra on stage.

What's even more frightening is that this song "Blessed Lovers" is in line with the country's guidelines for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and promotes national culture.

Even if there are two symphony performances of the same level, the director team will definitely choose "Blessed Lovers".

It wasn't just Zhou Mingqiao who felt something was wrong, as the tune of "Blessed Lovers" echoed in the music hall, Chen Wenhan's face became more and more ugly.

Because the lineup of this symphony orchestra on the stage is really too strong, more than 20 Dongyin professors, even doctoral supervisors, are more than one level stronger than the symphony orchestra his family spent money on.

(End of this chapter)