The Healing Life of a Music Genius - Chapter 143



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143 Where the heart reaches

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I looked at my hands.

I tried moving my fingers, and each one moved well.

There is no problem with my legs, and my shoulders work well.

I could breathe well and see my surroundings clearly.

I see people walking briskly along the road.

None of them paid any attention to me or even paid attention to me.

However, a unique haziness was in the air, gradually dulling my senses.

That strange feeling helped me distinguish that this was a dream.

okay.

I was dreaming now.

‘Is this the kind of lucid dream that Uncle Miller often talks about? He had a hard time on a deserted island.’

If it was ‘this feeling’, I felt like I knew why he was so tired after having a lucid dream.

I felt like my stamina was draining away.

‘Should I try something?’

ah. ah.

I tried to make a sound, but no voice came out.

Just because I had a lucid dream didn’t mean I could do everything I wanted.

‘More than that…’

Where am I?

Although a ‘L’ shaped building was visible in the distance, it was not a familiar place.

I walked down the street following people.

Fortunately, I moved forward.

Following the neatly paved road, we arrived at the entrance of the ‘L’ shaped building.

Only then did I know where this was.

‘Singapore National Hospital. This is what it looked like.’

Since coming here when I was unconscious, I’ve spent most of my time inside the hospital, so this is the first time I’ve seen what it looks like.

I went into the hospital.

everyone.

Various people are gathered together.

I walked along the sparkling marble floor for a while longer.

There was a huge fountain, and a piano was placed right next to it.

The piano on which I played ⌜Treuimerai⌟.

The memories of that time come to mind.

‘It was a pretty confusing situation, but I thought I wanted to show off my performance, so I started playing.’

I walked right in front of the piano.

Because there was no player, no one paid attention to the piano.

I sat down on the piano chair.

I tried to pull the slightly crooked chair.

But I couldn’t move this chair.

Out of curiosity, I pressed the keys, but no sound came out.

‘It’s a boring dream.’

I looked around.

The sides of the piano were clearly visible, but the front was obscured by the grand piano’s huge lid.

So I tried to get up.

There was a place where my eyes naturally focused.

In the lobby of a hospital with a lot of people.

Just one place.

There…

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.

.

“oh! woke up!”

When I opened my eyes, I saw a cute-looking girl holding her finger to my philtrum.

He kneels down and looks at me with a worried face.

Suyeon took a deep breath.

“Whew. thank god.”

“what’s the matter? Suyeon, what’s going on?”

When I ask Suyeon, she nods her head slightly.

“Brother, do you know how many hours you’ve been sleeping now?”

“well? “After yesterday’s performance, I came back from dinner and fell asleep almost immediately, so about 8 hours?”

“no. “My brother slept for almost 13 hours!”

“13 hours?”

“It’s huge, isn’t it? It was so quiet a little while ago that I checked to see if I was breathing. Still, my brother’s sniffles kept coming out. Phew. “If it weren’t for that, I would have been very surprised.”

Suyeon shakes her head.

I started by saying it was okay.

“I guess I was too tired after the performance yesterday. “I slept soundly.”

“Are you in any pain?”

“huh. however······.”

“Wait a minute!”

Sooyeon jumped down from my bed, and Dodo ran over to get a bottle of water from the refrigerator.

He is a younger brother who understands what I mean even though I don’t say anything.

Suyeon began to struggle to open the plastic bottle cap, which made me laugh without even realizing it.

“Give it to me. “Oppa will do it.”

“no! “I can do it…!”

“are you okay. “It’s up to you to use your power.”

“Keuung…! little bit more······! “It’s almost done…!”

In the end, Soo-yeon gives up.

I was handed a bottle of water, opened the cap, and drank 1/3 of it in one go.

The slight remaining headache disappeared immediately and I came to my senses.

“Your brother is definitely stronger.”

“Of course I should.”

“Still, stay still.”

My younger brother pointing at my forehead.

He said there seemed to be no fever and gave the final diagnosis.

“Then you were just tired?”

I agreed right away.

“I guess so. and······. I did have a dream. “I guess that’s why I slept for a long time.”

“dream? “Did you have a nightmare or something?”

“It’s not like that. I had a dream that felt a little nostalgic. “I don’t know why.”

“okay? “I was thinking of lending this child to you if I had to.”

Suyeon held out to me the ‘Kur Kong’ teddy bear that she often wears these days.

I poked Kur Kong on the forehead.

“He has to protect Sooyeon. “You can’t sleep without him when you sleep.”

“Oh, no! I sleep well without them these days. In fact, he can’t sleep without me. Huh. I guess my brother didn’t know much. what······. Things like that happen, too.”

My younger brother, who is not good at lying, looked away while speaking. I scratch my cheek a few times.

“But what about father and mother?”

I asked my parents because I couldn’t see them in the hotel room.

“Dad went to see Professor Yuhan Kang. Her mom went down to her lobby to get something to eat when her brother woke up. “She will be back soon.”

As Sooyeon said, after about 2 or 3 minutes, my mother returned to the hotel room.

“son. Were you tired? “I had a really hard time sleeping last night.”

“I guess it was a bit like that.”

“He pretended it wasn’t like that. “You can tell your mom.”

“It was a big performance. “I don’t know if I put a lot of effort into it without even realizing it.”

“Anyway… “There’s no pain anywhere, right?”

“yes. “I’m fine.”

My mother pointed at my forehead, just like Suyeon.

Then he hands me a sandwich.

“Let’s just have a quick bite for now, and eat properly later. got it?”

“I think that will work. Sooyeon, do you want to eat too?”

“no. While my brother was sleeping, I ate a sandwich with my mom and dad. are you okay.”

“okay?”

As my mother said, after eating a quick sandwich and taking a shower, we went down to the hotel lobby.

My father, Professor Yuhan Kang, and pianist Laurent were already having a conversation.

I joined him there and we talked for a while.

Most of it was about my performance yesterday.

Praise disguised as feedback.

Hearing this out loud in front of my family made me feel a little embarrassed.

“Brother, what did pianist Laurent talk about? Please let me know too. “I want to laugh with you too!”

“Hmm.”

A slightly awkward situation arose because Sooyeon, who couldn’t understand English, asked me for the meaning.

Of course, because my mother interpreted from time to time, Sooyeon knew what kind of conversation we were having.

“Hmm! Is this really my brother? The performance was great. But I also have to study English hard. “I’m the only one who doesn’t understand English.”

“But Suyeon still speaks English well enough. “I always receive a lot of praise stickers at kindergarten.”

“no. That’s not enough. So do mom and dad. My brother is good at not only English but also German. In my family, I am the only one who cannot speak a foreign language. “I will try my best to follow you when I return to Korea.”

My younger brother, who burns with enthusiasm.

I was told that it doesn’t have to be necessary since I’m still doing well enough, so I got to the point.

“brother.”

“huh?”

“Age is just a number. You also stood at Carnegie Hall when you were 14, right? But I’m already 6 years old. So, starting from today, every day is important. “There is nothing in the world that is enough.”

I heard a sermon called.

Professor Kang Yu-han laughs after hearing Su-yeon’s story.

My mother was busy laughing, and my father looked for the origin of ‘Suyeon’s words’.

“It was a passage from my novel, and I guess Suyeon managed to see it.”

“Sometimes I get surprised when I see Suyeon talking. “There is no such thing as a genius.”

“Oh! The genius is my brother. “I still have a long way to go!”

Thanks to Suyeon, we were able to laugh out loud.

We headed to a nearby restaurant.

It wasn’t far away, so I walked, and pianist Laurent made a separate gesture, saying he had something to tell me.

Pianist Laurent asks what we talked about with Suyeon a little while ago.

But when I found out, the main point was different.

“Humming?”

“okay. It was a small sound, but I definitely heard you humming on the Carnegie Hall stage. “I wonder if that had any meaning.”

Did I do that?

Even after thinking about it, I couldn’t remember doing something like that.

Pianist Laurent saw me thinking and smiled slightly.

“Then can we say it was an instinctive humming?”

“maybe······. Maybe so. “I don’t really remember that I was ‘humming’.”

“I see. “Then do you know a pianist named Glenn Gould?”

“yes. You are a pianist from Canada. “I know him as a Bach specialist.”

“that’s right. It’s been quite a while since he passed away, but he still remains a legend. The humming that naturally flows out when one is immersed in a performance was his trademark. “That came to mind.”

Pianist Laurent said that it is possible to do that if you immerse yourself in it, and speculated that it might have been because of that that a good performance could have been produced.

“Actually, I have a particularly good ear, so you can say I heard it. Other audience members probably didn’t notice at all. “Because it was a very short and small sound.”

I nodded.

And I was lost in thought for a moment.

There was a time when a man told me that he heard me humming on a deserted island during a plane crash.

If I hadn’t heard the word ‘humming’ from Uncle Miller back then, I might have overlooked pianist Laurent’s words this time.

But I hummed again at yesterday’s performance?

The content of the lucid dream I had yesterday and the word humming were intertwined, and my thoughts became deeper.

‘Humming… And it’s a lucid dream…’

We arrived at the restaurant before we knew it.

I got to talk to many musicians there.

People who praise my playing and always congratulate me on my performance at Carnegie Hall.

However, pianist Payance accurately told me that he felt healing and happiness after listening to my music.

At his word…

I was able to shake off all my complicated thoughts.

“that’s right. Healing and happiness. “That was the performance I wanted yesterday.”

“It was very surprising. It’s an unusual tone, but it’s also a noble ethos. Even if a pianist wants to think about it and express it, it is not music that can be easily shown. So, I hope you always cherish your color.”

“yes. “I will always do that.”

Pianist Payance tapped my shoulder and continued speaking in a very quiet voice.

“There was a performer similar to you in the past. Although it was different from yours, there was definitely a player with a similar tone. A pianist who understands beauty and human emotions. But he got greedy. Because he was a good kid. He had no choice but to do that. I hope you don’t do that. “You always want to value yourself more.”

I looked at the face of Payance pianist.

He gave me a kind smile and gently closed and opened his eyes.

An elderly pianist who is older than Professor Kang Yu-han.

I felt like I could understand what his words and actions meant.

But I didn’t have the confidence to say it or make it understand.

so.

I engraved in my heart the words of pianist Payance, who said he reminded me of Uncle Miller after hearing my performance.

And answered.

‘thank you. ‘Thank you for remembering Uncle Miller.’

“Thank you for the advice. “Payance Pianist.”

“okay. “That’s enough.”

The schedule in New York, USA was not that long.

It was now semester.

Since I only came to perform for a short period of time after writing an excuse letter to the school, I didn’t have time to relax.

In the evening, I met with ⌜Schmid⌟.

Director Rogers said that performance proposals came in from more than 10 venues in just one day.

Among them, there were some that were among the best in the world.

“London and Boston. For your information, a collaboration was proposed in London. From the London Symphony Orchestra, which you, the pianist, are probably familiar with. “It felt like everyone had seen a Carnegie Hall performance.”

“It really turned out just like the director said. “You said that as soon as the performance ends, you will receive offers from famous venues.”

“Pianist Seojin Han’s playing was just outstanding. And as I said before…”

I first told you what I had previously heard from Director Rogers.

“There is no rush. So, you can choose the performance as you wish. “He said.”

“you’re right. The bigger the venue, the more time you will lose. There will be a level required there. “And the pianist is thinking about Queen Elizabeth next year.”

Director Rogers said there was no need to perform anything until the competition.

Words that show consideration for me.

However, the excessive schedule was difficult for me, and I wanted to continue performing.

“However, even if I do perform, I hope the performance is on the same level of preparation.”

“okay. Then London must be difficult. “They mentioned that it would be nice to collaborate on a contemporary song.”

A young conductor in his 30s.

As the owner of the London Symphony Orchestra, he was a musician widely known for his diverse attempts.

As the Queen Elisabeth Competition does not involve contemporary compositions, the London Symphony Orchestra has no connection with me right now.

Next…

“Boston. It’s one of the oldest cities in America. Although not as big as Carnegie Hall, all performance venues have traditions. I think giving a recital here will be a great experience. “The pianist will be able to choose the song he wants.”

When looking back at the history of American classical music, Boston is a very important city.

It would be an excellent choice, but…

There was only one place on my mind right now.

So I decided to give it a little more time.

I said I would 100% accept the performance if they contacted me first.

If I didn’t hear back after a few days, I asked ⌜Schmid⌟ if they could look into it first.

Director Rogers tilted his head.

“Singapore? Although its ‘Esplanade’ is one of the best performance venues in Asia, it is nothing compared to Boston. Additionally, if you wait a little longer, you may be contacted by a better performance venue. “It’s only been a day.”

“Still, I really want to go to a concert hall in Singapore at least once. And if I get the chance, I’d like to do a charity performance at a hospital there. “If possible, even for a moment after the main performance.”

“The charity performance is okay because it has nothing to do with our ⌜Schmid⌟ contract, but…”

I continued my explanation.

I briefly talked about the AC 2505 incident, which can be easily found by searching the Internet.

Director Rogers looks a little surprised.

When my explanation was finished, Director Rogers gave a rather serious answer.

“Then it could be said that pianist Seojin Han’s inspiration can be found there.”

“I’m not sure, but there’s something I want to check. I think I might be able to find something that will help me with my playing. As the director said, the next performance may serve as some kind of inspiration for me. But nothing is certain.”

Director Rogers stopped taking notes and put down his pen.

Then he looks into my eyes.

I also quietly looked into his eyes.

Some time passes.

Director Rogers looked at the notebook on his desk for a moment.

A notebook full of notes written during conversations with me.

He nodded slowly as he looked at the contents.

“All right. As we said when signing a contract with pianist Seojin Han, ⌜Schmid⌟ is a company that puts the artist’s goals first. We, ⌜Schmid⌟, will plan pianist Seojin Han’s performance in Singapore. The next performance might have a good trend. “The pianist’s performances will continue through Europe and North America, and now into Asia.”