King of Classical Music

As one of the top classical music institutions in the world, the National Supérieure de la Conservatory of Music in Paris is very eye-catching in its four evaluations every year.There are often outstanding and outstanding talents who will stand out in such evaluations and become sought-after talents of major top orchestras.

Of course, in recent years, I don’t know if it’s because of the trend of talent withering. It has been several years since the National Supérieure de Conservatoire in Paris has not seen outstanding talents. Of course, this is for music masters with high vision.

And this year, there seems to be an unusually large number of audiences participating in this evaluation. After all, in order to restore the decline in the past few years, the academy officials specially invited the famous Spanish cellist Melinafo, and the famous French music connoisseur Leonte... Bella Keim, known as the "Queen of Violins", and...Min Chen.

Among these people, as long as any one of them is present, it will cause a sensation in the French music circle, and when all these people gather together, the whole world's classical music circle will hear about it, and... can't help but quietly cast their eyes on it.

Melina Fu, Lyonte and even Bella Keim, they will be there, others can understand, but... why did Min Chen come?

You must know that the other invitees are all outstanding students who graduated from the Paris National Higher Music Academy. It seems to be a matter of course to return to their alma mater and add honor to them.But Min Chen is quite different.

First of all, everyone knows that Austen Burtram graduated from the Leipzig Academy of Music in Germany.Secondly, this very "cold" music master has not participated in any competition for three years. The last time he served as a judge was Xiao Sai four years ago.

so……

"Why does Mr. Bertram want to be the judge of this year?!"

Countless viewers and media who came from various European countries to participate in the evaluation expressed such emotion one after another.

And when Qi Mu got up early in the morning and walked to the college with his piano case, he had just turned a corner and before he saw the school gate, he saw a mass of black heads.

The crowd was really crowded and lively like the Chinese Spring Festival travel season. Some people even carried expensive cameras and SLR cameras, but they still wanted to squeeze through the crowd.Of course, the crowded area is only at the entrance of the college. After entering the college, although the peaceful and quiet cobblestone path in the past is full of people today, it doesn't seem noisy.

Before Qi Mu reached the concert hall in the north of the college, he saw De Lan who was also carrying a piano case.After the two greeted each other, they walked together.

Holding his baby violin in his arms, Delan said with a look of horror: "Xiaoqi, did you see the group of people at the door? It was really scary! When I came this morning, there were too many people , I have never seen so many people in my life!"

Seeing the brown-haired boy's expression of "so scary, so scary, hurry up and save me", Qi Mu couldn't help laughing out loud. He patted Delan's broad shoulder and said, "Na Delan, You must never go to Huaxia. There...well, how should I put it, the train station there is more terrifying than here. "

De Lan rubbed his head in confusion: "Xiaoqi, what do you mean? Can the train station still eat people? I heard that there are many monsters in Huaxia. Could it be... the train station too?!"

For some reason, Qi Mu suddenly remembered a famous saying. He straightened his face and said solemnly: "No, De Lan, there is a rule in China - after the founding of the People's Republic, no one is allowed to become a master. So the train stations you can find are basically They are all forbidden to be monsters."

Although the Swiss guy felt that Qi Mu was joking with him, but seeing the serious expression on the young man's face, he unconsciously took the nonsense as the truth.So De Lan shrank her neck in fear, and said with fear: "Well, no wonder my father always told me...China is a magical and beautiful country. It turns out that she is so...interesting."

Seeing the other party's appearance, Qi Mu finally couldn't help but laughed softly.

After talking and laughing a few more times, the two finally reached the Academy Concert Hall at the back of the Academy.

Although it is only a music hall for the internal use of the academy, the Paris National Supérieure de Conservatoire has not spared any effort.The interior design of the concert hall is the work of world-renowned architects, and the building materials in every corner are also for the most perfect acoustics and sound effects.

It was not the first time for Qi Mu to enter this concert hall, but at this time he deliberately walked behind De Lan, letting this honest Swiss guy lead him into the backstage of student preparation.And when he passed by the preparation room of the students of the piano department, he suddenly heard the two proud children shouting excitedly——

"My God, Hook, can you believe it? We actually have the honor of getting Mr. Bertram's review!"

"My God, Levi's, I know you're excited today, Mr Bertram is your idol for life, but can you let go of my sleeve first?"

"No, Hook! You don't understand! It was Mr. Bertram's wonderful performance at Chaucer that inspired me to study piano seriously!"

"Yes, yes, I know Levi's, you talk to me three times a day..."

"Ah, ah, Hook, I can get Mr. Bertram's comment..."

……

The two students from the piano department gradually walked away while talking, but Qi Mu stopped in surprise and sent them into the lounge with incredulous eyes.The young man's light-colored eyes were full of surprise, as if he had heard something like "the sky is falling".

"Hey, Xiaoqi? Why don't you go?"

The voice of Delan shouting made Qi Mu gradually come back to his senses, he slowly turned his head to look at the other party, and then asked word by word: "Delan...please tell me seriously, there are... The second Mr. Bertram who attended Chaucer, right?"

De Lan stared wide-eyed: "Could there be another Mr. Bertram? Little Qi, I really don't know. Didn't Mr. Bertram tell you... Today, he will be the host of the evaluation Judge?"

Qi Mu: "..."

After a while, Qi Mu reluctantly showed a smile: "Maybe it seems that he... once wanted to tell me."

De Lan: "???"

……

When Qi Mu walked to the lounge of the violin department, he sent a text message to Min Chen as soon as he put down the violin case.

When he got the reply "I'm already at the judges' table", Qi Mu couldn't help covering his face with his hands, and finally understood...why the other party looked so hard to speak when he was downstairs at his house yesterday.

Indeed, this year's chief judge should not be a violin master, so the world's piano masters are always qualified, right?

In fact, Qi Mu should have thought of this earlier.Min Chen has been in Paris for so long, perhaps the academy has already practiced with him many times, and becoming the chief judge may have been decided a long time ago.

There was another long sigh, and before Qi Mu could think any more, Delan pulled him to discuss the "ranking strategy" with the other three students from the violin department.

The assessment of the academy does not distinguish between the types of musical instruments. A branch with a large number of people like piano and violin can send four or five students to participate in the assessment, while a branch with few staff like drums and harp can send two students. Mostly only one student will come to participate in the assessment.

Therefore, for the evenly matched piano and violin departments, which branch can win more high rankings and who will win No.1 has become a must-have item for every evaluation.

"Delan, try to suppress Levi's as much as possible. He seems to have been scolded by his tutor recently. It is estimated that his piano skills have dropped a lot."

"Zakdo, how are you practicing these days? Can you suppress Hook's ranking?"

"Jenny, if you can beat Lianna, I think we should be very easy."

"Oh Qi, this is your first time participating in the assessment, relax, we won't send you any tasks, you should familiarize yourself with our enemies first. Those guys from the piano department... are a good group of opponents! "

The person in charge of the task was Anger, the favorite student of the dean of the violin department. He was an American boy with brown hair and blue eyes.

Hearing his name, Qi Mu nodded with a smile: "Okay, I see."

As soon as Qi Mu finished speaking, Zakdo sighed: "Damn it, this year's main judge is Mr. Bertram! Although it is an honor for him to be my main judge, but... ...Mr. Bertram is a piano master, so I'm afraid he will favor those guys in the piano department?"

Hearing Zakdo's words, Delan disapproved a little: "Hey Zakdo, don't you know, in fact, Xiao Qi and Burtram...uh..."

Qi Mu covered Delan's mouth all of a sudden, seeing the eyes of the other people cast on him, he still sighed helplessly, and said honestly: "I and Min... have known each other before, but I believe He will never take sides with anyone, and he will always be very fair and impartial when it comes to music."

Anger was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Xiao Qi! Of course we know that Mr. Bertram will be fair, don't listen to that bastard Zacko talking nonsense. Let's talk about it... What song do you want to perform today?"

Seeing Qi Mu being dragged away by Angra, Delan stared blankly for a while, and suddenly realized: "Damn it! That guy Ange admires Mr. Bertram! He must want to ask Bertram from Xiao Qi. Mister Mu begging for an autographed CD!"

"Hey, Ange! Ange! Come back to me!!!"

……

In the concert hall, all the audience has gradually taken their seats.

At the front of the auditorium, in addition to the ten judging seats, there is also a dean's seat on the far right.

At the very center of that seat, at this moment, a handsome and elegant black-haired man was sitting. He was calm and gentlemanly talking with the masters beside him, often making the judges around him laugh.

On the table in front of him stood a gilt nameplate.

At the bottom, which only occupies one-fifth of the entire metal nameplate, there is a string of small English words——

Auston Bertram.

And right above the English, there are two big characters written in beautiful Chinese——

Min Chen.