The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 124 The band is established and the scores are released!
Chen Qiu took the members of Haiyin Group 2 to sit down at a buffet barbecue near Haiyin. Because it was a buffet restaurant often visited by their students, the overall price was not expensive.

But even so, when more than a hundred people from the entire orchestra came over to eat, the overall price still made Chen Qiu feel a little distressed.

But when he thought about Professor Li Anguo saying that the school could reimburse him, he felt a little better.

Ai Gu is particularly lively during dinner parties, stimulating the atmosphere of the entire team.

I really don’t know what’s going on in his head. That kind of simple team-building game can actually come out one after another, and it’s a lot of mess.

The whole team was almost having fun.

Zhao Xi took on the role of connecting the previous and the following in the band, helping Ai Gu liven up the atmosphere, and was the first to respond to Ai Gu's game.

Qin Xian sat aside and watched, applauding from time to time, but rarely participated in the game.

Very similar to Qin Xian, she is Su Yue.

It's just that she was sitting alone near the outside of the orchestra, slowly taking some simple snacks and sipping them bit by bit. As a bystander, she looked at the group of band members who were having fun, and from time to time the same thing happened. Show a knowing smile.

It seems to be independent of the orchestra, but yet integrated with the orchestra, which has a very strange feeling.

As for Ruijia...

She sat next to Su Yue, took a lot of meat and vegetables, and ate in the corner, her mouth bulging.

While eating, he applauded Ai Gu, Zhao Xi and the others, looking like an atmosphere group.

Looking at Rui Jia's appearance, Chen Qiu really didn't know where the food she ate was absorbed.

She obviously eats more than many boys in the band, but she is actually the shortest in the band?

Although his figure is not considered skinny, he only weighs about 80 pounds.

Where did the calories she ate go?
Couldn't it be that you run around the city carrying a double bass that weighs several dozen kilograms every day and wear it out?
Chen Qiu looked at Rui Jia sitting next to Su Yue eating with a strange look on his face. Su Yong also looked at him with confusion on his face, wondering what Chen Qiu was looking at.

Chen Qiu also noticed Su Yue's doubtful gaze, so he withdrew his gaze. After showing a hint of apology to Su Yue, he continued to sit on the side and crossed his arms, watching the people in the orchestra being enthusiastic. noisy.

Everyone was in high spirits until the store closed. Almost all the inventory was consumed, and the restaurant had no way to restock, so everyone left.

Some people choose to go to the nearby mass-market KTV to sing, others choose to go to the barbecue stall next door for another beer, and a group of people choose to go directly to the Internet cafe to play games all night long.

Even for students from the Conservatory of Music, their usual relaxation is not much different from that of normal college students.

After all, they are all ready to take a rest. Who would practice with their own profession without any problem?

It's like a computer major student, and you let them hold the computer and type programs while they rest.

Not many people would choose to do this.

Only a small number of people will choose to go back to the dormitory to sleep at this time.

It is worth mentioning that the dormitories of Haicheng Conservatory of Music are different from normal university dormitories.

Because their school is too small, there is no on-campus dormitory, and all of them need to stay in a hotel outside the school.

Although that hotel is called a hotel, it is actually a simple guest house.

A simple standard room was transformed into a four-person room, with a bed and a table. The room was extremely small, and sometimes even turning around was very difficult.

Perhaps it is precisely because the dormitory is so bad that most students prefer to stay in the piano room to practice instead of going back to the dormitory.

Chen Qiu took a look at where everyone was going, and did not interfere too much. He just let them decide where to go, and then paid attention to their own safety to avoid any danger at night, and then went back to the dormitory with the group. The students walked towards the school together.

But he returned to his home concert hall halfway.

After making myself a cup of hot soy milk before going to bed, I changed into a pair of simple pajamas. Then I took out the disc recorded by my classmates from the backstage of the school and put it into the disc player.

Then he just sat down with the soy milk and started listening to tonight's performance again.

This is a review.

Review the mistakes made by his band tonight to see if they were errors made accidentally by that person, problems with his own playing skills, or some other messy and weird problems.

It's a pity that he didn't find anyone from the school to record the video, he just found someone in the background to record the audio.

If he could find a video, he would like to see how the actions he directed were like.

This is not narcissism. I want to see how handsome I am.

In fact, it is more about bringing yourself into the perspective of a performer and seeing if you can react to the meaning of the gesture when you see the gesture you are giving.

If you can't understand it immediately, or even need to think about what you were thinking when you were leading the group, then this gesture needs to be optimized.

This is also true for conducting students who practice their movements in front of the mirror.

They are not practicing whether their movements are standard or not, but more to see if their movements can convey their meaning well.

This is the most critical point.

After Chen Qiu listened to the orchestra's performance a few times, he turned off the music and turned towards the bedroom.

He already roughly knows where some of the band's problems lie, and the next step is to correct these problems.

Chen Qiu was lying on his bed, thinking about his evening performance and his performance, then he smiled and said to himself.

"Although I feel that that group of people is a bit noisy, the potential is pretty good. After the nine-school league is over and my band is established, I should be able to attract many people to join, Qin Xian, Zhao Xi, Ai Gu...

However, I just don’t know what Su Yue is thinking. If Su Yue can join the band, the band’s strength will be greatly improved, but it feels very difficult..."

Chen Qiu turned over slightly, extinguished the bedside lights, looked at the dark room with wide eyes, and said softly.

"In the nine-school league in May, Central Conservatory of Music, what kind of lineup will they field?"

"Really, I'm looking forward to it..."

"..."

With the end of the New Year's concert, the entire Haiyin, and even the entire music industry in Haicheng, fell into a state of calm at this time.

Either some are planning to hold a Spring Festival concert in advance before the Spring Festival, or they are going to take a holiday directly to let the orchestra members have a good rest.

Bands that go on holiday are more likely to be paid once they rehearse.

Contrary to what many people think, orchestra rehearsals are not compulsory and they all charge money.

If it is a band with a relatively good financial situation, they have a monthly salary system, with a fixed salary per month. They rehearse four times a month and pay extra for performances, which is treated as a class.

As for those orchestras with relatively poor financial conditions, they are calculated based on how much a rehearsal costs.

This is why many orchestras begin to take a break after the New Year's concert.

In addition to not having time to arrange new concerts, money was also a big problem.

Therefore, the orchestra prefers to give them the works they want to perform first and let them go back and practice on their own. After the New Year, everyone will come over to rehearse and prepare for the new year's tour.

For those orchestras that pay a fixed salary, they have to rehearse every month anyway. Not rehearsing is equivalent to giving money to the orchestra members, so they will prefer to let the orchestra continue to rehearse.

Either prepare for the Spring Festival concert or prepare for the tour next year.

Anyway, don't even think about escaping.

Haiyin, on the other hand, entered the tense atmosphere of the exam season.

From professional exams, to some public course exams, to some other messy exams.

The content of the exams every day is almost full.

Chen Qiu also took over the accompaniment of some orchestra members during these days.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the work is an adapted version of a symphony, not an accompaniment version such as piano, violin, piano flute, etc.

Everyone basically received a nominal fee of 200 yuan.

Compared with the thousands of yuan accompaniment fee charged by the piano department and the art director for one exam, this price seems much more conscientious.

This also made many band members have a deeper trust in Chen Qiu. Qin Xian's performance in this year's performance seems to be more improved than before. Although he practices a lot fewer pieces every year in his major, his completeness, musicality, melody lines, timbre colors and other details, Make it more beautiful.

In an almost crushing manner, it shocked everyone who came to watch.

It was obviously a simple final exam, but Qin Xian relied on his own strength to turn this exam into his personal concert.

Compared with Qin Xian, Zhao Xi is much more normal, just a simple school elite.

Nothing particularly outstanding.

As for the other Chen Qiu accompanists, everyone seems to have improved in strength compared to when they first joined the band.

Chen Qiu's understanding of their professional abilities is also gradually deepening.

In subsequent performances, Chen Qiu was able to conduct them better, allowing their performances to help the orchestra reach a higher level.

But these are all things for later, and we have to wait until the start of school next year before we can do this.

During this period, Chen Qiu also went to Professor Li Anguo alone.

Professor Li Anguo told Chen Qiu that the Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra’s application had been approved.

Although some teachers in the orchestra department feel that some people in the second troupe are suspected of being a drag, so it is not recommended that they continue to stay in the troupe and the staff needs to be streamlined.

But the teacher in the command department felt that it would be better to let Chen Qiu do these things.

"So what do you think the band should do better?"

Professor Li Anguo asked Chen Qiu seriously,
"What do you think? Do you need to streamline the number of people? Our orchestra has now reached its peak number, more than 100 people. This is already the limit of the orchestra. The four-tube configuration, and beyond that, there are some modern composers. Configured, these configurations are not commonly used, so the school will not allow you to continue to upgrade the configuration."

"Um……"

Chen Qiu fell into thinking after listening to Professor Li's words, and then slowly shook his head: "No, no need, just this configuration will be fine. Then I hope that the orchestra's rehearsals can go to my concert hall, and then the newly admitted freshmen will be Can we rehearse in the old rehearsal hall of the previous troupe?"

"can."

Professor Li Anguo nodded in agreement.

Chen Qiu did not end up here. He asked Professor Li Anguo.

"So for the group of freshmen, have you already made arrangements for their command?"

"Not yet. What we want to do is to hold another selection and select the most suitable person from among the current undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. Follow your previous path and let them lead the group of freshmen first. You What do you think?"

"Yeah, that's okay too."

Chen Qiu thought for a while, nodded, and then added to Professor Li Anguo.

"But I want to observe the selection process, and the freshman selection, and I want to go there too."

"Well, no problem. Your name is already there. Even if you don't get on, we still have to let you get on."

Professor Li Anguo made a joke to Chen Qiu.

After the two casually chatted about the orchestra, Professor Li Anguo suddenly remembered something, took out a document from his memo, and spoke to Chen Qiu.

"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. Commander Zhao Yi came to see me before and asked me to do something."

"Isn't that a matter between you and Zhao Yi? What does it have to do with me?" Chen Qiu smiled and said casually, "It can't be that one of Zhao Yi's children wants to join our Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra, right? ?Didn’t you just say that our orchestra’s facilities are full and no one can come in? It’s useless for you to tell me?”

"Ok?"

Li Anguo looked at Chen Qiu in surprise, a little confused.

"You...know about this?"

"What's the matter?" Chen Qiu was stunned for a moment, then his expression became strange as well, and he asked tentatively, "Professor Li, you mean... someone really wants to join our Harmony Symphony Orchestra?"

"Well, yes, you guessed it right, but he didn't want to arrange for a musician to come in."

When Li Anguo saw Chen Qiu like this, he knew that Chen Qiu was just guessing and he happened to get it right, so he explained to Chen Qiu,
"You should know the daughter of Commander Zhao Yi, Zhao Zitong. She was the former commander of Eastern Normal University. She wanted to take the path of command. Then her father Zhao Yi found us and said he wanted to ask you. I wanted to see if I could let her join the Harmony Symphony Orchestra. At that time, I refused him on the grounds that the orchestra had not yet been fully established. Now that the orchestra has been established, I want to come over and ask you to see what your opinion is."

"My opinion..."

Chen Qiu fell into deep thought.

Zhao Zitong, he was somewhat impressed.

I met a conductor during a previous national competition who had a strong understanding of the soul building of an orchestra.

However, her conductors had complicated movements, unclear expressions, poor musicality, and deep problems with her understanding of music.

Therefore, Chen Qiu was just a little curious about her, but that was all.

Now that he heard that Zhao Zitong wanted to come here to learn from him, Chen Qiu always felt a little strange.

Therefore, after Chen Qiu thought for a moment, he asked Li Anguo.

"Is she here just to study?"

"Well, yes, it's just studying. Conductor Zhao Yi said that he was willing to use his reputation as the conductor of the Haicheng Symphony Orchestra to vouch for his daughter. She just came to study and would not do anything else. And during her study, he I don’t care about Zhao Zitong’s studies.”

"Zhao Yi commanded him...to trust me so much?"

"I don't know, but that's what he said."

"That's it..."

Chen Qiu nodded thoughtfully.

This may not be as simple as letting Zhao Zitong come over to learn command.

There is another possibility, that is, this is an investment.

A very bold investment.

Is he worthy of Commander Zhao Yi’s investment?
No, to be precise, where did Commander Zhao Yi discover his own value and release such a huge investment for it?
Chen Qiu didn't quite understand.

However, facing this kindness, Chen Qiu thought about it and finally nodded to accept it.

He said to Li Anguo.

"Well, I understand. If Zhao Zitong is willing, let her do it, but you have to explain it in advance. She may not be able to directly command for a long time in the early stage. She will mostly sit on the sidelines and observe."

"Commander Zhao Yi has said this. This is not a problem."

"Since it's not a problem, then I don't have a problem anymore. Let her come later and let her contact me. I will inform her later about the specific time of coming..."

"to make!"

Professor Li Anguo nodded, reached out and took out a document from his desk and handed it to Chen Qiu, and then said with a smile.

"This is the announcement of the official establishment of the Haiyin Harmony Student Symphony Orchestra. It will be posted on the school bulletin board next Monday in a few days. Since you happened to be here, I will give you this document first. You can talk to the people in your band about this in advance.”

"Okay, thank you Professor Li."

"You're welcome, you deserve it."

Professor Li Anguo waved his hand.

After the two casually chatted for a while about the news about other bands in Haicheng, Chen Qiu planned to leave the teacher's office directly.

But unexpectedly, just as Chen Qiu was about to leave, another teacher walked in with a magazine.

As soon as he came in, he shouted in Haicheng dialect to Professor Li.

"An Guo, it's amazing, this band is going to be great! Come on, take a look!"

As he was talking, he found Chen Qiu standing aside and was startled. Then he returned to Mandarin and spoke to Chen Qiu.

"Ah, Chen Qiu is here too. It just so happens that you can come and watch together. Last year's ratings and reviews of the Haicheng Orchestra are out. Guess...where does our Haiyin rank?"

(End of this chapter)