pianist from the sea

Chapter 171 Is this Fu Tiao's appeal?

Wu Hong and Chen Ying also came to Amsterdam on the third day after Fu Tiao arrived in Amsterdam, that is, the day before Fu Tiao played.

After the two happily strolled around the most famous red light district in Amsterdam, they randomly found an Airbnb B&B to stay in. After playing some special games they saw that day, they ushered in the next day. Fu tune playing.

Fu Tiao's global tour, to be honest, you can't say that his performance is very popular, and you can't say that it's not popular, it's just at a very special point.

Those who pay attention can get the news of Fu Tiao, knowing that Fu Tiao is holding a concert in Amsterdam this week, and all the works he plays are Chopin's solo works, and his encore works may be based on Chopin's works. It was adapted to jazz, so Fu Tiao's tickets are still selling well.

but……

Fu Tiao's influence is still limited to his fans. It seems that it is not particularly well-known among passers-by. For example, during the two days when Wu Hong and Chen Ying were shopping in Amsterdam, the two of them did not see any A poster about playing Fu Tiao.

It wasn't until near the concert hall that I saw Fu Tiao's poster.

These posters are all gathered near theaters and concert halls, not in the entire city.

The poster of this place is similar to the poster of the Berlin Philharmonic, but simply changed the name, time and place, that's all.

Seeing so few posters, Chen Ying was full of anger, and she couldn't help puffing up while pointing at these posters.

"Can't those who do publicity put these posters outside the concert hall, at the entrance of the concert hall, besides those who come to the concert hall of the theater, who else knows that there will be a Fu Tiao concert today? Really! It was the same when Marta Argerich came to Berlin before! I was preparing for a concert, and I didn’t go to the Berlin Philharmonic for a few days, but when I swiped on Instagram, my friend went to listen to Argerich! Ahhh, I'm really, I'm so pissed off!"

Wu Hong patted her shoulder lightly, scratched his head with the other hand and whispered: "But...these are classical music, apart from those wandering bands, not many brokerage companies and publicity departments would choose Put these posters all over the city? Anyway, the street near my house still has the latest Bay Nine mariachi posters, and Bolero mariachi posters."

"Although there is nothing wrong with saying that, I always feel uncomfortable in my heart, as if the things I value are not valued by others, which is very annoying. Why can't newcomers like Fu Diao be posted all over the city like the mariachi band? What about the advertisement? Wouldn’t it be better to attract more people to come and see it?”

Chen Ying muttered something in a low voice and shook her head slightly.

The so-called vagabond bands are actually those bands that don't have a resident band. They usually travel around the whole country. They decide the venue for the tour one year in advance, and then hold concerts throughout the country.

Although these orchestras have the most basic qualities, the personnel inside are not particularly fixed, and even the most publicized direction is only to promote their repertoire, not who their conductors are, or who their violin masters are, because...

These are not fixed and change frequently.

Those who study abroad in Germany often encounter the shortage of large symphony orchestras. If they play works they are familiar with, they can easily intervene as outsiders and play as a member of the wandering band.

But the level of performance...

It can only be said that the performers are indeed capable, and the work they perform is indeed such a work, but the feeling they play is not that feeling, it just sounds a little bad.

However, the staff of the family is often on the move, and only a few of average level will hang out in this kind of group and wait to die. What high-level performance do you expect from them?It's good to listen to it.

That's why they advertise everywhere what they're going to play, not who their conductor is.

After all, the name of the work is much more valuable than their conductor.

Chen Ying gasped and walked to the vicinity of the concert hall. When she was about to turn around and wait to go back, she complained about the lack of attention given by the Royal Concertgebouw, but when she entered the concert hall where Fu Tiao was about to perform, she looked at Among the people who came to the concert hall today, she suddenly shut up.

It's densely packed, all of them are people.

They obviously came very early, and they had already started queuing up to enter the venue just after the ticket check, but when they really entered the concert hall, she found that she was still late.

The seats at the front were already full, and those who bought high-priced tickets couldn't wait to rush to their seats, waiting for Fu Tiao's performance.

Only those middle voters like them will wander slowly to their seats.

As for the tickets to the top of the mountain in the distance... it was occupied by a group of students, students from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Music, who bought tickets for the top of Fu Tiao at a low price.

To put it simply, although I have no money, I still come to support you.

Looking at the appearance of the group of students, they seemed very excited.

Chen Ying realized this at this time, and patted Wu Hong beside her vigorously, and said excitedly.

"I got it! I got it!"

"You know it if you know it, why are you hitting me?" Wu Hong hid back, grabbed Chen Ying's swaying hand, and pressed it on her leg: "Speak well, don't get excited, you Know what?"

"I know why Fu Tiao is not promoting his performance to the whole of the Netherlands!"

Chen Ying looked at Wu Hong excitedly, and suppressed her voice, "It's not that the Netherlands doesn't want to promote Fu Tiao, but because... there is no need to promote Fu Tiao at all, do you understand? There is no need to promote Fu Tiao at all! You see People around, even if there is only a little publicity, and even the posters are only placed near the concert hall, but the occupancy rate of the surrounding area is already too high! Do you know what this means? That is to say, before the publicity, Fu Tickets for the tune in Holland are completely sold out! Just like Argerich before!"

"what?"

Wu Hong looked at the object he was excited about, and couldn't help opening his mouth: "All sold out?"

"That's right! It's all sold out! The seats with the highest price in the front row have all been sold out, and then the students at the back of the mountain have also taken over the tickets. Only some tickets in the middle are still on sale, but look at the people around you, come in There are more and more people, and the remaining vacancies are getting less and less. With the current speed of entry, they are absolutely sold out! This is the most fundamental reason why they don't promote Fu Tiao!"

Chen Ying looked excited.

She started booking tickets after the performance of Fu Tiao. At that time, because it had just opened, everyone didn’t know much about Fu Tiao. Therefore, when she bought the tickets, the seats were even more than [-]% empty, and almost no one bought them. ticket.

This is the main reason why she became so angry when she saw that the concert hall did not promote Fu Tiao.

But when she saw that there were people everywhere, she understood the difficulty of the concert hall.

The purpose of your publicity is to sell more tickets.

You have sold out all the tickets now, why are you promoting it?

You're telling the whole city that there's an awesome concert this weekend, and we've invited a big-name pianist to perform, and all the classical music lovers have already gotten tickets, but guess what? , who didn't buy a ticket?

It's you!

As long as the image of the Dutchman is brought in a little bit, Chen Ying's fist can't help but harden.

I'm so angry, I can't wait to punch the person who put up the poster!
Why does the poster that you can't buy tickets at all have to spread the sky and cover the sky!Are you mocking us?
Thinking of this, Chen Ying nodded sympathetically.

"Yes, sure enough, you still can't put up posters directly, oh yes, Wu Hong, have you bought the ticket for Fu Tiao's next concert?"

"I bought it, the one from Brussels, and the one from Paris. I bought both. I bought it with you at the time. Have you forgotten?" Wu Hong nodded honestly, and then smiled wryly: "No, Ying, the repertoire of Fu Tiao concert will not be very different, why are you pursuing him so much?"

"You don't understand! This is the pursuit of piano learners! It just so happens that I am practicing Chopin recently, and I am also planning to hold a Chopin solo concert. I plan to refer to Fu Tiao's performance!"

Chen Ying looked determined, then she was taken aback, and slapped Wu Hong suddenly: "No, I was almost confused by your interruption, I just wanted to ask you something... Oh yes, buy a ticket! You Go and see if the tickets at the back are sold out?"

"The tickets in the back..."

Wu Hong smiled wryly.

Although he is also a music student, his liking for the piano can only be considered average. He came to the concert more to accompany his partner, not because he wanted to attend the concert.

As for Fu Tiao, he felt that the most awesome thing about Fu Tiao was the encore at the end of Fu Tiao's last time. Chopin playing...

It can only be said that it is about the same level as the gods he has heard in the headphones, right?Can't hear a big difference.

If it wasn't for his girlfriend who always wanted to listen to Fu Tiao, he probably wouldn't listen to it a second time after listening to it once.

But well...

Seeing his delicate body, slender waist, sweet appearance, and perverted play, no matter how much he didn't want to hear it, he was willing to accompany his partner.

After all, the way he played last night even made him wonder if his target is not learning the piano, but learning ballet or jujitsu.

Wu Hong shook his head, put aside some bad thoughts in his mind, turned on his mobile phone and started to check Fu Tiao's tickets, and then couldn't help but be taken aback.

Leaving aside the tickets that have not yet started selling in the last month, the tickets for several cities that have already started selling, except for the three he bought, other cities...

All sold out?
No tickets left?
Wu Hong was stunned. Seeing the empty Steinway on the stage, the corner of his mouth could not help but twitch.

Fu Tiao's appeal is so strong?Tickets can be sold... so much?

Wu Hong got up abruptly and looked around the concert hall.

This concert hall is not that kind of large concert hall. From the current point of view, the size of this concert hall should be around 600 people, not too many, not too small.

Even if all the concert halls in the future are all small concert halls of this type, what Fu Diao has shown so far is completely extraordinary!This level of appeal has rarely been seen at an unbelievable level, and Wu Hong has never seen it in anyone other than Lang Liangyue.

Of course, people like Argerich, Barenboim, etc., their tickets are actually selling well, but because they are players with top appeal, they are all in that kind of particularly large concert hall It is normal for tickets to be sold out for performances inside, and it cannot be compared with Fu Tiao.

But if you compare it with some other people, for example, many venues with 1000 people may not be able to go to a concert hall full of people, then Fu Tiao's appeal is already very terrifying, even to the extreme level.

It makes people wonder whether their current classical music is constantly weakening as those people said.

Chen Ying watched her boyfriend get up suddenly, and realized something instantly, with a look of excitement on his face.

"How is it? How about the tickets in the back?"

"Stop selling, fill in the mailbox and wait for the notification of the remaining tickets..." Wu Hong looked down at his partner with a shocked face: "I never thought that Fu Tiao's appeal would be so strong, even if calculated according to the normal ticket price, Even a little less, after the high-priced tickets and student tickets offset each other, the average ticket price may be [-] to [-] Euros. This small venue with hundreds of people is equivalent to Fu Diao selling tens of thousands of tickets a day? If the ticket price More expensive..."

"Hey, don't think about this. The high ticket price has nothing to do with Fu Tiao. Fu Tiao should get paid according to the number of performances, a few thousand euros per performance, no matter how much the ticket sells." Chen Ying After interrupting Wu Hong's words, looking at the stage in front of him, he couldn't help showing longing.

"When will I be able to have such a strong appeal like Fu Tiao..."

"Work hard, it will happen." After Wu Hong comforted his object a little, he fell into his own world.

He is shaking.

In fact, he also knew that Fu Tiao currently settled the money according to the number of sessions, but... that was now.

Brokerage companies don't like to do business at a loss. They must also make money. All the tours for these new performers who enter the brokerage company are the first checkpoint for these performers. Look at your audience's popularity. Exactly how.

Normally, if your attendance rate can be half, and if the brokerage company loses a little less, it is already considered good, and it is already worth continuing to train.

But now, Fu Diao's attendance is actually full?
It's as simple as that.

Of course, for the brokerage company, it is more in line with their idea than to directly buy a time slot for Fu Diao to use, and to be responsible for the profit and loss with the theater. Everyone makes money and loses money together.

However, because Wu Hong didn't know the specific price for this negotiation, he was too lazy to calculate it, so he just bought a time slot for Fu Diao to use as a brokerage company.

Based on 500 seats and 40 euros per person, and the marketing of drinks and the like is used to fill the gap, then today's revenue can be at least [-] euros.

Normally speaking, renting a concert hall with more than [-] people, the price of renting for four hours, plus tickets and advertisements, is definitely enough to pay a few thousand euros, even a little bit more than the standard!
Even if you count a little more, you can rent a concert hall with [-] euros, make tickets, print flyers, and make a special ticket purchase page.

Your income of nearly [-] euros can almost offset all the costs you paid, and even earn a little bit.

This is the main reason why for those new pianists, the brokerage company is satisfied with half the occupancy rate.

With half the attendance rate, this is already in a state of not losing money. Fu Tiao's full attendance rate is definitely profitable!

In the case of Fu Tiao, your brokerage company has only two options, either directly increase Fu's salary, or use the gradient method to increase Fu's salary.

As for not caring about anything and just watching?

It may be possible for other small companies. For them, entertainers are more profitable than cultivating a top talent, but for large companies, it is absolutely impossible.

Especially for Deutsche Grammophon, which has been acquired and is in great need of performance, they will never give up Fu Tiao, a future star, just because of a little profit.

Wu Hong's mind was completely flustered at this time, he stared blankly at the empty stage, and couldn't help swallowing.

"Damn it, I can really see that Fu Tiao has a lot of money, and the current appeal of Fu Tiao is too scary..."

"That's right, he is the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition. Of course, he has a bright future! The previous champions in 2005 and 2010 are not even a hair of his, and the champion in 2000 is Li Diyun, but he is not doing very well now. okay."

"Yeah, this Qiantu is really, the starlight visible to the naked eye."

Wu Hong's tone was complicated.

Chen Ying didn't hear the envy in Wu Hong's words, but flattered that he was praising Fu Tiao, so she couldn't help laughing and joking with him.

Under the fight between the two of them, the lights in the entire concert hall could not help but dimmed, while the lights on the stage gradually increased.

Chen Ying only came to her senses at this time, raised her head slightly and looked around, and sure enough, just as she thought, all the seats around were full of people.

Seeing all this, she smiled brightly, returned to her seat with great joy, and looked expectantly at the position of the entrance door on the stage.

Click!Click!Click!
The concert hall became extremely quiet, and what everyone could hear, except for their own heartbeat, was only the second hand of the mechanical watch closest to them turning.

In the anticipation of everyone who almost held their breath, the stage door finally opened, and Fu Diao walked out from behind the door in a suit.

The applause roared instantly.

Under the applause and lights, Fu Tiao walked to the center of the stage with a smile, bowed slightly to the crowd, and sat directly on the piano bench without stopping.

Then, press the first chord perfectly!
　In tears, I just found out that while I was out last week, Argerich was in my city for a concert.

　　And when I was wondering whether to book Argerich's concert next month, I just discussed with my friends for a while, and then Argerich and Barenboim's performances were gone.

　　Only one Zimmerman, one Soroyev, and one Kissing can play.

　　Just to put it bluntly, three student tickets are 30 Euros, and my round-trip ticket is almost 100+...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)