The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 89 We are number one!

Chen Qiu lost interest after meeting Zhao Zitong. He returned to the concert hall and listened to a few performances from other schools. Most of the schools were very typical student orchestras, and there was nothing particularly outstanding about their performance. , so Chen Qiu just listened to it a little and then took the subway directly back to the hotel.

When he opened the door, Qin Xian had already returned to the hotel early, changed into a simple shirt and turned on the air conditioner to read music scores in the room.

When he heard the sound of Chen Qiu coming back and opening the door, he didn't even raise his head, but raised his eyelids slightly, then turned the page of the music score in his hand and said to Chen Qiu.

"You're back? How was it? How were the other schools' performances this afternoon?"

"In general, there is nothing good to hear. Among them, Eastern Normal University, which was originally thought to perform well, ended up losing their own characteristics. Even though their level may have improved a lot compared to before, their overall performance lacked characteristics. On the contrary, it is unremarkable.”

Chen Qiu didn't react for a while and just shook his head.

Then Chen Qiu was stunned and turned to look at the whirring air conditioner and Qin Xian who looked like he was ready to go on vacation. He then reached out to take off his coat and said to Qin Xian angrily.

"Good guy, I had a hard time listening to other schools' performances in the concert hall. It would be better for you to just hide in the room and blow on the air conditioner to rest, right?"

"How is that possible? I'm also studying!" Qin Xian raised the sheet of music in his hand and said to Chen Qiu, "Nuo, have you seen it? I don't know how many times I have turned over this piece of music when we are going to play it in the finals. So many times, the music score was wrinkled by me."

"Oh, compared to this? Okay, then you take a look at my music scores? Who has more and thicker copies?"

"That's still incomparable. After all, you are the commander. I'm just saying that I'm not lazy."

Qin Xian took the music score back to him and started reading it again.

He said while reading.

"Speaking of which, were there really no particularly impressive performances from other schools this afternoon?"

"Yes, Eastern Normal University, didn't I tell you that their performance was much better than the previous competition in Haicheng?"

"And then you didn't like it?"

"Yes, after all, the characteristics of their music are gone. Overall, the feeling of listening is not comfortable. It is not as strong as before, so naturally I have no feeling for their performance."

Chen Qiu made a sound, lay down on his bed, relaxed his body, and said casually to Qin Xian.

"The performance of several other bands is relatively average, I can't say bad, but the overall performance is not satisfactory. I always feel that they are a little bit behind, and they have not done a good job in many places, so after listening to it a little bit, So I left there first, leaving Professor Li to continue listening alone."

"Sure enough, luckily I didn't go. Ai Gu and I's guess was indeed correct. After returning to the hotel, we had a good sleep. When we woke up, we started reading the music scores to prepare for the finals."

"Just be lazy if you're lazy. Don't talk about laziness in such an upright way, okay? I'm still here as the commander."

Chen Qiu reached out and picked up a disposable slipper and threw it at Qin Xian, then waved helplessly at him.

"Okay, that's it. You guys have a good meal and a drink tonight, so I won't go. I want to have a little rest, and then remember to tell them to get up early tomorrow morning. We are going to rehearse at a place reserved in advance. Don’t play too late at night. If anyone is late for rehearsal the next day, I will ask him to stand up and play alone and provide one-on-one coaching.”

"Oh well."

Qin Xian nodded casually, then suddenly thought of something and asked Chen Qiu.

"By the way, didn't Commander Li Tian say he wanted to talk to you about something when we treat him to dinner tonight? Is it really okay if you don't go?"

Chen Qiu lay on the bed and said in a buzzing voice: "No problem, we already talked about it during lunch, there is nothing particularly important."

Qin Xian nodded: "Okay, then I'll go back and talk to the others. By the way, what time will we meet at the door of the hotel tomorrow?"

Chen Qiu: "8 o'clock, maybe. How do you feel about this time?"

Qin Xian: "You decide, are you the conductor? I'm just a minion."

Chen Qiu said angrily: "You're a bastard, you're the chief, don't shirk your responsibilities as chief here? I have to ask you to take over when I'm not doing anything, so don't give me any nonsense."

"Oh……"

Qin Xian scratched his head and whispered, then sighed sadly, stood up, picked up the music score in his hand, and prepared to go out.

"Then I'll leave first. Do you want to bring you something back tonight?"

"No, I'll order takeout."

"Okay, eating takeout is not healthy. How about I bring you a can of crock soup?"

"No, no, no, you eat what you have, don't worry about me, just pay more attention to the members of the group!"

Chen Qiu lay on the bed and waved his hand to Qin Xian, asking him to leave.

Qin Xian had no choice but to say "Okay" and turned to leave.

After a long time when he heard the sound of Qin Xian leaving the room, Chen Qiu turned around, lay on his back on the bed, stared at the ceiling above his head in a daze, and then laughed and cursed angrily.

"This kid is such a bastard. He doesn't care about anything. He acts like a hands-off boss, even more hands-off than me. Speaking of which...should I find a second concertmaster in the orchestra?"

Chen Qiu fell into thinking.

Although Qin Xian can drive the entire orchestra forward, I always feel that he is a bit tired. Would it be better to have an assistant or something to help reduce my burden?
Or should we continue to train him and let him try to lead the orchestra forward?
Chen Qiu groped his chin, and after thinking for a long time, he finally shook his head slightly.

Forget it, let’s not worry about the development of strings for now. There are too many people available for strings, and the orchestra as a whole tends to be strong on strings and weak on winds.

Therefore, the focus now is on the wind instruments. No one on the wind instruments can lead the entire orchestra...

Chen Qiu thought for a while, then threw this idea away, casually pulled his schoolbag from his side, took out the wrinkled music score in the schoolbag, and took out the written note from his pocket. With less than half of the pen remaining, I slowly started to read through it again.

"No matter what, let's win the domestic championship first."

……

In the next few days, the Beijing Grand Theater was still overcrowded, and almost every hall had performances taking turns every day.

These performances are not completely closed, they are even open to the public.

In the next few days, Chen Qiu even saw many parents bringing their children over to listen to music and cultivate their sentiments.

After all, the main point of these college students' performances is that they are cheap and free.

The judges didn't have any objections to this, but continued to evaluate the subsequent bands seriously.

However, the life of Chen Qiu and his orchestra has become more painful than the time when they first came to the capital.

Because they need to rehearse.

Professor Li deserves to be the responsible teacher here. He doesn't just come here to travel and eat and drink. On the contrary, he does a lot of things.

Just like rehearsing.

The place where they are rehearsing now is what Professor Li asked for. It feels a bit like a rehearsal hall in a stage room.

Of course, compared to the dance studio, the radio equipment in this room is better and will not cause particularly serious reverberation.

It's just that... rehearsing in this place makes everyone in the orchestra a little uncomfortable.

They were familiar with the feeling of rehearsing in the Chen Qiu Family Orchestra, the feeling of being able to see the densely packed seats under the stage, as if they were about to perform, but now it was painful to come to this place.

It feels like being locked up.

Therefore, many of them even complained to Professor Li, wanting to see if they could move to a new place to rehearse. Rehearsing in this place was too oppressive.

As a result, before Professor Li could speak, Chen Qiu spoke directly.

"As a professional orchestra member, you can't avoid rehearsing just because the rehearsal venue is poor. Now that Professor Li can find a room big enough to accommodate all of us, it's already good. The room has also been acoustically treated. If this is still possible, Picking and choosing, then I suggest that we go directly to practice on the street, go to the park to practice, and see where it is more enjoyable to practice! Remember, this is not Haicheng, and this is not our home court, but you are all the future Professional musician!”

Even though Chen Qiu is usually very talkative, few people in the orchestra are particularly afraid of Chen Qiu, but when they heard Chen Qiu being so serious, everyone in the orchestra obviously did not dare to continue complaining.

They could only put aside the dislike in their hearts and began to continue rehearsing seriously.

After all, there was nothing wrong with what Chen Qiu said.

Looking back now, they thought that the rehearsal venue they wanted was nothing more than those concert halls, but where in the capital could they find a concert hall for them to rehearse?
Most concert halls have resident orchestras, and some smaller concert halls require reservations in advance.

In other words, the concert hall in a certain university can be borrowed, but their relationship with those universities is competitive.

Even if the concert halls in some schools are available to them, will they still go to that place every day to rehearse in other concert halls?

Therefore, everyone only complained a little about the rehearsal place, but there was no other action. The other bands from all over the place were pretty much the same.

The vast majority of schools will randomly find a place to rehearse, and only a few schools will choose brother schools and borrow venues from them.

It's just that these bands that are still rehearsing are still a little confident that they can make it to the finals.

More bands that had already prepared for a tour, such as Li Tian and his Haicheng Normal University, completely disbanded after the performance.

If the final result hadn't come out yet and they still had to wait for the result, they might have scattered all over the sky and gone back to their respective homes to find their respective mothers.

Li Tian has not appeared in front of everyone these days.

He went to see Yu Tu and discussed many things with Yu Tu about him, his Haicheng Radio Symphony Orchestra, and his own former members.

Then without saying goodbye to everyone, he took the plane and flew towards Haicheng. I don't know what he did.

If Professor Li hadn't told Chen Qiu, Chen Qiu wouldn't even have known that Li Tian had left the capital.

As for Zhao Zitong, who had met Chen Qiu before and the two chatted for a while, she was equally busy these days.

Chen Qiu had mentioned to her before that there was a group soul in her orchestra, and she began to seriously think about and observe her own performance.

I found that just as Chen Qiu said, there were many places where she did not conduct, and the orchestra could move forward according to her ideas.

However, compared to Chen Qiu, her impression of the orchestra's rehearsals was relatively shallow. The orchestra's entire rehearsals were followed by Wang Hai. However, Wang Hai did not come to the capital this time after rehearsing the entire work for them all. Therefore, it is difficult for Zhao Zitong to make more changes to Wang Hai's rehearsals.

She just led the orchestra several times a day and kept thinking about her role in the orchestra.

As her understanding of herself deepens, the connection between her and the orchestra gradually becomes stronger.

The Eastern Normal University led by Zhao Zitong is rehearsing hard, and the other eight major universities are also training hard.

It is worth mentioning that the performance of Central Normal University and Western Normal University is shocking.

Unlike many people's common sense that music conservatories are better than normal universities, the professional level of Central Normal University is actually very clearly superior to the students of Wucheng Conservatory of Music.

Even if it is possible that the students of Wucheng Conservatory of Music are also in the second group, it is a pity...

Their second regiment and Chen Qiu's second regiment are completely different concepts.

The orchestra sent by Wucheng Conservatory of Music even seemed to be here to play.

They weren't even playing in a concert hall, but in a chamber music hall.

After listening to the performance at Central Normal University, Chen Qiu turned around and went to the chamber music hall to listen to the performance at Wucheng Conservatory of Music. Chen Qiu even had doubts about whether what he heard was a performance by an inferior university.

Of course, calling it a not-so-first-rate university is definitely an exaggeration, but Wucheng Conservatory of Music actually has some strength.

It's just that the gap between them and Central Normal University is scary.

At the same time, the gap between Sichuan Conservatory of Music and Western Normal University is equally shocking.

Originally, Chen Qiu thought that even the second group of the Nine Music Schools should be able to stabilize other universities, even C9 universities and Normal University.

But judging from the current performance...

The ranking is biased towards the second group of the Yin Yuan, whose composition is more complicated.

Obviously, just establishing a group is enough to drag all their resources into it. As for the second group and the national competition, they are more of a formality and have no intention of truly participating in it.

Again, for the Conservatory of Music, the nine-school league is their most important competition. This national competition is more of a music showcase for other schools to participate.

And Chen Qiu also roughly understood why the group of people in the internal ranking of conductors that he had watched were so miserable towards his own Haiyin Second Group.

If you look at other orchestras, the two conservatories of music of Central China and Hua Guo directly announced that they would withdraw from the competition. Other old music conservatories were perfunctory, that is, newly established music conservatories such as Zhezhou Conservatory of Music and Harbin Conservatory of Music were still willing to Come over and mess around with your rankings.

Then you have an old-school band from the Top 3, Haicheng Conservatory of Music, coming over to kill everyone.

Really, is fried fish fun?

What happened to my brothers in the fish pond?

Thinking of this, Chen Qiu took out his mobile phone and looked through the comments of Haiyin 2nd Group, and then almost burst out.

The score has dropped below 2 points, and a lot of conductors are complaining.

Suggestions like "fish fryer", "bottom man", "who understands my family" are flying everywhere.

Seeing the angry expressions of these people, Chen Qiu could only shake his head helplessly and continue to work hard to lead the orchestra to rehearse, not bothering to pay attention.

time flies.

After the last band performed, the main competition of the national competition came to an end here.

After getting up the next morning, Chen Qiu even felt a little uncomfortable.

His first reaction should have been to go see any noteworthy bands today, but he didn't expect that his hand would reach nothing.

He looked at the clean bedside table, rubbed his head, then got up to take a shower and get dressed, so that he could wake up a little before going to wake up Qin Xian, who was still sleeping next to him.

The two went downstairs to eat together.

Even though the main game has ended, there will be no changes to their schedule.

He just led everyone in the orchestra to continue focusing on their final piece, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.

Everyone seems to have become accustomed to the daily routine of waking up every morning and rehearsing after breakfast. They even have the illusion that they are already members of a professional orchestra and not just ordinary college students.

They rehearsed as usual.

At noon, everyone ordered takeout together. After asking the school for reimbursement within the scope of the school's meal subsidy, everyone wrapped themselves in the huge down jacket from the school and slept on the floor for a lunch break.

The days of sleeping on the ground wrapped in down jackets even reminded them of their previous training days.

The thick down jacket completely wrapped them from head to toe, and the black outer skin was resistant to stains. All they had to do was pat it with their hands when they got up. Even though this down jacket was a school uniform, it became everyone's favorite piece of clothing in the band, and even none of them.

However, just as everyone was resting, the door to their rehearsal room was suddenly opened. Professor Li walked in from outside the room with a serious face, glanced around the people in the room, and nodded slightly.

"Everyone wake up, the results of the first round of the main competition are out."

The moment everyone who had not paid attention to Professor Li heard these words, their brains woke up.

They sat up from the ground and stared at Professor Li excitedly, without anyone making a sound.

They are waiting for the results.

Professor Li slowly opened the letter in his hand, looked at the information on it, and said to everyone.

"We passed the main draw and entered the finals."

Everyone still made no sound, after all, they all knew that they would definitely enter the finals.

They are waiting for Professor Li's next content.

For example...

score?

Chen Qiu happened to come in from outside the house at this moment. After seeing that everyone in the house was paying attention to Professor Li, he felt a little interested, so he folded his arms and leaned against the door, waiting for the follow-up development.

Professor Li seemed to understand everyone's thoughts.

Under the expectant eyes of everyone, he put away the letter paper in his hand and spoke slowly.

"Congratulations, the judges scored 9.8 points, ranking first in the national competition..."

"First place!"

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