Sun Qin pedaled his bicycle all the way, and after arriving at the unit, he first adjusted his breathing to calm himself down, and then walked straight towards the location of Sun Zonglu, the leader of their special group.

Sun Zonglu is busy reviewing new topics at this time, and the plans sent by the members of the special group have been worse than one another, with neither new ideas nor bright spots.

He is not blindly pursuing new ideas, if the old things can be done well, but in these special plans, he doesn't see that they can do a good job of the show.

"Team Leader." Sun Qin came up to him and shouted.

"What's wrong?" Sun Zonglu put down the plan book in his hand and rubbed his eyes, "It's best not to tell me some bad news now, my head hurts enough today." ”

Sun Qin smiled, "It's good news. ”

Hearing that it was good news, Sun Zonglu opened his eyes, "What good news?" ”

"I found the soundtrack artist of "Aftertaste of Yanjing".

"Soundtrack?" Sun Zonglu's eyebrows trembled, "The person you found from outside?" ”

The last time Sun Qin came to him to talk about the soundtrack, he had already told Sun Qin that he would talk about the soundtrack when the film was filmed, but he didn't expect this kid to still think about it, and he actually went to find the soundtrack by himself.

Sun Qin didn't answer Sun Zonglu's question directly, just took out the Walkman, and then stuffed the earphones into Sun Zonglu's ears.

Sun Zonglu leaned back, took the headphones from Sun Qin's hand, and asked, "What's in this, just stuff it into my ears?" ”

Sun Qin explained with a smile, "This is the soundtrack written by the soundtrack artist I was looking for, it has just been recorded, team leader, listen to it." ”

"You haven't made the film yet, so you made the soundtrack first, so I'm a little anxious."

Although Sun Zonglu said so, he still put on the headphones, and then fiddled with the Walkman: "How did you get this thing?" ”

The Walkman is a new thing, Sun Zonglu has also seen it, but he has never operated it, and he doesn't know how to operate it.

"I'll help you."

Sun Qin helped turn on the Walkman, and then asked, "Team leader, do you hear the voice?" ”

Sun Zonglu looked at Sun Qin and didn't speak, he heard a voice, but it was just a noise when idling.

After waiting for a while, the music finally sounded.

is different from Zhou Yan's previous solo on the flute, and the version recorded this time is much richer.

When Sun Zonglu heard the first paragraph, his eyes showed doubts, because he couldn't hear what kind of musical instrument it was, it seemed to hide some piano sounds, and some kind of flute? Or the sound of a metal wind instrument?

Together, these sounds give a sense of lightness and mystery.

It's like in a moonlit starry night, the stars in the sky twinkle here and there, and these countless starlight keeps circulating with the stars.

Just when Sun Zonglu was no longer entangled in what kind of instrument it was, and gradually immersed himself in the music itself, suddenly, a distant bell rang, and the music became magnificent.

In this paragraph, he seems to have heard a lot of Chinese folk musical instruments, chimes, reeds, drums, ...... It sounds similar, but it's not quite the same. These sounds are woven together to construct a palace picture with yellow tiles and red walls and cornices and corners.

And what surprised Sun Zonglu the most was the next paragraph, which was a kind of wind instrument that he couldn't hear at all, which pushed the illusion of the whole piece to the extreme, and gradually pushed the magnificent court painting constructed in the previous paragraph to a place separated from the listener in time and space.

……

Sun Qin had been watching the time, waiting for Sun Zonglu to finish listening to the tune, and after more than four minutes, Sun Zonglu suddenly fiddled with the walkman in his hand.

"What's wrong, team leader?" Sun Qin asked.

"How do you move this thing back?" Sun Zonglu looked at the Walkman and muttered.

"Move back?"

"Well, I'll listen to it again."

Hearing that Sun Zonglu was going to listen to it again, Sun Qin smiled and helped him tune the tape to the place where the song had not begun.

This time, Sun Zonglu listened more carefully, and when he heard the middle, he asked Sun Qin to help him call back, and there was a paragraph that he listened to five or six times.

After listening to it for more than ten minutes, Sun Zonglu put down the walkman in his hand.

He looked at Sun Qin, "This piece was written specifically for the Forbidden City, right?" ”

Sun Qin gave a thumbs up and followed a sycophant, "Otherwise, if you are the team leader, you can even hear this." ”

Sun Zonglu smiled, this song has such a strong palace flavor, combined with Sun Qin's sampling, it is naturally easy to associate with the Forbidden City.

"Team leader, are you satisfied with this song?" Sun Qin asked again.

Sun Zonglu did not immediately express his opinion.

If you ask him if the piece is good, the answer is simple: yes.

This piece is really good, very narrative, and very compatible with the Forbidden City.

But the problem is that it only has a sense of compatibility with elements such as the Forbidden City, and the "Memories of Yanjing" that Sun Qin is currently producing is not only the material of the Forbidden City, but also has many modern and life-like materials, which do not fit the tune.

At this time, Sun Zonglu did not speak, thinking about whether he could cut out a piece of this song and put it on the Forbidden City material in "Aftertaste of Yanjing".

But after thinking for a while, Sun Zonglu shook his head helplessly.

This piece has a strong sense of narrative, and it would be a great pity if a short section in the middle was forced to be cut out, and the effect would be much worse.

Also, if you put the most magnificent part in the middle, how will the other materials be scored? When the materials of the Forbidden City are put together with other materials, it will definitely look very out of sync.

Seeing that Sun Zonglu didn't speak, and shook his head, Sun Qin also became nervous, and cautiously asked again, "Team leader, what do you think of this song "Memories of the Forbidden City"?" ”

Hearing that the title of the song was "Memories of the Forbidden City", Sun Zonglu's brows furrowed even tighter, "Sun Qin, you are giving me a problem." ”

"Huh?"

Sun Zonglu sighed slightly, "This song definitely can't be put into "Aftertaste of Yanjing", the film is too short......"

Before Sun Zonglu finished speaking, Sun Qin hurriedly said, "Team leader, we can increase the duration of "Aftertaste of Yanjing", didn't the "Streets and Alleys" done by Director Liu and them last extended from seven minutes to half an hour?" We can do the same...... If it really doesn't work, we can also change the original theme to the Forbidden City special ......"

In the end, Sun Qin's voice became smaller and quieter, and the more he spoke, the more he had no confidence, he knew that it was already very troublesome to extend the time, and it would be even more troublesome to change the topic directly.

Sun Zonglu looked at Sun Qin with a smile, "It turns out that you don't know that this piece is not suitable for "Aftertaste Yanjing", but you are just playing the idea of modifying the topic." ”

was told by Sun Zonglu that Sun Qin didn't hide it, he said generously, "Team leader, I think it's a pity if this song is not used." If you can't revise the topic, you should extend the time to more than 20 minutes. ”

Sun Zonglu shook his head, "It's impossible to extend the time, this piece is too catchy, and putting it in it will affect the display of other materials." ”

"There must be a give-and-take." Sun Qin couldn't help but say.

Sun Zonglu rubbed the pen, and then said in a deep voice, "No need to change, no need to change, let's add another topic, it's called "Memories of the Forbidden City", and you will make a plan for a new plan after you go back." ”

"I made a simple one." Sun Qin replied subconsciously.

When deciding to use "Memories of the Forbidden City", Sun Qin was ready to revise the topic, so he made a simple project to revise the topic.

Sun Zonglu waved his hand and said, "Simple is not good, it must be detailed, and it must be at the meeting, the more detailed the better." When you're done, show it to me. ”

Sun Qin rubbed his hands, "Then do you want to continue to do the project "Aftertaste of Yanjing"?" ”

I heard Sun Zonglu say just now that he wanted to add a new topic, and Sun Qin was also very surprised, he hadn't thought about doing a new topic before.

But the new topic is also very troublesome, because the new one means that there will be two.

"Of course you have to do it, isn't it almost all the material? If you feel that you can't be busy doing two projects at the same time, give the material of "Aftertaste of Yanjing" to Lao Liu and let him do it. ”

"No, no." Sun Qin hurriedly waved his hand, "I have absolutely no problem." ”

He has almost done this wedding dress, of course, it is impossible to give it to others.

Sun Zonglu nodded and said, "Okay, when will the "Memories of the Forbidden City" proposal be brought to me?" ”

"One week, no, three days, three days later, I'll bring the proposal book." After finishing speaking, Sun Qin patted his chest again and said, "Team leader, I can make a military order with you." ”

"The military order will not be made for you." Sun Zonglu waved his hand and asked again, "Where did you get this tune?" ”

Hearing Sun Zonglu ask about the origin of the song, Sun Qin also laughed, "Coincidentally, didn't I take Xiao Hu and Xiao Li to the Forbidden City to shoot materials before, but I happened to meet Wang Junzheng, who was directing them to film, and their soundtrack director was also on the scene at that time." ”

"Director Wang has a new play recently."

"Well, it's called "Heaven's Reply", and it's finished now."

"Who are their soundtrack directors?"

"Zhou Yan."

Sun Zonglu thought about it and didn't remember who Zhou Yan was, but it was normal, there were so many soundtracks, and there weren't many who were really famous, so naturally he didn't know a few.

"So, you're going to ask someone to do the music for you?"

Sun Qin shook his head, "At first, I really didn't take the soundtrack seriously, but when I heard Director Wang say that she modified the originally planned scenes for the song Zhou Yan wrote for the movie, I became curious and went to listen to that tune." That song grabbed my ears at once, and then I went to CCTV to find Zhou Yan. ”

"He's the teacher of the central sound?" Sun Zonglu asked.

Sun Qin shook his head again, "He is a student of the composition department, and this piece is his new work for the semester. ”

Hearing that Zhou Yan was a student of the composition department, Sun Zonglu was silent for a while, he didn't care whether the soundtrack was a student or a teacher, but he was a little emotional, the young people now are really powerful.

However, this young man is from the central sound, which is also somewhat reasonable.

Sun Zonglu had a lot of contact with the group of students in the 77th and 78th grades of CCTV, and Tan Dun won the second prize of the Dresden International Weber Chamber Music Composition Competition with a string quartet "Ode to Feng Ya" before graduating that year.

This incident was quite sensational at the time, because Tan Dun became the first composer in China to win an international composition award.

At that time, Sun Zonglu was already the leader of the special group, and they did a special project for this matter, and they also sent someone to interview Tan Dun.

That Tan Dun came out to compare, it seems that it is quite normal for this Zhou Yan to behave like this.

Sun Zonglu really wanted to meet Zhou Yan, maybe Zhou Yan was a genius musician like Tan Dun and them.

But now that the matter of the soundtrack has not been decided, he didn't mention it to Sun Qin, but just said, "You go to make a plan book, and other things will be talked about later." ”

"Okay."

Sun Qin turned his head and left, he was full of energy at the moment, and he couldn't wait to write the plan immediately.

"Don't worry." Sun Zonglu stopped him from behind, "You don't want this walkman." ”

Sun Qin patted his forehead, he still had to return the Walkman to Zhou Yan.

……

After the music was recorded, Zhou Yan also had to prepare for the performance of the semester works, and the final concert of their 88 class was finally scheduled for June 8, with two weeks left.

Zhou Yan's works have already been completed, so he is not in a hurry, and he has not been busy with his own works in the past two days, he is guiding the works of the 88 students.

On Saturday afternoon, Jia Guoping came back from outside, and when he saw Zhou Yanzheng reading very comfortably, he was curious, "Your semester work has been done?" Why does it look so idle? ”

Zhou Yan raised his head and smiled, "It's basically almost." ”

Jia Guoping said strangely, "I didn't see how you prepared, this is done?" Will you have all the musicians to play by then? How many people are there? ”

"Plus myself, four people." Zhou Yan replied.

"Four?" Jia Guoping frowned, he felt a little less.

In fact, for the semester new work concert, there are not a few four musical instruments, and there are many soloists and duets by other students.

But Zhou Yan's situation is different, Zhou Yan is a genius who wrote multi-movement symphonies in the third grade, and his semester works can't be too simple.

"What instruments are four? String quartet? ”

Zhou Yan shook his head, "It's a piano, a violin, an electronic synthesizer, and a jazz drum." ”

Jia Guoping was stunned, what kind of combination is this?

He knew a little bit about jazz drums, but he didn't know anything about synthesizers.

"You asked me if anyone in my school played a drum kit just for the semester work?"

"Hmm." Zhou Yan nodded.

Jia Guoping pondered for a while and said, "Zhou Yan, I don't know much about electronic synthesizers and jazz drums, so it's hard to comment on anything, but the four instruments you said are put together on the stage, and the visual effect is definitely a little worse." If you can use traditional instruments, try to use traditional instruments. ”

"I've thought about that, but traditional instruments don't work as well as I want."

"Is there a big difference in effectiveness?" Jia Guoping asked.

Zhou Yan shook his head, "It's not that big ......."

"Then I suggest you use a traditional instrument."

Before Zhou Yan could say anything more, Jia Guoping continued, "Let me tell you, don't think that the semester work doesn't matter, your situation is different, and your semester work this time is likely to affect your graduation time." ”

"What?" Zhou Yan looked surprised.

Jia Guoping nodded, "Well, you are originally in the fourth grade, coupled with the high level of coursework, as long as the performance of your work this semester is good, the department may let you graduate directly with the 87th grade next year, and you don't have to stay up for another year." ”

"Did you hear anyone say anything?" Zhou Yan asked.

Jia Guoping didn't elaborate, only said, "It's the news inside." ”

Zhou Yan nodded, Jia Guoping is now a teacher in the department, so he can know some news that ordinary students don't know.

If you think about it carefully, if the department really has the will to let him still graduate with the class of 87, this semester's work is really important.

Because he is now in the 88th class, graduating with the 87th class belongs to early graduation, and early graduation is to go through the process in advance.

Class of 87 will graduate next summer, so he needs to apply at the end of this semester or the beginning of the next semester, and the results will be available at the end of the next semester.

During this period, the most important concert is the new work of this semester.

Hearing that there was hope for graduating with the class of 87, Zhou Yan also sat up straight.

Jia Guoping is right, if "Memories of the Forbidden City" is played according to the original, no matter how the music itself is, the visual effects are completely insufficient.

If you want to make it look good, you have to add more instruments, which is fine, because if you don't use a synthesizer, you would have to add a lot of instruments to play this piece.

The key problem is that now there are only two weeks before the new concert of the 88 class, and he needs to find all the musicians and let them cooperate with him to win "Memories of the Forbidden City" in a short time, which is very difficult.

Of course, there is another way, that is, Zhou Yan himself goes outside to find that kind of mature orchestra and let them play his own tunes.

There are very few orchestras in China that can do private work, and even if there are, Zhou Yan can't afford to invite them.

It may not cost much to hire an orchestra to play a piece, but it is different to ask an orchestra to accompany you to practice a piece you wrote for two weeks, and the price will increase many times.

Jia Guoping saw that Zhou Yan didn't speak, so he asked, "What are you hesitating about?" ”

Zhou Yan replied truthfully, "I'm thinking, the time may not be enough, it takes time to find musicians, and it takes time to practice and run-in." ”

Jia Guoping nodded, "Time is indeed tight, but it's not hopeless, what instruments do you need?" ”

"Quite a few, one piano, six violins, four violas, four cellos, four double basses......"

Before Zhou Yan finished speaking, Jia Guoping interrupted him, "Stop, stop, although this semester work is very important to you, but you can't be so exaggerated, this configuration, our graduation works can't be reached, besides, your semester works are performed in the classroom, just what you just said about this configuration, the small stage in the classroom can't be stuffed, I suggest that all of them be reduced to one or two." ”

"That's the same one, but it's quite a lot."

Jia Guoping nodded, "The time is a little tighter, but it's no problem to work harder, you can do it yourself, and I will ...... the piano I'm too busy during this time, I'll find you Zhang Xinning from the piano department. ”

Zhou Yan blinked his eyes and said, "Are you looking for Senior Sister, are you really looking for me?" ”

Jia Guoping was a little embarrassed at first, and then said with a straight face, "Not for you, who else can you for, do you want to graduate early?" ”

"Yes, of course, I'm not worried that Senior Sister Zhang has too many classes and can't be busy."

"She's okay now, she doesn't have much class."

The reason why Zhou Yan joked about Jia Guoping was because there was already a bit of ambiguity between Jia Guoping and Zhang Xinning.

Zhang Xinning is from the 86 piano department, and after graduating from the bachelor's degree last year, he stayed in the high school attached to their school to teach piano.

After that, the two discussed again which musicians they were looking for, and after they were roughly determined, they went separately to find someone.

The two were very efficient, and it only took two days to find all the musicians.

In fact, Jia Guoping is mainly well-connected, and most of the people he helped find.

After getting the musicians, Zhou Yan seized the time to take them to practice and run in.

……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's June 8th.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the classrooms of the composition department were already very lively, and in addition to the students of the composition department, there were many students from other departments who came to help with the performance.

Everyone is still quite relaxed, although the semester new works concert is also very important, but the audience is only their own classmates and teachers, and the teachers will not come.

The main thing is that the head teacher Li Bingyang is there, and Li Bingyang doesn't care much about the students' homework, so the students don't have any pressure in front of Li Bingyang.

Zhou Yan's mentality is also good, although the time is tight, but everyone's cooperation during this time is very good, yesterday they rehearsed for the last time, and everyone's performance was very good.

When he arrived at the composition classroom, Jia Guoping and Zhang Xinning were already standing at the door.

"Senior sister, you're here so early. Our show is the last one and can be delayed. ”

Zhou Yan's performance was arranged to be the last, not because Zhou Yan was powerful, but because he repeated the grade.

Zhang Xinning said with a smile, "Anyway, today is Saturday, there is nothing else to do, just come over early to take a look, your department's semester new works concert is still quite concerned." ”

Zhou Yan glanced at Jia Guoping next to him and teased, "I said that Lao Jia didn't wait for me to eat together in the morning, it turned out that he was going to pick up my senior sister." ”

Jia Guoping's old face flushed, and he hurriedly defended, "I got up early in the morning and came over first." ”

"Understood." Zhou Yan smiled, and saw Yu Ran and Fang Xiu who were walking towards this side, and beckoned, "Senior sister, this way." ”

When the two junior sisters saw Zhou Yan and them, they also smiled and walked over with faster pace.

So Ran is today's violinist, and Fang Xiu is in charge of the cello, and there is a viola that they also helped to find, which has not yet arrived.

After coming over, the two greeted each other politely, "Senior Brother Zhou Yan, Senior Brother Jia, Senior Sister Zhang are good." ”

Zhou Yan asked, "Why did you come so early?" ”

Fang Xiu showed a meaningful smile, "I want to be late, but I can't stand someone who has been urging me." ”

Naturally, the person she was talking about was Yu Ran, and Yu Ran whispered, "I also want to listen to other pieces from the concert." ”

Many people came one after another, including composition students and musicians they were looking for, as well as other majors who came to see the performances.

Most of the people who came knew Jia Guoping and Zhou Yan, and they all came to greet them.

Zhang Xinning has participated in several semester new works concerts of the composition department before, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised to see so many people coming, "It seems that there are a lot of people today." ”

The composition department's semester concert of new works does attract students from other departments, but there are not too many people, and everyone mainly goes to see the fourth and fifth grades.

Like this semester, it is definitely the graduation work performance of the class of '86 and the concert of the new work of the class of '87 that will attract more attention, because the works of the senior students will be more mature and exciting.

Jia Guoping said with a smile, "The main reason is to listen to "Memories of the Forbidden City" more. ”

He is right, many people are here to listen to "Memories of the Forbidden City" today, not that "Memories of the Forbidden City" has become famous in the school, but Zhou Yan has found a lot of musicians for this performance, and these musicians are going to perform on stage, so naturally their friends will come to see them.

Especially like some of the more famous ones in the department, such as Yu Ran, she performs, and many boys are willing to come to watch.

There are also some who are aimed at Zhou Yan, such as the 87 composition department, and there are a lot of them today.

By 8:50, everyone had already entered the classroom one after another, Li Bingyang and the other two teachers had also arrived, and the first student to perform was already preparing on stage.

At this moment, Shi Wanchun, the head of the department, walked in with an old man in his sixties.

Seeing the two of them, Li Bingyang, who was sitting in the front row, stood up suddenly, and then Zhou Yan and the others also stood up.

It was none other than Shi Wanchun who came, it was Wu Zuqiang, the previous principal of their central sound.

Although Wu Zuqiang left office in 88, he is still active in school, and most students know him.

"Principal Wu, Director Shi, why do you have time to come?" Li Bingyang asked in great surprise.

Wu Zuqiang smiled and said, "You're going to start, right?" ”

"Not yet, it's going to start right away."

The two did not answer Li Bingyang's question, and Li Bingyang did not dare to continue asking, so he hurriedly invited the two to sit down.

Li Bingyang was not surprised when Wanchun came over, everyone in the play knew that Zhou Yan was Director Shi's treasure.

The proud protégé is going to perform on stage today, and it is normal for Shi Wanchun to come and take a look.

I just don't know why Wu Zuqiang also came.

As soon as the two of them came over, the atmosphere of the scene changed suddenly.

Xu Lang, who was sitting in the second row, was still chatting with Shen Huaigang next to him with a hippie smile, but now his body became very straight, as if he had been poured cement.

The other students were not much better, they all sat upright, and they didn't dare to make any extra sounds.

If they could speak, they would definitely have to ask, why did Shi Wanchun and Wu Zuqiang come together?

At this moment, the originally relaxed and happy scene of the new work of the semester became tense and serious.

It's not just the composition students who are nervous, but the other students who are pulled over by the composition students to help perform the work are also nervous, after all, they are the ones who play on stage.

Zhou Yan saw Shi Wanchun and Wu Zuqiang coming over, and basically determined the authenticity of the news revealed by Jia Guoping.

He couldn't help but sigh that Shi Wanchun was really iron-faced and selfless, and he didn't even tell himself about this kind of thing in advance.