Magic City!

In a five-star hotel.

Phipps, Heidi, and Professor Haixi all came to Charles' room to watch Charles play a piano etude No. 1 played by Wang Cheng last night!

A simple melody, for a world-class piano master like Charles, can really be understood at a glance, and then he can quickly pick it up. He becomes extremely proficient in playing both sides, and it sounds extremely beautiful and beautiful.

only……

Charles' performance never had the same feeling as Wang Cheng's performance on TV.

The TV signal is one level worse than the live one.

so……

Charles' current performance is at least two levels behind Wang Cheng's live performance.

However, Charles liked Etude No. 1 very much. He played it again, stood up and said to Heidi, Phipps and Professor Hessey: "This piece has a charm. The more you play it, the better it becomes."

I want to play it, although it is very simple, but I really like it.”

Heidi also nodded and said: "Yes, I played it twice and I still want to play it. I can sit there and play this piece of music all day long without any impatience."

Phipps: "I love this one too!"

Phipps is not that sentimental, nor does he have much experience in life, so he doesn't like Für Elise too much. He just thinks it's very good. He prefers the Piano Etude No. 2, which can show off his skills.

Professor Haixi said: "I have already booked tickets for Mr. Howard. They should be able to arrive tonight and catch Wang Cheng's solo concert tomorrow!"

Charles nodded: "Are the concert tickets confirmed?"

Professor Haixi shook his head: "It will be online in a few minutes, and I am already ready to snap up. I heard that Wang Cheng himself is a superstar in China, and any of his tickets will be snapped up by fans. This time there are only 3,000 tickets.

, it may be very popular. So, I asked Heidi and Phipps to grab it together with me!"

Charles said with emotion: "This is my first time listening to a Chinese musician's concert."

In recent years, many top Chinese performers have also gone international. Wanting to prove themselves internationally, they have held concerts in famous places in Europe and the United States, but few people paid attention to them, and no one in the circle came to patronize them.

Because going there represents a kind of recognition.

The ancient music circles in Europe and the United States were extremely disapproving of Chinese music performers. Even if several top Chinese performers were not inferior to their world-class performers, they would be ostracized by them and would not recognize them.

Charles doesn't have much prejudice against Chinese musicians, but he won't go against most other people in the circle and insist on listening to the performances of Chinese musicians, so he has not listened to any Chinese musicians.

Wang Cheng's solo concert was the first time he heard a concert by a Chinese musician.

Same reason...

This is also a concert in which Curtis College attaches great importance to a Chinese musician. Not only the vice president Charles came to the event in person, but also the president and three of the most respected world-class musicians in the school came.

If such a lineup were normal, it would definitely cause shock in the entire classical music industry in China. Various classical music schools would definitely be crazy about the popularity and invite these people to their schools for exchanges, and then give publicity to improve themselves.

Influence and status at home and abroad.

However, no one has come to ask them about this matter now. Even Charles has been here for a day or two. It is not a secret in the hotel and the musician program group. The news will naturally spread to several Chinese Conservatories, but it is also

No one came to visit Charles.

It's not just them who are treated like this.

The people in Haixi know that there are several other top music academies in Europe and America that also live in this hotel, just like their Curtis Institute.

Heavyweights from several other colleges also came to the Magic City yesterday, and they were all studying Wang Cheng in their hotel rooms, but no one came to visit them!

as if……

These heavyweights from the world's top music schools have been ignored.

In other words, these world's top music schools themselves have been ignored by several Chinese music schools and the entire classical music and art festival.

because.

At this time, there is a more important and far-reaching figure who is attracting the attention of almost all classical music and art people in China.

At this time, there is no essential difference between the world's top music schools such as Curtis, Eastman, Manhattan, Berlin Art, Paris Conservatoire, and China's Yangyin, Zhejiang, Magic, and Sichuan Music schools. They are all regarded as the same.

Individuals attract almost all the attention, leaving no time or energy to pay attention to each other.

so!

Charles and others were too lazy to pay attention to whether they should be solemnly received by the Chinese Conservatory of Music.

All his attention at this time was also on Wang Cheng and the upcoming solo concert.

Ding!

The alarm clock that Phipps and Heidi had booked in advance rang. The two of them and Professor Heidi quickly picked up their mobile phones and started to prepare to grab tickets!

but……

One minute later, the tickets will officially go online.

All three of them widened their eyes at the same time.

Heidi, who was originally sitting, jumped up and exclaimed: "Are you Katie? The first row ticket costs more than 40,000 US dollars? Is this a robbery?"

Phipps also opened his eyes wide and shouted: "God, I have never seen such an expensive ticket! More than 40,000 US dollars... Is this written wrong? Is there an extra zero?"

Professor Haixi's hand shook and he looked directly at Charles: "Tickets for the first row are more than 40,000 US dollars!"

Charles was also shocked, but after all, he was a man in his fifties and had seen too much of the world, so he quickly said: "Buy it first, grab the position first!"

Professor Haixi quickly shouted: "Heidi, Phipps, pay first! If the price is wrong, you can apply for a refund afterwards."

Heidi and Phipps no longer hesitated. Although the price of more than 40,000 US dollars was still dazzling, they quickly clicked to pay!

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The page immediately prompts - sold out!

Professor Haixi got the same tip.

There are only 100 tickets for the first row and they are already sold out!

Heidi's eyes widened and she exclaimed again: "What is this? Tickets worth more than 40,000 US dollars each are sold out? Are Chinese people so rich?"

Phipps also said with a face full of shock: "Can I consider holding a solo concert in China?"

When Phipps saw that Wang Cheng's expensive tickets could be sold so quickly, he became jealous and jealous!

Music artists also want to make money...

For an average top music artist, the maximum ticket revenue from a solo concert in Europe and the United States is about one million U.S. dollars. After all, music and art concerts are not like celebrity concerts that can be held in large open-air stadiums. Music and art concerts require

Artistic atmosphere and elegant on-site atmosphere are required, so you can only look for indoor venues. Indoor theaters are generally relatively small, with a few thousand seats at most, and smaller ones only have about a thousand seats.

A solo concert like Wang Cheng's with 3,000 seats is already considered a relatively large-scale classical music concert in the world.

Tickets for individual concerts by top European and American music artists cost thousands of dollars each. VIPs in the front row or in the box are more expensive, which costs around tens of thousands of dollars. Tickets for thousands of seats can be sold for millions of dollars.

But this is the box office revenue that only the top music performers can get, and such top-level concerts can only be held once a year at most to maintain the status of top artists. Most of these top music artists have only been performing for several years.

One such music concert will be held and the revenue will exceed one million US dollars.

But……

Phipps, Heidi, Charles, and Haixi all stared at the ticket sales page. At this time, they discovered that among the five sizes of tickets, the most expensive ones were in the first row and the second row.

The price is as high as about 40,000 US dollars. Although there are only 200 tickets, just these 200 tickets can sell almost tens of millions of US dollars at the box office.

call……

The four of them calculated the numbers for a while and then took a breath of cold air at the same time.

Today, when classical music and art are in decline, have they ever seen such terrifying box office revenue in the music and art circles?

And, that's not all.

They looked at the back. There were 800 tickets in the front row, priced at nearly 30,000 US dollars each; a thousand tickets in the middle area, also priced at more than 20,000 US dollars each; and a thousand tickets in the last row, priced as high as 1,500 US dollars.

Around USD!

this……

Four pairs of eyes looked at it carefully, making sure that they had read the number correctly, and that the other party had not written the wrong selling price, because it was impossible for all five prices to be wrong. The only possibility was that this was the selling price determined by the other party.

.

certainly……

The most shocking and speechless thing among the four people, as well as a flash of envy at the same time was.

All five levels of tickets are showing sold-out signs at this time.

In other words, these sky-high price concert tickets, which they thought were scary, were all sold out at this time, and it might take less than a minute.

This kind of ticket sales speed is something they have never seen before, not only in their classical music circle, but even the concert tickets of top superstar singers in Europe and the United States have never sold out so fast, let alone

How can people sell it so expensively?

call……

All four of them took a deep breath and calmed down a little.
To be continued...