Although he did not have the same obsession with whether he could perform at Carnegie Hall like those real musicians, he believed that anyone who was engaged in this industry would not refuse to perform in one of the best stages in the world.

Originally, after visiting Yo-Yo Ma's father in New York this time, Li Yange wanted to take Cheng Shaojun around to have more fun.

But because of Yo-Yo Ma's sudden invitation, Li Yange didn't have time, and he had to rehearse the adapted "Original Scenery of Hometown" with Yo-Yo Ma.

Cheng Shaojun is also very considerate, and accompanies Li Yange to Yo-Yo Ma's studio every day for rehearsals.

Different from Li Yange's second version, Yo-Yo Ma has made a great adaptation of this song to make it more suitable for playing in the environment of a concert hall.

After a rehearsal, Li Yange, who found out that there was a problem, frowned and said without hesitation: "Youyou, you can't use the sound of the cello to cover up the sound of Xun, the main thing in this song is Xun, the cello can only be an auxiliary, what you have to do is to be as soft as possible, so as to highlight the ethereal sound of Xun." ”

In addition to participating in the performance of the symphony orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, who is accustomed to playing the leading role in any concert, involuntarily let the sound of the cello cover up the ethereal spirit of Xun when Li Yange rehearsed "Hometown".

It's not impossible if it's other music, but the most important thing about this piece is the ethereal beauty that Xun music gives people, and losing the ethereal beauty is equivalent to losing the soul of this piece.

"Gentle?"

Yo-Yo Ma pondered for a moment, seemed to understand, nodded and said, "I know, let's do it all over again." ”

Immediately, the two rehearsed again, this time Yo-Yo Ma did not dominate the crowd, and honestly served as an auxiliary musician.

This time, the rehearsal was much more perfect, and the sound of the cello was just right, almost complementing the Xun music.

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Time flies and flies.

In the blink of an eye, it was finally time for Yo-Yo Ma's solo concert to begin, and although Li Yange was only an invited guest, he was about to usher in his first official performance in the United States.

Inside the small hall of Carnegie Hall.

As the audience entered the venue one after another, the 599 seats in the small hall were already full, and none of them were empty.

Most of today's music lovers are celebrities or middle-class people, and there are also musicians and critics from New York.

It didn't take long for Yo-Yo Ma to wear a tuxedo, hold the handle of the cello with one hand, hold the bow in his left hand, bow slightly to the audience with a smile on his face, and then sit down, adjust his state, and play a solo piece of Bach cello with full emotion.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

At the end of the song, the audience applauded thunderously.

Time passed, and with the classic tracks, presented in the hands of Yo-Yo Ma and some invited guests, it brought the audience an incomparably wonderful musical experience.

When the concert was about to reach the peak of the audience's emotions and energy, a curtain reporter stood on the stage, looked at the manuscript paper in his hand and said: "Next, I will bring you a piece of music, this piece is a young composer from China, who has created a classic piece based on the ancient Chinese music Quxun......

Hearing the words of the announcer, many of the audience in the audience frowned slightly, and became curious, not to mention the young composer from China, the instrument called "Xun" that the announcer just mentioned was a mysterious oriental instrument that they had never heard of.

This move also made some people very dissatisfied, they thought that this was a classical concert and should not be filled with oriental music, but more people still adhered to a proper and curious attitude and did not make any assertions.

Almost all of the audience who can come here are veteran concert lovers, knowing that the opening, middle and ending are the most important aspects of a concert, and Yo-Yo Ma's choice of this piece from a Chinese composer is enough to show that Yo-Yo Ma attaches great importance to this music.

After a while, Li Yange, who was dressed in a black tuxedo, took a deep breath, clenched his hand and tried to find a way to entrust someone to transport Xun from China, and strode onto the stage with his head held high.

The moment Li Yange first stepped on the stage, there were countless eyes looking at him, and these eyes were mixed with a lot of emotions, including curiosity, doubt, and doubt.

"Take it easy." Yo-Yo Ma walked over with a cello, stood next to Li Yange, and after muttering a whisper, he sat down and began to adjust the pitch of the cello.

In the next piece of "The Original Scenery of Hometown", Yo-Yo Ma's cello is the auxiliary, and the sound and color cannot be too bright, so it has to be re-adjusted.

After about ten seconds, Yo-Yo Ma adjusted his voice, he looked up at Li Yange who was standing, nodded slightly, and then lowered his head, holding the bow in his right hand and began to play affectionately.

The low timbre of the cello is mournful and melancholy, like a cry, as if bringing people into a silent and far-reaching realm, Li Yange looked at the attentive eyes of the audience, exhaled a few breaths, and then pinched Xun with both hands and put it to his mouth.

As the Xun music sounded, the ethereal sound from heaven resounded in the small hall of Carnegie Hall, and people's eyes seemed to appear in the boundless grassland;

Flocks of birds are spreading their wings in the sky, flocks of cattle and sheep are munching on grass slowly, and herdsmen are sitting on a large rock, using a musical instrument they have never heard or seen, and between the blue sky and green grass, there is an ethereal sound of mournful melancholy......

There was silence in the scene, except for the sound of the cello and Xun, there was no other sound, and all the audience was immersed in this strange and ethereal music.

As the music gradually came to an end and ended, the audience was still immersed in it.

"Wonderful! This song is so good, it reminds me of the days when I was a kid grazing on my grandfather's ranch. ”

"This is the best oriental piece I've ever heard, there is no one!"

"It's amazing, I can't believe how the instrument in the player's hand can produce such an ethereal sound that seems to come from the depths of the soul."

The audience applauded thunderously and issued countless admirations, and even those who doubted it had to admit that this music was very beautiful, and it could bring people a sense of tranquility, as if any troubles could disappear in this music.

"Isn't it time for me to be done?"

Li Yange saw that the applause continued, and asked in a low voice with Yo-Yo Ma who stood up on the side.

Yo-Yo Ma smiled: "Don't you enjoy a little more applause?" It's what you earned, you conquered them with your music, you blocked those doubts. ”

This time, Li Yange was invited to come and play this "Hometown" in the concert, which Yo-Yo Ma fought hard for, and he has been working hard to change traditional classical music in recent years, trying to integrate more music from all over the world.

So after hearing Li Yange's music, I also invited him to come over and try to make a change.

In fact, it was precisely because Yo-Yo Ma tried to integrate other musical colors into classical music that he angered many classical music practitioners more than ten years later, and was jointly banned for several years.

These classical musicians are like staying in a closed circle, allowing a door to be opened and a few people to come in, but not allowing people to break through the walls of this circle and let more people in in and get a piece of the pie.

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