The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 105 The second group, canceled

In the next few days, everyone in the orchestra was rehearsing intensively.

Many people lived directly in the piano room and practiced every night until the patrolling people left.

What's more, they will even choose to avoid inspection and stay in the piano room for a whole night to practice.

Many people couldn't help but laugh at themselves. They had never practiced like this before taking the college entrance examination. Even if they had to go to class the next day, they rarely practiced like this.

As a result, in an orchestra that is not their main course, they practice the orchestra's repertoire more seriously than they practice their own professional repertoire.

It always feels a little weird.

But this also gave them a sense of comparison.

Compete to see who has practiced longer and who is more awesome.

Chen Qiu created a group specifically for everyone in the band. Every night at three or four o'clock or even four or five o'clock, someone would send messages to the group.

At the beginning, everyone was asked if they had slept.

Then everyone expressed in the group that they had not slept yet and were still practicing, and then said that they were envious of that so-and-so who could go to bed so early. The boss is so awesome.

However, as everyone practiced more and more time, no one in the group spoke anymore.

Even if we talk and ask everyone if they have slept, everyone will say that they have gone to bed long ago, and there must be no one who is still awake.

But in fact, if you go to the piano room to arrest people, you will easily find that they are practicing in the piano room. How can they sleep?

Everyone is working hard to prove to themselves, Chen Qiu, and Su Yue that they are not just a group of ordinary people.

They also have great strength and talent.

The most diligent among them is Qin Xian.

After Qin Xian saw Su Yue's performance, he didn't say anything as if he was stimulated. He just kept pulling hard every day, just to make the music in his hands better.

Let yourself match Su Yue's performance.

As the chief under Chen Qiu, he cannot be worse than someone who comes in later.

Chen Qiu is right, the national championship is just the beginning, just a small beginning.

Their future is to make a name for themselves in the world.

And not just in this small sea city.

His current ability and strength are not enough, he still needs to work harder.

Then bring the string section to confront Su Yue's wind instrument.

He doesn't want to defeat Su Yue. After all, he is the world champion and he has nothing.

All he wanted was to make his string section no less inferior to the wind section led by Su Yue.

He worked hard and practiced constantly for this.

And think about your own understanding of music.

While everyone was practicing hard, Chen Qiu was busy with other things.

Although he is only the conductor of the orchestra, in fact, his job is not just a conductor's job.

He also serves as band manager, band logistics, band director and many other responsibilities.

For example, if he wants to hold a concert in his home concert hall, he must first design a promotional poster for the concert, then print it out and place it at the door of his home concert hall.

Then go to the school to report the activity.

Apply for funding from the school.

Decorate the concert hall and determine the effect of the performance in advance.

Anyway, in short, except for rehearsals, he has to do all the messy things you want to do for a concert.

After all, he is the actual person in charge of the orchestra. The group of people in the orchestra know nothing but playing, and no one can come and share the burden with him.

Chen Qiu couldn't just find someone on campus to help write these application reports and the like.

In this regard, Chen Qiu could only sigh helplessly, rubbing his temples while determining what he needed to complete next.

In Haiyin, everyone is busy with their own things.

very nice.

But perhaps because they have already won the national competition championship in advance, in many places Chen Qiu only needs to submit an application, and then wait a few hours for their band's content to be approved in advance, saving him a lot of time.

Except that some files are often sent back for rewriting due to incorrect formats, the rest is fine.

For these files with incorrect formats, people at the school will also tell them how to write the correct format and what needs to be modified. They will not tell you nothing and just let you make blind changes.

Anyway, it’s a green light.

The school's attitude towards Chen Qiu is still very friendly.

After all, Chen Qiu and his Haiyin Second Troupe are Haiyin's people. Their performance is good and their performance is excellent. These are all Haiyin's contributions and achievements.

In particular, Chen Qiu led his orchestra to perform in Chen Qiu's Haicheng Harmony Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall.

To a certain extent, this is actually an external, non-school performance.

It can be achieved by a professional orchestra cooperating with Haiyin and inviting Haiyin to perform at their residence.

"Happy New Year!" Warm congratulations to the Haicheng Harmony Symphony Orchestra and the Haicheng Conservatory of Music Student Symphony Orchestra II for their successful New Year concert! 》

As soon as I heard it, the level went up.

Although the Haicheng Harmony Symphony Orchestra now exists in name only, with only Chen Qiu, it can basically be said that it is completely controlled by Haiyin.

But in the final analysis, it is a band that has its own base and is somewhat famous in Haicheng.

Bragging to the outside world is still a piece of capital that can be boasted about.

They are naturally very interested.

However, the support for the Haiyin Second Regiment is still support. The school is actually still considering the future direction of the Haiyin Second Regiment.

They have had more than one meeting, and each time they have not come to a conclusion.

After Chen Qiu's application for the New Year's concert was approved, almost all the professors, directors, and deputy deans of the school's Orchestral Department, Composition Department, and Conducting Department came to the office with heavy expressions.

It's not about Chen Qiu's New Year's concert.

But for the second group.

Among them, the people in the composition department have the most stable emotions, and they even feel like they are watching the excitement.

For them, as long as there is an orchestra that can play their music, then there is no problem.

As for whether it is the first group or the second group, they don't care.

As for the orchestral department and the conducting department, they are divided into several factions in complete chaos.

Everyone has their own ideas.

They looked at each other with serious eyes.

Professor Li Anguo sat near the front of the command department, narrowed his eyes slightly, put down the document in his hand, and spoke first to everyone.

"I just received news that Chen Qiu is leading his second troupe to hold a New Year's concert. The school has approved his application, so I think our decision can no longer be delayed any longer. We must make it immediately. Decide, Second Group, how should we deal with it now?"

Li Anguo looked at the leaders of the orchestra department and conducting department sitting at the top, and after a moment of silence, he said to them.

“What we thought from the beginning was just to make the second group a catfish to stimulate the enthusiasm of the first group and make the first group more energetic and energetic to perform their works. Most of the people present probably had no idea about the second group. Tuan has very big illusions, right? Am I right?"

No one spoke, they just looked at Li Anguo.

Including those sitting at the top.

When Li Anguo saw no one spoke, his expression did not change at all, but he continued speaking calmly. "Looking at the current situation, the second group has risen, and it is obvious that they have strength that is not inferior to that of the first group. Similarly, it is obvious that they are no longer a catfish that inspires the fighting spirit of the group, but a team that is almost the same as the first group. There is not much difference in level strength between the teams at the same level.

Therefore, the plan we had made before for a group to participate in the Nine Schools League is obviously outdated. We must immediately decide how to deal with the future of our school in the Nine Schools League.

Based on the topics we have discussed many times before, we can roughly divide it into three directions. First, the first group is the main one, and the people of the second group are split up and merged into the first group. However, this also has control over the emotions of the students in the second group. The mood may have a great impact, and the effect after being integrated into a group is difficult to determine.

Second, focus on the second regiment, and transfer one or two people from the first regiment to the second regiment for reinforcement. As Chen Qiu told us before, their second regiment needs more wind musicians, and the wind musicians there are not enough. Taihang, we can definitely transfer people from the first band, but similarly, the first band is our top band in Haiyin, so I think we may need to consider transferring them to the second band in Haiyin.

The third is to merge the first and second troupes to establish a brand new orchestra. Chen Qiu will serve as the conductor of the orchestra. At the same time, Li Tian and Wang Hai will serve as mentors to guide the orchestra. However, at this time, a new orchestra will appear. The problem is that the number of people in the orchestra is a bit too large. No one is sure whether Chen Qiu can conduct a large orchestra with more than 100 people.

We have discussed the above three plans many times, but there has never been an answer. Now Chen Qiu has led the second group to start the New Year concert. After the New Year concert, there will be the final class concert of each department. After the class concert, The holidays have begun. After the holidays, there is not much time left before the Nine Schools League.

At this time, whether it is the first or second group to participate in the nine-school league, we must set a specific rule. "

Professor Li Anguo stretched out his thin knuckles, knocked on the table twice, looked around the crowd, and spoke slowly.

"We are running out of time. We can't delay it any longer. It will not be good for any of us to continue delaying it."

Everyone was silent.

Many people turned their eyes to the leaders sitting at the top, waiting for their decision.

After all, everyone has already discussed it in so many meetings before.

The current plans are the most basic frameworks they can come up with.

As for others, such as the sick plan of disbanding two regiments and then re-forming a regiment through assessments has long been abandoned.

They couldn't think of any other better solution.

Therefore, this meeting is actually more about hoping that the people above will make the final decision, and then the people below them will handle it.

The nine-school league is the top priority.

Basically determines the school's status among the Chinese Conservatory of Music, and also determines some of their school's resources.

For example, in the following evaluation of excellence, some national awards and honors, as well as positions such as professors and lecturers and other basic school resources, many are divided based on the status in the nine-school league.

This is different from the purely honorable competition in the previous National League.

The most a national competition can do is for the school to show its face to the Education Bureau and tell them that the school's art education is doing well.

There are really big interests entangled behind the Nine Schools League.

The nine-school league is a points-based competition.

In addition to band competitions, they also have many other competitions, such as solo competitions. Basically, each department sends its own people to compete in these competitions, so there is not much to say.

The points that can be obtained in each event are not too many, they are all small points. A victory in the game is only 1-2 points, very few.

Only the band competition is a big score, a full 10 points.

The band championship can even make many schools feel like there is no way to catch up.

10 points, at least 7-8 small event championships are needed to get it.

At least, there need to be 5 top-level events, such as major championships in piano, violin and vocals.

It is basically even more difficult for latecomers to catch up.

This is the main reason why every school band is a top priority every year.

but……

Other people's orchestras may be thinking about how they should choose their own members so that they can form an excellent orchestra without many people holding them back.

Only Haiyin is thinking.

Which of the two top bands should you choose?

This worry about happiness gave Haiyin's leaders a headache.

They took out the documents in their hands and looked through them, looking at the results of each member.

Especially the group of people in the second group.

No matter how hard they thought about it, they couldn't figure out how on earth the low-ranking group of the second group won the championship.

However, they were able to win the national championship and get perfect scores, which proves that they are very professional and have abilities that are not inferior to those of a group.

Now here comes the question. If you think about this kind of band with your toes, you should know that the centripetal force between them is very strong. If they split up, the second band may collapse directly.

Therefore, the second group cannot be dismantled.

Not only cannot it be demolished, but the school leaders also plan to let the second group continue to develop and see what they can develop into.

So the choices given to them now are actually only one and three.

If you don’t break up the second group, you can break up the first group? As the elite of the school, Yi Tuan was dismantled and put into the motley army. What do the people of Yi Tuan think? What does the commander of the regiment think? What do some teachers in Yituan think?
When they thought about how much they would have to deal with if they really dismantled the whole thing, the heads of the leaders started to have a headache.

Therefore, they can only turn their sights to the third one.

Let the first and second groups merge temporarily.

But how should I merge the two bands?

The head of the Department of Conducting and the Vice-President rubbed his eyebrows, looked at Professor Li Anguo, and spoke to him.

"Professor Li, I think the third one is actually the most appropriate, to merge the first group and the second group. But the problem now is what you said. I don't know if Chen Qiu can lead so many people, so I thought... could you ask? Chen Qiu said that the school plans to make his New Year's concert bigger and let people from the first and second troupes merge and perform together, what do you think?"

When he said this, in order to prevent the people around him from not understanding what he meant, he added.

"After all, the New Year's concert, this concert is not important, right? It's more for the students to have fun by themselves, so I just want to see if Chen Qiu can lead his orchestra. If he can lead, then Don’t think too much, just temporarily merge the first and second teams to deal with the nine-school league, if that doesn’t work..."

The vice president of the conducting department looked at the associate professor of the orchestral department next to him and asked him tentatively.

"How about firing some people? Reducing the number of students? Let some students learn solos again. After all, although the scores for solos are small, the number is large. If the number is large, the points will be considerable."

"Um……"

The man from the orchestral department didn't speak, but just hummed thoughtfully, as if he was thinking about the rationality of this matter.

After thinking for a long time, he slowly spoke to Li Anguo and the other teachers in the command department around him.

"If we follow the third point, how soon can you give me a plan? Including possible subsequent problems and how to deal with them?"

"Three days, we should be able to come up with a complete plan in three days." Li Anguo said immediately.

The vice-principal of the Orchestra Department nodded: "Okay, then you tell Chen Qiu and tell him that he is going to take over the first group. The people from the first group and the second group will work together to prepare for the nine-school league, and then you start to make preparations for the first group in advance. Try to make the merger of the two orchestras as smooth as possible without causing any chaos."

"I try my best."

Li Anguo nodded.

After everyone discussed the details of the band again, they finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

The content that has been discussed and discussed has finally been put to the ground, and the next step is to start putting it into practice.

Is it the New Year's concert held by Chen Qiu and his Haiyin Second Troupe...

I don't know why, but I suddenly became curious about what kind of glory Chen Qiu could bring by merging the people from the first group and the second group.

Everyone quickly dispersed and continued to do their own things.

Li Anguo returned to his office, printed out a plan for the merger of the first and second regiments that he had prepared in advance, picked it up, and sent a message to Chen Qiu.

After confirming that Chen Qiu was currently in his own concert hall, he picked up the plan in his hand and walked towards the Haicheng Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

When he arrived at the door, Chen Qiu was already standing there with a glass of soy milk. When he saw him coming, he immediately smiled and waved to say hello.

"Professor Li, why are you free to come and play with our second group today?"

"Because, the school may have to cancel your second group."

Chen Qiu: "Huh?"

(End of this chapter)