Before the concert began, a girl in a peaked cap in the front row asked her friend next to her, "John, when will that friend of yours play?" ”

John smiled and said, "It should be time to return." ”

"We'll have to wait a while."

"Don't worry, just enjoy the music quietly, I heard Helen say that Y's concert is very worth listening to."

The cap girl smiled and nodded, "I don't doubt that, after all, there are so many good tunes." It's a pity that I can't hear the tunes of "Memories of the Forbidden City" in this concert. ”

"I've heard that Y's concerts have a fixed theme, and maybe there will be other concerts in the future, and you can hear those tunes." John said.

"I don't know when he'll be able to go to the United States for a concert."

"God knows, he has too few concerts, and I've heard that his albums don't sell very well in the United States."

"Isn't it good?" The cap girl was a little surprised, "I've heard the music from 'The Flying Piano Boy' on the street several times, and I've heard it on the radio a few times. ”

"That's because you pay attention, so you remember it when you hear it, but you don't have many times. The next time you can compare the frequency of your own songs, you will find that the frequency of his songs is not very high. ”

"How can songs be compared to pure music together?"

John smiled and shook his head, "I've heard that in Neon, Y's music can be heard everywhere. ”

"Anywhere?"

"Well, as long as you walk down the street, you can definitely hear his music. No singer can have such popularity. ”

"Is that an exaggeration?"

"It's not an exaggeration at all, Zhou Yan's music is loved by those shopping malls, shops, and restaurants, and Neon's most popular female singer Shizuka Kudo, the recent hit songs are all from Zhou Yan's hands."

"I've never seen a musician so popular."

John smiled, "Maybe it's because he's good-looking." ”

The girl in the cap pouted, "But I feel like he looks like a middle school student." ”

"His looks are very popular in Asia, and Asians look at him like we look at Tom Cruise."

"No way, you must be lying to me." The cap girl looked surprised and couldn't believe it was real.

Tom Hanks is a popular student now, although he is not tall, he is handsome and very popular with female fans.

Tom Hanks' performance in "Top Gun" captured the hearts of many female fans.

John smiled and said, "What did I lie to you about?" ”

The cap girl was still very surprised, because in her eyes, Y is not ugly, but at most he can only be regarded as a man, with the blessing of talent, he may be regarded as an average handsome guy.

But she knew that John shouldn't lie to her.

She was thinking again, if Tom Cruise was an excellent musician like Zhou Yan, it would be difficult for ordinary girls to resist.

After a while, the concert officially began, and Zhou Yan walked onto the stage.

Maybe because of listening to John's words, now seeing Zhou Yan standing on the stage, the girl in the cap actually feels a little handsome.

After all, human beings are social animals, and their cognition and aesthetics are also influenced by others.

The program of the second concert is similar to the previous one, basically all the songs from "The Sixth Sense" and "Piano Boy", plus "Eternal Night", "Flowing Wind" and "Early Morning, First Snow, Red Sun".

It was also the first time she had heard the latter three pieces, and she had received formal music training since she was a child, and she had dabbled in opera and classical music, so she was able to understand the charm of these three pieces better than the average listener.

Especially "Eternal Night", this piece is very complex and particularly methodical, and you can not only see the creator's technique, but also feel the creator's aura.

Although "Early Morning, First Snow, Red Sun" is technically poor, it has a strong narrative, and you can also feel the unparalleled talent of the creator.

When she returned, Zhou Yan led the orchestra to play oriental-style tunes such as "Drinking the Yangtze River Water Together" and "A Distant Journey", which also made the cap feel happy, and she liked some tunes with ethnic music labels, which often gave her some inspiration.

When Zhou Yan returned to the end of the fifth time and walked off the stage, the cap asked John curiously, "What about the new song you are talking about?" Did you play it before? ”

John shook his head, "I don't know. ”

He had only heard that there were new tunes, but he didn't know much about them.

Just when the two were confused, Zhou Yan returned to the stage again and reached the sixth return.

Zhou Yan on the stage, looking at the audience below, said with a smile, "The next thing to play is a new tune, which is the soundtrack I made for the movie "Sense and Sensibility", yes, it is the book "Sense and Sensibility" written by Jane Austen. It's an honor to be able to make the soundtrack for such a film, and I especially want to share this piece with you in Jane Austen's hometown. If you are interested in the movie, you can pay attention to it, and it will be released at the end of this year. ”

Many people don't know that "Sense and Sensibility" is going to make a new movie, let alone that Zhou Yan made the soundtrack for this movie, and when they heard such good news, they were very excited and couldn't help but applaud.

Seeing the audience applauding, Zhou Yan also smiled, and said in his heart that Colombia has really picked up a treasure, how can there be such a hard-working soundtrack director to help the movie promotion.

In the audience, John and the cap also sat up straight, and they finally waited for the new song.

"It's called 'Young and Beautiful.'"

With that, Zhou Yan walked directly to the place of the command station.

Seeing Zhou Yan appear in this position, there was another round of applause at the scene, because they had never seen Zhou Yan as a conductor in a certain piece before.

Of course, Zhou Yan has the ability to conduct, but for the sake of the performance effect, he will generally let Yue Lin conduct it.

However, this piece has not been rehearsed for a long time, and it is a string quartet, three violins, and one cello.

When Zhou Yan started shooting, the music also sounded.

This piece shows a sense of sadness at the beginning, which can instantly arouse the emotions of the listener.

Alan Rickman, who was sitting in the first row, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, this is not the first time he has heard the song "Young and Beautiful", but last time Zhou Yan was a soloist, and the feeling was very different from this time.

Although it is only a quartet, the overall feeling is much heavier than that of a solo, and the momentum is more grand.

Of course, it's only a little grander than the solo, and the quartet has no drums in it, which is a little more soothing than the one with the drums.

However, if it is too grandiose, it will not fit in this concert hall, and it will make people feel very noisy, so that's good.

After listening to the first paragraph, John couldn't help but nod his head, sure enough, it was Y, and the shot must be a masterpiece, and the first paragraph of this piece was attractive enough. I have to say that Y's songs have a very strong sense of narrative, and this song is the same, the tune is full of memories and questions.

He looked at the girl next to him again, and then smiled, he knew that Mary must have liked the song.

Zhang is right, this piece is indeed suitable for filling in the lyrics and making a song.

……

After Zhou Yan returned for the sixth time, no matter how comfortable the audience was, he never returned.

However, the performance did not end, Zhou Yan took a short rest, and took the orchestra to the outside of the concert hall.

Different from the first time, this time the organizer and the concert hall have made preparations, specially set up a temporary stage for Zhou Yan and them, and equipped some impression equipment, and the performance effect is much better than last time.

However, the weather was not beautiful, and as soon as the third piece was played, it began to rain lightly.

Seeing that it was raining, Zhou Yan hurriedly asked Fang Xiu to retreat with the orchestra.

Although playing in the rain is very romantic, their instruments are very expensive and cannot be drenched in the rain.

However, Zhou Yan did not retreat, he asked people to help with the umbrella, and then used the bamboo flute to play a solo piece of "Thoughts Through Time and Space", and when the song was finished, the wind and rain were so strong that even the umbrella could not be supported.

The audience at the scene listened to the song in the rain, not only did not panic, but even very happy.

Londoners, for rainy days, have really become accustomed to it.

……

Zhou Yan returned to the backstage lounge, and Fang Xiu handed him a towel, "Senior brother, wipe it, don't catch a cold." ”

"Well, are you all right with your piano?" Zhou Yan asked while wiping his hair.

Fang Xiu said with a smile, "Let's withdraw quickly, it's nothing, and so is this rain, it doesn't rain sooner or later, we have to perform halfway." ”

"Take care of the piano, everyone will take the car back in a while, the performance in London is over, you will walk around the neighborhood tomorrow and the next two days, and we will drive back the day after tomorrow."

Fang Xiu was very excited to hear that he was leaving two days for them to play, although after the last concert, Zhou Yan also gave them two days off, but they basically didn't go out to play.

……

The next morning, the younger brothers and sisters all went out to play, and they didn't bring Zhou Yan with them.

Zhou Yan found that the distance between himself and these juniors and sisters seemed to be getting farther and farther away, they only regarded him as a senior brother and friend before, but now they are more like leaders and teachers to him.

Since it's a fun trip, of course I don't want to be with the teacher.

The young people were reluctant to take themselves, so Zhou Yan went out to wander alone.

The city of London is still good, and the combination of classical and modern is very good, which is very worthy of learning from other cities.

Zhou Yan didn't have any destination, just wandering around, but he was lucky enough to come across a football game.

On a very modest football field, the turf is full of potholes.

When Zhou Yan entered, the two teams had just started the game.

The game looked quite formal, with uniform jerseys and socks on both sides, and in addition to the referee, there were two linesmen and a fourth official on the field.

There were about 100 or 200 spectators sitting on the sidelines, cheering on their respective teams.

Zhou Yan thought it was a low-level regular game, but after asking, he learned that these two teams are Chelsea fan teams, and they made an appointment to play a friendly match together today.

A friendly match, with a referee and a fourth official, surprised Zhou Yan.

And looking at everyone's actions on the field, there is no friendship at all, the intensity is very high, and there are all kinds of flying shovels.

However, there is a referee who controls the scene, although the action is big, but there is nothing out of the ordinary.

Seeing other people's football culture, Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh that Chinese football may not have any hope of catching up with them in another 50 years.

In China, not to mention friendly matches, even slightly formal amateur competitions do not have such specifications and atmosphere.

And what surprised Zhou Yan the most was that one of the teams used the 4231 formation, which was widely used later, but in fact, there was basically no team using it at this time.

The 442 is in the limelight right now, and some teams are using the 451, and recently Real Madrid are developing a 4321 formation.

So in such a game, Zhou Yan was particularly surprised to see one of the teams put on a 4231 formation.

However, Zhou Yan looked at it for a while and found that the 4231 formation of this team had nothing to show for it, and it did a very poor job in the conversion of offense and defense, and when it was pressed by the opponent, it became 451, and after a while, it became 442, and finally it became a simple long pass and hanging.

Seeing this, Zhou Yan's mentality was a little more balanced.

After watching a game, it was already noon, Zhou Yan casually found a place to eat, and began to walk to the hotel.

After arriving at the hotel, Zhou Yan was half-lying on the recliner reading a book, and at about two o'clock in the afternoon, there was a knock on the door of the room.

"Who?" Zhou Yan asked.

"Me." Zhang Youan's voice came from outside.

Zhou Yan got up and opened the door, then returned to the recliner to read.

After Zhang Youan came in, he asked with a smile, "Everyone went out to play, why didn't you go out?" ”

"I went out, I just came back not long ago, did you come to me for something?"

"There's a real thing, Crawé wants to buy the song 'Young and Beautiful.'"

“crave？ Is it Mariah Carey's company? Zhou Yan closed the book and asked.

"Yes."

"Buy to sing for Mary Carey?"

"Huh?"

"Why would they want to buy this tune, did you take it to them?"

"No, they listened to it themselves, and John DeRoman, the general manager of CRAVE, also listened to the concert last night, and he liked the piece so much that I asked for your opinion."

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible to sing to her......"

This song is also played, if you want to find someone to sing, there are not many singers to choose from, and Mariah Carey is indeed a good candidate.

"You agree?"

"They love it, but what about Mary Carey herself?"

"She also likes it very much."

Zhou Yan nodded, "You can give it to her, but I have one condition." ”

"It has to be the main hit, at least in the top two."

"This ......" Zhang Youan hesitated, because he was not sure if the other party could agree to this condition.

"I have this one condition, if I agree to it, we can talk about it."

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Zhang Youan nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go talk to John and see if they are willing." (End of chapter)