Chapter 139 (1/2)

Volume 4 / Chapter 139

TL: LightNovelCafe

[TN: Hump Dayyyy! CONDUCTOR JH! Impressing professors everywhere!]

Over 10 professors who were acting as judges came to realize that what the students had told them was true. Only 17 people came on stage with Jun Hyuk as conductor.

When they confirmed that it was true, their faces were not much different from that of the orchestra members the day before. They had a lot of questions, but they heard the response with music.

Jun Hyuk and the orchestra greeted the judges and started performing right away.

They played Symphony No. 40 at a molto allegro (very fast) tempo from the introduction without losing tension. With a breathtaking dire viola as the start to the appearance of the treble and bass as though drawing a parabola, it was so fast that they could not feel that 7 minutes had gone by.

It is a song from the 18th century, but it broke down existing forms so much that it is as though Mozart left the song for the 20th century.

When Jun Hyuk finished performing and looked toward the judges, someone spoke,

“Orchestra, please wait backstage.”

The star of the audition is the conductor. There is no reason for the orchestra to listen to what they think about the conductor.

“Jun, can you tell us the reason why you created a 17 member orchestra?”

It is the first question he had expected.

“It was just a measure I took to bring out the best music.”

“A measure for the best music?”

“Yes. You presented me with young students with individuality and only gave me a day’s time.”

They had expected for there to be a special reason, but Jun Hyuk’s response was simple that it was due to a shortage of time.

“A day is too little to tune and match tones for 60 students with varying skills of different schools. How can you make extreme changes to Mozart’s symphony? Not even a conductor at the top can accomplish this.”

“Are you saying that’s why you reduced it?”

“Because we can prevent the same instruments from conflicting at the least.”

“You didn’t have the thought that the sound might weaken because there is such an extreme reduction in the instruments?”

It was hard to distinguish which professor was asking the questions because the seats were so dark. Jun Hyuk looked where he heard the sound coming from, and responded,

“It is okay. Since the seats are completely empty anyway, all of the factors that would absorb the sound are gone….. Professors, aren’t you sitting in the very front seats? Even if the sound is weakened, didn’t you all hear it precisely?”

“Then this is the last question. Your performance sounded like the tempo and sense conflicted a bit. Please explain the reason for that.”

Jun Hyuk could tell that the question was from Professor Hirani by the voice. He laughed slightly because he remembered how Professor Hirani had asked him his interpretation of songs countless times.

Jun Hyuk expressed his interpretation of the song in brief words,

“It was because it is an uneasy race.”

There was the sound of low lamenting to Jun Hyuk’s answer.

“An uneasy race…..”

“Yes. Mozart wrote this song 3 years before he passed away. He was suffering under extreme poverty and he did not even guard his wife’s side. He wrote the song with that feeling so even though it’s a fast-paced song, it doesn’t have to be light-hearted.”