musicians of old

Chapter 365 The first movement: Awakening Poem (42): Giant Symphony (Two in One)

"He Meng came to the Southern Continent?"

"That's right, Sheeran said that only Owen and Mr. Wax showed up at the donation ceremony. Could it be that the two chief inspectors, He Meng and Gang, left the Northern Continent directly afterwards?"

This large wave of gentlemen and ladies from the upper class filed in, and Fan Ning, like the music fans around in twos and threes, naturally looked at their backs.

Speaking of which, since even Poglerich has frequent activities in the southern continent, it is not very strange to see a master who is under him, but specifically for the occasion tonight, I went to the southern country to listen At the first concert, I happened to meet He Meng, who had just had a confrontation not long ago and escaped from under his nose.
Combined with the previous friendly "recommendation" of Massenecourt, it makes people subconsciously doubt whether the purpose of this person's visit here is to find out the whereabouts of "Fanning" and "Scheler".

However, Fan Ning was confident enough in the "Fountain in the Painting"'s ability to completely disguise, and he immediately realized that it was true that the purpose of He Meng's visit was a "potential artist", but tonight was not aimed at himself, it should be on stage The conductor.

At this moment, a young gentleman in a black suit with a disheveled bowtie trotted out:

"Mr. Chretien from the Misin Chamber of Commerce, right? Commander Walter asked me to bring over the reserved tickets. Sorry for keeping you waiting."

"Where is it, thank you, thank you." Chretien bowed and opened the tickets connected in a zigzag in the envelope.

"Because the box office of this concert was unexpectedly good, and there were too many requests for internal tickets from colleagues, the media, and the bosses, which resulted in no honored guest tickets being reserved. Your seats are still on the first floor, but they are a little to the side. Please forgive me."

"It's okay, it's okay, you're too polite. Say hello to Conductor Bruno Walter for me, and thank him for personally recommending our family's Miss Nightingale in the Famous Singer Contest." Chretien expressed his thanks one after another with his usual expression.

In his eyes, this is a little lower than expected, but the essence of this matter is that he is the host so that the guests of the caravan are "invited" to attend the concert of a famous conductor. It is very decent to make connections root cause.

After the assistant finished explaining, he didn't continue to be polite. He nodded with a polite smile, waved his hand, turned and left.

"Wouldn't this Walter, as a permanent conductor, not even be able to keep an internal guest ticket? Or he won't give it away. Since he gave it away, it means that he recognizes his friendship with the Chrétien family, but the shot is from the second-class area. This is different from the original It’s not the same thing when the professors at the Santa Ramboro Summer Arts Festival deliberately only got second-class internal tickets in order to compete for the box office rankings..."

Fan Ning, who knew quite a lot about the serious music and performing arts industry, felt a little surprised. Of course, he had an interesting attitude, and he couldn't help wondering if the conductor was a bit of a mess.

After everyone entered the ticket checking hall, they picked up the playlist one after another.

"Oh, it's him." Fanning, who was reading with his head down, blinked suddenly.

He saw the signature of "Bruno Walter" on the orange-red strip on Ann's invitation letter before, but he didn't remember who it was. Later, everyone talked about it several times and he didn't remember it until he read the detailed information on the back of the track list. Artist profile...

The Walther conductor is an authentic Janus native of the western continent. He was born, grew up and studied in the art capital of San Porto. His teacher is the composer and pianist Zimmer of the Holy Janus Kingdom Music Academy. Professor Man, Miss Lausanne, the guest conductor of the old symphony orchestra, studied with this master when she was studying abroad.

Yes, Miss Lausanne, an impressionist musician, can be regarded as the younger sister of Walter's conductor.

According to the few chats with Lausanne in her secondary memories, she thinks that her senior brother is talented, but his personality is a bit weird, or a bit "shaft", and he has not been well mixed in the San Porto music circle. It went well, and then I simply went abroad to find a job...

The Akobi Symphony Orchestra he is currently staying in is actually of a good level. Akobi is another city-state principality in the "Three City-States and Seven Islands" of the United Principality of Phaedon, except for Tia City and Misin City. The official orchestra of this Principality is ranked South. 3rd in the mainland and 30th in the world.

——The world's top ten are down, including 25 first-rate, 44 second-rate and 117 third-rate. "I went abroad to seek a job in the Southern Continent, where the development of symphony music is relatively backward. It is reasonable to be a "music director" in this troupe. As a permanent conductor, it is somewhat of an embarrassing position. If the director and boss are difficult to deal with , it will be very uncomfortable to be stuck in the second-in-command position...

This is Tia, not Akobi, they are here for a tour, and the Festival Concert Hall is their away game, but the permanent conductor won't even be able to keep a VIP ticket, even if there are more VIPs for this internal questioning ticket. In this way, Fan Ning began to wonder if this Mr. Walter still failed to establish a good relationship with the music circle here in the Southern Continent...

Building relationships is also a matter of knowledge. Just like myself, when I first became a permanent conductor, I was convinced by the supervisor and school leaders, and then I can talk and laugh with colleagues from different genres, nobles, halls, churches and music critics. not much...

Fan Ning, who followed the entrance instructions on the ticket number plate, continued to diverge his thoughts. Just as he was about to enter the venue, the staff interrupted his thoughts with a polite voice:

"Sorry, according to the principality's regulations, the little girl next to you cannot enter the first floor to watch the show."

Principality regulations?The principality's regulations here actually mean the church's regulations.

Fan Ning glanced at him suspiciously, but Luna took the initiative to say, "Just change the ticket stub for me."

"Thank you for your cooperation. I'll swap the seats on the third floor for you." The staff took the ticket in her hand, and started searching against the densely marked floor plan.

"Mr. Scheler, let's enter first." Chretien didn't care about the episode itself, but considering the teacher-student relationship between Scheler and Luna, he added an explanation, "Today's Phaidon There are almost no substantial restrictions on the 'Lost Color', but there are still some places during the 'Flower Ceremony', and she will come to us after the show is over."

Fanning frowned, just about to say something else——

"Mr. Inspector, the entrance to your seat is here." A feminine man's voice sounded, and a large group of gentlemen and ladies in suits and leather shoes passed behind Fanning again.

"Bishop Calestini, please do as you please." He Meng said in a low voice, and at the same time, he heard the sound of his silver walking stick being tapped to the ground.

"We have Deputy Director Rausenesino." Next to him, another gentle lady holding a folding fan thanked her.

"Hehe, Miss Anna, you are welcome. My father is still participating in the famous singer competition at the opera house tonight. The waiting meeting is over. As the host, I will arrange for the guests to get together again. Conductor Walter is concerned about the inspector general and Mr. Bishop. It will be a pleasure to come here." The young man surnamed Senesino seemed to be the management of the theater, he wore a pair of ivory mirror frames, and watched these big names enter the venue with a smile on his face.

When he noticed Bishop Calestini wearing a pink cloak, and looked at the special-looking little girl next to him, he did not forget to emphasize a sentence to the staff professionally:
"You do a good job in venue management."

Responding to a burst of promises from the staff, coupled with a short farewell before the start of the performance, the group of concert VIPs finally entered the venue one after another.

Fanning was less than one meter away from the group of passers-by behind him.

"The Anna next to He Meng is the liaison officer of Captain Salman. She is a middle-level investigator in the intelligence. Ever since I pretended to be Vassius and called back the "safety" call from Fort Santaram, she has also been substantive. She has made friends with her superiors, and she should be the initial investigator of the apostle incident, and this time she traveled so far with her boss's boss?..."

"As for this Bishop Calestini wearing a pink cloak, I'm afraid he is also a master by his name, and he may not be the same as the high-ranking 'flower-touched person' he met when he lost his way during the journey, but they are all of this kind." Feminine temperament..."

At this time, Fan Ning was playing with the torn ticket stub in his hand, thinking about some concerns and possible risks in his mind.

"Teacher, I'll wait for you right here after the show." Luna took the replacement ticket stub and turned to leave.

The little girl spoke calmly, her back was a little lonely, and she quickly disappeared into the crowd.

"Change me to the box just now, the same last row."

Fanning handed over the ticket stub.

"Sir, what is this?" The staff member was puzzled.

"Exchange a high price for a low price, and there are spare seats in the corner, can't you change it?"

"Okay, okay, just wait a moment."

Under the surprised eyes of Chretien and Marseille, Fan Ning quickly walked into the crowd.

"Teacher?" Luna found a figure beside her shoulder as she walked.

She quickly put away the depressed mood just now.

"Is the mood okay?" Fan Ning looked straight ahead.

"I'm very happy. I can hear a symphony soon." The little girl smiled, "But teacher, your ears are more demanding. The sound effect of the boxes on the third floor is definitely not as good as that on the first floor."

The concert hall is not an "auction house" or an "entertainment and leisure place". In most cases, the side "box" area on the second or third floor is not an expensive and good place as others think.

In a solo or chamber music ensemble, its value may be equal to that of the side on the first floor. After all, it has less impact on the listening effect and has a wider field of vision.

But for the symphony... the placement design of those musical instruments, to some extent, serves the sound effect of the seats in the middle rows of 1-5 on the first floor, and the side will bring more or less volume imbalance problems.

Especially if you run into a performance with a less than perfect conductor or orchestra, you may be overwhelmed by certain voices for a while, and you may not be able to hear certain voices if you prick up your ears for a while. The value is not even comparable to the corner of the first floor, but it is only a slightly better choice than the rear of the second floor which is too far away.

The two sat down in the last row corner of the box on the right side of the third floor. At this time, due to some delay, the musicians had already entered the arena. The vicissitudes of life of the double bass player.

The sound of the timpani drummer's trial hammer sounded, and Fanning leisurely fanned the wind with the repertoire: "Would you mind telling me about the traditional reason for this rule in the church?"

"Song of Awakening." The little girl immediately said, "Because the 'discolored person' is considered to be a creature that the 'Fanghua Poet' can't touch, it's not a good sign if you get too close to the artists at a concert , maybe a performance that could have successfully awakened him failed to awaken him in the end, so such a restriction was made during the "Flower Ceremony"... Actually, I don't want to be the one who may destroy the artist's feat. I was going to take the initiative just now Offered a replacement."

"In fact, the situation is much better today." Seeing Fanning looking at her, dimples appeared on her pale cheeks again, "If I was born half a century ago, I was not allowed to enter the concert hall and opera house at all, and there was no record industry. What a symphony would have been without hearing it in my lifetime; if I had been born 200 years ago, I would have been abandoned by my parents and died of various causes while living on the streets... You see , Although I am insignificant in the family now, they treat me well, and my fate is much happier than those poor farmers or laborers."

Fan Ning was silent when he heard the words.

"So teacher, it's hard to hear that a masterpiece like 'Giant' premiered in Tia. You came to such a place, and with your aesthetic requirements..."

"It's okay, it's not too bad." Fanning waved his hand indifferently.

The little girl said "Oh", looked down at the playlist carefully, and asked curiously:

"Teacher, do musicians like you know the content of every symphony well before listening to it, and can clearly identify many professional problems?"

"This is not necessarily the case. There are too many serious music works. It depends on the situation."

"What about the 'Giants' symphony?"

"Know a little bit."

The chief was leading the orchestra to tune, and Fanning changed into a more comfortable position.

There was warm applause, and a gentleman in a tuxedo entered the arena with a stick. This conductor Bruno Walter is about 30 years old. He has a typical appearance from the western mainland, with a neat hairstyle, light green pupils, and a broad forehead. He is smiling quietly as he walks. , its overall gentle and elegant temperament, it is difficult for people to connect with Miss Lausanne's evaluation of his weird personality.

After saluting respectively on the left and right sides of the stage, Walter stepped onto the podium to signal the band to take their positions.

Symphony No. [-] in D major by Carolne van Ning.

There is a very weak violin treble la in the air. This is the violinists pressing their fingers on the highest position of the E string, and then holding the bow, rubbing it lightly at a nearly stagnant speed, like the sunrise in the morning Fog, twilight, and coolness ahead.

"la—mi—"

Under the transparent background sound of string friction, the "breathing motive" is played by various wind instruments in sequence, and it moves downwards in D minor, and everything is revived in the twilight, with a hint of gloom and mystery.

The warm and light triplet "Blooming Motive" jumps up in a circuitous way, which is a metaphor for the omen of a hundred flowers blooming
The double-note octave of the oboe is like a ray of morning light piercing through the clouds, piercing the sky, and then being blocked by thick clouds
The timpani made a dull roar, and the long chromatic lines were played by the strings, and some kind of restless vitality was sprouting underground
Breathing motives are staggered and intertwined, more and more lives are awakened, flowers bloom, birds open their eyes, branches sprout, and insects poke their heads out of the soil.
Most of the audience present are listening to it for the first time, and a small number of them have heard the records recorded by the old symphony orchestra, but the scene is always different from the recording. This short mysterious and ethereal introduction has already made them deeply involved , those fragmented motives carry a certain hazy but palpitating power in the presentation, retelling, and evolution.

"As expected of Fan Ning's famous work after graduating last year." Many Tia City music critics present couldn't help but sigh in their hearts, "This great composer who is well-known in the Northern Continent, the first symphony in his artistic career was Has achieved extraordinary”

On the first floor of the symphony hall, row 6 of honored seats, investigator Anna frowned slightly as she listened. She looked at Sergeant He Meng sitting beside her with her eyes closed, and felt as if at the leader's joint dream meeting, assigned Before the investigation mission was ordered to leave, everyone seemed to have something that they still didn't ask for clarification.

This "potential artist" is planning for the Harvest Art Festival, to bring out a group of musicians who are really close to the Special Tour Hall and can compete with Fan Ning's current influence. That's right.
But shouldn't there be some guidance in the selection of songs?
If a conductor chooses Fanning's works during the investigation, who is it?

(End of this chapter)