Chapter 1229: Music Critic

"Mr. Hillbrand, this way please, your seat is at the front row...Mr. Arnautovic, long time no see...Mrs. Heinze, you are so charming today!" In the concert hall, Yo-Yo Ma's Manager Banana was helping Shen Long entertain the guests. She greeted these special guests familiarly and led them to the best positions.

Apart from Ma Xiaojun, Ma Youcheng, and Kitaro, those who sat in the front row were them. They were a special group of people. They were all well-known music critics in New York. It was Shen Long's special request to invite these people. It cost a lot, and for this, Chris felt a little distressed, because they didn't need to pay to buy tickets when they came in to watch the show, and they happened to occupy good positions that could sell for the highest price.

But these are all worthwhile, because Shen Long knows that he is only a little famous among ordinary people, and he has only been recognized by Yo-Yo Ma and Kitaro in the circle. If he wants to formally enter the classical music circle in New York, these alone are not enough of.

These music critics hold power in their hands, and their articles will be published in many classical music magazines. If they can give Shen Long some good reviews, then his path will be wider; but getting good reviews is not just about good music. Well, Shen Long is not a pure Xiaobai, so he specially invited them.

They also let Banana, who has a lot of connections in the classical music circle, to entertain them and give them the best position. It can be said that they have given enough face. These methods seem to have responded well. Whether it is sincere or not, at least these people All smiles.

When it was time for the performance, the announcer introduced the background of the performance with great emotion, boasting that Shen Long and Guo Yan were famous musicians in China, plus a big name like Yo-Yo Ma, the audience responded with warm applause .

Immediately, Shen Long took Guo Yan's hand and walked onto the stage. This time, the musical instrument in his hand was replaced by a wooden flute. Guo Yan still held the violin, Yo-Yo Ma was in charge of the cello, and the rest of the orchestra members were in charge of the brass, oboe, Guzheng and other musical instruments.

The first piece of music begins, which is Shen Long's "Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto", which became famous in the Lincoln Arts Center. Against the background of soft string vibrato, the flute played a beautiful and moving bird-like cadenza, and then, The oboe uses a soft and lyrical introduction theme to show a picture of a sunny day, bright spring, pink willows and green flowers by the grass bridge, and a hundred flowers in full bloom.

Very good piece, but the performance is relatively average. Although YO-YO has controlled his own performance, except for the violin and flute, other members of the orchestra can barely keep up, but overall it is still a qualified performance... Music critics make evaluations in their hearts.

After more than 20 minutes of performance, the mood of the audience fluctuated with the music. When the last note fell, many people had tears in their eyes, and then there was warm applause.

"The next piece is a new piece created by Mr. Wang Qiming. It is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "Nightingale"... This is a piece with a strong Chinese style..." The announcer came to the stage again, explaining the background of the piece After narrating it once, and then stepped back, Shen Long was still holding the bamboo flute, and replaced it with a player who played the western flute.

The faint strings sounded far away, and the Chinese bamboo flute began to play a soft and long-lasting melody, just like the nightingale began to sing in the open field under the moonlit night; The piano joined in, with a little hesitation, and played cautiously; like a person who has not slept late at night, he heard the nightingale singing from a distance, and began to search for it, but was afraid of disturbing the nightingale.

After the piano played a section, the western flute sounded again, just like a nightingale, after hearing a slight movement,

After a moment of silence, singing began again, the piano played a little ensemble, and slowly, the string music also joined in, and merged with the piano to form a torrent, while the sound of the western flute was still clear and bright, like a swallow flying in a On the river, the singing of the nightingale attracted more and more people to listen and appreciate, sigh and praise, and the singing of the nightingale became more and more beautiful...

A brand new song with a very special style, which makes people feel refreshed. Music critics' eyes lit up when they heard it. Compared with the pop music world, which is constantly innovating in style, the classical music world is really a bit old-fashioned. People are still playing the repertoire of those classical music masters, and there are too few composers who can come up with excellent new works.

Not to mention this new style of repertoire, they tried to start to analyze, um, this should be based on western music style with oriental elements added, similar to some passages in "Turandot"...

In fact, this piece is the work of Greek musician Yanni Chrysomalis, and it is a Western music work full of Chinese classical music sentiment.

When Yanni was on vacation at the Italian seaside, a bird would come to his window and sing every evening. Yanni was fascinated by the bird’s singing. He felt that the bird’s singing was full of melody and rhythm, so he He wanted to compose a song for the bird, but he couldn't find a suitable instrument to imitate the bird's call; later, a friend of Yanni introduced the Chinese flute to him and demonstrated how to play it for him, and Yanni immediately He thought of the little bird in Italy. He felt that the Chinese flute was perfect for imitating the song of the little bird, so he quickly composed this "Nightingale" full of Chinese taste.

The selections made by Shen Long for this concert are all meaningful. At the beginning, he played the classic oriental music such as "Liang Zhu Violin Concerto", which is to show his identity and at the same time tell all the audience, China also has high-quality musical works.

Then he took out Yanni's "Nightingale", which is different from "Silk Road". After all, "Nightingale" is an oriental style music created by Western musicians. Music critics in music are more receptive.

Sure enough, when the song ended, the music critics in the front row applauded first. They knew the meaning of this song better than ordinary audiences. Music also needs to absorb the essence of different music styles. Such an attempt is worth encouraging, and the quality of this piece is really high, isn't it?

Shen Long smiled. He also saw the reactions of these people. This shows that his strategy has worked. This is a good start, so let's continue the show!

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