294 Nostalgia (2/2)

Then, the oboes played the melodious part, filled with mixed joy and sorrow. The melody seized the audience's heart.

Christopher felt that he was in a dream. For a moment, he felt that he was brought back to his small hometown. He wondered whether the classic two-storey buildings still looked the same old and a bit gloomy, and whether the ghost stories were still being told. He also wanted to know if the river running along the town wall was still that clear and if the apple tree in front of his old place could still produce fruits… and also, whether the lady he admired when young now had wrinkles all over her face just like him, and whether his families were still visiting their ancestors' graves…

The melody brought Christopher great nostalgia like never before.

Betty, Joanna, and Simon also lost in their thoughts listening to the music. They thought of the mountains and winding roads in Djibouti, as well as the horrifying stories about those necromancers. They missed their childhood friends, their parents, and their old house…

Betty and Joanna's eyes started to get full of tears. They suddenly wanted to go back home.

The music reminded Joel and Alisa of the small town in the south, the patio that carried their love story, and even trees and stones there. They still remembered the moss in the corner of the stone wall and the taste of the cuisines…

In the music, Grace saw Sturk. She saw the stone bridges over the rivers, the boats with a pointed tip, and the wax statues in the museums. Also, she saw her parents who were getting old day by day and her elder brother, who labored all day…

In the weeping-like beautiful melody, all of the people present, no matter nobles, musicians, businessmen or common folks, had been overwhelmed by the great sense of nostalgia.

Many of them had tears in their eyes.

Then, the first theme of the symphony slowly pulled people back to reality—the reality that they were all alone in a strange place by themselves.

The violin ended the second movement with the chord.

There was no applause. People were silent. People were lost in their thoughts and their own memory of the past.

The third movement burst out the great passion that was full of different colors, bringing people the beauty and charm of the new country.

Then the fourth movement was grand and exciting, and it reviewed all the previous themes again with the movement's unique power—the power from people's wish to go back home and the belief that they would go back home one day, with a better life!

Like a flowing river, the fourth movement ended the symphony in joy and hope.

And the new country slowly faded away.

The strong feelings in the symphony won the heart of everyone present. Thunder-like applause burst out of the crowd. And people started to cheer for the young musician and the symphony.

The applause just would not stop. Lucien had to keep bowing to the audience.

People were still applauding, although their hands felt numb, and their faces were covered with tears.

Lucien's music expressed the nostalgia and their wish to go back home for them!

Christopher said to Othello, Victor, and Natasha in a gentle voice, ”Tomorrow, I want to go back to my hometown to take a look.”

After pausing a bit, Christopher added, ”This is the most touching lento I've ever heard in a symphony, and I forgot to focus on the structure… Maybe when a person gets old, he misses his hometown even more…”