Chapter 193: Jazz Gathers in Paris
Nick didn't know what to say when he looked at the news, although he hadn't heard Fu tune play at all, but his interest had been completely seduced by what AndrΓ© had written, and he was really curious about what kind of character this person who was praised by his peers as the closest to the god of jazz was.
What is contained in his music?
All this made him extremely curious, and he was eager to go to Europe immediately to listen to Fu tune's performance.
Merely......
After stuffing the magazine in his hand into Bruce's hand, he picked up his mobile phone and continued to check Fu Tune's information to see if Fu Tune's concert had made the follow-up process public.
As a result, as Bruce said before, Fu tune's concert tickets have been completely sold out, and there are no extra tickets left in the market.
If you want to buy a ticket for Fu Tune, then you have to go to someone like a scalper and collect the ticket at a high price.
There is just one problem, and that is......
There aren't many scalpers who have Fu tune tickets now, and almost all of them are in the hands of the audience.
People don't go to those pop star tickets to be scalpers, what do they do with classical music tickets? Do you want to put it at home as an ornament?
Almost everyone who has Fu tune tickets now is an audience who wants to go to Fu tune concerts, who would want to give out their tickets at the original price?
Even if they suddenly find that Fu Tune's concert is not the same as their time, and they don't have enough time to listen to Fu Tune's concert, they are unlikely to pay a high price, but give priority to their friends and ask them if they want Fu Tune's tickets, and strive to sell them internally.
If it can't be digested internally, it will fall to the outside and be bought by everyone at a high price.
This also makes the price of live tickets for Fu tune concerts high, and it is difficult to buy those suitable tickets to listen to Fu tune concerts.
Nick looked at his phone, and after a little struggle, he still made a call, and according to what Bruce said, he was going to find his manager in Universal Music and ask him if there was any news about Fu Tune.
After all, according to normal statement, Deutsche Grammophon is a company owned by Universal Music, and in any case, there is no problem for the parent company to get a little ticket for the artists of its company, right?
It's just that he was still disappointed.
"What? Don't have a ticket? Can't you get it? β
When he just called and said the first sentence, the agent on the other side seemed to guess his thoughts, and said bluntly: "Yes, there is no ticket, just before you someone came to ask me about this, I have also asked the people from the Universal Company, and even went to ask about the situation of the Deutsche Grammophone Company, their attitude is very obvious, that is, there is no ticket, no matter what you say, there is no ticket." β
"But, isn't Fu Diao an artist in their company? Even so, they didn't keep the tickets in the company to give some people who want to go to Dior concerts a chance? Even other popular artists would do that, right? β
"You're right, but they only have a dozen tickets left, and guess when they didn't?"
The agent's tone was very helpless, and he explained to Nick: "Now Dior has sold 8 concerts, except for the 3 that have ended, the remaining 5 have all been sold out, these concerts are basically six or seven hundred, seven or eight hundred seats, they can leave a dozen or so tickets is already very good, these friendship tickets have long been given away, where do you get tickets?" But ......"
"But what?" Nick asked.
"However, Dior's original 12 concerts, and the next 4 have not yet started to buy tickets, we can talk to Deutsche Grammophone about this, see what kind of ideas they have, see if they can get tickets in advance, according to my understanding of them, they should send new tickets in the near future, and the price should be able to be the same as the normal price of master concerts."
The agent's words were very calm, and he said to Nick while thinking: "But I will state to you in advance, we may not be able to get the tickets in the back, you don't know how popular Fu Tune is now, Deutsche Grammophone Company will definitely not be able to intercept a large number of tickets for us insiders, and store them for us to use, they may only intercept about 5% of the tickets, maybe only twenty or thirty tickets out, and the rest will still be sold directly, if your hand speed is okay, I suggest that you go and grab Fu Diao's ticket by yourself, instead of waiting silently here. β
"Okay, I see, I'll try it, thank you very much."
Nick nodded slowly when he heard this, hung up the phone of the agent in his hand, and fell into deep thought.
He didn't imagine that Fu Diao's tickets could be sold so hot, and even insiders had almost no way to get Fu Diao's tickets.
As for the twenty or thirty concert tickets that the agent just said, he didn't actually count on it.
Because he is not a pivotal person in Universal Music, there are a lot of people in the company who are more important than him, and these tickets must be given priority to those big people, and after those big people have distributed all the tickets, if there are any left, they will be given to these ordinary artists.
It's just that he didn't expect Fu Tune to be so popular.
He looked at his phone and couldn't help but start to get tangled.
Or...... Go directly to a computer student you know, ask him to help write a crawler software, help him crawl the company's data, and when Fu Tiao decides to sell concert tickets, he will grab the tickets immediately?
Although it is said that either you owe people family favors or need to spend a lot of money, if you can really get Fu Diao's ticket, it is actually not a special loss.
Especially if you compare it to buying tickets directly from scalpers.
With all this in mind, Nick quickly returned to his room, pondering how he could go and listen to Fu tune's music live.
After all, as long as he thought of the kind of pure classical chords that Andre had just said, showing the beautiful classical jazz, he couldn't help but be curious.
A pianist who can get a jazz teacher to approve and whose manuscript is approved by the reviewers is really, really curious about what kind of music is in the hands of such a pianist.
As for going to the Internet to find Fu Tuo's video......
He wasn't going to do that.
In addition to the fact that the sound quality online is not as good as the live music, and you can easily lose some details, he also wants to retain a little bit of mystery.
Only with a sense of mystery can he think about what Fu's music represents to the fullest.
This man named Andre, how much boasting does he have in his music of Fu Tune.
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Not just one Nick, but many other people in North America noticed this news, the discussion about Fu Tune.
For example, the old man Kapustin, who had boarded a flight from North America to Paris, sat in his first-class seat, looked at the magazine in his hand, and couldn't help but have a trace of curiosity for a while.
The magazine was carried by his students, and he thought it was okay to pick it up and read it, flipping through the classical music and jazz music, and just happened to turn to the content about Fu Tune.
After his student came back from the bathroom, he thought about it for a while, smiled and asked, "Have you ever heard Fu tune?" β
"Fu, Dior?" The student was obviously stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but raise his head and think for a moment, then nodded slightly at the old man Capustin: "I seem to have heard his name before, he seems to be the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition, I have followed his information before, if I remember correctly, it seems that he has just finished his recent tour in Brussels, and he is ready to rush to Paris to continue his touring career." β
Speaking of this place, the student couldn't help but froze and hesitated: "Well, it seems that the time of his concert should be about the same time as the music exchange we went to Paris, probably a few days after us......
"Haha, that's pretty good, maybe we can still see his shadow on the streets of Paris, so maybe it can be regarded as a chance encounter, a romantic encounter in the city of romance, but unfortunately I am already an old man, if I am a young woman, it will be even more perfect."
Kapustin couldn't help but laugh, returned the magazine in his hand to his student, and did not continue the topic.
After all, it is very likely that Fu Tiao is not in the same direction as him, and now this person is praising Fu Tiao and saying that he is the closest person to the god of jazz, which is just a compliment, and a conclusion can be drawn very obviously from the mouth of his own students.
It's just that Fu Tune still belongs to the category of classical pianists, he just plays very well in classical music at the same time, he can also play some jazz, and jazz also plays well, that's all.
However, he also developed some interest in Fu Tune.
He found the man interesting.
According to normal logic, Fu Tune is actually best to go down the path of classical music, knowing that the path of a classical music pianist is much wider than that of a jazz pianist, and the threshold is much higher.
How nice it would be to be able to go down the path of classical music pianists, so how good it would be to continue to walk in classical music, why fight for a place with them jazz people, why bother? Why bother?
If his level of strength can compete with those great gods, he actually wants to continue to roll in classical music and become a top classical music composer.
Although he may be placed among the composers of the twentieth century in chronological order, he is still a more classical composer after all, and not a jazz composer as many people say.
Of course, this is his own idea, not someone else's.
You must know that although the Capustin concert collection is called a concert etude, most people play his works as jazz.
How can a composer who is almost all jazz be called a classical pianist and not a jazz pianist?
Watching the plane begin to taxi, heading in the direction of Paris, he gradually let go of his guard and looked out the window in a daze for the time being.
"I hope this exchange is interesting......"
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At the same time, the plane from Tokyo to Paris had already taken off, and a woman sitting in the corner of the first-class cabin was wrapped in a blanket and looked out the window into the dark night.
She is Hiromi Ishihara.
Although many people outside have been promoting her as a very self-conscious, extremely strict with music, and a woman who pays special attention to self-expression, she is actually a calmer or colder person when she is actually alone in the house.
She likes to be immersed in her own world and doesn't like to interact too much with the outside world.
Even those chaotic movements in music, known as Lang Liangyue in the jazz world, she only played according to her mood, not deliberately designed movements.
"Ms. Ishihara, this is the magazine you ordered."
After the plane had flown steadily, a flight attendant took the latest issue of Gramophone magazine and handed it to Hiromi Ishihara.
She took the magazine with a smile and flipped through a page casually, but her gaze did not lock on to one place, on the contrary, her gaze was a little erratic, and she didn't know where to look.
The night outside the window was getting darker and darker, and she subconsciously turned on the plane lights on the side, and the lights shone on the magazine, just shrouding Fu Tune's column.
She looked at the column and couldn't help but be stunned, read it slowly, and then looked up thoughtfully.
"Huh? It turns out that there is another newcomer in the jazz circle recently? Or is it a newcomer who has turned from the classical side? Feel...... Seems interesting, huh? β
Thinking about it, she couldn't help laughing, reached out and tore off this page of the magazine, cut out the piece of Fu Diao separately, and put it in a notebook in her package.
Looking at the dense and various news screenshots of musicians on this notebook, the smile on her face suddenly became a little bigger.
"I'm really curious about what kind of pianist is the pianist who has been touted by so many people in Gramophone magazine, and I really hope to meet him in Paris and listen to his music."
As she spoke, her eyes became brighter and brighter, and she couldn't help but stick out her tongue and lick the corners of her mouth.
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Fu Tiao didn't know that his concert tour had been published in Gramophone magazines by Andre, and many, many people had begun to notice him.
He just followed his plan and headed for Paris.
As he was leaving the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, the girl who didn't play the bell very well before came running up to him and said to him.
"Mr. Fu! Are you heading to Paris today? I happen to be going to Paris next week for an exchange meeting, if I can, can I go with you to Paris? β
Fu Tiao looked at his ticket, and then looked at the girl's extremely serious expression, and didn't care much, so he agreed to her request and asked her to buy her own ticket and follow her to Paris.
It is very easy to get to Paris from Brussels, compared to other railways in the city, which take two or three hours, and it only takes one hour and twenty-two minutes to get to Paris from Brussels.
If you look at the map, you can see that the train from Brussels to Paris has no traces of twists and turns, it is a very straight road, from Brussels directly pierces everything, rushes to the heart of France, and arrives in Paris.
If you drive from Brussels to Paris, it will take at least three and a half hours, or even four hours, and you will travel more than 100 kilometers more than a straight line.
Although the speed of 250 kilometers in one and a half hours is relatively slow, which is not as good as the high-speed rail in China, this speed is already a fast distance in the whole of Europe.
After all, you have to know that the train from Munich to Salzburg is 120 kilometers in a straight line, and the high-speed train takes a full 3 hours.
Three hours! You might even be able to drive past it!
Looking at the scenery slowly passing by outside the window, Fu Tiao couldn't help but sigh and said to the girl opposite.
"So, can you be quiet, although I'm on the tour right now, it's because of my professional working hours, but I really don't want to continue talking about music, a lot of the questions you ask don't have any value, and when you practice more yourself, you'll know why that interpretation is wrong."
"But Mr. Fu, I have always interpreted this way before, and no one has ever said that this is wrong, when my teacher taught me at that time, he also praised me for playing this place very well."
"Obviously, your teacher also needs to practice more, you see this place for yourself!"
Fu Tiao looked at the girl in front of him a little angry, reached out and snatched the pen from her hand, opened the score, drew a circle where she said, and asked.
"Look at this place, what we're talking about now is the follower, that is, the second theme, and this second theme is a relatively parallel existence to the first theme, where the second theme is compared to the first theme, we can see from the score, and the mood of the second theme is a little weaker, this is specially written by the composer himself, can you understand? This is a premise, and you have to understand this before I can tell you about the rest of the story. β
The girl nodded a little weakly: "I probably understand, but it's ......"
"But why did the composer write that? Because obviously, in the same place that you just played, first of all, the first theme symbolizes a perfect saint, saint, you know? And the second theme is to follow the saint's self, at the beginning of the saint's place he uses P, this P represents humility, full of curiosity about all things, and the F of the back self represents arrogance, the two form a contrast, this is the conflict of inner emotions! When the second theme returns to normal, you don't show this contradiction, and you still say that you are playing the right thing? β
Fu Tune knocked on the table and said, looking at the girl in front of him very helplessly: "I know you want to play good music, but I hope you had better learn music logic, music performance beauty needs to be logical at the same time, not a pure beauty, the music you play has no logic, how can you be embarrassed to say that you play well?" Can others compliment you on how well you play? β
"yes, I'm sorry......"
The girl apologized, Fu Tiao waved her hand helplessly, looked at the information bar above her head, and sighed: "Forget it, that's it, Paris has also arrived, let's get off first." β
"Good, good ......"
The girl was very frustrated, and after seeing that the vehicle was parked smoothly, she quickly packed her luggage and got out of the car, and then picked up the bag with the sheet music in her hand, and was just about to receive her package, when a black whirlwind galloped in.
Wow!
Before the girl's head could react, the bag with the sheet music in her hand disappeared into her hand in an instant.
Seeing all this, the girl's pupils couldn't help but widen, and she shouted loudly.
"Ahh Help me! Someone robbed! β
A purely functional female partner who doesn't even have a name, don't think about it
(End of chapter)