The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 404: Good Money Drives Out Bad Money

applause.

Everyone was celebrating the performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

Chen Qiu turned around and faced the people below the stage who were applauding him. He smiled slightly and bowed slightly to them.

The applause became even louder.

Everyone was cheering the names of Chen Qiu and the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to their names, there is also one awesome sound after another.

Originally, some people were a little reserved.

I feel like just calling them awesome isn't really in line with their status.

Who are they? They are lovers of fine music who come to listen to classical music concerts.

I came here to be influenced.

But I really couldn't stand the atmosphere on the scene.

I heard everyone around me shouting Chen Qiu and their names.

As they shouted, they started to shout "Awesome" too.

There’s nothing we can do about it, this is just the environment.

People have no way to resist the environment.

When everyone is shouting "Awesome", if you shout "Bravo" in this place, you are just showing off.

Therefore, no one was too lazy to pretend and just started to praise Chen Qiu and others for being awesome.

Wang Hai and Zhao Yi, who were sitting in the corner, listened to the voice and looked at each other.

Wang Hai grinned, without any worries, he also stood up, clapped his hands vigorously at Chen Qiu, and shouted "awesome" a few times.

After shouting, he raised his eyebrows at Zhao Yi beside him, with a hint of provocation.

But Zhao Yi was too lazy to pay attention to his childish provocation.

He just calmly applauded Chen Qiu in the distance.

A calm and relaxed look.

Wang Haiya, who was standing next to him, was itching to punch Zhao Yi.

He sat back down next to Zhao Yi with a click.

Now everyone was applauding Chen Qiu, so he didn't need to continue covering his mouth and muttering.

Therefore, amid such applause, he asked Zhao Yi unscrupulously.

"Come on, tell me, what do you think? Chen Qiu's performance? How did you feel about it?"

"nothing to say."

Zhao Yi's gaze was calm.

He looked at Chen Qiu on the stage, his eyes filled with an indescribable emotion.

He spoke calmly.

"The performance of Chen Qiu and his Harmony Symphony Orchestra has basically established their position in Haicheng. Haicheng should become our top two base in the future."

When he said this, he glanced at Wang Hai beside him, and his eyes changed slightly, with a hint of provocation.

"But compared to our Haicheng Symphony, you should give more consideration to the follow-up matters. After all, Chen Qiu may not be able to steal our customer traffic, but it's different for you."

Wang Hai was stunned, then stared angrily.

"Hey, not Zhao Yi, what do you mean? Are you cursing our Haicheng Philharmonic? No, you are the number one symphony orchestra in Haicheng. You curse us, the third one in Haicheng. Aren't you a little petty?"

"Curse? I curse you?"

Zhao Yi chuckled, not bothering to pay attention to Wang Hai's tantrum, and just said calmly.

"After this performance, Haicheng will completely form a situation of two super and many strong. Haicheng Symphony and Harmony Symphony will occupy the main source of customers for concerts in Haicheng, and the rest of you will only be able to get some of the remaining traffic."

Wang Hai was stunned, frowned, and asked slowly.

"What do you mean?"

"What do you mean? That's what I mean."

Zhao Yi still looked calm and composed.

His eyes never left Chen Qiu who was taking his final bow on the stage.

At this moment, Chen Qiu was not just taking his own bow, he was also taking his bow together with other musicians beside him.

For example, the people in the string section and the people in the wind section.

Then the violin, viola, cello and double bass groups took their bows in turn.

Wind instruments are also divided into brass and woodwind.

Everyone also divided up according to the brass and wooden instruments and went to take their bows.

Then they stood up one by one according to the instrument and received the applause from the crowd.

Everyone's face was filled with smiles.

They all carried an irrepressible spirit.

Looking at the band members, Zhao Yi sighed and said to the people around him.

"The orchestra's performance is different from other performances. This one is isolated. Everyone's time is basically together. It starts around 7 o'clock and ends around 9 o'clock. You are like this, and I am like this too. So what do you think the audience will choose?"

Wang Hai remained silent.

Zhao Yi continued.

"The Harmony Symphony Orchestra is different from us. We have rest days. We have much more vacation time than the Harmony Symphony Orchestra. The Harmony Symphony Orchestra has a very dense schedule of performances.

"Now you are a music lover, and you happen to see the Harmony Symphony Orchestra having a performance tonight, and you also see the Haicheng Philharmonic Orchestra having a performance, what will you choose?

"Now you are still a music lover. You find that the Harmony Symphony Orchestra has a lot of repertoire, many of which you are particularly familiar with and you particularly like, while the repertoire of the Haicheng Philharmonic is always the same. What will you choose?

"Then, you are a music lover, and you find that..."

"Okay, I get it, stop talking."

Before Zhao Yi finished speaking, Wang Hai raised his hand to stop him from speaking.

His eyes were heavy as he looked at Zhao Yi and spoke slowly.

"Conductor Zhao, do you mean... Chen Qiu might be able to take over the market share of our other orchestras? But this market is so big, is Chen Qiu really that easy to take over? The music lovers market in Haicheng should be at least hundreds of thousands, right?"

“But, they will tend to go towards the head.”

Zhao Yi said calmly.

"At the same price and at the same time, would you rather go to my concert or the Berlin Philharmonic's concert? If you don't get the Berlin Philharmonic's concert, would you want to use me as a substitute?"

"..."

Wang Hai didn't say anything.

But he also thought of this.

He didn't know what to say.

If Chen Qiu really confirmed the status of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra here today, and confirmed that they are really qualified to compete with the Haicheng Symphony Orchestra for the first place.

Then Haicheng may really become a situation of two super powers and many strong countries.

The Harmony Symphony Orchestra and the Haicheng Symphony Orchestra account for more than 9% of the market.

The remaining leftovers were shared among the other bands.

Why didn’t this happen before?
The main reason is that there are fewer symphony performances in Haicheng, and there are only a few performances in Haicheng every year.

So everyone just avoids him.

When the Haicheng City next door was still open, there were only a few performances a year.

There's nothing wrong with the rest of them staying out of the way a bit.

As for the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

The Harmony Symphony Orchestra is not very famous.

Even though they performed many times, no one took the Harmony Symphony Orchestra seriously.

But now.

The Harmony Symphony Orchestra has become the top band in Haicheng.

They are different from other bands.

Other orchestras perform less frequently, so they can be avoided, but the Harmony Symphony Orchestra cannot be avoided.

Unless you directly put the performances on Monday to Thursday. But your performances are put on Monday to Thursday, and the traffic is low. What is the difference between putting them on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and competing with the Harmony Symphony Orchestra for traffic?
Wang Hai didn’t think much about it before. He just felt a little relieved that the Harmony Symphony Orchestra had grown.

But now after hearing what Zhao Yi said, he began to feel something was wrong.

After the success of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, the first to be impacted was his Haicheng Philharmonic Orchestra, and they were the biggest hit.

It’s okay to support Chen Qiu, but it would be fun if he didn’t turn around and bring down the Haicheng Philharmonic.

Wang Hai felt himself trembling all over.

He was too lazy to think about it and asked Zhao Yi directly.

"Old Zhao, Brother Zhao, Master Zhao, tell me the truth, do you really think things will develop like that?"

"I don't know, but there are already signs, right?"

Zhao raised his eyebrows and said slowly.

"The performances of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra are basically sold out. You may not be able to buy tickets even if you want to. You should have felt that the orchestra's ticket sales are not as good as before recently, right?"

"..." Wang Hai was silent, then nodded silently and muttered softly: "Yes, but I thought it was just a simple fluctuation, and I didn't think it was caused by the Harmony Symphony Orchestra."

"How can it be a small fluctuation? It's a change in the turnover of the entire industry."

Zhao Yi smiled, stood up, patted his clothes, put his hands behind his back and prepared to leave.

"There shouldn't be any problem on my end, but you'd better think about it. The emergence of Chen Qiu is a market where good money drives out bad money. Their prices are cheap, their performances are good, and they have a lot of performances. Tsk, I don't know how they do it."

He coughed slightly, glanced at Chen Qiu out of the corner of his eye, and said casually.

"If you want to survive under Chen Qiu, you'd better become good money. Otherwise, something bad will happen sooner or later. Fortunately, their orchestra doesn't have its own concert hall now, only a venue for 600 people."

After saying that, he shook his head and turned away.

Without any pause.

Wang Hai sat there, staring at Chen Qiu blankly with a dull look in his eyes.

He really hadn't thought much about this issue.

And he had also heard the three points Zhao Yi just mentioned.

Strong strength, many times, cheap price.

Normally, these should be three points that cannot be fully obtained.

If you are strong and perform many times, you will definitely not be able to charge cheap prices.

If you are strong and cheap, you will not be able to do it many times.

If you do it more often and the price is cheap, can you still be strong?
This is simply a dream.

Unless you lose money.

Yet the Harmony Symphony Orchestra did just that.

In the early days, they used love to generate power, and gradually improved their strength, making their strength surpass that of most symphony orchestras in Haicheng.

When pure love was not enough, the band brought in new funds at the right time.

Top external bosses began to invest in the band, providing the band with sufficient backup energy so that they could use money to support their passion.

Finally, they have reached their current position.

The best in Haicheng.

In such a situation, a powerful group investing in the Harmony Symphony Orchestra was like a dimensionality reduction attack, directly crushing many symphony orchestras with ordinary strength.

Except for those concerts such as "Castle in the Sky" concert, "Anime Soundtrack" concert, "Movie Golden Songs" concert, etc., which cost 20-30 yuan per ticket and everyone just listens for fun.

All other concerts, as long as you plan to sell tickets, are basically crushed by the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

No surprises.

Unless you do it at a loss.

You are not as strong as the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, you don’t perform as often as the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, but your price is almost the same as that of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

Why would the audience buy your concerts?

The truth is that simple.

After all, Wang Hai had been up there for a long time and rarely paid attention to the situation down there.

Apart from the recent dissolution of Haicheng City Orchestra and its joining of Haicheng Radio with Haicheng Opera, he paid no attention to the changes in other symphony orchestras.

After all, the disbandment and reconstruction of these orchestras were not due to harmony symphony, but due to some other reasons.

He had no idea how many weak music groups and concerts that were intended to cheat people out of money had died during the time when the harmony was playing.

The audience is not stupid, and their money doesn't come from the wind.

If they can only attend a concert once, they will compare prices and check reviews.

It's impossible to just find a concert and go to it.

It's normal for those bands that cheat people out of money to die.

And those bands that have no intention of cheating money but instead intend to practice properly.

Under the pressure of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, they also began to practice hard.

With slightly inferior strength than the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, the selling price is slightly lower than that of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

I have managed to carve out a niche for myself.

In a trance, the entire music landscape of Haicheng is changing step by step.

This is what the market forces them to do.

They had to.

And those musicians at the top, such as Wang Hai, have unknowingly reached the turning point of change.

It is to adapt to the times and improve ourselves.

Or just go ahead and do nothing?

Wang Hai fell into deep thought.

He looked at Chen Qiu who was about to start his second piece of work not far away, and couldn't help but smile, muttering to himself.

"Sure enough, this is Chen Yuan's son. A good father will have a good son..."

He stood up and turned to go out as well.

He had already enjoyed Mahler's First Symphony, the first piece, so for the second piece, the Harmony Symphony Orchestra chose a small-scale work. Although it was strong, the effect was definitely not as good as Mahler's.

In order to keep the excitement of Mahler in his heart, Wang Hai was ready to leave immediately like Zhao Yi.

The two of them were standing near the employee passage.

Therefore, we went out through the staff passage.

The entire backstage was empty.

I didn’t know where Zhao Yi went, but I felt that he might be going back to his office.

Wang Hai didn't plan to continue looking for Zhao Yi.

He turned and walked out, standing in the evening breeze of the concert hall, rubbing his shoulders.

My shoulders are a bit rusty.

I don't know what I'm going to do next.

How about going to the gym to exercise? Or go swimming and do some aerobics?
Wang Hai twisted his body and swayed on the steps of the concert hall.

The sound of a harmonious symphony orchestra came from behind my ears.

It's a bit fuzzy, but it doesn't affect the strength of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra at all.

Wang Hai couldn't help but grin as he listened to the music behind his ears.

The Harmony Symphony Orchestra is still very strong.

What about the future of Haicheng Philharmonic?

It's really worrying.

But never mind. I’m just a commander and I have no responsibility.

I'll talk to the band's manager about this later and let him worry about it.

Wang Hai took a few steps up the stairs with great confidence and landed at the bottom of the stairs, putting his hands in his pockets and preparing to leave.

But when he was leaving, he suddenly noticed a figure flashing in the distance.

it seems that……

Li Tian?

(End of this chapter)