pianist from the sea

Chapter 205 Concert?Teaching Seminar!
Salle Gaveau, Gaveau Concert Hall.

It may not sound like the Concert Hall of the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Paris Philharmonic Hall or the Paris National Theater. It is a bit like a small concert hall that is not well-known.

But it's not actually the case.

This concert hall is a very old and famous top concert hall in Paris.

After the land was acquired in 1905, he began to design this concert hall. It was successfully built between 1906 and 1907. The number of people it can accommodate is not as small as the name says. There are more than 1000 people, which can even be regarded as a concert hall. A medium to large concert hall.

If it is just the long years of construction and the large number of seats, it is not the whole of this concert hall.

After Saint-Saëns wrote the opening ceremony "audience and orchestra from the stage" for this concert hall, other famous musicians also flocked to this concert hall.

For example, in 1909, it received Eugène Ysay, known as the king of violin, in 1911, it received French music ambassador Marguerite Lang, and in 1912, it received Fritz Kreisler.
But if we say that the most famous one is Claude Debussy who was received in 1917.

As a representative of French Impressionist musicians, he also gave his own concert in this concert hall named Gaveau.

And there are even more celebrities making their debut in this concert hall.

The Impressionists, led by Ravel and Debussy, all liked to have their premieres in this concert hall.

Even Schoenberg and Stravinsky have premiered many of their works in this concert hall.

Even though the number of seats in this concert hall is not as good as that of the Paris Grand Theater Concert Hall and the newly built concert halls of the Paris Philharmonic Concert Hall with a capacity of 3000 to [-] people, the history of this concert hall far surpasses those new concert halls.

Especially in chamber music and solo instruments, this concert hall is even more so.

This is also the most suitable and perfect performance venue that Deutsche Grammophon can find for Fu Tiao.

It just so happened that Gavo's side had a vacant schedule, and Deutsche Grammophon's side had an appointment to be able to reserve such a seat.

The staff obviously didn't expect that Fu Tiao was the guest performer tonight, he was not in charge of it, he was just a greeter in special clothes, so he immediately ran back and informed the person in charge who was backstage , the person in charge immediately ran out quickly, and spoke to Fu Tiao in English with a strong French accent.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Fu! I'm really sorry, our work here has not been done properly, and we have not notified everyone that you are here."

He walked up to Fu Tiao with a very sincere expression. After bowing to Fu Tiao and apologizing several times, he stretched out his hand and said to Fu Tiao: "We have prepared a rest room for you. Your performance tonight The venue has also been set up, do you need to take a look? Or should I go directly to the lounge?"

"Let's take a look at the stage, there are pianos and so on..."

"Okay! Please come with me."

The person in charge signaled the welcome boy to return to his job with his eyes, then bent slightly, trotted all the way to guide Fu Tiao on the way, and brought Fu Tiao to the concert hall.

At this moment, there are still some staff in the concert hall doing the final finishing. After tidying up some unnecessary things to the backstage, a few screens are added between the piano and the organ.

It is not to block the view of the audience, but to slightly change the sound field in the concert hall, so that the audience can hear it more clearly.

Piano solo and string ensemble are not the same, and the required sound field is also different, and these require subtle adjustments.

Fu Tiao stood on the stage and looked towards the concert hall, taking everything in this concert hall into his eyes.

This is a concert hall with a sense of age. Just like Fu Tiao’s performance in the Chopin International Piano Competition, the overall layout of this concert hall is also the shoebox model of the Chopin Concert Hall.

The raised stage, the flat seats with no level difference below, and the concave-shaped balcony on the second floor.

Compared with the Chopin Concert Hall, the most special thing about this concert hall is that this place has a third floor, and the downstairs of the second floor is separated by pillars, not the same as other seats on the first floor. It's an ordinary seat.

"Same as a normal concert hall, we provide Yamaha and Steinway pianos here. In addition, because this concert hall is named after the Gavo company, we also provide Gavo grand pianos here. If you need if."

The person in charge pointed to the three pianos that were placed in the backstage, and said respectfully.

Fu Tiao scanned the three pianos and shook his head slightly: "No need, just Steinway."

"Okay, we have invited our best tuner to tune your piano in your lounge. The piano feel in the lounge can be guaranteed to be more than 90% the same as the piano outside. , you can choose to practice the piano here, but you need to wait for a while, about half an hour or nearly an hour, or enter the lounge to wait."

"Then go back to the lounge first, let me know when it's cleaned up, and I'll rehearse in advance."

"Understood! Please follow me in the lounge."

After Fu Tiao glanced at the situation in the concert hall again, he followed the person in charge to his lounge.

This is an ordinary lounge with the luxury of European aristocrats. It has no windows and cannot see the outside scenery.

However, the seats inside looked very soft, and there were mineral water, biscuits, candies and some simple fruits on the table for the performers to share.

On the wall is a very typical French line wallpaper, with several photos of musicians who have played here before.

For example, Ravel, Debussy, Saint-Saëns and others mentioned in the previous introduction.

There are also some musicians that Fu Tiao does not know.

These people are all top musicians who have performed in this concert hall.

The person in charge stood at the door and spoke to Fu Tiao.

"Mr. Fu! There is a button on the table. If you have any questions, you are welcome to press the button to come to us at any time, or open the door and call. We will always be there."

After finishing speaking, he bowed slightly to Fu Tiao, turned around, closed the door softly, and left the room.

Fu Tiao was the only one left in the house.

After Fu Tiao relaxed on the chair for a while, he didn't waste any more time, but went to the piano for the final confirmation of the performance.

Every performance is worth taking seriously, and you won't relax just because you are strong.

How you treat the show, the show, treats you.

This is the music that Fu Diao believes in.

Looking at the portraits around him, he slowly pressed his first button.

……

While Fu Diao was working hard to practice the piano, countless people had already gathered outside the room.

This Gavo concert hall may have been quiet for a long time, and there has never been that kind of top musicians. The outside of the concert hall is surprisingly crowded, and the long queue of patting teams has even run around the block several times from the door.

People around who know the situation may have guessed that the Gavo Concert Hall will hold a concert at night, and those who don't know the situation may even suspect that this place is a new check-in spot for Internet celebrities.

Otherwise, how could there be so many people queuing up at this place.

There are so many people queuing at this place that you can't see the end at a glance.

If it's normal, it's actually fine.

After all, it is normal for a new concert in a normal concert hall to have half the occupancy rate, especially those commercial performances.

That is to say, those charitable performances, such as 10 euros for students and 200 euros for summer cultural subsidies, you can see Argerich, Zimmermann, Barenboim Music Festival, so many people gather in There was a queue to enter the venue, so that there were hardly any vacant seats in the entire concert hall.

The same goes for the Gavo Concert Hall.

They rarely hold similar music festivals. They are a commercial concert hall for those musicians to hold concerts. Their tickets will not have any subsidies. The ticket price of tens of euros is enough to dissuade many People who join in the fun.

Therefore, there may be only three or four hundred, five hundred or even fewer people queuing up on their side.

Coupled with the staggered peak of time and the interior space, you can also enter and wait. In fact, this situation has not been seen in the Gavo Concert Hall for a long time.

In addition to the tickets for the 1000-person concert at Fu Tiao's side, all the tickets were sold out, and many scalpers sensed business opportunities, and followed the group of people around the concert hall to ask if anyone had bought tickets.

There are also some people who have not bought tickets looking for tickets there.

There are more than 1000 people crowded in a small block, and it is not yet open to enter, so the surrounding area is completely crowded.

The person in charge who was in charge of entering the venue was dumbfounded for a moment when he saw all this, and without any hesitation, he asked the staff member in the welcome dress to let people in first, so as not to block the door.

He didn't know how long it had been since he saw such a grand occasion in the Gavo Concert Hall. Now most of the people are scrambling to go to those super large concert halls with more than 2000 people, such as the Paris Philharmonic , a place like the Grand Theater in Paris.

Although their place can accommodate only a thousand people, but the acoustics are not inferior to those top concert halls, why don't the audience and musicians come?

Looking at the group of people who were queuing up, he couldn't help feeling softly.

"It's such a grand occasion, long time no see..."

It's just that when he finished expressing his emotions and was about to go back to the backstage to see if other people were negligent in their work, the discussions of some people around him caught his attention.

"Why did Fu Ta choose this small place? There are only more than 1000 people enough to see?"

"That's right, it's so hard to buy tickets for this place. I bought it several weeks in advance but didn't get it. This place is really terrible."

"When will Fu be able to hold a big concert with more than 2000 people? I really can't get tickets for this venue with more than 1000 people! If it wasn't for the high-priced scalper tickets, I wouldn't be able to get in."

"Hehe... I feel that even if we get a large venue with more than 2000 people, Fu Ta may not be able to grab tickets..."

"..."

Made, are a group of French children, do they understand the gold content of this concert hall?

Seeing their young appearance, the corner of the person in charge's mouth twitched non-stop.

Originally planning to go backstage, he couldn't help but stop. He wanted to see what the people who came today had to say about his place.

Anyway, even if his Jiawo Concert Hall is not that famous, it's not that small, right?
He just stood there, smiling at the audience who were walking in one by one, listening carefully to their discussion.

Among this group of people, French is not their main language. English is the most spoken language among them, followed by Chinese, and then other languages.

French is also one of them.

He couldn't understand other languages, so he carefully distinguished the English spoken by the group of people, his expression gradually became stiff, and his smile even froze a little bit.

"I don't think I've heard the name of this concert hall before. Why did Fu choose such a concert hall to hold a concert?"

"Well, I feel that this concert hall is a bit small, not as good as the Paris Philharmonic Hall and the Paris Grand Theater."

"A concert hall with more than 1000 people, no wonder the tickets are sold out so fast. I really hope that Fu can give another concert in Paris, whether it is at the Paris Philharmonic or at the Louvre. Don't be so small. gone."

"Hey, brother, how much did you pay for Fu's ticket?"

"I bought it at the original price. After Fu won the Chopin International Piano Competition, I began to pay attention to his follow-up concert arrangement, so after he announced this one in France, I directly booked the most expensive seat. so……"

"Gah, why didn't I pay attention to Fu's concert in advance, it's really disgusting, I only paid attention to this concert two weeks ago, but when I saw it, the tickets were sold out, I I bought it from scalpers, even the last position is more expensive than the most expensive position."

"My luck was better. I booked a waiting list. If someone refunds the ticket, we will go back and grab it. I just grabbed a ticket."

"Don't talk about it, the tickets I received are more than 200 Euros, and now someone has raised them to almost [-] Euros, right? It's better to grab the fare."

"That's right, this concert hall is really too small, it would be great if there could be more people."

"..."

Small, the scalper tickets are flooding, and tickets cannot be bought.

Everything is stimulating the person in charge's nerves, and he feels that he may not be suitable to continue listening.

As he listened, he couldn't help but feel that it would be nice if this concert hall could be bigger.

If there are 1000 more people, stand-up tickets will be placed in the aisle, squatting tickets will be placed between two stand-up tickets, lying tickets will be placed under the buttocks of sitting tickets, and a few hanging tickets will be sold on the top. Dare to say that there are not enough seats in this concert hall.

Seeing that so much money was lost because the audience could not buy tickets, he no longer cared about the audience scolding him for the small size of the concert hall, but regretted the loss of money.

He sighed, and when he was not about to continue listening, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He felt that there were many more people he knew very well in the crowd that came in.

The first to come in was a very flamboyant girl in a long red dress. She ran unsteadily to the bag storage area, threw her bag to the staff, and disappeared from his sight like a gust of wind.

If the guess is correct, this person should be... Hiromi Ishihara, one of the top players in jazz.

This concert hall also often receives many jazz players to play, so he is relatively familiar with the top jazz people.

After Hiromi Ishihara came in, he rubbed his eyes and found that a thick black man also walked into the concert hall.

It is rare to see black people in concert halls. It is not known whether it is because they are not interested in classical music or because they have no money. It is extremely rare for a black person to appear here.

But the person in charge was stunned for a long time. He knew this black man. This black man was a double bass player named Burke. He had appeared in some quartet bands before, and more often he played bass in many jazz bands. The violin can be regarded as a frequent visitor to this concert hall.

And the many people who came in behind were even more so.

Many regulars of jazz in Paris greeted the person in charge with a smile, then deposited their clothes and walked into the concert hall.

Looking at this group of people, the person in charge didn't realize for a while whether the current concert was a classical concert or... a jazz concert.

And this doubt reached its peak when a person he was too familiar with appeared in front of him.

Kapustin entered the concert hall with a young man. Although the old man was old and his footsteps were a little trembling, he was still very energetic and did not need the support of the young people around him.

The person in charge walked over quickly, and couldn't help stretching out his hand and said, "Mr. Kapustin, you..."

"Don't worry about me, I'm just here to take a look, this is my ticket, please keep it."

Kapustin smiled and handed over the ticket in his hand. Before the person in charge could speak, he waved his hand with a smile. After taking off his clothes to the students next to him, he walked into the room wearing a shirt.

His student smiled and nodded at the person in charge, and ran quickly to store the clothes.

Seeing the back of Kapustin leaving, the person in charge felt that his head might be broken.

And worse came later.

He saw several figures that surprised him even more.

The piano ensemble of the Paris Ecole Conservatoire!
In addition to the classrooms of professors at the Paris Conservatory of Music, there is Zhao Chengzhen, the top pianist who is currently known as the most likely successor to the French school.

They also nodded to the person in charge and entered the concert hall.

Looking at more and more densely packed professionals, the person in charge felt a little out of his mind.

For a moment, he didn't know if this was a small concert for the masses, or...

A teaching seminar!

(End of this chapter)