Regarding the concert, Yo-Yo Ma contacted a well-known local agency in New York, which mainly engaged in commercial performances and other activities, including organizing concerts for people.

Of course, this company is not everyone's business, they have to evaluate whether the performers are valuable, and decide that they can bring profit to the company before finalizing the cooperation.

So after two days of evaluation, the company sent an agent with great experience in concert preparation to negotiate with Li Yange about the next cooperation between the two sides.

After meeting, after the two chatted about the ticket sharing of the concert and some follow-up questions, Johnson Arthur looked up and asked, "Mr. Li, do you have any special ideas for the concert?" ”

As for Li Yange, Arthur has also investigated in the past few days, is an excellent young composer from China, and performed at Lincoln Center a few days ago, which has been well received by all walks of life, and won the Oscar for Best Composition before.

In order to avoid some unnecessary contradictions in the process of preparing for the next concert, Johnson Arthur also decided to communicate with Li Yange first.

After all, the other party is still a little famous in New York now, not the kind of dispensable foreigner, plus Li Yange was introduced to their company by Yo-Yo Ma, Arthur naturally doesn't want the relationship to be too bad.

"Special thoughts?" Li Yange was stunned, he was also worried about the preparation of the concert for the first time, Polygram had always been in charge before, he just brought people to perform on stage, so there were other ideas.

Perhaps looking at Li Yange's incomprehension, Arthur said: "Some musicians have some special hobbies, such as decorating the venue with splendor, or adding some props to the stage, as well as requirements for the venue, such as whether they like the traditional venue or the novel venue. ”

The style of the concert is very different, the big concert has the style of the big concert, and the small music naturally has its own style.

Some people like to stay close to the audience and make the concert venue a circle, with themselves and the orchestra in the center, surrounded by the audience, and enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by moments of light.

Li Yange heard the scene arrangement, pondered for a while, and said, "Can you add a little Chinese element?" ”

"Chinese elements?"

Arthur was stunned, then understood, and said, "Mr. Li, are you saying that you want to hang a little Chinatown-like Chinese knot in the venue?" ”

"It's not!"

Li Yange shook his head helplessly, why do these foreigners think about Chinese knots when they hear Chinese elements, although this is indeed the most representative Chinese element overseas, but it is not appropriate to hang this thing in the concert.

"I wanted to be more Chinese in the layout of the venue."

"Venue? Do you mean all? ”

"Not bad."

Li Wenzhen nodded solemnly, and in Arthur's puzzled eyes, he said slowly: "Mr. Arthur, you should know that our orchestra members are all Chinese, and most of the traditional Chinese music played in the concert is Chinese, so in the layout of the venue, I tend to arrange Chinese elements." ”

"I'm afraid this won't work." Arthur shook his head and directly explained why it didn't work.

The general reason is that their agency has held concerts for musicians before, and most of them are in the traditional classical way, although there are slight changes, but they are very similar.

Your sudden request to change the layout of the venue to be more chinoiserie makes it difficult for Arthur to agree, because he has to think about the tickets.

Concerts are different from concerts in that they are very limited in terms of the number of people, so in order to make a profit, ticket prices are relatively high. Even in the United States, the price of tickets is not affordable for ordinary families.

So, listening to a concert is almost something that has never happened before for ordinary people.

In addition to the fact that money is one thing, what is more important is the attitude towards music appreciation.

The general public can spend a few dozen dollars on a Michael Jackson album without choosing to pay a little extra for a concert ticket.

Li Yange pondered for a while and said, "Mr. Arthur, I understand what you mean, but I personally think that holding a Chinese-style concert may not necessarily sell better tickets!" ”

In the 80s, when the bear had not yet fallen, it was the honeymoon period between China and the United States, and it was also the best stage of relations ever.

It can be seen from the annual quota of public students that before the 80s, most of the countries in China were mainly France, because France was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with China.

With Nixon's visit to China and after entering the 80s, the reform and opening up in China made the United States mistakenly think that we were changing, and the neighbor next door was about to die of illness, so for this distant country that can contain the big bear, the United States also chose to open up its territory and launched a lot of cooperation with China.

Therefore, in recent years, more and more students have studied in the United States, and more and more Chinese people who have seen the prosperity of the United States have chosen to immigrate overseas to settle in this "modern country".

And it is precisely because of the honeymoon period between China and the United States and the gradual development of high-level cooperation that the American people's impression of China has also greatly improved.

Someone once said that politics is a combination of profit and Y.

When cooperating, from top to bottom, it's all laughing haha.

But once the honeymoon period is over, then from the bottom up, there will be a kind of disgust.

This can be seen best in Sino-Japanese relations, which can be said to be the 10 years of closest Sino-Japanese cooperation from the reform and opening up to the early 90s.

In the past ten years, too many Japanese companies have stepped into China and built factories here, and there are also many Japanese dramas, animations and other cultural popularity.

Therefore, Li Yange said that one of the reasons why the concert was presented in Chinese style and the tickets might sell better.

Without him, it's just the honeymoon period.

Hearing Li Yange's words, Arthur was a little moved, of course he knew that during the honeymoon between China and the United States, the public's concept of the past had changed greatly.

If the concert is presented in Chinese style, and some publicity is carried out, the tickets may not be a big hit.

Johnson Arthur hesitated: "Mr. Li, I have to say that your words are very suggestive, but this matter is not up to me alone, I have to go back to the company and report to my boss." ”

"No problem, Mr. Arthur will report, but if your company agrees, I hope I can participate in the whole process when it comes to setting up the venue."

Li Yange didn't feel at ease to hand over all the layout of the venue to the other party, and the ghost knew if he would suddenly take out a little bit of a book or something Korean when he was arranging the venue.

This is not without precedent.

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