The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 379 I would like to introduce to you our chief, Su Yue!
The end of the first song, The Sea, made everyone present fully understand the strength of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

Whether those who have heard the performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra or those who have not, their views on the performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra have changed a lot.

Their eyes as they looked at the Harmony Orchestra were filled with indescribable emotions.

At this moment, Hubble and others at the Baden-Baden Music Festival even had the urge to take out their mobile phones and send messages to their friends.

They wanted so badly to talk.

They want to tell everyone what they heard today.

How the hell is this possible?

No, why is this?

Why can the Harmony Symphony Orchestra perform such excellent music in such a short time?

How many days has this been?

The first time I listened to the performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, they seemed a little bit immature and the cooperation among everyone did not reach that seamless feeling.

It’s like some people have just joined the band and are still in the process of getting used to each other, without feeling completely integrated.

Of course, this lack of complete integration does not mean that there are low-level mistakes such as not making the instruments blend together in their performance.

This just means that in the musical expression of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, there are some places where it sounds like there are two completely different timbres.

Even two similar emotions.

It's a bit like happiness and joy.

Although both express positive and joyful emotions, in fact, there is still a slight difference between the two.

This is the feeling many people had when they listened to the Harmony Symphony Orchestra before.

But what about now?

Listening to the performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra at this moment, everyone was pleasantly surprised.

The barriers are gone, the differences are gone.

The entire orchestra was completely integrated into one, and their performance was seamless.

The music becomes mellow.

Everyone's energy surged in one direction.

This feels great.

It is precisely because everyone is following Chen Qiu's direction that the tension expressed by the music becomes greater.

The details in the music are also presented more beautifully.

If they had not actually listened to this group's previous performances, Hubble and others might really find it hard to believe that this was the same band.

Isn’t this difference too big?

Hubble and others watched the performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra and had no idea what they should say.

I just feel that my understanding of the harmony symphony orchestra may be a little too superficial.

This is not a fully grown symphony orchestra.

This is a symphony orchestra with unlimited potential and the ability to keep climbing higher.

This is the Harmony Symphony Orchestra!
The musical potential of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra gave Hubble and others a little harmonic shock.

They dare not continue to look at the current harmony symphony orchestra with the past thinking.

They can only view and listen to this symphony orchestra as a new symphony orchestra.

Otherwise they feel they may never be able to understand the music of the Harmony Orchestra.

Compared to the distress of these people in Baden-Baden.

The others seemed much calmer.

After all, they had never heard the Harmony Symphony Orchestra perform before.

Their understanding of the harmonious symphony orchestra is only superficial and has not been deepened.

Especially those at the Salzburg Festival.

They were merely amazed at the performance of the Harmony Orchestra and felt that the performance of the Harmony Orchestra was similar to what the group of people in the monastery in Baden-Baden had said before.

But it was very surprising and shocking, giving everyone present a completely new musical feeling.

It is indeed a symphony orchestra that impresses other music festivals.

Worthy of the name!

This is definitely worthy of the name!

Apart from the fact that it was worthy of the name, no one thought about anything else.

Ultimately, they didn't know much about the Harmony Orchestra's past.

In this concert hall with nearly a thousand people, there was a group of people who were completely speechless.

This group of people are the ones from Haicheng Opera House.

The people in Baden-Baden had only heard the Harmony Symphony once.

This group of people in Salzburg had never heard of the Harmony Orchestra.

The people from Haicheng Opera House had very close contact with the Harmony Symphony Orchestra and even collaborated with it.

Their feelings are deeper than others.

No, not a few, but many, many.

They stared in disbelief at the Harmony Orchestra before them.

My mind goes blank.

No.

Why is this?

Why is this?

What on earth is happening in this world?
Has the world abandoned them?

Or did they just fall into a deep sleep and sleep for five or six years?

How long has this just passed?

Has the Harmony Symphony Orchestra reached its current strength?
If we say that before seeing that the Harmony Symphony Orchestra was invited to the Salzburg Music Festival, everyone would just be unhappy, feeling that the Harmony Symphony Orchestra was lucky.

Even though Wu Jianhai invited them to listen, they still had a little prejudice against the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

So at this moment.

Listening to the music in your ears.

They have lost much of their prejudice against the harmony of the symphony orchestra.

Even almost completely lost.

They now have only one idea.

That's why the Harmony Symphony Orchestra plays the sea so beautifully.

Why can the Harmony Symphony Orchestra play the sea so beautifully?
It had only been a short time since they had parted ways with the Harmony Orchestra.

They had obviously just worked together before.

Then their performance got worse and worse, and some people even left during the show.

And the people from the Harmony Symphony Orchestra actually...

Becoming stronger and stronger?

The rate of progress is like that of an adult just beginning to learn the piano.

One day at a time.

You can recognize the sounds on the first day, start playing the melody on the second day, and start playing some simple songs with both hands on the third day.

This is too outrageous.

They had never seen an orchestra improve so quickly.

This can't even be considered a rate of progress.

What’s the difference between this and changing to a brand new symphony orchestra?
We were discussing before that the orchestra's wind instruments were inferior, and they were not much different from domestic wind instruments and sounded just so-so.

And now what?
The wind instruments are actually standing up?
There is a feeling that is not inferior to string music?

No, how did Chen Qiu do it?

How was it possible to train wind instruments to this level in such a short period of time?

If you have this ability and you don't use it earlier, are you really just pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger?

But we are a group of opera musicians who are all preparing to retire. How can it be worth for you to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger?
Everyone had mixed emotions, and they didn't even know how to appreciate the work in front of them.

They felt the gap.

The performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra is a level that they cannot possibly reach.

No matter how hard they try, they cannot bring their orchestra to the level of a symphony orchestra.

Because the gap between the wind instruments of the two sides is too big.

They could clearly hear the difference between the two sides' wind instruments.

It’s obviously a new symphony orchestra, and it’s obviously a group of students!

The people at the Haicheng Opera House had complicated looks on their faces.

For a moment, they didn't even know what kind of emotion they should use to face the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

As for whether there are more people in the orchestra.

The people at Haicheng Opera House didn't think much about it.

After all, their own examples are here.

They also strengthened their team by absorbing many members from the Haicheng Municipal Symphony Orchestra.

But the results are obvious.

It took them a long time just to get the band working properly.

Not to mention that the level of the orchestra has improved by leaps and bounds like the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

The Harmony Symphony Orchestra was a little too far fetched.

He would believe you if you told him that the Harmony Symphony Orchestra was starting to downsize.

As for adding staff?

It’s better not to dream.

Everyone in the Haicheng Opera House looked at the stage with complicated expressions, without saying a word.

Only Wu Jianhai noticed something was wrong. Compared with the others, he had known the Harmony Symphony Orchestra the longest.

Although he was not particularly familiar with it, he roughly knew what the Harmony Symphony Orchestra was like.

The current Harmony Symphony Orchestra seems to be completely different from the Harmony Symphony Orchestra he knows.

The rapid progress in wind instruments is like adding a principal wind instrument player, which directly integrates the wind instruments together.

The principal of the wind band...

His brain was working quickly, his eyes swept across the symphony orchestra, and soon he noticed Su Yue sitting among the crowd.

He immediately understood the main reason for the Harmony Symphony Orchestra's greatly increased strength.

When I rehearsed the opera with them before, the performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra was just so-so.

In the past, when the Harmony Symphony Orchestra was competing, the strength of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra was just so-so.

During the competition and the opera rehearsal, it seemed that the principal clarinetist was not there.

However, the band's strength has now reached a new level.

This must be because of the addition of the principal clarinetist, who completely coordinated the power of wind instruments.

Where did Chen Qiu find such a top-notch principal clarinetist?

Did you find it temporarily in Europe?
Or……

Wu Jianhai fell into deep thought.

He began to think whether the level of Haicheng Opera House, no, the remaining members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haicheng Opera House, could be improved by introducing some students returning from Europe.

Of course, these are things to follow.

The most important thing now is to continue listening to the performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

Under his sight, the first piece of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra soon came to an end.

As the last note fell, the crowd applauded and occasionally shouted "Bravo".

Even in Beijing, thousands of kilometers away, Yu Tu couldn't help but applaud the performance of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

Although he didn't have that many feelings for the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, he cared more about Chen Qiu.

But hearing such a performance, he did feel that he should applaud them.

Harmony Symphony Orchestra deserves such applause.

Amid the cheers of the crowd, Chen Qiu turned around with a smile and expressed his gratitude to everyone. Then he looked at the wind instrument section of the orchestra, extended his hand to the clarinetist in a black dress, and whispered.

"Come on, it's your turn."

"Um……"

Su Yue responded in a low voice.

Under the gaze of everyone, she stood up from her seat elegantly and coolly, walked through the orchestra's position, and came to the front of the orchestra.

The applause started again.

Everyone was waiting for the next work of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

Only Wu Jianhai's eyes widened involuntarily.

He was stunned.

He knew Su Yue.

He remembered that he seemed to have seen this person before.

Didn’t this person seem to be in the Harmony Symphony Orchestra before?

But how...

Could it be that my guess was wrong?

In fact, the orchestra rehearsed and practiced little by little, and then reached the forefront of the world?
Wu Jianhai fell into confusion.

He also began to wonder why the Harmony Symphony Orchestra had improved so much.

This shouldn't be the case.

Is there really such a symphony orchestra in the world that can improve so much without any reinforcement?

However, Chen Qiu didn't care about Wu Jianhai's thoughts.

He just smiled and spoke to everyone.

"Next, please enjoy Debussy's Rhapsody No. 1 for clarinet and orchestra, and Bernstein's arrangement for piano and clarinet, orchestra."

The crowd applauded again.

But Chen Qiu did not stop, but continued to speak to everyone.

"Then, I would like to introduce to you the principal clarinetist and wind instrument principal of our orchestra, Yue Su! She graduated from Haicheng Conservatory of Music and is currently studying for a performer's diploma at Lübeck Conservatory of Music. She studied under Sabine Meyer!"

There was a burst of exclamations from the crowd below the stage.

There is nothing else, but the fact that he learned from Sabine Meyer is quite shocking.

Sabine Meyer, the queen of clarinet.

One of the best clarinet players in the world today.

Looking at everyone's exclamation, Chen Qiu couldn't help but smile and continued to speak to everyone.

"At the same time, she was also the overall champion of the clarinet event at the last Geneva International Music Competition!"

At this moment, everyone was no longer just amazed.

The applause was equally thunderous.

At this point I have to say that the posters in Salzburg are terrible.

On the poster, Su Yue is the only one occupying half of the space, and no one knows where Su Yue comes from.

Just as that type of collaborative musician.

People mainly come here to listen to the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

But I never expected that this person’s background was so powerful.

He is even the principal clarinetist of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

This is interesting.

applause.

Chen Qiu's face was full of smiles, as if all the applause for Su Yue was also given to him.

Su Yue nodded to everyone as if she was used to it, then tightened the clarinet in her hand, looked at Chen Qiu calmly, and said softly.

"Start?"

"Well, let's begin."

Chen Qiu nodded and bowed to the audience below the stage, then turned to look at the orchestra and raised the baton in his hand.

Wow.

Everyone in the orchestra immediately prepared their instruments and waited for Chen Qiu's instructions.

Su Yue also placed the clarinet in front of her lips.

Waiting for the music to start.

Under the gaze of everyone, Chen Qiu narrowed his eyes slightly.

His mind began to think about everything related to music.

The first is Debussy's Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra, composed in 1909-1910.

It was an annual examination piece for the music academy at the time. It was adapted for orchestral performance in 1911 and has been passed down to this day, becoming one of Debussy's most important clarinet works.

This piece, like other works of Debussy, is a powerful representative of his musical style and also reflects two tendencies in his musical creation in his later years.

One is the continued complexity of musical language, which broke through the constraints of traditional harmony and form and brought about the emergence of polytonal elements.

One is to restore music creation to the traditional path of French classical instrumental music.

The First Rhapsody is the perfect embodiment of the former.

The harmony is bright and the movement is erratic.

The chords are intertwined and overlapped, existing independently and yet dissolving and engulfing each other.

The music is sometimes ethereal and hazy, and sometimes dazzling and sparkling.

There is a feeling of "sparse shadows slanting across the shallow water, and faint fragrance floating in the moonlight at dusk".

Painting is static music, and music is dynamic painting.

This is the main feature of Debussy's impressionist works.

Just like the anti-traditional style of Impressionist painting, it disagrees with the realistic reproduction of the subject, and proposes to express life and objective objects naturally and casually.

Although the musical structure still bears the characteristics of sonata and rondo, the "loose and vague" artistic expression method commonly used in the musical structure runs through the entire work.

This is the so-called "Debussy structure".

It is also the second state of "block collage", which can also be called "displacement" of the theme or paragraph.

Perhaps because it was originally intended for students, the structure of this piece of music is looser than the traditional form, and it does not pay much attention to the logic of the development of the music, and it also has traces of improvisation.

It is as pure and simple as "The Peasant Girl" by the French Impressionist painter Pissarro, depicting the "first impression felt".

Therefore, as a band with a musical background, Chen Qiu needs to make the music more hazy.

Only in this way can Su Yue paint better on it.

Spread out her own colors.

Chen Qiu had a clear view of this performance.

The first half was a performance by their orchestra, showing everyone the strength of the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

In the second half, Chen Qiu planned to set up a stage for Su Yue.

After all, if Su Yue wasn't there for this performance, they wouldn't even have such an opportunity.

The digger does not forget to dig the well.

Since Su Yue gave her opportunity to the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, Chen Qiu would definitely not let Su Yue suffer any injustice.

Therefore, an indescribable smile appeared on Chen Qiu's face.

His eyes met Qin Xian beside him, and they both nodded slowly at the same time.

Accompanied by the fall of the baton in Chen Qiu's hand.

Under the guidance of Qin Xian, the string section brought a hazy hum.

(End of this chapter)