Germany, located in the middle of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, is a country of very strict gentlemen.
This is a world-renowned industrial country with a population of less than 100 million, but it is very prosperous. And in the east-central part of Germany, there is a very beautiful and moving city called Dresden.
An Elbe River as long as a silver belt runs through the center of the city of Dresden, giving the city the reputation of "Florence on the Elbe". When twilight fell, the magnificent and splendid clouds steamed up, glowing dimly on the Elbe River.
The Dresden Symphony Orchestra is the most representative symphony orchestra in the city. Looking at the whole of Germany, I am afraid that only the Berlin Philharmonic has comparable strength and fame. Therefore, people who come to Dresden every year will try their best to listen to the opera performed by this great orchestra and feel its more than 400 years of historical precipitation.
Yes, it's opera.
Unlike many symphony orchestras, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra performs almost every time it performs in the form of an opera.
Symphony and opera seem to be close friends from the beginning. Symphony provides opera with beautiful and moving music, and opera provides countless inspirations and scripts for symphony.
Many symphony orchestras often go to the opera house to perform with the troupe, but in most cases they still go to the concert hall to perform a grand symphony concert alone. The Dresden Symphony Orchestra is an exception.
For example, the opera party to be held by the DGT (Dresden Symphony Orchestra) at the beginning of next month is to perform a symphony performance for the opera at the local Semper Opera House and perform Mozart's most famous opera, "The Magic Flute".
In the past, Qi Mu didn't have many opportunities to get in touch with opera symphonies, but this "Magic Flute" was too famous, so he just wanted to ignore it, but it was impossible to succeed.
As the chief conductor and music director of the German Jiaotong, Mr. Faller used his position to open a back door for Qi Mu, allowing him to play with the German Jiaotong as a member of the first violin group.
chief? That is of course impossible.
The principal of the German exchange is a Norwegian female violinist in her early thirties, named Jenny Yakris.
When Qi Mu was still studying at the Munich Conservatory, he also listened to the Deutsche Kok concert, but the principal at that time was not this thin and thin woman. , he officially met this beautiful lady.
Now that Master Faller has set the repertoire to be "The Magic Flute", the orchestra naturally began to rehearse nervously. Qi Mu remembered the first day he came to Germany, when he was sitting in the third row of the auditorium, and looked at the young woman sitting at the front of the orchestra in surprise.
… A woman who looks so weak and beautiful can really play this "Magic Flute" well
Qi Mu was thinking to himself, who knows, the subsequent performance and the majestic music made him completely stunned.
Although Mozart's "The Magic Flute" is a fairy tale opera, there are not many conflict points in this opera, escape, revenge, battle... Various scenes are displayed in the opera singing, in contrast, symphony The music also has to express its majesty.
Qi Mu finally understood why Mr. Farrar admired this young and weak chief violinist so much, because when Jenny drew the bow, she seemed to be able to play a rage-like impact, even with the "Magic Flute" in the middle of the night. The most famous coloratura soprano arias are also comparable.
Of course, Qi Mu didn't feel that he couldn't express the momentum of this piece, but after all, he had less exposure to opera, and he was not as proficient in this piece as Jenny. So if you have to say something up and down...
"Well, I'm a little worse than Jenny." Qi Mu said with a smile.
But in private, Miss Jenny doesn't think so. When she saw Qi Mu for the first time, she held his hand very excitedly and happily, two red clouds floated on her pale cheeks, and she said, "Oh my God, you are the Angel that Mr. Faller often mentioned. ?! I really like your music so much!!"
Hearing this, Qi Muzheng was surprised and didn't speak when he heard Jenny say again: "Ever since Mr. Faller gave me your "Violin Sonata in D Major", I listen to it every day, you play It was fantastic!"
Hearing this, Qi Mu couldn't help raising an eyebrow and began to recall...
"Violin Sonata in D Major", such a single title seems to remind him of two or three pieces at once, but if it is played by him and has an album, it seems that there are only...
"The 'D major' you played is the best version I've ever heard! Mr. Bertram's tunes are always very difficult, I love this 'D major', but when I play it I really Much worse than you. Angel, can you guide me when you have time?"
Qi Mu: "..."
It's really that song!
A smile appeared on the corners of his mouth with difficulty. Before Qi Mu opened his lips, he saw Jenny bow her head shyly, and said in a low voice, "Actually... I admire Mr. Bertram very much, although he occasionally Came to Dresden to meet Mr. Farrer, but I've been too embarrassed to have a word with him. I heard... Well, I heard you know him very well, you... Can you tell me about it, Bert What kind of person is Mr. Rhyme? Angel."
Qi Mu: "..."
After a while, Qi Mu raised the corners of his lips, showing a gentle smile, and said, "Jenny, actually... I'm not very familiar with Mr. Bertram, if you want me to evaluate him..." After a moment of hesitation, Qi Mu said word by word: "He... is very talented."
This kind of evaluation that is simply a bad street disappointed Jenny a lot, she nodded in despair, but it didn't take long for her to get excited again, looking at Qi Mu with bright eyes, and said, "Angel! Mr. Bertram, how could you not know him? Let me tell you."
The development of this matter was completely beyond Qi Mu's expectations. He widened his eyes in surprise, and before he could stop it, he saw the German Orchestra chief violinist say excitedly, "Mr. Bertram is really A very gentleman, the first time I met him was at the Leipzig Academy…”
"Oh, by the way, you don't know, Mr. Bertram and I are in the same school! It's a pity that he graduated early after half a year of enrollment..."
On the afternoon of the first day after arriving in Germany, Qi Mu was forced to helplessly listen to the lovely Miss Jenny and describe the "great Mr. Bertram" she had known over the years throughout the rest time.
In Jenny's portrayal, Auston Bertram is a pretty, very, very talented master!
In the annual evaluation of the Leipzig Conservatory of Music, the sixteen-year-old master did not participate in the evaluation. It really hurts the hearts of other students to let him participate.
It's not enough to be talented!
Mr. Bertram is also a very personable man!
Every time he came to the German Jiaotong University, he would be very considerate to bring some small cakes specializing in Berlin to these members. Although he looked serious, he was really meticulous and caring.
…
So many incidents, it's just too many to count.
After listening to this all the time, Qi Mu didn't even have any doubts—
The awkward, stingy, vengeful, vicious, black-bellied, good-faced man he knew... and most importantly, the man who was afraid of bugs, didn't he really have the same name as this "Auston Bertram"
All in all, until the last rehearsal of the day, Qi Mu was constantly instilled by the lovely Miss Jenny "Mr. Bertram is handsome, elegant, gentleman and talented..." and other god-like messages.
After finally waiting for the diehard Bertram fan to leave, a member of the German Friendship Group patted Qi Mu on the shoulder deeply and sighed: "Angel, Jenny... She just admires Mr. Bertram too much. Well, even her husband is very jealous of that."
Qi Mu: "..."
After a long while, Qi Mu asked helplessly and funny: "Actually Mark, why do you all call me Angel? In fact, my English name is..."
"Eh?! What's your name if you don't call Angel? Mr. Faller has been talking about you for more than half a year, and he will say it again and again every three days - 'I met a lovely Angel in China, and his piano sound is very moving' ."
Qi Mu: "..."
Sure enough, Mr. Faller is really committed to this path of blackening him forever, never slack off!
Although he said so, when Qi Mu was really arranged by Mr. Faller to go through the back door and enter Germany as a temporary violinist, Qi Mu began to doubt again: Mr. Faller... Is it true love for him? Or really hate it
After thinking for a long time, Qi Mu finally found a suitable adjective to describe Mr. Faller: "Well, it's definitely a black fan."
…
That being said, on the morning of the third day in Dresden, Qi Mu officially joined the orchestra and started rehearsing for the opera concert at the beginning of next month. And over there, a silver-white plane flying from Berlin to Paris is slowly landing at Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
A man who had been hung up 22 times in a row and ignored 53 text messages finally rushed over from far away Berlin and decided to ask the other person's opinion in person.
But when he stood in front of the piano room signed "Reed Arcade" and knocked on the door for 20 minutes, there was still no response——
Min Chen: "..."
But after a while, when Derain, who had just bought a hamburger, saw the handsome man standing at the end of the corridor with a displeased face, he was so frightened that the hamburger in his mouth fell directly to the ground, and exclaimed: "Oh my God! Bert Mr. Rhyme?! Why are you here all of a sudden?!"
Min Chen: "..." After a while, he coughed lightly and said in a flat tone: "I have something... I left it here, so I want to come and get it."
How did you evaluate Qi Mu's words before
Good face!
How could the great Mr. Auston Bertram, a person with such a good face, directly say the truth, "I was ignored by Qi Mu for three days and decided to block the door in person"
But Derain didn't think so much, he nodded lightly and said, "So that's the case... But Mr. Bertram, didn't Xiao Qi already follow Mr. Farrer to Dresden? ? Why did you come to Paris to find him? Eh... aren't you friends, didn't he tell you?!"
Min Chen: "..."
After a long while, the stern and elegant man raised his chin slightly and said calmly, "Oh, he told me, I forgot for a while."
Derain: "..."
He's a little simpler, but not stupid...
Mr Bertram!