King of Classical Music

City S, which has entered autumn, is not like City B, which entered a cold atmosphere early.The S City Concert Hall standing in the bustling city center is an old theater with a history of nearly a hundred years. Sixteen ochre-colored marble columns surround the concert hall, showing an elegant and solemn architectural color.

In the evening, a lot of vehicles gradually crowded in front of the concert hall in S City. One by one, people got out of the car and stepped on the red carpet to enter the arched gate of the concert hall.Among them, several old men who looked calm and respected were respectfully helped into the house by the young people, and sat in the boxes on the second floor of the concert hall.

The frontcourt has been preheated to the extreme and is about to boil.And the backstage is even more busy, everyone is checking the last steps before going on stage.Even Du Sheng, who is the chief violinist, checked his own violin carefully. After confirming that there were no mistakes, he took the first violin group to start checking.

The performance uniform of the City B Symphony Orchestra is a light black close-fitting suit, with a dark red tie, a thin one that hangs down from the neckline, making it look slender and straight.

Qi Mu was pinning a sapphire bow tie to his tie, and the glaring lights above the backstage shone down from top to bottom, illuminating the already deep blue color even more melancholy.Qi Mu originally had a good appearance, but after careful grooming, even Mr. Tan, who had just walked to the center of the crowd backstage, couldn't help but take another look at him.

How did that sentence come about?

It's not that other people are too ordinary, it's that you are too extraordinary!

Mr. Tan finally encouraged everyone. After a thunderous applause, the members of the orchestra entered the stage one by one starting from the wind instrument department and sat in their seats. When Du Sheng really sat down, The red curtain between the stage and the auditorium slowly opened upwards.

Tan Lao tidied up his clothes, then took a deep breath, and stepped onto the stage.

More enthusiastic applause sounded again.

Mr. Tan does not like to make more introductions and demonstrations before the performance like some conductors. He bowed directly and then turned around and stood on his own podium.At this time, it was the eye contact between the members of the orchestra and the conductor. After all the non-verbal communication was over, Mr. Tan suddenly held the baton on the podium.

Since then, Dvořák's "Sixth Symphony" began.

Dvořák is the most well-known music master in the Czech Republic. He has written countless works in his life. His music style is mainly orthodox, and he also mixes some sweet and fresh scenery of the Czech countryside, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

This "Sixth Symphony" is one of Dvořák's nine symphonies. Although it is not as famous as the "Eighth" and "Ninth", its solemn and solemn opening will make the master The musical aura that has been accumulated throughout his life is fully revealed.

"Not so fast allegro" is the tempo of the first movement of "Sixth". When the whole piece started to enter a good state, Qi Mu raised his eyes and looked at Mr. Tan who was standing on the podium, which happened to be a look Qi Mu suddenly drew his bow and inserted it into the music, and then the whole second violin group began to accompany it.

Someone once said that in any orchestra, the second violin group is the shadow companion of the first violin group.This also implies that the second violin group is indeed much less important than the first violin group, far less important than the latter.

But in fact, for musicians who really understand music, the importance of the second violin group is no less than that of the first violin group.While they may not be in the limelight as often as the latter, a piece can never be perfectly performed without them.

In the box on the easternmost side of the second floor, a white-haired old man closed his eyes and listened carefully.He listened to the whole piece from the adagio of the second movement to the scherzo of the third movement. When the orchestra was about to play the last movement and the whole piece was sublimated to the extreme, he suddenly opened his eyes and let out a long sigh.

"Old Wu...what's the matter?" A young man beside him asked curiously.

Mr. Wu was sitting on a soft single sofa, his eyes seemed to be looking at the audience casually, but only he knew that he had been focusing on the young man sitting on the right side of the orchestra.He asked: "Xiao Chen, can you hear... that boy Qi Mu's piano sound?"

The young man was taken aback for a moment, and after listening carefully for a long time, he shook his head shamefully and said, "I can probably hear the sound of the second violin group, but I have to distinguish it...it's really not very loud. Find out which one it is."

"The voice is calm and introverted, and the tremolo that had a turning point in the third movement just now was handled very smoothly. I didn't expect to see it in the past few years... Qi Mu's level has not decreased but increased. It's really...surprised me. "Old Wu looked at the handsome and beautiful young man on the stage from a distance, narrowed his eyes and said: "I don't know if the experience of these years has polished him. This kid used to walk in a sharp-edged style, and it is impossible for him to be suitable for an orchestra to play. I didn't expect it... I really didn't expect it..."

Xiao Chen was terrified when he heard Mr. Wu's words, but he also felt very incredible in his heart.But he also knew that as Mr. Wu, there was no need to tell such a small lie. It was only natural that Mr. Wu could hear things that he couldn't hear himself.

And conversations like this also took place in a small box in the middle of the second floor.

An elegant lady looked at the handsome young man on the stage in surprise, her beautiful eyes widened.After a long time, she frowned suspiciously, and asked the majestic middle-aged man beside her, "Wen Jun, Qi Mu...how did he change so much? He wasn't like this before."

The man thought for a while, and replied: "We haven't seen Qi Mu for many years, he is still young, it's normal for him to change."

The lady listened for a while longer, and after the second performance was over, she still couldn't help but said: "Qi Mu's change is really too great, although I can only hear a little bit of his voice, but still I didn't hear it completely, but I can tell that in the second violin group, his level has already surpassed that of the principal." After a pause, the lady glanced at her husband and said, "Wen Jun, at the beginning What did you say that you wanted Qi Mu to join our S City Symphony Orchestra? I said that Qi Mu is rebellious, and it will be fine when he grows up, do you regret it now?"

The middle-aged man smiled helplessly, and his wife was so strict that he didn't dare to speak more.

These two people are Zhu Wenjun, the current chief conductor of the S City Symphony Orchestra, and his wife, Cheng Tingwen, the music director of the S City Symphony Orchestra.

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At the end of the first half of the performance, the roaring applause in the arena had already drowned the stage.

The second half started with Mendelssohn's "Concerto in E Minor" featuring Du Sheng. Although this violin concerto is only grade [-] in difficulty, it has firmly secured the title of the world's top ten violin pieces.

Let Du Sheng lead the orchestra to play this masterpiece of his, it is really easy and seamless.

After a good start, a high-pitched "Bravo" sounded continuously in the concert hall. When the last piece of Dvořák's "Eighth Symphony" ended, Tan Laogao waved his baton and said Sweat dripped down.

The music that boiled to its peak stopped abruptly, and the lingering sound was still there. Everyone in the audience was stunned and did not recover. The old man sitting in the left box on the second floor suddenly stood up, clapped vigorously, and shouted let out a sound——

"Bravo!"

Since then, there has been thunderous applause from the audience.

All the members of the orchestra stood up one after another, and bowed to the audience under the leadership of the conductor and chief.Among the crowd, the seemingly oblivious young man also bent down, but when he raised his body, he couldn't help but look at the old man who was the first to applaud on the second floor.

"Wu...Sheng Tao?"

Qi Mu's whispering voice was overwhelmed by the warm applause from the audience. When all the members left the stage and the band members gathered backstage, this gray-haired old man suddenly appeared beside Tan Lao.After the two laughed and said a few words, Tan Lao suddenly spotted Qi Mu's location with sharp eyes.

Old Tan's face turned cold, and he said, "Qi Mu, come here!"

Qi Mu: "..."

How can there be a feeling of being named by the teacher and about to accept criticism?

Hmm... definitely an illusion.