"In the summer of 1852, Foster and his wife went to Batston, Kentucky, to visit his cousins, and the beautiful scenery of Fetrio Hills and the scenery of rural Kentucky moved his heart, prompting him to write this popular and simple and sincere poem "My Kentucky Hometown."

Relying on his super memory retrieval ability, Du Xinghe told the background of the creation of this song to two people.

On the stage, four Chinese boys are singing lyrical passages in middle and high notes, and with Du Xinghe's explanation, the artistic conception of this song has been sublimated a lot.

Li Yang's small eyes showed a very depressed look, he really wanted to refute Du Xinghe's two sentences, but looking at Du Xinghe's meaning, he knew this song very well!

"You know American music very well!" Lu Qin felt very surprised, compared to Li Yang, Du Xinghe is really knowledgeable!

"I don't know very much, but I only know a little bit about it." Du Xinghe was as modest as ever, and continued to preach to the two: "Music that can be passed down for a hundred years naturally has its charm. The song's author, Stephen Forster, was a very talented composer who was born at a time when European music was in the golden age of European music, Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini, Meyerbier were at the height of their fame, Berlioz, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Verdi were all growing into great men. If Forster had been born across the ocean, he might have gone to a choral school or conservatory, and Zuihou would have become a symphonic composer rather than a writer of simple songs. But even so, he became one of the greatest folk composers of American history. He lived in an era when the United States emancipated black slaves through the Civil War. His sympathy for black Americans can be seen in many of his songwritings. ”

The more Li Yang listened to Du Xinghe's explanation, the more depressed he became, and even gave birth to some unhappy thoughts, didn't he just learn more Western music, as for behaving like this in front of Lu Qin?

Du Xinghe saw that Li Yang was very unhappy, and stopped talking, so he smiled helplessly, obviously this guy is much more open-minded than he is smaller, far less good than Lu Qin said.

Maybe his life was relatively smooth in the past, and he didn't suffer any setbacks. Such a child. It needs to be beaten violently, so let's hit him again: "Classmate Li Yang, Kentucky is not a southern state in the United States, to be precise." It should be the middle states of the United States. During the Civil War. Kentucky is a border state between the North and South of the United States. And it's interesting. Their president in the North, Abraham Lincoln, and the President in the South, Jefferson Davis, were both Kentuckians. That's the fellow James on stage. Stephen Foster isn't James' hometown. ”

Li Yang's face was sullen. Hard-mouthed: "No matter what, this song is not good to sing by James, and it is not suitable for this Christmas Eve concert." ”

Lu Qin agreed: "Well, James sang so badly that he ruined a good song." Let's go, my dear, and meet the president of the guitar club. ”

Lu Qin pulled Du Xinghe down the stands, and many students from the guitar club greeted Lu Qin, they all knew Lu Qin, and after learning that the boy Lu Qin was holding was her boyfriend, almost all the students were surprised! They all know that their vision is very high, even if they find a boyfriend, they will be the kind of big entrepreneurs or government officials, and even the big stars that Lu Qin admires the most! How can he be a handsome little boy?

What is the charm of this boy to be able to catch up with their dream lover teacher!

Many boys have a great curiosity about Du Xinghe, and naturally some people have the faint hostility of Li Yang. In the face of such an opponent, they are very unconvinced to lose! It's just a flower stuck in cow dung!

James's performance was over, Xu Jingwei was having a headache, and she heard everyone around her talking about Lu Qin, she turned her head and saw that Lu Qin was holding a boy and came over, and hurriedly got up to greet Lu Qin.

"Teacher Lu, you're here."

Greeting Lu Qin, Xu Jingwei's eyes naturally looked at Du Xinghe. Hearing the discussion of the people around her, Xu Jingwei knew that this person was Lu Qin's boyfriend, and she couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Judging from the appearance alone, this boy is quite pleasing to the eye, with very white skin, which can be described as handsome, but he is not the kind of super handsome guy who makes girls pierce their eyes at a glance and can't pull it out.

Seeing that he is not very old, it is estimated that he is a little younger than Lu Qin, but the calm aura on his body gives people a sense of maturity far beyond his age.

In the midst of everyone's discussions, the boy did not have any feeling of crampedness or uneasiness, his face was indifferent, and even a little indifferent. It seems that being Lu Qin's boyfriend is a very sparse and ordinary thing, and there is nothing to be proud of him.

Compared with the sweetness and happiness on Lu Qin's face, it is obvious that Lu Qin is very proud of having such a boyfriend!

This boy must have abilities or charms far beyond ordinary people, otherwise it would be impossible to make Teacher Lu, whose heart is higher than the sky, like this!

As soon as they met, Xu Jingwei had an attitude of looking up to Du Xinghe.

At the same time, she also felt that Du Xinghe was a little familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.

"Let me introduce you, Jingwei, this is my boyfriend Du Xinghe, the owner of Yun Shijie Records, an absolute musical genius. The song "Little Bird", which has been very popular recently, was produced by their company! ”

"Oh~!"

was introduced by Lu Qin, Xu Jingwei remembered that she had watched Du Xinghe on TV! No wonder it looks familiar!

In the finals of this year's Youth Star Song Competition, music stations around the country have played edited versions, and Xu Jingwei watched this competition at the Sioux City Music Station. And Du Xinghe is the boy in a white dress who gave Xu Nuo the piano in the finals!

Just like most local stations, the Sioux City Concert Station played the highlight video of the finals, and cut out the part where Xu Nuo said that Du Xinghe was destined to become a superstar, but the picture of Du Xinghe playing the piano still left a deep impression on Xu Jingwei!

After seeing Xu Jingwei's "oh", her expression became very surprised, even a little surprised, and Lu Qin realized something. smiled and asked her, "You won't know your master, will you?" ”

"I've seen him on TV!" After returning to Lu Qin, Xu Jingwei greeted Du Xinghe with little reverence: "Master, hello." ”

Du Xinghe was quite helpless to be called a "master", these students are obviously older than him, and they are also older than Lu Qin, and they are called "master" by these college students or master's students, and he looks like an old monster like Tianshan Tong's grandmother.

can only act hard, Du Xinghe politely replied to Xu Jingwei Hello.

Lu Qin was excited and asked Du Xinghe: "Have you ever been on TV?" ”

Du Xinghe was unable to go back to Lu Qin. As a person in the entertainment industry. Of course he's been on TV! Not often, though.

The most recent time is to belong to Fang Yajun's signing ceremony. At that time, the press conference they held in South China was hosted by Hongyan Records, and he was the boss of Yun Shijie. Attended the press conference. and Fang Yajun and Luo Haichao in front of hundreds of media in the southeast region. Together, they signed a symbolic record deal.

That night, footage of their press conference appeared in the entertainment news of many television stations. However, most of the shots are on Fang Yajun, all of which are goddess-level close-ups of Fang Yajun. There are very few shots for him, just an introduction to him and the cloud shijie company in the background sound.

Presumably, this black and thin female president Xu Jingwei, who looks a bit like Xu Jinglei in the last face, only got an impression of him after watching this kind of news.

Seeing that Du Xinghe ignored her, Lu Qin had no choice but to ask Xu Jingwei again: "Jingwei, where did you see your master?" ”

"On the music station, in the finals of this year's Youth Star Song Competition, Xu Nuo's song "I Only Care About You" was accompanied by Shigong's piano! So handsome! ”

Du Xinghe frowned and smiled, he didn't expect Xu Jingwei to watch the finals of the Youth Star Song Competition.

Some of the surrounding students heard Xu Jingwei say this, and gradually connected Du Xinghe with the "insider" uploaded by some gossip magazines they had read. It turns out that this guy is the "genius boy" known as the "shield"! Is he such a genius? was able to chase Lu Qin into his hands. Many people have questions about Du Xinghe.

Li Yang had already hid to the side, unwilling to be stimulated by Lu Qin and Du Xinghe, at this time, a guitar club boy who was also jealous came over beside him, looked at Du Xinghe in the distance, and said to Li Yang: "That guy is just an empty shelf, how could our Teacher Lu be deceived by him." ”

"What kind of empty shelf? What are you talking about? Li Yang was stunned by the boy named Chen Chunyu next to him.

Chen Chunyu likes Fang Yajun very much, so he has read the gossip of Yun Shijie and Du Xinghe, and is a loyal fan of conspiracy theories in gossip magazines, he can't believe that Fang Yajun will join Yun Shijie because of such a little kid as Du Xinghe. In his opinion, Yun Shijie must be Chen Xi's company, and Fang Yajun will join.

So he told Li Yang about Du Xinghe being an empty shelf.

"Won't it?" Li Yang listened to Chen Chunyu's description of Du Xinghe, and was shocked in his heart! The little eyes are two millimeters wider! said to Chen Chunyu: "Where did you get this gossip?" It can't be true, right? Teacher Lu is so smart, how can he find such a person as a boyfriend. ”

"Then who knows, this thing must be true, I have relatives in their circle, and it is rumored that this Xiao Du is not worthy of his name!" Chen Chunyu tried his best to smear the rival in his heart.

Li Yang still couldn't believe it.

However, if you think about it carefully, Du Xinghe was really stinky just now, after studying music for a few years, he showed off in front of them, it is estimated that Lu Qin was confused by his rhetoric, so he felt that he was a musical genius!

Come to think of it, where is he a genius? It's just a pretending ghost! also said that James has a good sense of rhythm in singing, this is the appreciation of genius?

Li Yang's eyes narrowed, and he was a little unhappy again. Looking at Du Xinghe from afar, I thought in my heart that I had to give Du Xinghe some color, but I wanted to see if this guy was Li Kui or Li Ghost!

couldn't sit still, Li Yang got up and walked to Du Xinghe, Lu Qin and others in front of the center stand of the stage.

After Xu Jingwei exchanged a few words with Du Xinghe here, she firmly believed that Du Xinghe was a musical genius, so with Lu Qin's encouragement, she told Du Xinghe about her troubles, and saw what attention Du Xinghe could give them as a musical genius, so that James's song "My Kentucky Hometown" would sound less lethargic.

Du Xinghe asked Xu Jingwei to call James over.

"Ahem, Xu, how's it going...... What am I singing? ”

James felt that he sang very well, and his dark face was full of happy smiles, and as soon as he came over, he asked for opinions in Chinese, which was not so fluent, and Xu Jingwei.

Xu Jingwei really couldn't comment on James's singing, so she had to look at Du Xinghe for help.

Du Xinghe has a good impression of James, a big man in a dazzling white sweater, this guy has a happy expression, and he is obviously an optimist. Listening to the tone of his voice and his attitude towards music is also very enjoyable.

After carefully recalling James's singing, Du Xinghe asked James at a slower pace: "Big man, did you deliberately use the RAP singing method when you sang that song just now?" ”

“RAP？ Yes! RAP！ ”

James thought that no Chinese students knew the word "Rap", but when he suddenly heard Du Xinghe say it, he became extremely excited!

Finally someone heard his good intentions!

As a well-established American boss, James likes RAP music very much, so in this song "My Kentucky Hometown", he deliberately used some rap singing, wanting to convey the music form he likes to his Chinese friends.

However, because the rhythm of this song is very slow, he is not so confident in his adaptation and singing, so he uses rap in some places, and sings normally in other places, which makes the whole song sound a little awkward, but he himself feels good.

It can be seen that the attitude of these Chinese friends does not seem to be very accepting of this form of music. How could he not be excited when someone heard that he was rapping and seemed to like his rap very much?

Lu Qin and the others have never been in contact with RAP, so they don't know what this is, but looking at James's excited appearance, Du Xinghe said that he liked James's singing.

Lu Qin asked Du Xinghe curiously: "What is RAP?" ”

"Rap is a black slang word that translates to 'talking,' and it's a very special form of rap music. It is very popular in the United States, not only for black Americans, but also for people of many other skin colors. ”

After listening to Du Xinghe's explanation, the surrounding students were a little relieved, no wonder James sang like chanting scriptures, it turned out to be "talking about songs"!

However, looking at James's excited appearance, many people frowned again, they couldn't understand that such an ugly "song" would be liked by Americans? It seems that the cultural difference between the East and the West is really big! (To be continued......)

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