empire superstar

Chapter 185
After two hours, the concert came to an end soon.

After the last pianist played, Naoki Ando stepped onto the stage amidst the applause and said loudly to the audience: "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to the Asian American concert, I am the initiator, Naoki Ando."

The applause at the scene sounded again.

"In the past two years, many amazingly talented pianists have emerged in Asia..."

Naoki Ando listed many well-known pianists, among which Lin Weiyin and Liao Yuan of Huaxia were mentioned.

But the reaction of the audience was different. When Lin Weiyin was mentioned, as the No.1 of the Chopin International Piano Competition, Lin Weiyin's interpretation of Chopin's works made many pianists in the industry admire him.

However, when Liao Yuan was mentioned, many people showed a look of disdain.

"This person is the same as Nanye Shunichi. He came out of some kind of emperor competition, and he will only grandstanding."

"It can't be said that. After the competition, Shunichi Minano turned to classical music immediately. His performance in classical music is still very good."

"Yes, Mr. Nanye is much stronger than this Chinese man!"

"I've heard "War Rhapsody", in fact, Liao's strength should be pretty good."

"I don't agree, "War Rhapsody" is not a real classical music, it is the blood of pop music flowing in the bones!"

After Naoki Ando mentioned Liao Yuan, there was a lot of discussion at the scene.

Minano Hideichi, the champion of the Second One Emperor and Four Emperors Piano Competition, turned his head and looked at Liao Yuan who was sitting calmly in the back row for a while, before he sighed.

Last year, like Liao Yuan, after gaining high popularity, he participated in some gatherings of classical pianists one after another, but he was excluded and criticized in these gatherings, which made him extremely depressed psychologically.

Especially the higher the popularity, the farther you stand, and after you have communicated with more and more famous pianists, this kind of depression will become greater and greater.

Soon, his depression gradually worsened, and he almost had to take sleeping pills every day to fall asleep.

If he had a choice, he would rather not participate in the One Emperor and Four Emperors Competition.

In that case, he can also write theme songs for animation works as before, accept invitations from major supermarkets and shopping malls, and play pop music live.

Although earning less, but very happy.

But now, although the performance pay is ten times, a hundred times more than that.

But in order to maintain his status and maintain communication with those famous pianists, he must practice and play classical music all the time.

It's not that he doesn't like classical music, but compared with pop music, it lacks a lot of joy in creation.

At this time, the friend next to him sneered and said: "A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, but if this Liao Yuan can turn around like Xiuyi, it's not too late."

Minano Hideichi fell silent.

On the stage, Naoki Ando kept smiling, and after describing the newly emerging pianists in various Asian countries, he announced the start of the exchange meeting amidst applause.

There is no theme for the exchange meeting, as long as you want to play, you can sit in front of the piano bench and show your style.

However, the exchange meeting is not as simple as the rehearsed performance on the stage before.

Here, every pianist who plays on stage must be prepared to become a stepping stone for others.

After all, in the industry, various piano exchange meetings have always been the best place for unknown people to become famous.

All around, a number of media reporters have been eyeing, and their minds are full of "dragons and tigers" fighting piano images - after Nanye Shuichi won the championship last year, in order to squeeze into the high-end circle of classical music, he also kept playing in exchange meetings .

Because of this, in the past year, Minano Shuichi, who has performed well, has also successfully stabilized his position in the classical world.

No one dared to mention that he was born in pop music.

And this time, for the Asian performance, famous pianists from all over Asia are present. As long as they perform well here, they will definitely become famous in the entire classical circle in an instant.

However, it was precisely because of caution that no one played for a long time.

These pianists all pretended not to care, held up champagne, smiled and communicated with each other.

But in fact, everyone, out of the corner of their eyes, is looking at the piano not far away, wanting to see who will be the first to appear on stage, and tragically become a stepping stone for others.

Then they saw a young man in suit pants wearing only a white shirt, step by step, walked to the piano and sat down, and began to exercise his muscles and bones.

People's eyelids twitched slightly.

"Who is this?"

"Hehe, another fledgling young man."

"He is Liao Yuan, the God A of the popular circle."

"Oh~ So it's him! Overthinking himself!"

"Looking at his confident appearance, he doesn't mean he wants to play pop music, does he? This idiot!"

"If it's pop music, it will make people laugh out loud!"

"In fact, there are many talented people in the Huaxia piano circle. Ms. Lin Weiyin and Lin are the representatives, and Meng Han and Gao Feiliu are the leaders of the younger generation. They are much stronger than this Liao Yuan!"

"It's good for him to play, and he has self-knowledge. He is willing to be a stepping stone for you and me, ha ha."

The entire exchange meeting was full of discussions.

Seeing Liao Yuan on stage, Lin Weiyin bit her lips slightly, feeling a little nervous.

Next to her, Fu Xiaoci also woke up from her drowsiness. Hearing the obvious increase in the discussion around her, she asked a little strangely: "Miss Lin, what are they chattering about?"

Lin Weiyin said, "I'm talking about Mr. Liao."

"Oh, they must admire my brother Yuan very much!"

Fu Xiaoci yawned: "That's right, people like my brother Yuan are the fireflies in the dark night..."

Lin Weiyin didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

At this time, the audience was full of discussions.

This situation was a great disturbance to the concert performers, which also showed that these pianists did not pay much respect to Liao Yuan.

Liao Yuan didn't care. After moving his wrist and ten fingers at a leisurely pace, he put his hands flat on the keys, stepped on the pedal deeply, and began to play slowly.

Although it seems that the movement is slow, when the key is pressed, the crisp piano sound bursts out like a waterfall.

It's like icy steel balls sprinkled on the ice surface, the grains are distinct, and the grains penetrate the bone.

In the corner, there seemed to be a series of dark green will-o'-the-wisps dancing slowly.

Everyone felt goose bumps on their skin, and the flickering will-o'-the-wisp seemed to be moving fast, rushing toward their eyes, nose, tongue, mouth, and ears.

There seems to be a shocking force in people's hearts, spreading to the top of their heads.

"This seems to be Liszt's "Wild-o'-the-wisp?"

Someone recovered from the shock, and said with a numb scalp, "Why did he play so heart-stirringly and soul-stirringly? Could it be that I was listening to the fake "Wild-o'-the-wisp" before?"

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