The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 125 The top eight in Haicheng!

When Chen Qiu saw the magazine in the teacher's hand, he had a rough idea of ​​what the magazine was about.

This should be a magazine similar to music reviews. They will invite many musicians and music lovers to write music reviews for the orchestra, and then judge the specific performance of a band based on the quality of the music reviews.

This is actually a bit like a game review website like IGN, which invites professional writers to rate a game.

It’s just that the person being scored is the orchestra.

However, Chen Qiu was a little unclear about this ranking.

Chen Qiu thought for a while and asked the teacher.

"Um...ranking? How is the ranking calculated?"

"Huh? Don't you know?"

The teacher looked at Chen Qiu in obvious surprise. Just as he was about to explain, Professor Li Anguo next to him took over and said to Chen Qiu.

"Actually, it's nothing special. Basically, we look at the number of times an orchestra has played, the average score, the highest score, and the lowest score to give a specific value. We don't know exactly how to calculate it, but You know, the final score must be related to these.”

"so."

Chen Qiu nodded thoughtfully.

Before he could speak, the teacher beside him said anxiously.

"Let's not talk about it for now. Let's take a guess. Guess what the final ranking of the Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra will be this year?"

"How much did it cost last year?"

Chen Qiu looked at Professor Li Anguo and asked him curiously: "I remember Professor Li, you seemed to have told me about this before."

"Last year? Last year, I was eighth. It was a very inflated score."

Li Anguo said without any hesitation.

He looked at his colleagues, then at Chen Qiu, and explained slowly.

"Last year's eighth place was because a group from our school performed a particularly successful performance, which raised the rating a lot. And the overall evaluation also mentioned this, saying that it was because of our explosive performance that the rating went up. The total score finally stood out from countless professional bands and reached the eighth position. According to my estimation, it is almost fifteenth."

"so."

Chen Qiu understood now, then looked at the teacher who was obviously anxious, and smiled at him.

"In that case, I guess our score should be pretty good this year, almost fifteen?"

"wrong."

The teacher shook his head directly, then smiled at the two of them, pretending to be mysterious and said: "Guess again."

"So let me guess...twelve?"

"No, guess again."

"I guess……"

"There's nothing to guess, just announce it."

Professor Li Anguo reached out and took the magazine directly from the teacher's hand and placed it in front of everyone.

The page that opened happened to be the page of the Haiyin Harmony Orchestra.

Looking at the rankings above, Chen Qiu and Professor Li Anguo were stunned at the same time.

"No.8, Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra, an emerging orchestra with an immeasurable future!" 》

This is the title of this article, and it is also the ranking of the band.

Looking at the ranking and name, Chen Qiu looked at Professor Li Anguo next to him with a slightly strange expression, and asked in confusion.

"Professor Li Anguo, you said before... that the eighth place is an inflated number? The normal ranking of our school's orchestra should be after 15th place? Are you sure?"

"Last year, they said this..."

Li Anguo was a little dazed looking at everything in front of him.

But soon, he reacted, took the magazine in front of him, and read it carefully.

The information about the Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra in the magazine also appeared in front of everyone.

"Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra, the full name of Haicheng Conservatory of Music Harmony Symphony Student Orchestra, is a group composed of Haiyin Student Orchestra (hereinafter referred to as the First Troupe) and Haiyin Student Troupe No. 114 (hereinafter referred to as the Second Troupe) The emerging symphony orchestra has a total of 8 members and four pipes. The main performance direction is classical music works. The orchestra is strong and the conductor has rich expressions. The overall score is points!"

8 point?
Chen Qiu didn't know what this score meant, but the two people next to him knew it very well. The corners of their eyes widened at the same time.

Because last year when their school's team got this score, it was only 7.7 points.

This is the main reason why they say that their school's ranking is a bit too high.

But now with 8 points, it can be ranked eighth. This is obviously not an artificial high, but a completely real ranking, even a little low?

It seems that many bands are performing very well this year, right?

The two teachers couldn't help but think so.

They didn't think much more and continued reading.

Below is a detailed explanation of the band.

“In view of the fact that the Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra is a new symphony orchestra, they have only performed one concert, which was the New Year’s concert a few days ago. Therefore, the score of the Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra is: We can’t just start from this concert, but we should comprehensively evaluate the scores of the two orchestras before they cooperate, as well as their potential after cooperation.

Due to tight time and heavy tasks, after combining a lot of completely different information, we finally gave the Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra, an orchestra that has only performed once, a score of 8 points!

To be honest, when we gave this score, everyone in the editorial department was a little shocked. It was not that the score was high, but that it was low. The Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra should definitely not have a score of 8. , their real score should be higher than 8 points! Their ranking should not be limited to the top eight!
Because the performance of the Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra’s second group and the first group this year was beyond everyone’s expectations!

First of all, there is a group. This year's group's performance in the first half of the year can definitely be called remarkable. Among all professional orchestras, they stood out as students and performed no worse than professional orchestras. The level of strength, when I heard the performance of the group, it was hard to believe that I was in a school, listening to the performance of a student orchestra.

Only the brand name of Haicheng Conservatory of Music can give me some relief, telling me that this is one of the top three music schools in the country, and almost all of the students there are the top musical talents in the country, or in the south. , I could barely believe that what I was hearing now was a student symphony orchestra, not a professional symphony orchestra!

If I were to give them a rating, I would definitely give them a high score of 7.5!
In fact, what surprises me even more is that the second group merged with the first group. Their performance and their conductor are the most shocking, and they are also the key to making this orchestra's score reach 8 points! "

The corner of the new teacher's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

He looked at this person's evaluation, and to be honest, he wanted to slap the author.

What do you mean, the Haiyin Second Regiment saved one regiment?
Is Haiyin Tuan that bad?

A score of 7.5 points would normally rank 10-12!

How does this mean he was saved?

He took a breath and continued reading.

"Before introducing the achievements of the Second Ensemble, I would like to introduce a new conductor to all readers here, Chen Qiu. This name may be unfamiliar to you, but if I say, Haicheng Harmony Symphony Orchestra, Haicheng Lao I believe everyone should be impressed by the conductor of the top three orchestras, Chen Yuan.

This Chen Qiu, according to the author's investigation, is the son of Chen Yuan, the conductor of one of the top three orchestras in Haicheng.

As the son of Chen Yuan, Chen Qiu has perfectly inherited his father's understanding of music and his ability to express music beyond ordinary people's imagination. The conductor's baton in his hand is like a magic wand that can turn decay into a magical one, changing the feeling of the orchestra!

I was honored to be invited to Beijing to participate in a Chinese college student music competition, and there, I witnessed the miracle brought by Chen Qiu!
Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, a work that is clearly full of Russian music style, was actually able to be conducted by a young conductor from China and showed amazing strength!
But his orchestra is not well-known to everyone. Almost all of it is composed of Haiyin elites. He is actually composed of a group of inconspicuous leftover students from the college who were not selected by the orchestra!

Sorry, I used scrap words here. I don’t mean to humiliate these hard-working students. I just want to tell you that the level of the orchestra under Chen Qiu is not good. Among them, I feel that it is slightly better. As for their percussion and first violin, as for the others, they are more like a gangster.

If I were to give a score to such an orchestra, they would only get a maximum of 6 points, a passing score. This is the highest score I can give.

However, such an orchestra, which barely achieved a passing score, was actually able to win the championship of the National College Student Competition, and even achieved perfect scores in the finals. This shocked me, what can a good conductor do to an ordinary person? How much the orchestra has improved!

If I were to rate this orchestra, I would give it a 7, and their conductor would give it a 9! He is simply a genius in conducting! "

Chen Qiu was stunned for a moment when he saw this. He apologized to the two teachers and scrolled to the end of the article to read the author's name at the end.

"Gramophone magazine's specially invited music critic from China, Smith Wang!"

Sure enough, he is a foreigner. No wonder this article smells like a translation. Chen Qiu flipped the magazine back to the place where he saw it before and continued reading.

This Smith King blew him a little too hard. Chen Qiu blushed a little, but it felt pretty good.

However, Chen Qiu did not expect that the Smith King's praise of him was not over yet.

he wrote.

"When I thought that Haicheng Conservatory of Music, the top music school in China, would allow two orchestras to compete with each other and improve each other, something I didn't expect happened. Haiyin decided to establish a new symphony orchestra. , merged the first group and the second group and named it what you see now, Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra.

When I saw the news, my first reaction was, is Haiyin crazy? They actually let a bunch of offcuts join the carefully cooked meal. Don't they know that this will make the orchestra worse? Are they planning to drop the band to the bottom this year?
But when I saw Chen Qiu's name on the list, my heart calmed down. If it was Chen Qiu, then there would be no problem.

As Chen Qiu's original team, the Haiyin 2nd Group laid the foundation for the band. They are like a bread dough, the base of the orchestra, while the Haiyin 1st Group is like butter hanging on the bread dough, taking away the shortcomings of the bread dough. Covering everything up makes this bread a real cake!

I went to listen to the first concert of the Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra with great excitement. I wanted to know how much surprise this orchestra, which had merged into one and two troupes, could give me.

The moment I actually stepped into the concert hall and listened to the sound of the orchestra directed by Chen Qiu, I knew one thing...

I came here right today!

I couldn't imagine the words I should use to express what I heard.

He wraps you up like a flood and takes you into the sea of ​​music.

There you can only hear yourself and the sound of music.

It was obviously their first performance, but it was no less impressive than those professional bands.

No, you could even say that they played like a professional orchestra!
It makes me blush when I watch their performance, and I feel like I've tainted the music.

Like a thief, I listened to this musical feast for free. I enjoyed it so much, but did not give any encouragement to the band members at all.

What shocked me even more was that they had only rehearsed this set of works for more than a month.

Playing like a professional orchestra, playing at the same speed as a professional orchestra, they may need more training under the leadership of Chen Qiu, but I believe that their future will definitely not be comparable to that of some ordinary professional orchestras!
The Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra will, like its predecessor, the Harmony Symphony Orchestra, step into the top stage of world classical music.

Smith Wang, on January 1, Haicheng. "

"..."

Chen Qiu couldn't help but swallow when he saw this long speech. He looked at the two people beside him who were also a little shocked, and didn't know how to speak.

Although this seems to be talking about Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra, in fact the whole article is praising him.

He was a little embarrassed by the praise.

This also makes him have no idea what he should say now so that he can appear humble, studious and not so arrogant.

He could only pretend to pick up the magazine and flip through it to the last few bands.

Sure enough, just as he thought, the top three rankings were still the same. There was no doubt that the first place was Zhao Yi's Haicheng Symphony Orchestra, the second place was the Haicheng Municipal Symphony Orchestra, which was the orchestra that felt like a military band, and the second place was the Haicheng Symphony Orchestra. The three are Wang Hai’s Haicheng Philharmonic Orchestra.

The only thing worth noting is that the Haicheng Radio Symphony Orchestra that Chen Qiu saw before fell to sixth place.

It is said that they have not yet taken up a new conductor, and the music director and manager are extremely anxious.

The article is worried that if they can no longer find a suitable conductor, then they are likely to disband and become one of the many failed orchestras.

Just when Chen Qiu was thinking about the Haicheng Radio Symphony Orchestra, Li Anguo suddenly spoke.

He looked at Chen Qiu and sighed, handed the magazine in front of him to Chen Qiu, and said helplessly.

"Chen Qiu, stop reading. Seeing that you like it so much, take this magazine with you and read it slowly on the way home. I didn't expect it to be number 8, but even though it's said to be the Haiyin Harmony Symphony Orchestra, The whole article has nothing to do with us, the most suitable person should be you."

"So...thank you?"

"What are you grateful for? Conducting the orchestra well and making the orchestra go further is what you should do. These are just small things."

"Mmm Good."

Chen Qiu took the magazine from Professor Li Anguo, scratched his head sheepishly, thanked him, and then left the office with the magazine helplessly waved by Professor Li.

Looking at Chen Qiu's leaving figure, Li Anguo pursed his lips slightly, then looked at his colleague beside him and asked him.

"Do you think... was it our command training program that made him a success, or did he make our command training program a success?"

"I think it's actually both. Without this plan, he probably wouldn't be able to find any particularly good way to lead the group. After all, the purpose of our plan is to allow the new generation of conductors to have more performances Opportunity, but if it were someone else, I don’t know if it would have had such a good effect.”

"Yeah, I don't know. Forget it, I'll work first and you keep busy."

Li Anguo sighed again, sat back in his seat, took out a document and started annotating, his expression returning to the previous coldness.

Seeing Li Anguo enter working mode, the teacher could only shrug slightly to express his helplessness, turned and walked out of the office.

But halfway through, he suddenly froze and yelled angrily at Professor Li Anguo in the room.

"No! That's my magazine!!!!"

"..."

at the same time.

Beijing, Hua Guo Grand Theatre, conductor's office.

dong dong!

There were two crisp knocks on the door, followed by "Come in" from Yu Tu in the room, and the door creaked open.

A girl in costume looked at Yu Tu timidly and whispered in fear.

"Well, Commander Yu Tu, the new issue of the magazine is here, and our domestic rankings have been updated."

"Well, just put it over there, and remember to close the door when you leave."

"Oh, alright!"

When she heard Yu Tu commanding her to leave, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief, put down the magazine in her hand, walked outside quickly, and quietly closed the door of Yu Tu's room.

Feeling the silence in the room, the pen that Yu Tu was working on slowly stopped.

He couldn't help but pick up the magazine in front of him and turned to the page of Haicheng. He flipped through it from front to back, finally stopping at the eighth position.

Looking at Chen Qiu who was everywhere in the article, a smile appeared on his serious face and he said to himself.

"Little genius, long time no see!"

"I didn't expect you to develop like this?"

"I'm really curious as to how far you can go in the Nine Schools League."

dong dong!

The door was knocked again. Yu Tu looked at the door, dropped the magazine in his hand, and said lightly.

"Enter!"

"Teacher Yu Tu!"

A timid voice sounded, and a man wearing a black conductor uniform walked into the concert hall.

He whispered to Yu Tu.

"You're looking for me?"

"Well, I want to talk to you about the Nine Schools League and your former team members."

The swivel chair under Yu Tu returned to the right position, looked at the man, and said softly.

"Li Tian."

(End of this chapter)