His figure was swallowed by the iron door of the steam elevator.
Returning the way we came, we were not stopped or looked at, as if it were a non-existent map.
After walking out of the gray-black Twin Towers, stepping out of the tightly guarded gate, and reaching the bustling intersection of Paspierre Street, Fan Ning realized that a thin layer of cold sweat had broken out on his back.
At the same time, he realized that the pressure the authorities had just put on him was unprecedented and something that few people could experience personally.
"I'll be back that night."
He simply assured Sheeran that he was safe and dispelled her worries.
Soon after, I found my parked car at the intersection.
According to the contents of the previous messenger, Walter was already waiting with the driver at the agreed location.
"Mr. Fanning, you came out much earlier than I thought." Walter, the passenger driver, rolled down the window and checked his pocket watch.
Only an hour and a half has passed, including the drive.
"The efficiency of the Special Inspection Office is always very fast. It will either come out immediately, or it will not come out for months or years." Fan Ning opened the back seat door.
"Isn't the situation bad? Are those people mainly intimidating tonight, or are they offering inducements?" Walter has been working as a music director here for two years, and he obviously has a very intuitive understanding of the authorities' usual "routines."
"Ha, there are all of them." Some key words flashed through Fan Ning's mind, and he smiled inexplicably again.
Action constitutes answer?.
The right to evaluate art?.
It is difficult to evaluate the success of this conversation with the Special Inspection Office, but Fan Ning believes that at least this aspect of self-presentation has met expectations - since then, the authorities are no longer an unknown thing from the top who "does not have the qualifications to communicate"
, he learned more specifically what the other party was controlling and coveting. Moreover, during the conversation, the style and attitude he conveyed remained consistent throughout.
It is true that this conversation was completed under huge threats, but if these people try to fundamentally rewrite his style in future confrontations, the cost must be calculated to be greater.
Corresponding to this tit-for-tat dangerous thinking, Fan Ning also realized that a huge torrent of "urgency" and "excitement" was sweeping through him, and it would become his destiny for a short period of time.
The prevailing mood of the day.
His status has never been as high as it is today, and his influence on all walks of life has never been as extensive as it is today. He only needs a few key people in the same group - supporters who have established good relationships before - to exchange
After some ideas and a consensus of interests among some forces are reached, one can go up to the high platform and raise one's arms, directly from the top logic, injecting new ideas and influence into the art career territory, and everyone will support it one after another. All this is like the following
It is as direct and reasonable as a chess move.
On the other hand, there is a more urgent requirement for artistic creation. He must complete his "Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor" before the arrival of late autumn, as a decisive blow for the Harvest Art Festival.
Fan Ning often unconsciously compares his artistic career to Beethoven, another "torch bearer".
The fifth of the latter is "fate", the meaning of which needs no introduction.
It was only in Fan Ning's current era of late Romanticism, when musicians are scrambling to use poetry, literature, dance, and painting as media to eagerly declare their creative ideas to their audiences that they resolutely turned to "untitled"
In the creation of purely instrumental music, even Fan Ning's most proud choral writing has been temporarily shelved. This is an extremely dangerous choice.
The level of opponents he will encounter and the expectations of music fans he will face will no longer be as simple as when he composed the "First Symphony".
But he still has no doubts about the transformation path he has chosen.
The propositions of life and death are inherently abstract. If you don’t use vocal elements and don’t give your work a title, you won’t be able to write. Why would you call it “New Moon”?
Beethoven's Symphony of Destiny is purely instrumental music. Who dares to say that its exploration of the propositions of life and death is not profound enough?
Fan Ning hopes that his next few symphonies, whether in terms of tone and conception, or the connections between the movements, will rely more on the logical development of the music itself, and that, even so, the joys and sorrows of romanticism and
The poetry is undiminished.
"Fifth, fifth, whether it's Beethoven or myself, if we count the nine symphonies in his creative career, this is right in the middle."
"As for me, since I have already used two movements to describe death, lamentation and hoarse struggle, the functions of the following scherzo, adagio and finale have not been realized, and there are still three movements left. So, this work is likely to require
It takes five movements to complete, and the progress of the third movement currently being conceived is right in the middle.”
"It's very interesting. The work number is also in the middle, and the movement number is also in the middle."
"A very important turning point, just like the important turning point composed of a series of nodes such as the return ten days ago, the promotion last night, the awarding of honors tonight, interviews and changes in mood."
"If my composition progress is satisfactory enough, maybe I can let Miss Roy in San Porto take a look at my ideas for the first few movements a month or several months in advance to see how she will praise and evaluate me.
In itself, I need to arrive in the Holy City several months in advance."
Fan Ning couldn't help but whistle a lively, scherzo-style musical idea, forming a horn sound similar to a "turning signal".
In the first movement, the key of D major, which the funeral march struggled to find but could not establish, became the main key of this movement.
"boom--"
At the same time, the ignition noise of the engine was intertwined with the roar of the airship above.
As the vehicle tires rolled, air mixed with perfume, food and soot came in through the cracks in the windows.
"The night view of Santa Ramburg never disappoints." Fan Ning looked out the window as the night fell.
The huge steel buildings and the copper signboards of the shops facing the street are intertwined from far and near, forming some kind of artistic structure with stable logic in the movement. Cold white electric lights and bright yellow gas lights pass through the haze in groups at different speeds.
, like wandering stars and chasing fire.
"Is Master Fan Ning also familiar with the Imperial City?" Walter asked.
"More than familiar." Fan Ning smiled and shook his head, and then recalled, "Haha, you may not know that in the past, I frequently traveled between these two cities for a long time, and I walked around the streets in Santalan Fort to visit and get to know each other.
I made quite a few friends, and exchanged all kinds of precious views. Some of them were high-ranking political figures, big names in the academy, some had already made a name for themselves in the art world at that time, but most of them were still unknown in a corner of the city."
"This time, it should be their turn to come to see us one after another."