Chapter 53 (1/2)
Volume 1 / Chapter 53
TL: LightNovelCafe
Jo Hyung Joong could not spend all of his time on Jun Hyuk. He needed to listen to the two people practicing with zeal in the next room.
“Jun Hyuk, let’s work together again tomorrow. Can you make a score for the orchestra that goes along with the piano song you just played and bring it?”
“Yes, I’ll write that too.”
“Okay. Then watch other people practice here. You can watch the MIDI operations you’re interested in.”
They were not recording formal tracks. They needed to get used to their voices in the mic and practice their mission songs thoroughly.
The future stars dragged home their bodies exhausted from practicing until it was night. They had just completed their schedules that were packed from 7am to 10pm. They could not even go to sleep right away. They needed to show the vocal trainer and producer something better the next day. They needed to find what they were lacking.
Jun Hyuk sat at the desk and started writing out scores. Kwak Hye Sung watched enthralled as the notes filled the pages.
“Jun Hyuk, is this classical?”
“No. It’s an arrangement of the orchestra that’ll go in my mission song.”
“Looks complicated.”
“This is pretty simple… I’m going to use around 16 instruments, so it’s not that complicated.”
“I’m jealous. Really.”
Jun Hyuk put his pen down and looked at Kwak Hye Sung,
“What do you envy?”
“Your talent. Not everyone can create a song that a 16-person orchestra will play.”
“Not everyone can sing like you sir do.”
“You’re calling me sir again. Oy, forget it.”
Jun Hyuk did not use the nominals ‘brother, sister’ that everyone in the dorms used comfortably. Older men were ‘sir,’ ‘there’ or ‘excuse me’.
Jun Hyuk made everyone uncomfortable because it was difficult to become friendly with him, but they gradually became used to interacting with him at a distance.
“Anyway, what good is it if my range is wide. Teacher Jo said it too, I can’t bring out the emotion in the lyrics.”
The emotion in lyrics… Kwak Hye Sung saw Jun Hyuk smirk and spoke,
“Why are you laughing? Is it weird?”
“I guess you understand all of the lyrics of a pop song? Even when it’s in English?”
“That’s not it.”
“But you still like the song. There are times when we become so emotional we cry even if we can’t understand the lyrics. The lyrics are a problem for later.”
Kwak Hye Sung went next to Jun Hyuk in order to hear him well while Lee Hae Jun laid on his bed pretending not to listen.
“Have you seen Shawshank Redemption?”
“The movie? The one with Tim Robbins?”
“Yes. The one where he comes out with an old black man.”
“I saw that. It was really good.”
“In that movie, the main character turns on opera in the prison broadcast studio. The soprano duet so everyone in the prison can hear.”
“Oh… That scene?”
Kwak Hye Sung remembered the scene where all of the prisoners stared at the speakers.
“Do you know what that song is?”
“Mozart?”
“Yes. It’s ‘Letter Duet’ from Mozart’s opera ‘Marriage of Figaro’. What did you think of it?”
“Wow- it was just like the movie itself. The melody… angels, freedom… that kind of feeling?”
“Right. There’s a narration by the old black man as that music comes out, ‘That song must be about freedom. It was like birds had left their cage and flew over the prison walls, freedom…’.”
Kwak Hye Sung was taking in Jun Hyuk’s every word. Even Lee Hae Jun had gotten up at some point and was sitting at the edge of his bed to listen.
“But do you know what those lyrics really mean? That duet is like this; it’s a scene of a countess speaking as a maid writes out the letter. That’s why the title is Letter’s Duet.”
“Letter?”