Chapter 154 (1/2)
Volume 4 / Chapter 154
TL: LightNovelCafe
[TN: I’ve been having some personal issues so I haven’t been able to translate much recently…sorry about the zero ETH updates guys]
The cultural and editorial departments of influential Austrian daily newspaper ‘Die Presse’ listened to the recorder that a college student had brought them, and they knew that this is a scoop. Even outsiders to classical music become excited about secrets like this.
The recording contains the story of a masterpiece called ‘Inferno’, a mysterious composer, and world renowned maestros. The only question was whether to put it on the 1st page or to put it in the cultural section.
There are no legal issues either. They had not been tapped and this had happened during a reporter’s coverage of an event.
They had not given the informant the amount that he had asked for, but they had given him a fair amount for the value of the file. Culture reporters wrote their articles by looking for word on that day’s performance and interviewing a few maestros over the phone.
One week after the concert, ‘Die Presse’ had a headline that was enough to catch readers’ attentions.
[August 1st. Events of that Night; Why did 16 maestros gather in one place?]
[A Korean student at Clayton-Hoffman School of Music, just 19 years old, is the person who made countless maestros rack their brains for about 2 years.
A leading philharmonic in the world made an attempt at his Symphony No. 1 and though they failed, he had the honor to premiere with the Berlin Philharmonic. Of course the person who created this symphony was not revealed until it was performed.
Original composer Jun Hyuk Jang, better known as JUN, released an album with jazz great Stanley Clarke and is winner Amelia LaMarque’s boyfriend, who made news in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition.]
The daily paper started with an introduction of Jun Hyuk and went on to describe that night’s conversation in detail. Marco Giavelli’s opinion on Inferno and the fact that the audience had to leave the concert hall because of the strange topic of pain in particular, caught the readers’ attention.
With this article, other media outlets wrote supplementing articles and the world of classical music was flipped upside down. Of the subsequent articles, the phone interview that Patrick Quinn of the Vienna Philharmonic conducted put fire to the wind.
Patrick Quinn said that Jun Hyuk is ‘the only person who is able to stand at the top of world music. And that is within 10 years.’ This short statement made Jun Hyuk the musician receiving the most attention in the world.
The articles about Jun Hyuk that had started in Austria, soon spread to Germany. The Austrian and German press went to Jun Hyuk’s hotel and the Berlin Philharmonic’s concert hall to ask to interview and film.
Like poet Byron, he had woken up a star and Jun Hyuk was having trouble adjusting to this environment that had changed overnight.
“Jun, I’m sorry this happened but you’ll be eaten alive by the press if you stay here. I wanted to spend some time with you leisurely, but it’s a pity.”
“I’ll say. If I stay here any longer, I’ll be a bother to the Berlin Philharmonic.”
Everyone was suffering because the reporters camped outside the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall were grabbing all of the members to ask for interviews or about Jun Hyuk’s hotel.
“It’ll be better for you to hide out until things get quiet. What do you think? Will you spend some time somewhere quiet?”
“Somewhere quiet?”
Sir Simon Lettle thought that it would be best to have Jun Hyuk flee for the time being.
“Yeah. What do you think about staying at my villa? My housekeeper is there and if I give them a call, I can arrange to have someone to do the housework for you. It’ll be perfect to rest in because it’s in a small village called Hohenschwangau, not far from Bayern Fussen. Neuschwanstein castle is nearby and since the Schwangu forest is right there, you can take walks to avoid the summer heat.”
Neuschwanstein castle is a sight that Jun Hyuk wanted to see as well. It is so beautiful that Walt Disney used it as a model for the Disneyland castle.
When the articles first went up and the reporters came looking for him, Jun Hyuk had thought of going to Amelia in Budapest.
However, the reporters know his relationship with Amelia and already went to her in Budapest for interviews. Fortunately, Amelia is used to the flashing cameras and ignored the reporters, repeatedly saying ‘no comment’. She gave Jun Hyuk an urgent call telling him not to go to Budapest.
“Fortunately, people don’t know what you look like yet, so no one in such a small village will bother you. What do you think?”
“Would that be okay? I feel like I’m being too much of a bother…..”