"It's... Director Tang, you didn't tell me beforehand. Li Yange looked innocent, this time people came, he didn't know at all, he thought that he went to the orchestra to pick it out, and picked out all the big names he knew, but he didn't expect to come with a first cut and then a play.

"Okay, okay, you can get the orchestra members on your own, didn't you say you have to perform in September? It's May now, and there are only four months of run-in rehearsals, but it's actually very rushed! ”

Li Yange said: "It's because of the tight time and heavy tasks that I want to choose a younger one, like Mr. Wang's age, if there is an accident or something during rehearsal, it is not what you want to see." ”

"Hmm......" Director Tang nodded contemplatively and said, "You are right, I didn't take this into consideration." However, there is not much time left until your concert, so it is better to hurry up. ”

"Have you found the musicians of Duduk?" Li Yange asked.

"I have found it, Dean Wu asked someone to ask, and there are just two musicians who are proficient in Duduke at the Xinjiang New Art Institute. Speaking of which, how did you kid know about this instrument? I didn't know that before. ”

Resembling a bamboo flute, Duduk is a double-reed wind instrument that originated in Armenia and is one of the oldest musical instruments in the world. It once spread to Persia, Turkey and other Middle East and Central Asian countries, and later spread to the new area of modern Xinjiang through the Silk Road. It's just that because it's so niche, few people have heard of it.

Even Director Tang learned from Li Yange's mouth that there is such a flute called "Duduke".

Li Yange said: "I also listened to a foreign instrumentalist play in the United States, and I think it is very in line with the song "Dream of the Hexi Corridor". When will those two arrive? ”

"It should be soon, the telegram sent the day before yesterday should be able to come over in the next few days, and you also know how far away Xinjiang is."

It is normal to transfer people from the frontier and take a train for eight or nine days, and the straight-line distance from Beijing to the frontier is more than 2,400 kilometers, which is still a straight-line distance, and if you take the railway, it will be at least 3,700 kilometers in seven and eight rounds.

There is no G7 Jingxin Highway to drive, and you can only take the green train.

But now the green train speed of the frontier is 32 kilometers per hour on average! Think about 3,700 kilometers, if you go down at an average speed, you will have to sit until next year to get to Beijing.

Of course, such a slow speed is only in the section of the frontier to the inland, after that, just transfer to two trains.

After chatting with Director Tang, Li Yange hurriedly went back, he had to pick the candidate he had thought of as soon as possible.

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A few days passed in the blink of an eye.

Shanghai Opera Chinese Orchestra.

"Yang Wei, the head of the regiment is looking for you."

In the rehearsal room, a man was playing the pipa when someone suddenly stopped him.

"The head of the regiment looking for me?" Yang Wei stopped suspiciously.

"Well, inside the office."

"Do you know what's going on?"

"How do I know this, you hurry over, I think it should be a good thing."

Hearing this, Yang Wei put down the pipa in confusion and strode towards the regiment commander's office.

After knocking on the door and entering, the head of the troupe saw that someone was coming, put down the documents in his hand, and said with excitement on his face: "Yang Wei, there is an invitation from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, inviting you to be the pipa player of the orchestra." ”

"Central sound? Don't they have a lute player? Yang Wei looked stunned.

"I don't know, but it's a good thing."

The head of the regiment said: "Li Yange, you know, right? ”

"You know, I've been seeing a lot of news about him in the newspapers lately."

"Well, he is going to hold a solo concert at the Lincoln Center for the Arts in the United States in September, and he has selected you as a member of the orchestra, and I have already asked you for a leave of absence.

"To the United States?!"

Yang Wei didn't know much about Lincoln Center, but when he heard that he was going to perform abroad, he was still in the United States, and his heart jumped wildly.

This scene is not only happening in the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra.

Guangzhou Song and Dance Troupe, Jinan Chinese Orchestra...... Chinese orchestras from several provinces have received invitations from the Central Conservatory of Music.

Faced with the temptation to go to the United States to perform, no one could resist it, and their leaders waved their hands and let them go all the way.

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May 15th.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

In the rehearsal room, more than 30 orchestra members from all over the country gathered together.

"Yan Ge, this time I showed this old face and handed over the people on my list you handed over, but I have all transferred you here, don't let me down this time for this performance at Lincoln Center for the Arts!"

Thinking of Dean Wu's previous words, Li Yange was moved in his heart at the same time, but he was also under huge pressure, this solo concert seemed to be Li Yange's business, but after he did it, it was not just a personal act.

Li Yange sighed in his heart, then looked at everyone, and said: "Hello everyone, I am Li Yange, I am very happy that everyone can be invited to come, and two friends have come from thousands of miles away from the frontier, I personally thank you very much, I originally wanted you to have a good time in Beijing for a few days, but now the time is tight and the task is heavy, so I will start to arrange the task now, I hope you will forgive me." ”

Although many of the more than 30 folk music performers from major Chinese orchestras and schools have not yet become famous, Li Yange knows very well that these people will be the leading figures in domestic folk music in the next ten or twenty years.

One person smiled and said: "Teacher Li, you just give an order, I come here this time, our head of the regiment can speak, I must listen to you, otherwise I will have to write a 10,000-word review book after I go back, I don't want to write it." ”

The oldest of the people present was about forty years old, and the youngest was twenty-six or seventeen, barely the same age, so after hearing the man's words, they all laughed.

Li Yange smiled, then took out a bound sheet music sheet from his backpack, handed it to everyone one by one, and said: "There are a total of ten tunes on it, and we have to rehearse them within three months, and everyone needs to run in during this period, so the task is very heavy." ”

These ten songs, in addition to the five newly written by Li Yange, the other five songs are the complete version of "Memories of the Forbidden City", "The Dawn of Heroes", "Spring River Flower and Moon Night", "Alpine Flowing Water" and "Three Plum Blossom Alleys".

The last three capitals are Chinese classical folk music, and they are also the three most representative folk music pieces that Li Yange determined after racking his brains and turning over the classical folk music score.

Originally, he wanted to get a few more songs, but considering the tight time and heavy tasks, everyone not only had to rehearse, but also had to run in, so let's set these ten songs for the time being.

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