Soon, he realized that his emotions just now seemed to be a little too excited, slightly different from the feeling he had when he met Fu Tiao on the stage before, so he couldn't help coughing twice, and after letting his emotions retract a little, he nodded slightly at Fu Tiao.

"Fu, I've been waiting for you for a long time, but I didn't expect your signing tonight to be able to sign until now."

"I didn't expect that either."

Fu Tiao glanced at He Shen beside him, then looked at the person and asked, "Can my teacher come in with me?" ”

"Huh? Your teacher? Of course there is no problem! ”

The man straightened his collar, took out a new business card from his pocket, and handed it to Fu Diao and He Shen.

"When we first met, I would like to introduce myself to you, I am Klaus, the manager of Deutsche Grammed Poland, a subsidiary of Universal Music, responsible for the distribution, operation, and ...... of the records of all the contestants of the Chopin International Piano Competition."

He pointed to the business card in front of Fu Diao, and said with a smile: "If you are willing, we can also discuss the follow-up performance." ”

"That's it."

Fu Tiao instantly understood what this person was doing with him, in fact, he said a lot of useless nonsense before, and the main problem was the performance later.

Fu Tiao glanced at He Shen beside him, found a place to sit down, and He Shen did the same, he looked at the manager named Klaus in front of him with great interest, and asked at him.

"Gram...... Rouse? Right? Isn't that wrong? I'm actually curious to know how much the price of the performances you arrange for Fu Tune in the first year, as well as the number of performances, are generally high. ”

"I can't guarantee this, because every pianist wants something different, for example, Li Diyun, he belongs to the kind of person who loves to act, after he won the championship, he actually didn't have much time to rest, he spent most of his time playing, so we will arrange as many recitals for them as possible.

But for example, the 2005 champion, Refal blechacz, and the 2010 champion, Yulianna Avdeeva, these people are not particularly ambitious in their pursuit of performance, and they play in smaller venues, so we will arrange fewer concerts for them to meet their own pursuits as much as possible.

As for the price, normal

There are other things, and everyone's arrangement is different, so we can't be particularly sure of ......."

He Shen immediately interrupted: "So you mean, you don't know how many concerts you can give Fu him a year?" Is that what you mean? ”

Klaus immediately denied: "No, you misunderstood, I definitely didn't mean that, I just said, it depends on what Fu thinks." ”

After that, he looked at Fu Tiao and asked, "Fu, what do you think?" Would you like to have a concert? Do you want more concerts or fewer concerts? ”

"Hmm......" Fu Tiao looked at the two people in front of him, couldn't help but hesitate, and then hesitated: "How many are there?" What about less? ”

"If there are more than one or two concerts a week, and if you have more, you will not be able to adjust, and if you have less, it will symbolically hold concerts in several larger places, and withdraw after opening, and when the New Year's performances are allocated at the end of the year, we will re-discuss the concert schedule every year, after all, if it is arranged now, it will definitely be Chopin's tour, and the required repertoire is basically based on Chopin, and it will not give you a lot of pressure.

And if you go to a certain academy and start practicing, we will decide on the annual plan again, because then we will need not only ordinary Chopin but other works, but other works, and then we will need to ...... You'd think it's more than two a month. ”

Speaking of this, when two games a month felt too much, Klaus and He Shen on the side couldn't help but glance at each other and laughed at the same time.

Unless all of Fu's concerts are arranged exactly the same, as is the case with touring performances, Fu's solo concerts must be one or two a month, or more, and even the top pianists may be a little overwhelmed.

Although they can find out the score as soon as they get it, the follow-up processing takes a long time, and the more delicate the processing, the longer the time required, and it takes them half a month to process two or three pieces of work barely acceptable.

But if they are asked to process a whole set of concert works in half a month, I am afraid that no matter who they are, it will be very difficult to accept.

Fu Tiao looked at the two of them smiling, although he was a little confused, but he still roughly understood what they meant, so he spoke.

"That's ...... So in the early stage, in the last few months, it will be about 4 shows a month, and the tour in larger places will end at one time, and don't arrange too much. ”

"Oh, okay, I kind of see what you mean, in that case, then you can do one more in Warsaw, and then Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, London, Geneva, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Moscow, twelve places, three or four months, after the performance of these more famous places, you can almost go back to China, and after a month or two of intensive touring in the city there, you can be ready to enter the school."

After that, Klaus looked at He Shen on the side and asked, "He, how do you feel?" ”

From the time He Shen came in, he knew that He Shen was not easy to fool.

Fu Tuo may be a newcomer, and he doesn't particularly know how deep the water of classical music is.

But this He Shen on the side obviously seems to be an insider, he seems to be very familiar with these things, and knows the specific situation of this kind of tour.

There's no way you can fool the past.

Therefore, before he wants to convince Fu Diao, he must first convince this He Shen.

He Shen sat there and thought for a long time, and then asked Klaus, "What about the specific address of the tour?" ”

"Berlin's Berlin Philharmonic, Hamburg's Elbe Concert Hall, Vienna's Golden Hall, although the Vienna Golden Hall is about to be broken by you Chinese, but people are still good concert halls, and the others are basically the same, at least they are 1000 people's venues, not particularly bad, but venues with special significance, we generally can't handle it, you must know this."

"Okay, what is the price of a performance?"

"Everything abroad is arranged by us, and at home, it is arranged by Universal Music in Beijing, I don't know the price you give there, but our side is almost 5,000 euros-10,000 euros a game, according to the different local prices in each place, such as Warsaw, Poland, where the economy is poor, we are 5,000 euros.

If you're still willing to sign after each performance, the price of that signing will be the same as the price you signed today......"

"Nope! No more! ”

Klaus's voice fell, and Fu Tiao took the lead in shaking his head: "There is no need to arrange a signing, or, as little as possible, as short as possible, I really can't stand this today." ”

After Klaus and He Shen heard Fu Tuo's words, they immediately laughed, and Klaus immediately said: "Haha, no problem, I can help you arrange an appointment in advance, for example, limited to 100 people to sign the sale, but these all depend on the situation, and I will send you the specific arrangements later." ”

"Okay."

Fu Tiao nodded and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Like the one signing last night, if he did it again, he might really not be able to stand it.

From 90 o'clock in the evening to 2 o'clock in the morning, his face was almost numb with laughter, and this feeling made him feel that he was not an ordinary pianist, but an idol.

So as soon as he heard that he was going to arrange a signing sale, Fu Tiao directly refused.

He never wanted to go through this torture again.

Klaus was not much surprised, after all, when he waited for Fu Tune in the room to fall asleep, he knew that Fu Tune might refuse, so he didn't ask too much, just continued to talk to Fu Tune about the content of the performance.

The works performed are basically Chopin's works, and these works are basically played in Fu tunes, so there should be no major problems.

The time of the performance is about 7 to 8:30 every Friday night, and then if you want to sign the sale, it will be from 9 to 9:30, and it will be completely over at half past nine.

Others are minutiae.

As for why Fu was only allowed to tour in Europe, and did not say that he would tour the Americas, it is not very clear.

It may be because he is only a subsidiary of Universal, Deutsche Grammophone, and their sphere of influence is only in Europe, not the world.

What they signed with Fu Tune was just a simple performance agency contract, not all of them, and Fu Tune was only a pianist who worked with them, not their artist.

If you want to arrange for the Americas again, you may have to borrow resources from all over the world, so it is not particularly easy to arrange.

As for the global company in Beijing......

There is no need for them to send a message, as soon as the news of Fu Diao's championship came out, the Beijing side has already begun to contact them, saying that they want to arrange Fu Diao's tour in China, and Zhao Chengzhen has just finished playing in Poland, and the global branch in South Korea came to contact them, saying that it is a concept to arrange Zhao Chengzhen's performance in South Korea.

And the Americas haven't paid attention to Fu Diao and others to that extent, and Fu Diao hasn't flown to the beautiful country to sign a brokerage company with them.

Therefore, Klaus only arranged a tour of Europe and China for Fu Diao, and only when the parent company of the beautiful country decided, it was possible to arrange Fu Diao to go over.

But all this has to wait for Fu Diao's decision.

After all the negotiations were completed at He Shen's request, Klaus took out a notebook from his briefcase, and a small printer for fast printing, put it in front of Fu Diao He Shen, opened the computer, and a PDF of the contract appeared in front of the two.

"This is the motherboard of the contract, in duplicate, and we can sign it directly after we sketch out what we just negotiated in this place."

After that, he quickly revised some details of the contract, such as the number of performances, all of which was done under Fu Tuo's nose, without any modification of other regulations, and what stood out was a frankness.

After confirming that the revision was completed, he took out a Ling Mei pen from his pocket and handed it to Fu Tuo.

"No, you can sign on page 7, 13, 25 of this contract, if you need to, you can read it slowly, you can ask me if you don't understand it, but there is no way to change it, this is a standard contract, only the above such as tour performances and the like can be modified, the others are not at all, as for whether the contract will be unfavorable to you, I can't say, after all, all newcomers start with this contract, a contract of three years, and when you become a world-class top pianist, you have the right to bargain, we will talk about the rest."

"Okay, I understand."

After reading the content on it, Fu Tiao signed it directly without any hesitation, and then took another contract that had been signed by Klaus, and signed it as well.

After the two sides checked that each other's signatures were correct, Klaus picked up one of the documents, put it in the document bag in the briefcase, sealed it and kept it, stretched out his hand to Fu Tiao, and said with a smile: "Okay, Fu, since you have signed our contract, then the rest of the matter is simple, I will arrange someone to come and negotiate with you to escort your tour!" ”

"Finally...... I wish you all the best in your artistic career! ”

"Thank you."

Fu Tiao shook the hand that he handed out to Klaus, and smiled slightly.

After the two sides shook hands and announced the establishment of the cooperation, Klaus immediately packed his luggage, yawned and waved goodbye to Fu Tiao, and left quickly without the slightest hesitation.

There were only Fu Diao and He Shen left in the room, and as soon as the two wanted to speak, the staff who cleaned up the concert hall came over to urge them to leave, and the two could only leave the concert hall helplessly and stood on the street outside the house.

The stars in the sky are not bright, and even a few are barely visible, as in the big cities of China, which are shrouded in light pollution.

It's just that there is no light pollution here, only the extremely severe haze weather, which is completely different from those developed cities in Europe.

However, although the stars could not be seen in the sky, the hazy moon could still catch a glimpse of the trace between the clouds and mist, so that there was no bright color in the starry sky.

Seeing Warsaw like this, and feeling the contract in his pocket, for some reason, the two didn't feel particularly sleepy.

After glancing at each other, they walked in unison toward the main road, which was no longer devoid of any traffic, through the urban forest, to the grove beside the four- and five-story buildings, and sat on the benches by the man-made lake.

The night was deep, with a hint of cold that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, but both of them were wearing formal clothes, and their bodies were not particularly cold except for the cold feeling at their ankles.

Seeing Warsaw like this, He Shen suddenly sighed and said to Fu Diao.

"Fu Tune."

"Huh?" Fu Tiao looked at the starry sky above his head and replied casually: "What's the matter?" ”

"I don't know if it's appropriate for me to say, but I still want to say that from today on, you may be alone, playing alone, living alone, and shining alone.

The world of a pianist is very lonely, especially on stage, and that loneliness can make you feel a little scared.

As powerful as Horowitz, he needed his assistant students to give him confidence before he went on stage, and even Argerich was reluctant to continue playing solo works, but began to choose a variety of concertos to play, also because she felt too lonely, and it was always better to have someone to accompany her on stage.

In fact, when I was a student, I probably didn't feel very much, after all, everyone was in that state of half-expectation and half-nervousness about playing, and always wanted to show something in front of everyone, but the more I went on, when you were like me, I felt more and more loneliness, and there were fewer and fewer people who were willing to go on stage.

It's not because they are not strong, or they are not favored by the company's capital, the most important thing is that the loneliness on the stage makes them unbearable, they would rather teach students than sit alone on the stage surrounded by everyone, playing alone for more than an hour, two hours.

I know you have a great love for music, but how long can this love withstand this loneliness? I don't know, but I hope you can resist a little longer, go a little deeper on the road of music, and go a little deeper before that loneliness and fear completely crush your psychology and make you dare not want to continue playing on stage.

In this way, he can be regarded as a real, top-notch, pianist. ”

After that, He Shen patted Fu Diao's shoulder, got up and shook a little, tightened his clothes, looked at Fu Diao and smiled: "You look at the moon slowly, I'll go back to sleep first, this sky in Warsaw is really rotten, it's annoying to watch."

Oh yes, Li Diyun told me when he left, Berklee College of Music gave me a message, they plan to wait for you to talk to you after the tour, but Li Diyun talked to them a little bit about funding, they don't seem to be willing to give a lot, especially after knowing that you are the winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition, they feel that you are not a particularly good match with this school, so they are not very willing......

But anyway, you can contact them later, and you won't know until you've talked about it. ”

After that, He Shen shuddered, muttered a few words casually, and then turned to leave.

Fu Diao looked at He Shen, couldn't help but smile easily, looked up at the moonlight in the sky, which was not obvious, and chuckled.

"Lonely...... Is it? ”

[End of this volume]

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