1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Sun Qin pedaled his bicycle wildly all the way. After arriving at the unit, he adjusted his breathing to calm himself down, and then walked straight towards the location of Sun Zonglu, the leader of their special team.

Sun Zonglu is busy reviewing new topics at the moment. Recently, the planning projects submitted by the members of the topic team are worse than the last, with neither new ideas nor highlights.

He is not blindly pursuing new ideas. Old things are fine if they can be done well, but in these special planning, he does not see that they can do a good job in the program.

Team leader. Sun Qin came closer and shouted.

What's wrong? Sun Zonglu put down the planning book in his hand and rubbed his eyes, It's best not to tell me some bad news now. My head hurts enough today.

Sun Qin smiled and said, That's good news.

Hearing the good news, Sun Zonglu opened his eyes, What good news?

I found the composer of Aftertaste of Yanjing.

Sound engineer? Sun Zonglu twitched his eyebrows, Did you find someone from outside?

The last time Sun Qin came to him to talk about the soundtrack, he had already told Sun Qin that he would wait until the film was shot before talking about the soundtrack. Unexpectedly, this kid was still thinking about it, and even went to find the scorer himself.

Sun Qin did not answer Sun Zonglu's question directly. He just took out his Walkman and put the earphones into Sun Zonglu's ears.

Sun Zonglu leaned back, took the earphones from Sun Qin's hand, and asked, What's in this, just put it in my ears?

Sun Qin smiled and explained, This is the soundtrack written by the composer I found. It was just recorded. Team leader, please listen to it.

You haven't finished the film yet, but you've already finished the soundtrack. I'm a little anxious.

Although Sun Zonglu said so, he still put on the headphones and fiddled with the Walkman: How did you do this?

The Walkman was a new gadget. Sun Zonglu had seen it before, but he had never used it and didn't know how to operate it.

Let me help you.

Sun Qin helped turn on the Walkman, and then asked, Team leader, did you hear the sound?

Sun Zonglu looked at Sun Qin but said nothing. He heard a sound, but it was just the noise of idling.

After waiting for a short while, the music finally started.

Different from Zhou Yan's previous solo on the flute, the version recorded this time is much richer.

When Sun Zonglu heard the first paragraph, doubts appeared in his eyes, because he couldn't tell what kind of musical instrument it sounded. It seemed that there was some piano sound hidden, and some kind of flute? Or the sound of a metal wind instrument?

These sounds together give people a light and mysterious feeling.

It's like in a bright moonlit night with few stars, the stars in the sky flicker here and there, and the countless starlights keep flowing with the stars.

Just when Sun Zonglu stopped worrying about what instrument it was and gradually immersed himself in the music itself, suddenly, a distant bell rang, and the music became majestic.

In this section, he seemed to hear many Chinese national musical instruments, such as chimes, fou, drums... they sounded very similar, but not the same. These sounds are woven together to construct a picture of a palace with yellow tiles, red walls and cornices.

What surprised Sun Zonglu the most was the section immediately following it. It was a type of wind instrument that he could not recognize at all. It pushed the illusion of the entire piece to the extreme, and also made the magnificent scene constructed in the previous section impossible. The palace painting gradually pushed away, reaching a place far away from the listener in time and space.

…

Sun Qin kept looking at the time, waiting for Sun Zonglu to finish listening to the music. More than four minutes later, Sun Zonglu suddenly started playing with the Walkman in his hand.

What's wrong, team leader? Sun Qin asked.

How do you adjust this thing to the back? Sun Zonglu looked at the Walkman and muttered.

Turn it to the back?

Well, let me listen again.

Hearing that Sun Zonglu wanted to listen to it again, Sun Qin smiled and helped him adjust the tape to the place where the song did not start.

This time, Sun Zonglu listened more carefully, and when he heard the middle part, he asked Sun Qin to help him tune it back. He listened to one section five or six times.

After listening for more than ten minutes, Sun Zonglu put down the Walkman in his hand.

He looked at Sun Qin and said, Is this piece specially written for the Forbidden City?

Sun Qin gave a thumbs up and then slapped him in the face, If I didn't say that you are the team leader, you would even be able to hear this.

Sun Zonglu smiled. This song has such a strong palace flavor. Combined with Sun Qin's sampling, it is naturally easy to associate it with the Forbidden City.

Team leader, are you satisfied with this piece? Sun Qin asked again.

Sun Zonglu did not immediately express his opinion.

If you simply ask him if this piece of music is good, the answer is simple. He will immediately answer: yes.

This piece of music is really good, very narrative, and it fits very well with the Forbidden City.

But the problem is that it only fits with elements such as the Forbidden City. The Aftertaste of Yanjing that Sun Qin is currently producing not only has materials from the Forbidden City, but also many modern and life-oriented materials. These materials are similar to those of the Forbidden City. The music doesn't fit.

Sun Zonglu didn't speak at this time, thinking whether he could cut out a section from this piece of music and put it on the Forbidden City material in Aftertaste of Yanjing.

But after thinking for a while, Sun Zonglu shook his head helplessly.

This song has a strong sense of narrative. If a short section in the middle was forcibly cut out, the effect would be much worse, which would be a very regrettable thing.

In addition, if the most magnificent section in the middle is put in, how should the other material be scored? When the Forbidden City material is put together with other materials, it will definitely look very out of sync.

Seeing that Sun Zonglu was silent and shaking his head, Sun Qin also became nervous and asked cautiously, Team leader, what do you think of this song Memory of the Forbidden City?

When he heard that the title of the song was Memory of the Forbidden City, Sun Zonglu frowned even more tightly, Sun Qin, you are posing a problem for me.

ah?

Sun Zonglu sighed slightly, This piece of music definitely cannot be included in Aftertaste of Yanjing. The film is too short...

Before Sun Zonglu could finish speaking, Sun Qin hurriedly said, Team leader, we can increase the duration of Aftertaste of Yanjing. Didn't Director Liu and his team's Streets finally extend it from seven minutes to half an hour? ? We can also...if that doesn't work, we can also change the original theme to the Forbidden City theme...

At the end, Sun Qin's voice became softer and weaker as he spoke, and he became less and less confident. He knew that extending the time was already very troublesome, and directly changing the topic would be even more troublesome.

Sun Zonglu looked at Sun Qin with a smile, It turns out that you don't know that this piece of music is not suitable for Aftertaste of Yanjing, but you are just trying to modify the theme.

After Sun Zonglu revealed what he was thinking, Sun Qin stopped covering up and said openly, Team leader, I feel that it would be a pity not to use this piece of music. If the topic cannot be revised, the time will be extended to twenty Just a few more minutes.

Sun Zonglu shook his head, It is impossible to extend the time. This piece of music is too catchy. Putting it in will affect the display of other materials.

You have to give up and gain something. Sun Qin couldn't help but said.

Sun Zonglu rubbed his pen, and then said in a deep voice, No need to change, no need to change. We will add another topic, called Memory of the Forbidden City. After you go back, you will make a plan for a new plan.

I made a simple one. Sun Qin replied subconsciously.

When he decided to use Memory of the Forbidden City, Sun Qin was already ready to modify the topic, so he made a simple topic modification plan.

Sun Zonglu waved his hand and said, It can't be simple. It must be detailed and go to a meeting. The more detailed the better. After you're done, show it to me.

Sun Qin rubbed his hands and said, Then do we still want to continue the project Aftertaste of Yanjing?

Sun Qin was also surprised when he heard Sun Zonglu say that he wanted to add a new topic. He had never thought of creating a new topic before.

But new topics are also very troublesome, because making new ones means there will be two.

Of course we have to do it. Aren't we almost done with the material? If you feel that working on two projects at the same time is too busy, just give the material of Aftertaste of Yanjing to Lao Liu and let him do it.

No, no need. Sun Qin waved his hands quickly, I have absolutely no problem.

His wedding dress is almost finished, so of course he cannot give it to anyone else.

Sun Zonglu nodded and said, Okay, when can you get the Memory of the Forbidden City plan in front of me?

One week, no, three days, three days later I will bring the plan. After finishing speaking, Sun Qin patted his chest again and said, Team leader, I can issue a military order to you.

I won't let you issue the military order. Sun Zonglu waved his hand and asked, Where did your song come from?

When Sun Zonglu asked about the origin of the song, Sun Qin also laughed, It's a coincidence. I took Xiao Hu and Xiao Li to the Forbidden City to shoot material before, and happened to meet Director Wang Junzheng and the others filming. At that time, their soundtrack director Also on site.”

Director Wang has a new play recently.

Well, it's called Heaven Replies, and it's finished now.

“Who is their score director?”

Zhou Yan.

Sun Zonglu thought for a moment and didn't remember who Zhou Yan was, but it was normal. There were so many people who made music, but not many were really famous, so naturally he didn't know a few of them.

So, you just let others help you score the music?

Sun Qin shook his head, I really didn't take the soundtrack seriously at first, but when Director Wang said that she modified the originally planned shots for the music Zhou Yan wrote for the movie, I became curious and went to listen to that music. . That piece of music caught my ear immediately, and then I went to Yangyin to find Zhou Yan.

Is he Yang Yin's teacher? Sun Zonglu asked.

Sun Qin shook his head again, He is a student of the composition department, and this piece is his new semester work.

When he heard that Zhou Yan was a student of the composition department, Sun Zonglu was silent for a while. He didn't care whether the composer was a student or a teacher. He just felt a little emotional that young people today are really amazing.

But this young man came from Yangyin, which makes sense.

Sun Zonglu came into contact with a lot of students from the 77th and 78th grade students of Yangyin University. Tan Dun won the second prize in the Dresden International Weber Chamber Music Composition Competition with his string quartet Ode to Fengya before graduation.

This incident was quite sensational at the time, because Tan Dun became the first Chinese composer to win an international composition award.

At that time, Sun Zonglu was already the leader of the special team. They did a special project on this matter and even sent people to interview Tan Dun.

When Tan Dun came out to compete, it seemed quite normal for Zhou Yan to perform like this.

Sun Zonglu really wanted to meet Zhou Yan. Maybe Zhou Yan was a talented musician like Tan Dun and others.

However, the music score has not been finalized yet, so he did not mention it to Sun Qin. He just said, You can write the plan and we will discuss other matters later.

good.

Sun Qin turned around and left. At this moment, he was so motivated that he wanted to write out the plan immediately.

Don't worry. Sun Zonglu called him from behind, You don't want this Walkman anymore.

Sun Qin patted his forehead. He had to return the Walkman to Zhou Yan.

…

After the music was recorded, Zhou Yan also had to prepare for the performance of his semester works. Their 88-level end-of-semester concert was finally scheduled for June 8, with two weeks left.

Zhou Yan's work has been finished, so he is not in a hurry. He has not been busy with his own work these two days. He has been guiding the works of 88-level students.

On Saturday afternoon, Jia Guoping came back from outside. Seeing Zhou Yanzheng reading a book very comfortably, he asked curiously, Have you finished your semester project? Why do you look so idle?

Zhou Yan raised his head and smiled, Basically, it's almost done.

Jia Guoping asked strangely, I don't know how you prepared. Is this done? Have all the musicians been found? How many people are there?

Including myself, four people. Zhou Yan replied.

Four? Jia Guoping frowned. He felt it was a bit less.

In fact, for the semester's new works concert, four instruments are not too few, and there are also many solos and duets by other students.

But Zhou Yan's situation is different. Zhou Yan is a genius who wrote multiple movement symphonies in the third grade. His semester works cannot be too simple.

Four what instruments? String quartet?

Zhou Yan shook his head, It's piano, violin, electronic synthesizer and jazz drums.

Jia Guoping was stunned, what kind of combination is this?

He knew a little bit about jazz drums, but he didn't know anything about electronic synthesizers.

You asked me before if anyone at school plays drums, just for the semester project?

Yeah. Zhou Yan nodded.

Jia Guoping pondered for a while and said, Zhou Yan, I don't know much about electronic synthesizers and jazz drums, so it's hard to comment. But if the four instruments you mentioned are put together on stage, the visual effect will definitely be worse. If If you can use traditional instruments, let’s try to use traditional instruments.”

I have also considered this, but traditional instruments cannot achieve the effect I want.

Is there a big difference in effectiveness? Jia Guoping asked.

Zhou Yan shook his head, I can't say how big it is...

Then I suggest you use traditional instruments.

Before Zhou Yan could say anything else, Jia Guoping continued, Let me tell you, don't think that your semester works don't matter. Your situation is different. This time your semester works will most likely affect your graduation time.

What? Zhou Yan looked surprised.

Jia Guoping nodded, Well, you are originally in the fourth grade, and your academic level is high. As long as your work performs well this semester, the department may let you graduate directly with the 87th class next year, without having to wait another year. .”

Did you hear what anyone said? Zhou Yan asked.

Jia Guoping did not go into details, only said, It's the news inside.

Zhou Yan nodded. Jia Guoping was now considered a teacher in the department, so he could know some information that ordinary students did not know.

Thinking about it carefully, if the department is really willing to let him graduate with the 1987 class, this semester's work is indeed very important.

Because he is now in the class of 1988, graduating with the class of 87 means graduating early, and graduating early requires going through the process in advance.

The Class of ’87 graduates next summer, so he needs to apply at the end of this semester or the beginning of next semester, and the results will be available by the end of next semester.

During this period, the concert of new works this semester is the most important.

Zhou Yan also sat up straight when he heard that he hoped to graduate with the Class of 1987.

Jia Guoping is right. If Memory of the Forbidden City is performed according to its original version, no matter what the music itself is, the visual effect will be completely insufficient.

If you want the visual effect to be good, you must add more instruments. This is no problem, because without the use of electronic synthesizers, playing this song would require adding a lot of instruments.

The key problem is that there are only two weeks left before the 88-level new work concert. He needs to find all the musicians and let them cooperate with him to win Memory of the Forbidden City in a short time. This step is very difficult. .

Of course, there is another way, which is for Zhou Yan to find a mature orchestra outside and let them play his own music.

There are very few domestic bands that can do private work, and even if there were, Zhou Yan couldn't afford to hire one.

It may not cost much to hire an orchestra to play a piece of music, but it is different to hire an orchestra to accompany you to practice a piece of music you have written for two weeks. The price will be many times higher.

Jia Guoping saw that Zhou Yan was silent and asked, What are you hesitating about?

Zhou Yan answered truthfully, I was thinking that there might not be enough time. It takes time to find musicians, and it also takes time to practice and adjust.

Jia Guoping nodded, Time is really tight, but it's not hopeless. What instruments do you need?

Quite a few, one piano, six violins, four violas, four cellos, four double basses...

Before Zhou Yan could finish speaking, Jia Guoping interrupted him, Stop, stop, stop, stop, even though this semester's work is very important to you, you can't be so exaggerated. Even our graduation works can't match this configuration. Besides, Well, your semester work will be performed in the classroom. With the configuration you just mentioned, the small stage in the classroom won’t even fit in. I suggest reducing it to one or two.”

Then it's just the same one, but there are still quite a few.

Jia Guoping nodded, The time is a bit tight, but it's okay to work harder. You can do the flute yourself, and I'll do the piano... I'm too busy at this time, so I'll find Zhang Xinning from the piano department for you.

Zhou Yan blinked his eyes and said, Are you really looking for senior sister because of me?

Jia Guoping felt a little embarrassed at first, and then said with a straight face, If not for you, for whom else, do you want to graduate early?

Yes, of course. I'm worried that Senior Sister Zhang will have too many classes and won't be able to handle it.

She's fine now. She doesn't have many classes.

The reason why Zhou Yan made fun of Jia Guoping was because there was a bit of ambiguity between Jia Guoping and Zhang Xinning.

Zhang Xinning is from the 86 Piano Department. After graduating from her undergraduate degree last year, she stayed at the Affiliated Middle School of her school to teach piano. Because of her, Jia Guoping went to the Affiliated Middle School whenever he had something to do.

Afterwards, the two discussed which musicians they wanted to find, and after roughly deciding on them, they split up to look for them.

The two were very efficient and found all the musicians in just two days.

In fact, the main reason is that Jia Guoping has a wide network of contacts, and he helped find most of them.

After getting the musicians, Zhou Yan took the time to take them to practice and get used to it.

…

Time flies so fast, June 8th arrives in the blink of an eye.

At early eight o'clock in the morning, the classroom of the Composition Department was already very busy. In addition to students from the Composition Department, there were also many students from other departments who came to help with the performance.

Everyone's mentality is quite relaxed. Although the semester's new works concert is also very important, the audience is only classmates and teachers from their own classes, and the teachers will not come.

The main reason is that the head teacher Li Bingyang is here, and Li Bingyang doesn't care much about the students' homework, so the students don't have any pressure in front of Li Bingyang.

Zhou Yan's mentality is also good. Although the time is tight, everyone has cooperated very well during this period. They had the last rehearsal yesterday and everyone performed very well.

When he arrived at the composition department classroom, Jia Guoping and Zhang Xinning were already standing at the door.

Senior sister, you came so early. Our performance is the last one, so you can come later.

Zhou Yan's performance was arranged last, not because Zhou Yan was great, but because he repeated a grade.

Zhang Xinning said with a smile, Anyway, it's Saturday, I don't have anything else to do, so I came over early to have a look. Your department's semester concert of new works is quite popular.

Zhou Yan glanced at Jia Guoping next to him and joked, I asked why Lao Jia didn't wait for me to have dinner with him this morning. It turned out that he was going to pick up his senior sister.

Jia Guoping blushed and hurriedly defended, I got up early in the morning, so I came here first.

Understood. Zhou Yan smiled, then saw Yu Ran and Fang Xiu walking towards this side, and waved, Junior sister, this way.

When the two junior sisters saw Zhou Yan and the others, they also smiled and walked over quickly.

Yu Ran is the violinist today, while Fang Xiu is in charge of the cello. There is also a viola that they helped find, but it hasn't arrived yet.

After coming over, the two of them greeted politely, Hello, Senior Brother Zhou Yan, Senior Brother Jia, and Senior Sister Zhang.

Zhou Yan asked: Why are you here so early?

Fang Xiu showed a meaningful smile, I wanted to come later, but I couldn't stand someone who kept urging me.

Of course the person she was talking about was Yu Ran, and Yu Ran whispered, I also want to hear other music from the concert.

Many people came one after another, including students from the composition department and the musicians they were looking for, and some from other majors came to watch the performance.

Most of the people who came knew Jia Guoping and Zhou Yan, and they all came to say hello to them.

Zhang Xinning has participated in several semester new works concerts of the Composition Department before. He was a little surprised to see so many people coming, There seem to be a lot of people today.

The Composition Department’s semester-long concert of new works will indeed attract students from other departments, but there won’t be too many people, and most of the people will go to the concert for fourth- and fifth-year students.

Like this semester, the performance of the graduation works of the 86 class and the concert of the new works of the 87 class will definitely attract more attention, because the works of the senior students will be more mature and exciting.

Jia Guoping said with a smile, Mainly because more people came to listen to Memory of the Forbidden City.

He was right. Many people came to listen to Memory of the Forbidden City today. It's not that Memory of the Forbidden City has become famous in the school. It's just that Zhou Yan hired a lot of musicians for this performance, and these musicians When they want to perform on stage, their friends will naturally come to see them.

Especially for those who are relatively famous in the department, such as Yu Ran, many boys are willing to watch her performances.

There are also some who are targeting Zhou Yan, such as those from the 87 Composition Department, and there are quite a few here today.

By 8:50, everyone had entered the classroom one after another. Li Bingyang and the other two teachers had also arrived, and the first student to perform was already preparing on the stage.

At this moment, department chair Shi Wanchun walked in with an old man in his sixties.

Seeing the two of them, Li Bingyang, who was sitting in the front row, stood up immediately, followed by Zhou Yan and the others.

The person who came with Shi Wanchun was none other than Wu Zuqiang, the previous principal of Yangyin.

Although Wu Zuqiang left office in 1988, he still participates in school activities and most students know him.

Principal Wu, Director Shi, why are you here free? Li Bingyang asked in surprise.

Wu Zuqiang said with a smile, Are you going to start?

Not yet, it will start soon.

The two of them did not answer Li Bingyang's question, and Li Bingyang did not dare to continue asking, and quickly asked the two of them to sit down.

Li Bingyang was not surprised when Wan Chun came over. Everyone in the play knew that Zhou Yan was Director Shi's favorite.

His protégé was going to perform on stage today, so it was normal for Shi Wanchun to come over to see him.

I just don’t know why Wu Zuqiang is here too.

As soon as the two of them came over, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly changed.

Xu Lang, who was sitting in the second row, was chatting with Shen Huaigang next to him with a playful smile. Now his body became very upright, as if he had been filled with cement.

The other students were not much better. They all sat upright and did not dare to make any unnecessary noise.

If they could talk, they would definitely ask why Shi Wanchun and Wu Zuqiang came together?

At this time, the originally relaxed and happy semester new work scene became tense and serious.

Not only the composition students were nervous, but also the students from other departments who were pulled over by the composition students to help perform the works. After all, they were the ones performing on the stage.

When Zhou Yan saw Shi Wanchun and Wu Zuqiang coming over, he had basically confirmed the authenticity of the news revealed by Jia Guoping.

He couldn't help but sigh, Shi Wanchun was so selfless, and he didn't even tell him about this kind of thing in advance.

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