Entertaining Children

   Chapter 1065

  After announcing the list of outstanding graduates and issuing honorary certificates on the spot, the next link is the speeches by representatives of various groups. The host first invited the school’s teacher representatives to come on stage, and then the alumni representatives who came to attend the graduation ceremony to speak on stage.

  Regardless of ordinary colleges or art colleges, there may not necessarily be alumni representatives speaking at the graduation ceremony, but teacher representatives and graduate representatives are essential. Under normal circumstances, the two are next to each other, even if they are separated, only one alumni representative will be inserted in the middle.

  After the teacher representatives and alumni representatives have spoken, the following should be the student representatives. The representative of the teacher is a professor from the Academy of Performing Arts, and the representative of the alumni is a well-known director who graduated from Shen Opera. The candidates for both are unknown to the students in advance, but when it comes to representatives of this year’s graduates, everyone knows that there can be no one other than Xiao Yao. After the two previous speeches, many people also looked forward to what Xiao Yao, a young man who had spoken at the United Nations, would say at the graduation ceremony.

  But what most people at the scene did not expect was that the graduation ceremony of Shenxi this year directly skipped the speech of student representatives. After the teacher representatives and alumni representatives spoke, they went directly to the subsequent graduation certificate.

  The awarding of graduation certificates at the graduation ceremony is also a very important part. Because at the graduation ceremony, school leaders not only hand over the graduation and degree certificate to the graduates, but also a ceremony to set the ears and crown the crown.

  Pulling the ears and crowning the crown is a kind of etiquette and ceremony for college graduates to award degrees. The top of the bachelor's hat is square, and the front side parallel to the forehead is a square corner instead of a whole side, with tassels hanging on the side. Before the degree was obtained, the tassel was hung on the middle of the front right side of the bachelor's hat, and after the degree was obtained, the tassel was hung on the middle of the front left side of the brim. When the degree is awarded on graduation, the academic leader of the degree-granting school will shift the fringe on the academic cap, that is, the tassel from the right to the left of the cap, to symbolize that the graduate has obtained the degree, and then the degree certificate and graduation certificate will be awarded.

  This is a very meaningful ceremony, but not every student can experience and experience it.

Although the number of students enrolled in art colleges is much smaller than that of most ordinary colleges and universities, and all the undergraduates of Shenxi are less than 2,000 in total, there are more than 500 graduates in this year's graduation ceremony. It is impossible to carry out this ceremony for all graduates, so this link can only choose some students as representatives to accept the graduation certificate issued by school leaders.

  After the host invited several school leaders who issued graduation certificates to the stage, I remembered the list of student representatives who were selected to come to the stage and issued graduation certificates by school leaders.

  Shen Opera has a total of 20 undergraduate majors, and there are a total of 40 student representatives who came to the stage to receive graduation certificates. Basically, each major selected two students as representatives.

  There are a total of five school leaders who issue graduation certificates on the stage. Forty student representatives can’t be swarmed, but groups of five will take turns on stage. Except for the student representatives who issued graduation certificates in public at the graduation ceremony, other students have already received their own graduation certificates and degree certificates. Therefore, the students themselves know whether they will be on the stage and let the school leaders give them the crown. In order to save time, some students who did not read their names also got up early and walked to the steps on the side of the podium to wait.

Although the   Performing Department is a large department, there are only two places in this session. The department leaders gave these two places to Xiao Yao and Nina Aiguli respectively.

  In fact, from the performance of the past four years, Xiao Yao and Lin Qisan are the two most prominent students in the acting department. However, considering the reasons of gender, the leaders of the academy had to choose a man and a woman before giving another place to Nina Ayiguli. Anyway, Lin Qisan has already been on stage as an outstanding graduate, and Nina Ayiguli is Lin Qisan's girlfriend. Lin Qisan has no opinion on this arrangement. When Xiao Yao and Nina Aygul stood up, Lin Qisan also gave them a thumbs up deliberately.

  Xiao Yao’s name is not in the first group, but the time he was called is quite early. The third in the second group is him.

  When Xiao Yao came on stage, it happened to be the principal of Shen Xi who issued the certificate to him. He bowed his head and asked the old principal to shift his cap from the right to the left. Xiao Yao, who had never experienced this in his previous life, also had a special emotion in his heart.

After finishing the crown, Xiao Yao took the graduation certificate and degree certificate from the principal, and bowed deeply to the old principal in front of him. The old principal patted Xiao Yao kindly on the shoulder, and then warmly praised and encouraged Xiao Yao a few words.

  The ceremony was completed, Xiao Yao and four other graduates walked off the stage from the other side. After stepping off the stage, Xiao Yao did not return to his seat like the other four, but gave the certificate in his hand to Nina, who was on the stage with him to accept the graduation certificate, and turned around and ran to the backstage of the auditorium.

  Backstage in the auditorium, the four musicians who have changed their bachelor's uniforms are ready to play with their instruments. Xiao Yao quickly took off his bachelor's hat, took off his bachelor's uniform, and put it in the hands of a junior student in the student union. He stretched out his hand to straighten out the hair deformed by the bachelor's hat, and carried his guitar on his back. , Watching the degree-giving ceremony still going on on the podium from the entrance of the passage.

  Eight groups of graduates went through the crown and got their own degree certificates and graduation certificates. Five school leaders also walked off the stage amidst the applause of the students.

  The host re-entered the podium and said to everyone in the audience: "Next, please speak to the representatives of graduates!"

   "Huh? How did you move the student representative's speech here?" Many people at the scene raised a question, "Isn't it supposed to speak with the teacher representative and the alumni representative?"

"Why put the speeches of graduate representatives here?" The host seemed to know everyone's questions, and explained, "Because our graduation ceremony also has artistic performances, our graduate representatives are also performers on today's programs. He said that he sang better than what he said, and put what he wanted to say to everyone in his song, so he didn't say it. He will use the following song as his speech."

  When the host introduced, several students also moved musical instruments such as drums, keyboards, and microphone stands to the podium. As soon as the students below saw this battle, they immediately understood what the host meant.

   "Oh oh~" Some students couldn't wait to let out a burst of cheers.

After the students on the podium quickly set up various musical instruments and equipment, the host made a please gesture to the passage on the side of the podium, and said loudly: "Below, we will invite our graduate representatives, the Department of Performance Xiao Yao from the Department of Recording, Xu Can from the Department of Literature, Chen Yifang from the Department of Directors, and Zhou Wenshen from the Department of Performance, together with his original innovative song, "Chasing Dreams and Hearts"!"

   "Wow~" Hearing it was Xiao Yao, and it was the original Chuangxin song again, the students all clapped and screamed.

  Amid the applause, cheers and screams of the students, five people dressed in casual clothes walked onto the stage. Three of them carried the guitar and bass on their backs, and the other two sat behind the drum set and the keyboard.

  After Xiao Yao walked to the microphone stand in the middle of the front, he raised his hands towards everyone on the stage, and slowly pressed down.

The students below thought that Xiao Yao would say a few words before singing, and immediately fell silent. Xiao Yao turned his head and nodded to the keyboardist, indicating that the keyboardist could start.

  After seeing Xiao Yao's movements, the keyboard player pressed his fingers on the keyboard keys and started the prelude to the song.

  On the background wall behind the podium in the auditorium, a huge screen is pulled. Before the commencement ceremony, some episodes of drama history were played on this screen. When the music tuned into the piano tone sounded, the screen at the back also lit up again.

When performing live performances, the screen behind it is usually showing the performer’s picture so that the audience at a distance behind can see it more clearly. However, what appears on the screen at this time is not the real-time picture of Xiao Yao and others during the performance. It is a fragment of a famous movie. It's just that the movie clips shown by the school at the beginning of the graduation ceremony are different. These clips are silent, and there is only the sound of the band playing instruments on stage.

  After the prelude to a piano melody, the drummer beat out a few drum beats, Xiao Yao waved his hand and plucked the guitar strings in front of him, and leaned in front of the microphone to sing:

  "Where is the world full of flowers? If it really exists then I will definitely go. I think the highest mountain stands there, I don’t care if it is a cliff or not!"

  "Wow~" is only the first four sentences of the first verse, and some exclamations sounded below.

  As a well-known talent in music creation, it is not surprising that Xiao Yao sang at the graduation ceremony, nor was it surprising that he sang original innovative songs, but at this time Xiao Yao’s performance style still made people feel a little surprised. Because while Xiao Yao sang, the screen behind him kept playing movie clips. Just a prelude and four sentences of the first verse, several different fragments of five classic inspirational movies were played on the screen behind.

  At the graduation ceremony of film and television colleges, clips of classic movies were edited together as a background, and combined with live band performances, it also reflected the characteristics of film and television colleges. Such a form of expression also made some school leaders sitting in the audience nod their heads frequently.

   Another difference is that Xiao Yao used to sing new songs, which is how he always sang. With the background screen this time, Xiao Yao also put the lyrics of the song grandiosely in front of the movie clips. And unlike the general subtitles located at the bottom of the screen, Xiao Yao also put these lyrics on the top of the screen so that everyone in the audience can see it clearly.

  "Is this the song's MV also released for us?" Some people muttered in their hearts.

   "Live hard and love hard, even if the liver and brain are smeared, don't ask anyone to be satisfied as long as you are worthy of yourself. I never choose to give up about my ideals, even in the desperate days!"

  The first four sentences of the first paragraph of the song’s main song were sung by Xiao Yao alone, and when it came to the last four sentences, the guitarist and bassist next to him also approached the microphone to sing harmony, adding some momentum to the whole song. Although the harmonies of the two sounded a little out of tune, it was not that bad in this situation at the scene.

  "Maybe I am not talented, but I have the naivety of dreams. I will use my life to prove it. Maybe my hands are stupid, but I am willing to keep exploring and give all my youth without regrets~"

   "Woo~"

When Xiao Yao sang the second verse, the other musicians were still in harmony, but this time their harmony was not singing along with Xiao Yao, but instead humming, and this time it was not a guitar. The two musicians and bass players harmonize, but the four musicians hum and sing together, seeming to accumulate some power.

  "Run forward~"

   At the beginning of the chorus, Xiao Yao's first three words roared hoarse, and the sound was broken in the third word.

  "I'll go!" The students on the scene felt their scalp numb.

  This sentence is where Zhao Rui proposed Xiao Yao to break the sound during the previous rehearsal. Many students from Shen Opera understand music, and many students have also heard that Xiao Yao sings badly in this place. However, as Xiao Yao said, the sound of this song in this place does not violate the harmony at all. With those movie clips on the screen, the students felt a surge of enthusiasm.

   "Facing cold eyes and ridicule! How can we feel the vastness of life without suffering. Destiny cannot make us kneel and beg for mercy, even if the blood is full of arms~"

   In the chorus, Xiao Yao completely let go of his voice, and the students below were also excited. To say that Xiao Yao had a lot of rock songs before, but it was the first time he sang it like this.

  "Keep on running~"

The second paragraph of the   chorus still had a hoarse voice at the beginning, and the students heard another scalp tingling.

  "With the pride of a child! How can you see the sparkle of life if you don’t insist on it. Rather than staying on the ground, it’s better to indulge and burn. One day it will sprout again!"

   "Ah~" Upon hearing this, the students who felt blood boiled couldn't help waving their arms and cheering and screaming.

After the chorus is over, the song is followed by an interlude. In the original version of the previous gala band, this song was accompanied by a violin, and the interlude was dominated by violin sound. However, in this live performance, Xiao Yao did not find Sun Tingting or others in the school. The students who know how to play the violin helped, but instead got an arrangement and soundtrack of all rock instruments, showing a very pure rock band performance. This interlude was also changed to an ensemble of drums, keyboard and guitar.

  "The fascinating and splendid future is always calling to me~"

  "Want me to call~"

   "Even if you only have pain as your company, you must go forward courageously. I want to sail on the bluest sea there~"

  "The sea is sailing~"

   "Never mind if I can return it."

After the interlude, the song entered a new verse. When Xiao Yao sang this passage, the other musicians did not harmonize Xiao Yao any more, but repeated the two sentences at the end in unison.

   "Depressed after failure, that is the performance of a coward. As long as there is a breath, please clench your fists. Before dawn, we must be brave and wait for the most dazzling moment of sunrise!"

   "Woo~"

  In the next paragraph, the other musicians did not sing with them anymore, but changed back to humming, and everyone once again accumulated their strength.

  An inspirational song with pictures from classic inspirational movies. The following graduates, who are just in their youth and smug, have long been excited by Xiao Yao's performance, and they can't wait to stand up and roar with Xiao Yao. It's just that this is not a concert after all, and they are still wearing a bachelor's uniform. Many people are unavoidable that they still have some scruples.

  "Run forward~"

   Coming to the chorus again, Xiao Yao's hoarse voice came out, and some students finally couldn't bear it anymore, waving their arms excitedly and stood up from their seats, and shouted this sentence along with Xiao Yao.

   "Facing cold eyes and ridicule! How can we feel the vastness of life without suffering. Destiny cannot make us kneel and beg for mercy, even if the blood is full of arms~"

   The same chorus as before, with lyrics on the screen. When Xiao Yao sang, the students who yelled out the first three words sang along. Hearing that someone took the lead, more students were eager to try.

   Xiao Yao keenly heard the singing from the student group below, and knew that everyone’s emotions had risen. After singing this passage, Xiao Yao left the guitar in front of him with both hands, and pointed back to the big screen behind him.

  "Keep on running~"

At the beginning of the second part of the chorus, Xiao Yao didn't sing hoarse again, but instead waved his arms up rhythmically to the students in the audience. As early as when Xiao Yao turned around and pointed at the big screen, the students below had already understood Xiao Yao's meaning and yelled out the opening sentence very cooperatively.

   "With the pride of a child! How can you see the shining of life without persisting in the end!"

  Next, the sound of the drum kit, guitar, and bass suddenly stopped at the same time. Only the keyboard sound was not too loud. The sound of the live music was clear, and the atmosphere was a little quieter. Xiao Yao still did not speak, but the other four musicians on the stage were still singing into the microphone. The students in the audience also sang the following two sentences with the four musicians on the stage under the command of Xiao Yao.

  "It’s better to indulge and burn instead of staying on the air~"

  The chorus of the students under the stage continued, but when the singing reached "Long Few", the sound of drums and other instruments reverberated, and the atmosphere of the scene became enthusiastic again. When it came to "burning indulgence," Xiao Yao's roar sounded again.

  "For the beauty in my heart~"

   In the next sentence, Xiao Yao once again used all his strength. Because the lyrics of this place are different from the previous chorus, some students also stopped singing, Xiao Yao's voice came through the microphone, and it instantly overwhelmed everyone in the audience.

  "Uncompromising until I get old~"

When    sang until the last sentence, Xiao Yao's voice slowed down slightly.

After the sentence    is over, there is a performance of the song to end. However, during this period, Xiao Yao, who was carrying a guitar, did not participate, but looked at the students below with a firm expression, clenching his right hand and raising it high.

Although the music at the end of the song is more soothing and soft, but watching Xiao Yao's actions, most of the students who knew that the song was about to end, raised their arms and stood up from their seats, giving out a burst of deafening cheers. And scream.

  The song is all over, and the picture on the screen behind it fades out into darkness. Xiao Yao bowed deeply to the audience.

   "Ah~" At this time, almost all the students on the scene stood up, cheering and screaming while applauding. Even in the non-student seating area, several teachers and alumni stood up from their seats and applauded Xiao Yao and others on the stage.

  After several students came up to help Xiao Yao and others remove the musical instruments and equipment, the graduation ceremony entered the last item, and the principal of Shen Opera came on stage to address all the graduates.

"I don't think I need to say anything to you anymore." The old principal looked at the graduates in the audience and said, "Looking at the song by Xiao Yao just now, I hope you will keep a pure heart and chase My dream, bravely run forward!"

  The principal’s voice fell, and the students who had just calmed down again gave a round of warm applause.

  (End of this chapter)