Mr. Hilbrand, please, your seat is in the front row...... Mr. Arnotovich, long time no see...... Mrs. Heinze, you are so charming today! In the concert hall, Yo-Yo Ma's agent, Banana, was helping Shen Long entertain the guests, and she greeted these special guests with familiarity and ushered them to the best positions.

Sitting in the front row in addition to Ma Xiaojun, Ma Yo-cheng, Kitaro is them, this is a special group of people, they are all famous music critics in New York, inviting these people to the scene is specially requested by Shen Long, and he has paid a lot of price for this, for this, Chris is still a little distressed, because they don't have to spend money to buy tickets when they come in to watch the show, and they occupy a good position that can sell at the highest price.

But these are all worth it, because Shen Long knows that he is only a little famous among the general public, and he has only been recognized by Yo-Yo Ma and Kitaro in the circle, and if he wants to officially enter the classical music circle in New York, these alone are not enough.

These music critics have power in their hands, their articles will be published in many classical music magazines, and if they can give Shen Long some praise, then his path will be even broader; But to get praise, it's not just about good music, Shen Long is not a pure white, so he specially invited them.

And let Banana, who is very well-connected in the classical music circle, entertain them, give them the best position, and it can be said that they have enough face, these methods seem to have a good response, whether they are sincere or not, at least these people have a smile on their faces.

When the time for the performance came, the announcer introduced the background of the performance with great emotion, boasting that Shen Long and Guo Yan were famous Chinese musicians, and the audience applauded warmly with big names like Yo-Yo Ma.

Then Shen Long walked up to the stage with Guo Yan's hand, this time the instrument he was holding was replaced by a wooden flute, Guo Yan was still holding the violin, Yo-Yo Ma was in charge of the cello, and the rest of the orchestra members were in charge of brass, oboe, guzheng and other instruments.

The first piece begins, the Liang Zhu Violin Concerto, which Shen Long made famous at Lincoln Center, in which the flute plays a beautiful and moving birdsong cadenza against a soft string trilling background, followed by a soft lyrical introduction theme for the oboe, showing a picture of the wind and sun, the spring is bright, the peach and willow green, and the flowers are in full bloom on the grass bridge.

It's a good piece, but the performance is relatively average, and although YO-YO has controlled its own play, the other members of the orchestra can barely keep up with it except for the violin and flute, but overall it is a qualified performance...... Music critics make evaluations in their hearts.

At the end of more than 20 minutes of performance, the audience's mood also fluctuated with the music, and when the last note fell, many people had tears in the corners of their eyes, and then burst into warm applause.

The next piece is a new piece by Mr. Wang Qiming, which is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Nightingale...... This is a piece with a strong Chinese style......" The announcer came to the stage again, told the background of the origin of the song, and then stepped back, Shen Long still held the bamboo flute, and replaced it with a player who played the Western flute.

The faint strings sounded in the distance, and the Chinese bamboo flute began to blow a soft and distant melody, just like the nightingale began to sing in the open field under the moonlit night; This section ends with the bamboo flute imitating the chirping of the nightingale, and then the clear piano joins in, and with a little hesitation, it is played carefully; Like a sleepless man who hears the nightingale from afar, he begins to look for it, but he is afraid that he will disturb the nightingale.

The flute sounded again after the piano played a paragraph, like the nightingale after hearing a slight movement, silent for a moment, and began to sing again, the piano played a little ensemble, slowly, the strings also joined, and the piano merged into a torrent, and the sound of the flute is still clear and bright, like a swallow flying on a river, like the nightingale's singing attracted more and more people to listen and appreciate, sigh and praise, and the nightingale sang better and better......

A brand new piece, a very special style, makes people feel refreshing, music critics listen to the eyes of the light of the eye, compared to the style of the ever-innovating pop music industry, the classical music industry is really a bit old-fashioned, people are still playing those classical music masters, the composer can come up with excellent new works is too few.

Not to mention this completely new style of repertoire, they tried to start analyzing, well, it should be an addition of oriental elements to the Western style of music, similar to some passages in Turandot.....

In fact, this piece is a work by Greek musician Yanni Chrysomaris, a Western musical work full of Chinese classical music mood.

When Yanni was on vacation on the Italian seaside, every evening a bird would come to his window and sing, Yanni was fascinated by the bird's song, he felt that the bird's song was full of melody and rhythm, so he wanted to compose a piece for the bird, but he could not find a suitable instrument to imitate the bird's call; Later, a friend of Yanni introduced him to the Chinese flute and demonstrated how to play it, and Yanni immediately remembered the Italian bird, and he thought that the Chinese flute imitated the song of a bird, so he quickly composed this Chinese "Nightingale".

Shen Long's selection of pieces for this concert is all meaningful, and he first played classic oriental music such as "Liang Zhu Violin Concerto", which is to show his identity, and at the same time to tell all the audience that China also has high-quality music works.

Then he took out Yanni's "The Nightingale", which is different from "Silk Road", "The Nightingale" is, after all, an oriental-style music composed by Western musicians, and playing this piece first can make it more acceptable to the music critics in the audience who have been immersed in Western music since childhood.

Sure enough, when the piece ended, the critics in the front row were the first to applaud, they knew better than the average audience what the meaning of this piece was, this is a piece that blends elements of Eastern and Western music, and Western classical music also needs to absorb the essence of different musical styles, such an attempt is worth encouraging, and the quality of this piece is indeed very high, isn't it?

Shen Long smiled, he also saw the reactions of these people, which shows that his strategy has worked, this is a good start, so let's continue to perform!

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