Carnegie Hall in New York was the first major concert hall established in 1891 by American steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie on 57th Street in New York City.

Nearly 100 years since its completion, this concert hall has provided a very standard stage for the world's best performances, and as top musicians and dancers of different eras like to hold solo concerts and dance performances here, this concert hall has gradually become a symbol of the high standards of musicians in the world.

This has led to a saying in the music industry that good musicians or singers may not come to Carnegie Hall to perform, but the people who can perform here are definitely the best.

And Youyouma, who held a solo concert here at the age of 16, has come to Carnegie Hall for more than ten years to perform dozens or hundreds of performances, including solo concerts and performances by orchestras.

Carnegie Hall is composed of three distinct halls, namely the main hall, the recital hall and the chamber music hall, and the performance of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra participated by Yo-Yo Ma is placed in the main hall, which can accommodate a total of 2,804 seats on five floors.

Like most concert halls, the main hall has an oval shape, which has the advantage of allowing the audience to listen to the performance on the stage more comfortably, rather than relying on sound and other aids to amplify the sound effect.

Inside the main hall of Carnegie Hall.

Li Yange, who was sitting in the third row, looked around, everyone was dressed up, and before the concert started, they were either talking quietly or staring intently at the stage, looking like they were all such gentlemen and ladies.

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The audience that can come to Carnegie Hall is almost all from American celebrities, or middle-class elites, and ordinary Americans do not like it or not, and the ticket money alone is not something they can afford.

Looking at the palatial concert hall, Li Yange looked sideways at Ryuichi Sakamoto who was sitting next to him and said, "I didn't expect that there were quite a lot of audiences in this main hall. ”

"Well, there are more than 2,800 seats in total, and they should be full today." It's not the first time Ryuichi Sakamoto has been here, but it's also the first time I've seen a full concert hall, and when I looked around, I suddenly saw a few people sitting in the first row, and I was a little surprised: "It's worthy of being one of the best symphony orchestras in the United States, the combination of the Philharmonic and Youyou is so powerful that even he came!" ”

"Who?" Li Yange followed Ryuichi Sakamoto's gaze, and there was no one in the first row that he knew.

"John Milton Cage!"

"Huh?"

Li Yange was stunned, obviously she hadn't heard of this person's name.

Ryuichi Sakamoto took a closer look at an old man with white hair sitting in the first row, and after confirming that it was the one he knew, he introduced Li Yange: "Cage is an American avant-garde classical music composer, and also a pioneer of improvisational music and electronic music. ”

Still don't know ...

Li Yange nodded, squeezing out a smile, as if responding to Ryuichi Sakamoto's introduction.

Seeing this, Ryuichi Sakamoto suddenly said with a bad taste: "He has a very famous work called "4'33", I think you can listen to it, I believe it will be of great help to your creation." ”

"4 minutes and 33 seconds?" Hearing this name, Li Yange felt a little familiar, but she didn't know if she had heard it there.

"yes, 4 minutes and 33 seconds, I think you should be able to buy it in a record store in New York." Remembering the puzzled expression on his face when he first heard this music, Ryuichi Sakamoto couldn't wait to see whether Li Yange's facial expression was confused, surprised, or something else after hearing this work.

"That ......"

Before Li Yange could speak, suddenly there was a round of applause in the concert hall.

It turned out that the curtain was slowly opening, and on the big stage in the center of the concert hall, members of the Philharmonic Orchestra appeared one after another.

"Bell Bell Bell ......"

With the orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta, with a gentle wave of his baton, as the knock of fate sounded, the classic Beethoven "Fifth Symphony" resounded throughout the concert hall.

Beethoven has many songs, and the classics are even more unknown, but if you want to talk about the popularity of the world, then the "Fifth Symphony" is well-deserved, this piece of music is also known as the "Symphony of Destiny", many people who do not listen to classical music, more or less have heard it in various occasions, movies, and TV series.

It's because this piece is so classic!

As soon as he heard that it was a "Symphony of Destiny", Li Yange put his hands on the armrests, forgot the "4 minutes and 33 seconds" that he had just thought of, and began to enjoy this classic piece of music with concentration.

Like a person who suffers from the injustice of fate, in the face of a cruel fate, he issued his own cry, his own unyielding, and tried his best to fight, after several fights, in the process of fighting against the unyielding fate of the people, the people who encountered the injustice finally ended in a complete victory of light.

At the end of the 6 minutes and 30 seconds of the performance, the audience stood up excitedly and applauded desperately, which was the most sincere enthusiasm given by them to the Philharmonic Orchestra's reinterpretation of a different Symphony of Destiny, and the performance was really amazing!

"Papapa......" Li Yange also stood up and applauded behind the audience, which was not perfunctory, but was indeed influenced by the "Symphony of Destiny" played by this orchestra.

He has heard this piece many times before, and he has also heard many domestic symphony orchestras perform, but he has to admit that the New York Philharmonic Orchestra is worthy of being a well-known orchestra in the world, and its live performance skills are really powerful.

If you are a little more active, when you hear the "Symphony of Destiny" being played live, you will definitely have a picture of a person's struggle against fate in their minds.

This is as if when Katsuma Tian Guji heard the song "Dawn of Heroes" composed by Li Yange, the three brothers of Liu Bei naturally appeared in their minds when they faced the turbulent times of the Yellow Turban, raising the weapons in their hands and being refracted by the sun.

Ryuichi Sakamoto smiled and asked, "How is it?" This is the first time I have come to listen to a symphony. ”

"You're right, the New York Philharmonic's performance is really impressive." Li Yange nodded, the effect of listening to the symphony live and listening to it after recording is completely different, especially the world-famous orchestra of the New York Philharmonic.

"Youyou is here."

Hearing this, Li Yange looked up and saw an Asian in his thirties, carrying a cello to the center of the stage.

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