During the banquet, the wine had passed three rounds, and Wang Xiaoshuai walked to Zhou Yan with a wine glass.

"Director Zhou, I would like to toast you again, thank you for your continued support to me."

Zhou Yan picked up his wine glass and clinked glasses with Wang Xiaoshuai, "You're welcome, we are helping each other, and my two movies are inseparable from the support of all of you." ”

After drinking a glass of wine, Zhou Yan asked Wang Xiaoshuai, "Do you have any new plans recently?" ”

This question was asked by Zhou Yan last time, and Wang Xiaoshuai said that he didn't think about it, and the answer was the same this time.

"For the second movie, I think it's better to be cautious, although someone sent the script over, but I haven't liked it yet."

Zhou Yan nodded, "If you have time tomorrow, go to my studio, I have something to tell you." ”

Wang Xiaoshuai blinked a few times, didn't ask what was the matter, and nodded, "Okay." ”

……

The next morning, Wang Xiaoshuai went to the studio.

When I saw Zhou Yan, he was still a little dizzy, many people drank too much last night, and he was one of them.

There were many people at the banquet who respected Zhou Yan and Xu Feng, but they didn't dare to let Xu Feng and Zhou Yan drink too much.

Xu Feng didn't talk about it, he was originally the boss, and he was not very familiar with the grassroots staff.

As for Zhou Yan, although he is usually very friendly, he is their leader after all, so he is naturally not good at drinking.

And Wang Xiaoshuai is different, he is the assistant director, not very far from them, the key is that Wang Xiaoshuai has an average amount of alcohol and is easy to overcome.

If it was replaced by Zhou Yan, ordinary people would come to him for a drink, and they might have to pour it first.

Wang Xiaoshuai is not a good drinker, but he was really happy yesterday, this year is his harvest year, so many years, he is in the best mood this year.

Zhou Yan poured Wang Xiaoshuai a cup of tea and sat down opposite him with a smile, "You are good at drinking, I saw that you didn't refuse to come last night, and your momentum was fierce." ”

Wang Xiaoshuai waved his hand, "Let you see and laugh, I didn't feel it until the end, and I can't remember who sent me home." ”

"Li Hong sent it."

"Xiao Li is still reliable." Wang Xiaoshuai rubbed his head, "Director Zhou, what are you looking for me?" ”

Zhou Yan didn't go around the bend with Wang Xiaoshuai, "I have a new movie to be filmed, and I want to invite Ling to be the assistant director, what do you think?" ”

Wang Xiaoshuai nodded without hesitation and said, "No problem." ”

"Would you like to read the script first?"

"Whether you read the script or not, it doesn't affect my decision."

Wang Xiaoshuai is so simple, and Zhou Yan is not hypocritical, "Then it's decided." It's a bit of a humiliation to have you as an assistant director, but I take this film very seriously, and I don't feel comfortable asking someone else to be my assistant director. ”

"Director Zhou, don't worry, I will definitely assist you seriously."

"In that case, I'll give you a script right away, within about a week, we're going to take action, I'll tell you the general situation first, the choice of the actor has been decided, and I'm going to invite Mr. Li Xuejian to play it, and the other ......"

Then Zhou Yan told Wang Xiaoshuai about the general situation of the movie, and then gave him a script and asked him to go back and study it himself.

After Wang Xiaoshuai left, Zhou Yan got up and went to a practice room.

There is no one else in this practice room at the moment, only Wang Zuxian is sitting alone in front of the piano, she has learned a little piano, but she can't play well.

She is playing "Forever Together" at this time, which she likes very much and often plays, but she still doesn't play it well.

Zhou Yan listened from the back and didn't bother her.

It wasn't until the end of a song that Zhou Yan applauded, "Congratulations to the great performer Miss Wang Zuxian, who has improved her piano skills again." ”

Hearing Zhou Yan joke about himself, Wang Zuxian rolled his eyes, "I hate it, I made a mistake in the middle." ”

Zhou Yan walked over with a smile, squeezed on a piano bench with Wang Zuxian, and played a paragraph casually, "Do you mean this paragraph?" The beauty of art is to be able to accommodate mistakes, and although your section is different from the original score, it is also quite good. ”

"Is this what I just played?" Wang Zuxian was puzzled, "Why does it sound completely different." ”

She only remembered that she played this part wrongly, but she couldn't remember which notes she played, the key was that Zhou Yan played it, which was much better than her.

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Are you questioning my ears again?" ”

Then he raised his hand to play a melody, this one is light, bright, and with a little expectation, which is not quite the same as "Always Together".

"That's what I just played?"

Zhou Yan shook his head, "This paragraph is not, this paragraph is based on the paragraph you played wrongly, and I adapted it." ”

"This paragraph is also very good."

"That's because the ideas you provided are good" Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Do you want to go out for a walk?" Tomorrow you're leaving. ”

"Okay, where are you going?"

Zhou Yan shrugged his shoulders, "It doesn't matter, just wander around, or do you have something you want to go?" ”

"Then let's hang out."

……

The two didn't go too far, first walked around Shichahai, and then went to Xidan.

At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the two went back to the courtyard where Zhou Yan lived, put down the car, and then began to walk around to forage for food.

Coming out of the alley, I didn't go a long way, and I passed by the Yanjing Concert Hall.

Wang Zuxian suddenly proposed, "Why don't we go and see if there are any concerts we can listen to." ”

"There shouldn't be any concerts during this time."

Having said that, the two of them walked towards the door of the concert hall.

When they arrived at the door, they saw several posters, and it was quite a coincidence that there was a performance today, called "Master Show - Beethoven's Life".

This title is very large, but the following orchestra information is very small, and it is an orchestra that Zhou Yan has never heard of: the Tian Lai Youth Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

Seeing this poster with a peculiar style, coupled with the name of this orchestra, Zhou Yan felt that there was a pitfall.

He was about to tell Wang Zuxian that he wouldn't listen, but he heard Wang Zuxian say, "I don't seem to listen to you play Beethoven very often, and there is also "Moonlight Sonata" in this program, let's listen to this." ”

In fact, Zhou Yan usually plays a lot of Beethoven, but he really has never played a piece like "Moonlight Sonata" in front of Wang Zuxian.

He saw that Wang Zuxian was very interested, and he didn't say anything to disappoint the fun, and decided to take Wang Zuxian to listen to it, although he hadn't heard of this orchestra, but maybe there would be any surprises.

Even if there are pits, how many pits can there be?

"Okay, I'll go buy two tickets."

After speaking, Zhou Yan went to the ticket office and bought two tickets.

The ticket price is not high, only forty yuan for a piece.

If the symphony concerts in the mainland are not particularly gimmicky orchestras, the ticket prices are basically difficult to get up.

When the Piano Youth Orchestra goes out to perform, the highest ticket price for each performance is 80 to 90 yuan, which is a very high ticket price, and the reason why it can reach this ticket price is naturally because of Zhou Yan.

Of course, the ticket price can't be too low, after all, a concert also has a cost, and if the ticket price is too low, you can't make money at all.

On average, a ticket costs 40 yuan, and even if 800 tickets are sold, it is only more than 30,000 yuan, and you can't make too much money after removing the messy expenses such as venue fees.

Most symphony orchestras are considered successful as long as the ticket revenue can earn back the appearance fee.

The performance started at half past seven, and there was still a long time, so Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian went to the neighborhood for a meal first.

After eating, the two walked to the concert hall, checked the tickets into the concert hall, and found that there were quite a lot of people.

They are in the middle and back rows, and the front rows are mostly full.

By this time, the ticket inspection was almost over, and the concert hall was already more than 50 percent occupied.

By the time the show was about to start, the attendance was even more than two-thirds.

Such an attendance rate is already very impressive for an unknown orchestra.

Before the concert started, Zhou Yan heard two young people chatting behind him.

"I heard that this orchestra is a sister orchestra with Piano Boy."

"I heard that yes, and it was also said that the members basically graduated from the central sound."

"It's not expensive."

"yes, and look at this program, it's really good."

Zhou Yan frowned, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, how could this orchestra get involved with the piano boy?

He wanted to ask the two of them, where did he hear that this orchestra had something to do with the piano boy, but he was afraid of being recognized.

Wang Zuxian naturally heard the conversation between the two, turned sideways and asked Zhou Yan in a low voice, "Are what they said true?" ”

"Of course not." Zhou Yan said.

Wang Zuxian nodded, if it was true, Zhou Yan should have told her just now.

"Maybe they're saying that because the people in this orchestra are all from CCTV."

Zhou Yan shook his head, "I don't know." ”

There are too many people who have graduated from Central Sound, which is really hard to say.

After a few more moments, the performing orchestra began to take the stage.

A piano player, a violinist, a violist, a cellist.

Zhou Yan saw that four people came up and was stunned for a moment.

That's it?

Piano quartet?

Or will there be other musicians coming up in a moment?

The key problem is that the Yenching Concert Hall is a medium-sized concert hall, but it is actually quite large, and the quartet is not loud enough, and the experience of the audience in the back row will not be too good.

It's fine if only one or two shows are like this, but if it's a quartet the whole time, it's a bit of a.

At half past seven, there was neither a host nor a conductor, and the musicians began to play directly.

Zhou Yan was stunned in the audience.

And then even more confused is still to come.

The first piece played by the orchestra was "Moonlight Sonata", and when the first part of the performance ended, Zhou Yan's face was already wrinkled.

Among these four people, the level of the pianist is good, and the other three violinists are very average.

Of course, Zhou Yan's requirements are stricter, in fact, to ordinary people, the personal level of these musicians should be not bad.

It's just that when they play together, it's not as good as their individual level.

If Zhou Yan is asked to score, the level of the pianist is 65 points, the level of the other three violinists is about 50 points, and the level of their ensemble is not even 10 points.

This means that they must not have done enough rehearsal before, and there is no tacit understanding between each other.

Zhou Yanren was a little confused, was he dreaming?

Was he attending a concert, or was he watching a few students rehearse on a daily basis?

This scene can be found in any piano room of CCTV.

Although he knew that there might be a pit before, he never expected that this pit would be so big, and the Mariana Ditch might not be so deep.

Randomly find a few students from CCTV and let them practice together for a day or two, and it will not behave like this.

Even if Zhou Yan and his composition students get together, it won't be like this.

"Third brother, it seems to be ......"

Wang Zuxian whispered, but thinking that this was a concert and couldn't disturb others, he didn't say anything further.

Zhou Yan pouted, even a non-professional like Wang Zuxian could listen to the level difference so quickly.

He shook Wang Zuxian's hand and replied in a low voice, "Don't worry." ”

The first piece is spent in torment, and then the second piece is on.

The second is Beethoven's "Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor", which is also known to the public as the "Pathos Sonata", which, like the "Moonlight Sonata", is also a piece that is more recognized by ordinary listeners.

When it came to the second piece, the musicians didn't change, it was still these four people.

The level is equally poor, even worse than the "Moonlight Sonata" just now.

Towards the end of the second song, Zhou Yan took Wang Zuxian's hand and wanted to go out, he couldn't continue to be destroyed by them here.

When the two of them walked down the aisle, the song ended, and the audience burst into applause.

Some of these applauding people really didn't understand at all, and some of them applauded out of complete politeness.

But in the midst of this sparse applause, a loud shout suddenly broke out.

"What's the applause, is this show worth your applause? I've listened to so many concerts, but I've never heard even one so bad. What are these two songs about, isn't it a blatant fraud of money? ”

It was a middle-aged brother who spoke, his voice was loud, and his words were very ruthless, and several musicians on stage were frightened.

These musicians should also be students, where have they ever seen such a scene.

Originally, the other audience didn't speak, but as soon as this big brother came out, they also talked about it.

"yes, isn't this a cheat, listen to this thing for thirty dollars?"

"I bought forty tickets."

"Didn't you mean the Piano Junior Sister Orchestra? I've heard of the Piano Boys' Orchestra, it's not a thing at all. ”

"Are you from Central Sound?"

……

As the scolding became louder and louder, several musicians on the stage turned pale with fright, and Zhou Yan noticed that the girl who played the violin had tears coming out.

Just when the scene was about to be uncontrollable, a middle-aged man came up in the background.

The man was about forty, in a suit and leather shoes, and his back was combed.

He took the microphone and went to the stage, and then said, "Calm down a little, I'm the head of the orchestra, and everyone listen to me." ”

Seeing the person in charge come out, the noise at the scene became quieter, and everyone was ready to listen to what the person in charge had to say.

After there was no sound at the scene, the person in charge said, "Art is a very subjective thing, everyone has their own aesthetics, this is very normal. Maybe the performances of these musicians on stage today do not meet your aesthetics, but it does not mean that their performance level is not good. I can assure you that these performers are very professional and of a very high level, and each of them has won many awards in competitions and has also studied abroad. ”

"Fart, at this level, can you go abroad for further study?" is still the leading brother just now, and continues to output at this time.

The person in charge looked at the leading brother and said with a smile, "This gentleman questioned the level of several of our performers, so it seems that you are professional?" ”

"I'm not a professional, I'm just a regular listener."

"Classical music has a high bar of entry, and it's hard to give a correct evaluation if you're not a professional. The reason why it is difficult for us to say that classical music is difficult to enter the public life is because it is difficult for people who have not been trained in music to appreciate the beauty of classical music. ”

"Bullshit, I've heard so many concerts, and I haven't been influenced by music?"

The person in charge had a good psychological quality, and when he was scolded, he still said with a smile: "I don't think that an elegant person who has been trained in music is full of swearing, this is a concert hall, a place to appreciate elegant art, not a vegetable market for verbal wars." ”

Zhou Yan pulled Wang Zuxian to stand in the aisle, sighing that he had seen the world today, and at the concert, the person in charge actually quarreled with the audience.

This person in charge is obviously a veteran, and it should not be the first time he has faced this situation.

The leading brother was short-tempered, but he was really not a professional, so he could only roar, "You don't use these things to suppress Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu doesn't eat this set, hurry up and return the money to Lao Tzu." ”

(End of chapter)