The prestigious S City Symphony Orchestra is the earliest music group established in Asia. For this century-old orchestra, it has undoubtedly been one of the best classical music levels in China in the past century. performer.
The s City Symphony Orchestra has performed in the world's most prestigious concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. In 2004, they even entered the Berlin Philharmonic. Hall, becoming the first Chinese orchestra to appear on the stage.
After receiving the invitation letter from the special violinist of the S City Symphony Orchestra, Qi Mu immediately packed his luggage and arrived in S City on the same day's plane. The last time I came to s city was the national tour of the b city symphony orchestra, but this time, when Qi Mu stepped on the prosperous land under his feet, he had more feelings in his heart.
Qi Mu has performed in many places with the orchestra in his last life, and Huaxia is naturally one of the destinations. Every time he came to Huaxia, he had an inexplicable feeling of falling leaves returning to their roots, as if he should belong to this land, and should grow and live on this land.
Many people think that the green card in the United States is very rare, but in fact, in recent years, the green card in China is the dream of many Europeans and Americans.
Huaxia is a big country with 5,000 years of history. She has a broad and tolerant mind, but also has a feeling that Qi Mu calls "protecting shortness". Want to get the nationality of Huaxia? Yes, Huaxia will never recognize dual nationality!
Qi Mu has learned a lot of traditional Chinese culture from his adoptive parents in his previous life, and he speaks Chinese fairly well.
On the road of trying to obtain Chinese nationality many times in his previous life, Qi Mu completely understood what this sentence means.
It's a pity that he spent more than half a year in his last life preparing materials and wanting to change his nationality, but in the last month of reviewing the materials, he died inexplicably, and he was reborn directly as a Chinese.
Zhu Wenjun mentioned before that he wants to invite all Chinese people to perform in this centennial celebration. The orchestra is naturally the S City Symphony Orchestra, and almost all of the specially invited musicians in each part are Chinese musical geniuses under the age of 30.
Qi Mu can fully understand this feeling. It is true that the development of Chinese classical music is much later than that of the West, but its rise is not slow at all, and many Chinese people even play a very important role in the world-class orchestras in the West.
Qi Mu deeply felt the desire of these older generation of musicians and even artists to spread the Chinese classical music, and this idea came to him only five hours after he arrived in S City. more sufficient evidence.
"I think that Sibelius' "D Minor" that Qi Mu played with New Ai was very good, why can't we choose a similar, more technically difficult song, and it was written by Huaxia himself You have to choose a Paganini tune?" Cheng Tingwen was wearing a pair of glasses and tied up all her curly hair, looking very capable, she said with a serious face: "We want to show it throughout the show. The style of music is different from that of Paganini!"
As one of the music directors of the orchestra, Cheng Tingwen is also a well-known cellist in China. Maybe she is just a beautiful and feminine Chinese woman outside, but in the field of classical music, she has a keen sense of smell.
As soon as Cheng Tingwen finished speaking, another music director of the S City Symphony Orchestra clapped the table and refuted loudly: "Have you seen Qi's violin competition in City B years ago? He is very good at Paganini's music, And there is also the skill and ability to perform the music perfectly. In this regard, I think we have to show the level of Chinese classical music to those foreigners. Do you have a better choice than Paganini's music? "
Cheng Tingwen was noncommittal: "You want skills and difficulty, isn't Wang Zheng going to perform Prokofiev's "Second"? That's not enough?!"
"Most of the people present that day were professional musicians, Cheng Tingwen, they were not the amateurs we used to perform outside! The centenary is only this time, the musicians are good at this style, and Paganini's songs are not only weird. Are you still not satisfied with those songs?!"
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Seeing that the two music directors were discussing and discussing, they were almost rolling up their sleeves and doing it, Qi Mu was really funny and helpless. He originally thought that the musicians in China were more reserved and introverted and did not know how to express their emotions, but he didn't expect that whenever they cared about music matters, musicians all over the world would be so... .
In the conference room of the S City Symphony Orchestra, Qi Mu and the people in the orchestra persuaded him for a long time, and finally Zhu Wenjun made a direct decision without giving them a chance to think about it, and the matter was settled.
"The last two pieces by Qi Mu, the first is Min Chen's Violin Sonata in D Major, and the second is "Liang Zhu". Alright, alright, it's settled." The handsome middle-aged man looked at To his wife, he said in a good voice, "Tingwen, look, it fits the theme of the music, right? And it's all songs written by Chinese people."
Cheng Tingwen snorted softly and agreed.
Zhu Wenjun looked at the man on the other side again, and said helplessly: "Old Qi, Min Chen's "D Major" is not difficult, right? Are you satisfied with "Kangs March"?"
The middle-aged man known as Lao Qi reluctantly nodded, and this was an agreement.
Zhu Wenjun finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Qi Mu, who was sitting across from him, crying and laughing, and showed a gentle smile: "Xiao Qi, let you see a joke. You Aunt Cheng, Uncle Qi and I grew up together since childhood. , that's it, don't take offense."
Seeing the blushing and thick-necked appearance of the two handsome and decent musicians outside, Qi Mu had already suppressed the laughter, he straightened his expression, and nodded seriously: "Okay, Uncle Zhu."
Zhu Wenjun naturally knew that Qi Mu was just holding back his laughter, but he was also very helpless, so he had to say: "You heard it just now, you were the last one to play after Wang Zheng at the Centennial Celebration. You were the last one in the audience. I'm very familiar with "The Liang Zhu", I'm not worried about that, but how are you doing with Min Chen's "D Major"?"
Min Chen's "D Major" is the one that Zheng Weiqiao once said before... Nightmare, its first movement is also called "Kangs March". The e string is a test of the player's skill and endurance.
Qi Mu has not touched this piece for a long time, and at this moment he answered honestly: "I haven't practiced this piece for a long time, I wish you uncle. But there is still more than a month before the centenary, give me three days With time, I can master this piece again."
Zhu Wenjun asked: "Three days? Can you guarantee it?"
Qi Mu smiled and looked up at him, nodding solemnly: "Yes."
After getting Qi Mu's affirmative answer, Zhu Wenjun smiled gently, and after encouraging Qi Mu a few words, he continued to discuss with Cheng Tingwen and the others about the selection of other songs for the Centennial Celebration, while Qi Mu was first led by his assistant. I came down to the hotel that the S City Symphony Orchestra reserved for myself.
A few years ago, when the original owner left City S, he went very far and sold Qi's old house, so when Qi Mu returned to City S now, he could only temporarily live in a hotel.
The hotel is a river view room near the Huangpu River. Today's weather is rare, and you can see the oil tanker driving on the river in the distance. After Qi Mu put his luggage away, he took the piano case and walked to the S City Symphony Orchestra headquarters not far away.
The headquarters of the S City Symphony Orchestra is a small three-story building. This building has a history of nearly a hundred years and is one of the old buildings in S City. After Qi Mu entered, he was quickly led by the staff to find the piano room with his name on it. After he thanked the little girl who led the way, the door closed, and he was the only one left in the quiet piano room. one person.
Putting the piano case gently on the table, Qi Mu took out the bow and wiped the rosin. Before he could tune and calibrate, he suddenly heard a familiar ringing of his phone. The ringtone was "E Minor" played by the B City Symphony Orchestra. Qi Mu was slightly taken aback when he saw the screen of his phone, and then quickly answered the phone: "Hello, Min Chen?"
There was a low and magnetic male voice over the phone: "Well, it's me, aren't you at home?"
Hearing this, Qi Mu was stunned for a moment, and then asked subconsciously, "Are you at my door?"
Hearing the affirmative answer on the phone, Qi Mu smiled helplessly, put down the bow in his hand, and said, "I just flew to S city today, you know the centennial of the S Symphony Orchestra, right? The month is about to begin. Apart from the official members of the orchestra, this time the Centennial Symphony Orchestra intends to show young Chinese musicians in front of the world, so I received an invitation..." Speaking of this, Qi Mucai suddenly Thinking about it: "By the way, you should have received an invitation too, right? I forgot."
Holding the phone in one hand, Qi Mu Yishou put the sheet music on the three-legged piano player, he looked down at the familiar name on the sheet music, and said with a smile, "It's really a pity that you can't participate in the performance, it's rare. The centennial of the year. By the way, do you know what song I'm watching now?"
Hearing the answer on the phone, Qi Mu raised his lips and said with a low smile: "I'm watching your "D Major", this is the first piece I'm going to play next month. This piece is quite interesting. It's difficult, so I'm going to…”
In the quiet piano room, the young man's low and pleasant voice kept ringing. After Qi Mu had spoken for a few minutes, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, what's the matter with you calling me? I thought you went back to Berlin and won't be back anytime soon."
There was a long silence on the phone, just when Qi Mu thought that the other party would not answer, he suddenly heard Min Chen sigh softly and said, "It's nothing, it's just... I just found out that you're not at home. I I will go back to Berlin tomorrow, because I have something to do."
Qi Mu nodded knowingly, and it happened that he saw a small moth flapping its wings in front of the piano score, he subconsciously waved his hand to drive it away, and then turned to close the window in the corner of the piano room. Behind this piano room is a small garden with lush flowers and plants, and mosquitoes are common when the windows are not closed.
After Qi Mu closed the window, a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind, and he asked reflexively, "You're looking for me... Could it be because you saw a bug again?"
Min Chen: "..."
Qi Mu also realized that the joke was really not funny, so he said, "I'm joking, don't mind."
Min Chen: "..."
After saying a few more words, Qi Mu hung up the phone. He first carefully read the whole "Violin Concerto in D Major" score, then smiled helplessly, and said in a low voice, " It's really not easy", and then began to formally practice this difficult "D major".
What he didn't know was that in a high-end apartment with good facilities in City B, a certain man stared silently for a long time at a black bug the size of a pinky finger nail in his porch.
This big-eyed staring-up scene lasted about five minutes, and in the end, the man chose to close the door without hesitation, turned around and left.
Where do you live
Of course it's a hotel!
Don't you see an uncle worm across the door! ! !