Entertaining Children

  Chapter 567 When you are old

  "Thank you for your wonderful performance, Brother Youyuan!" After Liu Youyuan, the second player, walked off the stage after singing, Xiao Yao also returned to the stage again and began to continue his work as a host. Before introducing the next competition song, Xiao Yao gave a special compliment: "Leave aside for the time being. I think Brother Youyuan has made great progress in Chinese. What do you think?"

  Just now Liu Youyuan sang a Chinese song. This is the second time he sang a Chinese song on this show. At least in terms of pronunciation, it is indeed a lot stronger than when he sang a Chinese song last time. This is the recording of the eighth game of this season. It took almost two months. Obviously, Liu Youyuan has been studying Chinese continuously and diligently during these two months. Xiao Yao could hear it and pointed it out to the audience by the way.

   "Yes!" the audience applauded and shouted.

  "Thank you!" Liu Youyuan, who had reached the middle of the passage in front of the stage, stopped after listening to the interpretation of the agent Zhang Qiao next to him. He turned and folded his hands together and bowed slightly to thank Xiao Yao on the stage. He didn’t have a microphone in his hand at this time, and he was a little away from Xiao Yao. The noisy environment made him not sure whether Xiao Yao could hear him, and he didn’t want to yell, so when he was speaking, he I also deliberately exaggerated the two Chinese words "thank you". Because at this time Xiao Yao was attracted by his stopping motion and looked in his direction. Whether he can hear it or not, he can always see it.

"Next, I will introduce you to the next competition song." After seeing Liu Youyuan thank you for leaving, Xiao Yao also introduced the next competition song. "The name of this song is "When You Are Old". It is based on a poem of the same name written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats."

  "Wow~" Hearing a song adapted from a poem by a great foreign poet, there was an exclamation in the audience, and Xiao Yao smiled very satisfied.

   "Qin Xiaodong!"

   "Qin Xiaodong!"

  Someone in the audience yelled, and Xiao Yao's smile froze on his face.

  In fact, it's not to blame the audience for this reaction. Qin Xiaodong originally made his debut as a campus singer. Although he graduated from Shuimu University, which is a part of science and engineering, his elegant temperament, elegant conversation, and the full of literary and youthful atmosphere in the songs he wrote before have also won him A nickname of "music poet". Moreover, among the songs he performed before, not only was a semi-original work re-filled in Chinese for a Korean song, but in the previous show, he also brought an unpublished original song like Xiao Yao. Although Xiao Yao has published three well-known modern poems and re-composed works for Song Ci "Shui Tiao Ge Tou", his image is really changeable and detached, far less than Qin Xiaodong's maintenance of more than a dozen. The image of "Music Poet" in Nian was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so when Xiao Yao talked about songs adapted from poetry, the audience's first reaction was Qin Xiaodong, not Xiao Yao.

   "Huh? Hehe~" Qin Xiaodong, who was watching the live broadcast in the room, was also taken aback by the shouts of the audience. Then, when he reacted, he looked at Xiao Yao's unhappy expression and became amused.

"Stop!" Xiao Yao raised a hand with an unhappy expression, "Although Brother Xiaodong has the nickname "music poet", he is not the only singer who can write poems. He can adapt poems into songs. He is not alone!"

"I know that there is a singer in this show who also wrote poems. Have you heard of "Birds and Fish"? Have you heard of "Seeing and Not Seeing"? Have you heard of "If Talents Are Not Recognized"? And, Gong Have you heard Chen's "Shui Tiao Song Tou"?" Xiao Yao threw a series of questions to the audience.

   "Oh~" The audience reacted, and some "heard" shouts were mixed with cheers.

"If he didn't tell me, I really didn't remember that this little guy also wrote a lot of excellent modern poems," Qin Xiaodong closed his laughter and looked at Xiao Yao on the TV. "Now listen to what he said. How do I feel that the nickname "music poet" is more suitable for him?"

   "I have heard of "Shui Tiao Song Tou", which capitals he said before are poems written by him?" In another room, Hong Wei also looked at Xiao Yao on TV and asked his manager Wu Youdao.

"Well," Wu You said, nodding his head, "He wrote "Birds and Fish" to his girlfriend. "Seeing and Not Seeing" and "If the Talents Are Not Recognized" are both the acting department he participated in the Shen Opera last year. The art exams were all modern poems. In fact, he recited an ancient poem "Qinyuanchun. Snow" when he participated in the "Ancient Poetry Conference", which he wrote by himself. These were all written last year. Excellent poems that have been popular in literary circles for a long time, and literary magazines have published them."

"No wonder he was able to write the ancient poetry-like lyrics of the previous "Dream of Dreams". He turned out to be a poet." Hong Wei shook his head and said, "What kind of enchanted son did this old Xiao give birth to!" "

On the stage of the    studio, when Xiao Yao introduced his song, the staff had already come up to make preparations. There were only two staff members who came up. One of them carried a chair in one hand, a microphone stand in the other, a guitar in the other, and a metal stand in the other. After Xiao Yao asked the audience a series of questions, one had already placed the chair and microphone stand in the center of the stage, and the other was standing aside with a guitar waiting for Xiao Yao.

"Next, please enjoy the performance brought by the next singer." Xiao Yao said, turned and walked to a dimly lit position in the center of the stage, sat down on that chair, and put the microphone in his hand on the microphone. The rack was installed, and the guitar and the metal rack were handed over by a staff member next to it.

  The staff exited and left, and the lights in the middle part of the upper part of the stage were also lit up. The audience who saw Xiao Yao immediately burst into cheers and screams.

At this time, there was only Xiao Yao on the whole stage. He was sitting on a black chair, holding a very ordinary-looking primary color acoustic guitar in his hand, and there was a harmonica stand and a harmonica hanging around his neck. Place it on the harmonica stand, just below his mouth. In front of him, was a microphone stand that held the microphone not far in front of his mouth and was almost flush with his mouth.

A scene like    immediately reminded many people of the scene where Xiao Yao played three musical instruments and sang “Those Flowers” ​​in the last blind selection of The Good Voice the year before. Although Xiao Yao only had two musical instruments this time, one less tambourine under his feet than he did at that time, but the performance of the singer playing two musical instruments at the same time on this stage still made the audience feel very excited.

Some viewers with good memories even remembered that when Xiao Yao played three musical instruments at the same time in the blind selection of "The Good Voice", he seemed to be dressed like today with a white shirt and blue jeans, and then some unreasonable guesses: "Could it be that" This is Xiao Yao's standard for singing folk songs?"

In Xiao Yao’s thoughts, the three instruments in "Good Voice" were played together the year before. This time it was just playing two instruments at the same time. For him, it was not a fancy trick or big trick at all, but others obviously didn’t. Think so. In addition to Xiao Siqi's relatively calm performance, several singers in the lounge all had their own reactions to Xiao Yao's preparation to play two instruments at the same time.

  "Playing two instruments at the same time? That's great!" Liang Xueying praised Xiao Yao while watching TV.

   "I knew, this kid has to make some tricks every game!" Hong Wei sighed with his forehead.

   "It seems to be less than in the "Good Voice" the year before, is he giving us face?" Qin Xiaodong smiled.

   "Will he play two instruments at the same time? Can he do it?" Liu Youyuan in the hall looked back at his manager Zhang Qiao in surprise. Because there was still Wei Shile who had completed the competition, Liu Youyuan asked this sentence in Chinese while making gestures.

"Yes," Zhang Qiao nodded and replied in Chinese. "When he participated in a competition the year before, he also performed three instruments at the same time. In addition to the guitar and the harmonica, there was also a tambourine, which was placed on the ground with his feet. Come knock it. There is a video of his game on the Internet. If you want to watch it, I will find it for you later."

   "Really? I want to see too, can I see it together?" Wei Shile also started. Wei Shile was also surprised by Xiao Yao's image, and was also very interested in how Xiao Yao could play three musical instruments at the same time.

   "Okay, no problem!" Zhang Qiao said, "Back then, Xiao Yao played three musical instruments at the same time. It was a hot topic. You can easily find the video of the game two years ago on the Internet."

  On the stage, Xiao Yao, who was ready, gestured to the band conductor Liu Tong, and lightly plucked the strings of the guitar in his hand. As the guitar sounded, the piano in the live band also rang.

  "When you are old, your hair is gray, and sleepy ~ drowsy. When you are old, you can't walk, keep warm by the fire, and remember your youth..."

  After a simple but very moving prelude, Xiao Yao's clean and simple voice rang. The gentle tone and soft expression easily calmed the audience and listened to Xiao Yao's singing quietly.

  This is a song adapted by Zhao Zhao from the previous life based on the poems of Irish poet Yeats, but it is the interpretation of Li Jian and Karen Mok in the previous life "I Am a Singer". Xiao Yao felt that this song was not suitable for female voices, so he basically ignored the version sung by Karen Mok. The song now brought to this stage is a synthesis of the two versions of the original authors Zhao Zhao and Li Jian. Come.

Although "I Am a Singer" in his previous life and Xiao Yao's current "Singer" is a very similar show, Xiao Yao's current song appears as an original song, and he never planned to show it on this show. He has the ability to "splice" songs, and the world does not have the world famous song "Life of Roses", so in the arrangement, Xiao Yao still used Zhao Zhao's original version as the basis, and did not use it in the prelude like Li Jian. In the "August Photo Gallery", add a melody of "Life of Roses"

However, the original version of Zhao Zhao was written for his mother. The whole song is a little bit depressed, and Li Jian is more in line with the original poem to sing for lovers, so Xiao Yao, who has never been a decadent stream, is less than Zhao Zhao in singing. It's a bit depressed, more positive and sunny, and also retains the two changes in the lyrics in Li Jian's version. Changed the "snooze by the fire" at the beginning to "warm by the fire", and the last sentence "I wish this song was for you" changed to "I want to sing this song for you. The song." Only because of the lack of the melody of "Life in the Rose", the paragraph "I can't keep all the years" added by Li Jian was also abandoned by Xiao Yao.

Zhao Zhao’s song is basically two repetitions of two different lengths of "When You Are Old". Between the two repetitions, there is a musical interlude that contains the sound of the harmonica, and this interlude is also It became Xiao Yao's moment of dazzling skills in this performance.

   "Woo~"

After singing the first half of the song, the song came to the interlude part. Xiao Yao also lowered his head and put his mouth on the harmonica in front of him and started playing. At the same time, he kept his hands, accompanied by the sound of drums and piano. Playing the guitar in hand.

  Seeing the expected scene, many viewers wanted to stand up and cheer and scream. However, Xiao Yao’s gentle and soothing song is a song that needs to be listened to quietly. The audience who have been emotionally excited by Xiao Yao’s performance in front of them cannot bear to make too much and intense noise to destroy this song. Artistic conception, so everyone only expressed their attitude towards Xiao Yao's performance with a round of applause.

"Really great!" In the lounge, several other singers were also intoxicated listening to Xiao Yao's singing and playing. Even Wei Shile and Liu Youyuan, the two people who saw Xiao Yao playing two instruments at the same time for the first time , It also pressed the shock in my heart to the bottom of my heart, and did not use too intense words and body movements to express it to destroy my emotions when listening to this song.

  "When I am old, I will sing this heart song for you~"

  In the original version of Zhao Zhao's previous life, the song ended with an instrumental performance for almost half a minute after the song was sung. In this place, Xiao Yao retains the way the passage ends with instrumental performance, but adds a harmonica accompaniment more than the original soundtrack. So after singing the last sentence, I lowered my head again to get on the harmonica, and once again showed the audience a technique of playing both harmonica and guitar at the same time.

Seeing that Xiao Yao once again demonstrated the skill of playing the two instruments at the same time, there was a round of applause that was not too intense, and as Xiao Yao continued to play, the applause was not as it did during the interlude. It disappeared, but slowly became the audience shaking their bodies or heads while tapping their palms to respond to Xiao Yao.

As the audience clapped their hands softly, Xiao Yao's right hand swept across the guitar strings for the last time, and his mouth left the harmonica. At the same time, the accompaniment of the piano and drums gradually dissipated along with the guitar and harmonica. in the air. After the performance of the entire song, Xiao Yao raised his head to look at the audience for the first time, still with a gentle smile on his face.

  This time, the audience's reaction was obviously much more enthusiastic, and many audience members stood up with red eyes. However, there was still no cheering or screaming, even the audience who stood up with red eyes, just like the audience sitting in the seats, just clapped silently.

  (End of this chapter)