Chapter 586: Celebrity Match
Sun Tingting's mentor is Oliver Hill, a professor at Chambers College of Music, and a world-renowned musician and violinist. He is not only a mentor to Sun Tingting, but also a mentor to Laura Shim, the victim of the murder three years ago. Since two of his students were involved, he was very concerned about the case. After closing the case, he learned more about the details of the case, and even learned about Xiao Yao's role in solving the case.
Professor Hill didn't care too much about Xiao Yao's reasoning, searching and arresting the suspect in it, but when he heard that Xiao Yao deduced that Laura Sim might have a history of drug abuse by watching Laura Chim's performance video, Professor Hill was very interested and paid attention to Sun Tingting's boyfriend.
Professor Hill had heard Sun Tingting say that her boyfriend also played music, but he was mainly pop music. The violin version of "faded" submitted by Sun Tingting yesterday was Sun Tingting's own adaptation, and Professor Hill did not know that Xiao Yao had come to New York. Today, when Sun Tingting said that Xiao Yao helped her write this new tune, and the sample was also recorded by Xiao Yao for her yesterday, he had the idea of meeting Xiao Yao.
Hearing that Xiao Yao was in the school, Professor Hill immediately contacted several musicians, and then asked Sun Tingting to call Xiao Yao over.
Professor Hill left Xiao Yao behind, also wanting to take the opportunity to observe Xiao Yao up close. It's not that Professor Hill suspects that some of the musicians who are now practicing together are still taking drugs, but he wants to see if Xiao Yao will see something he hasn't seen.
When the first joint practice was over, Professor Hill stopped all the musicians, and then turned his head and asked Xiao Yao with a smile about his feelings. Xiao Yao is not very good at classical music, but his brain is definitely very good. The first time you practice together, you will inevitably have some mistakes and omissions. When the musicians played, Xiao Yao listened quietly, silently, and did not interrupt easily, but when Professor Hill asked, Xiao Yao also pointed out the mistakes and omissions of several musicians without timidity.
Professor Hill could hear these mistakes and omissions. But it's rare for a young man in his early twenties to be able to accurately hear the mistakes of each player when playing several instruments at the same time, even if he wrote it. Originally, I wanted to see the poisonous aspects of Xiao Yao's eyes, but I didn't expect Xiao Yao's ears to be very poisonous. It was the first time for Professor Hill to feel such a solid musical literacy in such a young person, and he even had the idea of accepting Xiao Yao as a student.
In addition to playing the violin, Professor Hill is also a master at both composition and conducting. Even if Sun Tingting said that Xiao Yao's violin is only one of the instruments he can play and is not of a very high level, Professor Hill feels that it seems to be a good choice to accept him as a student to teach composition and conducting.
However, Xiao Yao only appreciates classical music and has no idea of devoting himself to it. And now that Sun Tingting is about to graduate from Chambers & Partners and can end the separation of the two, he doesn't want to stay here for a few more years and continue to separate the two places. In the face of Professor Hill's kindness, Xiao Yao almost did not hesitate and immediately declined.
I heard that Xiao Yao is still an actor, and he is still studying in a film and television school in Huaxia and studying acting, Professor Hill did not force it, but just asked Xiao Yao to accompany Sun Tingting to practice in the next two days. Regarding this request to spend more time with Sun Tingting, Xiao Yao naturally agreed without hesitation.
Chambers is full of professional musicians, and it doesn't take too long to practice a piece.
During the day, he practiced with other musicians, practiced alone in the afternoon, and worked with Xiao Yao in the evening. This life lasted only three days, and Sun Tingting flew to Los Angeles with Xiao Yao and his private team.
Among Xiao Yao's acquaintances in the United States, more have settled in Los Angeles than in New York. In New York, there are only three people such as Sun Tingting, Paul, and TJ, and in Los Angeles, there are Keith Craig's family, the Smith family, the other two members of the "Immortals" band and Zhou Jingyi, and about a dozen people, plus Nathan and others from the parkour team, others from the "Daydream" band, and Liv Parimmer, a female singer under the "Daydream" studio, etc., there are even more acquaintances.
When Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting flew to Los Angeles, Keith Craig and his wife and the band "Immortals" came to the airport to pick them up.
When old friends meet, it is naturally lively again.
This time, Xiao Yao came to Los Angeles to participate in the Celebrity Competition, and the organizers have arranged a hotel for Xiao Yao and his team. After everyone exchanged pleasantries at the airport, everyone sent Xiao Yao and the four of them to the hotel.
"Jan, why don't you come to Los Angeles sooner? You have a training session tomorrow, a game the day after tomorrow, and we don't have much time to get together. On the way to the hotel, Dean Smith, who was in the same car with Xiao Yao, couldn't help but complain about Xiao Yaodao.
"Because Tiana had a rehearsal the other day. Xiao Yao replied with a smile.
"She's rehearsing, and you're not rehearsing, can't you come first?" Dean added.
"Idiot!" Sammy, who was sitting next to Dean, gave Dean the back of the head, "Jan is here to accompany his girlfriend, not to perform with us!"
"You?" Dean clutched his head, looking at Sammy aggrieved and surprised.
"Why didn't you see Kim? Isn't she in Los Angeles?" asked Sun Tingting suddenly.
"Well, she's filming, and she's not in Los Angeles today or tomorrow. Dean nodded and said, "But the backstage game, Kim will go." We all booked our tickets, in the second and third rows, basically together. ”
"The second and third rows, so close?" Xiao Yao said with a smile.
"Of course, we paid a lot of money to get it just to see you play up close!" Dean laughed.
"Thank you!" Xiao Yao said to Dean with a hint of emotion in his heart.
The organizers also provided some family tickets for the stars participating in the Masters Competition. Xiao Yao got four tickets, which had already been given to Sun Tingting and Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan, and Zhou Zhihao, who said that they were going to come to the United States to watch the game, and even their parents, Chen Chen and other domestic relatives and friends couldn't take their turns, let alone these friends in the United States.
Tickets for the Masters are not as hard to come by as tickets for the All-Star Game, but they are not easy to come by. And Xiao Yao told them relatively late that he was going to participate in this year's All-Star Weekend Celebrity Game, and at that time, it was estimated that the tickets had been sold out, especially the high-priced tickets in the front row, which were almost certainly sold out early. It definitely took a lot of effort and money for them to get tickets for the second and third rows.
The group arrived at the hotel, and after Xiao Yao and the others settled their luggage, Keith Craig and his wife, as the big landowners, invited Xiao Yao and the others to enjoy a sumptuous meal.
After dinner, Keith Craig and his wife left time for the young people to say goodbye to them for a while. Fang still took Pei Minyi to contact the organizers of the Celebrity Tournament to confirm some necessary activity schedules. Dean and the others knew that Xiao Yao didn't like the atmosphere of the party very much, plus they were really closely connected through a band, and everyone hadn't gotten together to sing and play musical instruments for a long time, so Dean and these small landlords pulled Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting to their rehearsal room together.
This time in the United States, Xiao Yao had no plans to perform with the band "Immortals", nor did he help them write new songs, so everyone just played casually in the rehearsal room to find out how they felt when they practiced and performed together before.
The band "Immortals" is an artist under the "Daydream" studio, and their rehearsal room is also in the studio "Daydream". In the music studio, there is no shortage of musical instruments. Even if there are no violins in the rehearsal room of the band "Immortals", there are instruments in the studio. Since it was casual play, Sun Tingting on the side couldn't help but go to the instrument room to find a violin and join in.
Although they practiced a few old songs written by Xiao Yao for this band, and there was no violin soundtrack in them, Sun Tingting is now an excellent violinist with arranging ability, and she is very familiar with Xiao Yao's songs. When this violin is added, not only does it not appear abrupt and incongruous, but it has a more shocking effect.
Speaking of which, Xiao Yao hasn't broadcast live for a long time. This time playing with the "Immortals" band and Sun Tingting is a very good live broadcast content, Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone, set up a good position, and did a live webcast on "Swimming Fish" for a period of time.
Although Xiao Yao hasn't broadcast live on Swimming Fish for a long time, the number of friends who follow his live broadcast room has not decreased much. As soon as Xiao Yao's live broadcast room started, many sailors who received the broadcast reminder message clicked into his live broadcast room. Many network anchors, including the three female anchors of Youyu, are also paying attention to Xiao Yao's live broadcast room. As soon as Xiao Yao started broadcasting, many anchors also received the news, and then came to check the room. In this way, there was a lot of commotion, and the management personnel in the background quickly noticed it, and hung Xiao Yao's live broadcast room on the recommendation on the homepage.
Although Xiao Yao and others almost did not interact with water friends and other anchors during the live broadcast, just Xiao Yao and other members of the "Immortals" band, especially the live broadcast content of his girlfriend Sun Tingting singing and playing musical instruments together is fresh and attractive enough, so the water friends are basically reluctant to leave after seeing it. The number of people in the live broadcast room reached more than one million in almost ten minutes, and it has continued to rise at a high speed.
Before Xiao Yao came to Los Angeles, the official website of the American professional basketball team had announced that the last star teammate to participate in this year's All-Star Weekend Celebrity Game was Xiao Yao. Many sailors who knew the news were not so surprised that Xiao Yao was in the United States at this time.
However, Xiao Yao practiced with the "Immortals" band in the rehearsal room two days before the game, and many sailors speculated whether Xiao Yao would be a guest performer with the "Immortals" band before and after a game during the All-Star Weekend in addition to participating in the competition. Xiao Yao didn't look at the barrage when he was playing, nor did he answer, and the barrage in the live broadcast room has been full of questions like this.
After everyone had fun, when Xiao Yao was about to put away the mobile phone and turn it off for live broadcast, he saw these problems in the barrage. However, Xiao Yao didn't answer directly, just said to the camera and let everyone see it for themselves when the time comes. After Xiao Yao helped the All-Stars of the American professional basketball team do some free publicity, he turned off the live broadcast software and went off the air.
At this time, it was not early, and Xiao Yao did not let Dean and others send it, but returned to the hotel with Sun Tingting.
The next day, Xiao Yao didn't play with Dean and the others again, because according to the organizer's arrangement, he still had to participate in a training session for the Masters today.
Playing on the court by himself, his girlfriend was watching from the side of the court, cheering, such a scene was something that Xiao Yao had envied countless times when he was studying in his previous life, and in this life, he had never had such an experience, so in this training session, Xiao Yao did not bring an assistant, nor did he go alone, but took Sun Tingting with him.
When Xiao Yao arrived at the venue of the training session, there were already many people on the court. Seeing Xiao Yao appear, Joey Bilsa immediately greeted him warmly and introduced Xiao Yao to the others on the field.
Like the celebrity charity basketball game that Xiao Yao participated in in Huaxia, this celebrity game is also an exhibition game, each team is a mixed team of professional and non-professional players, and it is also a mixed team of male and female players, and the coaches of each team are not professional basketball coaches. However, in terms of personnel selection, there are still some differences between the Celebrity Tournament and the Star Charity Tournament in Huaxia.
First of all, in terms of coaches, one of the two head coaches of the Masters is a basketball commentator of a sports TV station, and the other is a basketball reporter of a sports magazine, neither of them is a professional coach, but their jobs are related to basketball, which is the same as the star charity game in China, but the difference is that the two head coaches of the Masters Game are both women, and they are young beauties. Maybe the two beautiful head coaches with great looks will give people the impression that they are slightly worse in terms of tactical arrangements, so in addition to the head coach, the organizers also arranged a retired former All-Star player for each team as a player and assistant coach of the team.
In terms of roster, there are no active professional male players in this Masters tournament, and there is only one active American professional women's basketball player and two former American professional men's basketball players who have retired from each team.
From this point of view, the gap between the individual abilities of the players in the Masters seems to be smaller, but it is not.
Although the players of both teams are stars, the difference in career and age is very large. In terms of professionalism, in addition to professional players, the star charity game in China is also acting stars, and this celebrity game has professional basketball players, acting stars, sports stars of other sports, Internet celebrity anchors, and even team owners. In terms of age span, the oldest player is a team owner, who is almost 60 years old, while the youngest player is only 12 or 3 years old, and he is still a child. It's really grandparents and grandchildren competing together.
Although the gap between the players is relatively large, in general, the strength of the players of the two teams on paper is basically balanced. Professional female players, older players, and children all seem to be different, and there is one on one side of the two teams.
From the perspective of the choice of coaches and players, the entertainment of this celebrity game is far greater than that of the star charity match in China, but since it is a competition, there must be training sessions, at least let the teammates of the same team know and familiarize themselves with each other in advance.
There is only one pre-game training session arranged by the organizers, and it seems that they just want these star teammates to get to know each other and get acquainted with each other. As for tactics, it's mostly about watching the on-the-spot play of the four non-professional coaches or the free play of these stars.
In a game where professional and non-professional players are mixed, the professional players are not very good at giving it their all, and generally give up the opportunity to perform to the non-professional players. Since it depends on the free play of the stars, Joey Bilsa naturally thought of Xiao Yao, who he met at the Huaxia Star Charity Basketball Game that year. In his eyes, Xiao Yao's basketball level is almost close to the level of Chinese professional players, and it is estimated that it is better than most American star players, and what is even more rare is that Xiao Yao is also very comprehensive, able to attack and defend, can assist and score, and has the ability to decide the outcome of a game.
Therefore, he not only recommended Xiao Yao, a Chinese star, to the organizer very actively, but also strongly asked to arrange Xiao Yao into his team, and when he introduced Xiao Yao to other members of the team in the training session, he also completely introduced the posture of a core main player.