The S city, which has entered the autumn, is not like the B city, which enters the cold atmosphere early. Standing in the bustling city center, the S City Concert Hall is an old theater with a history of nearly a hundred years. Sixteen ochre marble columns surround the concert hall, showing an elegant and solemn architectural color.
In the evening, a lot of vehicles gradually crowded in front of the concert hall in S City. One by one, people got out of the cars, stepped on the red carpet and entered the arched door of the concert hall. Among them, a few old men who seemed to be calm and respected were helped by the young people respectfully into the room and sat in the box on the second floor of the concert hall.
The frontcourt has been warmed up to the extreme and is about to boil. And the backstage is even more busy, everyone is checking the last steps before going on stage. Even Du Sheng, the principal violinist, carefully checked his violin. After confirming that there was no error, he took the first violin group to start the inspection.
The performance uniform of the B City Symphony Orchestra is a light black suit with a dark red tie, a thin one that goes down from the neckline, which looks slender and straight.
Qi Mu was pinning a sapphire bow tie to his own, and the dazzling lights above the backstage shone down from top to bottom, illuminating the already deep blue even more melancholy. Qi Mu had a good appearance originally, but after some careful dressing up, even Old Tan, who had just walked to the center of the backstage crowd, couldn't help but glance at him more.
How did that sentence come about
It's not that other people are too ordinary, it's really that you are too · not · ordinary · ordinary!
Finally, Mr. Tan encouraged everyone. After a thunderous applause, the members of the orchestra entered the stage one by one from the wind instrument department and took their seats. When Du Sheng also really sat firmly, The red curtain that stood between the stage and the audience was slowly pulled upwards.
Tan veteran neatly arranged his clothes, then took a deep breath and stepped onto the stage.
More warm applause sounded again.
Unlike some conductors, Mr. Tan does not like to give more introductions and presentations before the performance. He directly bowed and turned to stand on his own podium. At this time, it was the eye contact between the orchestra members and the conductor. After all the non-verbal communication was over, Mr. Tan suddenly took up the baton on the podium.
Since then, Dvorak's "Sixth Symphony" began.
Dvorak is the most well-known Czech music master. He has written countless works in his life. His music style is mainly based on the orthodox wind direction, but also mixed with some sweet and fresh scenery of the Czech countryside, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
This "Sixth Symphony" is one of Dvorak's nine symphonies. Although it is not as world-renowned as "The Eighth" and "Ninth", its solemn opening puts the master The musical aura accumulated in a lifetime is fully revealed.
"Not so fast allegro" is the beat rate of the first movement of "Sixth". When the whole piece began to enter a good state, Qi Mu raised his eyes and looked at Mr. Tan who was standing on the podium. It happened to be a look. At the intersection, Qi Mu quickly drew the bow and inserted it into the music, and then the entire second violin group began to accompany.
Someone once said that in any orchestra, the second violin section is the shadow companion of the first violin section. This also implies that the second violin group is indeed much less important than the first violin group, far less important than the latter.
But in fact, for musicians who really understand music, the importance of the second violin group is no less than the first violin group. Although they may not be as often in front of people as the latter, a piece can never be performed perfectly without them.
In the easternmost box on the second floor, a white-haired old man closed his eyes and listened carefully. He listened to the whole piece from the Adagio in the second movement to the Scherzo in the third movement. When the orchestra was about to play the last movement and the whole piece was sublimated to the extreme, he suddenly opened his eyes and let out a long sigh.
"Old Wu... what's the matter?" a young man beside him asked curiously.
Mr. Wu was sitting on the soft single-seat sofa. His eyes seemed to look down the stage casually, but what only he knew was focused on the young man sitting on the right side of the orchestra. He asked, "Xiao Chen, can you hear... Qi Mu's piano sound?"
The young man was stunned for a moment, and after listening carefully for a long time, he shook his head ashamedly and said, "I can probably hear the voice of the second violin group, but I have to distinguish it... I really don't hear much. Which one came out."
"The voice is calm and restrained, and the vibrato that had a turning point in the third movement just now was handled very smoothly. I didn't expect to see it in the past few years... Qi Mu's level has not decreased but increased, really... I am so surprised." Wu The old man looked at the handsome and beautiful young man on the stage from a distance, squinted his eyes and said: "I don't know if these years of experience have polished him, this kid used to walk in a sharp-edged style, and it is completely impossible for the orchestra to play. No. I thought... I didn't think so..."
Xiao Chen was very horrified when he heard Wu Lao's words, but also felt very incredible in his heart. But he also knew that as Mr. Wu, he didn't need to tell such little lies. It was only natural that Mr. Wu could hear what he couldn't hear.
And a conversation like this also happened in a small box in the center of the second floor.
An elegant lady looked at the young man with a beautiful face on the stage in surprise, her beautiful eyes widening suddenly. After a long time, she frowned suspiciously, and asked the dignified middle-aged man beside her: "Wen Jun, Qi Mu... How did he change so much? He wasn't like this before."
The man thought for a while and replied, "We haven't seen Qi Mu for many years. He is still young, so it's normal for him to change."
The lady listened to it for a while longer, and after the second piece of performance was over, she couldn't help but said, "Qi Mu's change is really great, although I can only hear a little of his voice, I didn't hear it completely, but I can tell that in the second violin group, his level has already surpassed that of the principal." After a pause, the lady glanced at her husband and said, "Wen Jun, at the beginning, I said that you want to take Qi Mu into our S City Symphony Orchestra, what did you say? I just said that Qi Mu is rebellious and will be better when he grows up, do you regret it now?"
The middle-aged man smiled helplessly, and his wife did not dare to speak more.
These two are the current chief conductor of the S City Symphony Orchestra, Zhu Wenjun, and his wife, Cheng Tingwen, the music director of the S City Symphony Orchestra.
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At the end of the first half of the performance, the roaring applause in the field had drowned the stage.
The second half started with Mendelssohn's "E Minor Concerto" with Du Sheng as the main character. Although this violin concerto is only grade 10 in difficulty, it still holds the title of the top ten violin pieces in the world.
To have Du Sheng lead the orchestra to perform this masterpiece of his is really easy and seamless.
After a good start, a higher-than-sound "Bravo" sounded continuously in the concert hall. When the last Dvorak "Symphony No. 8" ended, Tan Laogao waved the baton. Sweat drips down.
The music that boiled to the top came to an abrupt end, and the lingering sound remained. Everyone in the audience was stunned, but the old man sitting in the box on the left side of the second floor suddenly stood up, applauding vigorously and shouting at the same time. a sound—
"Bravo!"
Since then, there has been a thunderous applause from the audience.
All the members of the orchestra got up one after another and bowed to the audience under the leadership of the conductor and chief. In the crowd, the young man who seemed to be completely absent also bent down, but when he raised his body, he couldn't help but look at the old man who was the first to applaud on the second floor.
"Wu... Sheng Tao?"
Qi Mu's whispering voice was suppressed by the warm applause from the audience, and when all the members had left the stage and the orchestra members were gathering backstage, this gray-haired old man suddenly appeared beside Mr. Tan. After the two laughed and said a few words, Tan Lao suddenly found Qi Mu's location with sharp eyes.
Tan Lao's face froze, and he said, "Qi Mu, come here!"
Qi Mu: "..."
Why does it feel like being named by the teacher and about to be criticized
Hmm... it must be an illusion.