As one of the top classical music institutions in the world, the National Conservatory of Music in Paris is very eye-catching in its four annual evaluations. There are often outstanding talents who stand out in such evaluations and become the sought-after talents of major top orchestras.
Of course, in recent years, I don’t know whether it is the trend of talent withering. For several years, there has been no outstanding talent in the evaluation of the National Conservatory of Music in Paris. Of course, this is for high-sighted music masters.
This year, the audience who participated in the evaluation seems to be unusually large. After all, in order to recover the decline in the past few years, the academy officials specially invited the famous Spanish cellist Melinafort, and the famous French music connoisseur Master Leonte... Bella Keim, known as the Queen, and... Min Chen.
As long as any one of these people is present, it will cause a sensation in the French music industry, and when these people are all gathered together, the entire world of classical music has heard about it, and... can't help but quietly cast their eyes.
Melinafort, Lyonte and even Bella Keim, they will be there, others can understand, but... Why did Min Chen come
You must know that the other invitees are all outstanding students who graduated from the National Conservatory of Music in Paris, and it seems natural to return to their alma mater to add honor to it. On the other hand, Min Chen was quite different.
First of all, as everyone knows, Austen Bertram graduated from the Leipzig Academy of Music in Germany. Secondly, this very "cold" music master has not participated in any competitions for three years. The last time he served as a judge was in Xiao Sai four years ago.
so…
"Why does Mr. Bertram want to be the judge of this year?!"
Countless audiences and media who came from various European countries to participate in the evaluation expressed such emotion one after another.
And when Qi Mu got up early in the morning and walked to the academy with the piano case, he just turned a corner, and before he saw the school gate, he saw the black head first.
The crowd was really crowded and lively like the Chinese Spring Festival. Some people even carried expensive cameras and SLRs, but still wanted to squeeze through the crowd. Of course, the crowded area is only at the entrance of the academy. After entering the academy, although the cobblestone path that used to be peaceful and quiet in the past was full of people today, it did not appear to be noisy.
Before Qi Mu reached the concert hall in the north of the academy, he saw Derain who was also carrying a piano case. After the two greeted each other, they walked together.
Derain held his precious violin in his arms and said with a look of horror: "Xiao Qi, did you see the group of people at the door? It's so scary! When I came this morning, there were too many people. , I've never seen so many people in my life!"
Seeing the brown-haired guy's expression of "so scary, so scary, come and save me", Qi Mu couldn't help but let out a low laugh, he patted Derain's broad shoulder and said, "Na Delan, You must never go to Huaxia. There... Well, how should I put it, the train station there is more terrifying than here."
Derain patted his head a little unclearly: "Xiao Qi, what do you mean? Can the train station still eat people? I heard that there are a lot of monsters in China, is it... the train station too?!"
Somehow, Qi Mu suddenly remembered a famous sentence, he straightened his face, and said solemnly: "No, Derain, there is a rule in China - after the founding of the People's Republic of China, you are not allowed to become elites. So the train stations you can find are basically They are all forbidden to be monsters."
Although the Swiss guy felt that Qi Mu was joking with him, but looking at the solemn and serious expression on the young man's face, he unconsciously took the nonsense seriously. So Derain shrank his neck in fear, and said terrified: "Well, no wonder my father always told me... China is a magical and beautiful country. It turns out that she is so... interesting."
Seeing the other party's appearance, Qi Mu finally couldn't help breaking his power and laughed softly.
After chatting and laughing a few more times, the two finally reached the academy concert hall at the back of the academy.
Although it is only a music hall for the internal use of the academy, the National Conservatory of Music in Paris has made no less effort. The interior design of the concert hall is the work of world-renowned architects, and the building materials in every corner also serve the most perfect acoustics and acoustics.
It wasn't the first time that Qi Mu entered this concert hall, but at this time he deliberately walked behind Derain and asked the simple and honest Swiss guy to lead him into the backstage prepared by the students. And when he passed by the preparation room of the piano students, he suddenly heard the two proud sons shouting excitedly—
"My God, Hook, can you believe it? We have the honor to have Mr. Bertram's review!"
"My God, Reeves, I know you're excited today, Mr. Bertram is your lifelong idol, but can you let go of my sleeves first?"
"No, Hook! You don't understand! It was Mr. Bertram's wonderful performance at Shawsay that inspired me to study the piano seriously!"
"Yes yes yes, I know Levi's, you have to repeat it to me three times a day..."
"Ah, Hooker, I can get Mr Bertram's review..."
…
While talking, the two piano students gradually walked away, but Qi Mu stopped in surprise and sent them into the lounge with inconceivable eyes. The young man's light-colored eyes were full of surprise, as if he heard the words "the sky is falling".
"Hey, Xiao Qi? Why didn't you leave?"
Derain's voice made Qi Mu gradually regain his senses. He slowly turned his head to look at each other, and then asked word by word: "Derain... Please tell me seriously, there is a second... A Mr Bertram who has been to Shawsay, isn't it?"
I saw Derain's eyes widened: "Is there a second Mr. Bertram? Xiao Qi, I really don't know. Didn't Mr. Bertram tell you... Today, he will be the main judge of the evaluation. ?"
Qi Mu: "..."
After a long while, Qi Mu reluctantly showed a smile: "He may or may seem like... once wanted to tell me."
Delan: "???"
…
When Qi Mu walked to the lounge of the violin department, as soon as he put down the piano case, he sent a text message to Min Chen.
When he got the reply "I'm already at the judges' table", Qi Mu couldn't help but stretched out his hand to cover his face, and finally understood... Yesterday, he was downstairs in his house, why the other party was so hard to speak.
Indeed, this year's main judge should not be a master of violin, so the world's piano masters are always qualified, right
In fact, Qi Mu should have thought of this. Min Chen has been staying in Paris for so long, maybe the academy has practiced with him many times, and becoming the main judge may have been decided a long time ago.
There was another long sigh. Before Qi Mu thought about it, Derain dragged him and discussed the "ranking strategy" with the other three violin students.
The assessment of the academy does not distinguish the types of musical instruments. A branch with a large number of pianos and violins can send four or five students to participate in the assessment, while a branch with few personnel such as drum kits and harps can send two people. It is rare. Mostly only one student will come to participate in the assessment.
Therefore, for the evenly matched piano department and violin department, which branch can win more high rankings, and who will win the first place, has become a must-have item in every evaluation.
"Derain, try to suppress Reeves as much as possible. He seems to have been scolded by his tutor recently. It is estimated that his piano level has fallen a lot."
"Zakdo, how are you practicing these days? Can you suppress Hu Ke's ranking?"
"Jenny, if you can beat Lena, I think we should be very easy."
"Oh Qi, it's your first time participating in the assessment, take it easy, we won't give you any tasks, you should get acquainted with our enemies first. Those guys from the piano department... but a group of good opponents!"
In charge of the task is Ang, a proud student of the dean of the violin department, a brown-haired, blue-eyed American young man who is as tall and thin as a bamboo pole, and is very talkative and enthusiastic.
Hearing his name, Qi Mu smiled and nodded: "Okay, I see."
As soon as Qi Mu finished speaking, Zach Duo sighed: "Damn it, this year's main judge is Mr. Bertram! Although he can serve as my main judge, it's an honor, but... Mr. Bertram is a piano master, I'm afraid he will favor those guys in the piano department?"
After listening to Zakdo's words, Derain somewhat disagreed: "Eh Zakdo, don't you know, in fact, Xiaoqi and Bertram... uh..."
Qi Mu covered Delan's mouth all of a sudden, and seeing the eyes of several other people projecting towards him, he still sighed helplessly, and said honestly: "I and Min... know each other before, but I believe him There is absolutely no favoritism towards anyone, and musically, he is always very fair and impartial."
Ang was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "Little Seven! Of course we know that Mr. Bertram will be very fair, don't listen to that bastard Zachdo. Let's talk about it... You What song do you want to perform today?"
Seeing Qi Mu being led away by Angra, Derain stared for a while, and suddenly realized, "Damn it! That guy Anger worships Mr. Bertram! He must want to tell Bertram from Xiao Qi. Mr. Mu asks for a signed CD!"
"Hey, Ang! Ang! Come back to me!!!"
…
In the concert hall, all the audiences have gradually taken their places.
In the front of the auditorium, in addition to the ten judging seats, there is also a special seat for the dean on the far right.
At the very center of the seat, at this moment, a handsome and elegant black-haired man was sitting. He was calm and gentlemanly talking with the masters beside him, often making the judges around him laugh.
On the table in front of him stood a gilt nameplate.
Underneath, only one-fifth of the entire metal nameplate, is written a small string of English—
Auston Bertram.
And just above the English, two big characters were written in beautiful Chinese—
Min Chen.