pianist from the sea

Chapter 181 The Golden Hall, and, Brussels
At this moment, Deutsche Grammophon.

The person in charge on their side looked at Fu Diao's situation extremely anxiously, and frowned.

Regarding the things that happened to Fu Tiao in Huaguo, such as being questioned by others, Deutsche Grammophon magazine actually didn't have a lot of so-called so-called questions. Said that if a pianist is not questioned, then he is not considered famous.

The more it is questioned, the more people will discuss it, and the more enthusiasm it will inspire the audience to buy tickets.

But there is a problem now... there are too many people buying tickets now.

Deutsche Grammophon looked at the dense mail application notices in front of it with a painful expression.

They posted Fu Tiao's personal concert purchase notice under the Fu Tiao subpage on the official website. It said about Fu Tiao's concert purchase channels. A form with their email addresses written on it.

As long as there are remaining tickets, they will notify all of them by email as soon as possible, and let them go to grab tickets again to see who can grab the remaining tickets.

The result is now...

Looking at at least tens of thousands of application notices in the background, even if they are distributed to different venues, there are two to 300 people waiting for tickets in each venue. Seeing all this, Deutsche Grammophon has a headache.

Now that the tickets have been booked, it is impossible for them to say anything about changing to a new concert hall temporarily and throwing everyone to that new concert hall. Don't talk about it, those who have already purchased tickets may be pissed off.

As for the two temporary performances...

Their concert itself is already a queue jump. According to common sense, without the blessing of being the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition, Fu Tiao actually has no chance to win so many concert halls in such a short period of time. performance rights.

That is to say, Fu Tiao won the championship. At the same time, Fu Tiao's global influence is constantly increasing, and they were able to win so many medium and large concert halls in such a short period of time.

If it is necessary to add, they can only ask Fu Tiao to hold a small concert for these hundreds of people alone, probably in a small concert hall with maybe only two to three hundred people.

For the sake of an average of two to 300 more people making reservations per show, even if there are still many people who run away when the tickets are sold out, even if there are 400 people, for these 400 people to open a concert hall for them alone?

If you don’t get too tired to talk about Fu Tiao, those who have already bought tickets will definitely not be happy.

Why can I only enjoy venues with 800 people when I buy tickets in advance, while those people can directly enjoy small and medium-sized venues with 400 people?

There will definitely be a lot of rhythms at that time.

This is a classical concert, and it’s not a cross talk show. If the sitting tickets are sold out, you can sell standing tickets. More locations to come.

So they are very headache.

Some people may say, as a brokerage company, how could they have a headache because of this matter, haven't they experienced such an experience before?

Obviously, they didn't...

According to their calculations, they are based on about 50% of the audience, that is to say, they estimate that there may be hundreds of people who may come to the concert, and then they will directly use double the music hall.

After all, for a classical concert, there are only a few people who can get a very full attendance rate. Normally, if you can get more than 50%, you can already be regarded as a very good player.

As for 70%, that is the status that talents like Argerich can have.

As for the 100% occupancy rate, at present, it can be achieved by one person in two months.

Although Fu Tiao's current concert tour attendance rate is also 100%, but the sample size is too rare, and the appearance time is too short, which does not represent his full strength, so it can only be counted as half.

Deutsche Grammophon magazine calculated for Fu Tiao, that is, 70% of the batch. I think it is very good to have 600 to [-] people to listen to it.

Who would have thought that there are thousands of people who have already bought tickets, plus those who have made an appointment and want to buy tickets.

Looking at the concert hall, at least it can be regarded as a large concert hall, such as the Golden Hall in Vienna, which only has a venue of more than 500 people.

The concert halls in other places are actually similar, with more than 1000 people, and only a few particularly large ones, such as Elbe and Huaguo National Grand Theater, may have more than 2000 people.

According to the situation of Fu Diao, Fu Diao is fully qualified to hold a concert in this place.

Don't think that there are few places. You have to know that those stadiums with tens of thousands of people are not prepared for classical concerts at all, and naturally they cannot be compared with those who sing pop.

There are very few classical concerts that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, such as the Forest Music Festival in Berlin.

The specially designed venue, backed by the echo wall built by the huge forest, created the giant outdoor concert hall that can accommodate more than 2 people.

And this kind of place... That is, people like Lang Liangyue can be sold out, and other people have to be on the top with countless top celebrities to have a chance to sell out the entire show.

That's why Deutsche Grammophon magazine has such a headache looking at Fu Tiao's situation.

"Boss! What the hell is going on with Fu? Now more and more people are booking tickets for Fu, and the concert hall behind us is still negotiating, or..."

"Maybe it's because Fu is from Huaguo. Overseas Chinese people come to listen more? Why don't we move the venue to Huaguo? There are so many super-large concert halls in Huaguo, and if the negotiation is good, There are also discounts."

The person in charge sitting in the office looked at the materials uploaded by his subordinates, and couldn't help frowning and guessing.

Fu Tiao has sold tickets for 8 concerts now, and the next 4 concerts, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Moscow, where the performances in the four places have not yet been finalized.

The main reason is that after Fu Tiao finished playing the first 8 performances, the whole of Europe will almost enter the atmosphere of Christmas and New Year's Day. In this case, the choice of concert is very important.

Because Christmas is a holiday in many places, their concert halls will not be open, and the New Year's concert held in Vienna's Golden Hall once a year will also cause a lot of people to lose. Problems such as these led to their next four concerts. The concert is still in the midst of entanglements, entangled in the end where to put it is considered appropriate.

They are currently negotiating with a medium-to-large concert hall with 900 people, and a large concert hall with about 400 people, and they are still discussing specific matters, and have not specifically determined.

Because many performances in the large concert hall are scheduled, it is actually quite difficult for them to find a suitable time, especially the prime time of [-]:[-] on Friday and Saturday night.

All are still under negotiation.

Now looking at the news of Fu Tiao, the director immediately rejected the negotiation with the medium and large concert hall. Although the concert hall is relatively easy to adjust, it is indeed possible to get a very good time to perform.

But looking at the current situation of Fu Diao, coupled with Fu Diao's growing popularity, they feel that the venue for 900 people is definitely not enough.

and so……

"Let's discuss with those large concert halls first. The schedule should not be so tight. You can let it go for a while and delay it to give Fu him more time to sell tickets. For example, the Golden Hall in Vienna, damn it, The group of vampires in the Golden Hall really wanted a lot of money, if Fu Ta didn't sell 7% of the tickets, he would feel that he would lose money, but judging from Fu Ta's current situation, there should be no problem..."

The supervisor felt guilty for no reason as he spoke.

He is not engaged in real estate or finance, so it is impossible for him to sell the tickets before finalizing the performance time with Vienna's Golden Hall, and then finalize the invoice later.

It must be to sign the time of the performance first, and then engage in the content of selling tickets, otherwise, if there is a thunderstorm, his company will not even think about doing it, and the artists under his company will also be blacklisted.

"Mad, just thinking about it gives me a headache." The supervisor rubbed his brain and muttered in a low voice: "I don't know who spends money to rent a concert hall in Vienna's Golden Hall every day when they have nothing to do. The supply of concert halls is in short supply, and the price is increasing The more outrageous it is, and it seems that more and more people are buying it, are they really panicking with money?"

He thought for a long time but couldn't think of any reason, finally sighed, looked at the person in charge who was standing obediently at the door, finally made up his mind, nodded to him, and waved.

"Forget it, never mind. Negotiations with all the small concert halls are temporarily suspended. Go to all the large concert halls to see how they are doing. If it works, ask for a place with the large concert halls. I remember recently they Already starting to arrange for next year's concert, it must be done, the expected cost and occupancy rate is 60%-70%, the key is to publicize it, do you understand?"

"Ok!"

The man nodded, and immediately prepared to turn around and leave to do the matter.

However, just after he took a few steps, he found that another person entered the supervisor's room behind him.

The back of that person is a little familiar, it seems to be from the company above, and he came to inspect it before, but it's not clear?

Is it Universal?
He looked at the doors that were gradually closing, and couldn't help but think about it, but soon, he waved his hand to dismiss this thought, didn't bother to pay attention to it, and trot all the way back to his seat, ready to continue communicating with those concert halls .

At this time, the person in charge of the house.

The supervisor looked at the person sitting in front of him, couldn't help pinching his temple with a headache, with an extremely helpless expression.

"Are you still here? Universal Luke..."

"What is Luke from Universal Company? I just walked from Deutsche Grammophon not long ago, so why did I become Luke from Universal Company? You always called my old friend Luke before."

The man named Luke said with a playful smile, picked up his briefcase, took out a contract from it, and handed it to the supervisor.

"No, look at this. This is a document sent from the Huaguo branch. They asked you about Fu's arrangement."

"Hua Guo? What's going on in Hua Guo?"

The supervisor froze for a moment, took the document in Luke's hand inexplicably, flipped through it up and down, finally realized when he saw it, turned the contract over with a smile, and put it on the table.

"Oh yes, I remembered. When I was negotiating with Fu, I specifically mentioned this matter. At that time, I said that I would arrange a few concerts for Fu in China. The specific situation will be arranged after the performance in Europe is over. , did not sign a specific contract, so I forgot for a while..."

"Don't forget this, my lord in charge, Huaguo has already started to urge you to ask what arrangement you have here. Although we are said to belong to the relationship between the subsidiary company and the parent company, we have no control over you here. Right, you can’t forcefully take your artists, right? Our company sent me, an ordinary employee, to ask about your arrangements.”

"What arrangements can be made? The concert hall behind Fu has not been completed yet. Fu's current ticket sales should not be too hot. Basically, the venues are full, so the next four concerts have not yet started selling. Inside the ticket, we are contacting some big concert halls to see if we can give some suitable time."

After all, the supervisor glanced at Luke in front of him meaningfully, and asked with a smile: "What do you say at Universal? Is there any suitable way to help us get some time for the concert hall? After all, you have to know , Fu’s ticket price for scalpers on his current tour is not cheap, and some people have already gone to search for a ticket for two or three hundred euros.”

"According to what you said, it is indeed a bit troublesome. If those concert halls don't let go, there is nothing we can do..."

Luke looked at the supervisor and couldn't help but sighed, and then said helplessly: "But I will help you to ask about the arrangements of those big concert halls, and I will notify you when there is a suitable time, but..."

"When Fu's tour in Europe is over, you at Universal can start negotiating with Fu to see what Fu thinks. We can't make the decision here. Everything is based on Fu's ideas. According to the previous statement, in the two There are about three games, that is, one in Beijing, and one in Haicheng, right? If there is, maybe we can do the same in Huaguo Xingzhou Shencheng?"

"Okay, since you have said so, boss, then I will first ask Huaguo's thoughts and see their arrangements. After everything is arranged, I will give you a new contract bring."

Let's talk, Luke got up, bowed slightly to the supervisor, and took away the upside-down contract on the table with a smile, put it in the briefcase, and ran outside cheerfully.

Seeing the shadow of Luke disappearing at the door, the supervisor snorted softly, didn't bother to pay too much attention, turned around and continued to look through other documents.

If Universal can really take care of Fu Tiao's affairs in those large concert halls in other European countries, everything is easy to say, and Fu Tiao can unconditionally let Fu Tiao go to China for a tour through Universal's arrangement.

If this matter can't be resolved, Universal shouldn't blame him for speaking up.

Now Fu Tiao is an artist of their Deutsche Grammophon company, not Universal. Even though the relationship between the parent company and the subsidiary company is not very close, why does Universal say what it says?
Especially now that there are fewer and fewer artists that Deutsche Grammophon can promote, and the overall influence is getting lower and lower, it is even more impossible for Deutsche Grammophon to let go.

The supervisor looked at the newcomers to classical music who had less than ten left in his hands, with a serious expression on his face.

Hope these people can give Deutsche Grammophon a little new life...

……

At the same time, Fu Diao has finished his trip in Amsterdam and is heading for Brussels by train.

Compared with Amsterdam, the streetscape style of Brussels has changed from the original fairytale style to the medieval Baroque style.

The buildings on the street are slightly different from the European-style wooden houses on the facades, and there are more brick houses on their side.

These houses will not focus on the color changes, nor will the architectural design of the beams of the house be engraved on the wall, but will choose a square, with some raised decorations, and it can even be said to be skinny. Bitterness.

This design is very traditional and classical, and this is the only feeling that Fu Tiao felt when he came out of the train station, curiously followed the traveling crowd to the central square of Brussels, and looked around at the surrounding scenery.

He looked at the dense crowd around him, and after struggling for a long time, looking at the few clouds above his head and the sun without any warmth at all, Fu Tiao sighed, walked to a nearby coffee shop and sat down, admiring the nearby view.

Originally, the rich businessman Harry said that he would send him to Brussels and open a hotel in Brussels for Fu Tiao, but Fu Tiao still refused after thinking about it, and did not accept his kindness.

If it was only in Amsterdam, the rich businessman liked his interpretation after listening to his performance, and for him a better hotel, there is no problem, and Fu Tiao can also accept it.

However, Fu Tiao always felt a bit like abusing others' kindness and owed him if he opened again after leaving Amsterdam, so even though the wealthy businessman repeatedly asked, Fu Tiao still refused, and came to this strange city by train alone.

He raised his hand and glanced at the time.

It is now past twelve o'clock at noon, and the sun has begun to set to the west. It feels like it won't be long, around four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun may be going down.

According to the agreement, people from the Brussels Conservatory of Music will wait for me near the school around three o'clock in the afternoon, and arrange for me to check the arrangement of the concert. There are still a few hours left.

"This sunshine has no warmth at all..."

Fu Tiao was sitting in the window of the coffee shop, blowing on the heater and looking at the scenery outside the window. He couldn't help but sighed again, drank the coffee in his cup, and walked away from the coffee shop.

Go in the direction of the Music Academy.

(End of this chapter)