The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 313: The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch
Under the strong support of Chen Qiu and his symphony orchestra, although everyone in the Haicheng Opera House still felt a little reluctant and embarrassed, they still followed Chen Qiu's requirements and instructions and completed their rehearsal today.

A lot of the content has been reworked to make the stage performance more lively based on the orchestra's performance and Chen Qiu's performance.

The plot logic of the music is also being replanned.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

It’s just that due to the lack of cooperation from the people at Haicheng Opera House, a lot of things needed to be redone, and the overall progress was slowed down a lot, making the people in the orchestra feel a little bored.

But there is no way around this.

Who made them unwilling to cooperate with Chen Qiu before?
Since you won’t cooperate, I’ll have to do it again.

Everyone quickly organized the music in the opera and prepared for the subsequent performance.

It lasted from around eight in the morning until around eight in the evening before both parties barely finished performing the first act.

That is, it is almost the part where Figaro sings "Don't Be My Lover Anymore" to the servant boy.

When the last note ended, the entire concert hall gradually fell into silence.

Everyone looked at Chen Qiu, waiting for his comment.

Under the gaze of everyone, Chen Qiu pinched his eyebrows, sighed slowly, and said softly.

"Okay, that's all for today. We'll talk about the rest later. That's all for today. Thank you all for your performance today. You played well."

"Oh!!! Chen Qiu's command is awesome!"

The members of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra immediately cheered and applauded Chen Qiu and the people around him.

Today's rehearsal really exhausted them.

If the cafeteria at Haicheng Opera House was not so good and it was located in the city center, where they could order takeout and have Chen Qiu reimburse them for the food, they would have probably given up and wanted to go home.

But even though they had food and drinks, and the music that Chen Qiu brought them, as well as the little jokes that Chen Qiu made from time to time during rehearsal to lighten the mood, they were able to barely hold on, but the nearly 10 hours of rehearsal also exhausted all their energy.

Therefore, when they heard Chen Qiu announce the end of the rehearsal, everyone cheered and began to chat about where to go for fun, whether to find a place to eat, or just go back to sleep.

Compared to the vitality of the young people, although the people from the Haicheng Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra were a little uncomfortable with it, they all joined in the fun and cheered with the people from the Haicheng Harmony Symphony Orchestra, making Chen Qiu feel particularly embarrassed.

Only the group of elderly people in the opera house seemed relatively quiet.

They looked helplessly at the people in Chen Qiu's Harmony Symphony Orchestra, sighed, and then followed them to applaud everyone.

All they want now is to get home as soon as possible.

Go home, make some porridge or something to eat, and then go straight home to sleep.

After all, I'm old, and the habits I developed since childhood can't be changed.

It was really too late for rehearsal today.

Chen Qiu's eyes quickly noticed the group of tired old people in the opera house. He instantly understood their situation, clapped his hands at everyone, and spoke loudly.

"Okay, stop making noises and clapping here, just do whatever you need to do, pack up and get ready to leave."

"Okay, Chen Qiu will take command!"

Everyone responded loudly, stood up and began to pack up their instruments. The opera house members who had been standing aside also walked aside and began to rest.

After Chen Qiu saw that everyone had started to pack up, he walked over to Qi Min, who had been silent, smiled at him and stretched out his hand.

"Director Qi Min, thank you for your hard work."

"It's not hard, it's you."

Qi Min still had a smile on his face, making it difficult to tell what he was really thinking.

But this time, Chen Qiu could clearly feel the weakening of Qi Min's aura, and his aggressiveness was much weaker than before.

Therefore, Chen Qiu smiled and said to Director Qi Min.

"I'm sorry, Director Qi Min. I seem to be a little too impatient today. I didn't think before I spoke. I'm really sorry, but I can't help it. I'm like this when I'm directing rehearsals. I only care about the music and not the people."

"Well, that's good. This way the orchestra can perform better and it will also be worthy of the audience. After all, the audience paid to watch the performance, and we can't let our bread and butter parents down."

Qi Min responded with a helpless smile.

He no longer had any intention of continuing to fight with Chen Qiu for control.

It is obvious that if we continue to do this, there will only be one result, and that is a lose-lose situation.

Chen Qiu and his Harmony Symphony Orchestra can leave their opera house and find a group of vocal teachers or students to organize a vocal concert.

At worst, there will be no stage or performance, and everyone can just sing here.

Although the music is less expressive and boring overall, it is still a complete concert.

If they leave their current symphony orchestra, they can only find another symphony orchestra.

Although I can still perform, and although I may have better control over the orchestra, the performance will be worse.

Simply put, neither side will be happy.

Even if you don't lose money, it will definitely be uncomfortable.

After thinking about this, Qi Min sighed lightly and smiled at Chen Qiu.

"Then, conductor Chen Qiu, the vocal group's tasks will be handed over to you. If you have any needs or ideas on the stage, you can contact me at any time and I will try my best to meet your requirements."

"Then I'll leave it to you. However, I'll decide the time for the next joint rehearsal between the two groups. Rehearsals like today seem a bit meaningless."

Chen Qiu nodded slightly to Qi Min, then turned and left.

At this moment, the group of people under him had all packed up their instruments and were standing over there.

Even Ruijia carried the double bass which was much bigger than her.

After seeing Chen Qiu coming over, Ai Gu immediately smiled and waved his fist.

"Conductor Chen Qiu is awesome! He beat the old guys at the Haicheng Opera House to a pulp today!"

"That's right! Chen Qiu's command is awesome!"

"Great job, Commander Chen Qiu!"

The members of the orchestra were making a fuss over there, not paying any attention to the expressions of the people at the Shanghai Opera House nearby.

Looking at everyone, Chen Qiu looked helpless.

Just when he was about to say something, Wu Jianhai beside him nodded at him and said seriously.

"Chen Qiu, you did a great job. I really enjoyed today's rehearsal!"

Another person from Haicheng Radio who was not far away also said with a smile.

"Chen Qiu, well done. We want to make old thief Qi suffer a little. People like him won't learn their lesson unless they are beaten. If we slap his face until it's swollen, he will learn to respect others!"

"That's it!"

Everyone happily surrounded Chen Qiu, left the rehearsal hall of Haicheng Opera House, and walked out of Haicheng Opera House.

The street lights are bright and the traffic is endless.

Everyone said goodbye to each other with a smile, and went back to their homes to rest.

Inside the Haicheng Opera House.

Qi Min looked through the gray window at the group of band members standing at the door. Without saying a word, he just sighed again.

The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the new generation replaces the old.

He had never felt so deeply the power of the new generation.

It is obvious that their orchestra’s performance this year is very good. Even though the Municipal Symphony Orchestra was disbanded, they defeated the Haicheng Philharmonic Orchestra and took second place in Haicheng.

But in front of Chen Qiu and his group, there is no difference between having the second one and not having it.

He felt that if Chen Qiu and the others worked harder, they would be able to reach their current position.

He reached out and pinched his brow, and began to think about whether he should retire.

behind him.

Zhu Wen Zhang hesitated for a long time, but finally spoke.

"Director Qi Min, do we really have to follow Chen Qiu's instructions?"

"What else? You guys continue to follow me, and then continue to be criticized by Chen Qiu, wasting more time and causing the performance to be postponed again?"

Qi Min looked at Zhu Wen Zhang behind him and couldn't help but ask directly.

Zhu Wen Zhang stopped talking immediately.

Qi Min also knew that he had lost his composure a little.

After taking a deep breath, he said to Zhu Wen Zhang.

"Okay, let's do this. You just follow Chen Qiu's instructions. I'll go see how the orchestra is doing with the set of "The Marriage of Figaro". I asked them to redecorate it before, but I don't know if they have done it." Qi Min waved his hand and walked towards the door of the rehearsal room behind him, muttering as he walked.

"But where on earth did Chen Qiu come from? It's really inexplicable. How could such a young commander suddenly appear in Haicheng? He is obviously only in his twenties, but he looks like a 45-year-old commander. No, a 45-year-old commander doesn't have such drive as him. It's really inexplicable."

He thought for a long time but couldn't figure out why Chen Qiu had such strength now. He could only shake his head, come to his office, turn on the light, walk to his seat, and begin to casually flip through the documents on it.

The Haicheng Opera House Symphony Orchestra is divided into three departments: the performance department, the symphony orchestra department, and the chorus department.

He is the boss of the performance department and has a lot of things to deal with.

He casually flipped through the documents on his desk to review them, but lost interest after reviewing just a few. He felt unsatisfied and depressed.

He casually put the things in his hands aside, stood up and walked to the newspaper stand at the door. He took a casual look and found that the musicians magazine from China had been delivered today.

"Musician·Chinese Music" magazine is the general publication of Musician magazine in China, abbreviated as "Huayin".

Different from weekly newspapers and periodicals recommending and reviewing local performances, Huayin is a monthly magazine that publishes the better parts of local magazines.

Compared with local Chinese magazines such as "Yangtze River", "Music" and "Music Instrument", "Huayin" is also the only magazine that has the opportunity to be selected into the global newspaper "Musician".

It has a very strong influence across the globe.

You can even say that Huayin is the equivalent of Michelin and Black Pearl in local China.

The main reason why we don't compare it with domestic magazines with high SCI impact factors is that experimental music and modern music, which represent the direction of music development, basically do not appear in "Musician Magazine", and "Huayin" is even more difficult to compare.

Qi Min, one of the persons in charge of Haicheng Opera House, has little interest in local musician magazines in Haicheng, but he never misses an issue of Huayin.

He felt that he would not be in the mood to work at night, so he got up and started reading the contents of "Huayin".

The content remains the same.

Basically, it's still the same top musicians, interviews with composers, the best records of the month, editor-in-chief's recommendations, great composer series, classic version recommendations, and monthly newcomers.

He flipped through the pages casually.

The musician interviewed this time is Fu Diao.

Fu Diao was on tour in Japan with the Berlin Philharmonic. When he was about to leave Japan, he was stopped by a reporter from Huayin and interviewed privately.

Among all the pianists in China, Fu Diao is the most mysterious one.

Hardly anyone knew him.

He rarely comes out for interviews.

Basically, we perform in one place, and then go to the next place to perform after the performance.

All I do is play the piano.

He acted like an ascetic monk.

In addition, Fu Diao has never been involved in any related scandals, and there is no other woman around him except a young assistant.

Therefore, many people think that Fu Diao either likes men or wants to take advantage of his assistant. There is no other possibility.

After all, playing the piano is so hard. How could anyone endure it when they are already successful and famous, but don't participate in any variety shows, just sit there playing the piano and practicing for more than ten hours a day?
However, Fu Diao did not give any explanation to the outside world. He just practiced the piano, toured, practiced the piano, and toured alone in that place.

Looking at the title of "Huayin" in his hand, "The Ascetic Piano Monk - Fu Diao, Wandering Freely in the Ocean of Music", Qi Min nodded.

Everything was just as he thought. The interview with Fu Diao was basically the content that everyone knew.

Due to the rigor of "Huayin", this interview did not mention much about Fu Diao's private life.

Not interesting.

Qi Min shook his head and continued reading.

The best record of the month was a foreign record, which he bought.

Works: Bacewitz's Complete String Quartet, performed by: Silesian String Quartet

He had heard it and it was indeed good.

The works recommended by the editor are basically the same, but this time there are some more cantatas and chansons, which are more ancient works.

As a person who graduated from a music college and entered the opera house right after graduation, he had done all these things with the people in the choir.

The works recommended by the editor are more for those who don’t listen to music much. He does not recommend those popular works, but some relatively unpopular works that you may not be able to find when searching for videos online, but are still quite good.

This is the main significance of work recommendation.

Promoting some unpopular works can not only expand the listening range of music lovers, but also allow many musicians to perform these works, thus promoting the development of music.

For example, if you hear a modern piece, such as the Baroque Piano Suite Op. 14, you may feel it is good, but not many people play it and you have never heard a live version.

And at this time a pianist happens to choose this piece for his concert. Would you go to listen to his live performance just because of this piece?
One song is not enough, what about two, three, or even all of them?

of course.

This is just an example.

However, promoting these relatively unpopular songs is definitely beneficial to the development of music.

Qi Min flipped through the contents bit by bit.

Start from the editor-in-chief's recommendations and scroll all the way to the monthly work trends.

Until I stopped at the last monthly rookie.

He looked at the head shot of Chen Qiu in front of him, and his eyes widened involuntarily.

"Born in Haiyin, the true god of command of the younger generation - Chen Qiu!"

Rookie of the Month?

God of command?

Chen Qiu?

The person he was competing against was China's Rookie of the Month? He was also known as the god of the young generation of commanders?
Isn't this too outrageous?
Although it is said that there can be a maximum of 12 monthly rookies in a year, this is not actually the case.

Because there are so few people in the music industry in China, sometimes not a single person can make it onto the monthly rookie list in a month, and many people are in their thirties or forties just making up the numbers.

There are only a few people who truly become famous in their twenties.

After seeing Chen Qiu on the list at the age of 23, Qi Min's brain exploded instantly.

He quickly looked down.

I know that I am the national champion, but...

The only symphony orchestra that received full marks in the national competition?

ah? no?

Nine Schools League Champion, I know this, but...

In order to win the championship, they directly adjusted the performance order, ran to the front of the Central Conservatory of Music and suppressed Yu Tu, and directly beat Yu Tu into withdrawal?
Huh? Wait?

I also know that I am the champion of the East Asian Exchange Competition, but...

Killing all the heroes of the three East Asian kingdoms and reducing everyone to supporting roles, even if only 7% of the scores are counted, there is still no school that can be compared with it?

ah? Is this okay?
These are three major events.

Not to mention the numerous small incidents in between.

What about New Year's Concert, orchestra reorganization, school oppression, etc. etc.

All the mess happened on Chen Qiu's head, making Qi Min feel like he was reading a novel.

From a happy family in his childhood, to the loss of both his parents in his youth, to now regaining confidence and leading the band to rise step by step to where he is today.

Based on the calculation of this year's scores compared to last year's, they are at least in the top five in Haicheng.

In just over two years, he led a group of students to the top five in Haicheng.

Qi Min no longer wanted to say anything.

Although it is only a few thousand words, based on Qi Min's own imagination, he feels that if these things are written down and put in an online article, it can be written into at least 140 million words.

Based on Chen Qiu’s experience, why not just name this book "The God of Conductor"?

If he remembered correctly, Chen Qiu had very good ears, and was among the best in terms of absolute pitch.

In that case, based on the naming style of the online articles that my grandson has read, why not just name it "The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch"?

"What is all this about?"

Qi Min put down the magazine in his hand, leaned back, and just lay on his recliner, his head gradually becoming empty.

He just wanted to perform "his own opera" with "his own orchestra", and since Wu Jianhai of Haicheng Radio was easier to control, he chose Wu Jianhai as his partner.

Who would have thought of the result...

(End of this chapter)