pianist from the sea

Chapter 302 Decision
Not that they choose, but that the power of choice is given to someone else?
This idea surprised many people present, and they immediately expressed doubts and rejections.

"No, no, I don't agree to let ordinary people make choices. We are directors. We need to make this music festival more beautiful. This is our job, and all the audience needs is to put down everything. Just enjoy it with your mind, we shouldn’t let them join in.”

"You're right, this is the Salzburg Music Festival. What we are considering now is who should perform, rather than letting the audience listen to whatever they like. This does not fit in with our concept of the music festival. .”

"This is just their opinion. I have no way of agreeing to your proposal."

……

After that person made the proposal, everyone's voices became extremely noisy. Everyone was talking about their opinions in that place, and the entire conference room even felt like a vegetable market.

Although everyone wants to make the Salzburg Music Festival more perfect and more popular, everyone's methods are definitely different, and their ultimate goals are also different.

So, in the face of so much skepticism, the man who originally proposed making the festival an audience-selected one didn't say anything.

He waited until everyone had finished talking, and when he could only sit on a chair and breathe, he stood up, nodded to everyone, and spoke.

"I know what you think, and I agree with you very much, because we are the people in charge of the Salzburg Music Festival, and we need to allow all audiences to enjoy the music festival directly without any thinking. This is our responsibility, so I also fully agree with your ideas, but..."

When he mentioned this place, he paused for a moment, looked at everyone, picked up his mobile phone, nodded to the staff next to him, and asked the person to turn on the projector on the side and turn on the projector on his mobile phone. The content was projected on the wall, pointing to the content on it and continuing to everyone.

"But I have to make one point, that is, who is our music festival for? Is it for us immortal old antiques? I think everyone should have an answer. Obviously, it is not the case!

Our music festival should be for music lovers all over the world. Although we just hope that they can immerse themselves in the music festival without being affected by the outside world and just enjoy the music festival, we must still do it One point, that is...

Make them enjoy music festivals!

Please look at what I am projecting now. "

The man pointed at the projector in front of him and slowly spoke to everyone.

"Many, many people are now discussing this incident about Pollini. This incident is not as ordinary as we imagined. On the contrary, this incident has caused a lot of controversy among ordinary people and music lovers. Many people are exploring who we should choose to replace Pollini at this year's Salzburg Music Festival.

They gave a lot of answers, which seemed to be of no use, just like ordinary guesses. But with the appearance of an answer, many people's tendencies began to change. It was obvious that they wanted to The guessed answer is this! "

He tapped his phone lightly, and a statistical chart appeared in his hand.

On the statistics icon, the search results in the forum and various places are marked.

There is a very obvious answer to the question that no pianist can replace Pollini.

"Fu Diao!"

The man pointed at Fu Diao in front of him and spoke to the crowd with great seriousness.

"Yes, obviously, as you can see now, Fu Diao is our answer. Fu Diao occupied the first position among all searches, and at the Salzburg Music Festival , among the replacements after Pollini left, the support rate gradually increased from 0.52% at the beginning to 37.32% after being discovered by everyone!

Doesn’t this amount seem a little small?But let's take a look at other pianists and see how popular they are!
The first is Lang Liangyue in No. 4. Many people are not satisfied with Lang Liangyue only playing a simple concerto. They hope that he can play a solo. However, many people are saying that Lang Liangyue’s works this year are basically The only one is that Lang Liangyue is in Paris, so his replacement support rate this year is 10.34%, which is a full 26.98% less than Fu Tiao. Everyone, I think everyone should know what this support rate means, right?

Some people may say that this is only No. 4, but what about the others?How many others can there be?Maybe No. 3 and No. 2 have similar support rates to Fu Tiao?

It's a pity, it's a pity that No. 2 Cross and No. 3 Ambrose, the support rates of these people are not high. Basically, they are only slightly higher than Lang Liangyue. Compared with Fu Diao , then it is even more pitiful, and this is actually not the most shocking point to me. The most shocking point to me is actually this. "

He tapped his phone again and projected a document up.

"This is the data I got after conducting a survey. At this year's Salzburg Music Festival, after Fu Tiao's name was noticed by everyone, the search frequency and subsequent support rate increased!
Obviously, after someone mentioned Fu Diao for the first time, a group of people began to search for Fu Diao. From a few people at the beginning, to the recent search frequency, there have been hundreds of thousands of times. After searching for Fu Diao, Fu Diao's support rate soared from the bottom at the beginning to the current number one position.

What does this mean? "

He looked at the crowd with a smile in his eyes.

"This means that they recognize Fu Diao. My friends, they recognize Fu Diao. They feel that it is not enough for Fu Diao to perform a simple set of chamber music at the Salzburg Music Festival this year. They feel that it is too much." Without it, they hope Fu Diao can continue to play, so obviously everyone, our audience is looking forward to Fu Diao."

"They are looking forward to Fu Tiao replacing Pollini and becoming an official solo performer at this year's Salzburg Music Festival, rather than just a simple chamber music performer."

The man spoke loudly to everyone.

The tone was very strong, as if it was Fu Tiao.

Everyone looked at the emotion of the person in front of them, and then glanced at the other people beside them. It was obvious that they found that among this group of people, everyone's eyes had begun to drift away.

Everyone has started to think about whether Fu Tiao is really suitable.

After all, their audience is now looking forward to Fu Diao's performance and expecting Fu Diao to bring them new auditory effects.

And they, the people on the music festival organizing committee, although they prepare the music festival for their audience, they decide everything.

But in fact, the music festivals they prepare are based on the audience's preferences.

To evaluate the level of a pianist or artist, we do not actually rely on other messy things to evaluate, but only some very simple data.

The number of times the pianist has been invited to major music festivals and the effectiveness of his collaborations with other symphony orchestras.

It's that simple.

If a pianist is not invited to any music festival and does not have any cooperation with other symphony orchestras, he is basically giving solo concerts by himself to attract his own fans.

Unless he can prove that he's regularly invited to music festivals, but he just doesn't go.

Or those symphony orchestra invitations, but he didn’t want to cooperate.

Otherwise, he may no longer be considered a top presence in the international music scene.

Even if his fans still think that he is the strongest group, that is limited to his fans, not the classical music world.

Because international music festivals and symphony orchestras are the most sensitive.

They are capital.

These festivals want to make money.

Although they keep talking about charity, or saying that this music festival is just for everyone to have fun and not to make money.

But in fact, if a music festival keeps losing money, then there is no way for this music festival to continue to be held.

The final result is probably a normal ending, unknown to anyone.

And the same goes for symphony orchestras.

Especially those philharmonic orchestras.

The musicians in these orchestras are all very capable, and at the same time, they are basically independently run orchestras.

If you want to operate independently instead of being supported by others, then the most important thing is one thing.

sell tickets.

Only by selling tickets can we continue to live.

If they want to sell tickets well, in addition to their own reputation being loud enough, they still need to cooperate with other people.

Let our fans have some interaction.

In this way, their ticket sales will be better, and the band will have the energy to pay their musicians and keep the band alive.

And those artists that the top music circles and music festivals are unwilling to invite.

Except for those who have made it clear that they do not want to participate in any music festivals or collaborate with any orchestras, everyone else has basically been abandoned by international orchestras.

Even if he holds concerts in various places every day, his fans will buy up the concert tickets.

But for international orchestras, he is still just a very, very ordinary performer, without any invitation value.After all, to be honest...

If someone invites you to come and play piano at a music festival, they will pay you.

Why would ordinary people like you give you money?

The reason why the Salzburg Music Festival invited Fu Diao before was actually not mainly because of Fu Diao's ability.

But it was because of Fu Diao’s teacher Klaus and chamber music teacher Hubble.

Kraus and Hubble were relatively familiar with major music festivals, so he discussed with the Salzburg Music Festival and asked Fu to attend the Salzburg Music Festival.

Since it is just simple chamber music, the overall time will be in the afternoon or morning, which are not particularly important times.

Therefore, even if Fu were to transfer them, it would not be a loss for the Salzburg Music Festival Organizing Committee.

In addition, the money given by chamber music is only for one performance, not for one person. Giving them the money for one performance to share equally among themselves is not a lot.

All these factors combined led the Salzburg Music Festival to invite Fu Diao and his orchestra to perform.

They never thought that such an ordinary pianist who only played chamber music would have so many fans.

At first, everyone just thought that his piano skills were strong and didn't think much about it.

But who would have thought that Fu Tiao was not only strong, but also had such a high support rate among ordinary people.

Therefore, people who originally expressed objections began to hesitate.

They looked at each other, and after struggling for a long time, someone finally spoke.

"I think it's actually good to let Fu Tiao replace Pollini. After all, he is currently very strong and everyone's attention is enough. There is nothing wrong with replacing Pollini."

"Well, it's true. Pollini can't play now, and Fu Diao's audience support has reached such a high level now. Our music festival still wants to make the audience happy no matter what, so... I support letting Fu Turn it up.”

"However, there are so many other pianists who have not had the opportunity to take the stage, but Fu Diao has already successfully taken the stage. I think..."

"There are so many and none. Now that the support rate of Fu Diao is so high, I must support Fu Diao. Don't think so much. I suggest that Fu Diao be directly promoted. We don't need to continue to discuss it. We can just disband. "

"That's right. I also decided on Fu Diao. This young man is quite nice and he is very suitable for our music festival. Let's go back and ask someone to take a look at Fu Diao's music festival schedule and his repertoire. Let’s see if we can make some fine-tuning, then that’s it.”

"..."

Everyone spoke in a flurry of voices.

Originally I was still struggling with who should perform the performance, but now I just decided on the final candidate in just a few words.

There is no doubt that Fu Tiao is the most suitable candidate.

His piano skills are strong, his fans are cohesive, and his support rate is far higher than the average person. What else is there to be dissatisfied with?
Obviously there is no dissatisfaction!

If you look at the support rate of Fu Tiao among ordinary people after seeing his resume, and then look at the support rate of other pianists, what else is worth considering?
Therefore, after everyone voted for the last time, it was decided that Fu Tiao would perform at the Salzburg Music Festival concert instead of Pollini, and then the topic was extended to other aspects.

At this moment, Fu Diao, Wang Jia, and Lang Liangyue were sitting in a small restaurant in Salzburg.

The arrival of the three people did not cause any commotion.

Except that when Wang Jia appeared on the stage because of her good figure, which amazed the people around her, Fu Tiao and Lang Liangyue didn't have any reaction.

Lang Liangyue is mainly sloppy.

He was wearing a simple short-sleeved suit, gray trousers, and tied his jacket directly around his waist to look like a short skirt. His hair was scattered to one side.

Unless you know Lang Liangyue and need to identify him carefully, you will never know that the person in front of you is called Lang Liangyue.

But Fu Diao is even simpler.

He was wearing a simple shirt and black trousers without any care.

He looks like a very refreshing and handsome guy, without the temperament he had during the performance.

Walking on the road just makes people's eyes brighter, rather than asking for WeChat ID to catch up.

The three of them walked into a small tavern and each ordered a meal.

Because Wang Jia needed to stay in shape, she just ordered a salad without any follow-up content.

The salad is really just a salad, which is completely different from the salad with salad dressing commonly eaten in China. There are only vegetable leaves in it, not a piece of meat, no sauce at all, just pure vegetable leaves stacked together.

Lang Liangyue and Fu Tiao ordered a little more.

Lang Liangyue ordered a simple Hawaiian pizza with a little Spanish ham in it, which looked delicious.

At the same time, I ordered myself a piece of pasta, creamy mushroom pasta, which looked delicious.

But Fu Tiao is a little bit cheating.

Based on Wang Jia's recommendation, he ordered a Wiener Schnitzel, but when it was served, his face changed.

Are you sure this is a Wiener Schnitzel?
Are you kidding me?
Isn't this the kind of pork chop sold in front of the school?What's the difference?
The way to make Vienna Schnitzel is to hammer a piece of pork into paper-like thin slices with a hammer, then wrap it in egg liquid, sprinkle with bread crumbs or flour, and throw it into a pan for frying.

It's just that simple.

If it is cooked well, there may be some juice in the pork.

But the family called by Fu is a little bit cheating.

There wasn't any juice, and the whole thing tasted dry.

It's like the fried pork cutlet in the tuck shop that has been sitting in the insulated box all morning.

Dry and limp.

Fu Tiao, who ate, only took two bites, then shook his head, looked at the two people in front of him, and shrugged helplessly.

"Sure enough, Austrian food doesn't really suit my taste."

"Hahaha, maybe the fried pork chops here are not very good. I think you might need to go to Vienna to eat better. Or, you should try the German pork knuckle? After all, this place is only a few hours' drive from Munich. So the overall food should be about the same, and if the food in Munich is delicious, it should be equally delicious here.”

Lang Liangyue laughed loudly after hearing this, rolled a piece of pasta with a fork and stuffed it into his mouth, then pointed to the pizza lane in front of him.

"It's okay. If it doesn't taste good, just eat my pizza. It doesn't matter. This pizza is meant to be shared by everyone."

"Okay, then I..."

Fu Diao was not polite at all. After smiling at Lang Liangyue, he planned to pick up a piece of pizza.

However, the next moment, his hand stopped.

His cell phone rang.

Seeing his ringing cell phone, everyone who was still eating immediately stopped.

They looked at the number above, their eyes gradually becoming eager.

The call indicating the final result came.

(End of this chapter)