pianist from the sea

Chapter 314 Eighty Million
"Sure enough...it's very shocking."

Fu Diao looked at the building in front of him and nodded as well.

Indeed, just as that person said, this building already had the capital to become a new landmark of the city as soon as it was built.

This building is worthy of everyone to come and take a special look.

Such a building is really beautiful.

It's just that the person in charge didn't seem particularly excited when he looked at the building in front of him.

He spoke with some emotion.

"Although this building is very beautiful and can become a landmark of Hamburg, worthy of tourists from all over the world to visit, and can even attract countless top orchestras to come and play here, but... it is too expensive."

He stopped talking about this.

The building that was originally expected to cost tens of millions of euros was just a renovated old building, but it took a total of 8 million euros to build.

It is still a pure concert hall. Even if there are some restaurants, bars and the like inside, it is not much more expensive.

This kind of building is the kind of building that has no way to recoup its capital, and is not even particularly qualified to become a resident welfare, and is a pure loss-making building.

So as a Hamburg staff member of the city hall, he looked at the building in front of him and didn't know what kind of emotion he should use to face him.

After all, he is not a member of the Hamburg City Council, so this political achievement cannot be attributed to him.

He is an ordinary citizen of Hamburg and an ordinary middle-class person. Nearly half of his monthly salary is paid in taxes to support this giant project.

In other words, as a city hall staff member working with the outside world, I feel a sense of accomplishment when discussing this building with others.

Apart from that, there are no other special emotions.

He didn't even know whether he should love or hate this building.

After all, over the years, people have been marching there every year, saying that they want to cancel the subsequent construction of this building and let it become an unfinished building. Don't let the federal money be spent here in vain.

He also participated in such marches.

Therefore, when I saw it was actually completed, my emotions were quite complicated.

The staff member coughed lightly, put the matter aside, smiled at Fu Diao, and said.

"Then Mr. Fu Dior, shall we go directly to the Elb Concert Hall now?"

"Row."

Fu Diao has no objection. If you want to visit this city, you can do it after the performance.

So the most important time now is to go inside the concert hall and see what the situation is like.

Fu Diao followed the staff's vehicle and soon arrived at the downstairs of the Elbe Concert Hall.

Instead of getting tickets at the ticket hall on one side, I took the elevator directly from the staff elevator on the side and entered the concert hall.

Looking at the neat suits of everyone, some passers-by who were about to come over to visit were slightly curious.

Some people even recognized Fu Diao, so they covered their mouths in surprise, picked up their phones and started taking pictures.

Fu Tiao did not refuse, he smiled at them, accepted their photos, entered the elevator and walked towards the concert hall.

The elevator ran very fast. I wonder if the elevators in Germany all ran so fast. From the bottom of the building to the concert hall, Fu Diao did not even wait for more than 30 seconds before he arrived at the backstage of the concert hall.

There are basically no tourists in this place.

The place is closed to the public unless those visitors purchase concert hall tickets for this evening.

Visitors can drink some water, eat snacks, etc. on the viewing platform outside, as well as in the water bars, cafes, and restaurants, but there is no way to enter the concert hall.

This doesn't matter, after all, it's the same at the Berlin Philharmonic.

You can wander around outside the Berlin Philharmonic to see what the building is like, but you can't go inside the concert hall without buying a ticket.

This is why when Fu Tiao entered the concert hall, the surroundings seemed extremely empty.

Fu Tiao followed the staff on the walkway backstage of the concert hall, and the collision of leather shoes with the ground even brought a trace of echo.

This staff member is quite familiar with the city's scenery.

While walking with Fu Tiao backstage of the concert hall, he introduced the city landmarks that could be seen from here.

As for the internal components of the concert hall, he only knew a little bit about where the backstage was and where to enter.

what's left...

He took Fu Diao to the person in charge of the concert hall, gently knocked on the door of the person in charge's office, and knocked the bearded man out of the door.

"Barros, this is the performer who needs to come and perform tonight, Dio Fu, you should have records over there, right?"

"Fu... Dio?"

The person in charge of the concert hall named Barros looked at Fu Diao, his eyes visibly lit up.

He took two steps forward suddenly, stretched out his hand and said excitedly.

"Dior! I've listened to your performance, and I've listened to your Chopin album,"

He didn't just have records and knew that Fu Tiao was coming.

He is also a fan who has listened to Fu Diao's works.

He reached out to hold Fu Diao's hand and spoke with some excitement.

"I particularly like your Chopin's Ballade. Your Chopin's Ballade should be one of the best versions of ballades I have ever heard. In time, it will definitely become the memory of a generation! It is definitely not inferior to Zimmerman's. Version!"

Zimmerman's version is now the textbook ballad.

The most perfect ballad version.

The reason why he said this was because when Zimmerman recorded it, it left a deep impression on people.

It’s true that when you think of Chopin’s ballads, you think of Zimmerman.

Even so, when Zimmerman's recording first came out, the Chopin Ballade that everyone was discussing was not his, but other people's versions.

Fu Tiao's version currently has the same feeling.

In the opinion of the person in charge of the concert hall, if the time can be longer, for example, it can be more than ten years.

Then the memory of a generation may really be modified like that.

The Chopin Ballade played by Fu is the best in the world!

It's definitely possible.

Therefore, the person in charge of the concert hall spoke with great enthusiasm.

"In addition to the ballads, your other works, such as Beethoven's Sonata No. 57 and Brahms' two rhapsodies, are actually quite good. I personally like them quite a lot... In this way, I will show you See the concert hall?”

"Trouble!"

"No trouble, no trouble! After all, you will need to perform later."

Barros, the person in charge of the concert hall, patted Fu Diao on the shoulder cheerfully, hugged Fu Diao and walked into the concert hall.

Then he suddenly thought of something and spoke to the city hall staff member behind him.

"Well, I'm going to take Dior to visit the concert hall first, so you can leave first?"

"Okay, if you have any questions later, remember to contact me."

The city hall staff nodded and turned to leave.

Fu Tiao was brought into the concert hall by Barros.

After Barros turned on all the lights backstage and looked at everything in the concert hall, Fu Diao was shocked.

This concert hall has layers upon layers, a bit like a vineyard like the Berlin Philharmonic, but it has another feeling.

Everyone was scattered around, surrounding the orchestra pit in the middle.

The piano in the middle of the concert hall looks particularly sacred under the light.

You can sit in any position and listen to the performance at the center of the stage.

Just by thinking about it, Fu Diao could imagine that here, audiences everywhere seemed to get the most perfect sound effects.

because……

Fu Diao looked at the hole in the wall beside him, touched it a little, and asked Barros.

"Is this an acoustic device?"

"Well, we specially hired someone to design this. Normal concert halls are like what you see. They are basically like shoe boxes. The sound of the music hits the back of the wall and then bounces towards the concert hall. Everyone inside, but we are different..."

Barros led Fu Diao down, and soon reached the orchestra pit at the center and lowest level.

Standing in the center of the Moon Pond and looking around.Fu Diao noticed one thing very clearly, that is, these walls were not flat, but bulges one after another.

These protrusions reflect the sound around the concert hall, seemingly hitting the holes at the rear of the concert hall, and then propagating within the holes, covering the entire concert hall with music?

There are many, many more complex designs that Fu Diao cannot see.

He didn't study the direction of acoustics, so he could only take a rough look.

These were gained from his previous concert hall experience.

The shoebox-shaped concert hall was designed this way, and this may be based on the same principle.

Barros, the head of the concert hall, seemed unable to say anything special. He just touched his chin and explained hesitantly.

“Although I don’t quite understand why it is designed this way, according to people who have played here before, the performance experience of their Hamburg Concert Hall is the best they have ever played. I am also a musician myself. I feel pretty good about the violin, if you want, you can give it a try?"

After that, he pointed to the piano placed in the middle of the concert hall and spoke to Fu Diao.

"Steinway, we make it locally in Hamburg. Give it a try. If it doesn't feel good, I can call the piano maker from Steinway to come over and make some modifications to help you improve the feel."

"let me try."

Fu Diao nodded, walked to the piano, reached out to touch the piano in front of him, opened the piano cover, and pressed a few notes at random.

The feel of the piano is slightly firm, which is not a special habit for Fu Tiao.

But the piano sounds very good and seems to be specially tuned?
Under the sound of such a piano, Fu Diao even felt that the piano was almost connected to everything in the concert hall.

Let the entire concert hall flow with the fluctuations of his fingers.

this feeling...

It's a bit like the feeling of controlling the entire concert hall when he played a god-level performance before.

Feeling the sound, Fu Diao looked at the person in charge next to him in surprise.

"The acoustics of this concert hall..."

"Amazing, isn't it?"

The man said cheerfully.

"As you can hear, many people are surprised by the activity of this concert hall when they play here. They even feel that this concert hall is like a living musical monster, and they are the manipulators of this monster. ! The feeling of playing... is very exciting! It’s like playing a game as a cheater!”

"Yes, the feeling of this concert hall is really shocking, as expected..."

Fu Diao hesitated for a moment, thought about the words, and then spoke.

"As expected of...a giant building with a construction cost of [-] million yuan."

"..."

Barros, who was still proud in that place, could not help but stagnate. He coughed twice in embarrassment and whispered.

"Let's not talk about the [-] million euros. It's really a bit embarrassing."

"Feel sorry."

Fu Tiao suddenly realized that the [-] million was not a compliment to the Elbe Concert Hall, so he immediately apologized, then changed the subject and asked.

"By the way...who will be the resident band here?"

"NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, the North German Radio Elbphilharmonie, formerly the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, you should know."

"You know, one of the top orchestras in Germany, almost the same as the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra."

“Yes, the strong repertoire of this orchestra is classical and romantic works by Bruckner and Beethoven, as well as some modern works. If you like, you can ask them to play some modern works. .”

Barros spoke easily.

"The conductor just happened to be changed this year, and it was replaced by Alan Gilbert, a conductor from a beautiful country, born in New York, No. 1 in the Geneva International Music Grand Prix. As for the others, I don't know much about it. After all, I am only the person in charge of the concert hall and am not responsible for the specific matters of the North German Radio Philharmonic."

"Well, I see, thank you."

Fu Tiao nodded, indicating that he understood.

Seeing Fu Diao like this, Barros happily introduced everything in the concert hall, and then left the concert hall with Fu Diao and came to the back of the concert hall.

This place also belongs to the backstage of the concert hall, but most accurately speaking, this place should be the preparation room.

When Barros opened the door to the preparation room and looked at everything in front of him, Fu Diao couldn't help but be stunned.

This preparation room...

beautiful!

This preparation room should be one of the most beautiful and perfect preparation rooms he has ever seen.

Huge floor-to-ceiling windows hang entirely from the edge of the room.

Gentle sunlight shines on the piano through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Even before he walked in, Fu Tiaobian could feel the warmth of the sun shining on his body.

Through the window, you can clearly see the Elbe River outside the window and the white sailing ships that are docked in the ports, rising and falling with the sea breeze.

Very beautiful.

Beautiful and relaxing.

Not to mention the gadgets around, such as capsule coffee machines, fruit baskets, and weightless recliners.

The preparation room in other places is purely a place for you to prepare and rest.

Then the preparation room of the Elb Concert Hall can give you a feeling of home.

It even makes you want to lie down in this place and practice piano, and not want to go out for ten days and a half.

"This place...is really the preparation room?"

"Of course, this is a room specially prepared for you pianists. There are other practice rooms next door, prepared for various instruments. After all..."

Barros couldn't help but smile awkwardly when he said this.

"After all, after all, this thing has cost a total of [-] million euros. You can't fool you with a lot of crappy projects, right? Otherwise, what will happen if other artists refuse to come to perform here? Treat this place as a pure Want to see the scenic spots?”

"makes sense."

After hearing this, Fu Diao couldn't help but smile and nodded in agreement.

Just like that person said, [-] million euros have been spent, and if you don’t coax these artists a little better, what will happen if they all run away?
Did you really waste all your money?

Although it feels like the chance of recovering the capital of [-] million euros is almost zero, it can’t all be wasted, right?
It has to have some economic effect, right?
This is what they think.

This is the main reason why these details are so comfortable.

After taking Fu Diao around here, the person in charge asked Fu Diao.

"According to the previous schedule, your performance is the day after tomorrow. Have you booked your hotel?"

"Not yet." Fu Diao shook his head: "It's not the peak season recently, so we can make a temporary reservation. I remember that hotels in Hamburg are not expensive."

"It's okay if it's not decided yet."

After hearing this, Barros couldn't help but grinned and said: "If you're not sure, then you can use the Westin Hotel above our Elb Concert Hall. They just opened, so it's just right for a reception."

After saying that, he took out a room key card from his pocket and scratched his head.

"I was thinking that if you booked a room, would you like to return it? Fortunately, you didn't. It just so happens that you can also use this room. We will pay for all the food and drinks in the Elb Concert Hall. Don't worry, after all, this is The Elb Concert Hall is open to the public for the first time, and you are our invited guests, and you deserve our hospitality.”

"Thank you..."

Fu Diao was a little surprised when he took the key card from Barros' hand. After looking it up and down, he scratched his head and felt a little strange.

Is there a hotel above the Elb Concert Hall?
He always thought that the Elb Concert Hall was just a simple concert hall.

Seeing Fu Diao take the room card, Barros smiled relaxedly and whispered to Fu Diao mysteriously.

"This room is very nice. I specially found a corner room for you. I hope you like it."

After that, he patted Fu Diao on the shoulder, took Fu Diao to the passenger elevator, and pointed to the top button.

"A room with the best view and... the best neighbors!"

Fu Diao was a little confused at first, but when he took the luggage and room card in his hand and followed Barros's instructions and followed the hotel staff to his room, he understood that there was nothing wrong with what Barros said just now. .

The view from this place is almost the highest point in Hamburg.

Just like the preparation room just now, the huge floor-to-ceiling windows reflected all the scenery into Fu Diao's eyes.

And he will perform in the concert hall downstairs with several other invitees, representing pianists from around the world.

(End of this chapter)