Chapter 108 Warm-up for the music festival
——It seems that I have been overtaken by the red, scratching my head, as I said before, I don't think there is anything, I am very satisfied with everyone's support, the new book month is only seven days, and it is still a long time.
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April 3rd, Aalto Festival.
On the melodious and noisy streets full of melodic echoes, Lucian is not always dressed in formal clothes or dresses as usual, but a simple brown-red long coat, a white shirt with black trousers, and slip-ons, wandering around comfortably, followed by Evan dressed as a gentleman.
Joel and Alyssa wanted to relive their youthful date, so they entrusted Evan to Lucian's care, and Victor was busy with hospitality, salons, and banquets these days because many foreign nobles, musicians, and musician friends came, and Phyllis, Lott, etc., as his students, were of course happy to help him share the busyness and participate in this kind of party, after all, extensive connections also play an important role for musicians, but considering the pressure of Lucian as the final concert, they all tacitly did not invite Lucian. Let him prepare with peace of mind.
While Natasha wants to entertain a distinguished guest like Prince Michele, she also wants to care about her lover Sylvia's concert, temporarily forgetting Lucian, a "bad friend", and Elena naturally can't get out when the Musicians Association is so busy.
Originally, Lucian thought that at least John was a good friend, but who knew that due to lack of manpower, John was transferred to maintain law and order on the streets.
"I didn't expect that on such a romantic occasion as a music festival, I would have to bring my children." Lucian reluctantly glanced at Evan who had been holding food in his hand and his mouth was wriggling, and spread his hands at John on the street, "This is really a sad story."
Evan focused on the food and ignored Lucian's complaints at all, while John, who was maintaining law and order on the street, couldn't help but laugh: "Lucian, aren't there a few noble ladies who invite you? For example, Miss Yvette from the Hill family."
After nearly half a year of training by Sir Wayne, John's temperament became more calm, and his brilliant blonde hair maintained the right length, paired with silver-gray chain mail, making him look handsome and upright.
「…… Then I'll concentrate on taking care of the children." Lucian took Avan, who didn't look at the road at all, and said goodbye to John and began to enjoy the festival.
After the festival, he would leave, and he didn't know if he would ever come back, so Lucian didn't stay at home, but took to the streets to participate in the festival "really".
Compared with the previous few days, the number of pedestrians and street performers on the street has not increased significantly, because there are already a lot of them, and the biggest change is that those bands who still have to rent a house to hold concerts are all starting to express their musical dreams when they create an open space on the street.
And what makes Evan and the other children most satisfied is the food stalls placed on the street, there are pies, cheese, barbecues, cakes and desserts, etc.
In the center of the street, floats slowly drove by, pulled by bull-like four-horned creatures, and on top were some famous bands showing their music.
In such an atmosphere, Lucian took Evan to walk casually, occasionally seeing a concert hall, he walked in directly, listened quietly to the previous paragraph, then smiled out, and wandered around the street again, and then repeated the previous process, doing whatever he wanted, free and easy, without any constraints, forgetting all his troubles and depressions.
In the Aalto Music Festival, except for the Psalm Hall, the prices of all concert halls are extremely cheap, often four or five copper nars can go in and listen to it for an afternoon, and there are even many concert halls, because they want to be famous "musicians" and orchestras pay for themselves, and they can listen for free.
This is a music festival that belongs to everyone.
Near noon, Lucian took Evan to find a lively and less chaotic restaurant on the street.
"Brother Lucian, look at ......" As he was about to enter the door, Evan pointed to the words on the large wooden sign at the door and said, "Dear guest, in order to celebrate our common music festival, as long as you are willing to perform in the restaurant, we will waive half of your meal fee, and if your performance is applauded by everyone, you will have a free lunch or dinner."
Under the teachings of Lucian and John, Evan was able to barely recognize words.
Lucian smiled and said: "The owner of this restaurant is really generous, but only by dining in such a restaurant can you experience the atmosphere of the music festival."
Walking into the restaurant, under the guidance of the waitress, Lucian and Evan finally found a small table, and other places were already crowded.
Ordering two lemon steaks, Lucian sat in his seat, smiling and looking at the stage in the center of the restaurant, where an old gentleman was struggling to play the piano, it was obvious that he had not learned this instrument, and the notes were bursting out in a mess, which could be called noise.
However, the old man played very seriously, as if he was playing his own concert.
When he finished, the entire restaurant erupted in applause, for his courage and persistence, for the joy of participating in the festival.
"This gentleman will have his lunch for free!" The restaurant owner, a man in his thirties wearing glasses, clapped vigorously and said, "Which gentleman below will go up and perform?"
No one laughed, only encouraged, and this atmosphere infected many people, so more and more diners went up to play violin, viola, piano, flute and other musical instruments, so that the melody of the music always echoed in the house.
Although the applause of the old gentleman did not appear again, but more of an encouraging nature, for those performers, such an occasion was like holding a concert themselves, and they received great satisfaction from their dreams, plus half of the meal was waived, and everyone was very satisfied and elated.
Lucian, like Evian, was eating steak while blending into this lively and cheerful atmosphere, and applauded vigorously after each performer.
The enthusiasm of this restaurant attracted more and more pedestrians to dine in.
They quickly immersed themselves in the atmosphere, and even if some didn't have seats, they would rather watch from the side with their plates.
After a morning of performances, Fiora and Sharon were looking for food and noticed this strange restaurant.
"Oh, Piola, go up and perform!" Leslie figured out what was going on, and immediately encouraged Piora to go up, and he wanted to try it himself.
Piola did not refuse, walked up excitedly, played the violin, and a light and enthusiastic waltz slowly unfolded with the melody, making everyone can't help but hum and sway, pushing the already lively atmosphere to an even more fiery one.
The tidal wave of applause overwhelmed Piola, who had never received such a level of popularity, and was so excited that he played another song before leaving the stage.
"This handsome young man, along with his companions, will enjoy a free lunch." The boss wasted no time in announcing it and received huge cheers.
Lilith and Sara happily enjoyed the morning's music festivities in Aalto, and were attracted by the huge cheers, curiously walked in to eat, and were later conquered by the atmosphere.
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Lucian put down his knife and fork, looked at Evan who could no longer eat, and smiled: "I told you not to eat so much a long time ago."
"But I can't help but see those delicious foods." Evan looked at the remaining half of the steak sadly, asked the receptionist to help wrap it up, and then he said with great interest: "Brother Lucian, you can also go up and play a song, so you don't have to pay the bill!"
In his opinion, as a musical genius, Brother Lucian will undoubtedly receive the warmest applause.
After hearing Evian's suggestion, he was suddenly a little moved, in an occasion where he didn't know who he was, without copying famous songs, could he be welcomed by his own musical ability alone?
So Lucian stood up and walked towards the simple stage arranged in the center of the hall.
"Oh, another handsome young man is going to perform." The restaurateur was the first to welcome him.
The others put down their knives and forks and applauded.
When Lilith saw Lucian walking onto the stage, she almost dropped the plate containing bread, butter, and roast meat to the ground, and whispered to Sara: "Mr. Evans?"
She couldn't believe it.
"It's indeed Mr. Evans, but isn't he going to prepare for the last day of the concert?" Sara confirmed Lilith's judgment, full of doubts.
Lilith immediately became excited: "No matter why Mr. Evans is here, it's the most wonderful thing to hear him play in person!"
Piora on the other side also recognized Lucian and smiled at Grace: "It's the gentleman with high musical literacy, I don't know how he plays?"
"It shouldn't be bad." Grace and Sharon replied with a smile at the same time.
Lucian sat down at the piano, put his hands on the keys, and recalled a light music melody he had composed.
Lucian does not yet have the ability to compose large-scale and well-structured classical music, but in his spare time, he will also try to create light music with a small structure and simple melody to relax himself.
Without flipping through the Soul Library, Lucian recalled several incomplete melodies of light music he had heard in his previous life, expanded them with the musical knowledge he had learned, perfected their light structure, and composed several short and semi-original melodies of his own.
Finger press, a soothing and melodious melody is produced in the lively hall.
Like a breeze blowing through the trees in spring, like a pure spring water flowing down, the noise in the hall seems to be infected, slowly calming down, and the beautiful and clear music seems to make people feel in a refreshing and natural picturesque scenery, becoming quiet.
Lucian's expression was focused and calm, his eyes slightly closed, his fingers beating gracefully on the keyboard, his body gently undulating with the melody.
Lilith looked at Lucian like this, and when she heard such music, her whole body became calm and happy, and she thought silently in her heart: "This kind of music is great, at least, at least compared to those symphonies, I prefer Mr. Evans' pure and beautiful simple melody. Uh, Mr. Evans is so elegant to play the piano."
After the extreme excitement, there will always be heartfelt exhaustion and a desire for tranquility, Lucian's light music just hit their hearts, and no one spoke in the entire hall except for the melodious and beautiful piano melody.
This melody was very short, ending in less than two minutes, and all the audience was still immersed in the atmosphere just now and did not come back to their senses, so there was no applause at all, it was extremely quiet.
Lucian was very satisfied with this reaction, walked down quickly, pulled Evan around, threw a silver gnar for hospitality, and then walked out of the restaurant.
After leaving the gate, Lucian heard a huge applause suddenly erupted in the restaurant, more eager than any time before.
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"I forgot to ask the gentleman's name again." When Piola woke up, she blamed herself in annoyance, "He must be an excellent musician."
Sharon recalled the previous performance: "The melody just now is really beautiful, and if you expand, improve and add some structure, it is a good piano sketch. Why have I never heard this melody before, hehe, until Aalto, I never know how much music I haven't heard."
She didn't think it was Lucian's composition, she just felt that the music capital was full of surprises, after all, many newly born or little-known music did not reach the "Pearl of the Sea" so quickly.
"That gentleman's playing also has an indescribable charm, and the timbre and sound quality of the piano are also very good, and I began to think about whether to give up the harpsichord." Grace was very yearning.
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"Brother Lucian, why do you want to give money?" Evan pointed to the restaurant in confusion, and he heard the very warm applause.
Lucian was about to answer when he suddenly heard someone timidly shouting from behind: "Mr. Evans."
"Is it you? Are you still in Aalto?" Lucian looked back and saw that it was Lilith and Sara, two brothers and sisters who suspected that he had a problem.
(End of this chapter)