musicians of old

Chapter 679 Dark Fairy Tale
"Why did the Special Patrol come to you at this time?" Roy, who had witnessed the passing of the note, leaned over to Fanning's ear and lowered his voice, "Is it related to the riots in the cinemas right now? How did you respond?"

"Of course I choose to thank them." Fanning didn't seem to care about this little episode. He put the pen back into the chest pocket of his shirt and leaned back on the sofa.

"Strange." Roy's gaze stayed on Fanning, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"Logically, if they felt that the commotion over the premiere of The Rite of Spring shouldn't continue, they could have just issued an ultimatum to stop it. Why did they go to all that trouble to ask you questions? Well, from the perspective of our theater chain, the controversy isn't a bad thing. It brings in real money. Being able to 'provoke' audiences all over the world at a festival like the Harvest Arts Festival, which is full of information, is something that no one else can do. But from the perspective of the authorities, considering the final contender for the top spot? Attitude!? Did those people deliberately throw the question out there to test your personal attitude?"

"Shhh."

Fanning smiled faintly and raised his index finger.

"Look, the second half of the work has begun, and everyone is waiting to see what happens."

Roy and Sheeran, whose minds were wandering, had no choice but to calm down and sit back to watch the show.

Well, "wait and see", okay
Perhaps among so many chaotic places, the only one that is relatively stable at the moment is this salon banquet hall.

Although the gentlemen and ladies were obviously restless and exchanged glances frequently.

But at least no one started a fight, right?

The curtain of the stage has been drawn, and the background material of the painter Fluder's work has been replaced by another one.

It is still the gorgeous and primitive style of "Fauvism", but the sky in the landscape painting changes from day to night, adding a few more complex layers and unsettling hints.

The dancers did not dance this time. Instead, they all sat around a pile of campfire props, thinking silently.

The lights were also turned to the dimmest setting, and the only sound in the air was the dissonant sounds of string instruments, as thick and sour as blood plasma.

"The Great Sacrifice" is the introduction to Act II of "The Rite of Spring" and also the ninth part of the entire piece.

The beginning of a long paragraph is always the most attention-grabbing moment.

Coupled with this inexplicably strange atmosphere, even those listeners who were shouting loudly or demonstrating violently became basically quiet for a while.

The introduction ended quickly and the dancers finally moved.

They stood up one by one, lowered their heads, remained silent, and began to walk in circles.

Part 10, the mysterious ring dance of teenagers.

The timbre of the treble trumpet became oddly thin, and the string section was divided into thirteen parts, playing a gloomy, confessional melody.

It is interspersed with a large number of repeated bow-vibration overtones of the same tone.

"This Scheler really dares to write about anything!"

The audience only felt that this high-density sound group seemed transparent, but was actually sharp and dry, like a piece of gel that had lost its moisture!

"I have played the violin for forty years. I know tremolo and harmonics, but how do you play harmonics with tremolo?!"

"I don't even know how this choreography came up with!"

The audience expressed various surprised words, and for a moment it was impossible to tell whether they were from praisers or slanderers.

The dancers were seen marching in slow and solemn circular steps, with two circles, large and small, with the men inside and the women outside.

After every four measures of different duration, a subtle internal change occurs: the female dancer changes lanes diagonally forward to the inner circle, while the male dancer changes lanes diagonally backward to the outer circle.

As the boys and girls alternate between the inner and outer rings, they often feel the tension and danger of being "left behind".

"Why do these dance steps and lines suddenly remind me of a, uh, children's game?"

"I'm not the only one who thinks of this, am I?"

More and more listeners are discovering that this is very close to a game that most people played in their childhood!
—"Grab the bench!" Or some variation of it! "Bang."

Suddenly, a muffled sound was heard from the stage.

There were actually people who fell behind and fell out because they "failed to grab a seat"!
Su Luo! Chief Dancer Su Luo!
The girl, who was wearing a red and white coarse linen dress, fell down but returned to the team and started circling again without saying a word.

Needless to say, there is a kind of "dark fairy tale" feeling flowing from the hearts of the audience. The changes and developments in the music at this moment also seem to add a hint of ominous gloom to the pure mystery!

What is this ancient ritual choosing? Or is it a metaphor for some fateful omen?

"boom."

Another muffled sound.

Su Luo fell out of the ring dance formation twice!

The boys and girls finally stopped and everyone looked at Su Luo who had fallen to the ground.

The band's performance also came to the end. This was an extremely special 11/14 mixed beat, and this measure had no melody at all. It was just 11 completely identical column chords, playing at an equal speed.

6◇9◇Book◇Bar

The silent atmosphere of the transitional paragraph is somewhat suffocating. Just when the audience feels they are about to suffocate, the music goes directly into the eleventh part.

——"Praise to the Chosen One"!!

The horn players all pointed their horns upwards, leading the orchestra to produce a large and complex group of colorful sounds, accompanied by complex rhythmic interactions between the boys and girls, and from time to time one could hear a major triad arpeggio played by a certain instrument, such as "1351315", which was as simple as a piece of white paper.

Although in normal performances, musicians will involuntarily raise the horns as their emotions progress, here, in order to achieve precise changes in timbre, the composer made a clear requirement of "pavillons". The sound of the French horn is concentrated and radiates to the front of the orchestra and directly transmitted to the audience, making the timbre more impactful and "tearing"!
Those ascending note series played quickly with the force of f or even ff instantly create a crazy and passionate atmosphere!

In stark contrast, Su Luo himself was "thrown out" of the circular formation.

She seemed to be standing there in a daze and sluggish state, and all movements of her body had stopped.

"What's going on? This lead dancer seems to be out of form?"

"Could it be that he fell by mistake?"

"The alternating double-ring formation just now was indeed a bit complicated to move, but it's not right to make such a low-level mistake twice in a row."

There has probably never been a concert as noisy as today, and the audience began to talk a lot.

Those people who had already been dismissive of the dance drama now began to point fingers at the stage unscrupulously.

"No, it's definitely not a mistake."

“It’s part of the music and choreography!!”

Some people stared at the stage without blinking, muttering to themselves.

A dark background of long notes from the bass clarinet and bass strings appears in the orchestra.

Part 12, “Summoning the Ancestors”, is presented consecutively with Part 13, “Rituals of the Ancestors”.

First, a series of brutal chords are played repeatedly, which is disturbing, and is interrupted by timpani and bass drum from time to time, the drumbeats seem to be urging something.
Then it goes up from the semitone of E to G. Here, the lowest five notes that the alto oboe can produce are used, with a feminine nasal sound, which seems to depict some mysterious and solemn sacrificial scene.
After falling down and standing up again, Su Luo remained stiff and motionless.

Different from her apparent confusion, and completely different from what the audience was thinking, while she was following her own choreography and maintaining this posture, a huge wave of emotions was rising in her heart!
Also cheering in their hearts were several “People Touched by Flowers” ​​who went on stage to perform, as well as several spectators in the audience, including Bishop Calestini, the temporary head of the Sanctuary of Fragrant Flowers!

The overall duration of "The Rite of Spring" was neither long nor short, just over half an hour. Who would have thought that as the performance progressed, at the moment when the finale was about to come, they actually sensed or realized it.
"key!"

"There may be a key here!"

"No, maybe even a series of keys!!!"