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"I don't know how to describe it, but I feel that when I close my eyes, I can really feel how severe the blizzard is. After the extreme depression and silence, the feeling of the sky clearing up after the rain is so warm."
Comfortable
If I have to give an evaluation, it is comfortable! It is refreshing!
"Anyway, it's great! Very impressive! Although it has some flaws overall, there are no problems with the main parts, especially the violinist, whose technique is so good that I once doubted that it was not played by a high school student."
Komuro Teru patted his friend on the back with satisfaction and said with a smile:
"This is the most important power in music! It seems you have understood something."
Kawabata Masahiko glanced at his friend's Walkman, frowned, and asked, "Are you sure this is played by the Tachibana Kita Wind Ensemble?"
"Of course. I listened to it over a hundred times yesterday. I specially put it on my Walkman. What do you think?"
"No wonder you were so anxious to come and listen yesterday."
Then, Komuro Teru played Tachibana Kita's previous performance at the Nakajima Festival for Kawabata Masahiko to listen to, first listening to the performance at the county competition and then the performance at the Nakajima Festival.
Although the Nakajima Festival was because the band was playing while walking, one could still clearly feel that the level of the Tachibana Kita Wind Ensemble had improved significantly in the county competition.
After listening to all the songs, Kawabata Masahiko also began to sigh.
This, this is Hokkaido’s rising star!
"Jubei is very good, why isn't he famous?"
"That's why I'm not famous!" complained Komuro Teru.
"Because the competition was too small, there was no media coverage? Do you think they will improve this time?"
"I think it will."
This was Komuro Teru's answer, but he was actually unsure.
Because the performance of wind music itself is prone to performance problems from time to time, and sometimes a single missing detail may affect the overall performance.
"It's useless to speculate now, let's just wait for the game to start."
"Well, what's the date, Ju Bei?"
"Number 8, it will probably be their turn this afternoon."
"clear."
The two then began to wait patiently for Tachibana Kita to appear.
The competition officially started at nine in the morning. The two looked at the official performance order: Sapporo City Kitaryo High School, Hakodate Chuo High School, Tomakomai Suimei High School, and Seijo Women's College.
It lasted until team No. 6, and the morning's performance was over.
"How do you feel?" asked Komuro Teru.
"Except for the Saint, the performance of other schools is pretty normal."
Komuro Teru sighed.
The Saint’s performance was indeed outstanding, and her selected song “The Triumph of Angels” fully demonstrated the performance level and momentum of the Saint’s Academy.
Other schools say they are average, but they are just average.
The performance was the same as in previous years. There was nothing surprising or much improvement. One listen told you that they would be runners-up again this year.
At noon, the two took a short break in a hall near the venue, had a quick meal, and then slipped back to the concert hall to wait for the afternoon competition to begin.
The first show in the afternoon is from Jiangbie Qingfeng from Jiangbie City.
Otherwise, very normal.
And in the second game, it was finally the turn of the team No. 8 that the two had been looking forward to - Taisho Tachibana Kita First Private High School from Otaru City, the former financial center of Hokkaido!
"I saw."
"Who did you see?"
"The girl with the teardrop mole in the Tachibana North Wind Band."
"Hey, Komuro."
"Don't let your imagination run wild. I mean, her violin skills are far superior to those of her peers. I particularly like her solos, just like I like Beethoven and Schubert. And look at that girl's temperament. Do you think she is from an ordinary family?"
Kawabata Masahiko glanced at the stage and knew who Komuro Teru was talking about almost immediately. He nodded in agreement, "That's right."
And why did he feel that the girl looked a little familiar?
It's like when you follow your parents to some important large-scale tea party and meet the children of some important person.
The Hokkaido representative competition is a regional competition.
The attention it received was second only to the national competition. As soon as this young team came on stage, all kinds of cameras started taking pictures of everyone in the audience.
"So many people?! It's completely different from the county competition."
"Chitose, didn't Mr. Fujii tell you not to talk secretly when you are on stage in front of the audience?"
When Yang Kui Qiansui heard that it was Jiuhuayue's voice, she immediately turned around and made a face at her.
Fujii Itsuki looked at them in front of the team, frowned quickly, and then asked everyone to bow to the audience.
Later, the forty or fifty people in the entire club all took up their positions that had been prepared in advance.
Before the performance officially begins, the atmosphere is tense anyway.
The bigger the game, the more so.
Fujii Itsuki stood in front of the team in a suit with a serious look. He waited until all the classmates looked at him, then quietly raised his arm.
When the members saw the teacher's movements, they took a deep breath at the same time, just like they did during normal practice. The moment the Party's baton swung downward, the gorgeous sound of the trumpet poured out from the mouthpiece.
The flowing main melody opens the curtain, as if blending perfectly with the air.
Just listen to the first part!
Just this first part!
Komuro Teru in the audience was extremely excited. Before he even heard the performance of that female classmate, he knew that Taisho Tachibana was sure to win this competition!
Absolutely stable!
Chapter 256 A new star shines in Hokkaido!
The venue of the Hokkaido representative competition.
NHK Hokkaido reporter Shinichi Sato was staring at the computer screen in a daze, and the coffee on the table had already cooled down.
As a senior cultural journalist, he had already listened to the morning performance of the Hokkaido competition.
There are six teams in total.
To be honest, it's rubbish!
Of course, this is not to say that other people’s schools are rubbish or that their students are bad.
But as a reporter, he couldn't find any explosive headlines in the news!
Everyone's performance was just average.
The Saints still outperformed the other schools, and the other schools were just as good as in previous years.
The level hasn't changed at all!
How to write something that doesn’t change?
Should I write a negative report like "Hokkaido schools have made no progress compared to previous years!"?
He wanted to write this.
But my boss doesn't allow it.
As a journalist for NHK's Hokkaido branch, his responsibility is to convey positive values to the public.
Negative emotions are something that only tabloids write about. You absolutely cannot write about them in my job!
Ah, forget it.
Let’s go eat first.
After dinner, look at your morning notes again and think about it again.
Shinichi Sato is a typical Hokkaido person. The taste of Hakodate is similar to that of other cities in Hokkaido. Since most of them are by the sea, they prefer seafood, especially squid, crabs, scallops and sea urchins.
At noon, he randomly found a restaurant near the venue to eat paella.
While he was eating, he suddenly heard someone discussing today's representative competition next to him.
Sato Shinichi looked to the side and saw two men in their thirties. He listened from the side.
Both of them commented that the performance level in the morning was not good and there was no change compared to previous years.
Shinichi Sato nodded in approval, that's right.
It seems that these two people have been paying attention to the Hokkaido Wind Instrument Competition for a long time.
Sato Shinichi continued to listen, and the two chatted until they talked about the afternoon game that had not yet started.
One of them seemed to be particularly concerned about a team in the afternoon, Taisho Tachibana Kita.
Taisho Tachibana No. 1 Private Academy?
Out of professional habit, Shinichi Sato immediately took out a small notebook and wrote it down.
He knows this school.
It's an old institution, but it's not good at all in terms of wind instruments.
Haven't heard of them in almost ten years.
This time, I unexpectedly came to Hakodate to participate in the competition.
How could two old audiences be optimistic about an unknown school?
Shinichi Sato put down his chopsticks and became a little curious.
After finishing his meal, he rushed back to the lounge provided by the competition officials for their reporters and began to look up information about Ju Bei.