On the way back to the hotel, the old bartender apologized to Qin Jian for the handshake incident.

"I'm sorry, Jian,"

Qin Jian hugged the old bartender and said it was okay, "It's a little meaning." ”

But the old bartender then threw all the blame directly on Griesbeck.

Qin Jian sounded like an old man was saying bad things about another old man.

"Grisbeck, a narrow-minded man, must be jealous of your talent. ”

Qin Jian was puzzled by this, if he really wanted to analyze the reason why he was refused to shake hands, then he felt that he should be implicated by the relationship between the old bartender.

Who made the two old rivals?

But looking at the old bartender didn't seem like a joke, he said, "Why, I'm just a nobody." ”

The old bartender asked, "Do you know which of Griesbeck's most famous CDs is?"

This Qin Jian really doesn't know.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, which caused a great response in Europe when it was first recorded, made him rise from an academic teacher to one of Europe's leading pianists. ”

The old bartender paused, "Since then, he has devoted himself to the study of Rahyan's piano works for the next few decades, and he ran the Rachmaninov Piano Research Academy in Finland.

Suffice it to say, he had a collection of Rachmaninov's piano works performed by almost all the musicians in the world, and it was disgraceful that he always felt that he was the best interpreter of Rach, and he even refused a bouquet from Zilman at the end of a concert in St. Petersburg. ”

"Tsk. "This time, Qin Jian understands.

Zilman, a close disciple of Horowitz, a guest performer at the Rachmaninov Research Conference, an orthodox defender of the Russian piano, and a Rach expert in the true sense of the word.

"Bad review. ”

Qin Jian wasn't sure if the two-movement Rasan he played had already been picked up by Grisbeck, but he bet that the Paganini-themed rhapsody he played must have been secretly heard by the old guy many times.

Although it was a little crazy, as soon as he thought about it, Qin Jian was comfortable.

...

After returning to the hotel in the evening, there was no program, Qin Jian took a shower and lay on the bed to watch the Norwegian Football Super League.

The old bartender rarely didn't run around tonight, probably because he hadn't fully digested tonight's little reunion, and seeing that Qin Jian was still watching football, he followed Qin Jian to watch it.

The game on TV was extremely intense, and the two teams continued to attack each other at the beginning of the second half.

Just as the RED striker received a long pass from midfield, turned and fired a volley into the yellow team's goal.

Qin Jian clapped his hands, got up and shouted, "Good ball!"

Unexpectedly, the old bartender splashed a basin of cold water: "Be quiet, Jian, he's offside." ”

And just like that, the young and old duo spent their first day at the Bergen Festival.

Overall, there is something to be gained.

...

At nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, Qin Jian turned Chi Heng at the door of the hotel and rushed to the first performance site on the second day of the music festival.

'New Product Conference. ’

A very non-classical concert title.

In fact, this is not a classical music show.

If the music of the 400 years after the Middle Ages is defined as the period of classical music, then the moment of the birth of Impressionism means that the period of modern music is coming.

Judging from the brief introduction of the repertoire, this concert should be a pure conference of new 20th-century music after Impressionism.

Qin Jian has dabbled too little in modernist works, and I have to say that he participated in it, which was "The Girl in the Garden" performed in the second round of the Huayun Competition.

Although it is a modernist work, it is basically still in the category of mainstream music in the twentieth century.

Meng Bo's creation is also explored from the musical scale, sequence, color and other techniques, and the structure of the music.

Today's concert, however, began with the performance of the first composer who was "also a performer", and the whole scene could be described as a kind of miasma.

Many viewers and visitors left after listening to the first work, and they seemed to feel that they were going to the wrong door.

And it's no wonder, since the first piece can hardly be defined as a piece of piano music.

In the words of Chi Rui on the side: "If you tie my Doudou to the piano and starve for three days, you can make this movement." ”

Doudou is a dog, but sitting at the piano is a modern composer.

Although Qin Jian does not have a good impression of modernist music, this does not mean that he agrees with Chi Rui's views.

Qin Jian: "Listen to it again, maybe there will be more dogs in the back." “

Chi Rui: "Hahaha-you are so bad!"

The next few composers who appeared brought similar works, perhaps because most of the languages in which they introduced their works before they performed were in English, so Qin Jian spent a lot of time looking for a listening angle to the work, and in the end he found nothing, except for some noise later.

Perhaps Cai Song would be more suitable to come to this concert.

It was not until the appearance of Chi Heng, whose work is a duet of piano and violin, that the situation was improved.

He has incorporated some colors of Chinese music into the modern orchestration, and listening to a song can still make people feel his self-expression in it, at least Qin Jian thinks.

Then Chi Heng's subsequent works are also good, probably because the first group of music that is really difficult to listen to paves the way for the later works, and all the works with tonal melodies in the later works sound good.

Except for the most dog work in the middle, this work can never be called a musical work.

Qin Jian can only define it as performance art.

It seems that this composer is paying homage to John Cage's "4 Minutes 33 Seconds".

Composer John Cage wrote a masterpiece in 1952, the whole work has no sound, a work without sound, counting from the time the pianist sits in front of the piano, 4 minutes and 33 seconds, the pianist gets up and leaves, never touching the keys during the process.

There are 4 minutes and 33 seconds in the front and 2 minutes and 22 seconds in the back.

Yes, Qin Jian witnessed the birth of such a scene, the composer held the violin, didn't even bother to take the special bow, and stood motionless until 2 minutes and 22 seconds later.

He bowed.

The applause was still very warm.

One thing to say, Qin Jian only wants to pull out his 40-meter machete for such experimentalist music.

Soon an hour and a half passed, and the works on the program were carried out to the last song.

"Hubbard King, titled 'Snow Mountain'. ”

Qin Jian looked at the familiar name, and his heart was full of the last bit of hope.

Hubbard King, as a young composer from the United States, has walked to the stage of the Grammys and entered the show of the Victoria's Secret sisters.

As a blonde young man with a black frame appeared, the audience burst into applause.

There were many people chanting Jin's name, Qin Jian looked over, there were not many people left in the hall - okay, a large area, pay attention, it was a large area, a large number of women holding up fans cards.

Dare to love this is all here to chase stars, damn it, no wonder the applause of "2 minutes and 22 seconds" just now was so warm.

"The case has been solved. ”

Qin Jian sighed.

At the scene of an international classical music festival, a new product of 20th century music, more than half of the audience came to chase stars.

"What if that's another 50 years?"

Looking at the microphone slowly raised by the eyed man on the stage, Qin Jian asked himself a question.