Chapter 5 Debate Competition

After a few perfunctory words, Liu Yi hung up the phone.

He pondered for a moment, this matter was troublesome.

The National School of Modern Music is mainly divided into two campuses.

Traditional Music Campus and Popular Music Campus.

When the school was first established, the School of Modern Music in M was still called the Manhattan School of Traditional Music, and at that time there was only one campus, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the west side of Central Park.

It is close to Columbia University, St. John's Cathedral, Bank Street College of Education and other well-known buildings in M country.

Later, in 1963, due to the rise of American popular music, the Manhattan School of Traditional Music opened a popular music campus, located near Washington Square on New York's West End.

The school was also officially renamed the National School of Modern Music.

The coordinates of the two colleges are one east and one west, and they never interact with each other and dislike each other.

Traditional colleges and universities mainly focus on piano, violin, orchestra, composition, saxophone and other majors.

Due to its strong professionalism and specialization in classical music, the entrance threshold is high, and there are only more than 1,400 students and teachers on campus.

On the other hand, the pop campus focuses on guitar, percussion, bass, jazz, etc.

Because of the wide audience of music, the entry threshold is much lower than that of the classical department, and the number of students in the school alone has reached nearly 3,000.

Most of the students on the traditional campus are from famous families, or top music geniuses in country M, so they naturally feel that classical music is the orthodoxy of music and the supreme existence of the music industry.

Moreover, the traditional campus itself has countless honors, so they look down on the rednecks of the popular campus and never disdain to be with them.

Pop colleges, on the other hand, are jealous of the traditional colleges, which have the support of many of America's top celebrities, all of whom have a bright future, and can freely choose their desire to work in an opera house or orchestra once they graduate.

Moreover, the traditional college has the smallest number of students, but the location environment, education, and facilities of the college are much better than that of popular colleges, so they are naturally more unbalanced.

The students of the two colleges have been resentful for a long time, and there is constant friction behind their backs.

They are still arguing on Facebook and other major music forums in the United States.

Even the flames of war have spread to the upper echelons of the American music scene.

At one Grammy ceremony, a singer who graduated from a pop academy sneered when he won an award.

"My grandmother's music with her toes sounded more interesting than traditional college music."

In order to satirize the dull and old-fashioned traditional college music, which does not know how to be flexible.

This speech can make the entire traditional academy angry at that time.

That night, many well-known musicians in country M jointly issued an article demanding an apology from the singer.

This incident also made a hot search in the United States at that time...

Well, get down to business.

With the advent of this year's debate season in country M.

The Conservatory of Modern Music of Country M also organized a debate competition in an orderly manner.

Traditional College vs Popular College.

There are 5 places on each side, and students are free to apply.

Then, according to the performance of each contestant, 5 more places will be selected to participate in the debate in the university of country M.

And this debate competition is not only watched by most of the teachers and students of the whole school.

Many more graduates were invited back to participate.

In fact, in this debate competition, it is not important to the students and teachers who can be selected to represent the school to participate in the debate competition in the colleges and universities of country M.

What matters is which side will win.

This is a battle for dignity, and no one wants to lose.

If one side loses, it will inevitably be ridiculed by the other side.

Therefore, Liu Yi can't lose, otherwise he won't have a good time in the traditional academy in the future...

"Alas, everything was hit by me...", Liu Yi sighed.

At this time, someone should say, sigh, the debate tournament is very good, at least you can take the opportunity to make fans worth something...

But Liu Yi doesn't think so.

Because debate is not the same as speech.

Debate is about logic and improvisation.

Debaters need to have strong reflexes and language organization skills, and be able to make instant counterattacks when there are logical loopholes in the opponent's language.

At this time, if you choose to rigidly apply the famous sayings and aphorisms of your previous life, or debate in the form of memorizing texts, you are undoubtedly looking for death...

Moreover, Liu Yi has just received the system reward now, and he just wants to digest this music theory knowledge quietly.

By the way, find a personal trainer to improve the piano water or something.

Isn't he fragrant when he walks the path of a pianist steadfastly?

Debate tournament or something, I participated in the previous life and vomited...

Two days on weekends.

Liu Yi didn't choose to go out.

Because he has so much to do.

While losing weight, digesting the knowledge in my head, practicing the piano, and preparing for that damn debate tournament.

And on the other side of the ocean.

There is a video on the homepage of station B, and the number of clicks continues to rise!

Video title: Please save him, a musical genius who is being killed by the Chinese!

At the beginning of the video.

An up master with glasses appears on the screen.

Hello everyone, my name is Guo Feng.

Those of you who have followed me know that this is the first time I've shown my face in a video.

before

This account will only shoot some anchor live broadcasts, or carry some famous live scenes or something.

But today, I don't want to shoot that.

First of all, I would like to ask you a question.

In today's Xia country, where the culture is so inclusive, those really talented geniuses, those young people who are fighting for the rise of Xia culture, should they be respected at least.

You may want to say, of course, and of course we have to respect them.

Don't jump to conclusions, after watching the following video, you will answer this question for me.

The camera turned.

A live stream appears in the video.

In the live broadcast room, an obese anchor was playing the piano.

The anchor's expression is engaged, and the sound of the piano is melodious.

But the live barrage is unsightly.

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and the anchor angrily said that this was his original, please respect it, but it was questioned by countless barrages.

In desperation, the anchor took out his student ID card to prove his innocence, but he was ridiculed for his ugly appearance.

In the end, the anchor had no choice but to go off the air...

Camera rotation.

Guo Feng's expression was cold, and he spoke.

Now, you can answer the question you just asked.

Does he deserve respect?

Some people may say that I have changed my concept again, he is just an ordinary international student, how can he be the group of people who are fighting for the rise of national culture.

Actually, the person who wants to say this, what you mean is that he looks so ugly, and he is also worthy of spreading the culture of the Xia Kingdom, right?

But you know what?

This anchor is a student from the School of Modern Music in Country M.

Do you know what the Conservatory of Music in Country M represents?

It means that it has the best music education in the world.

It represents that it is a well-deserved temple of music in country M.

It also represents the dream of many musicians in China!

But someone is going to ask again, this is a university in country M, what does it have to do with us.

What I want to say is, just because this anchor is a Xia countryman, he can be recognized by such a university, shouldn't we respect him?

I asked my friend in the U.S. about the piano piece, and he told me that the music hadn't been released in the U.S. yet, and that it didn't even have the most basic music registration.

And in this case, he shared his original music to China through live broadcast for the first time, isn't this worthy of our respect?

What did we do at this moment?

We take it for granted that we laugh at other people's looks.

We are indifferently trampling on other people's dreams!

Right now.

Do you still want to say that he may not return to China in the future anyway, and he will definitely use the excuse of nationality of country M in the future?

Yes, I'm not sure if he will join country M in the future.

But what I can be sure of is that a person who has not even come to the music has not yet registered the copyright, and shares it live with a genius in China.

At this moment, he must have a patriotic heart!

He must be eager to be recognized by his countrymen!

He must have longed for such music to represent Xia Guo.

It means that he did not eat and wait for death in a foreign country!

It means that he is working hard, he is learning, and he is weaving piano music that belongs to the Xia people.

He is proving to the highest university in the world that he is from China!

And what about us?

We still know how to have a little mercy for a beggar.

But how can an international student who wants to share his music dream be so vicious?

Why hasn't we turned him away before he chooses to return to China?

Why can we be so unscrupulous in judging other people's appearances?

Why?

Why, our society, has become like this...

Why?

Why, everyone, come on... You're really great, you can't say anything like that.

In the video,

Guo Feng choked up a little.

He calmed down, held back his tears, and smiled softly.

So...

His tenderness hidden in the piano, do you really hear it?