Chapter 180 (1/2)

Volume 5 / Chapter 180

TL: LightNovelCafe

[TN: This is 2 of 8!]

Not a single thing Yoon Kwang Hun said was wrong.

President Stern’s call after 10 days had passed told him that they had created a plan and were currently working on it.

“Jun, the score you sent me. Can you send the original or make up another copy?”

“Of the score?”

“Yeah. Do you need to modify it anymore?”

“No. It’s complete.”

“Then send it right away. We’ll submit it to the Queen Elisabeth Competition.”

When Isaac Stern told him the conclusion, Jun Hyuk was taken aback.

“Excuse me? Isaac… I was just asking what you thought of submitting it, not that we need to.”

“But I think it’s a good idea to submit it.”

“You do?”

“Yeah. There’s a time for everything. Competitions are a privilege for the young. Winning with concrete numbers against a lot of competitors isn’t something you can do when you’re older. Only because of useless pride. Ha ha.”

Jun Hyuk gained courage from Isaac Stern’s vigorous laughter and told him the real goal.

“Uh, Isaac. More than the competition or winning, I’d like to conduct with the piano and violin soloists.”

“Really? Then you really must win. Fine. I’ll make you into a winner.”

He will make him into a winner? It is a surprising thought beyond confidence.

“What? You’ll make me? Is that what a competition is? Does that mean it’s a show where a winner isn’t chosen, but where it’s possible to make a winner?”

Stern laughed again at Jun Hyuk’s surprised tone.

“Ha ha. Jun, don’t misunderstand me. This piece is certainly the winner. But there will be a lot of controversy. I’m going to block any circumstances where that controversy might prevent you from winning. I mean that I’m going to make it a fair competition that judges based on the works alone.”

“There will be controversy?”

“What? You didn’t think about that while you were making the song?”

He does not even know what his own song might mean. Stern was more surprised by this.

“No. I just thought it’d be fun.”

“Ha ha. Well this really is fun. I did predict that there would be a lot of cases like this if I were with you. That case came too quickly.”

“Isaac. Why will this song become a controversy?”

“Beethoven is the only one in history called an evil. Furthermore, his Symphony No. 9 has been put in the UNESCO World Register. It’s play on the most important day in each country, and is the most worshipped piece. But isn’t your song a challenge thrown at Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9? It’s a miscalculation to think that it won’t become a controversy.”

Isaac Stern’s long explanation made Jun Hyuk realize that this is how people could view his song.

“I say let’s see what happens. Let’s see how the judges of Queen Elisabeth and the world will accept this fearless challenge. It’s thrilling just thinking about it.”

President Stern was still laughing when he hung up the phone with a stunned Jun Hyuk who could not speak.

When he first opened the score that came via e-mail, his eyes and ears were disbelieving. When he finished the 1st movement, it felt like he had just gotten off of a rollercoaster. He was dizzy.

There had not been a moment for relaxation. The music pushed forward so much that 18 minutes felt like a few seconds.