Concert splendor, Western theater troupe

Author: Linglinghou

"Mr. Bai, should we also rent a carriage?" Chen Yonghua suggested after catching up with Aunt Zhu.

Zhu Aoshan shook her head, "No need for now, let's take a walk around the city first and see other musicians and singers' songs before we talk."

Chen Yonghua said: "The concert only lasts six hours. If you want to get more brands, it's better to play as early as possible."

Aunt Zhu smiled and said: "Our focus this time is to participate, there is no need to compete for rankings."

Hearing what Zhu Yusheng said, Chen Yonghua and He Ming understood. They immediately stopped saying anything and followed behind to enjoy the Aobo City in the concert.

On the other side, Hao Guangming and Zhu Yurao also watched the Aobo City in the concert through the camera on Zhu Yueshan's chest and the portable radio equipment she brought with her.

As Mingmei said before, there are many musicians and singers in the square in front of Prince Lu's Mansion. Most of them are playing and singing under the temporary arbor, but a few people are sitting in cars and going to other places in the city.

, playing while walking.

There were many people gathered around some musicians, and there were several baskets of signs. However, there was no one around some musicians, and there was not a single sign.

It can be seen that at this time, the gap between the many musicians participating in the concert has widened.

After leaving the square, we saw musicians everywhere in the city. Singers were placing flags, playing and singing.

Some are under the big trees on the street, some are by the windows of restaurants, and some are in roadside shops.

However, the most people are on umbrella carts - obviously, many musicians feel that only by traveling around the city in a cart and playing while walking can more people hear their performances and gain appreciation.

Of course, there are also those who are aloof and aloof. Like Zhu Yushan, they don't care about their ranking. They invite two or three friends to play music in a private room of a certain restaurant to entertain themselves.

If someone passing by hears the sound and looks for it, and throws a wooden or bronze medal in it, it will also bring joy to the listener.

However, there are also confident and utilitarian musicians who specialize in playing in the most crowded places in the city.

Not long after Zhu Aoshan and his party left the square, they came to the intersection of two streets and saw that someone had built a stage at the corner of the intersection and was performing on it.

It was surrounded by countless layers inside and outside, and there were probably thousands of viewers!

Zhu Aisheng took a closer look and saw that the performers above were a group of Westerners. After listening for a while, she found that these people were performing religious oratorios, that is, Western operas with religious content.

Not only was a big band composed of more than a dozen musicians playing accompaniment under the stage, but there were also two beautiful Western women performing on the stage, and the other three performing Western men were equally good-looking.

It stands to reason that there was opera in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the people from the Ming Dynasty led by King Lu had never seen this kind of performance. But Western opera was fresh after all, and this group of people were all top-notch in playing musical instruments, singing and performing.

Above, this attracted many people to watch.

Such a scene, not to mention Zhu Aosheng and others were stunned, even Hao Guangming and Zhu Aosheng were amazed.

Zhu Ainao said: "Mr. sir, are women allowed to perform on stage in Western operas now?"

"Should it not be allowed?" Hao Guangming said uncertainly, "However, this is the territory of King Lu after all. Maybe they have been more flexible?"

Women were not allowed to perform on the stage in the Ming Dynasty operas, but after Zhu Nuao ordered the establishment of the "Ming Dynasty Royal Art Troupe", women were able to perform on the stage.

After listening to it for a while, the two could only say that this group of people played really well, and it had a different flavor compared to the current music of the Ming Dynasty.

Hao Guangming also temporarily checked the information and found that when formal European symphonies first emerged in the seventeenth century, they were mostly used for religious purposes.

Westerners are still very hard-working in preaching. It is understandable that they seized the opportunity of King Lu to lead the concert and sent elites to use oratorios (operas with religious mythological content) to promote religion.

On this side, Chen Yonghua and He Ming looked at it for a while, but they were angry.

He Ming said: "Most of the people watching here are the people of our Ming Dynasty, right? What's wrong with them? Although Western operas are fresh, there is a clear gap between them and some of our Ming operas, right?"

Chen Yonghua frowned and said: "My Ming opera is better than this Western opera, but it seems that we haven't seen our Ming musicians performing in a group like this in the city today."

Minglan on the side analyzed rationally: "The operas of the Ming Dynasty are not comparable to Western operas, but the best opera troupes of the Ming Dynasty are all in China. After all, there are more opportunities to make money and get promoted in China.

Most of the people who come to Lu Wang's place to work are single musicians or small groups of several people. Even if there is an opera troupe, their level is very average.

This concert is only in its second session, and it’s probably the first time that Westerners have staged such a big show. Plus, Western opera is fresh after all, so it’s inevitable that they’ll take advantage of it.”

"good!"

It happened that it was just a dramatic performance on stage that showed a Western woman being hugged and kissed, and the audience immediately burst into applause.

Many people also surrendered their wooden and bronze medals into the large wooden box with the flag in front of the stage.

After a while, the tickets inside will be full.

Seeing this, He Ming couldn't help but become anxious, "This Prince Lu's territory is also the territory of my Ming Dynasty. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if the top spot in the Great Music Club ends up being given to a Westerner?"

Chen Yonghua sighed: "It's a pity that I don't know much about music, otherwise I would have to form an opera troupe to fight against these Westerners."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Zhu Aishan chuckle and say, "Why do we need an opera troupe to fight against these Westerners? A few of us are enough."

How many are we?

Chen Yonghua and He Ming were both stunned when they heard this, with puzzled expressions on their faces.

Aunt Zhu said: "What are you doing here? Go and rent an umbrella stroller. No, rent two."

After hearing this, the two of them realized that Zhu Yushan was going to take action.

Although I don’t know where Zhu Yueshan got the confidence to fight against these Westerners, they immediately went to get two umbrella strollers, one of which was a large four-wheel umbrella stroller.

It happened that the "Western Orchestra" opposite had finished a divine play and there was an intermission. Zhu Yuyao said to Chen Yonghua: "We can't go to war without declaring it. Brother Chen went to give them a verbal challenge and said that he would bring it back and perform at the same time."

"good!"

Chen Yonghua agreed and went to do it immediately.

Soon, there was a commotion at the Western orchestra.

After that, a priest who was mostly a priest came over and looked at the staffing at Zhu Yaoshan’s side. He couldn’t help but show contempt and loudly said in fluent Chinese: “I heard that you are going to challenge us. I don’t know if it’s true or not.

?”

Aunt Zhu smiled faintly and said, "Of course it's true."

The priest looked around at the people who were looking around, and said in a louder voice: "Okay, we will start the competition in ten minutes to see who can get more tickets for a single performance."

Hearing this, Chen Yonghua hurriedly came to Zhu Yueshan's side and said: "This person is deliberately spreading propaganda. He wants to embarrass us so that he can promote their reputation."

Aunt Zhu waved her hand, signaling Chen Yonghua not to worry, and said to the priest, "Okay, we'll start in ten minutes."

Nowadays, Ming clocks are exported to countries in the East, West, and Southeast Asia, so now more developed countries are imitating the Ming Dynasty and keeping time accurate to the minute.

After Zhu Aoshan made an agreement with the priest, the kind-hearted Ming Dynasty musicians and people immediately gathered around.

Seeing that Zhu Aoshan and others didn't even have any decent musical instruments, someone couldn't help but advise: "Young people, you don't have any musical instruments, how can you compare with these Westerners?"

Some enthusiastic people also advised: "Do you need me to lend you an instrument?"

Others sneered, "It's understandable after seeing Western troupes show off their power, but if I have no ability but insist on challenging others, isn't this embarrassing for us Ming people?"

"That's right, I think you should sneak away before the competition starts. This will only embarrass you, not all the people in Aobo City."

“···”

Hearing these words, He Ming, who had a bad temper, couldn't help it and yelled: "Are you people from the Ming Dynasty? When encountering such a thing, you just don't support us, but you actually sneer at Refeng? Are you discouraging us?"

One of them sneered after hearing this: "If you are really capable, even if you are worse than these Westerners, I will definitely vote for you. I'm afraid, you are too far behind compared to others!"

He Ming wanted to fight again, but was stopped by Aunt Zhu.

"Why argue with them? After a while we hit the Westerners in the face, and their faces will naturally hurt."

Second update.

Good night~
Chapter completed!