Chapter 435 Invitation

In fact, Zhou Yan was not as confident as Huang Wencan thought. When he was writing "Xu Sanguan", he was thinking about the novel "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" and tried his best to capture the inspiration. No time to think about anything else.

Creators are most afraid of being too confused when creating and being unable to do what they want.

Sometimes, I clearly want to do this, but when I am doing it, I am worried that the audience will not buy it, so I worry about the gain and loss, and finally create a work that cannot truly express myself.

After the second prize performance, the host directly announced the last two first prize works, which were "A Hundred Years of Legend" by Su Xia and "Sun Yat-sen" by Guo Zurong.

It seems that these two pieces of music were selected for this competition, so it is not surprising that they won the first prize.

The performance of the two first prize pieces has ended, and today's concert is coming to an end.

Finally, Xu Cong, the vice chairman of the Music Association, came to the stage again, gave a concluding speech, and then announced the end.

A lot of people suddenly surrounded Zhou Yan, and everyone came to congratulate him.

Guo Wenjing came over with his third-prize medal and said with a smile, "Zhou Yan, show me the difference between the second-prize medal and our third-prize medal."

Zhou Yan smiled and handed over the medal, "Well, the color is different."

Guo Wenjing compared them and nodded, "Well, the size, thickness, and even weight are the same."

Zhou Yan smiled, these are all made from the same mold, of course they are the same.

If he guessed correctly, no matter whether it is a gold medal, a silver medal or a bronze medal, it is all copper inside, but the gold and silver medals are plated with gold and silver on the outside.

The medals are all in the same style, with a portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen on them and a line below the portrait: Yanjing Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 130th Anniversary Outstanding Composition Competition.

Not even "first prize" or "second prize" is marked.

"The shell of the second-prize certificate is different from our third-prize certificate," Huang Wencan said.

Guo Wenjing took Zhou Yan's certificate, looked at it, nodded and said, "The shell of the second prize certificate is much more exquisite. The shell alone costs several dollars, but it doesn't matter. I know the person who made the shell. , I will spend more money to package it later... and make it look like the second prize."

Seeing Guo Wenjing joking, Zhou Yan also smiled and said, "If you want to do it, don't look like a second prize. You should look like a first prize. That way you will have face when you present it."

"I don't know what the outer shell of the key first prize certificate looks like."

"It doesn't matter. Just ask Teacher Su for the certificate. If you're embarrassed, I'll shout for you."

With that said, Zhou Yan was about to call out to Su Xia who was not far away. Guo Wenjing quickly grabbed Zhou Yan and said, "You kid!"

Guo Wenjing is more afraid of Su Xia because Su Xia is his teacher.

Su Xia is one of the earliest teachers in the Composition Department of Yangyin University, and has many students. Not only Guo Wenjing is his student, but also Xu Zhenmin, who won the second prize previously, is also his student.

Zhou Yan just wanted to scare Guo Wenjing. Of course, he couldn't really call Su Xia. After being pulled by Guo Wenjing, he said with a smile, "Why don't you go back and ask Senior Brother Su to help you steal Teacher Su's certificate and show it to you?" ”

The senior brother Su he was talking about was Su Xia's son Su Cong, the same Su Cong who won the Oscar for Best Score for his co-score of "The Last Emperor".

Su Cong was also a student in the Composition Department in 1977 and 1978, and was a classmate of Guo Wenjing.

Guo Wenjing rolled his eyes, "How about you steal it for me? Isn't your dormitory upstairs from Teacher Su's house?"

"I haven't been back to my dormitory for a long time. When you said that, I remembered that I had to find time to go back and clean up."

"Let's not talk about hygiene. There is no dinner party for today's concert organizer. How about we have dinner together?"

"Are you still going out to eat at this hour?"

Guo Wenjing looked at his watch, "It's no problem to go out to eat at this time. There is a food stall near the school that is open until two or three in the morning every day. In this way, I will call Lao Tang and Lao Ye, and see if there are anyone else. Together."

As he spoke, he looked at Huang Wencan and asked Zhou Yan, "Is this your friend?"

Zhou Yan introduced, "This is teacher Huang Wencan from Shangyin."

"Oh, Teacher Huang, if you have anything to do later, let's go have a meal together?"

Huang Wencan wanted to go, but he also saw that Guo Wenjing and the others were partying together from the same school, so he shook his head and said, "You're welcome, Teacher Guo, I have to go back to the hotel soon."

Guo Wenjing was just being polite, not a sincere invitation. When Huang Wencan declined, he nodded and said, "Then let's get together next time if we have a chance."

Then he said to Zhou Yan, "I'll go find Lao Tang and Lao Ye and ask them if they want to work together. We'll meet at the entrance of the concert hall later."

"Okay." Zhou Yan nodded.

After Guo Wenjing went to find Tang Jianping and Ye Xiaogang, Zhou Yan walked towards the door and met people he knew along the way, all congratulating him.

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Zhou Yan waited at the entrance of the concert hall for a while, and Guo Wenjing, Tang Jianping and Ye Xiaogang came over.

Guo Wenjing smiled and said, "It's just us, the others won't scream."

Many of the people who came today are from their school, but the age gap between the others is too big.

Although Guo Wenjing and his friends are ten years older than Zhou Yan, they are still considered young musicians and of the same generation. Moreover, the four of them now hold similar positions in the school, so they can talk to each other.

When they arrived at the "Fat Sister Restaurant" at the school gate, before they sat down, Guo Wenjing said to the boss who was cooking at the gate, "Fat Brother, do you have fish? Make a plate of braised fish. If there are any other dishes, you can help us serve them. There are four of us in total."

Guo Wenjing should be a frequent patron of this stall and is very familiar with the boss.

The boss smiled and said, "Okay, you sit down first, I will arrange it for you in a while. What kind of wine do you want to drink today?"

"Bring two bottles of Red Star Erguotou."

"Okay."

Guo Wenjing asked Zhou Yan and the others to sit down again.

Zhou Yan looked at the tall and thin boss and asked curiously, "Brother Guo, why do you call him Fat Brother? He used to be very fat?"

Guo Wenjing said with a smile, "As far as I know, this Fat Brother has never been fat."

"Why then..."

"Because the boss's wife is Fat Sister, everyone calls the boss after her, which is a case of the wife following the husband."

"I see." Zhou Yan nodded, "It seems that you come here often."

"His shop opens late, and the food tastes good. Old Tang and Old Ye have come here with me before."

"Well, I've been here three or four times, and the boss's cooking skills are really good." Ye Xiaogang agreed.

Although it was already past nine o'clock, there were still many customers in the stall, and they all looked like students.

Those who appeared here so late were probably students of the Central Conservatory of Music.

When Zhou Yan and his friends came in, these students looked in their direction, and they should know them.

But since the students didn't take the initiative to say hello, they shouldn't be from the Composition Department.

The four of them all teach in the Composition Department, basically covering all the students in the Composition Department. If they are students of the Composition Department, they can recognize them without the students taking the initiative to say hello.

Guo Wenjing also noticed the gazes of several students, and smiled and sighed, "Students now have better living conditions. I remember when we were in school, it was not easy to go out for dinner at night."

"It's not that it's not easy to go out for dinner at night, it's not easy to go out for dinner during the day. At that time, everyone ate in the cafeteria, and even if you had money, you couldn't eat outside." Ye Xiaogang said.

When they were in school, it happened that the literary g had just ended. At that time, there were no private restaurants, let alone stalls that were open so late.

Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Don't talk about your time. When I first entered the school, the business environment outside the school was not very good. It has improved a lot in the past ten years."

"Oh, Zhou Yan, you have been in school for ten years."

"Less than ten years, more than nine years."

"We entered the school at about the same time, I was in 1985." Tang Jianping said.

"I was born in 1987."

Tang Jianping studied undergraduate at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in 1978, and later came to the Central Conservatory of Music for graduate studies in 1985. He is also the first doctoral student in composition trained by China.

"You, the class of 1987, are very good. In addition to you, Jia Guoping also performed very well in school." Ye Xiaogang said.

"There is also Li Tao." Tang Jianping said.

"Li Tao is indeed good, but his temperament is not very stable." Guo Wenjing smiled.

Ye Xiaogang rolled his eyes, "Old Guo, you said that as if you are very stable. I remember that year..."

"Can you stop talking about the past? A good man does not talk about his past achievements."

"Yeah." Ye Xiaogang nodded seriously, "A coward does not open old scars."

"Who doesn't have scars? Do you?"

"Okay, let's talk about the class of 1987. I heard students say that their class is the silver generation of our school."

"If you ask me, the silver generation is not appropriate. It should be the second golden generation... That's not appropriate either. If you say that, isn't it admitting that we are the golden generation?"

When it comes to the term "golden generation", Ye Xiaogang seems to be not very interested.

Although they say that their two classes are the golden generation, there is a big gap in the development of people. Many of his classmates have developed better than him.

Ye Xiaogang returned to school to teach in 1994. When he first returned to China, he was full of ambitions, but two years later, he felt that he was still standing still.

Especially tonight, the other three people present all won awards, but he returned empty-handed, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Back then, he was one of the eight talents in the composition department, and he was one of the best in the department along with Tan Dun, Liu Sola, and Qu Xiaosong.

Most of the eight talents are still developing abroad. He and Guo Wenjing are now teaching in schools, and his development in China is far inferior to Guo Wenjing.

In recent years, Guo Wenjing has won many awards and has become the deputy director of the composition department.

Some time ago, Ye Xiaogang also won an award, which was the first national film music award that was very popular because of Zhou Yan's award.

In that award selection, Zhou Yan's film "The Chorus" won the gold award, but his film "Date After Dusk" only won an insignificant excellent composition award, and the gap between the two was huge.

The popularity of the National Film Music Award has been so high recently, but there are not many news about his winning.

In fact, the Outstanding Composition Award of the First National Film Music Awards is not bad. It is not the same as the Excellence Awards of other awards. This award is more like a supplement to the Gold Award. It represents that the organizing committee also highly recognizes the soundtrack of "After Dusk" .

It's just that with the gold medal for "Spring of the Cowherd Class", others can't pay attention to his award.

In the past two years since he came back, Ye Xiaogang has a strong sense of gap.

Sometimes, he even doubted whether his choice to return to China was right.

He didn't just return to China because he couldn't survive abroad, but he took the initiative to return to China and teach at his alma mater.

Before returning to China the year before last year, he had just received the "Academic Outstanding Achievement Award" from the "Lee Foundation" in the United States. He had also won many awards in the United States in his early days. He could also develop well if he stayed in the United States.

Zhou Yan noticed that Ye Xiaogang's expression was a little lonely, so he changed the subject and said, "Brother Ye, have you paid more attention to movie soundtracks recently?"

"It's not that I pay attention to film scores, but there are indeed some films that have come to us for soundtracks in the past two years. I am still interested in this matter, so I took some jobs. Why do you suddenly ask this?"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "You should also know that I have a studio, right?"

"Yeah, I know." Tang Jianping nodded, "Isn't the Piano Youth Orchestra just below your studio?"

"Not only that, my studio also has a soundtrack engineering department that specializes in film soundtrack work."

"I know this. Isn't Li Tao in your studio? And Zhao Gao." Guo Wenjing said.

"Yes, Li Tao is now in charge of the soundtrack engineering department, but in addition to them, our studio has also signed many foreign aids, such as Wang Liping, Zhao Jiping and Xu Jingqing."

"These are all masters of scoring... Of course, the most powerful one is you. Previously, Su Cong won the Oscar for Best Score with "The Last Emperor", but he teamed up with Ryuichi Sakamoto and the others. In terms of gold content, it is far less valuable than you with "The Last Emperor" "Sense and Sensibility" won the Oscar for Best Score."

"I was also lucky enough to come across the movie Sense and Sensibility." Zhou Yan said modestly.

Guo Wenjing smiled and waved his hand, "Don't be so humble in front of us. The movie "Sense and Sensibility" is indeed very good. You are indeed unique in the film score."

"Not only that, he is also good at making movies." Tang Jianping continued.

"Brothers, stop teasing me. When I talked about the studio just now, I actually wanted to take this opportunity to extend an invitation to you. Do you want to sign in to my studio? I will pick up the soundtrack later. You just have to create, and the rest The studio will help you solve the following problems, which will save you a lot of worry. ”

Ye Xiaogang is not interested: "How long does it take for us to take on a job, and we don't make much money, so if you sign us over, it won't be profitable either." (End of Chapter)