"No, since they're tired of listening to "Liang Zhu", let's change the tune!" Shen Long said calmly, and continued to lower his head and write quickly on the paper.

"Didn't you say that Dvořák and they are tired of listening to it, and the level of our domestic music is not enough?" Guo Yan asked suspiciously, wasn't you vetoed when I said to change the tune just now?

"The level of domestic music is really not enough." The study of Western classical music in China started late, coupled with the war and turmoil, and it was not until the past few years that the country began to carry out large-scale exchanges with foreign countries again, and naturally not very good music was born, and the miracle of "Liang Zhu" could not happen often.

"So I wrote my own tune, you can take it and see it!" At this time, Shen Long's things were also finished, and he got up and handed the score to Guo Yan; Not having it now doesn't mean that there won't be one in the future, he started to be a copyist again, but the first few times he copied it, it was scripts, and it was pop music, but this time it was replaced by serious music.

"So you've been busy with this all these days, so you have to show me." Guo Yan took it and stopped talking, and finally couldn't help but persuade, "Qiming, I know you like music, but we can't be too ambitious, good tunes are so easy to get, how much effort did Teacher Chen Gang and Teacher He Zhanhao spend on writing "Liang Zhu" back then, and it is not easy for Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to write music, even the genius Mozart, that is not something that can be written if you want to......"

She didn't believe that Shen Long could come up with a good song in such a short period of time, only a true professional knew how difficult it was to create a good song, genius and hard work were indispensable, and neither of which she seemed to see in him.

"You watch it first, I'll wash my face and watch TV to practice English listening." It is difficult to write a good tune, but it is not difficult to copy a tune at all, so Shen Long got up and went to the living room, opened a bottle of beer, and comfortably nestled on the sofa and watched TV.

Guo Yan thought about it and didn't follow him, after all, this was his hard work, so Guo Yan returned to his desk and sat down, and looked at it seriously, and he was fascinated by it.

After a long time, Guo Yan rushed out of the piano room and waved the score excitedly, "Qi Ming, you really wrote this song?" What's the name of this song? I haven't seen you do this before. ”

"I used to be in China, practicing the piano every day, and then performing, I didn't have much opportunity to think about these things, and at that time, I patronized and studied the works of Western masters, and when I arrived in New York, I found out that our ancestors left us so many good things, and it turned out that foreigners also liked these; So I thought about distilling the essence and trying to write some tunes myself, and then I had this thing. Shen Long flickered, "Oh, by the way, you haven't said how this song is?" ”

"This song is amazing!" Guo Yan hugged him excitedly, "Qi Ming, you are really a genius!" After spending two months in the United States, Guo Yan also learned the exaggerated tone of the Americans.

"Oh, by the way, you haven't said what the name of this song is?" After the excitement, Guo Yan remembered this, "I can feel a kind of ancient vastness from the song, which reminds me of the desert." ”

"This song is called "Silk Road"." Shen Long took the score from Guo Yan's hand, returned to the piano room, picked up the pen and wrote the words "Silk Road" on the top.

Speaking of cello, there will be an insurmountable mountain in the future, that is, the Chinese cello master Yo-Yo Ma; When it comes to successful Chinese musicians in the West, the first thing that comes to many people's minds is Tan Dun, and this "Silk Road" is a masterpiece composed by Tan Dun and performed by Yo-Yo Ma.

Later, when Ang Lee was filming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he put this piece in the movie to express the emptiness and desolation of the Silk Road, and Tan Dun also won the Academy Award for Best Original Music and the Grammy Award for Best Original Film Album for his outstanding performance in the film's soundtrack.

Since he started performing at the Lincoln Center, Shen Long has been thinking about what kind of music to copy, and when he met Ang Lee and his wife a few days ago, he finally made up his mind, so let's start copying "Silk Road".

The success of the performance of "Liang Zhu" made him firm in the belief that the nation is the world, a Chinese musician, no matter how much he learns Western music, after all, can not appreciate the essence of it, can not write music with a pure Western cultural background, and China's long history has left us a valuable wealth, there are countless music materials to excavate, and the combination of Chinese music elements and the West is the right way.

This is how Tan Dun succeeded, since there are such examples in front of him, what are you hesitating about? Hence the song "Silk Road".

And Shen Long's ambition is not just to make some money in the United States, if he wants to satisfy Wang Qiming's wishes, he must enter the hall and enter the serious music circle in the United States.

How easy it is for an unfamiliar exotic musician to enter the mainstream circle in the United States; Take Yo-Yo Ma's Tan Dun as an example.

Yo-Yo Ma was born in this circle, his father Ma Xiaojun is a doctor of music education, a composer and conductor, and a former professor at National Central University; Her mother, Lu Yawen, is a female vocal singer who graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of National Central University, and Yo-Yo Ma began to learn piano and cello at the age of 4, and began to perform in front of the audience at the age of 5.

At the age of 7, he moved to New York with his family to settle in the United States, and in the same year he met the greatest cellist of the century, Pablo Casals, and with the help of Leonard Bernstein, he and his sister Yo-Ma participated in a concert tour for the construction of the Washington Cultural Center at Carnegie Hall.

He then attended the Juilliard School, studied with maestro Leonardo Ross, and began giving recitals at Carnegie Hall at the age of 17, where he is now well-known.

Although Tan Dun was not born in an artistic family, he also took the orthodox route, first studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, and then came to the United States to study under Seiji Ozawa.

Wang Qiming came to the United States so rashly, he didn't know an insider, and if he wanted to enter such a relatively closed circle, then there was only one way to go - to show a talent that others couldn't match, and use absolute talent to smash the barriers between him and Carnegie Hall!