Producer System: My Girlfriend is a Cellist-Chapter 745 - 461: The Lonely Elder, Applause Offered
——The traitor of classical music.
He couldn't remember when it all started.
Steven had already gotten used to this name.
For twenty years, many musicians against the game system gave him this title on the internet.
As the greatest contemporary classical musician... yet became one of the people leading the new system, being called that... seems almost justified...
Steven gently tapped the table, watching Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu shine brightly on stage.
While his gaze sparkled, his heart sighed.
However,
Such significant reform, how could it be changed as easily as flipping a switch?
Just like young couples in love.
No healthy relationship transitions from friends to lovers in an instant; it is not declared by a single confession that the relationship transforms.
But rather, before officially confirming the relationship, there is already the essence of lovers without the name, leading to this formal confirmation of change.
The international game system is the same.
When the council believed the international system had to change—more than twenty years ago, at that time point, in fact, even before the reform, the proportion of people playing pop music in international competitions had already exceeded 50%.
And traditional classical music was dwindling in appeal, with aesthetics not being mainstream, its depth hard to understand, attracting fewer fans, and more musicians turning to pop music.
Behind such a booming music industry, all data showed that pop music was the genre more popular with young people.
The situation at the time was already—
Change or not change, it wasn't Steven's decision anymore.
The tide of pop music, like a torrent, swept in, effortlessly destroying everything in its path.
Would...
classical music be completely eradicated in the mainstream music world?
No, impossible!
Steven knew very well that with his ability, even if he resisted, he couldn't truly accomplish anything. In the trend of mainstream aesthetics, the power of a musician is still too insignificant!
He could only compromise, could only crouch down, enter a long wait.....
For how long?
Until a new era of aesthetics emerges.
Only when people in this world once again recognize the charm of classical music. When this restless, fast-food entertainment world reaches a certain threshold, more and more people are willing to look back and delve into the beauty of music itself.....
Such an era might be hard to await.
It could be 10 years, 20, 50, or even a century. By then, perhaps Steven would have long been in the grave.
But he must wait. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
Even during this process.
He witnessed countless overconfident classical musicians constantly going against the trend, only to be swallowed in the end.
He must also endure, pretend he doesn't care because... the time isn't right yet.
Even if cursed as the "traitor of classical music" or "culprit of the new system," he must bear it!
Until... that concert in Paris over a decade ago.
Steven thought he wouldn't be affected anymore after witnessing so many destroyed classical musicians.
But that orchestra from Tian Chao... struck him in the weakest spot in his heart with the heaviest blow!
The orchestra conductor who risked everything, the cellist who saw death as homecoming, the flutist who played almost to the point of burning their life.....
Every member in the orchestra was exerting all their strength to interpret the word "obsession."
Steven was profoundly shocked.
No matter how much he tried to conceal and decorate himself, he couldn't remain indifferent to such performance.
At that moment, all the emotions accumulated since the reform erupted!
He was in agony, pained by his inability to save these classical musicians! Pained by his high status, yet unable to accomplish anything!!
More painfully, Steven couldn't manage to, like these classical musicians, charge forward once more, becoming one like them who burns himself!
He truly envied these idealists.
He watched, and could only watch.
Thus, after the Paris concert.
Steven, for nearly 20 years, stopped appearing in any public settings.
....
Until 2026, with the arrival of this critical Dragon Violin Cup.
Steven learned about Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu, the two classical musicians who had frequently emerged over the past year, and the "classical music" new wave sweeping across Asia.
Steven realized.
The time point he had been waiting for so arduously... perhaps had arrived.
Not 50 years, or a century, but possibly during his own lifetime!
This boy named Lin Tian, and the girl Gan Yanyu... they brought this era forward by decades!!
Now watching Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu's performance on stage.
Steven found them increasingly familiar.
It was as if the brilliance of those musicians from Tian Chao was on them.....
No,
Steven was almost certain.
They were the inheritors of those people.
Those obsessive, crazy, pure classical musicians who chose to burn their life while pursuing classical music!
Music had revealed all the answers to Steven!!
.....
As Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu's twelfth chapter of "Requiem": Cantata of the Lord, was about to arrive.
Steven's eyes, hidden behind sunglasses and full of wrinkles, could no longer hold back tears.
