In early summer, the temperature in Ufranser is still refreshing.
Night came later, and the black shadow of the University of San Lenia towered like a castle, with the golden-rimmed outline behind it reflecting the red sky, and the blooming fountains everywhere flowing like fire.
After the performance of small works in the afternoon session of the graduation concert, everyone was fully mobilized.
The most important large-scale orchestral performance is at eight o'clock in the evening, but Meyer Avenue, which is directly opposite the school auditorium, is already packed with people.
The Saint Lenia Auditorium was designed by Meyer Nigg, a famous architect and acoustics expert in the empire. The core place inside is not the auditorium, but the largest symphony hall in the school - it can accommodate 2,440 listeners.
It is nearly twice as large as the two symphony halls of the Conservatory of Music, and is equipped with a giant pipe organ worth 40,000 pounds customized from the Kingdom of Holy Janus and integrated with the building.
Strictly speaking, the Meyer Boulevard directly opposite the auditorium is not a road, but a huge rectangular square with a width of more than 200 meters and a length of nearly 1,000 meters at the end.
At this time, hundreds of students on Meyer Avenue were moving in the general direction of the auditorium, but the speed was very slow, stop-and-go, and more like a walk. Many people were also resting in place, or
Go in circles again and again.
Because there was still more than an hour before the performance, they just wanted to come earlier, walk slower, and experience more of the plants and trees on campus.
The square is divided into strips by internal roads. There are fountains, sculptures, trees, small galleries, garden landscapes, as well as large areas of lawns, bricks, leisure facilities and convenience stores. They are well-proportioned and have a broad view. From almost any side,
Starting from each college building, there is a road leading here.
In a place where the crowd was slightly thinner, a couple on a bench looked at the stairs in the direction of the auditorium, silent for a long time; on the other side, a serious gentleman put his hand into the water of the fountain, staring at the sculptures in the sky in a daze; the exquisite garden small
In the first scene, four ladies in costumes pose in front of a hired cameraman, leaving behind a string of cheerful laughter.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, these students wearing formal black dresses or long skirts of various colors, even if they were not fourth graders, felt the different atmosphere on campus on the day of the graduation concert.
Wandering and longing, sentimental and joyful, with lively loneliness and solemn loneliness.
But many of the faces walking in the crowd are lost.
They have been keeping questions in their hearts for more than a month - including questions about the hidden story behind the "abandonment incident" and questions after hearing Fan Ning's statement that "it will still premiere today."
It was an emotion of anxiety mixed with hope.
Finally, on this day, the desire of these supporters to hear the "Symphony No. 1 in D Major" has reached its peak, but as time passed hour by hour, there was no movement.
The repertoire list I received clearly stated: the first half was a student work, Cecil's "Symphony No. 1 in F sharp major", and the second half was a master work, Gilles' "Piano Concerto No. 5 in A major."
I originally thought that Fan Ning would quietly figure out some link and have his name suddenly appear on the repertoire, or it would be better to start from scratch and directly organize a performance in the symphony hall of the Conservatory of Music, which also has 1,400 seats, although it is missing
It has a lot of additional meaning, but if the news is released early, hundreds of supporters will be willing to listen, and a few supporters from the media and social art circles will also go - not to mention the symphony itself, the influence of the string quartet before
It already exists.
But there was no movement.
Many people gradually accepted the fact and walked slowly towards the auditorium with disappointment.
In this case, there is nothing much going on in this concert so I might as well go and listen to it.
On the night of the graduation concert, in the twilight square, in a subtle and complicated atmosphere, people with different thoughts were slowly marching.
There was a very faint sound in the air.
It should be the sound that just appeared, but the volume is too weak, like a thin thread, so it is not suitable to use "sudden" to describe the feeling of hearing it.
Many people immediately recognized that this is the la note in the high range of the violin. If you want to produce this extremely high and pianissimo sound, you need to press your fingers on the highest position of the E string, and then hold the bow until it is almost stagnant.
Rub gently on it at a high speed.
Just like the mist, light and coolness before sunrise in the morning. Of course, it's not early morning now, but the mist in the sunset is also very similar.
Most of the people who heard it in the square had confused and confused expressions and did not stop walking.
There were also a very few people who, purely because of the coincidence of their walking paths, saw several violinists sitting on several lawn benches, playing slowly under the leadership of a beautiful little girl standing next to them.
When the la sound was played, there were several people squatting on the grass next to them, opening the piano case, as if they wanted to join in the la sound.
These people slowed down their pace and glanced sideways a few more times, but their pace still did not stop.
"la——mi——"
Against the ethereal background of string friction, a "breathing motive" four degrees downward comes from all directions, with timbres including piccolo, oboe, and clarinet, as if everything is reviving in the dim light.
Some more people noticed that several musicians with wooden pipes came out of the trees behind the benches.
"la——mi——"
Joan walked out of a convenience store holding a flute, moved down an octave and played the second "Breathing Motive" repeatedly. In other places in the square, behind rockeries, behind sculptures, and in galleries, there were more musicians holding French horns and bass clarinets.
The hands came out and formed an ensemble with her.
On Meyer Boulevard, there were faint whispers among the walking crowd, but now it has become quiet.
"la——mi——fa——do——re——(b)xi——la——"
In the pianissimo background of the strings, the breathing motif appears for the third time, this time with the sounds of the oboe and bassoon. The musicians walk down the steps of the landscape rockery, and the melody progresses in the fourth degree of D minor, with a descending
A touch of gloom and mystery.
Someone stopped.
Next, the clarinet and bass clarinet played a warm, light, and upward triplet that jumped repeatedly and circuitously. This is the "blooming motive", a metaphor for the harbinger of a hundred flowers blooming.
At the same time, there were some slight noises like rollers on the main road. Many people were leaning over pushing carts. The objects on them were covered with red cloth. Judging from the shape, there seemed to be timpani, cello, double bass or something else.
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More and more people stopped.
The oboe blows a double tone and jumps upward to a higher octave, with the intensity going from pianissimo to fortissimo and back to pianissimo again.
The sound was distant and ethereal, like a ray of morning light breaking through the clouds and piercing the sky, but then it was blocked by thick clouds, and dawn still did not come.
There is only the quiet and cold string background sound left in the air, and then the descending melody of the breathing motive appears again in the woodwind section, then the string section, and finally the horn that is ready to move, once again blowing the jumping triplet "Blooming Motive"
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"This is, this is" a group of people were the first to react, but they still couldn't believe it. "How could this happen? How could it appear here? Impossible!"
Some people find it strange that although it is an empty square and the distance between the musicians is wide, why is the sound effect still so concentrated?
But more people have been completely caught up in the introduction of the first movement - in the mysterious and ethereal atmosphere, various fragmented motives are presented, retelled, and evolve into some kind of heart-stopping power, which is now spreading.
The hazy veil came quietly and slowly penetrated.
"Boom!——" A dull and metallic roar.
On the white square stone tiles, the timpani sticks in Lu's hand fell.
Several musicians had already set up their double basses, and with the sound of the drums, an extremely low, long chromatic line was played.
Then, Roy led the cellists to sit down on the bench and gave them high-octave support, making the sound effect thick, muddy, and zigzagging forward, symbolizing the emergence of some uneasy vitality underground.
"This is Carole Van Ning's symphony!"
"It's "Symphony No. 1 in D major"!!"
Finally, people from all directions in the crowd exclaimed one after another.
The introduction continues, and the breathing motif appears again. This time it is not a single melody, but a large number of voices imitating each other.
Dusk enveloped the earth, and more and more musicians emerged from all over the square.
The breathing motive staggers the bars and enters them one after another. Before one melody ends, another melody begins again, forming an uneven overlapping effect, symbolizing the awakening of more and more life in nature, flowers blooming, and birds opening their eyes.
Branches sprout and insects poke their heads out of the soil
More and more people in the square either stopped or stood up from the lawn or benches. Some stopped to look at it, and some began to move closer to the center, including some teachers and professors.
"Where's the conductor? Where's Fan Ning?"
"Caroline Van Nin, where is he?"
The supporters looked excited and breathless in surprise. They never imagined that "Symphony No. 1 in D major" would be presented to everyone in this form!
This is a form they never imagined in their lifetime!
The students did not want to disrupt the music, so they kept their questions in their hearts and ran back and forth in this area of the square.
Their eyes looked around eagerly, trying to find Fan Ning!