This open-air impromptu performance, titled "Experience Vienna and Practice Playing Skills", lasted for three days from the second day Qi Mu came to Vienna.
Vienna in late spring is full of fragrant flowers. Under the leadership of Qi Mu, he and Professor Akkad visited almost all the famous classics in Vienna.
In the end, Professor Akkad had to admit: "Xiao Qi... Maybe, you really have the talent to become a geographer? To be able to understand such a complex map is not always the wrong way..."
Qi Mu: "..."
Although the various small streets of Vienna are a little more complicated, "being able to read a map" and "becoming a geographer" are still far from the two things!
After the impromptu performance, Qi Mu was planning to go back to the place where he used to live to have a look, but Professor Akkad clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Xiao Qi, after three days of waiting, we finally got the first show. Concert. Tonight's concert by the British BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is the first performance we have heard since we came to Vienna."
Hearing Professor Akkad's words, Qi Mu was stunned for a moment, he thought for a while, and suddenly thought: "Teacher, could it be that you took me to various places for improv performances a few days ago... just to wait for the concert to start? "
Professor Akkad nodded with a teachable face and said, "Well, yes, starting today, there will be many good concerts in Vienna, enough for us to stay until the end of May."
Just as they were talking, the two walked together to a cafe next to the Vienna Friends of Music Association building. After Professor Akkad ordered a cup of coffee, he looked at Qi Mu and continued: "Xiao Qi, your skills are already very skilled, and your understanding of music is also very touching. What you lack most now is actually with Opportunity to work with an orchestra.”
Hearing this, Qi Mu couldn't help but look solemn, nodded and said, "Yes, teacher, there are very few opportunities for me to cooperate with the orchestra."
Qi Mu was a member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in his last life. Except that he was a reserve member in the first year and did not perform a few times, he directly entered the first violin group and gradually changed from an ordinary member to the deputy principal.
However, none of this means that he has the opportunity to work with the orchestra as a principal.
The violin chief of the symphony orchestra has a very glorious and sacred position, and corresponding to such glory is the strength that must be matched. A very good violin level does not mean that you can become an excellent principal violinist, which usually requires a long time of rehearsal and accumulation.
Qi Mu has a superb sense of sound, which makes it very convenient for him to rehearse with the orchestra, but after all, this is talent rather than experience. What Qi Mu has always lacked is the rich experience of cooperating with the orchestra as the principal.
In the peaceful and quiet cafe, a soft and soft female voice sang the elegant blues in a low voice. This café is not far from the building of the Friends of Music Association, and many people in the classical music industry will wait here before attending the evening concert.
Professor Akkad did not make any disguise on himself. Many people walked into the coffee shop and found this world-class violin master. Looking at the handsome young man sitting opposite the master, they instantly realized—
"Could it be... this is the Qi Mu who won the first place in the last assessment of the National Conservatory of Music in Paris?"
From time to time, people came to pay their respects to Professor Akkad, and they quietly took a few glances at the master's most beloved disciple.
After Qi Mu and Akkad's coffee came to the table, Professor Akkad sighed while mixing the sugar cubes with the coffee with a metal spoon and said, "Actually, Xiaoqi... If you were born ten years earlier, I'm afraid that There will be no such worries now.”
Qi Mu raised his head to look at Professor Akkad, only to see the latter said helplessly: "Nowadays, the lineups of major orchestras in the world are basically complete, and even Bo Ai, who has always been 'never ageless', is in the seventh place. Eight years ago, Kodori was replaced as the principal, and now basically, the principals of all first-class orchestras are young people."
Hearing this, Qi Mu was stunned for a moment, and after a while he said, "Indeed... But teacher, have you forgotten about Wei Ai's chief violin master?"
Hearing this, Master Akkad was stunned for a while, and then said helplessly: "Teacher has forgotten that old guy, yes, he is indeed quite old, but he has been working with Dorenza for so many years. , I shouldn't leave Wei Ai in a short time."
Qi Mu smiled and nodded without expressing his opinion.
Professor Akkad sighed and said, "Even our academic orchestra of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Conservatory in Paris has Angel as the principal. So even if he will graduate next year, you will also graduate by then. It's not your turn to be the principal of the Academy Orchestra, Xiao Qi."
Qi Mu thought for a while and said, "Then teacher... Can I start with an ordinary member of the orchestra?"
Hearing Qi Mu's words, Professor Akkad shook his head seriously and said, "No, Xiao Qi, before you came to Paris, you were the second violin's deputy principal in the B City Symphony Orchestra, and I've seen all the assistant principal's performances. As a band member, I think you're already very good, you don't need more experience, but... you need experience as a principal."
When Qi Mu heard the words, he fell silent and did not speak any more.
He himself understands how to work with world-class orchestras after more than ten years with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. But... not everyone can have exactly that kind of opportunity, and it's a pity that Qi Mu was born in such a "lucky" era.
Professor Akkad smiled and said, "However, Xiao Qi, 'there are many strong opponents' is actually a good thing for you. It is precisely because there are so many opponents that you can To observe and learn. So, the era you were born in is both a cruel era and a beautiful era.”
Listening to Professor Akkad's encouraging words, Qi Mu nodded lightly, and a gentle smile appeared on his handsome face: "Yes, teacher, I will definitely work harder."
Professor Akkad nodded approvingly, and the two quickly left the coffee shop and walked into the building of the Friends of Music Association.
The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the top symphony orchestras in the UK. Their musical style tends towards romanticism and is very elegant and gentle. The five symphonies came down in one night, and the whole audience broke out with many applause, and at the end, another encore was displayed.
This time the BBC Philharmonic did not perform in the Golden Hall, but in another concert hall in the building. However, when Qi Mu walked into the building of the Friends of Music Association again, he couldn't help but tighten his heart slightly, and an indescribable feeling flooded up.
The last place he stayed in his last life was in this building.
This three-story building that has stood for more than 200 years has once allowed countless classical music masters to perform in it and spread their music to the world. It has the world's top concert hall, the Golden Hall, which also brings together music masters from all over the country.
Qi Mu managed to keep his composure and did not show any emotion in front of Professor Akkad. He accompanied his tutor to greet many of his old friends, and Master Akkad also introduced Qi Mu to these world-renowned masters, which was considered to expand his network of contacts.
Having a famous mentor means that Qi Mu has inherited the master's various connections and factions.
The next day, Professor Akkad took Qi Mu to meet a world-renowned cellist. The three chatted for a long time at the master's house. In the afternoon, Professor Akkad asked Qi Mu to go first by himself. When he left, he had to catch up with old friends for a while.
Qi Mu smiled and said goodbye to Professor Akkad and the cellist master, and then left the small building.
Standing on the quiet and secluded streets of Vienna, it has been four days since Qi Mu stood alone in this elegant and warm city, and she truly got the opportunity to move freely.
He looked up at the blue and clear sky in a daze, and it took some time before he gradually recovered. After looking around, Qi Mu knew where he was. He found the nearest subway entrance and got on the subway line that he had been on for more than ten years.
When he got out of the subway entrance again and saw this familiar situation engraved in his bones, Qi Mu stood there in a daze for a long time, never regaining his senses.
The dessert shop on the street is still the same as it was eight months ago, and he likes to put tulips outside the shop the most; the owner of the small cafe opposite still likes to move a reclining chair to the front of the shop in the afternoon to bask in the sun leisurely.
Qi Mu lifted his footsteps and took a few steps forward, and soon, a noise-like piano sound came from the small building on the side. The little boy who didn't have much musical skills was practicing the piano day after day, but he never made any progress.
Qi Mu's footsteps were getting faster and faster. When he turned a corner and suddenly saw the house where he had lived for ten years, he suddenly stopped, not knowing for a while whether he should step forward. , or back.
After a long time, he walked slowly to the roadside opposite the apartment and stopped.
The young man leaned back against the masonry wall. It seemed that he had just been exposed to the sun for a while, and the masonry was still warm. He raised his head slightly like this, and kept looking at the dark window on the second floor of the small building opposite.
Qi Mu just looked up like this, and didn't say a word, until the sunset and night fell, and he didn't move. Not going forward or leaving, it seems that I just miss a past that cannot be repeated, but there is no way to save anything.
About half an hour later, Qi Mu finally let out a long sigh and said to himself with a wry smile: "It's all gone... It's impossible to come back..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned and left.
What Qi Mu didn't realize was that at the moment he was about to turn around, a black Bentley parked not far away slowly drove past him on the trail.
After seeing the young man turn and leave, just a moment later, the car window was suddenly pressed gently, and a handsome and profound face appeared in the dark night.
Min Chen narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at it for a long time.
As early as ten minutes ago, he happened to see Qi Mu on the street. Originally wanted to say hello, but when Min Chen noticed that the other party had been staring at the apartment across the road without looking away, for some reason, he stopped abruptly when he was about to exit.
There... is Lu Ziwen's apartment.
After watching the familiar young man enter the subway entrance, Min Chen turned his eyes away and said in a low voice, "Let's go."
The driver who didn't know why was stunned and started the engine without asking any further questions.
In the dimly lit compartment, the man's slender fingers pressed a few times on the phone, but it didn't take long before he received a reply from the other party: [Is the orchestra finished? I just strolled around casually. Since we are all in Vienna, there is time to get together.] After Min Chen replied a few words, the two said a few more words, and then said "good night" to each other.
Looking at the splendid golden night view of Vienna outside the dark car window, the man's handsome brows slightly frowned, and after a long time, he sighed lowly—
Since it's just a casual stroll, why...
To look at that apartment for so long with that look