musicians of old

Chapter 644: What a Big Pie (5K -in-)

  anymore question?

Gone.

Completely gone!

Some people shook their heads subconsciously.

  The minds of the members of the Guidance School were now circling with keywords that rarely appear in daily life, such as "withdrawal of investment", "withdrawal from the school", and "execution". However, this group of senior clergy of the Holy Pride Sun Church

After all, they were all well versed in doctrine, and after their brains had been idle for a few minutes, most of them had already remembered which sermon the first part of the Pope's excerpt, "The Gospel of Lavoisier", corresponded to.

——When Lavoisier first arrived in Lepiche, after he had a confrontation with a guy named Owen from the Special Patrol Office, he learned from Bishop Tucville that Miss Roy was coming to Janus to investigate the cooperation with the cinema chain.

  Is cooperating with the righteous like imitating a covenant with the Lord? .

Who would dare to have any ulterior motives?

The priests who stood up in front now held their heads straighter than hanging them.

As for the few "flower-touched" representatives attending the meeting, they remained silent from beginning to end.

Now they were weak and incomplete, and the conditions were very difficult. Ninety-nine percent of the original art venues in the southern continent had been destroyed. Now that the Turner Art Cinema line had been laid out, it was a bit better. How could they dare to question it? Whatever decision was made by the headquarters, they just had to execute it obediently.

As a result, all the participants, including the members of the Bologna School who were watching the show, had become quiet.

"Well, it seems that everyone is very supportive and looking forward to this audit work. Once the telegram arrives tomorrow, everyone can get started."

Fanning looked very relieved.

"Then we come to the fourth thing."

"Ms. Roy, please announce this."

Roy nodded slightly when he heard this.

  Phew, this guy

Although Fan Ning mentioned five things at the beginning, she didn't know the order and content, but now that she was asked to announce them, she immediately understood and picked up a thin bound book on the table.

Finally, I have fully handled and understood the matter, and we have communicated with each other several times.

"Professors, priests, and many more 'co-artists' who are committed to risking their talents, teaching and inspiring Turner Art Center"

"Let me first read through the Turner Cinema Contribution Rating Management Measures for everyone."

Roy smiled down and with a mysterious expression, he opened the first page of the booklet.

"Contribution rating?" "Contribution rating management method?"

  The participants were once again distracted from the meeting, and many members of the Bologna School had a vague feeling that the "onlookers" might be watching them.

The so-called "management method" in Roy's hand did not have any lengthy and elaborate rhetoric. In the first part, she went straight to the point and introduced the method of calculating the "contribution rating"!

The subjects of contribution rating are all "non-administrative management" personnel who are responsible for teaching, creative or performing work in Turner Cinemas.

——This scope is basically the opposite of the main audit object that has caused a lot of controversy just now.

  Another group of people!

For example, a small number of professors from the City College of the Guidance School, priests from the Holy Sun Church who were purely involved in teaching activities except for fundraisers, and almost all members and professors of the Bologna School!

The contribution rating system is very simple, with four levels, from low to high: level three, level two, level one, and special level contribution.

There are many ways to accumulate contributions, including but not limited to daily teaching, open courses, directing rehearsals, writing teaching materials, serving as a judge or examiner, etc. There are many calculation rules under each item. For example, for teaching, the subjects, levels, number of students, and duration of teaching are naturally different.

Of course, the above are all routine. If there are special contributions or achievements, it is another case.

The level of "grade" will be an important "multiplying factor", which is reasonable. A "moth" or "groom" teaches 30 lessons to students throughout the year, while an art master only teaches 5 lessons, or only rehearses 1-2 times. Of course, the latter master's contribution is greater.

Students' evaluations will also be given some weight. Roy said, "Mr. Fanning has a simple and efficient method to allow students' feedback after each class to flow into Qiming Church like rainwater collected into the sea."

Everyone was listening with their ears perked up. No one was slacking off or expressing any doubts, as they all adopted an attitude of scrutiny.

  What is the use of such a "contribution evaluation level"?

“The second part of the management method is ‘Application of results’!”

Roy's clear and noble voice sounded again.

"For the symbolic honor of each level of contributors, the headquarters will guide the theaters at all levels to treat them well. This regulation mainly makes written provisions for the substantive application part."

Roy explained that as long as professors and teachers reach the third level of contribution, the basic teaching fee will be increased by 20%, and their status as "administrative honorary positions" will be equivalent to the management of urban/small city-level cinemas.

  This means that you can directly make suggestions or communicate and coordinate with them, and the team should respond and handle them seriously. If something cannot be achieved, you must provide a good explanation and report to the superior theater chain!

In addition, third-level contributors already have the right to write "recommendation letters" for students they admire!

  The theater headquarters will seriously consider the value of each letter of recommendation in the internal system, so as to provide students with a better platform or opportunity!

To be honest, when Roy's explanation reached this point, many members and priests had already begun to have some ideas in their hearts.

  Because they secretly figured that as long as they thought less and did more, and taught or rehearsed solidly, it would be relatively easy to achieve the third-level contribution with just their spare time!

And what can be gained from this?

Increased compensation and recognition is one aspect.

Being able to directly communicate with the management of all cinema chains in urban areas or small towns is a privilege that makes them feel very proud and respectable - how many cinema chains of this level are there in the world? It is like having someone to treat you with courtesy and contact you wherever you go, even if you are not good at socializing and are unfamiliar with the place!

  In addition, you can write recommendations that can be circulated seamlessly within the cinema system!

Yes, that's right. Most of those who can sit here and attend the meeting are associate professors or professors, and they have the authority to write recommendation letters.

But those are mostly point-to-point, aimed at specific schools and specific professors, and are limited by personal connections and academic influence!

Now, my "right to recommend" has expanded exponentially.

As an associate professor or professor, I think so. What about those teachers in public schools or seminaries who are of lower teaching positions and are not present at the meeting tonight?

As they pondered their hypotheticals, Roy's voice continued.

For those who reach the second-level contributor level, the basic tuition fee will be increased by 50%, and the status of "administrative honorary position" will be equivalent to that of county-level cinema management.

  The "recommendation letters" they wrote could not only be circulated anywhere internally, but as long as there were any worthy of consideration in them, the headquarters would coordinate and recommend them to any professor at any prestigious university in the world!

That’s not all. Second-level contributors will also be invited by the headquarters to participate in the writing of some teaching courses or academic monographs, and they will leave their own signatures. If they are composers/conductors/or performers, the headquarters will also arrange for them to have at least 2 premieres of new works/conductor cooperation/concerto cooperation opportunities every year, and guarantee that the partner is at least a first-class symphony orchestra! Or the cooperating artist is at the “Blade Holder” level or above!

For first-level contributors, the basic tuition fee will be increased by 100%; the honorary position is equivalent to that of the department head at the headquarters; the recommendation letters they send out have the opportunity to get "seconding signatures" of at least the "Forged Lion" level from Fanning, Sheeran, Roy and others; the headquarters arranges partners every year with top symphony orchestras, and the cooperating artists are at the "Forged Lion" level or above!

Moreover, those who have reached the first-level contribution will appear on the headquarters' wall of honor, with information such as their biography, list of works, important awards, etc. It will be on the wall next to "Former Music Directors/Permanent Conductors"!

The participants below were completely blown away!

"The highest level is the special contributor." Roy smiled. "Well, the basic course fee will be increased by 300%, you can directly contact the headquarters executives for coordination, the recommendation letter will get the 'seconding signature' of Master Fanning, and the academic monograph will be co-signed. These are quickly skipped. If you reach this level, your new work will be a regular in the rehearsal schedule of the old symphony orchestra, and will be frequently played on records and radio stations. Any world-class symphony orchestra or art master that you admire, respect, want to cooperate with, or have in-depth exchanges with, Mr. Fanning and we will help you coordinate, or you can come and talk to Mr. Fanning directly."

  The music professionals in the audience almost fainted after hearing these words.

God have mercy on you! Even though most of you here are members of the Knowers, academic families or professors of the seminary

Most of these are "moths" and "grooms", there are not even a few "blade bearers"!

Well, imagine that in Fanning's previous life, you were a talented "music god" who returned from overseas. After returning to China, you entered a music college and became an associate professor or professor. You held concerts with the title of "young pianist" everywhere. It sounded really amazing, and you felt a bit like a "superior person".

But what is the pie that the other party is painting for you now?

Who would you like to write a recommendation letter for? Name a music school in the world and I will help you coordinate;

  Oh and the Berlin Philharmonic is planning to invite you to perform a piano concerto with them;

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra is going to record your new symphony;

  Karajan is ready to discuss the art of conducting with you tonight;

Chopin or Liszt is going to rehearse a violin sonata with you, the violinist.

It's a big deal. It's really a big deal.

  Is Miss Roy born with superb skills in drawing cakes? Fanning pondered in his heart. This management method is clearly a strict and finalized one by one, why is it so rhythmic and provocative when she reads it?

The thoughts of the participants began to rise. Well, the higher you go, the higher the contribution value you need is.

But there is no threshold for the conventional way to increase contribution. Through classes and rehearsals, everyone can improve day by day.

Even if you are not "great" or "famous", you can still gain the rights and status of the latter by spending seven or eight years or even more than ten years? ?

Well, in theory, the more time you spend, the faster you will go.

I have a bold idea that some musicians who have worked hard in public schools and are now associate professors are calculating the speed at which their contributions are accumulating in increasingly wild ways.

  What is the fastest speed?

Full-time?

No, no, the target of rating management is “non-administrative management” personnel.

Full-time employment is not included in this scope.

  Miss Roy is studying this, so she probably doesn't want her school's students to be poached.

The thoughts of these people are like a group of wild horses running away from their reins, getting smaller and smaller at the end of the wilderness and the world.

In fact, Fanning discovered in early conversations and investigations that the professors’ and priests’ calls for “de-bureaucratization” were just a superficial phenomenon.

Speaker Frances had previously told Fanning that her people were unhappy with the Guidance School's management.

Roy also complained to Fanning, saying that she was caught between all parties and had never been able to truly resolve the conflict.

But Fanning discovered that these people did not really want to replace him, nor did they necessarily want their business philosophy to override these investors, or they necessarily wanted to "earn more than them."

How could a professor at a public school or a seminary aspire to get a senior administrative position in a theater? How could he demand that the income from teaching be greater than that from investing in business?

It's just an emotional outlet for "contributions not being directly reflected or fully recognized."

  And now.

This series of "results application" content does not really bring any direct financial benefits.

  But what a professor, scholar, or artist really values: the reputation of writing books, the dissemination of works or ideas, the authority of industry recommendations, the status equal to that of administrative superiors, and the opportunity to be promoted or communicate with higher-level artists.

They all hit the nail on the head!!

Naturally, the topic of everyone's concern came to the next category.

  Roy spoke at this moment:

“The third part of the management method is the ‘supervision mechanism’!”

  Who will count this contribution value, who will measure this contribution value, how to negotiate special circumstances, this is very important! Very, very, very important! !

Fanning had already considered this situation, and the solution he proposed was to set up the "Turner Theaters Contribution Rating Management Committee"!

Before the end of June, the headquarters will complete the statistics of the past year, and then update it once a quarter, reporting the supporting factual statistics of the theater chains to the upper level in the order of block/town → urban area/small city → county → headquarters. Each level is responsible for the authenticity of the reports from the next level.

After all, we have attended classes and rehearsed, and the facts are the facts.

The county-level cinema chains will summarize and conduct preliminary review, the headquarters administrative personnel department will review, and the management committee will make the final review.

The calculation of special contributions is done by county-level theaters directly providing application materials, and is also determined according to the same process.

Roy then announced the names of the first "Management Committee" that Fanning had promoted.

No one objected at all!

Because the composition of this list includes Fanning, Sheeran, Roy, Klawide, and Marley, five of whom are both senior executives of the headquarters and musicians or artists at the "Forging Lion" level or above.

Including Frances, the Speaker of the House of Lords, Cardinal Mir of the Northern Continent, and Melaltin, the Chief Judge of the Inquisition, these three schools and the core strongmen of the church - especially the latter's integrity, whose reputation in the official organization circle is second to none.

Then, it also includes the Guidance School piano master Viadrin;

The master composers Nyman and Schillings, who came from the academic school;

Galinitz, the conductor who comes from the church school and music director of the St. Perto Philharmonic Orchestra, and Zimmermann, the piano master of the Janus Academy of Music.

  Among the "foreign aid" alone, there are 5 "New Moons"!

Including Fanning, there are 6 of them!

No one doubts the authority of this committee.

It is not difficult at all to give a fair evaluation of contributions. The only difficulty is that Fanning can actually get the consent of these big guys and compile this list!

Roy then demonstrated the efficient execution ability of the headquarters. She "announced and demonstrated on the spot" and directly gave everyone a list.

——According to this "Management Measures", a small-scale pilot project was carried out in the three counties of Theolaine and the Holy City of Janus, and a list of contributors' scores and ratings was temporarily evaluated.

Among the more than 300 teachers with whom we have cooperative relationships, 2 first-level contributors emerged directly.

  Dean Xu of St. Lenya's Conservatory of Music was among them, and the other person was unexpected, it was actually Father Bartholomew, who was the first to stand up and speak on the church side.

This shows that although this priest is "righteous and outspoken", his "style" of preaching and teaching is still quite down-to-earth.

As for the secondary contributors, there are 6 of them. Fanning’s alma mater, St. Lenya’s University, also appears frequently: including Professor Commons, the chief conductor of the student symphony orchestra, Clark, the chief conductor of the choir, and two of Fanning’s former classmates, Murridge and Calvin.

The people behind these are actually just formal lecturers.

There are 17 third-level contributors.

Roy also read out the people who were not too far away from becoming level three contributors. There were more than twenty of them, which served as a great encouragement.

"The above results will be publicized for 7 days in accordance with normal procedures, during which time the committee will accept any reports or inquiries," Roy said.

"Well, that's all I have to say about this matter. After the telegrams are sent to you tomorrow, please pass the information on to all the cooperating teachers step by step." She ended the topic and then looked at Fan Ning.

Both of them smiled, then exchanged positions, Roy returned to the podium and sat down, while Fanning returned to the command podium and stood.

Well, it seems there is one last thing in the meeting.

Everyone's spirits are still high and their attention is still focused.

  Although there were some storms and drama in the performance tonight by this Master Fanning, looking back now, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing at all.

The first two things, the granting of funds and the launch of the journal, are all good news; the audit made people a little nervous, but the president and the pope have expressed their opinions, and as long as there is nothing to hide, they will naturally support and approve it; as for the last contribution rating method, not to mention the professors and priests, even the investors of the Guidance School said it was good, and I wonder how much response it will cause once it is announced tomorrow.

"The last thing is for the general public. I guess you all, whether investors or educators, will be looking forward to it. It will help to cultivate the authority of the theater chain, and it may bring you some extra income."

As the meeting was coming to an end, Fanning's expression was smiling with a hint of evil humor.

  The thing that I am about to introduce can be called the "root of all evil" in the ridicule of some people in my previous life.

Especially for some piano students and parents

"Tomorrow we will also issue two documents and announce a piece of news—"

"Turner Art Cinema Line Examination Regulations and Turner Art Cinema Line Examination Outline"!

  　This is a long chapter, so I won’t divide it into two parts. I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival! ~

　　(End of this chapter)