musicians of old

Chapter 87 Salon Night
The hazy night covered the town of Hawale with a velvet blanket, and in the twilight of the winter night, there seemed to be some extraordinary sense of tranquility descending.

The three of Fan Ning and his party arrived at the Marquis McAdam's mansion a little earlier. He originally thought that he would go around the countryside first, so that he could relax the respiratory tract that had suffered for a long time in the industrial city, and also search for "The First Symphony" "'s creative inspiration.

But Roy stayed with her until dark, and she took herself to visit every place worth stopping inside and outside the mansion, from the open country road to the mills, from the hunting forest to the terrace cafe, from the back garden to the greenhouse plant room , from the underground wine cellar to the MacAdam Family Gallery.

"Miss Roy, distinguished guests are arriving one after another, are you sure you don't want to entertain them?"

"Mom will arrange it properly, and the distinguished guest assigned to Roy is you."

During this period of time, due to rehearsals, she and Fan Ning met several times again, but she didn’t know if it was because of the conversation between the two parties at the Bologna School after the incident of Professor Brownie, she felt that Fan Ning got along with herself More and more "formal politeness".

Compared with the first meeting, his attitude towards himself was still kind and gentle, but there was a lot less gossip and jokes. During the first rehearsal that night, the subtle atmosphere in the eyes of both parties disappeared later.

In Roy's mind, tonight's music salon is an opportunity to improve the relationship between the two parties.

Several people finally walked out of the listening room on the top floor filled with gramophones and glue resin records. Fanning looked at the riverside wetland in the distance, where the tall pine trees bathed in the sun before were like a row of dimly shaped giants at the moment. , waiting silently and calmly for the night.

In the brightly lit banquet hall, Fanning saw the Marchioness MacAdam in a red court-style dress. She had a calm temperament, a kind face, a straight back, and black shiny hair coiled up high.

The Marchioness responded to Fanning's hat-tipping ceremony, and then led him, Sheeran, and Joan to her right hand side in turn, where the three frontmost positions had already written banquet table cards.

At the dining table lined up in a row, Fanning greeted the familiar professors on the opposite side and Roy who was seated behind him, then nodded to Lou Adair who was fourth on his side, then sat down and put his cane and handed the top hat to the attendant.

Such a seating arrangement has attracted the attention of gentlemen and ladies. It is easy to understand that Lu's position is relatively at the front, but almost no one knows Fan Ning and the two beautiful girls next to him.

However, many keen-thinking guests have already begun to speculate. They know why those professors can sit on the left hand of the hostess. Since Fanning can appear on the same guest table as them, does that mean...

Well, wait for the introduction session at the salon to learn about the origin of this little gentleman...

The golden wall clock rang at 6 o'clock in the evening, and the Marchioness said casually and naturally: "Dear guests, the formal dinner takes too long, and our salon needs to start at 7 o'clock, so we can only have a light meal, and the hospitality is not good. , I beg your pardon."

The number of people in the banquet hall is not large, and the Marquise's music salon strictly controls the number of 50 participants, which makes the guests who are eligible to attend almost all influential figures in the Uflander music industry. At this moment, again Including the accompanying members of the McAdam family itself, the number of diners is only in their early 60s.

After the Marchioness announced the start of the light meal, about 20 chefs, 40 catering helpers and 40 other service staff entered the venue one after another and began to serve the guests. They first provided small portions of fruit and thick soup, and then served the dishes in three rounds The program provides rich food for the guests.

Fan Ning clearly remembered the etiquette and knowledge acquired in the noble public schools in the past few years. Although he learned a lot on weekdays and practiced less, it was difficult to master them easily, but at least he could maintain the words and deeds that fit his current status.

Facing a variety of silver forks and spoons on the plate, he uses a tine fork to pierce lemon peel juice and squeeze it into sweet tea, uses a sardine harpoon to take out the greasy and shiny meat from the can, and uses a hollow slice spoon to filter out the diced tomatoes. Then use a strangely curved butter pick to dig out the butter in the barrel, twisting out beautiful and elegant shapes on pancakes and bread rolls.

Fanning first ate the fruit ice made of citrus, prune and yellow peach, and drank a cup of hot scallop and oyster bisque. Then, as the dinner progressed, he tasted baked lobster with cheese, marinated wild Pork, pork tongue, bacon, fried steak, roast venison, roast rabbit, steamed lamb, roasted mushrooms, vegetable crepes, sardine white rolls and cod egg cream risotto – these small bites to try account for less than One-third of the variety, but he felt almost full.

Then the guests were brought into the salon hall, which was originally the ballroom in the mansion, but at this moment, the overly expensive and shiny decorations were abandoned, and the pursuit of exquisite and elegant home feeling was pursued.

At the same time, the layout has also been carefully adjusted. The stage was removed, and the neat and square seats were disrupted. They were replaced by sofas, armchairs, hanging chairs, stools and other furniture in threes and twos, relying on other accessories or pianos. When sitting in the middle, you can experience the freedom similar to traveling freely in various areas of your own home.

Ladies choose their seats first. They wear dresses of various colors stretched by hoops, bare white and delicate shoulders, holding gorgeous fans, wearing various shawls, and silk ribbons dangling on their wrists, like a group of butterflies with fragrance Float everywhere.

Fan Ning saw familiar dim sum styles in several areas, such as lemon almond cake and red velvet cake, but the shape is a tall round tower of layered cakes, and the metal rack next to it is full of cakes for combing. Guests take it.Candied fruit smoothie cups and vanilla cream cakes lined up several meters in the other direction, and red wine puffs with chopped cherries were piled up into a hill on a shiny silver plate.

"So how much did the president earn from this order?" The figures of the ladies shuttled back and forth in Fanning's field of vision, but he kept staring at the cake towers, trying to combine the small snacks he bought last time with them. Do price conversions.

Roy is responsible for the introduction of the guests. Each guest is a detailed and unique copywriting, rather than a templated fill-in-the-blank question. He not only introduces the guest himself, but also points out the inviter.

Some guests have more than one inviter, and all of them need to be reported without omission, to show that they have extensive contacts in the upper class.

Holding such a music salon is a demonstration of strength and heritage for the McAdam family, an extremely important record of artistic activities for the attendees, and an important material for writing articles for the mainstream art media.

They will try their best to dig out its bright spots, including holding grand occasions, outputting results, performance records, and also including lace news.

Therefore, in the total 4-hour arrangement, this link alone reached 45 minutes. The little hostess made it so meticulously that it met the long-exposure needs of the participants in front of celebrities.

Fan Ning's introduction position was first, followed by those professors, which meant that they had the same status, one guest and one host.

The expression Roy adopted was first "Mr. Fanning from the Guiding School", which confirmed everyone's conjecture, and then the expression "a student of the School of Music of St. Lenia University, a young composer" made many Thoughtful people "so it is".

If it is such a public identity, then this little gentleman can be regarded as having an intersection with both sides. No wonder he will appear in the home club of the Bologna School.

At this time, there were quite a few guests, who had already ranked Fan Ning as the first social target next.

"Ladies and gentlemen, tonight is the 80th music salon held by the McAdam family. Our frequency is quarterly, and the number of holdings is as small and precious as the number of guests. But thanks to your love, we have jointly presented to Theo over the past 20 years. The Lane art world has exported a lot of precious things."

“Then I propose an initiative to discuss tonight that people can speak freely about, but without getting overly attached to it.”

Just by hearing the Marquise's mellow voice, one can think of the elegant smile on her face:
"Tonight's theme is: title music."

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