Salle Gaveau, Gaveau Concert Hall.

It may not sound like the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Philharmonie de Paris or the National Theatre in Paris, but rather a small concert hall that is not well known.

But in reality, this is not the case.

This concert hall is one of the oldest and most prestigious concert halls in Paris.

After the land was acquired in 1905, he began to design the concert hall, which was successfully built between 1906 and 1907, and the capacity of the concert hall was not as small as the name suggests, but more than 1,000 people, and it can even be regarded as a medium and large concert hall.

If it's just the age of construction and the large number of seats, it's not all about this concert hall.

After Saint-Saëns wrote the opening "Audience and Orchestra from the Stage" for the concert hall, other famous musicians flocked to the concert hall.

For example, in 1909, it hosted Eugène Isai, known as the king of the violin, in 1911 it received Marguerite Lang, the French ambassador for music, and in 1912 it received Fritz Chrysler.

But if the most famous is Claude Debussy, who received him in 1917.

As a representative of the French Impressionists, he also gave his own concerts in the concert hall called Gavo.

And even more celebrities made their debut at this concert hall.

The Impressionists, led by Ravel and Debussy, were very fond of premiering in this concert hall.

Even Schoenberg and Stravinsky have premiered many of their works in this concert hall.

Even if the number of seats in this concert hall is not as good as that of the Le Bolêtre concert hall and the new concert hall of two or three thousand people like the Philharmonie de Paris, this concert hall has a much more historical heritage than the new concert halls.

This is especially true for chamber music and solo instrumentals.

This is also the most suitable and perfect performance venue that Deutsche Grammophon can find for Fu Tune.

It also happened that there was a vacancy on Gavo's side, and Deutsche Grammophone had an appointment to be able to reserve such a position.

The staff member obviously didn't expect Fu Tiao to be the guest of tonight's performance, he was not in charge of this, he was just a greeter in a special costume, so he immediately ran back and reported to the person in charge who was backstage, and the person in charge immediately ran out quickly and spoke to Fu Tiao in English with a strong French accent.

"Sorry, sorry! Tutor! I'm really sorry that we didn't do the work on our side and didn't notify everyone to come over. ”

His expression was very sincere, and after walking up to Fu Diao and bowing seriously to Fu Diao and apologizing several times, he stretched out his hand to Fu Diao and said, "We have prepared a lounge for you here, and your performance venue for tonight has been arranged, do you need to take a look?" Or do you just go straight to the lounge? ”

"Let's take a look at the stage, and the piano or something......"

"Okay! Please come with me. ”

After the person in charge motioned to the welcoming brother to return to his job with his eyes, he bent down slightly, trotted all the way to guide the way for Fu Tuo, and took Fu Tuo to the concert hall.

At this moment, there are still some staff in the concert hall who put the finishing touches on the piano and pipe organ after packing up some unnecessary things backstage, and adding a few screens in the middle of the piano and pipe organ.

It is not to obscure the audience's view, but to change the sound stage in the concert hall slightly to make the audience hear more clearly.

A solo piano and a string ensemble are not the same, and they require different soundstages, which require minor adjustments.

Fu Tiao stood on the stage and looked at the concert hall, taking in everything in this concert hall.

This is a concert hall with a very old sense of age, just as it was performed at the Chopin International Piano Competition, and the overall layout of this concert hall is also the shoebox model of the Chopin Concert Hall.

The raised stage, the flat seats with no height difference below, and the balcony with a concave shape on the second floor.

Perhaps the most special thing about this concert hall compared to the Chopin Concert Hall is that this place has a third floor, and the lower floor of the second floor is separated by columns, and not all ordinary seats like the other seats on the first floor.

"Just like a normal concert hall, we offer Yamaha and Steinway pianos here, and because this concert hall is named by Gave, we also offer Gavo grand pianos if you need it."

The person in charge pointed to the three pianos that were being placed in the backstage and said very respectfully.

Fu Tune swept around the three pianos and shook his head slightly: "No need, just Steinway & Sons." ”

"Okay, we have asked our best tuner to tune your piano in your lounge, the piano feel in the lounge can ensure that the same rate as the piano outside is more than 90%, you can choose to practice here, but you need to wait a little while, about half an hour and nearly an hour, or, enter the lounge and wait."

"Then let's go back to the lounge first, and let me know when this place is cleaned up, and I'll rehearse it in advance."

"Understood! Break room, please come with me here. ”

After glancing at the situation in the concert hall again, Fu Tiao followed the person in charge to his lounge.

This is an ordinary lounge with the luxury of European aristocracy, and there are no windows to see the outside view.

However, the chairs inside look very soft, and there are mineral water, biscuits, sweets and some simple fruits on the table for the players to eat.

On the wall is a very typical French line wallpaper, with several pictures of musicians who have played here before.

For example, Ravel, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, and others mentioned in the previous introduction.

There are also musicians who Fu Tune doesn't know.

All of them are top musicians who have performed in this concert hall.

The person in charge stood at the door and said to Fu Tiao.

"Mr. Fu! There is a button on the table, if you have any questions, you are welcome to press the button to come to us, or just open the door and shout, we will always be. ”

With that, he bowed slightly to Fu Tiao, then turned around and softly closed the door and left the room.

There was only one person left in the room.

After lying on the chair for a while, Fu Tiao did not continue to waste time, but made the final confirmation of the performance in front of the piano.

Every performance is worth taking seriously, and you don't relax just because you're strong.

How you treat the show, the show, will treat you.

This is the music that Fu Tune believes in.

He looked at the portraits around him and slowly pressed his first button.

……

While Fu Tiao was working hard to practice, countless people had gathered outside the house.

The Gavo concert hall may have been dormant for a long time, and there has never been a visit from the top musicians, and the concert hall is so crowded that the long queue has even run around the neighborhood several times from the door.

Those who know the situation around may guess that the Gavo Concert Hall is going to have a concert in the evening, and if they don't know the situation, they will even wonder if this place is some kind of emerging Internet celebrity check-in spot.

Otherwise, how could there be so many people queuing up in this place.

There are so many people in line in this place that you can't see the end at a glance.

If it's a normal situation, it's actually fine.

After all, it is normal for a concert hall to open a new concert hall with half of the occupancy, especially for those commercial performances.

That is, those charity performances, such as 10 euros for students and 200 euros for summer cultural subsidies, can see Argerich, Zimmermann, Barenboim music festivals, will gather many, many people queue up there to enter, so that the entire concert hall can hardly find any vacant seats.

The same goes for the Gavo Concert Hall.

They rarely hold similar music festivals, they are a commercial concert hall for musicians to give concerts, and their tickets will not be subsidized in any way, and the ticket price of a few tens of euros is enough to dissuade many people from joining in the fun.

Therefore, there may be only three or four hundred, five hundred or five hundred people in the normal queue on their side, or even less.

In addition, the staggered time and the internal space can also be entered and waited, in fact, this situation has not been seen in the Gavo Concert Hall for a long time.

In addition to the tickets for the concert of 1,000 people, there were also many scalpers who smelled the business opportunity and followed the group of people to the surrounding area of the concert hall to ask if anyone had bought tickets.

There are also some people who have not bought tickets and are looking for tickets over there.

There were more than 1,000 people crammed into a small block, and the water around it was completely crowded and unavailable.

After the person in charge of the entrance saw all this, he was dumbfounded for a while, and without any hesitation, he directly asked the staff member in the welcome dress to let him come in first, not to block the door.

He didn't know how long it had been since he had seen such a grand occasion at the Gavo Concert Hall, and now most of the people were rushing to go to those huge concert halls of more than 2,000 people to give concerts, such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Grand Théâtre de Paris, and so on.

Although the number of people in this place is only about 1,000, in terms of acoustics, it is not inferior to those top concert halls, why don't the audience and musicians come?

He looked at the group of people who were queuing up, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

"It's been a long time since I've seen such a grand occasion......"

It's just that when he was about to go back to the backstage to see if other people were negligent in their work, the discussion of some people around him caught his attention.

"Why did Fu choose this small place? Who can see more than 1,000 people? ”

"That's it, it's so hard to buy tickets for this place, I didn't get it for weeks in advance, this place is really bad."

"When will Fu be able to hold a big concert with more than 2,000 people, just this venue with more than 1,000 people, I really can't grab tickets! If it weren't for the high-priced scalper tickets, I wouldn't have been able to get in. ”

"Huh...... I feel that even if he gets a large venue with more than 2,000 people, Fu He may not be able to grab tickets......"

“……”

Mader is a group of French children, do they understand the gold content of their concert hall?

Looking at their young appearance, the corners of the person in charge's mouth kept twitching.

The pace of going back to the backstage couldn't help but stop, he wanted to see what these people who came here today said about his place.

In any case, even if his Gavo concert hall is not so famous, it is not that small, right?

He just stood there, smiling at the audience as they walked in one by one, listening carefully to their discussion.

Among these people, French is not their main language, English is the most spoken language, followed by Mandarin, and then the languages of various other places.

French is also one of them.

He didn't understand the other languages, so he carefully distinguished the English spoken by the group, his expression gradually stiffened, and his smile even froze slightly.

"I don't seem to have heard the name of this concert hall before, why did Fu actually choose such a concert hall to hold a concert?"

"Well, I feel that this concert hall is a bit small, not as good as the Paris Philharmonie and the Grand Theater."

"The concert hall of more than 1,000 people, no wonder the tickets are sold out so quickly, I really hope that Fu can have another concert in Paris, whether it is in the Paris Philharmonic or in the Louvre or something like that, don't make it so small."

"Hey, brother, how much did you spend on the ticket for Fu?"

"I bought it at the original price, and after Fu won the Chopin International Piano Competition, I began to pay attention to his follow-up concert arrangements, so after he announced this one in France, I directly booked the most expensive seat, so I ......"

"Gan, why didn't I pay attention to Fu's concert in advance, it's really hateful, I only paid attention to this concert two weeks ago, but when I saw it, the tickets were already sold out, I was looking for scalpers to buy it, even the last position is more expensive than the most expensive position."

"I was lucky, I booked a waiting list, and if someone refunded the ticket, they went back to us and grabbed it, and I just grabbed a ticket."

"Don't talk about it, the tickets I collected are more than 200 euros, and now someone has risen to almost 3400 euros, right? It's better to grab this fare. ”

"It's just that this concert hall is really too small, if only it could have more people."

“……”

Small, scalpers are flooded with tickets, and you can't buy tickets.

Everything was stimulating the nerves of the person in charge, and he felt that he might not be fit to continue listening.

As he listened, he couldn't help but feel that it would be nice if this concert hall could be bigger.

If there are more than 1,000 people, a standing ticket will be stuffed in the aisle, a squatting ticket will be stuffed between two standing tickets, a party ticket will be stuffed under the butt of the ticket, and a few hanging tickets will be sold on the top, and at that time see who dares to say that there is not enough space in this concert hall.

Seeing that so much money was lost because the audience couldn't buy tickets, he no longer cared that this group of audiences scolded him for the small place of the concert hall, but regretted the loss of money.

He sighed, and when he was not ready to continue listening, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and he felt that there were many, many more people in the crowd that came in, and there were many people he knew very well.

The first to come was a very flamboyant girl in a long red dress, she staggered to the place where the bag was kept, and after throwing her package to the staff, it disappeared from his sight like a gust of wind.

If I guessed correctly, this person should be ...... Hiromi Ishihara is one of the top players in jazz.

This concert hall also often receives many jazz players to come in and play, so he is quite familiar with the top group of jazz musicians.

When Hiromi Ishihara came in, he rubbed his eyes and noticed that a stout black man had also walked into the concert hall.

It is rare to see a black person in a concert hall, I don't know if it is because they are not interested in classical music or because they don't have the money, but it is extremely rare for a black person to appear here.

But the person in charge was stunned for a long time, he knew this black man, this black man was a double bass player, called Burke, who had appeared in some quartet bands before, and more often as double basses in many jazz ensembles, and was a regular visitor to this concert hall.

And the many people who came in after him were even more so.

Many of the jazz regulars in Paris smiled and said hello to the person in charge, then put away their clothes and walked to the concert hall.

Looking at this group of people, the person in charge didn't react for a while whether this concert was a classical concert or a ...... Jazz concerts.

And this doubt reached its peak when a person he was so familiar with that he could no longer be familiar appeared in front of him.

Kapustin entered the concert hall with a young man, who was old and a little trembling, but still very energetic and did not need the support of the young people around him.

The person in charge walked over quickly, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand and said, "Mr. Kapustin, you ......"

"Don't worry about me, I'm just coming over to take a look, this is my ticket, you can take it."

Kapustin smiled and handed over the ticket in his hand, and without waiting for the person in charge to speak, he smiled and waved his hand, took off his clothes to the students next to him, and walked into the room wearing a shirt.

His student smiled and nodded at the person in charge, and quickly ran to stock up on his clothes.

Looking at the back of Kapustin's departure, the person in charge felt that his head might be broken.

And then the worse came.

He saw several figures that he was even more surprised against.

The piano ensemble of the Conservatoire Supérieure de Musile de Paris!

In addition to the professorial classrooms of the Ecole Supérieure de Musique de Paris, there is also the top pianist who is currently known as the most likely successor to the French school, Cho Sung-jin.

They also nodded to the person in charge and entered the concert hall.

Looking at the increasing number of densely packed professionals, the person in charge felt that his brain was a little insufficient.

He didn't know for a moment if this was a small concert for the crowd, or if it was ......

A Teaching Seminar!

(End of chapter)