Follow the sound and follow the way

BGM of this chapter: Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor (Johannes Brahms-Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68)

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Lin Yan was discovered by Mu Kang by accident two years ago.

It's also near the end.At that time, Mu Kang had already taken care of graduate school, and together with Guan Xiao, he sent away the young miss Guan Xiaoxiao. With a gold medal in his studies and friends traveling across oceans, it should have been a good time to enjoy life.

However, the graduation concert still needs to be prepared.

Probably in April and May, a day when the weather is getting warmer.Mu Kang and Qiu Liming were puffing and puffing in Guan Xiao's piano room. The atmosphere was miserable. Li Chongyuan and Lu Xifeng didn't smoke, so they were sent out to buy food.

"You should go find Fang Zhimu." Guan Xiaoyu said earnestly.

"Fang Yundi is actually pretty good." Qiu Liming echoed, "Everyone agreed on the scene you cooperated with last year."

Mu Kang took a puff of cigarette: "I don't think it's that good."

Guan Xiao: "It doesn't matter what you think, as long as the professor thinks it's good."

Qiu Liming: "Besides, he is your fan, and he will never refuse."

Mu Kang snorted: "I'm out to invite you, who would refuse?"

Qiu Liming: "I will."

Guan Xiao: "I will too."

Mu Kang: "..."

Qiu Liming stared at the ceiling amidst the smoke: "Between brother and Lin Zhi, I choose Lin Zhi."

Guan Xiao silently wiped the reed.

Mu Kang gritted his teeth and said, "You guys..."

"...Grandson." The door was pushed open abruptly, and Lu Xifeng strode in with a lunch box in his hand, "Lin Zhi finally came back for a month this time, no fool would choose you."

Li Chongyuan stood not far away, frowning.Several smokers put out their cigarettes resignedly, and opened the doors and windows to diffuse the smell.Qiu Liming actually took out a bamboo fan, pretended to fan it a few times, and then said to Li Chongyuan: "Please."

Li Chongyuan came in slowly, picked a chair closest to the window and sat down.

Several people started to eat.Li Chongyuan saw that Mu Kang's face was not looking good, and suggested: "Why don't you come and see our rehearsal in the afternoon?"

Mu Kang was picking out the leeks in the rice one by one: "What are you rowing?"

"Bo Yi." Lu Xifeng looked bored, "It's so fucking annoying, Brahms is racially discriminating against trumpets."

Guan Xiao said disdainfully, "Is it discrimination not to let the trumpet show off?"

Lu Xifeng said as it should: "That's right. Why don't you play the trumpet without being in the limelight?"

Guan Xiao: "Hehe, just wait to be scolded by Lin Zhi."

Lu Xifeng: "Have you been scolded better than me?"

Guan Xiao: "That's not called scolding, it's called guidance."

Mu Kang asked curiously: "Lin Yan likes to swear?"

Li Chongyuan smiled: "Don't listen to their nonsense, Lin Zhi has a very good temper."

"Especially compared with Boss Zhang, Lin Yan is simply an angel." Qiu Liming gnawed on a chicken leg and said deeply, "If he can become the resident conductor of the regiment, I won't have to worry about rehearsal attendance anymore."

Boss Zhang's full name is Zhang Yusheng, and he is the resident conductor of the J Academy Symphony Orchestra. His level is not bad, barely enough to fool laymen.He has profound qualifications and is good at promoting and packaging himself. He is also somewhat famous in China.

Zhang Yusheng opened a chain piano store called Yusheng Piano Store, which sells inferior musical instruments, inherited his purpose of commanding level, and continued to fool lay parents who expect their children to become dragons and daughters to become phoenixes.In private, everyone disdained to call him Zhang Zhi, and felt that the sacred position of command was simply humiliated, so they all called him Boss Zhang.

Boss Zhang has been occupying the position of resident commander all year round, relying on the old to sell the old, and suppressing the younger generations in the country.Only a banana man like Lin Yan who grew up overseas, with his absolute strength and international reputation, could make Boss Zhang back down a bit.

After all, he is just a guest conductor who occasionally comes to the show.

"Relying on Lin Zhi to row Brahms." Li Chongyuan sighed, "Oh, Lin Zhi is good at everything, but he is too busy."

"Brahms's rhythm is abnormal. It doesn't sound special, but the accent is basically out of beat." Guan Xiao put down the Malatang in his hand, went to the corner to find the score and handed it to Mu Kang, "Look here, this For a piece, the melody of me and the flute, Boss Zhang has been rehearsing all afternoon and still hasn't finished it."

Mu Kang read the score faster than the other four, and he understood immediately: "Interesting, it's written in this way..."

"Boss Zhang didn't understand what was going on at all, so he kept counting the beat, one, two, three, four, and repeated it over and over again." Qiu Liming spat out the chicken bone, "It's a fucking comparison!"

Both Li Chongyuan and Guan Xiao empathized with the horror.

"The brass pipe has been sitting all afternoon, and I've been playing games." Lu Xifeng shrugged, "Lin pointed out the day before yesterday that 10 minutes have passed."

"Lin Zhi didn't ask us to count the beat at all." Li Chongyuan imitated Lin Yan's understatement tone, "'You let go and walk forward, follow me, and the lines and breaths can't be broken.'"

"As soon as he stood on the command platform, he made us trust, and he has the backbone." Qiu Liming said seriously, "This is the power of command."

Mu Kang did feel the power of Lin Yan's command that afternoon.However, there were many onlookers, and from a long distance away, he only saw a thin and straight figure and a vague, vaguely correct face.

Still thinking about the graduation concert, he left halfway and went to the piano room to find someone.

Not surprisingly, he was in despair for three hours in the piano room, killing half a pack of cigarettes, until the sunset was quietly dyed, people left one after another.

Mu Kang sighed and lit a cigarette, and when he left sadly, he passed a young man.

The man is tall and walks with a smell of ebony perfume.Mu Kang felt that the taste was a bit pretentious, so he slowed down and looked back. The man walked quickly into a piano room on the first floor, and the light was on.

Coincidentally, the window of this piano room was not closed.Almost immediately, before Mu Kang could go far, the sound of the piano came out.

It's Brahms' First Symphony.

The man was actually playing a symphony on the piano, which was supposed to be thin and hard to listen to.But Mu Kang seemed to clearly hear the surging tension like the sea, the clear and distinct voice, and the timpani that hit people's hearts.

He opened his mouth and stood there listening for a few minutes, his mind blank.

The smoke burned silently at his fingertips, burning his hands.

Mu Kang reacted suddenly, his hands were shaking with excitement, and his heart was pounding.He threw the cigarette butt away and rushed directly into the piano room where the man was, startling the people inside.

The piano sound stopped abruptly.

Mu Kang: "You..."

Lin Yan: "You..."

The two stared at each other for a long time.

Mu Kang: "My friend, why do I feel like I've seen you somewhere?"

Lin Yan: "..."

Probably an illusion, Mu Kang thought to himself, and asked straightforwardly: "I'm sorry friend, I'll just say it straight, can you come and help me perform the end-of-term concert?"

Lin Yan asked very well: "... May I ask who you are?"

"It doesn't matter who is in the composition department." Mu Kang quickly walked to another piano, lifted the piano cover and sat down.

He was so excited that he even forgot the joy of turning a corner, and couldn't wait to say: "Listen."

The sound of the piano slowly flowed under Mu Kang's hands.

The opening introduction is sad and solemn, like the dim bells of a pagan church, but after fifteen bars, a very frivolous chord appears without warning.

It's like Ravel who suddenly appeared in front of him playing a hooligan.

Mu Kang's exclusive theme melody is integrated into the chords, and it is stated arbitrarily. The picture is divided into countless layers, the focal length is close and far away, and the subject is elusive.

Time seemed to slow down, blurring the sound of the piano.

Lin Yan admired secretly: It really deserves its reputation.

As soon as the theme came out, Lin Yan knew who this person was.The exclusive theme of Mu Dacai, almost everyone in the orchestra will occasionally come to a section when they are free.

He didn't care about the smell of smoke when he rushed in, obviously every cell was full of arrogance and wantonness, but his expression was so focused and pious when he played the piano, as if he was looking up at an omnipotent god.

Mu Kang handled these two contradictory extremes just right.

When Mu Kang finished playing the last note, Lin Yan smiled.

"Okay, I'll help you act." He said without hesitation.

"...fuck." Mu Kang stared blankly at Lin Yan's smile on the other side of the piano, and murmured, "I remembered, you can't fucking be Lin Yan..."

Lin Yan nodded: "Hello, great talent Mu."

Lin Yan is a guest lecturer of the Conducting Department of J Academy and a guest conductor of the J Academy Symphony Orchestra.

How Mr. Dean traveled across the Pacific Ocean with stars and moons, stalked Lin Yan who was touring in North America, and forced him to sign this contract, which has become a good story in the history of J Academy, making all competitors jealous.

Lin Yan is still too busy, and the time that can be allocated to the J hospital every year is only two or three months.But so what?Lin Zhi's classes were still overcrowded, and Lin Zhi's rehearsals were still packed.After all, he is so awesome and handsome.

It's a pity that this legendary figure was caught by Mu Kang in the piano room.

And this legendary figure actually knew himself, Mu Kang was a little surprised: "How does Lin Zhi know that I am Mu Kang?"

"The melody is too familiar." Lin Yan played Mu Kang's theme melody again, "Almost everyone in the orchestra played it during the break."

Mu Kang: "Hahahaha."

"I have heard ten variations on this theme, including solo, duet, and brass ensemble." Lin Yan said seriously, "The one you played just now is No. 11, and it is also the best one."

"Those small ensembles are all written for fun." Mu Kang did not hide it, showing a smug smile, "This is the big move I have held back this year."

"Lin Zhi, would you condescend to try my rehearsal?"

Mu Kang's graduation concert in his senior year was a non-mainstream combination of two pianos, a small violin, a large violin and a bass.The school specially approved the top-level radio equipment, and the 550-seat concert hall was so crowded that it was difficult for everyone to move.As for how Mu Kang got Lin Yan, there is a gossip that the talented Mu gave Lin Yan a large appearance fee.However, there are very few people who believe it. After all, Mu Kang is a poor student who doesn't have that much money, and Lin Yan is not short of money.

"We met by chance in the piano room, we smelled the same, and we hit it off right away." An hour before the performance, Mu Kang and Qiu Liming smoked at the back door, explaining to the students who came to inquire for the [-]st time.

Fang Zhimu looked at Mu Kang suspiciously: "Lin Zhi is so busy, can he be hired by a chance encounter?"

Mu Kang: "I didn't care so much at the time, anyway, as soon as I said it, he agreed."

Qiu Liming's face was serious: "Lin Zhi also said the same thing, they made a perfect confession."

Fang Zhimu stared at Mu Kang for a few seconds, reluctantly believing it, and then asked, "How many times have you lined up?"

Qiu Liming: "Twice."

Fang Zhimu was stunned: "...Huh?"

"Actually, one time is enough, and we have another row for us." Qiu Liming sighed, and pointed to Mu Kang, "The two of them are soul mates at all."

Fang Zhimu was stunned.

After taking his last puff of cigarette, Mu Kang extinguished the cigarette butt on the trash can, and asked Fang Zhimu, "Have you ever heard Lin Zhi play the piano?"

Fang Zhimu: "No."

"You will understand in a while, what is the gap."

There is indeed a gap.

Whenever Fang Zhimu thinks about it, he has to admit it frankly.Not only the gap in piano level, but also the gap in music understanding.

Chamber music in understanding is often poor and introverted, lacking passion, but it is not.

The harmony in the understanding will always be perfectly resolved, but it is not the end.

The two pianos in the understanding must be overbearing, and the strings can only tremble in the lower part, but it is not.

The double pianos of Mu Kang and Lin Yan make people feel that they are not two pianos, but several superb and emotional human voices.It's just that the vocal is too clear and the pitch is too fine.

But what does it matter.Everything is just right, more is too much, less is not enough.Is it a piano, a human voice, or a string, what does it matter?Fang Zhimu has never heard such colorful chamber music, such unreasonable harmony, such watery/blending lines, such graceful...

Wonderful... what?

He couldn't tell.I feel like I understand it, but I don't seem to understand it at all.

Fang Zhimu lay on the bed with headphones plugged in, and played the live recording again.To this day, when he closes his eyes, what emerges in front of his eyes is the picture he thought of himself.

Mu Kang's works are never overbearing. He uses familiar themes to create frameworks, fills in colors with whimsical harmonies, but does not hesitate to leave blank space to give the audience room for thinking.

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勃一：勃拉姆斯c小调第1号交响曲（JohannesBrahms-SymphonyNo.1inCminor），Op.68，写于1855-1876年，勃拉姆斯个闷骚男写这部交响曲写了21年。