The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 394 Chang Gao

Chapter 394 Chang Gao
The vast majority of those present were troubled youths from various places.

Everyone looked down on each other.

In the minds of many of them, they are basically the best in the world and everyone else is nothing.

If I can win a domestic championship or a world championship, I deserve it.

If I can't win it, then those people must have cheated me and stole the championship from me.

For many people present, arrogant can basically be regarded as the first adjective.

Among these people, some have real talents and skills, and naturally there are also some scoundrels.

Even though Professor Li Anguo had helped Chen Qiu and his team screen a lot of people, there were still some people who came to the Harmony Symphony Orchestra through various channels.

Professor Li Anguo actually has a hard time commenting on these people.

According to his idea, the most suitable people for the Harmony Symphony Orchestra should actually be those poached from other large orchestras.

It's actually quite normal for those symphony orchestras to poach people from each other.

In some symphony orchestras, staff turnover is a normal thing.

It is even possible that the commander and the chief will be poached together, or even the core framework of the entire team will be poached.

After all, every group has its own needs for the next year.

Some orchestras intend to maintain their current position, slow down a bit, strengthen the connection between the orchestra and the conductor's fingertips, and allow everyone to play more intimately, such as the Haicheng Opera House next door.

They will cancel recruitment this year and even take the initiative to let some people leave.

Reduce the water content of the band.

For example, the Haicheng Symphony Orchestra will keep its operations in place and pay everyone normal salaries.

Their goal is to maintain their current ranking while seeing if there is an opportunity to move forward a little bit.

The last type is Chen Qiu.

Recruiting soldiers and horses on a large scale.

It is obvious that they are planning to make a surge.

They have no intention of maintaining stability in their band's current position.

After all, recruiting people has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that you can play some large-scale works, and there will be many directions for everyone to choose from.

This kind of large-scale work can actually add a lot of points if performed well.

It is easier to gain international acclaim.

But correspondingly.

Due to the rapid expansion in the number of members, the adaptability of the orchestra and the conductor will gradually decrease, and eventually fall to a relatively low level.

for example.

Actually it is Haicheng Opera House.

The performance of Haicheng Opera House was a typical example of lack of adaptability, which resulted in the orchestra's level not only not rising, but gradually declining.

According to Professor Li Anguo's idea, if the Harmony Symphony Orchestra could acquire some people from large orchestras, and as long as Chen Qiu could subdue the leaders among them, it would be a natural thing for that group of people to join the Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

Recruiting these problem teenagers...

Although the average strength of these people may be slightly stronger than that of other large symphony orchestras.

But whether this group of people can adapt to the orchestra is another matter.

Not to mention surrender.

Therefore, even though Professor Li Anguo appeared very calm when he left the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, he was actually still a little worried.

And his worries were soon realized.

Xiao Hao glanced at everyone in the room and soon saw the man with a proud look on his face, wearing a black needle-stitched jacket. He raised his eyebrows at him.

“Are you a rock musician?”

The man didn't answer.

Xiao Hao clicked his tongue, leaned forward, made eye contact with him, and asked again.

"How's your rock career going? How many fans do you have now?"

"Are you asking me?" The man looked at Xiao Hao and said slowly with disdain, "Don't you know me?"

"Who the hell are you? Do I know you?" Xiao Hao almost laughed out of anger. He leaned back on the chair and asked the man, "Where are you performing?"

"The other day it was at Carnegie, and before that it was at the Metropolitan Opera, Chang Gao."

"Carnegie? Metropolitan Opera? Chang Gao? I don't know him..."

Xiao Hao was stunned, then looked at Chang Gao with a look of doubt.

"But you've performed at Carnegie before? You don't look like it?"

"Then where do you think I am from?" Chang Gao showed a curious look, crossed his legs and raised his eyebrows.

Xiao Hao grinned and said, "He was playing guitar at a music festival."

The two looked at each other, neither willing to give in.

Rui Jia had just come out of the house when she heard the two people's childish bickering. She couldn't help but sigh, took out a document from her pocket and read it slowly.

"First person, Chang Gao, get ready to go on stage."

"OK, all right."

Chang Gao stood up, adjusted his clothes a little, looked at Xiao Hao in front of him, and said casually.

"If I do go to the festival, I'll be sure to save a ticket for you."

"Thank you very much, I love listening to rock music, Wuhu!"

Xiao Hao made a rock and roll gesture, but Chang Gao ignored him and turned directly into the concert hall.

Seeing Chang Gao enter the concert hall, Xiao Hao couldn't find anyone else to chat with for a while, so he felt a little bored.

It was not until he turned his head and looked at Rui Jia who was flipping through the documents in her hand that his eyes lit up and he walked forward to ask.

"Hey, little girl, are you also from this band?"

"Little girl?"

Rui Jia usually didn't feel anything, but when she heard others say she was small, her brows immediately frowned and she flipped through the documents in her hand.

"What's your name?"

"Hey! Hey hey! I was just joking. You are not small, you are not small, okay! You are my great aunt, I was wrong, I was wrong grandma! Don't turn over, don't turn over! It's not brother, I was wrong brother!"

Xiao Hao begged for mercy quickly and almost knelt down to Rui Jia.

Only after he saw Rui Jia stop flipping through the documents in her hand did he slowly wipe the non-existent sweat from his head and smiled innocently.

"Hey, you look at me, I was just saying hi, why are you acting like this? After all, I'm here to apply for the position of principal trumpet in the orchestra, right? If I'm successful, maybe I'll be your leader in the future, why are you acting like this?"

"lead?"

Rui Jia frowned and spoke angrily in a voice that still had a hint of milk in it.

“There is no hierarchy in our band, everyone is the same.”

"Okay, okay, it's all the same, don't be angry."

Xiao Hao tried to comfort him, but it was obvious that he didn't take it to heart.

To him, Ruijia might just be an unpopular member of the band.

Everyone has gone to review it, so the people at the bottom are asked to be responsible for calling numbers and so on.

Rui Jia looked at the man's disbelieving expression and became so angry that her nose bulged.

However, thinking that this person might see her in the house later, especially after seeing her identity, she was too lazy to bother with such a person.

If this person is strong enough, he should be nothing compared to ordinary people.

However, given this man's arrogant attitude, Rui Jia would never allow him to pass the chief's review.

Xiao Hao naturally didn't know that he had been deprived of his rights as chief.

Rui Jia simply checked the people backstage to confirm that all the registered people had arrived, then walked quickly into the concert hall.

At this moment the curtains were drawn.

The orchestra members were already sitting in the audience, waiting for the man's performance to begin.

Ruijia trotted over, and the man named Chang Gao just started playing.

The first piece at the beginning is a solo.

Ferdinand David's Concerto for Trombone in E-flat major, first and second movements.

This is the recruitment request sent by the orchestra. Everyone listened to this person's performance quietly.

This person's playing ability, purely discussing playing ability, this person is very strong.

Even if everyone didn't see who this person was, they could still hear the level of his music just by listening to his music.

This is actually very simple.

If it is used as an assessment, what kind of piece of work should you listen to?
If the person who plays this instrument knows this piece of music, then they heard the wrong note.

Check first to see if there are any wrong sounds.

This is different from a performance.

During the performance, everyone was actually fine. No one paid too much attention to things like wrong notes. As long as they didn't get caught by Chen Qiu, it was fine.

Of course, even if Chen Qiu caught some harmless mispronunciations, he would just deduct some of their salary, which wouldn’t be a big problem.

But now it’s an assessment.

The first item of the assessment is, naturally, that there cannot be any wrong notes.

If you can't even get the tone of a piece right, how can you even discuss... interpretation?
Therefore, the trombonist players present started to catch the wrong notes at that place.

Others go to listen to the interpretation.

There was nothing wrong with the aesthetic taste of the people present.

Each of them has been working with Chen Qiu for an unknown period of time.

If they had problems with their aesthetic sense of music after working for so long, they would have been kicked out by Chen Qiu long ago.

At the same time, everyone needs to hear whether this person has the potential to lead the band.

If this person can lead the orchestra, then in the future he can serve as the orchestra's principal instrumentalist, that is, responsible for the solo.

In the future, the band will once again have a wider repertoire to choose from.

These are things to consider.

Everyone listened to the man's performance attentively.

Chen Qiu was sitting in the last row of the concert hall, twirling his pencil in his hand with a calm look.

Qin Xian, who was sitting next to Chen Qiu, listened to the music in his ears and asked Chen Qiu.

"Commander Chen Qiu, how do you feel?"

"Um……"

Chen Qiu did not answer. He just listened to the voice in his ears. After a long time, he spoke slowly.

"Look at you."

"See us?"

Qin Xian was stunned, his eyes filled with confusion.

“Isn’t this your band?”

"This band is mine, but it's even more yours. I will need to rotate the band later, so the future of the band still depends on your compatibility. If you can't cooperate well, I won't force you to merge."

Having said that, Chen Qiu looked at Qin Xian, his eyes full of helplessness.

"No matter what, as the leader of the orchestra, you have to take responsibility for selecting people, right? Remember, everyone has to vote, and everyone has the same voting rights. My vote is one vote, Wu Ming's vote is one vote, even Zhang Yu's vote is one vote, and even... Li Miaomiao's vote counts."

"okay."

Qin Xian nodded, then suddenly remembered something and asked Chen Qiu.

"Um... Wu Ming is it?"

"Is it possible that he is our principal viola player?"

The one with the most established identity in the band.

A true principal viola player.

His presence in the band was so low that even Qin Xian had forgotten about him.

If Chen Qiu had not suddenly found Wu Ming's name when he was sorting out the list, Chen Qiu might have forgotten Wu Ming's existence.

Chen Qiu said to Qin Xian.

"In short, I hope the people in the band are chosen by everyone, not me."

"it is good."

Qin Xian nodded, left Chen Qiu's side, walked to the front of the orchestra with a hunched back, sat down, and whispered to Li Miaomiao.

Li Miaomiao's face showed obvious surprise. She quickly stood up and walked to Rui Jia and told Rui Jia about it.

Rui Jia did not make much noise, but just reorganized the voting list in her hand, and then distributed it to everyone after the solo performance on the stage was over.

As the last note fell, the man spoke slowly.

"Next, I will play the orchestra's part, and the first piece I chose is... Bolero."

Bolero!
Everyone is familiar with this work.

This guy's choice of Bolero was a direct blow to the band.

Everyone's attention was immediately drawn to the bolero played by the man.

This man did not wait but started directly with his part.

He stood there for a moment, placed the mouthpiece in front of his mouth, and when he was ready, he slowly breathed into the trombone in front of him.

A gentle breath flowed along his body, out of his mouth, poured into the trombone, and floated towards everyone.

Everyone present was very familiar with this passage.

Therefore, as soon as the trombone sound was played, everyone turned their eyes to the current principal trombone player.

Although they don't want to admit it, they have to say it...

The trombone level of the man in front of him is stronger than their current principal trombone player.

But the same thing.

The wildness in this man's music is uncontrollable.

Almost everyone heard something.

There is a wildness beneath this man's gentle trombone sound.

The power that I want to release to everyone.

however……

Such power is hidden.

Hidden under the music.

What if this power was unleashed?
Everyone gradually turned their attention from their principal trombonist to Chen Qiu, who was sitting at the back of the concert hall.

Waiting for his answer.

But Chen Qiu didn't say a word.

Until the last note ends.

Chang Gao, who was standing behind the curtain, spoke.

"My performance is over, is this all right?"

"Chen Qiu is in command?"

Everyone looked at Chen Qiu, their eyes filled with anticipation.

They want to hear that power.

Under the gaze of everyone, Chen Qiu took a deep breath and said to the person on the other side of the curtain.

"It's not enough now, we haven't heard the whole you."

"..."

Chang Gao, who was standing on the other side of the curtain, smiled lightly and asked proudly.