Chapter 182 (1/2)
Volume 5 / Chapter 182
TL: LightNovelCafe
[TN: This is 4 of 8! Back to the states]
Jun Hyuk followed an employee who came to meet him at New York’s JFK airport to President Stern’s apartment.
He was astounded when he opened the door and entered. It is grand but also incredibly wide. It is a 2-floor duplex apartment with a staircase to one side of the living room.
“Uh… Hang on…”
Jun Hyuk quickly looked for the employee who had brought him to this apartment, but he had already closed the door and left.
“Ugh.”
There is no problem staying in this big house alone, but he could not imagine how to clean it when the living room alone is the size of a basketball court. There are 4 doors that he can see on just the 1st floor. How many rooms would there be on the 2nd floor?
Jun Hyuk took his phone out. It would be better to tell Isaac Stern that he should move.
“What do you think? Do you like it?”
He heard the door open with a familiar voice. Jun Hyuk put his phone back. Isaac Stern walked over to Jun Hyuk and put his arm on his shoulder.
“Tell me if you don’t like it. I can look into another place.”
“Isaac. I do like it… but it’s too big. Cleaning it is going to be no joke. I think it’d be better to move to a smaller place…..”
Isaac Stern looked at Jun Hyuk’s serious expression and burst out in laughter.
“Well well. Ha ha. Would I really leave you to clean the place? Don’t worry about it and stay here comfortably. A maid is going to come every day to take care of your meals and clean.”
Jun Hyuk was more surprised when he heard about the maid than he had been when he saw the large house.
“A maid? I’ll just do it myself. It’s uncomfortable.”
“What? Uncomfortable? Weren’t you going to demand a personal chef? Why now?”
President Stern brought up what they had discussed in the private plane.
“That was a joke.”
“Alright. Then I’ll have someone come just once a week to do the laundry and clean. Is that fine? And come this way. You haven’t seen it yet, right?”
Isaac Stern pushed Jun Hyuk and opened one of two doors standing next to each other.
“I made this into your studio. There was a piano here for a maestro in our company who used to live here, but we moved the 2 pianos and instruments from your house here. And I prepared some other things I thought you might need. There wasn’t enough space, so we broke into the next room.”
In that room were Jun Hyuk’s guitar, amp, 2 grand pianos, and drum set.
“Isaac. Isn’t that recording equipment?”
He could see wires everywhere with a console box covered in white fabric.
“I heard that you’re good at sound engineering too. It’s not studio standard, but I left it so you could use it when you need to.”
“The sound-proofing is certain… It’s great.”
“I see you like this room more than the apartment.”
When Jun Hyuk saw the recording equipment, he suddenly remembered something.
“Oh right. What happened with the Inferno album? It hasn’t been released yet?”
“It’s going out in stores around mid-June.”
“That’s very late. I made it so that there wouldn’t be any problem working on the album.”
They finished recording early February. Even with package production in mind, 6 months is taking too long.
“The record has already been completed. It’s coming out the next month because of marketing. We’re going after the holiday season.”
“Oh, I see.”
“The Boston Philharmonic needs to gain some attention from this too. They’ve been receiving public attention since they revealed that you recorded in February, so that’ll continue. It’s all business after recording.”
When they came out into the living room, Isaac Stern went into the kitchen and skillfully made coffee.
“So, did you rest well in Korea?”
“Yes. I just kept sleeping.”
“But you didn’t just sleep. You said you were going to rest. How did you think of coming up with such a masterpiece? You should really rest when you can.”
Isaac Stern set a coffee down in front of Jun Hyuk, who just laughed, and settled into the large sofa.
“Then shall we talk a bit about the piece?”
“The piece? Oh, sure.”
“The title is Concerto for Violin and Piano in D Minor, ‘Choral,’ right?”
“Yes.”
“I’ll just ask one thing. Did you really write it with Beethoven in mind?”
“I did it thinking about how the Queen Elisabeth Competition has the piano and violin, but I thought of the foundation as a choral symphony. The subtitle is ‘Choral’.”
“Why Beethoven? Isn’t it too much of a challenge?”
“I never thought of it as a challenge. I just started it because I thought it’d be fun to work on… I guess that’s how it turned out?”
“Fun… That’s good too. Let’s see if the world sees it as fun or as a challenge.”
Isaac Stern could not stop smiling even as he drank coffee.