After breakfast, George took Hardison and Jessica to Yangyin's campus.
Originally, Yangyin is a small attraction for foreign tourists, and as Zhou Yan and the Piano Youth Orchestra become more and more popular, more and more tourists come to Yangyin to visit.
When tourists arrived at Yangyin, they had to take a photo at the door. When Hardison and the others arrived, they also saw many tourists posing at the door.
"Come on, I'll take a picture for you too," George said.
Seeing that there were a lot of people taking pictures at the door, Jessica smiled and said, "Let's take pictures when you get to the door of the concert hall."
She also thought that the entrance of Yangyin was quite beautiful, but compared to the school gate, she was more interested in the concert hall.
After entering the campus, George introduced to them, "As you can see, Yangyin is different from ordinary modern schools. This place was originally the Qing Dynasty's Chun Palace. The second emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's Emperor Guangxu, was born here."
"Is this the emperor's birthplace?" Hardison said in surprise.
George nodded, "Well, to be precise, Guangxu was born in Huaiyinzhai, and there are many things here that are well preserved."
"This is the atmosphere of history." Hudison looked at the bustling school roads and said, "There are quite a lot of people in the school."
"Many people here are tourists. Like us, Yangyin itself does not have many students. Although there are many more students applying for Yangyin in recent years than before, the number of students enrolled in the school every year has almost not increased."
As Zhou Yan became more and more famous in Europe and the United States, Yangyin has almost become a must-visit place for foreign tourists, so George is also very concerned about Yangyin's news, and he even knows about enrollment.
He is right. In recent years, more and more students have applied for Yangyin, but the admission rate has not increased at all, so the admission rate of Yangyin is getting lower and lower.
If you only look at the admission ratio, people will think that it is becoming more and more difficult to get into Yangyin, but in fact, the difficulty of getting into Yangyin has not increased much.
Because most of the more candidates have very poor levels.
Yangyin is the highest music institution in China. Most students who study music, as long as they have confidence, will basically try Yangyin. Therefore, Yangyin’s student source was very good before, and students needed a very high level to come in.
Many of the more candidates now become monks halfway.
Some parents saw that Zhou Yan was famous and rich internationally, so they thought about letting their children learn a musical instrument at a sudden attack. Moreover, they did not know much about the difficulty of admission to Yangyin, so they applied for the exam without any brains.
Most of these people learn piano. The most take two or three years, and the fewest even only learn a few months. They only know how to play a few songs and cannot learn basic skills at all, let alone study music theory, and in the end they can only be cannon fodder.
Earlier, Yangyin recruited students from a group of contestants with a total of over 60, and those who reached 90 were admitted were selected from the best.
Now, a bunch of 20 to 30 to 30 suddenly popped up. They can only reduce the admission ratio and will not have any impact on the admission results. The students who should be admitted are still those above 90.
If this trend of learning music can be maintained for more than ten or twenty years, the overall level of candidates will definitely rise, but the problem is that this trend will definitely not last long.
Now many parents have realized that Zhou Yan's success has nothing to do with ordinary people, and it is too difficult to make a living by music.
Especially those students who study music at the sprint are not only unable to get into a good music school, but also make their original academic performance worse, which is equivalent to losing both the wife and the army.
In about two years, these cannon fodders will probably disappear.
It may take until the next genius composer and genius pianist come out before it can trigger another wave of music learning. This is the law of history.
George was very familiar with the situation in the school and was very well introduced. Hardison and Jessica listened and sighed that they had found the right place.
Yangyin was too young, and the three of them finished shopping in a short while. If it weren't for George's introduction that was more meticulous and interesting, the whole school would be able to complete it in ten minutes.
Although Yangyin does not restrict tourists from entering the school, many places inside are not allowed to enter and exit at will, such as office buildings, teaching buildings and piano rooms.
These three places are guarded by the gatekeepers, and most outsiders cannot get in, especially those of Hardison and others. You can tell at a glance that they are not from the school.
There are very few foreign students in Yangyin, only a few in total, and the doorman basically has an impression.
Jessica actually really wants to go to the piano room to see it. She believes that the level of a music school is closely related to the piano room. If you can't even do a piano room well, the school will not be very good.
Whether the piano room is good or not depends not only on the hardware level, but more on the atmosphere of the piano room.
Even if the old or bad pianos are protected well, there will be no problem for students to play.
There are quite a few piano rooms in some schools, but few can be used. The staff are not well maintained and the students do not care about it. Over time, no one in the piano room will practice the piano well.
Although Jessica was very sorry that she could not visit the piano room, she was still very happy to hear the concert later.
The time was almost done now, so George took them to the concert hall.
The three of them entered the concert hall and found that the concert hall was almost full.
The seats in front are already full, and they can only find a seat in the back.
Looking at the seats in front of him, George couldn't help but mutter, "There are more people again."
George has accompanied the guests to listen to the live several times. They are not very famous orchestras in the 1995 band. There are very few people in the orchestra and can only play chamber music and there will be no big music.
There was a performance that was mostly a string quartet.
Such performances are naturally difficult to attract audiences.
There are many audiences for other well-known orchestras in Yangyin, so George doesn't feel anything, but after listening to the performances of the 1995 orchestra, he found that there are really more and more audiences coming to Yangyin to listen to music.
Even such a very unknown small orchestra can still have so many people, and the entire concert hall is almost full.
If this continues, no matter what kind of performance it is, you must arrive in advance, otherwise you will not even have a seat.
George suspected that if the audience continues to increase, Yangyin will have more and more performances that need to be bought to enter the venue.
Making money is secondly. If you don’t control your entry, it can easily cause trouble.
In fact, George is very supportive of buying tickets to enter the venue, so he doesn’t have to worry about coming over to take up seats in advance in the future.
This was the first time Jessica and the others came. I didn’t know the situation. Seeing so many audiences, Hardison asked, “Is this band very famous today?”
"Not very famous." George smiled, "If it is a very famous band, we will have no seats at this time."
"It seems that Yangyin's concert is really popular."
"Yes."...
The performance began soon, and after listening to the first song, George nodded repeatedly. He found that the performance level of the orchestra was gradually improving.
The reason why this orchestra was named 1995 is that the members of it were all students who enrolled in Yangyin in 1995. Last year, when George first listened to the 1995 concert, these students were still freshmen.
In more than a year, the performance skills may not have increased particularly exaggeratedly, but the orchestra's tacit understanding, the experience and aura of the performers are no longer the same as when they were just established last year.
Yangyin’s stage is very training people because there are audiences in every show. Many times, Yangyin’s stage has more audiences than those well-known concert stages.
In this environment, the hearts of the performers are slowly tempered.
After listening to the first song, Jessica applauded the 1995 Orchestra and said to George, "Is this orchestra really not well-known in their school? Their performance is very exciting."
"They are really good, but what if they compare with the piano boy?"
"Uh, that's really a bit worse."
Jessica has heard about the piano boys' live broadcast and is very clear about the level of piano boys. Although she cannot compare with those first-class international orchestras, it is definitely not comparable to ordinary student orchestras.
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This 1995 band is also good, but it is completely incomparable to the Piano Youth Orchestra. She said that it was a bit worse, but she was actually merciless.
But what he didn't know was that when the Piano Youth Orchestra was first established, it was not much better than the 1995 Orchestra, and it has also come to this day step by step.
"There are many more orchestras that are better than this band. If you have time, you can understand by listening to a few more shows."
"I have time. We have to stay in Yanjing for a long time, so we can come and listen to concerts more."
Of course, George was willing to accompany Jessica and the others to attend concerts every day, and earned the money while sitting, but as a professional accompanying him, he still wanted to make the trip to Yanjing more abundantly in Hardison and Jessica.
"If you want to listen, we will come back in a while, but there are still many things waiting for you to experience in Yanjing. It would be a pity if you just listen to the concert here."
"Okay, then please find a higher level game to take us to listen to."
"No problem." George made a gesture of ok.
At this time, the stage was ready to play the second song, and Jessica and the others stopped chatting.
When the second song started, a burst of cheers suddenly sounded because many people could hear it. This song turned out to be Zhou Yan's "Drinking the Yangtze River Water Together".
Many people came to Yangyin for Zhou Yan. At this time, they were naturally very happy to hear Zhou Yan's song.
Jessica was also very happy. Although she couldn't hear the piano boy's performance, listening to another orchestra in the same school played the music of Y, it was a substitute.
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"Sign up with me."
In Zhou Yan's office, Maria Carey took a copy of "Shut Island" and handed it to Zhou Yan.
Looking at Maria Carey, Zhou Yan scratched his head, "I thought you wouldn't come."
Maria Carey smiled, "Since you sincerely sent me an invitation, I can only turn off more than one hundred notices in the past and come to the appointment."
Zhou Yan rolled his eyes. He did not invite Maria Carey at all, but he had to admit this because Zhang Youan invited Maria Carey.
Since they are willing to come, they are very loyal. Zhou Yan can't tell her that he didn't want her to come.
Zhou Yan wrote a pen and signed his name on the title page of "Shut Island". Maria Carey was not satisfied and pointed at the blank space next to her, "Write here, thank you for coming to your concert."
"Okay." Zhou Yan nodded and wrote in the blank: Yanjing welcomes you, Mary.
Maria Carey didn't know Chinese either. When she saw Zhou Yan writing, she happily put away the book, "I have finished reading this book, and it only took a week."
It took a week to finish a book called "Shut Island", but there is nothing to say. After all, if most people concentrate on reading it, they will definitely be able to read the complete book in one day.
However, Maria Carey is very busy at work and can only rely on fragmented time to read books. Moreover, she is a very slow person to read books and prefers to read intensively. It is normal to read a book for a month.
So in Maria Carey's opinion, it is not easy for her to finish reading this book in just one week.
"Thank you for your support, do you have any advice after reading it?"
Zhou Yan just said something casually and Maria Carey thought very seriously. After a while, she said, "I think this novel has fewer descriptions of the relationship between the male protagonist and his wife. After reading the whole novel, it feels like his wife is like a symbol, not a flesh-and-blood person."
"Well, that's true."
Maria Carey is right. There are few descriptions of the protagonist and his deceased wife in the novel, and the deceased wife is more like a cold name.
But Zhou Yan would never have put too much effort into his deceased wife, otherwise the pace of the whole story would have slowed down a lot.
Perhaps, this slowdown is quite good for Maria Carey's appetite, but it will definitely lose a large number of readers.
Seeing Zhou Yan nodding, Maria Carey smiled and said, "I hope it works for you."
"I will consider it when I create in the future."
Zhou Yan's casual and perfunctory words made Mariah Carey very happy. She put away the book with a smile, and then asked Zhou Yan, "Will you still write this kind of thing in the next book?"
"I don't know." Zhou Yan shook his head, "I don't have the idea of the next novel yet."
"That's a pity. After the publication of "Shutland Island", you will definitely have many book fans in the United States besides music fans. Everyone will definitely hope to see more of your works, and it's best to be as productive as music works."
"Well, I'll try my best." Zhou Yan nodded, then stood up and said, "Let's go have a meal together."
"No problem, where can we eat?" Maria Carey stood up.
"Just eat in the studio cafeteria, and there are a few friends coming soon. I'll introduce you to you. Of course, if you mind, you can separate."
Maria Carey waved her hand and said, "No, let's go together." (End of this chapter)