"Why are the people from the Special Inspection Department coming to see you at this time?" Roy, who had witnessed the scene of passing the note just now, leaned next to Fan Ning's ear and lowered his voice, "It has something to do with the current riots in various theaters.
Right? How did you reply?"
"Of course I chose to thank them." Fan Ning didn't seem to care about this episode. He put the pen back into the breast pocket of his shirt and leaned back on the sofa.
"Weird." Roy's eyes stayed on Fan Ning, his eyes filled with thought.
"It stands to reason that if they feel that the turmoil at the premiere of "The Rite of Spring" should not continue, they can just issue an ultimatum and stop it. What do you mean by going to the trouble of asking you? Well, from the management of our theater chain
Judging from the perspective, the controversy is not a bad thing, and it brings real money and silver profits. Can you believe this at the Harvest Art Festival?
In the festival with explosive popularity, audiences all over the world were 'incited' into battle. Scheler really did something that others could not do even if they were dead or alive. But from the perspective of the authorities, considering the final contender for the summit
Things?. Attitude!? Did those people throw the issue out deliberately to test your personal attitude??"
"Shh."
Fan Ning smiled faintly and raised his index finger.
"Look, the second half of the work has begun, and everyone is waiting to see it."
Roy and Sheeran, who were thinking a little wildly, had to gather their minds and sit still to watch the performance.
Okay, "wait and see", okay
Perhaps among so many turbulent occasions, the one that is relatively stable at present is this salon and banquet hall.
Although the gentlemen and ladies were obviously restless and exchanged glances frequently.
But at least no one started fighting, right?
The curtain of the stage has been opened, and the background material of the painter Frudd's work has been changed to another one.
It is still the gorgeous and primitive style of "Fauvism", but the sky in the landscape has changed from day to night, giving it more complex layers and unsettling hints.
The dancers did not take off this time. Instead, they all sat around a pile of bonfire props, meditating in silence.
The lights were also dimmed, and only dissonant sounds composed of string instruments surged in the air, as thick and sour as plasma.
The second act of "The Rite of Spring" "The Great Sacrifice" is the introduction and the ninth part of the whole song.
The beginning of a long paragraph is the most attention-grabbing moment anyway.
Coupled with this inexplicable and strange atmosphere, even those in the audience who were shouting loudly or demonstrating violently were basically quiet for a while.
The introduction ended quickly and the dancers finally moved.
They stood up one by one, bowed their heads, remained silent, and began to walk in a circle.
Part 10, the mysterious ring dance of teenagers.
The timbre of the treble trumpet became strangely thin. The string section was subdivided into thirteen parts, playing a gloomy, confessional melody.
It is mixed with a large number of bow-shock overtones that repeat the same sound.
"This Scheler really dares to write anything!"
Listeners only feel that this high-density sound group seems transparent, but in fact it is sharp and dry, like a gel that has lost its moisture!
"I have been playing the violin for forty years. I know the tremolo and I also know the overtones, but what is the way to play the overtones with the tremolo!?"
“I don’t even know how I came up with this choreography!!”
The audience's various astonished expressions could not be distinguished for a while whether they were from the admirers or the detractors.
I saw the dancers walking in a slow and solemn circle, with two rings, large and small, with men inside and women outside.
Every four measures with different durations, there is a subtle internal change: the female dancer diagonally changes direction to the inner circle, and the male dancer changes direction diagonally backward to the outer circle.
Teenagers and girls are constantly experiencing the tension and danger of being "squeezed out" as they alternate between the inner and outer circles.
"Why do these dance steps and queues suddenly remind me of a, uh, child's game?"
"I'm not the only one who thinks of it, right?"
More and more listeners are discovering that this is very close to a game that most people played in their childhood!
——"Bench"! Or some variations of similar games!
"Bang."
Suddenly there was a muffled sound on the stage.
There were actually people who fell behind in the staggered pace because they "didn't get a spot"!
Su Luo! Principal dancer Su Luo!
This girl in red and white coarse linen clothes fell like this, but she returned to the group and circled again without saying a word.
Needless to say, there is some kind of "dark fairy tale" feeling emerging from the hearts of the listeners. The changes and development of the music at this moment seem to add a hint of ominous and gloomy flavor in addition to the pure mystery!
What is this ancient ritual choosing? Or is it a metaphor for some fateful omen?
"Bang."
There was another muffled sound.
Su Luo fell out of the ring dance queue twice!
The steps of the boys and girls finally stopped, and everyone looked at Su Luo who fell to the ground.
The band's performance also came to the end, which was a very special 11/14 mixed beat, and there was no melody in this section at all. It was just 11 identical column chords, played at an equal speed.
The silence in the transitional passage is a bit suffocating. Just when the audience feels like they are about to run out of breath, the music directly enters the eleventh part.
——"Praise to the Chosen One"!!
The horn players all pointed upward, leading the band to play a large complex of colorful sounds, accompanied by the complex rhythmic interaction between boys and girls, and from time to time, sounds played by a certain instrument could be heard,
A major triad arpeggio like "1351315" is as simple as a piece of blank paper...
Although during normal performance, the musicians would involuntarily raise the horn due to the advancement of emotions, here, in order to achieve precise timbre changes, the composer made a clear request for "pavillons", and the sound of the horn was concentrated towards the direction.
The sound spreads out from the front of the band and is directly transmitted to the audience, making the sound more impactful and "tearing"!
Those ascending note sequences played quickly with the intensity of F or even FF immediately created a crazy and enthusiastic atmosphere!
In stark contrast, Su Luo himself was "thrown out" from the circular queue.
She seemed a little dazed and sluggish standing beside her, and her whole body movements had stopped.
"What's going on? The lead dancer seems to be out of shape?"
"It couldn't have been caused by a mistake, right?"
"The double-ring queue that alternates between inside and outside is a bit complicated to navigate, but it shouldn't be such a low-level mistake twice in a row."
Probably no concert has ever been as noisy as today, and the audience started talking about it.
Those people who had originally dismissed this dance drama were now pointing at the stage unscrupulously.
"No, this is definitely not a mistake."
“It’s part of the music and choreography!!”
There were also people who stared at the stage without blinking and murmured to themselves.
A dark-toned, long-sounding background played by bass clarinet and bass string instruments appeared in the band.
Part 12, "Summoning Ancestors", is presented consecutively with Part 13, "Ancestral Ritual".
First, a series of arrogant chords played repeatedly and anxiously, and were interrupted from time to time by timpani and bass drums. The sound of the drums seemed to be urging something.
Then it goes up from the semitones of E to G. Here, the lowest five notes that the alto oboe can produce are used, with a feminine nasal sound, which seems to depict some mysterious and solemn sacrificial scene.
But Su Luo, who stood up again after falling, remained stiff and motionless.
Different from the confusion on the surface, and completely different from what the audience was thinking, while she followed her own choreography and maintained this posture, huge waves surged in her heart!
Also shouting out loud in their hearts, there were several "flower-touched people" who came on stage to participate in the performance, as well as several spectators off the stage, including Calestini, the temporary director of Fanghui Temple.
bishop!
The overall duration of "The Rite of Spring" is neither long nor short, which is just over half an hour. Who knew that as the performance gradually progressed, at the moment when the finale was about to come, they would actually perceive or realize it.