pianist from the sea

Chapter 193 Jazz Gathers in Paris
Nick looked at this piece of news and didn't know what to say. Although he had never heard Fu Tiao's performance, his interest had been completely seduced by what Andre wrote. He was really curious about this What kind of character is the person who is said to be the closest to the god of jazz.

What exactly is contained in his music?

All this made him extremely curious, and he wished he could go to Europe immediately to listen to Fu Tiao's performance.

only……

After he put the magazine in his hand into Bruce's hand, he picked up his mobile phone and continued to check Fu Tiao's information to see if the follow-up progress of Fu Tiao's concert would be made public.

As a result, just as Bruce said before, Fu Tiao's concert tickets have been completely sold out, and there are no extra tickets left on the market.

If you want to buy tickets for Fu Tiao, then you have to go to scalpers and the like to collect tickets at a high price.

There's just one problem, that is...

Now there are not many scalpers who have tickets for Fu Tiao, and almost all the tickets are in the hands of the audience.

People scalpers don't sell those pop star tickets to scalp, what do they do with classical music tickets?Put it at home as a decoration?

Almost everyone who has a Fu Tiao ticket now is an audience who wants to go to a Fu Tiao concert. Who would be willing to sell their tickets at the original price?

Even if they suddenly find that Fu Tiao's concert is not in the same time as theirs, and they don't have enough time to listen to Fu Tiao's concert, they are unlikely to pay a high price, but give priority to finding their friends and asking them If you want a ticket from Fu Tiao, try to sell it internally.

If it cannot be digested internally, it will be reduced to the outside and be bought by everyone at a high price.

This also keeps the price of live tickets for Fu Tiao concerts high, and it is difficult for you to buy those suitable tickets to listen to Fu Tiao's concerts.

Nick looked at his mobile phone, and after struggling for a long time, he still made a call. According to Bruce, he was going to find his manager in Universal Music and ask him if there was any news about Fu Tiao. .

After all, according to the normal saying, Deutsche Grammophon is a company under Universal Music. Anyway, it is not a problem for the parent company to get some tickets for artists under its company, right?
However, he was still disappointed.

"What? No tickets? You can't get them either?"

When he just called and said the first sentence, the agent on the other side seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and said bluntly: "Yes, there are no tickets, someone came over to me just before you. I have already inquired about this matter with the people at Universal, and even specifically asked about the situation at Deutsche Grammophon. Their attitude is very obvious, that is, there are no tickets, no matter what you say , but there are no tickets.”

"But, isn't Fu Tiao an artist in their company? Even so, they didn't keep the tickets in the company to give some people who want to go to the Dior concert a chance? Even other popular artists will do the same Bar?"

"You're right, but there are only a dozen tickets they can keep. Guess when these tickets are gone?"

The agent's tone was very helpless, and he explained to Nick: "Now Dior has already sold 8 concerts, except for the 3 that ended, and the remaining 5 have long been sold out. These concerts are basically sold out. It's six or seven hundred, seven or eight hundred seats, and it's pretty good that they can leave a dozen or so tickets. These friendship tickets have already been given away, where did you get them? But..."

"But what?" Nick asked.

"However, although Dior originally planned to have 12 concerts, the last 4 concerts have not yet started to buy tickets. We can talk to Deutsche Grammophon to see what kind of ideas they have. See if you can get tickets in advance, according to my understanding of them, they should issue new tickets soon, and the price should be the same as the price of a normal master concert.”

The manager's words were very calm, and he said to Nick while thinking: "But let me declare to you in advance that we may not be able to get the tickets in the future. You have no idea how popular Fu Diao is now. Deutsche Grammophon It is absolutely impossible to retain a large number of tickets for us insiders and store them for us to use. They may only retain about 5% of the votes, and maybe only twenty or thirty tickets will be released, and the rest must be directly It’s for sale, if your hand speed is okay, I suggest you grab the ticket for Fu Tiao by yourself instead of waiting here silently.”

"Okay, I see, I will try it, thank you very much."

Nick nodded slowly when he heard this, hung up the phone call of the manager in his hand, and fell into deep thought.

He had never imagined that Fu Tiao's tickets could sell so hotly, and even insiders had almost no way to get Fu Tiao's tickets.

As for the [-] or [-] concert tickets that the manager just mentioned, he didn't actually expect it.

Because he is not a very important person in Universal Music Company. There are a lot of people who are more important than him in his company. These tickets must be given priority to those big shots. Those who are left will be given to these ordinary artists.

It's just that he didn't expect Fu Diao to be so popular.

He looked at his phone and couldn't help but start to get tangled up.

How about... go directly to a computer student I know, ask him to write a crawler software to help me crawl the company's data, and when Fu Tiao decides to sell concert tickets, grab the tickets immediately?
Although it is said that he either owes favors to others or needs to spend a lot of money, if he can really get a ticket from Fu Tiao, it is not really a special loss.

Especially if you compare it with buying tickets directly from scalpers.

Thinking of all this, Nick quickly returned to his teaching and research room, lost in thought, thinking about how to go to the scene to listen to Fu Tiao's music.

After all, as long as he thinks of what Andre said just now, pure classical chords show the beautiful classical jazz, he can't help but be curious.

A pianist who can be recognized by a jazz teacher and whose manuscripts are also recognized by the reviewers, he is really very curious about the music in the hands of such a pianist.

As for looking for Fu Tiao's video online...

He didn't intend to do that.

In addition to the fact that the sound quality on the Internet is not as good as live music, and you can easily lose some details, he also hopes to retain a little mystery.

Only with a sense of mystery can he be able to think about what Fu Tiao's music represents to the greatest extent.

This man named Andre, how much bragging does he have about Fu Diao's music.

……

Not only Nick, but also many other people in North America have noticed this news, the discussion about Fu Tiao.

For example, Mr. Kapustin, who has already boarded the flight from North America to Paris, sat in his first-class seat, looked at the magazine in his hand, and couldn't help feeling a little bit of curiosity for a while.

This magazine was carried by his students, so he picked it up to have a look because he thought it was all right, flipped through the content of classical music and jazz music, and happened to find the content about Fu Tiao.

After his student came back from the bathroom, he thought about it, smiled and asked, "Have you ever heard of Fu Tiao?"

"Fu, Dior?" The student was obviously stunned for a moment, couldn't help raising his head and thinking for a moment, then nodded slightly to Mr. Kapustin: "I seem to have heard his name before, he seems to be the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition , I have paid attention to his information before, if I remember correctly, it seems that his recent tour in Brussels has just ended, and he is going to rush to Paris to continue his tour career."

Speaking of this place, the student couldn't help being stunned, and said hesitantly: "Well, it seems that the time of his concert should be about the same as the time of the music exchange meeting we went to Paris, probably a few days after us look..."

"Haha, that's pretty good, maybe we can still see his shadow on the streets of Paris, so maybe it can be regarded as a chance meeting, encountering romance in the city of romance, but unfortunately I'm already an old man, It would be even more perfect if I were a young woman."

Kapustin couldn't help laughing, returned the magazine to his student, and didn't continue the topic.

After all, Fu Tiao may not be heading in the same direction as him. Now this person is praising Fu Tiao as the person who is closest to the god of jazz. reached a conclusion.

That is to say, Fu Tiao still belongs to the category of classical pianist. He just plays classical music very well, and at the same time, he can also play some jazz, and he also plays jazz well, that's all.

But he also developed some interest in Fu Tiao.

He finds this person very interesting.

According to normal logic, Fu Tiao is actually the best way to go on the path of classical music. You must know that the path of a classical music pianist is much wider than that of a jazz pianist, and the threshold is much higher.

If you can go down the road of classical music pianist, then how good it is to continue walking in classical music, why fight for positions with jazz people like them, why bother?Why bother?
If his level and strength can compete with those great gods, he actually wants to continue to work in classical music and become a top classical music composer.

Although he may be placed among the composers of the twentieth century according to the chronological order, he is still a relatively classical composer in the final analysis, not the kind of jazz composer that many people pass on.

Of course, this is his own idea, not someone else's.

You must know that although Kapustin's concert works are called concert etudes, most people play his works as jazz.

How can such a composer whose almost all works are jazz be called a classical pianist instead of a jazz pianist?
Watching the plane begin to taxi and head towards Paris, he gradually let go of his guard, and for the time being looked out the window in a daze.

"I hope this exchange is interesting..."

……

At the same time, the plane from EGL Tokyo to Paris had already taken off, and a woman sitting in the corner of the first-class cabin was wrapped in a blanket and looked out the window at the night in a daze.

She is Hiromi Ishihara.

Although many people outside have been promoting her as a very self-conscious woman who is extremely strict with music and pays special attention to self-expression, when she is actually alone in the room, she is still relatively calm or indifferent the kind of person.

She likes to be immersed in her own world and doesn't like to communicate too much with the outside world.

Even those messy movements in music, known as Lang Liangyue in the jazz world, she just played according to her own mood, not intentionally designed movements.

"Ms. Ishihara, this is the magazine you ordered."

After the flight was stable, a flight attendant brought over the latest issue of "Gramophone" and handed it to Hiromi Ishihara.

She took the magazine with a smile, and casually opened a page to read, but her eyes did not lock on one place alone, on the contrary, her eyes were a little erratic, and she didn't know where to look.

The night outside the window was getting darker and darker, she subconsciously turned on the side plane lights, and the light shone on the magazine, just covering Fu Tiao's column.

She couldn't help being stunned looking at this column, and slowly read it, then raised her head thoughtfully.

"Huh? So there is another newcomer in the jazz circle recently? Or a newcomer from the classical side? It feels... interesting?"

Thinking about it, she couldn't help laughing, reached out and tore off this page of the magazine, cut out the piece of Fu Tiao separately, and put it on a notebook in her package.

Looking at the densely packed news screenshots of various musicians in this notebook, the smile on her face suddenly became wider.

"I'm really curious, what kind of person is the pianist who can be featured in the gramophone magazine and is praised by so many people. I really hope to meet him in Paris and listen to his music. "

As she spoke, her eyes became brighter and brighter, and she couldn't help sticking out her tongue to lick the corner of her mouth.

……

Fu Tiao didn't know that Andre had posted about his concert tour on the Gramophone magazine, and many, many people had begun to notice him.

He just drove towards Paris according to his own plan.

When he was leaving the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels, the girl who was not very good at playing the bell ran over and said to him.

"Mr. Fu! Are you going to Paris today? I happen to be going to Paris next week to attend an exchange meeting. If possible, can I go to Paris with you?"

Fu Diao looked at his ticket and saw the girl's extremely serious expression. He didn't pay much attention to it, so he agreed to her request and let her buy the ticket to follow him to Paris.

It is very convenient to go from Brussels to Paris. Compared with other railways in your own city, it takes only two or three hours. It only takes one hour and 22 minutes to travel from Brussels to Paris.

If you look at the map, you can find that the train from Brussels to Paris has no trace of twists and turns at all, it is a very straight road, piercing everything directly from Brussels, rushing to the hinterland of France, and arriving in Paris.

And if you drive from Brussels to Paris, it will take at least three and a half hours, or even four hours, and the route you drive is even more winding, more than 100 kilometers longer than the straight-line distance.

Although the speed of 250 kilometers in one and a half hours is relatively slow, not as good as Huaguo's high-speed rail, but this speed can be regarded as a fast distance in the whole of Europe.

After all, you need to know that the straight-line distance of the train from Munich to Salzburg is 120 kilometers, and it takes 3 hours for the high-speed train to travel there.

Three hours!You might be able to drive past it!
Looking at the scenery slowly passing by outside the window, Fu Tiao couldn't help sighing, and said to the girl opposite.

"So, can you just be quiet, even though I'm on tour right now, it's professional work time, but I really don't want to continue talking about music, and a lot of the questions you're asking don't have any value, and when you practice more, you will know why that interpretation is wrong."

"But Teacher Fu, I have always interpreted it like this before. No one has ever said that this is wrong. When my teacher taught me at the time, he praised me for playing very well in this place."

"Obviously, your teacher also needs more practice. You can see this place for yourself!"

Fu Tiao was a little annoyed at the girl in front of him, reached out and snatched the pen from her hand, opened the sheet music, drew a circle where she said, and asked.

"Look at this place, what we are talking about now is the part of following, that is, the part of the second theme. This second theme is a relatively parallel existence with the first theme. Compared with the first theme, the second theme is completely It can be seen from the score that the emotion of the second theme is a little weaker. This is specially written by the composer himself. Can you understand? This is a premise. You must understand this before I can tell you later Content."

The girl nodded a little guilty: "I probably understand, but..."

"But why did the composer write it like that? Because it's obvious, that's where you just played. First of all, the first theme symbolizes a perfect saint. Saint, do you understand? And the second theme is following the saint's self. At the beginning, he used P in the place of the sage. This P represents humility and is full of curiosity about everything, while the F in the back of the self represents arrogance. The two form a contrast. This is the inner emotion. Conflict! When the self-growth under the emotional conflict and the second theme returns to normal later, your contradiction did not show up, and you still said that your performance was correct?"

Fu Tiao knocked on the table and said, looking at the girl in front of him very helplessly: "I know you want to play good music, but I hope you'd better learn music logic, the beauty of music performance needs logic at the same time, and It's not a pure beauty, the music you play has no logic at all, how can you say that you play well? Can others praise you for playing well?"

"Yes, sorry..."

The girl apologized, Fu Tiao waved his hands helplessly, looked at the information board above his head, and sighed, "Forget it, that's it, Paris is here too, let's get off first."

"Okay, okay..."

The girl was very frustrated. After seeing the vehicle parked smoothly, she quickly packed her luggage and got out of the car. Then she picked up the bag with the music score in her hand. Just when she was about to receive her package, a black whirlwind rushed towards her.

Whoa!
Before the girl's head could react, the bag containing the music score in her hand disappeared in an instant.

Seeing all this, the girl's pupils couldn't help but widen, and she shouted loudly.

"Ahhhhhh! Help! Someone is robbing!"

　Don't think too much about a purely functional female supporting role that doesn't even have a name

　　
　
(End of this chapter)