Miller is an ordinary young American, but also a crazy music fan.

Unlike today's young Americans, who are obsessed with rock and roll, Miller likes traditional music, especially symphonies, which makes his friends nickname him "The Sixteenth Century Master".

Today is New Year's Day, and Miller's parents are going to go to the movies as a family to celebrate, but Miller refuses to go because he wants to stay at home and watch live TV.

The New Year's Concert at the Los Angeles Music Center was conducted by the renowned Maestro Bernstein and performed by the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, which is a must-see for a symphony fan. Unfortunately, concert tickets were too expensive and sold out early, so Miller had to watch live TV at home.

The whole family went to the movies, and Miller was the only one left in the family. Just as the concert was about to start, Miller's girlfriend Jenny arrived.

Jenny said angrily, "Oh, my sixteenth-century lord, today is the first day of the new year, and you can't go out to the movies with me?" ”

"Sweetheart, stop making trouble, the concert will start soon." Miller stared intently at the TV.

Jenny sat on the sofa helplessly, what could she do if she met this kind of superb boyfriend?

In fact, Bernstein was not just a conductor and composer, he was also a television personality. When Miller and Jenny were young, Bernstein popularized music knowledge on television programs, and his elegant conversation and handsome appearance added him countless fans, including many children.

It was at the age of six that Miller became fascinated by Bernstein's television program and became fascinated by classical music, and he is now learning to play the violin.

The concert had already begun on the television, and Miller listened quietly, his arms dancing gently to the rhythm of the symphony. And next to him, his girlfriend Jenny was already asleep on the sofa.

Before I knew it, more than two hours had passed with the music, and Miller's parents and younger siblings had gone home from watching the movie.

"Oh, this old man is still listening to his concert." Miller's brother, Tom, scoffed.

Miller turned a deaf ear to his brother's words and remained glued to the television.

Suddenly, the host of the concert walked up to the stage, and Miller thought that the host would announce the end of the concert, but the host said, "For the last performance of the evening, we have a mysterious performer." He hails from the ancient and mysterious East, and the instrument he plays is at least 7,000 years old, a prehistoric instrument and a court instrument in China for thousands of years. Kang from Hong Kong, and his Chinese ocarina, please! ”

A young Asian man walked up to the stage, waved at Bernstein and the orchestra members on the conductor's stage, bowed to the audience a few times, and said in Chinese: "Hello everyone, my name is Kang Jianfei, from Hong Kong, China, to bring you a song "The Original Scenery of Hometown". This is a piece of music that I wrote myself, and I hope my friends in the United States will like it. ”

Miller, who was still watching TV seriously just now, suddenly exclaimed exaggeratedly: "Oh, hell, what is this Chinese coming up for?" Playing the ocarina at a symphony concert, which bastard came up with a bad idea. ”

Miller's shouting immediately woke Jenny from her sleep, and the rest of the family ran over as well, and his father asked, "What happened?" ”

Miller pointed to the TV and said, "That Chinese is going to play the ocarina at the symphony concert, and it is also conducted by Maestro Bernstein, and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra accompanies him!" ”

Jenny smiled: "The Chinese all look similar, he and Bruce? Lee (Bruce Lee)'s face is the same, all flat. ”

Miller's father said, "Listen to him, I don't think the Los Angeles Music Center is going to just find anybody." ”

While a few people were talking, the performance had already begun, and the first sound of the violin and the inaudible piano sounded.

After a prelude, the simple and desolate Xun sound suddenly sounded, like an echo from the eternal desolation, and like a call from the deep mountains and valleys.

After only listening for a few seconds, Miller suddenly froze and muttered to himself, "Even, buy cakes!" ”

At this time, in the concert hall of the Los Angeles Music Center, countless audiences who came to listen to the symphony were also stunned, and immediately listened carefully after coming back to their senses, and gradually listened to it fascinatingly.

It's not that "The Original Scenery of Hometown" is so good that it sounds like a symphony, but these music fans have listened to the symphony many times, but listening to Tao Xun's performance is the first time, and the feeling is naturally shocking. It's like a Chinese music fan who has been listening to the polls suddenly puts himself in the live performance of a symphony orchestra, and it definitely makes the hairs of his whole body stand up when he listens to it, and his heart is deeply shocked.

Bernstein is a master, and he arranged and rehearsed "The Original Scenery of Hometown" for a total of three hours, but it sounded far better than Li Fanyu's version of the arrangement. The combination of various Western musical instruments and Tao Xun does not seem abrupt and isolated at all, and there is a sense of harmony that complements each other.

After the performance of the song "Papapapa......" was completed, the concert hall burst into applause.

For these audiences, Kang Jianfei's appearance was a complete surprise, although he was not playing a symphony, but the novel instruments and music styles made them very useful.

Kang Jianfei put down Tao Xun and said into the microphone: "The next song is Tao Xun's solo - "Sky". ”

This time there was no accompaniment, but the music was much purer. The voice, like its name "Sky", seems to come from the clouds outside the sky, ethereal and ethereal, sometimes unprovoked, taking the listener to fly in the sky.

Before Miller could speak in front of the TV, his girlfriend Jenny was pleasantly surprised: "Wow, what a clean sound, I love this tune." Miller, what is that Chinese name? ”

"How do I know?" Miller shrugged, "But it's a really good tune." ”

On the television, the concert had ended, and conductor Bernstein was shaking hands with the orchestra players, and Kang Jianfei was shaking hands with everyone in celebration.

Bernstein patted Kang Jianfei on the shoulder and said, "Kang, your performance is great, I have promised Columbia Records to arrange the music for your other ten pieces." ”

"Thank you so much." Kang Jianfei said with a smile.

Columbia had already recorded part of the version of the record with Chinese instruments from Hong Kong, and had asked Bernstein to arrange it, so it was natural to create another version. When the two versions of the arrangement are released together, it depends on which one the fans like to buy, and maybe many people will choose the two versions together.

Thanks to the presence of Bernstein, the concert attracted more than a dozen journalists. Before the concert began, these reporters didn't care about Kang Jianfei, but when the concert ended, Kang Jianfei was surrounded by reporters.

The next day, the Los Angeles Times, the headline of the entertainment section was the news of Bernstein's performance. After this news, the newspaper devoted about 500 words to Kang Jianfei's performance, with the title: "Mysterious Performer Appears at Concert, and the Sound of Ancient Musical Instruments Amazes the Audience".

The content of the report is very simple, it is to describe Kang Jianfei's appearance, and ordinary readers will not read it much. However, American music industry people and symphony lovers are deeply impressed by Kang Jianfei, and many people are inquiring about Kang Jianfei's specific situation, which is mainly due to the effect of Bernstein and live TV.

The day after the concert, some radio stations in the United States also began to broadcast the tracks of the album "The Original Scenery of Hometown", and Kang Jianfei came to KTLA TV in Los Angeles to record a variety show.

The show was not specifically recorded for Kang Jianfei, he was just one of the guests invited, in addition to some guests from India, Japan, Egypt, the Philippines and other countries. The theme of the program is the different customs and cultures of different countries.

There are two hosts in the show, one male and one female, until the show began to be recorded, Kang Jianfei felt like a fool at the mercy of others. The most important thing is that when he recorded the show, he couldn't hear what these people were saying at all, and Liu Hongsheng had to sit next to him and translate for him, but once the others spoke at the same time, he was completely blind.

Kang Jianfei saw that the camera lens was not facing him, and took the opportunity to whisper to Liu Hongsheng: "I think Columbia is playing with me, what kind of publicity effect does this kind of show have?" ”

Liu Hongsheng said: "This program is very popular in the western region, and the ratings have always been very high. You played once on the show, and the publicity was even better than last night's performance at the Los Angeles Music Center. ”

Next door, guests from Japan and Egypt were arguing over the dress of their own women, and Kang Jianfei couldn't join the battle group, so he had to chat with Liu Hongsheng.

Fortunately, Kang Jianfei only came to promote music, and the Columbia company also communicated with the program team, and specially asked him to play a piece of Tao Xun during the recording.

After Kang Jianfei finished playing, he really shocked a bunch of foreigners in the show studio. But as soon as these guys praised a few words, they turned into something boasting about their respective countries.

"It's great music, but so is Philippine music."

"We also have a lot of good folk musical instruments in Japan, such as the shamisen."

"Egypt is not bad, many modern musical instruments are evolved from ancient Egyptian instruments, such as the modern guitar is the ancient Egyptian poetic qin."

“……”

Kang Jianfei was too lazy to fight with them, thinking that he would finish recording today's show in a fool's way, but in the final interactive session, an episode suddenly appeared.

The guest from India suddenly walked up to Kang Jianfei and said, "I heard that you Chinese know kung fu, I want to talk to you." ”

This time it was purely an accident, the host couldn't help but look at the guide, the director nodded, gestured and continued.

Kang Jianfei looked surprised and said in Chinese: "Isn't Sange good at climbing trains and dancing?" How to change to martial arts. I will sing a song "I play with mud in the Northeast", or we will collaborate on a song, how about I sing with you and dance? Medicine, Chek trouble, pancake fruit to a set ......"

Liu Hongsheng was in a cold sweat and didn't know how to translate at all.

The Indian guest said: "I practiced Indian Kalari Payat martial arts, and I came to ask Chinese kung fu for advice. ”

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Medicine, Chek trouble, there are a lot of monthly passes today, do you save by reading books?

I didn't see it, I didn't see it...... RS