The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 79 Taking the stage!

Yu Tu hung up the phone, then glanced at the concert hall behind him, shook his head, turned and walked into the concert hall office.

Although he is the conductor at Shuimu University, this is a student concert, and he has accomplished all he can do.

Give those students details and teach them how to deal with music and so on.

What happens next depends purely on their performance, and I can't help at all.

So Yu Tu didn't bother to go to the venue to listen to the performances of his students, let alone rate them.

He returned to his office, picked up his mobile phone and sent a few WeChat messages to a few people. After telling them that he was not going to the scene, he turned directly and walked to his bookcase. He looked at the vinyl records on his bookcase and thought. I thought, picked one out at random and put it on the gramophone.

He moved the needle easily and raised the corners of his mouth as he listened to the sound coming from his ears.

He just wandered to the chair in his office, relaxed his body, and casually searched for something from the documents in front of him, and finally picked out a very thick roster.

Written on the top of the roster is the list of new musicians recruited by the orchestra this year.

On the other side of the table is a list of musicians in the orchestra who are preparing to retire.

Survival of the fittest, striving to absorb fresh blood, and keeping the orchestra in an enterprising and vigorously developing position are Yu Tu's core experiences in managing his own orchestra.

He looked at the musicians with luxurious resumes on the list in his hand, and for some reason, he suddenly thought of Qin Xian, whom he saw when he entered the venue this year.

"Why don't you go and watch the student band's performance later today?" Yu Tu suddenly asked himself, "What do you think?"

He thought for a while, and after pondering for a long time, he nodded slowly: "I think it's okay."

Although the student orchestra I led may not be interesting to listen to, but Haicheng Conservatory of Music is different?

He couldn't help but stop while flipping through the list. After thinking for a moment, he made a phone call and asked someone from the organizing committee to send him a list of Haicheng Conservatory of Music.

Looking at almost all the unfamiliar names, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Interesting, really interesting. I originally thought that the conductor in Haicheng Conservatory of Music should be led by some old acquaintances, but it turned out not to be the case. The most familiar person there is actually Li Anguo? And it seems that Li Anguo does not have much control over the student orchestra. No, he is not the real conductor of the student orchestra. Could it be that the real conductor is Chen Qiu? A senior student? Tsk... interesting, so interesting!"

Yu Tu knocked on the table in front of him, looked at the performance time of Haicheng Conservatory of Music, took out the record book in his hand, and added a record about Haicheng Conservatory of Music.

If I’m not mistaken, the piece everyone will be playing this year is a concerto.

Whether it is a violin, cello, piano or timpani concerto, every orchestra must have a performer who is influential enough to add glory to the orchestra.

What was written in Haicheng was "Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor", so the performer must be Qin Xian, whom he had chosen today.

In this case, whether it was to see if his vision had deteriorated or to listen to his future opponents in the nine-school league, Yu Tu would definitely go and listen to Qin Xian's performance.

Not only that, but there is also Chen Qiu, who seems to be very interesting.

Yu Tu thought for a while, then took out his mobile phone and called his secretary, asking him to arrange a place for him for the subsequent performance at Haicheng Conservatory of Music. After that, he hung up the phone and continued to deal with the orchestra's affairs. affairs.

Meticulous.

……

Chen Qiu didn't know that Yu Tu was interested in him and his subordinate Qin Xian.

He is currently sitting in a corner near the opera house in a daze.

Because there were too many students and they needed to listen to the speeches from the organizing committee, many orchestras were crowded together, and there were even some people standing in relatively remote locations.

It was not much different from the previous opening ceremony in Haicheng. At the beginning, a host came on stage and announced the official start of the National College Student Art Exhibition.

Then some leaders came to the stage and began to speak to everyone, talking about some expectations for art performances and their understanding of the development of art for college students.

Finally, he looked towards the future and ended his speech.

Everything was neat and tidy, and it was a standard leadership speech, but it didn’t mean much.

Behind them are the heads of the organizing committee and other people who can be related to this game.

They took the stage one by one and gave speeches in a very formulaic way to the crowd.

It's drowsy to listen to.

Chen Qiu had even taken out a pen from his pocket, boredly writing and drawing on a new sheet of music, and started doing music analysis.

Others behind him had already taken out their mobile phones, turned off the sound and started playing games.

The main thing is that I don't affect other people, and you don't have to worry about me playing games.

Those who don't play games just read novels there.

Rui Jia took a nap in that place, feeling a little drowsy.

Ai Gu put on headphones and listened to some rock music there.

Qin Xian was relatively quiet. He was in a daze holding the violin in his arms, not knowing what he was thinking about.

In this opera house, everyone has their own things to do, but no one is listening carefully to the leaders.

It wasn't until a few truly respected teachers came out that everyone's mood cheered up a little.

The leader is Zhao Yi. He had told Chen Qiu and others before that he would be the person in charge and judge of this competition.

In order to avoid suspicion, he said that as a judge, he had no contact with any of the bands present, so Chen Qiu and others had never seen him before.

He has been staying in the hotel, conducting countless judge trainings. After the training, he would sleep, and then eat and chat with other people.

There is a bit of a completely closed meaning in it.

After all, this kind of national college student competition must be as fair as possible. No matter how many small tricks you do in private, you can't put it on the table at the last moment.

Zhao Yi's speech was relatively simple. He simply talked about his history as a conductor, the struggles of the Haicheng Symphony Orchestra, and his thoughts on classical music, and then walked off the stage directly.

At this point, all the judges’ speeches have ended.

As soon as he heard the end of the speech, Ai Gu stretched hard and said angrily.

"Holy shit, it's true. Every time I speak, I can't keep it short. My emotions are almost gone. I still plan to perform with the same spirit as when I came here! Really? Yes, it’s not interesting at all!”

"How about you come on stage and dance for everyone?" Someone on the side immediately started laughing, "Do some somersaults, or do some gestures with a basketball? Go in the direction of the idol."

"Go away, go away, go away. If you want to become an idol, you can do it yourself. I will develop into a good-looking percussionist in the future. Have you ever seen a Exploding Drummer? Boom, dong, dong, dong! I am the King of Exploding Drums!"

"Tsk, is it just you?"

"What's wrong? Looking down on me? You're kidding. Don't be so scared when I show off my skills later!"

When Ai Gu said this, he didn't know what he thought of. He said to Chen Qiu excitedly: "That's right, conductor Chen Qiu, I have an idea. When we perform later, can I be the percussionist?" Do you have more room to play? Forget it this time, I will give it to Qin Xian this time. In the finals or the next performance, give me a chance to perform?"

"to make!"

When Chen Qiu heard Ai Gu's words, he couldn't help laughing and nodded: "Since you said it, I will definitely prepare the timpani concerto for you. What style do you like for the last timpani that you will use to plunge into it?" ?Chinese style? Western style? Or African style? Do you have any preferences for drum heads?"

"Hiss..." Ai Gu couldn't help but cover his head when he heard Chen Qiu's words, and said in pain, "Fuck, I forgot what the Timpani Concerto was... Conductor Chen Qiu, can you change it to another one? "

"No problem, tell me what you like, 1812 Overture? I'll get you a cannon? Or iron polka, and you hammer the iron behind?" Chen Qiu asked Ai Gu, "If you like, Mahler's It's not impossible to ask you to throw a sledgehammer, but the structure of our orchestra needs to be improved."

Ai Gu couldn't help but feel his head grow bigger as he listened. He shook his head and stepped back: "Forget it, let's talk about it later. I feel that if you want to show off, you'd better show off in rock..."

"No, it really can't be done. How about our entire triangle concerto?"

"Triangle Concerto? Huh? And this thing, why didn't I... Damn it, you're not talking about Liszt's First Piano Concerto, are you?"

"Well, as long as you want, then we can give it a try. I will play the piano and conduct the piano, and you will lead the orchestra." Chen Qiu shrugged nonchalantly, "Anyway, the repertoire for our nine-school league has not yet been decided. , if you have an idea, or if any of you have any songs that you want to play, you can tell me and I will decide whether to adopt it or not.”

"I, I, I... forget it, I give up." Ai Gu, who was still excited and wanted to show off, suddenly felt a little timid, scratched his head, sat down on his seat, and sighed.

"I thought about it and found that there was nothing particularly suitable. It didn't seem very good."

"After all, it is a symphony orchestra. The core of a symphony orchestra is cooperation, not individual performance. Only concertos will extract an instrument individually for him to show off. But even so, the responsibilities of other instruments have not changed. It is still cooperation."

Chen Qiu shook his head and said to Ai Gu: "If you want to show off, then you can find a piece of music that you think can show off, tell me, and I will lead the orchestra to play with you. After all, we are a whole, we are all He’s from the Haiyin Second Regiment.”

After hearing this, Ai Gu couldn't help but sighed: "I'm so touched by what you said, but I really can't think of anything to show for a while. Ahhhhh, such a good opportunity is wasted like this." What a pity."

"It's okay, don't worry, you can come to me anytime."

Chen Qiu shook his head and looked towards the stage.

Many student bands around have begun to leave and go to other concert halls to prepare for performances.

The first student orchestra also appeared on the stage.

Coming from the local Jingcheng University in Beijing, Top 2 in the country.
As the host and a top university, they naturally took on the role of opening the event.

However, Chen Qiu was surprised to find that most of the instruments in the orchestra were ethnic instruments.

Suona, Erhu, Jinghu, Banhu.

The overall configuration is not much different from that of a symphony orchestra, but all the instruments are replaced with ethnic instruments.

Chen Qiu was in a daze for the first time, but then he quickly came to his senses.

If Chen Qiu remembered correctly, the one that Beijing University cooperated with them should be the Huaguo Conservatory of Music.

The Huaguo Conservatory of Music is one of the universities with the strongest professional level of folk music in China.

And since they cooperate with Jingcheng University, which is generally biased towards national traditions, the works they choose will naturally be biased towards folk music.

But for such a large folk music orchestra, which piece will they choose?
Chen Qiu frowned and couldn't help but start thinking.

His knowledge of folk music is not bad. When he was studying, he also led some relatively simple folk music ensembles such as "Dance of the Golden Snake" and "Spring Festival Overture".

Overall, there is not much difference from a symphony orchestra. Even their writing is actually written according to the Western harmony system.

Therefore, Chen Qiu’s main thinking direction is actually in some older folk music.

But are there any famous erhu concertos in old folk music?
Chen Qiu thought for a long time, but couldn't think of a suitable one.

It wasn't until the above performance was announced that Chen Qiu suddenly realized it.

It's not that his understanding of folk music is too poor, but that his thinking direction is completely wrong.

He shouldn't think in the direction of traditional folk music at all, he should think in a bigger direction.

Performance school: Kyungseong University

Repertoire: Tan Dun's "Fire Sacrifice Huqin Concerto"

Instructor: Liu Xiaoyong
The instructor didn't know him, but Chen Qiu knew the fire ceremony very well.

This is a work composed by Tan Dun in 1996. It is an inscription to commemorate the victims of the war. It is a concerto composed of Chinese Hu, Erhu, Gao Hu, two Chinese orchestras and vocal groups.

This piece is known as one of the four major folk music concertos in China.

And this work is perhaps the most Chinese-style work in the traditional sense.

The conductor standing at the front bowed slightly to all the audience behind him, then turned to the people in the orchestra, raised his arms, and waved vigorously.

hum!
The painful and wailing sound of the suona, accompanied by the sound of drums and gongs, spread on the ground.

This is a funeral, this is a memorial, this is a tomb road.

The suona is like the musicians in front of the funeral procession, blowing through the realms of yin and yang.

The percussion music behind him was beating gongs and drums, widening the path of life and death and frightening the evil spirits on both sides of the road.

The suona sounded one after another, melodious and continuous, like crying.

There was even a feeling of sending away all the audience present.

Chen Qiu couldn't help but nodded while listening to the band's performance.

Kyungseong University is indeed the top university in the country, and the professional standards of many people present are not bad.

Many of them should have attended Kyungseong University through high-level art troupes.

If Chen Qiu remembers correctly, if you pass the high-level art troupe assessment of Jingcheng University, you can drop your score by about 40 points to enter Jingcheng University, which is almost the same as the higher-ranked universities in 211 or double non-university.

The assessment of high-level art troupes in these two universities is actually completely different from what many people imagine. They are not lax, and can even be said to be more stringent.

Because many people with good professional standards will also try to take the high-level art troupe of these two universities, so that if they don’t want to study music later, they can directly switch to other majors instead of continuing to stay in the music industry.

At that time, Chen Qiu remembered that a vocal music major he knew got first place in Haicheng Conservatory of Music, but he only got second place in the high-level art troupe of Shuimu University.

This shows what the requirements of these two schools are.

But there is a problem...

Although many people with excellent majors have gone to these two schools, there are very few people with such good majors and academic performance that can reach the 211 university level.

Therefore, the level of high-level art troupes in these two schools should be better than that of other universities, but not as good as that of the nine major conservatories.

The same is true for the fire sacrifice displayed in front of Chen Qiu now.

If Chen Qiu were to conduct this piece, he felt that he should be able to lead such an orchestra to a further level.

The conductor above is capable, but he is better than those who just wave and perform on stage. He just reminds when certain instruments come in and when to retreat.

That's all the work I've done.

After all, they were not professionals, and there was nothing particularly required of them. Therefore, Chen Qiu no longer paid attention to the conductor, but began to pay attention to the music itself.

With the help of the Huaguo Conservatory of Music and the help of an unknown orchestra conductor, this group of people was indeed made presentable.

They are a very good group among the student orchestras.

It deserves to be the first band to appear, and it deserves to be a Top 2 band.

There should be no problem getting to the finals.

Chen Qiu listened to Jingcheng University's performance and quickly commented on them.

After the performance at Beijing University, Chen Qiu also gave them applause.

Then came several other smaller schools.

These schools are random, and their professional standards are either good or bad, but it is obvious that they are not as good as Beijing University.

Chen Qiu listened quietly and waited until the staff came to them. Then Chen Qiu stood up and nodded to all the students from Haicheng Conservatory of Music behind him.

"Okay, everyone, get ready, pack up your instruments, we're ready to go on stage!"

click!
Everyone stood up in unison.

His eyes were filled with unbearable excitement.

　There may be more, I'm not sure, I'll try to see

　　
　
(End of this chapter)