1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Zhou Yan certainly didn't mean to belittle those concerts when he said this, but in his opinion, many concerts were no different from students' classroom assignments, just a change of venue to a more formal venue.

Graduation works are something to behold. Students have at least prepared for them for a long time, and the level of senior students is supposed to be higher.

However, the level of some training class reports for lower grades is very average, and the level of each game is different. It depends on whether the students are fully prepared.

These concerts are not intended to contribute high-level performances, but mainly to exercise students' stage abilities. Sometimes they are also organized by teachers to test students' learning results.

When teachers go to such concerts, they basically find fault with the students.

So it’s normal for this kind of concert to have problems.

When Zhou Yan took Wang Zuxian into the concert hall, he first glanced at the stage. Without looking carefully, just looking at the age structure of the orchestra members, he knew that it was not the Yangtze River Symphony Orchestra, but the school's China Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Compared with the Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, the level of the China Youth Symphony Orchestra is lower because most of them are students.

The symphony orchestra was taking a break, and its leader Ye Guangjie and Sun Dongzheng were standing on the edge of the stage chatting.

As soon as he saw Zhou Yan, Sun Dong smiled and said, "I told him to come."

Ye Guangjie also smiled, "Teacher Zhou, I thought you wouldn't come today. This time, your composition list is not included in the list of works by teachers in the composition department."

Zhou Yan smiled and replied, "The key is that there are no new works."

"Then you are being modest. Didn't you just win the second prize at Sun Yat-sen's birthday concert a few days ago? That award is not light. How about you give "Xu Sanguan" to our group to try out if you have the opportunity? try?"

"No problem." Zhou Yan looked around the stage, "Has your group received any good seeds this year?"

Ye Guangjie suddenly became alert, "Teacher Zhou, you are not here to poach, are you?"

You can't blame him for being nervous. The Piano Boys Orchestra is too competitive now. If Zhou Yan wants to poach people, they can't stop him at all.

Their China Youth Symphony Orchestra mainly takes advantage of its name and is an orchestra directly under the school, but its overall competitiveness cannot be compared with that of the Piano Youth Orchestra. After all, the Piano Youth Orchestra tours abroad every year.

The principals of the Youth Piano Orchestra are the envy of other students.

In addition to being famous, the benefits of the Piano Youth Orchestra are also very good. Basically, as long as you join the Piano Youth Orchestra, you can ignore the problem of livelihood in advance.

When the Piano Youth Orchestra developed rapidly in the past two years, it became much more difficult for Ye Guangjie and others to recruit new members. This year, it will be easier for them if the Piano Youth Orchestra continues to recruit new members.

Compared with other orchestras directly under the school, the China Youth Orchestra and the Piano Youth Orchestra have a high degree of overlap. They are both composed of students, so they have been greatly impacted by the Piano Youth Orchestra.

However, now that the Piano Youth Orchestra is recruiting fewer current students, the Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra is beginning to be affected.

The predecessor of the China Youth Orchestra was the orchestra in 1950. They are inseparable from the orchestral department, so it is normal for Sun Dong to come here today.

Zhou Yan laughed and said, "We are all a band of brothers. We help each other. Teacher Ye, you have to be more open."

"Screw you." Ye Guangjie rolled his eyes, "When it comes to helping each other, why don't you just give us a few people? I don't want more, just give me Ma Dongfang and Zhang Zuoquan. If you If you are really kind, you can give me Li Biru and Yue Lin."

"Of course I am willing to give them up to your group, but I still have to ask them for their own opinions."

"If I can pull them over, why do I ask you?"

Among so many students, the one who made Ye Guangjie feel the most uncomfortable was Yue Lin, because their group really lacked a leader.

Logically speaking, there is not much competition for the role of conductor, but the key point is that there are not many conductors trained in schools.

The command department produces one or two conductors every few years, and people like Yu Feng will not stay at the school after graduation.

Sun Dong stood beside him and said, "How about Director Zhou, go up and take a look. If you like someone, just take him to your orchestra. Lao Ye will definitely let him go."

Ye Guangjie suddenly became angry, "I fart!"

Sun Dong covered his nose and said, "If a loud fart doesn't stink, if a smelly fart doesn't make a sound, your fart must stink."

Wang Zuxian, who was standing behind Zhou Yan, couldn't help but chuckle when he heard Sun Dong's words. Originally, Ye Guangjie was going to quarrel with Sun Dong, but when he saw that there was a lesbian there, he stopped, "Sun Dong, you... Sooner or later, there will be no good fruit for you."

Zhou Yan asked with a smile, "How many songs are there in this concert?"

"You, a composition major, are asking me this question." Ye Guangjie muttered.

"Something from the composition department, he is now the deputy director of our orchestra." Sun Dong said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, you are the deputy director of the orchestra." Ye Guangjie glanced at Sun Dong, and then said to Zhou Yan, "There are seven pieces in total. They are not long, but they are quite difficult. Zhou Yan, I am not talking about your composition department, you These teachers in the composition department really don’t treat the performers as human beings, and everything they write is extremely difficult to write. Especially for Ye Xiaogang’s music, our team rehearsed for more than two weeks just for one of his songs. "

As he spoke, Ye Guangjie started to complain.

There are often such conflicts between composers and performers. Sometimes when composing music, composers do ignore the difficulty of performance and only consider their own music.

The key point is that the level of these students in the Youth Symphony Orchestra is different from that of the top musicians. It is really difficult for them to win some difficult works.

Zhou Yan comforted Ye Guangjie with a smile, "It's difficult to write the music. That's not because the teachers in our department believe in the level of your group. They just know that you can complete it, which is why it's so difficult to write. If I knew you couldn't complete it, how could it still be like this?" Write?"

Ye Guangjie curled his lips, "Don't put your hat on us. If you write such a difficult piece again, we won't perform it."

Zhou Yan nodded and smiled, "Okay, I will give feedback to Senior Brother Ye and the others later so that they can pay more attention."

"He is a ghost only if he can listen."

Ye Guangjie knew Ye Xiaogang too well and knew that it was impossible for Ye Xiaogang to change. He was simply complaining, and of course it was impossible for him to actually stop performing.

In fact, it would also be a good thing for their band if the composition department writes more complex music. Only by constantly challenging the difficult level can they improve their level.

Originally, the Composition Department was going to ask the Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra to perform this concert of new works by the teachers of the Composition Department, but Ye Guangjie himself ran over and shamelessly asked for the job.

If he really wasn't given the role, he would still be anxious.

There is no way, the market is like this, and those in the music department are confident. In the school, except for the conducting department, no other department can dominate the composition department, and the composition department has fewer people, unlike the composition department which has so many people. The few of them chatted for a while. Ye Guangjie was going to lead the students to rehearse. Zhou Yan and Wang Zuxian ran to the audience and found a seat to sit down.

Sun Dong didn't leave either, sitting next to Zhou Yan.

He knew the concert fairly well and introduced Zhou Yan to the repertoire that was being rehearsed at the moment.

The repertoire performed this time was all produced by young teachers from the composition department, mainly Ye Xiaogang, Tang Jianping and Guo Wenjing.

Needless to say, the strength of these people is natural. The Youth Symphony Orchestra also attaches great importance to this performance. I heard that some of the repertoire of this performance will be performed during the New Year's Eve.

In other words, tomorrow's performance can be regarded as a partial preview of the New Year's Eve concert.

After listening to a piece of chamber music written by Guo Wenjing, Sun Dong said, "Director Guo's works have become more and more mature in recent years, and his style has become more and more obvious. This song "Oracle Bones" is very well expressed using Western composition techniques. The Chinese music context, artistic connotation and traditional culture have a distinctive personality.”

Zhou Yan nodded, "Senior Brother Guo and his group of composers are unique in the integration of East and West. This is their overall characteristic. Senior Brother Guo's own works are eclectic and advocate the doctrine of appropriation. As long as they are He will use what he thinks is good, and he will explore it, which is particularly important. When he adopts folk tones, he boldly uses sounds other than the mode, and uses these sounds to color the original pentatonic mode. Cannon.”

Guo Wenjing, Tan Dun, and Ye Xiaogang, the golden generation students of the Department of Composition at Yangyin University, all pay more attention to the combination of East and West, as well as the combination of classical and modern.

This is not only the overall characteristic of their generation, but also the overall direction of domestic composers in recent decades, and Zhou Yan is one of them.

But within this broad framework, everyone makes different things.

Guo Wenjing's polyphonic writing is very exciting, and to a large extent it has broken away from the simple polyphonic language of Western classical music based on the three-dimensional overlapping interval structure.

Putting Guo Wenjing's works together with those of other domestic writers, the difference can be clearly heard.

If a composer wants to gain fame, he has to create something different. Otherwise, the audience won't be able to tell that the work is yours. So isn't the work written in vain?

Comparatively speaking, Zhou Yan is even worse in this regard. He has not yet developed his own unique style.

Sun Dong looked at Zhou Yan with a smile, "Don't you consider doing more chamber music? Of course, I didn't mean to say anything bad about your recent sketches. In fact, the New Age ones you did in the early days were a good direction. The fusion of oriental elements is very novel, and what’s particularly commendable is that it can be enjoyed by both refined and popular people.”

"Creation still depends on opportunities. Brother Guo has had more contact with the world in the past two years, so his enthusiasm for chamber music creation is naturally higher."

"Well, this song "Oracle" was commissioned by the Netherlands Art Festival. It premiered at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in June. This time the symphony orchestra re-interpreted it. I saw the new version, and it is somewhat different from the previous version. Guo The director majored in violin, and the previous version was very good at the violin part, but the other instruments were a little weak, and the new version makes up for it.”

Many of Guo Wenjing's current works were created at the invitation of foreign organizations.

Zhou Yan has actually received many commissions. For example, the British Akiti Quartet recently invited him to compose a quartet piece, and the American Cronos Quartet also sent an invitation.

These appointments were all declined by Zhou Yan. He really didn't have time.

But when I have more time later, I might consider writing some chamber music.

After discussing Guo Wenjing's music for a while, Sun Dong asked, "Will you still come for the official performance tomorrow night?"

"It depends on the situation." Zhou Yan replied.

Sun Dong said with a smile, "Do you want to accompany your partner? Just bring her with you then."

"She won't be able to stay long this time."

"Oh." Sun Dong nodded.

However, Zhou Yan did not deny their relationship, and Sun Dong also confirmed that this was Zhou Yan's partner.

Sun Dong was very curious about Zhou Yan's partner. Not only was he curious, but probably everyone in the school was curious.

After all, Zhou Yan is different from ordinary colleagues. He is a famous person, and there are usually scandals flying around.

Sun Dong usually doesn't pay attention to the news, but he also knows that Zhou Yan has at least had scandals with Wang Zuxian, Zhang Manyu and Kudo Shizuka.

It's just that Zhou Yan has always been a loner when he was in school, and he has never seen any "suspicious" woman around him.

This can be regarded as the first time Zhou Yan brought a girl to school.

Seeing how tightly the girl next to Zhou Yan was wrapped, Sun Dong guessed that she must also be a celebrity.

If it was one of Zhou Yan's scandal targets, then this... figure would be more like Wang Zuxian.

Of course, Sun Dong was just curious and would not go to gossip. If Zhou Yan didn't take the initiative to introduce him, he wouldn't ask.

After rehearsing a few songs on stage, the orchestra began to take a break. Zhou Yan was about to leave with Wang Zuxian, but Ye Guangjie called him up.

"Director Sun and Director Zhou of the Orchestral Department just happen to be here. Let him give you a review."

Hearing Ye Guangjie's words, Zhou Yan rolled his eyes and thought to himself that Ye Guangjie was really looking for trouble. Aren't he afraid of poaching himself?

Sun Dong smiled and pushed Zhou Yan, "Let's go. Lao Ye has already said it. Let's go up and have a few words."

Zhou Yan had no choice but to nod, "Okay."

Seeing Zhou Yan come up, the young people in the orchestra were very excited.

The musicians of the youth orchestra are mainly fresh graduates. Many of them have heard of Zhou Yan before they were admitted to Yangyin University.

Sun Dong went up first and said a few words.

He is the deputy director of the orchestra and usually has more contact with the students. However, when he is with the students, he does not have a harmonious and harmonious style, but maintains the dignity of a teacher.

After Sun Dong finished speaking, he specifically said, "Let Director Zhou say a few words to you. This is the first time he has spoken to students since he became the deputy director of the Orchestra Department. You should listen carefully."

Zhou Yan curled his lips and took a step forward, "I have had fewer classes in the past few years, and even none this year, so I am not as familiar with the students as before. However, many of you still look familiar to me." (This chapter over)