The next day, when Zhou Yan and the others set off for the concert hall, the girls of the orchestra circled around Wei Yuru.

Zhou Yan walked over and took a look, it turned out that for tonight's performance, Wei Yuru deliberately wore a Chinese dress dress, the white satin skirt was embroidered with a lot of peonies, and the skirt was wide-sleeved, which looked fluttering, very feeling.

"It's too pretty."

"Like a fairy."

"The peony embroidered on this is so exquisite."

A group of girls expressed their envy.

Wei Yuru was not embarrassed by their praise, "This is prepared for me in the group." ”

"Wow, your group is so good."

"It's not our folk orchestra, it's our piano youth orchestra." Wei Yuru explained.

"Ah, it's prepared by our regiment." The girls exclaimed.

Seeing Jessica agree, Linda smiled, he just saw that the little couple was good-looking, so he came over.

However, the Chinese dresses worn by the girls of the folk band are a combination of tops and pants, which is indeed not as good-looking as Wei Yuru's.

"Luckily, I caught up." Seeing that there was no check-in yet, Hardison breathed a sigh of relief.

"Of course, it's up to you to fight for it."

People rely on clothes and horses to saddle, and the effect of the concert performance is not only based on the music, but also on the costumes.

When he went to school this morning, he got his ticket for the fourteenth in a daze.

Zhou Yan smiled: "What do you envy, don't you also have performance costumes?" ”

A couple of women said bluntly, "Of course! ”

But Jessica said, "It's okay, you ask." ”

Two days ago, they saw on the news that Zhou Yan's tickets for this concert did not sell well, so they thought it would be bad, but after they came, they found that it was not that bad.

When interviewing passers-by, the appearance of the interviewee is also very important.

Hadison looked at Jessica next to him, waved his hand and said, "Sorry, it's not convenient." ”

"Perhaps."

"We were classmates and are in high school right now."

"Can you tell us when you started paying attention to Y-chou's music?"

"Then we'll be motivated."

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "In the future, if any of you want to have a solo or concerto, I will ask Qizhi to design a dress for you." ”

He knew that Jessica didn't like to be disturbed very much.

"It's still not as good as the one in London, I've seen the reports in London, there were more people gathered outside than there were today. You know, the concert hall in London is not big, and the seats are less than one-third of those here. ”

"Really?"

The Piano Youth Orchestra has a uniform performance costume, boys are all suits, and girls are divided into Western instruments or folk instruments, Western instrument players are normal performance dresses, and folk instrument players are Chinese dresses.

"How can our clothes be as good as Mr. Wei's." A girl muttered.

"May you ask why you're here for this concert?"

Originally, Wei Yuru had a performance costume, which was also a Chinese-style dress, but it was not as delicate as this dress.

"Are you still in school?"

After all, every girl wears this kind of skirt with wide sleeves, and when everyone sits together, it will be very obstructive and not conducive to playing.

This question sounds a bit inexplicable to Jessica, but she replies, "Because I love Y's music so much." ”

Because Jessica likes Zhou Yan very much, as soon as the tickets for the concert were released, Hadison bought the tickets for the front row, and bought three shows in a row.

Because there was no ticket check, there were a lot of spectators waiting to check at the door, and Hardison looked around and said with a smile, "Y's market is still very good, not as bad as the news says." ”

……

At the end of October, Zhou Yan specially asked Wei Yuru if she had a performance costume, and Wei Yuru replied that she did, but Zhou Yan felt that their previous performance clothes were not eye-catching enough, so he asked Dong Wenmiao to help make a set of clothes.

"Understandably, Y still has less publicity here, and Londoners should be more interested in going to concerts than Los Angeleses."

Zhou Yan couldn't help but pout, "As a performer, your motivation comes from clothes, right?" ”

While the two were chatting, a female reporter came over with a photographer, "Hello, I'm Linda, a reporter from Billboard, can I ask you a few questions?" ”

Not only Wei Yuru, but the tunic worn by Wang Ciheng was also designed by Dong Wenmiao, and the tunic was more slim and simpler than what Wang Ciheng wore before.

"Are you two locals?"

It was midweek, and they were supposed to come directly after school, but halfway through Hadison found that they had taken the wrong ticket, and they had to turn back to get the ticket, which delayed a lot of time.

When Jessica and Hardison arrived outside the concert hall, it was already past 6:40.

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, "Let's go, go to the concert hall." ”

"After the release of the movie "Flying Piano Boy", the soundtrack of that movie impressed me, and then I went to listen to Y's other music and found that he is a very good musician. In addition to music, I also follow his films, and I also went to the cinema when "The Sixth Sense" was released. ”

Jessica nodded, "Well, we're both Los Angelesmen. ”

"We'll watch it together." Hardison hurriedly added.

Linda smiled, "It seems that you are big fans of Y, "Sense and Sensibility" will be released in the United States in a few days, and this movie is also his soundtrack, will you go to see it?" ”

"Of course, we've already bought tickets."

Linda gave a thumbs up: "It seems that you guys really like Y-chou, I believe you will like this movie very much, especially the soundtrack in it, which is very exciting." ”

Hardison was surprised, "Have you seen it?" ”

The film hasn't been officially released in the U.S. yet, so Hardison wonders how this reporter knows about it.

"Because I was there at the premiere in Toronto yesterday, and Y went there yesterday and I interviewed him." Linda explained.

"Really? How about himself? Hadison wondered.

"He's a very gentleman, and he's better than what's in the tape."

"We bought a ticket for the front row, and we were able to see him up close today." ”

Linda raised her eyebrows, and couldn't help but sigh, this little couple really likes Y, and even bought a front-row ticket, as far as Linda knows, the front-row tickets for this concert are not cheap, and the price seems to be more than two hundred dollars.

If Linda had known that for more than $200 tickets, Hadison had bought six, she would have been even more surprised.

Linda wanted to ask a few more questions, but she heard a commotion not far away, and she turned her head to look, and then her eyes lit up.

"Backstreet boys!"

After all, she didn't care about Jessica and Hardison, and went straight to the backstreet boys with the photographer.

By the time they got to the backstreet boys, there were already several reporters around them.

After all, it is a rookie group, so several members of the Backstreet Boys are very low-key and humble when facing reporters, and the captain Kevin takes the members to respond to reporters with a smile, answering questions while walking towards the concert hall.

Seeing the Backstreet Boys appear at the concert, Hadison was not very surprised, after all, the Backstreet Boys' popular "Yellow" was written by Zhou Yan.

The star appeared, and many viewers also gathered around, wanting to join in the fun.

Although Jessica likes the song "Yellow", she didn't join in the excitement, but just watched from a short distance.

By the time the Backstreet Boys entered the concert hall, the scene had just calmed down and become lively again.

"Mariah Carey!"

This time, the response was even more enthusiastic, after all, compared to the backstreet boys, Mariah Carey has a lot of coffee spots, and the recent Mariah Carey's new album is too domineering, "Young and Beautiful" won the top of the singles chart for ten consecutive weeks.

Maryah Carey was much more comfortable with the reporters, and she didn't waste time answering their questions, but smiled and waved as she walked towards the concert hall, and entered in a short time.

After Mariah Carey entered, the concert began to be officially checked, and Jessica and Hadison lined up with the tickets.

After entering the concert hall and finding his seat, Hardison was quite excited, because a few of the Backstreet Boys and Mariah Carey were sitting in their row, not very far away.

Some viewers can't help themselves anymore and go to talk to them.

Mary Carey didn't pay much attention to the audience's accosting, but a few of the Backstreet Boys were very enthusiastic to talk to the surrounding audience.

For a newcomer group like the Backstreet Boys, audience popularity is too important, and those who can sit in the front row are all high-quality audiences.

However, the audience was relatively restrained, and when the ticket check was almost over, they did not speak again, because the show was about to start.

……

When the concert was about to start, Wang Ciheng deliberately went to the front to take a look, and after going back, he was very emotional, "The concert hall is almost full." ”

Ma Dongfang bared his teeth and smiled, "I heard that today's concert is the worst ticket sale. ”

"Worst?"

"In the past, this point must have been full, and I heard that this time only more than 2,600 tickets were sold, and there are still 600 tickets that have not been sold."

Wang Ciheng couldn't help but be speechless, this is Los Angeles, and the tickets for this concert are not cheap, and after selling more than 2,600 tickets, is it still not satisfied?

I only heard that Zhou Yan's concert was very popular abroad, but Wang Ciheng didn't have an intuitive understanding, but now he really feels it.

"I've heard that less than 2,000 tickets have been sold for tomorrow's show." Li Biru on the side said.

"There's no way, if you open it in a row, it will definitely be affected."

"Senior brother won't lose money this time, right?"

"Definitely not, foreign concert brothers are all guaranteed plus shares, even if a ticket can't be sold, it can only be said that it doesn't make money, but it will definitely not lose."

"Oh, then I'm relieved."

In fact, what Ma Dongfang said is not entirely right, if the box office of these three concerts is not ideal, Zhou Yan will lose money, to be precise, Tomson Company will lose money, because the guarantee they signed cannot cover all the expenses.

The main reason is that there are too many people coming, and the travel expenses, accommodation and so on together cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But in this situation, it shouldn't be possible to lose money.

For Tomson and Zhou Yan, the income from the concert is divided into two parts, one is the guarantee signed with the organizer, and the other part is the follow-up copyright income.

……

After a while, the musicians took their positions on stage.

At half past seven, the lights on the stage came on, and Zhou Yan walked up from the stage with a violin in his arms, and the applause in the concert hall immediately rang out.

Zhou Yan stood in front of the stage, bent down slightly, he was also sighing, the atmosphere of the big concert hall is really better, although the tickets for this concert today are not sold out, but the applause of the two thousand and hundreds of audiences is still louder than the applause of hundreds of people.

Hardison was very excited, their position was less than ten meters away from Zhou Yan, and he could see Zhou Yan very clearly.

"It's really beautiful." Hadison clapped and whispered.

Jessica pouted and smiled, there are many good-looking men, and looks are Y's least worthwhile advantage.

Even if Zhou Yan is a raunchy old man, Jessica will still like him, because his musical talent gives him great charm.

After greeting the audience, Zhou Yan didn't have any opening remarks, and directly took his position, and the performance began.

Today's first piece is "Early Morning, First Snow, Red Sun", this piece has a strong narrative and gradual mood, which is quite suitable as an opening track, mobilizing the audience's emotions first.

Most of the people in the audience had never heard this piece because it was only included in some of the live concert tapes.

Most of the audience members who came to the scene today are only familiar with the tunes in the soundtrack of "Flying Piano Boy", because this album is the best seller in the United States.

And a lot of people didn't buy the album, they just watched it in movies or on some TV shows.

Jessica is one of the few people who has heard the song "Early Morning, First Snow, Red Sun", as a person who has studied piano for many years, she likes this piece very much, and she usually plays this piece often.

When she watched the program just now, she was very happy when she saw this song and "Eternal Night", because she liked both songs very much.

Especially "Eternal Night", the level is very high, and the song she is most looking forward to now is "Eternal Night", which is different from other audiences.

Jessica didn't have to wait long, and half an hour later, "Eternal Night" was played on stage.

But what Jessica didn't expect was that compared to the version she had heard before, this version of "Eternal Night" was even more advanced.

Compared with the previous version, this version is grander, more gorgeous, and smoother, and it seems that the soundtrack for the movie and the song for the singer have not affected Zhou Yan's progress.

The level of "Eternal Night" is absolutely masterful.

And for such a difficult piece, the performers on the stage did not lag behind at all, especially the pianist, the level was too high.

The level of this pianist, not to say that it is world-class, it is definitely a quasi-first-class level, and it belongs to the kind that can hold solo concerts.

Listening to the performance on stage, Jessica had a little itchy hands and wanted to play this new version.

In fact, what Jessica didn't know was that among the musicians on stage, Zhou Yan himself was the most crotch-pulling, but he was mixed in the crowd, and ordinary people couldn't hear that he was dragging his feet.

After "Eternal Night", there are no more difficult tunes, basically "Tears", "Kite", "Reunion" and other popular and new century style tunes.

Zhou Yan also has some difficult tunes, such as "Flowing Wind", but this kind of tune is played too much, and the audience doesn't like it.

Many of the audience who came to the scene today are not for those classical tracks, the threshold of "Eternal Night" is relatively high, just listen to one song, if there are too many, the audience will be bored.

After the regular repertoire of the concert was over, Zhou Yan walked to the stage again and took the conductor Yue Lin to the stage.

Immediately after the audience conducted an encore for more than a minute, Zhou Yan and Yue Lin returned.

After taking the stage this time, Zhou Yan held a microphone in his hand, and at the same time, he was followed by Wang Ciheng.

Zhou Yan held the microphone and said with a smile, "Thank you very much for listening, I have already felt your enthusiasm, and then I want to introduce the first song "Dark Fragrance Floating" that returned today, many people should not have heard it." This is my semester assignment when I was in school, and of course, the version you hear next is very different from the original version. ”

In the original version written by Zhou Yan, the orchestration was relatively monotonous, and there were only a few instrumental concertos, but this time, Zhou Yan added a lot of instruments, and more than 40 musicians on the scene will participate.

This concert hall is relatively large, and if there are fewer instruments, the effect will not be too good.

After introducing the piece, Zhou Yan began to introduce Wang Ciheng again, "Today's bamboo flute concerto will be played by Mr. Wang next to me. I can say without exaggeration that he is definitely the best bamboo flute player in the world today. ”

Hearing Zhou Yan praise himself like this, Wang Ciheng's face almost turned red.

However, Zhou Yan is indeed not too exaggerated, after all, Wang Ciheng's level, not many people can surpass him.

The audience at the scene was also very face-saving and gave warm applause to the world's top bamboo flute player.

Jessica believes Zhou Yan's statement, because she knows that Zhou Yan's own bamboo flute level is very high, since Zhou Yan did not choose to play it himself, but handed it over to this person, it means that this person's bamboo flute performance level is much higher than Zhou Yan.

After blowing the to Wang Ciheng, Zhou Yan didn't say anything more, but took a flute and blended into the crowd again.

When the music started, the audience could feel that the piece was very soft and soothing, but it quickly began to pick up.

The structure of this work presents the principle of variation, the principle of triparticity and the method of structuring music in traditional Chinese music with speed and staggered layout, reflecting the characteristics of the integration of multiple principles.

Although the name of this piece is "Dark Fragrance Floating", the imagery shown has nothing to do with the fragrance of flowers, but highlights the yearning and awe of the mountains and forests.

After the reform, more and more composers have conducted more in-depth research on the traditional style and related forms of Chinese music from the perspective of breaking through the inherent model, and trying to integrate the traditional Chinese national culture and aesthetic taste into music creation.

Zhou Yan's "Floating Dark Fragrance" was composed in this context, this piece absorbs the techniques and forms of modern Western music in the 20th century, and at the same time embodies the aesthetic value orientation of traditional Chinese music, mainly to write "virtual" and "meaning".

Like a painting, "Floating Fragrance" is more like a landscape painting, mainly freehand.

In fact, few of the audience can understand the composition and performance techniques of this piece, but it does not prevent them from being able to feel the emotions revealed in the song, and the heaviness and breadth of the tune are straight into the hearts of the audience.

And the techniques shown by Wang Ciheng, even if you don't understand it, you will feel very powerful.

"Dark Fragrance Floating" has high requirements for bamboo flute performance techniques, the traditional Chinese bamboo flute is a six-hole flute, and the commonly used playing notes are generally eight, and some sounds must be completed with half-hole techniques if they want to be played.

Because of the difficulty of playing half-hole, and the intonation and flexibility are not easy to control, the general bamboo flute music is more cautious in the use of pitch change, but Zhou Yan did not have any scruples when writing "Dark Fragrance Floating", and made extensive use of pitch change, which is a very big test for the player.

In fact, the original "Dark Fragrance Floating" did not have so many number of diacritics, but in order to better show Wang Ciheng's ability, Zhou Yan specially added some to him, and in the three movements of this piece, the number of diacritics is almost no different from the number of easy to play scales.

In other words, if you look at the score, you will find that the umlaut cannot be said to be a niche in it at all.

But even so, Wang Ciheng still did a very good job.

Such a dazzling piece of music is very shocking even for the audience who don't know much about bamboo flutes.

Jessica doesn't know the bamboo flute, but she can see that the level of this bamboo flute player is indeed higher than Zhou Yan's, and it also makes her reacquaint herself with the bamboo flute.

She didn't expect that the expressiveness of the bamboo flute would be so strong.

It may be that Zhou Yan's orchestration has done a good job in timbre fusion, so that the bamboo flute does not look abrupt in front of the orchestra, and there is no feeling of being out of the crowd.

In particular, the second movement, although very short, is very fast, and it is the most dazzling part of the whole piece, and when she heard this section, Jessica almost forgot that she could still breathe.

When she heard this, Jessica felt like a flock of birds hovering over the mountain, and the birdsong echoed in the valley and the other part pierced into the sky, and the whole piece had a strong sense of space.

Many live audiences, similar to Jessica's feelings, the timbre of the bamboo flute is easy to make people hear the feeling of hollow reverberation, and this piece is written in the mountains and forests, this feeling is even more obvious.

Zhou Yan was on stage, listening to Wang Ciheng's performance, and he was also physically and mentally comfortable, and this piece was performed very well by Wang Ciheng.

The current version of "Dark Fragrance Floating", Zhou Yan can't take it himself, and if he wants to finish it himself, he may need to use an eight-hole flute to play.

However, the eight-hole flute has defects in timbre, decorative tones and flowers, etc., and with two more holes, Zhou Yan always feels awkward, and feels that it does not look like a bamboo flute.

When a person has been playing a six-hole bamboo flute for more than ten years, and suddenly gets an eight-hole or even ten-hole bamboo flute, it is easy to have a feeling of resistance.

There will even be a doubt in my heart, can this still be regarded as a bamboo flute?

After the performance of "Dark Fragrance Floating", there was applause at the scene, and this time the applause was much louder than the applause that the audience had just given to Wang Ciheng.

It can be seen that Wang Ciheng's performance has conquered the audience.

In fact, for foreign audiences, Wang Ciheng's performance, in addition to being good, also has a sense of curiosity, after all, they rarely hear this kind of music.

Wang Ciheng was also very happy, this was his first time performing in the United States, facing an audience of more than 2,000 people, he was a little nervous before, but when the performance started, all the nervousness was left behind him.

Hearing the warm applause of the audience, Wang Ciheng felt great satisfaction in his heart, it turned out that his bamboo flute performance could also be so recognized abroad.

Of course, he has to thank Zhou Yan, not only Zhou Yan brought him to the United States, but also Zhou Yan wrote this piece so well.

"Floating Dark Incense" is not only audible, but also particularly showy, which can directly show his performance level. (End of chapter)