The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 106 Haiyin·Harmony Symphony Orchestra!

Chen Qiu was stunned when he heard this. He blinked, looked at Professor Li Anguo and Li in front of him, and spoke to him with some uncertainty.

"Ahem, what, I seem to have not heard clearly what you just said, Professor Li? Professor Li, can you... can you repeat it again?"

"Huh? Didn't you hear clearly?"

Professor Li also smiled at Chen Qiu and said meaningfully.

"Actually, it's nothing. It's just that the school has decided to abolish your second group."

"no……"

Chen Qiu smiled helplessly. He saw the smile in the corner of Professor Li's eyes, and naturally knew that the truth was not what Professor Li said.

The second group may disappear, but it will definitely not be like what Professor Li said.

The school decided to abolish the second group?

Are they crazy? They disbanded the second regiment?
A team that just won the national championship withdraws at the drop of a hat?

Are you kidding me?
It's like when you start a company, and the day after your team comes up with a very good product, you announce that you will disband the team.

Is the boss crazy or the team members crazy to make such a decision?
Therefore, Chen Qiu opened his hands to Professor Li, drank the remaining soy milk in the cup, threw it into the trash can aside, and then said to Professor Li.

"Professor Li, we have worked together for so long, so stop making these jokes. How could the school abolish our second group?"

Professor Li was stunned and asked tentatively: "What if it's for the Nine Schools League?"

Chen Qiu immediately replied: "No, even for the nine-school league, they can't just disband the second team. We just won the championship, right?"

"It seems...that's true."

After Professor Li thought for a while, Chen Qiu's reasons were indeed sufficient, and there was no way to deceive Chen Qiu. He couldn't help but smacked his lips, waved the document in his hand towards Chen Qiu, and said to Chen Qiu.

"You are right. The school does not directly disband the second group. However, the school may have some special treatment for the second group. The matter is a little complicated. Is there an office in your concert hall? Let's go in and talk."

"Yeah, there is."

Chen Qiu nodded, opened the door of the concert hall, and took Professor Li towards his office in the concert hall.

Although that place is called an office, it is actually more accurate to call him music library, or library.

This is a huge office with an area of ​​about 40 to 50 square meters and a height of about four meters.

The four walls are all covered with bookshelves, and there are many large folders placed on the bookshelves according to age categories.

These folders were all prepared by Chen Qiu and his father Chen Yuan when they were leading a performance.

The orchestra's music score is not the same as normal music score. It is divided into many parts.

An example will actually make it clear.

For example, for art directors, or piano accompanists, their scores are divided into piano scores and vocal scores.

If there are a large number of people in the band, such as a trio, then everyone will have a part score and score for their own instrument.

Quartets, quintets, string ensembles, woodwind ensembles, brass ensembles, and even percussion ensembles.

Basically the more complex a piece is programmed, the more parts they will have.

So these scores are basically placed in a large folder box and stored in sets.

Looking from here, there are hundreds of works by composers of different styles and periods on the four walls and the two rows of bookshelves in the middle of the room.

As well as some music biographies, music history books, music reviews, newspapers and journals, vinyl records and other items to assist music understanding.

Not to mention how much time it takes to build a large collection of books, the cost of building this room alone may be hundreds of thousands or even millions.

It's just a pity that these can only be regarded as real estate, and you have no way to sell them.

Coupled with the poor management of the band in the later period, it has been in a state of loss.

If the school hadn't decided to help Chen Qiu pay for the water, electricity, rent and other necessary expenses for his house, Chen Qiu might have to prepare to sell everything in the house.

Professor Li stood in this room, glanced at the books around him, and nodded thoughtfully.

"Your orchestra's music score library is quite good."

"There is no way, the orchestra has nothing to offer, only this music score library can be offered..."

Chen Qiu had no choice but to speak to Professor Li.

"Um, Professor Li, do you smoke? If you do, you'd better put the lighter on the small shelf at the door. It's basically wood and paper. If you accidentally light it, even though it's fireproof, But it will still be very troublesome..."

"I don't smoke."

Professor Li waved his hand and kept looking at the music library on the wall.

In addition to music scores, he also saw recordings by several well-known orchestras.

Basically, every album recording of that year received a Penguin three-star rating.

That is, the highest rating among the highest ratings in the music album.

The Penguin Record Guide divides each year's records into three grades: Fair, Good and Outstanding.

Only extremely high-grade records can include "Rosette", which means that in addition to excellent processing, this record also has features that are hard to ignore.

Every Samsung disc with flowers is basically a rare treasure for many music fans.

However, half a wall of bookshelves at Chen Qiu's home were used to store such Samsung records.

Really are……

"Your band... is really rich!"

Professor Li put down the file in his hand and said to Chen Qiu while looking at the records on the wall, "I just took a glance and saw several collection-level Samsung vinyl records with flowers."

Chen Qiu also looked at the wall full of vinyl along with Professor Li's, and explained to Professor Li.

"A lot of the records on this wall were not actually bought by us ourselves, but were given to us by people in the band very early. I have almost forgotten the specific time. Anyway, in my memory, when I was a child, the house was There are almost half of the vinyl records in there now.

If I remember correctly, it seems that every time they decide on the performance list for the new year, they will start to listen to recordings everywhere to see if there are any particularly good recordings that can make everyone want to play, in order to make themselves feel better. When the work you like is selected by everyone, everyone will take out their favorite records for everyone to listen to and win votes.

Over time, there are only so many records on the wall. As for how much money was spent, I don’t know much, but it shouldn’t be much. And even if the money is spent, it will be concentrated in the early stages of the band’s establishment, when the band is flourishing, and in the later stages, or again. Going forward, bands don't have much money for these things. "

"It does cost a lot of money to run an orchestra..."

Professor Li moved his eyes away from the music score on the side, looked at Chen Qiu, and spoke with some emotion.

"Music scores cost money, venues cost money. These are actually small amounts of money. Most importantly, orchestra members need money. You may not feel it yet if you are just leading a student orchestra, but you will know it later when you set up an orchestra yourself. Yes, every piece of money is used for money...

For example, for the members of your band, if you have 50 people in the early stage, then the monthly salary you pay them is 6k yuan a month, then you will have to pay 30 yuan a month. Later, when there are more people, The salary has also increased, reaching hundreds of people, and you may have to pay nearly one million in salary.

So in order for the band to continue to survive, you may need to constantly go out to find performances, and then sell tickets to perform at your own venue. Various activities need to be prepared, and just thinking about it makes you feel headache.

Moreover, if there is not enough cash flow, the band may only be able to settle the money according to the performance, and it may not be able to pay the band members a basic salary. If there is no way to pay the basic salary, then there will be no way to retain the band members. In the future, the band will also From a normal resident band, it became a mariachi band and then gradually died out..."

When Professor Li said this, he couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. He exhaled a long breath and said helplessly.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this. These are not things you need to consider now. This topic is too adult. Let's not discuss this. Let's talk about the school's decision first."

"Adult topics? So...is this some kind of adult radio station?" Chen Qiu complained.

Professor Li turned away from his usual seriousness and joked to Chen Qiu: "Adult topics are definitely not just about pornography. When you get out of the ivory tower of the school, you will have to face the society. If you have money later, Well, you can hire a band manager, that kind of professional manager, to help you manage the band. After all, to a certain extent, the band is more like a small company. I think except for those who are just starting out Outside of companies, there should be very few companies that let their bosses serve as general managers, right?"

"All right……"

Chen Qiu shook his head helplessly, took Professor Li's words to heart, and then spoke to Professor Li. "Let's not talk about this for now. Let's talk about the school first. What is the attitude of the school? What do they decide to do? What is the document you just told me about?"

"Well, that's it. But I haven't given it to the school yet. I'll take it over for you to take a look at and discuss with you whether there are any details that need to be changed."

Professor Li patted the file he placed on the desktop, pushed it to Chen Qiu, then watched Chen Qiu open the file and said to Chen Qiu.

"This is the general plan I wrote. The school wants to merge the first and second regiments, and put a total of about a hundred people into your hands for you to command. However, there will be some problems, mainly There are too many people, and the school is a little worried that you won’t be able to handle it. An orchestra of about a hundred people, this is not as simple as the previous small orchestra of about fifty people, can you do it?”

"Hmm... let me think about it."

Chen Qiu fell into thinking and pondered slightly.

The more people in an orchestra, the better. The more people in an orchestra, the higher the requirements for cooperation.

Everyone in the band is an art student and not a soldier, so we can expressly prohibit it.

In addition, Chen Qiu's orders to everyone in the orchestra are not as simple as those in the army.

They actually work together more like a football team.

There are star players in the orchestra, such as the principals.

There are also role players in the orchestra, such as those under the concertmaster.

It is quite difficult for everyone to cooperate with each other to create a piece of music.

This kind of difficulty is not even something you can practice all the music scores and then you can do it.

This requires cooperation, very tacit cooperation.

The more people there are, the harder it is to cooperate.

Now Chen Qiu can still control the 50 people in the orchestra.

What about the more than 100 people behind?
Let’s not talk about whether Chen Qiu can control it, let’s discuss Qin Xian first.

Can he control Qin Xian?

Chen Qiu has never asked Qin Xian or discussed this issue with Qin Xian. After all, Qin Xian can control the string section very easily and there is nothing to say.

But nearly half of the people in the back are string players? Can Qin Xian still do it?
Chen Qiu didn't know, he was thinking.

But soon, he stopped thinking and shook his head slightly.

This is a no-brainer.

Qin Xian is his chief, so he should trust him absolutely.

And if I remember correctly, there was another person on the Yi Tuan team who was pretty good. He and Qin Xian were roommates, so they could work together to help.

That way the string section should be able to play a little bit.

What about wind instruments?
The school said they need to strengthen their wind instruments.

If you look at the state of play when I led a group to play bolero before, there seems to be no problem.

But among this group of people, what about adding the second group?
What will be their status level?

Can the people over there obey their own arrangements?
These are all things you need to consider yourself.

Although Chen Qiuneng directly patted his chest and said that he could conduct an orchestra of more than a hundred people, when he was the deputy conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic II, he had conducted an orchestra of so many people under the chief conductor.

But one thing must be known, that is, the professional level of those in the Second Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at that time was not comparable to that of the people in Haiyin today.

To some extent, the Berlin Philharmonic II should also be regarded as a student orchestra.

But they are only the top few from various conservatories who were selected to study in the second ensemble. In addition to their teachers in their own schools, they also have performers from the Berlin Philharmonic as teachers. .

Occasionally they will be brought into the main group to play some less important pieces.

even!

The conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic will often go to the second troupe to provide guidance and lead people to perform.

Therefore, you can say that they are the second student group of the Berlin Philharmonic, but in fact, their strength is no worse than many lower-ranked orchestras.

Basically, you can watch it as a small Berlin Philharmonic.

Although the results of many of them are not as abnormal as Su Yong's, they have won many global competitions, and at most they are not as valuable as Su Yong.

Therefore, you can definitely say that almost all the members of the band Chen Qiu led before were little Su Yue.

One Su Yue could completely subdue the wind band and render them speechless. It could also make Chen Qiu relax a lot.

There are countless collaborations between Su Yong and Chen Qiu, and the conflicts between them are more about the collision of ideas rather than some technical problems.

When Chen Qiu leads the orchestra to perform, what he needs to deal with more is the tension of the music, and how to make the orchestra perform better.

As for the current orchestra, can I lead them to achieve such good results?
Chen Qiu groped his chin and began to think about what kind of problems they would have if the first regiment merged into the second regiment.

However, just as he was thinking, Professor Li's voice sounded again.

"Chen Qiu! Wake up!"

Chen Qiu raised his head and looked at Professor Li in confusion: "What's wrong?"

Facing Chen Qiu's gaze, Professor Li frowned slightly.

He said to Chen Qiu: "What are you thinking about? The first regiment merged into the second regiment. Do you think you have no way to control it?"

"No, it's not that there's no way to control it. If the strings of the first troupe are merged, the strings of our second troupe might just be able to complement each other. But I don't know much about the situation on the wind band. I only know one Su Yue, she said that she might come to the orchestra to perform with us later. As for the other wind instrument bosses, I don’t know.

So I was thinking, if the wind instruments of the first troupe are merged into the second troupe, then from what angle should I lead the entire orchestra? I have heard their first troupe play bolero before. Professor Li, as you know, it’s me. I had rehearsed with them before, so I had some impression of their wind instruments, but at that time I was focused on finding faults, and I didn’t have much memory of which one of them performed better. "

"Hmm..." Professor Li nodded, also lost in thought, "If it's the chief wind band, I actually have a few candidates, but let's not talk about it for now. Do you have any ideas about my plan? Is there anything that needs to be changed? Where? If you have one, I will change it now. Once it is changed, I will show it to the school. In a few days, the notice will come out and let them perform the New Year's concert with you."

"I don't have much idea. It's no problem for them to come. I can lead it. After all, there is a New Year's concert and you can see the result when you look back, right?"

Professor Li nodded: "Yes, but I must remind you that if your performance is not good enough, the school may decide to split the two groups again, and then choose one group and split some people from the other group. Now I care It’s your emotions that don’t do this. If the results are not good and there is no time to change, they won’t care about your emotions.”

"I know." Chen Qiu nodded with a smile, pushed the document in his hand back to Professor Li, and said with a smile, "Believe me, I can do it."

"Then I believe you, and I hope you won't disappoint me." Professor Li made eye contact with Chen Qiu, slowly took back the document, and prepared to leave.

However, just as he was about to push the door open, he suddenly thought of it, turned his head to look at Chen Qiu, and asked him.

"By the way, the first band has been merged into your second band. Do you have any new band name? It's best not to have anything to do with the current band one or two, otherwise it won't be called a merger, but an annexation."

"Yes, I have!"

Chen Qiu nodded, stood up and walked from behind the desk to Professor Li, then followed Professor Li's gaze and looked behind him.

Look at the regimental emblem hanging in the middle of the music library, among a large number of trophies.

In the middle of the staff symbolizing the sea, a huge treble clef hangs high.

The treble clef and staff seem to be variations of "Harmony".

Chen Qiu looked at the medal and spoke slowly.

"What do you think of the Haicheng Conservatory of Music Harmony Orchestra?"

　Woohoo, what day is it today? I was typing in the rental house and saw it was so lively outside, it felt like Chinese New Year QAQ
　　Okay, just kidding, there are no fireworks in Germany, and there are no people outside. I am the only one who is really typing in the rental house...

　　Anyway, I wish you all an awesome New Year!
　　Happy New Year!
　　[Unfortunately, my update is a little slow. If the update speed is faster, maybe I can update to the New Year's concert today. 】

　　
　
(End of this chapter)