Chapter 114: The Last Performance of Farewell to Elementary School
Where in the world are there the most artists?
Paris is not the capital of the arts, London is not historic, and Los Angeles is not Hollywood. It is precisely New York, a sin city full of money and copper, that gathers the largest number of artists of all kinds.
Of course, the artists here have to be put in quotation marks, or rather, the largest number of street artists in the world!
From Fifth Avenue to Eighth Avenue, the bustling streets are lined with countless street performers every night, wearing their own modest gear and bizarre costumes, performing their best skills in front of the passing crowd.
As the lungs of Manhattan, Central Park is well-connected to the East XC District, and is crowded with tourists and street performers.
President Maya didn't come up with this idea out of thin air with a pat on the head, after all, the talent of the classmates is simply not worth mentioning to New Yorkers who are accustomed to seeing all kinds of big worlds, not to mention that there is a group of street performers around who are hanging in the sky.
Many street performers are no worse than the well-known performers of the Grand Theatre, but they just don't have the opportunity to perform.
Adulthood doesn't want her classmates to be ugly and behave in front of New Yorkers, she also has a show herself, and she also wants to be face-saving.
The main reason is that the Yankees are different from ours, they are very tolerant of students and are very willing to cheer. To take a well-known example, the American college basketball game. Are those college students really better than NBA players?
No, college basketball has a slow pace, varying levels of strength, little impact, much less intense than the NBA, and far worse to watch. But every March, the N.B.A. takes the initiative to make way for college basketball games, and its TV ratings even surpass the NBA Finals.
In fact, not only basketball, but also other student sports such as football, volleyball, baseball, etc., have a very good audience.
Or take the talent show arranged by Maya as an example, do you think that Maya and her school are the only ones who go to Central Park to perform publicly?
Hehe, just today, in addition to Maya, there are two other elementary schools. They weren't even Manhattan schools, so they got up early in the morning and took the bus all the way over, but they were so excited!
Of course, Maya and they are all poor, Central Park is famous, and many tourists are still free, so everyone comes to get rid of it and take advantage of it.
For example, in those town middle schools, the talent show is held in the best theater in the town every year, and the celebrities in the town will come to cheer on whether they have a baby on stage or not. These things are often seen in Hollywood movies, such as a dutiful cop who misses his daughter's singing performance in order to catch the bad guy.
Well, don't go far! Those rich people in private schools will go to the Broadway Grand Theater to charter a show. Maya and the others are poor, so they have to come to Central Park with a cheeky face. Besides, when Peter Parker graduated from high school, the school also held the graduation ceremony in the park on the East River.
As a local, Maya is naturally a little preferential. For example, their venue is on the lawn on the shore of the central lake, and the view is simply not too good.
The flattened grass surrounds the weeping willows that draw young leaves in half a circle, there are various rockery boulders by the lake next to it, and in the intoxicating warm wind, it seems that you can still smell the fragrance of flowers, and visitors are also sitting on the turf in groups, feeling the spring sunshine, watching the performance on stage, and every time a student finishes the performance, the crowd is giving out warm applause.
Today, Maya wears a floral dress on a white background, her long hair is tied into a big single ponytail with a two-finger-wide purple ribbon, revealing her smooth and full forehead, and a pair of half-new white leather shoes on her feet.
These Yankees are indeed very face-saving for the children, even Matthew's poetry recitation received bursts of applause, and it seems that today's talent show was a great success.
It should be noted here that Maya's stage is not built on the lawn, but on the concrete pavement next to the lawn, along with the diesel generator, so there is no need to worry about crushing the turf.
When the host on stage said that the next performer would be Jamal Leon, a junior performer, Maya knew it was her turn soon.
Jamal performed rap music that his dad had written for him, and Lucius's own songs were not appropriate for the occasion.
The lyrics in black rap music, who listens to it and who knows, not to mention the content of all kinds of showing off big gold chains and small watches, even the detailed process of "popping" and the feelings in it are detailed and explicit.
Looking at President Maya's meticulous hair, you knew she was going to play the violin. By the time Jia finished singing the last lyrics, Maya had already stepped onto the backstage of the isolation curtain.
“...... Next, I would like to invite Maya Hansen, a Year 8 student, who will perform a violin solo "Blue Bird" for everyone, everyone is welcome! ”
(ps: Blue Bird is a famous episode of the Hokage)
President Maya silently walked up to the stage, waiting for the student council brother to set up a microphone for him, while secretly sensing the reaction of the people in the audience.
"Who is this little girl? He looks pretty good, but I don't know how well he plays the violin. ”
I don't even know the president, well, it must be a foreign tourist!
"You've lived in Manhattan for so many years and you don't know her, how will I know when I first come here to work?" His companion replied.
Crit! 99x crit! The growth of the adult's HP is -9999!
The unwilling Maya president let go of his perception and whispered one by one, but it was okay not to listen, the more he eavesdropped, the darker President Maya's face became.
"Unknown elementary school students, it's okay, let's be tolerant..."
"Maya Hansen? I haven't heard of it, she's not Spider-Man, who knows her? “
"This girl is not out of her mind, she looks stunned, and she doesn't perform!"
"Elementary school students are like this, it's normal to have a little stage fright, let's applaud her again, it's not easy for a little girl."
"What is Blue Bird? I've never heard of this tune! ”
“......”
It wasn't until the little brother next to her touched her elder that she retracted her perception, and her mood instantly returned to peace.
As a Doctor Ninja in the Marvel world, this is the last year of elementary school, and Maya also took out this tune.
The audience saw the beautiful girl who looked like an elf, gently holding the violin on her left shoulder... There was no tactfulness, no gentleness, with the high speed and steady pull of the little girl's right hand, the bow beat rapidly on the four strings, and the black notes suddenly came to life, jumping off the strings, turning into blue birds with wings outstretched.
These bluebirds struggled and hissed, as if they were freed from an invisible bondage, and they flew happily to the blue sky, to the white clouds, to the ideal country of freedom...
The people who were immersed in it suddenly surged with enthusiasm, and it seemed that they also wanted to become blue birds, break away from the nets of the world, and let their hearts soar freely in the sky!
When Maya had finished playing, the audience still hadn't come to their senses, and no host had even come up to announce the next show, apparently they were also intoxicated and couldn't extricate themselves.