Chapter 678: Concert
Although no reporter was able to interview Xiao Yao because of the box office and word-of-mouth explosion of the animated film "Robot Wall-E", many entertainment media and film media reported that the film got a box office of 600 million within six days of its release, and the "potato" score was close to nine points. Such a wave of reports also further stimulated the subsequent box office results of this movie.
In addition, some media reporters also exposed the news that Xiao Yao was preparing to be a guest at Sun Tingting's concert that they heard from Fang Yi.
Generally speaking, the promotion period of a movie is counted as the promotion period of a movie from the time it is released to the end of the movie. During the release of the movie, even if the main creators do not post on Weibo every day to promote, they will also post some related news.
600 million box office in six days, with a score of nearly nine points, if it were another star, I am afraid it would have been celebrated on Weibo. In fact, Tong Luo, He Ying, Huang Shi and others have posted relevant Weibo in the past few days. When the box office of the movie broke 500 million, they all posted a Weibo on Weibo to celebrate the box office and express their gratitude to the fans, but Xiao Yao, who was the core creator, only posted a Weibo containing the trailer video and the premiere time before the movie was released, and in the whole six days after the release, the box office was almost 600 million, but Xiao Yao did not take any action at all.
Regarding Xiao Yao's relatively silent performance, in addition to some die-hard fans who feel that this is Xiao Yao's proud and cold performance, many netizens also feel strange. When some media exposed the news that Xiao Yao was going to be a guest at Sun Tingting's concert, many netizens suddenly realized.
Sun Tingting is Xiao Yao's girlfriend, which many fans and netizens who pay attention to Xiao Yao know, Xiao Yao is not surprising to be the guest of Sun Tingting's recital, but Sun Tingting's specific situation, especially the specific situation in the past two years, there are not many people who are clear.
"Didn't Sun Tingting study in the United States? Why did she hold a concert? Is it in the United States or in China? Could it be that Xiao Yao flew to the United States again?"
"Who is Sun Tingting?
At first hearing this news, many netizens and fans immediately sprung up with similar questions in their minds.
And the media reporters who exposed the news also have a better understanding of the mentality of netizens and readers, so while reporting that Xiao Yao was going to be a guest at Sun Tingting's concert, they also investigated Sun Tingting's experience in the past few years, and by the way, they also introduced Sun Tingting's situation.
Xiao Yao once said in the show that Sun Tingting was studying in the United States, and even told Luo Chongwen and others in "Longing for Life" that Sun Tingting had returned to China and was preparing for the concert, and also explained that Sun Tingting graduated from the Chambers Institute of Music in the United States. However, not everyone has watched that episode, and even if they do, not many people know what Chambers College of Music is like Qiu Zhihao and Ke Jun.
Among the conservatories in the United States, Berklee College of Music is the most well-known in China, because a Chinese male singer who debuted on Treasure Island more than ten years ago graduated there. The Chambers School of Music, which specializes in cultivating performers, not to mention Chinese netizens, even if it is a star in the Chinese entertainment circle and pop music circle, they don't know much.
When these media reports introduced Sun Tingting's alma mater, Chambers School of Music, in detail, many netizens were frightened by this school.
"The cradle of the world's performers and musicians? No wonder Xiao Yao has cooperated with many female stars in recent years, but there have been no scandals. No wonder the two have been separated from the United States for three years, and they still maintain a close relationship, it turns out that Xiao Yao's girlfriend is not simple, and she is also a musical genius!"
After learning about the Chambers Conservatory, many netizens have issued such an exclamation.
What followed was a rush to buy tickets for Sun Tingting's concert. However, to the disappointment of netizens who wanted to go to see Sun Tingting's concert with Xiao Yao as a guest performer, all the tickets for Sun Tingting's concert had been sold out.
Sun Tingting's recital is not held in a large stadium or a large theater or other performance venue, but in a professional music performance hall with a relatively small number of spectators, and the number of spectators for a concert is only two or three hundred.
Although classical music is relatively niche in China, the population base of China is large, and there are actually quite a few people who like classical music and concerts. Sun Tingting's four concerts were all held in China's super first-tier cities, where the standard of living is relatively high, and the proportion of people who like classical concerts is relatively high. Even if Xiao Yao is not used as a guest to promote, even if Sun Tingting is still not well-known in the classical music circle in China, the population of these cities is tens of millions, and it is not surprising that there are two or three hundred tickets in each city, and all of them are sold out.
After knowing this situation, many people remembered that Xiao Yao's tour last year was in LiveHouse, which also had a good venue effect, a small number of audiences, and sold out all tickets in advance.
Like Xiao Yao's LiveHouse tour, many high-priced tickets to Sun Tingting's concert soon appeared on the Internet, and similar messages were not uncommon on mobile phone messaging apps. However, the result was the same as Xiao Yao's LiveHouse tour, there were few applicants.
This situation quickly attracted the attention of the organizers of the concert, and the relevant person in charge found Lu Siyuan and Sun Tingting to discuss how to deal with it. Tickets have already been sold, and it is not feasible to change the venue, and the organizers mean that they want to increase the number of performances.
After studying at Chambers for three years, Sun Tingting's concert tour is like a ritual, an explanation of her own three years, and she does not expect to make money or become famous with this tour. Four concerts a month is basically her limit, and she knows that most of the information about asking for tickets on the Internet is due to Xiao Yao, but Xiao Yao's performance as a guest is only Yanjing, and there is no Xiao Yao even the other three performances in the original plan, let alone the increased number of performances, so Sun Tingting finally refused the organizer's request for additional performances.
Unlike a livehouse, a concert hall does not allow the audience to stand and listen. Since there is no additional performance, those netizens who did not buy tickets can only reluctantly give up the plan to listen to Sun Tingting and Xiao Yao's joint performance.
Although Sun Tingting did not agree to the addition, and the economic benefits did not increase, through such a wave of media reports and netizens' vote-seeking actions, Sun Tingting's popularity has increased a lot. And in the eyes of many people, Sun Tingting is no longer just "Xiao Yao's girlfriend", "second generation star", "Sun Zhihao's daughter", but also has the label of "a genius beauty violinist from a famous school".
Sun Tingting is Xiao Yao's girlfriend, Sun Zhihao's daughter, and Zhao Rui, Zhou Zhihao and Lin Qisan's friends. Sun Tingting's first concert at Yanjing Station, in addition to Lin Shaohua, who was filming in the crew, and Zhao Rui, who was rehearsing the graduation play, Sun Zhihao and his wife, Xiao Siqi and his wife, Lin Qisan and Zhou Zhihao's family also came to the scene. Of course, these people are different from ordinary audiences, and before the concert began, they also went backstage to encourage Sun Tingting and cheer her on.
As a guest performer of this concert, Xiao Yao was also in the lounge backstage at this time. However, this guy's performance experience is incomparably rich, and everyone doesn't need to cheer for Xiao Yao like Sun Tingting. However, everyone did not ignore Xiao Yao, and Xiao Siqi started to ridicule Xiao Yao.
"Bayi, you should comfort and comfort your mother!" After encouraging Sun Tingting, Xiao Siqi suddenly looked at Xiao Yao with a wicked smile.
"Ah, why?" Xiao Yao said a little strangely, "What's wrong with my mother?"
"Director Ye's directorial debut, the total box office is only 370 million, and the "Potato" score is only 7.3! Oh, it should be 7.4 now," Xiao Siqi said with a smile, "But your film directorial debut, only 7 days to get close to 700 million box office, almost twice her total box office, "Potato" score is also 1.5 points higher than her directorial debut! She is completely compared to her son as a mother, she will definitely be sad, shouldn't you comfort and comfort?"
"Huh?" Xiao Yao glared in surprise.
"Hmph!" Ye Jiaying snorted angrily and gave Xiao Siqi a roll of the eyes.
Everyone else in the lounge was amused by Xiao Siqi's words, and Sun Zhihao even stretched out his hand to point at Xiao Siqi and scolded with a smile: "Old Xiao, aren't you deliberately provoking the relationship between their mother and son?
"Hmph," Ye Jiaying snorted again, pouting and said, "The relationship between the two of us, can he provoke it? I have been a mother to Bayi for more than ten years, Bayi is better than me, I am too late to be happy, where is the sadness and sadness? I don't believe that Bayi doesn't know!"
"Dad, don't be sad!" Xiao Yao looked at Xiao Siqi and smiled, "Although the sales of none of your albums as a father can compare with the sales of my second album as a son, although I, as a son, have won the best album producer that you have never won as a father at the "Golden Disc Awards", but in my eyes, you are still a very good singer and album producer!"
"Uh~" Xiao Siqi choked for a moment, covered his chest with an uncomfortable face, looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Have you exposed your father's shortcomings like this?"
"Well done!" Ye Jiaying happily hugged Xiao Yao and said, eager to kiss him on the face.
"Haha~" Everyone else looked at the uncomfortable Xiao Siqi and laughed.
Sun Zhihao and Zhou Lixing, the two older generations, looked at Xiao Siqi with an unhappy face and smiled: "Retribution is not happy!"
In the midst of everyone's laughter, Sun Tingting felt that the tension before the performance had also decreased a lot.
The crowd didn't stay in the lounge for long, and seeing that the start of the show was approaching, they quickly left the backstage and went to the seats in the front row of the audience.
Xiao Yao is the guest performer of this concert, and the repertoire he participated in is concentrated at the end of this recital, and Sun Tingting has performed classical repertoire for almost an hour in front of him, and there is nothing Xiao Yao does. Although this concert is going to be released on DVD, and there are cameras on the scene to film the whole concert, this is not a TV show, and there is no live TV screen in the lounge, so Xiao Yao also left the lounge with the others to enjoy the performance of Sun Tingting's previous classical repertoire, and then went backstage to change clothes when he was about to come out to perform.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, all the preparations on the stage were completed, the musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra and Lu Siyuan took their places on the stage, and the concert officially began.
There was no presenter in charge of the announcement, and a narration-like welcome resounded in the loudspeakers. In the narrator's introduction, Sun Tingting, dressed in a black one-piece dress, walked onto the stage with a violin and a bow. Walking to the center of the front of the stage, Sun Tingting bowed to the audience.
In the applause of the audience, Sun Tingting got up and put the violin on her left shoulder, the applause stopped, and the audience quickly quieted down.
As Sun Tingting's right hand bow was pulled on the strings, the performance officially began.
Among the first ten pieces performed by Sun Tingting, there are solo violin and violin concertos, but all of them are world-renowned classical classical pieces.
This is a professional concert, the audience is full of people who come to enjoy classical music, there will definitely be no cheers and screams, basically the only feedback from the audience is their applause. Judging from the enthusiastic applause of the audience, Sun Tingting's performance in the previous part is undoubtedly very good.
However, not everyone who comes here is simply for the purpose of appreciating classical music.
In the front row of the audience, the most engaged were Sun Zhihao and his wife. In addition to the fact that Sun Tingting is their daughter, it is also because their family is neighbors with Lu Siyuan's family, and the couple has more contact with classical music, so their appreciation of this aspect is also higher.
followed by Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao, father and son. They are all professional musicians, although most of them are pop music, but they also have a certain interest and appreciation for classical music.
Once again, it is Ye Jiaying, Lin Qisan and Nina Aiyiguli, these three actors. They are not professional musicians, they don't know much about classical music, and they are not very interested, but they can still hear some flavors.
Zhou Lixing and Zhou Zhihao, the athlete father and son, are not very interested in classical music, and they are completely aimed at Sun Tingting. In the previous stage of the performance, what attracted them the most was not the performance of Sun Tingting and the musicians, but the dance performance of the two groups of dancers who appeared in the middle.
When two pieces were performed, there were also two dances on the stage with classical music performed by Sun Tingting and the orchestra as background music, one solo and one pas de deux. It is extremely rare to have a dance performance at a classical recital, not only Zhou Lixing and Zhou Zhihao father and son were attracted to attention, but also many people in the audience felt surprised. However, judging from the warm applause of the audience after the end of these two songs, the effect of this live music and dance scene is still very good.
These two dances with classical music as the background music are modern dance and classical dance types, the dance is not choreographed by Xiao Yao, but this idea was put forward by Xiao Yao during the rehearsal process of watching Sun Tingting, these three dancers are all from Qi Jia Studio's contracted dance troupe - "Dawn Dance Troupe", which was also recommended by Xiao Yao, so in a sense, this is also Xiao Yao's handiwork.
These ten classical songs are long and short, but on average they are longer than the average pop song, and with the simple interaction between Sun Tingting and the audience and the introduction of the orchestra musicians interspersed in the middle, it took almost an hour.
After the performance of the tenth piece, several more musicians took to the stage. Two of them carried electric guitars and basses, while the two empty-handed sat and stood behind the drum kit and electronic keyboards in the corner of the stage.
After introducing several new musicians of modern instruments, Sun Tingting introduced the performers of this concert.