Old-time musicians

As Fanning casts threads of inspiration into the rows of candlesticks, figures emerge around him.

There are more and more musicians on the podium, and musical instruments and music stands appear one after another, making it look like a small rehearsal scene.

"It's not your first time visiting here, why are your facial expressions so rich?"

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In the first row of benches under the stage, Fan Ning's right hand was Sheeran. She asked strangely about Joan, who was on her right hand.

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"But we have never seen such a big battle." Qiong propped up the chair, her legs dangling off the ground, with an "interesting" expression on her face, "Five, ten, fifteen, almost twenty, stuck Lorne, why can you afford the dreams of so many ignorant people? Will we be able to play the symphony in the secret realm soon? Will there be any extremely interesting mysterious events?"

"You're overthinking." Fan Ning shook his head, "My ability is currently barely enough to gather one or two musicians for each part."

Although it is not a symphony orchestra in the strict sense, the volume and timbre ratio can be better controlled here, and the effect is not bad.

In Fan Ning's plan, this place will be used for specialized training for the principals of each section of the old symphony orchestra. The number of people is almost in line with his limit.

In this way, by grasping the key few and seeking breakthroughs in the waking world, the rehearsal efficiency of the orchestra's repertoire will be very high.

It is precisely with such a method that he has the confidence to allow the orchestra to release a large number of repertoire in the future and achieve a high output of concerts or record recordings.

If you want to earn more money, spread your fame, rise in the rankings, and quickly improve the "qualification" of your artists, the quality must be high and the quantity must be large!

Kaplan's expression was extremely excited.

"I swear I have never experienced anything so fantastic and interesting. Professor Fanning, you must authorize me to imagine playing a piano later, or let me go up and press the keyboard of the organ high up."

Compared with the candidates on the stage, he not only felt novel, but also less nervous about being examined. If Fan Ning hadn't emphasized his status as deputy examiner, this guy would have got up and looked around every corner of the church.

After the 20 musicians who participated in the finale took their places with their instruments, Fan Ning spoke loudly.

"Everyone, congratulations on passing the preliminary resume screening and first interview, and welcome you to this interesting dreamland." His voice echoed in the church space.

Most of the musicians' eyes were originally focused on the few people in the audience. At this moment, they all stood with bated breath, with expressions of awe on their faces.

"Many music fans or colleagues know that I am a mystic, so this dream is a small occult hint. Don't be too restrictive. Just treat it as an ordinary interview. I forgot. It's normal. The interview is also stressful, so don’t make such unrealistic suggestions. It doesn’t matter if you give it a try.”

Several people laughed and felt relieved.

But more people immediately realized that the main source of tension was not the church, but a job with a salary that far exceeded the top middle class. A job that could bring a bright future to their artistic career. No definite number yet.

"It will have a certain elimination rate, but this will not waste everyone's travel and time costs. Moreover, I guarantee that those who can get to this point will not leave empty-handed." Fan Ning said with a mysterious smile, "I We will give each interviewee some advice and in-depth inspiration. Everyone will feel the changes in themselves when they get up tomorrow and pick up their instruments.”

As he spoke, the music score with notes slowly appeared on the music score in front of everyone.

Those were some pieces of work they were familiar with.

Capron explained in accordance with the prearranged arrangement: "The first part is the designated fragments, the second part is the self-selected music, and the third part is the ensemble. You will see an improvised Gilless orchestral work by Mr. Fanning later. , of course, the orchestration matches the instruments of everyone present to comprehensively consider everyone’s sight-reading and coordination abilities.”

"Miss Yin Nide, the first part of your exam is on the music stand in front of you. It is the harp part of the Adagio movement of Niemann's "Piano Concerto No. 1""

The intense and orderly testing begins immediately.

Every candidate who plays in a dream is surprised to find that although his finger or breath control functions seem to be at the same level as those in the waking world, they are not completely the same. Certain timbre control, phrase understanding, expression ideas, etc. The handling of details is easier to achieve breakthroughs in a "flash of inspiration".

Musical interpretation must first impress yourself.

During the performance, they easily created many sound effects that made them happy.

These sparkling inspirations can be done by yourself in normal times, but the frequency is very small, requires excellent condition, and even involves a lot of luck. Every time you finish playing, you will feel complacent and have endless aftertaste.

But now, almost every ten or so measures, there can be a heart-pounding moment, or a set of crystal clear tones, or a rapid and dazzling brilliance, or a touching song, or maybe just It’s the perfect pitch of a difficult sequence, a wonderful sound balance.

During the final ensemble test, they found that every instruction from Fanning could inspire their own inspiration and understanding. Their sensitivity to the intentions of fellow musicians and the conductor in the ensemble situation has never been as high as tonight.

Everyone felt that no matter what their baseline was, tonight's interview was definitely their extraordinary performance. If they failed to meet the admission requirements, even if they had regrets, there was nothing to blame themselves for.

No wonder conductor Fanning said that those who have come this far will not return empty-handed

All kinds of feelings are really intoxicating! If you can practice in this state frequently, your inspiration, skills, and understanding of the essence of art will grow by leaps and bounds!

The interview results were announced in batches.

There are 60 people in 3 batches tonight. In the end, Fanning decided to admit 22 people. Among them, 18 are graduates of major music colleges, and 14 are graduates of St. Lanniar Conservatory of Music who participated in the premiere of "First Symphony", including harpist Yin Nide and roommate French horn player Calvin. Yes, this guy has been an assistant for less than three months and is also ready to run away.

Fanning will also implement the admission results of the following batches according to these ratios.

In order to ensure the quality of formal members and expand the scope of excavation as much as possible, a ratio of about three to one is more reasonable.

In Fanning's idea, he originally hoped that most of the members of the old symphony orchestra were professional students who had just graduated from major music colleges. It was a huge plus that the classmates who followed his debut knew him well.

They have solid professional qualities, but have not yet formed their own style, just like a piece of white paper with good texture.

Their own musical style is unique, so they must also train a unique orchestra.

This group strategy certainly has its disadvantages, that is, there are relatively few experienced middle-aged performers, the orchestra's stage performance will be relatively immature, and the number of starting repertoires is relatively weak.

But Fanning has three killer weapons that can make up for these shortcomings: the dream training of Qiming Church, the talented principals of several key voices, and the "old days" effect bonus of important performance occasions.

"Good night, Conductor Fanning."

"Thank you for your teaching tonight."

"Conductor Fanning, I sincerely hope that I will have the opportunity to get your favor in the future."

Some musicians said goodbye to Fanning with excitement and expectation, while others fell out of the dream with a complex mood of great gains and loss.

"Thank you for your love for the Old Days Symphony Orchestra. Your artistic resumes will be included in the orchestra's talent pool. I will continue to pay attention to your artistic careers and send you invitations as soon as there are suitable positions or performance cooperation opportunities."

Fanning, who had been beaten in the school recruitment season in his previous life, had an elegant smile on his face and said a lot of polite words.

Mr. Fanning is so warm, I really want to follow him forever. Luo Yin, the deputy examiner, felt like he was about to cry.

The third group of musicians fell out of the dream, and the figures of several companions also dispersed one by one.

Finally, only Fan Ning was left standing with his hands behind his back in the empty church.

He closed his eyes and stood still, as if he was carefully feeling something.

That day, he promoted the art history of "Impressionism" and clarified the relationship between "self and era style". Then, there was a subtle sense of spiritual fragmentation, and it seemed that a channel was torn open in the world's will.

At that time, he suspected that he had found a key. From that day on, he had three nights of dreaming, once in the Yiyong Basin area and twice in the Qiming Church, but he didn't find anything unusual.

And this time

He always felt that there was an intuition that was different from before.

It seemed to have started at a certain time point in the middle of the interview.

Why? What happened?

Fan Ning brought his hands behind his back to the front and stared at the baton in his hand with a frown.

The principle I set some time ago was not to bring the "Old Days" to the waking world easily, so its remains have been in the groove of the podium in the secret realm. Just now, in order to better perceive the spiritual state of the interviewee in the third part of the ensemble test, I temporarily used her in the dream.

This is the only variable compared with the previous dreams.

In the dream, Fanning imagined that there was a non-existent tray under his feet. The invisible power of the "key" phase exerted a fictitious influence, and his whole body slowly floated in the air.

Since visiting the Church of Enlightenment and being promoted to a knowledgeable person, this is the first time that his feet have left the ground here.

The spirit body rose higher and higher, and the altar, candles and benches below became smaller and smaller in the golden mist.

The dome of this church has a common structure like the churches of Saint Janin and the Sun - the light pavilion.

It is difficult to say whether the direction of each event in the dream is controlled by oneself or predestined, including the previous experience of the secret door well or the town of Vatnay.

Anyway, Fanning ascended here tonight with an inexplicable inspiration and intuition. He reached out and twisted one of the doors in a small space surrounded by seven-sided colored windows at the highest point of the church, which was similar to a lantern.

He had always wondered where the Qiming Church was located.

This question was really difficult to understand. Most of the spatial coordinates of the Yiyong Secret Realm were indeed in a certain fold, which only made its location difficult to find. No matter how difficult it was to find, it was relatively fixed and connected to the outside world.

But Qiming Church seems to have no concept of boundaries. Those colorful windows are like fakes. You can't see what's outside. It's basically a closed dead space. Most of Fan Ning's explorations of Yiyong are through other means. Witness symbols or road signs entering the dream.

Sometimes Fan Ning's intuition even doubts that this Enlightenment Church and the will of the entire world do not seem to be in the same system. The only marble door connected to the outside world can only be penetrated when the golden streamer makes progress in filling the groove. The place it goes to is different. It seems to have been specially processed to do so.

And now

In this dream I had today, the colored window in the dome lighting pavilion can actually be opened?

The dazzling and violent light penetrated the child's hole. Due to the obstruction of the branches, the intensity of the illumination was alleviated. It did not burn the person into nothingness. It only illuminated the skull with cracks. This was not just in a dream.

What is undoubtedly shown in the distance is a partial view of Huita's ascent path.

But before Fan Ning could take a closer look at it, he was frightened by something closer.

Less than half a meter away from the colored window, there is a huge, thick, translucent, slimy barrier that resembles unknown biological tissue!

This church seems to be entirely wrapped by some kind of weird "tissue wall" or "sealed object", like a giant follicle?

There was no obvious danger warning on the spiritual level. Fan Ning, who was suspended in the sky in the dome, felt his scalp explode at first, but he quickly calmed down.

First of all, it is basically certain that this barrier is not used to trap oneself, and it cannot trap oneself.

Although you can't go to Yiyong here most of the time, you just don't need to use the "Endless Fugue" road sign to visit here. You can change your witness talisman to dream, and Yiyong can go anywhere.

So, what does this mean?

Fan Ning's "sight" followed the thick translucent wall and looked higher and deeper.

Observing the "Big Oak" above from this angle, there are two climbing paths that are closer in perspective. Although they are extremely difficult and dangerous, and there are local node collapse and fester, Fan Ning always feels that he has passed through the nodes on these paths. , or a cave, or a door, it doesn’t seem to take any effort.

This strange confidence from unknown sources confused Fan Ning for a long time, and then at a certain moment, he looked somewhere strangely.

It's the densely packed characters bulging on the other side of the pushed-open window.

The language is Tulangarian.

"The first door of the candle phase: the door of lights and shadows. Key: ██ (some kind of twisted and indescribable shape)"

"The second door of the candle phase: the door of enlightenment. Key: We believe that those who believe in the blazing sun need to show the mark of ██?? to the █ of the second heaven and shout █?? ██??"

"The three-layered door of the Candle Phase: the Gate of Whirling Fire. Key: Descend into the chariot in the posture of ██ and push it??"

"The four-fold door of Zhuxiang: the door of ??. Key: the apostle"

"..."

"The key to the first door: the door of broken keys. Key: ██ (seems to be the formula of some special elixir)"

"The key to the two-fold door: the door of fire. Key: (requiring those who pass through the door to perform a secret ritual that will cause drastic and painful changes to their own bodies)"

"The key to the triple door: the door of disintegration. Key: █??"

"The key to the four-fold door: the door of divergence. Key: ?? Apostle Apostle"

"..."

As if being poured over by a bucket of ice water, Fan Ning began to tremble all over.

It is difficult to say whether the information and revelations in the dream were "seen somewhere" by the dreamer or "directly drilled into the brain", but in short, it records all the doors and keys of the "candle" and "key" phases. Including the lower third level gate of gnosis, and also the upper third level gate of true knowledge!

But Fan Ning's fear was not due to the sudden knowledge of this huge pile of hidden knowledge.

In fact, it can be seen from Fan Ning's reading results above that he did not understand many things, especially the upper third door of true knowledge involving the "order enforcer", and a large number of the word "apostle" appeared. Of course On the third level, except for the "Gate of Disproportionation", he didn't even see the names of the other doors clearly.

The scene that really makes Fan Ning feel horrified is that these words are covered with scratches all over the text, and the colored window that recorded the information has been scratched to pieces. The small part of the intact area next to it has been recorded with new ancient information. Chaniz language text.

It was as if there was some unknown entity that obliterated the previously recorded key information, and all the original various key contents were tampered with into similar words:

[Key:? this? ██Recreate ███ Corpse Factory Factory Factory Location丿]

[Key: To this? ? Recreate the corpse factory of ███ Factory]

[Key: To this world? ? Reproduce the sounds in your memory as much as possible? ? ]

[Key:…]

"Bang!" Fan Ning slammed the colored window shut.