King of Classical Music

The prestigious S City Symphony Orchestra is the earliest music group established in Asia. For this old orchestra that has been established for hundreds of years, in the past century, it is undoubtedly the best in China's classical music level in the world. performer.

The S City Symphony Orchestra has performed in the world's most prestigious concert halls such as the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Golden Hall in Vienna, Austria. They even performed at the Berlin Philharmonic in 2004. Hall, becoming the first Chinese orchestra to be on the stage.

After receiving the invitation letter from the s city symphony orchestra's special violinist, Qi Mu immediately packed his luggage and rushed to s city on the same day's plane.The last time he came to city s was the national tour of the symphony orchestra of city b, but this time, Qi Mu stepped on the bustling land under his feet, and felt more emotions in his heart.

Qi Mu had performed in many places with the orchestra in his previous life, and Huaxia was naturally one of the destinations.Every time he comes to Huaxia, he has an inexplicable feeling of falling leaves returning to their roots, as if he should belong to this land and grow up and live on this land.

Many people think that the green card in the United States is very rare, but in fact, in recent years, the green card in China has been the dream of many Europeans and Americans.

China is a big country with a history of 5000 years. She has a broad and tolerant mind, but she also has a feeling that Qi Mu calls "protecting weaknesses".Want to get the nationality of Huaxia?Yes, Huaxia will never recognize dual nationality!

Qi Mu learned a lot about traditional Chinese culture from his adoptive parents in his previous life, and he can speak Chinese fairly well. There is a saying he often heard from his adoptive parents: "If you are not of my race, your heart must be different."

On the road of wanting to obtain Chinese nationality many times in his previous life, Qi Mu fully understood the meaning of this sentence.

It's a pity that he spent more than half a year preparing materials in his previous life and wanted to change his nationality, but he died inexplicably in the last month of reviewing the materials, and was reborn as a Chinese directly after his rebirth.

Zhu Wenjun mentioned before that this centennial celebration wants to invite all Chinese people to perform. The orchestra is naturally the S City Symphony Orchestra, and among the specially invited musicians in each part, almost all of them are Chinese music geniuses under the age of 30.

Qi Mu can fully understand this feeling.It is true that Chinese classical music developed much later than the West, but its rise is not slow at all, and many Chinese people even play very important roles in world-class orchestras in the West.

Qi Mu deeply felt the desire of these older generation musicians, and even artists, to spread Chinese classical music to the public, and this idea came to fruition within five hours of his arrival in S city. more fully corroborated.

"I think Sibelius's "D Minor" by Sibelius that Qi Mu played with Niu Ai before is very good, why can't we choose a similar piece with more technical difficulty, and it is written by Huaxia itself You must choose Paganini's tune?" Cheng Tingwen was wearing a pair of glasses at this time, and all her curly hair was tied up, looking very capable, she said with a serious face: "We want to show the whole show His music style is different from Paganini's treachery!"

As one of the music directors of the orchestra, Cheng Tingwen is also a well-known cellist in China. Maybe she is just a beautiful and feminine Chinese woman outside, but she has a keen sense of smell in the field of classical music.

As soon as Cheng Tingwen finished speaking, another music director of the S City Symphony Orchestra slapped the table and refuted loudly: "Did you see the violin competition that Qi Mu had in City B a few years ago? He is very good at Paganini's pieces, And there is also the skill and ability to perform music perfectly. In this regard, I think we want to show the level of Chinese classical music to those gringos. Do you have a better choice than Paganini's music? "

Cheng Tingwen was noncommittal: "You want skill and difficulty, isn't Wang Zheng going to perform Prokofiev's "Second"? That's not enough?!"

"Most of the people present that day were professional musicians, Cheng Tingwen, they were not the amateurs we used to perform in public! This is the only time for the centennial celebration. The musicians are good at this style, and Paganini's tunes are not only weird. Are you still not satisfied with those songs?!"

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Seeing the two music directors discussing and almost rolling up their sleeves to work, Qi Mu was really funny and helpless.He thought that the musicians in China were more reserved and introverted, not good at expressing their emotions, but he didn't expect that whenever they were concerned about music, the musicians all over the world would be so... grumpy, completely different from the past demeanor.

In the meeting room of the S City Symphony Orchestra, Qi Mu and the people in the orchestra tried to persuade him for a long time, but in the end it was Zhu Wenjun who made the decision without giving them a chance to think about it, and finally settled the matter.

"The last two pieces by Qi Mu, the first is Min Chen's "Violin Sonata in D Major", and the second is "Blessed Lovers". It's all right, it's settled." The handsome middle-aged man looked To his wife, he said in a good voice: "Tingwen, look, it fits with the theme of the music, right? And it's all written by Chinese people."

Cheng Tingwen snorted softly, agreeing.

Zhu Wenjun looked at the man on the other side again, and said helplessly, "Old Qi, Min Chen's "D Major" is quite difficult, right? Are you satisfied with "Kons March"?"

The middle-aged man known as Lao Qi reluctantly nodded his head, which was his agreement.

Zhu Wenjun finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Qi Mu who was sitting opposite, dumbfounded, and showed a gentle smile: "Xiaoqi, I let you see a joke. You Auntie Cheng, Uncle Qi and I grew up together , That's it, don't take offense."

Seeing the blushing and thick-necked appearance of two decent musicians outside arguing, Qi Mu had already held back his laughter. He corrected his expression and nodded seriously: "Okay, Uncle Zhu."

Zhu Wenjun naturally also knew that Qi Mu was just holding back his laughter, but he was also very helpless, so he could only say: "You heard it just now, you played after Wang Zheng at the centennial celebration, and you were also the last one in the audience. When you were young, you "The Butterfly Lovers" is very familiar, I don't worry about it, but how did you practice Min Chen's "D Major"?"

Min Chen's "D major" is the song that Zheng Weiqiao once said... Nightmare. Its first movement is also called "Constance March". To the e string, it is a test of the skill and endurance of the player.

Qi Mu has not touched this piece of music for a long time, and at this moment he also answered honestly: "I haven't practiced this piece of music for a long time, Uncle Zhu. But there is still more than a month before the centennial celebration, give me three days With time, I can master this piece again.”

Zhu Wenjun asked: "Three days? Can you guarantee it?"

Qi Mu looked up at him with a smile, and solemnly nodded: "Yes."

After getting Qi Mu's affirmative answer, Zhu Wenjun smiled gently, and after a few words of encouragement to Qi Mu, he continued to discuss with Cheng Tingwen and others about the selection of other songs for the centennial celebration, while Qi Mu first led by his assistant I came down to the hotel specially reserved for myself by the S City Symphony Orchestra.

When the original owner left City S a few years ago, he went very far and sold the old house of Qi's family, so when Qi Mu returns to City S now, he can only stay in the hotel temporarily.

The hotel is a river-view room near the Huangpu River. Today's weather is rare, and you can see the oil tankers driving on the river in the distance at a glance.After Qi Mu put his luggage away, he took the piano case and walked to the headquarters of the S City Symphony Orchestra not far away.

The headquarters of the S City Symphony Orchestra is a small three-story building. This building has a history of nearly a hundred years and is one of the old buildings in S City.After Qi Mu entered, he was led by the staff to find the piano room marked with his name. After he thanked the little girl who led the way, the door closed, and he was the only one left in the quiet piano room. one person.

Gently placing the piano case on the table, Qi Mu took out the bow and wiped the rosin. Before he could tune and calibrate, he suddenly heard a familiar cell phone ring.The ringtone was "E Minor" played by the City B Symphony Orchestra before. Qi Mu was slightly taken aback when he saw the phone screen, and then quickly picked up the phone: "Hello, Min Chen?"

A deep and magnetic male voice came from the phone: "Well, it's me, aren't you home?"

Hearing this, Qi Mu was startled for a moment, and then subconsciously asked: "Are you at my door?"

Hearing the affirmative answer from the other side of the phone, Qi Mu smiled helplessly, put down the bow in his hand, and said, "I just arrived in City S by plane today, do you know about the Centennial Celebration of the Symphony Orchestra in City S? The month is about to start. In addition to the official members of the orchestra, this time the Centennial S City Symphony Orchestra intends to show young Chinese musicians in front of the world, so I received an invitation..." Speaking of this, Qi Mu only Suddenly remembered: "By the way, you should have received the invitation too? I forgot."

Holding the phone in one hand, Qi Mu put the score on the three-legged pianist as soon as he received it. He looked down at the familiar name on the score, and said with a smile: "It's really a pity that you can't participate in the performance, it's rare Centennial. By the way, do you know what I'm watching right now?"

Listening to the answer on the phone, Qi Mu raised the corners of his lips and said with a low smile: "I'm watching your "D Major", this is the first piece I will play next month. This piece is still quite interesting. It's difficult, so I have to..."

In the quiet piano room, the young man's low-pitched and pleasant voice kept ringing, and it was only after Qi Mu spoke for a few minutes that he suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, what's the matter with you calling me? I thought you went back to Berlin, and you won't be back in a short time."

There was a long silence on the other side of the phone, just when Qi Mu thought that the other party would not answer, he suddenly heard Min Chen sighed softly, and said: "It's nothing, it's just...that you're not at home. I will go back to Berlin tomorrow because I have something to do."

Qi Mu nodded understandingly. He happened to see a small moth flapping its wings in front of the music score. He subconsciously waved his hand to drive it away, then turned around and closed the window in the corner of the piano room.Behind this piano room is a small garden with lush flowers and plants. Some mosquitoes are very common when the windows are not closed.

After Qi Mu closed the window, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind, and he asked reflexively, "You're looking for me... Maybe it's because you saw bugs again?"

Min Chen: "..."

Qi Mu also felt that the joke was really not funny, so he said, "I was just joking, you don't mind."

Min Chen: "..."

After saying a few more words, Qi Mu hung up the phone. First, he read the entire score of "Violin Concerto in D Major" seriously, then smiled helplessly, and said in a low voice, " It's really not easy", and then I started to formally practice this difficult piece "D Major".

What he didn't know was that in a high-end apartment with good facilities in city b, a certain man silently stared at a black bug the size of a thumbnail in the entrance of his house for a long time.

The staring scene lasted for about 5 minutes. In the end, the man chose to close the door without hesitation, turned around and left.

Where do you live?

Of course it's a hotel!

Didn't you see a bug uncle lying across the door! ! !