1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 244 "Tomorrow Will Be Better"

I have to say that Xia Tian’s dream is really accurate!

Just three days later, on the 29th, the news was published in the newspaper.

It is said that radioactive substances were detected in the wind in Sweden, a thousand kilometers away. At the request of the Swedish government, the Russian bear announced the news of "an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant" to the world!

For us today, nuclear power plants are a bit unfamiliar.

We haven’t yet, so we don’t know much.

Dachun also asked Xia Tian: "What is a nuclear power plant? Is the explosion very powerful?"

Xia Tian: "It's huge! Didn't you see that all the European countries are panicking?!"

Now that end is in luck, it is said that the new car produced in the Czech Republic makes a beeping sound when tested with a Geiger counter!

Vegetables grown outdoors are also contaminated by radioactive dust - which may also be transmitted by greenhouse vegetable vendors.

Xia Tian was still reading the newspaper, and Da Chun said, "It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to witness it up close."

Xia Tian: "Be glad you didn't witness it up close."

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Ma Dudu came to visit again. Ever since Wang Pangzi and Lao Hu became the "middlemen" for Xia Tian, ​​Ma Dudu's chances of visiting him have become less and less. This made him very regretful.
This time, there are indeed some good things.

Ma Dudu's face, which was either round or square, was serious: "Someone came to me and said they had something they wanted to introduce to you, but I took one look at it and turned it down!"

"I say, don't look for Qing Dynasty porcelain. Last time I was a guest at someone's place, they had a Kangxi moon-shaped vase for flower arrangement!"

Xia Tian waved his hands quickly: "Hey, stop praising me."

Ma Dudu: "What are you praising? I saw it with my own eyes!"

Well, it is true. Milan took a fancy to the bottle and used it to hold water and put flowers in it.

This time, what Ma Dudu "introduced" to Xia Tian was a painting, "Erlang Shen Searching the Mountain" from the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, although the painting is good and very charming, the author is unknown. Ma Dudu has been looking for this person for several days but has not found him. He is an unknown painter in the folk.

He might be a "painter" who specializes in painting gods and bodhisattvas!
If this painting falls into someone else's hands, it won't be worth much. But if I introduce it to Xia Tian...

Sure enough, Xia Tian took a liking to it and offered a high price - 30% higher than the market price!
Ma Dudu went back happily - not only did he earn a commission, but he also earned some face from the seller.
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In the summer, I heard from my friends at CCTV that Hu Jiantai had asked Wang Liping to compose the music for the upcoming TV series "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", and the lyrics were written by Mr. Qiao Yu.

The filming of this TV series started in September last year.

We are looking for a singer now, and since we want to find a female singer, it has nothing to do with summer.

According to Tianqi's message, the song "You talk about Liao Zhai, and I talk about Liao Zhai" was finally sung by Sister Peng.

When I have some free time, I start writing furiously in the summer - I had the idea for "Detective Di Renjie" since mid-March, but I haven't written much yet!
If you delay any further, this project will fail.
Although I don’t have many manuscripts saved, I’ll send some of them over first.

On May 5, a few big words were printed on the cover of the newly published "Legends of Ancient and Modern Times" - Jinghongke's new work "Detective Di Renjie"!
In the summer, apart from attending classes, I spent my time writing furiously at home, because I had a clear idea of ​​the cases, characters, style, rhythm, and nodes in mind, and I was writing with great enthusiasm! My manuscripts were piling up.

Then things happened!

"Invite me to a concert?" Xia Tian was a little surprised. Someone in the inland is going to hold a concert?

Milan took a bite of the apple and said, "Yes, it was a letter sent to you by Vice Director Wang of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe where Auntie (Xia Ma) works. You haven't got home yet. Why don't you find some time to go and ask. It's said to be very urgent..."

After dinner, Xia Tian went to Aunt Wang's house.

"Aunt, what concert do you want to invite me to?"

When Xia Tian heard this, he suddenly remembered it - a concert of hundreds of singers!

It is said that last year, in order to aid the famine-stricken African country of Ethiopia, more than 1.27 of the world's most famous rock bands and singers held a charity concert and raised $ million in donations for the African victims.

Among them, a song co-written by American superstars Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie - "We are the world", sung by 46 big-name singers, was given the role of the finale chorus.

This incident has brought a great impact to the literary and artistic circles - we in the arts seem to have a great influence! And this year is the World Peace Year... So across the strait, a star-studded concert was also held, hoping to imitate the model of the star-studded concert "We Are The World" for charity, to echo the theme of the World Peace Year.

Luo Dayou, Sylvia Chang and others co-wrote "Tomorrow Will Be Better":
"Gently awaken the sleeping soul
slowly open your eyes
Look at the busy world

Are you still spinning alone...”

A total of 60 Chinese singers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and other places, from different regions and different companies, broke the contract restrictions and sang and published together.

It can be said to be a great success!

This song can be said to be a childhood melody for the post-90s generation - many primary and secondary school teachers often list "Tomorrow Will Be Better" as the designated song for singing competitions.

Now, people abroad are doing it very successfully.

Hong Kong and Taiwan also have great influence and are following closely behind.

Now the pressure is on us.
Therefore, the Video Publishing House planned and the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe supported our "One Hundred Singers Concert" to keep up with the international trend and respond to the World Peace Year.

——The song "We are the world" was sung by 46 singers, and "Tomorrow Will Be Better" was sung by more than 60 singers, so we can find a hundred singers to sing it and surpass them!
I'm just trying to show off in a place like this~
Xia Tian nodded: "This is a good thing. I definitely support it!"

Although it is impossible to make tomorrow better with just one charity performance.

But as the saying goes: Just do good things and don’t worry about the future.

Since it is a good thing, just do it.

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"The current situation is that although we often hold evening parties and performances here, we really have no experience in concerts. But the time requirement is very close, it will be held on the 9th, so we want to find more singers to participate..."

This is indeed a bit hasty. It may be because we only received the news from outside some time ago, and it took some time to hold meetings and discussions. Now we only have one week to prepare.

However, we are not holding any concerts now, so our requirements are not high.

What Aunt Wang meant was that Xia Tian did have some experience in organizing evening parties after all - referring to the fact that he had participated in the preparations for the Spring Festival Gala several times, and he was also the most popular singer in Yanjing, so he had to "take responsibility"!

Xia Tian: OK! It’s not that I don’t want to write in peace, he always has something to do~
Now the time is set and basically cannot be changed.

The venue still needs to be chosen, and because it is semi-official, this must also be taken into consideration, it cannot be too "formal"...

Then there’s the format and the people involved.

As for the form, most of it can be referred to Hong Kong and Taiwan, and some can be combined with our local conditions~
It's half Chinese and half foreign, and the main thing is to make it acceptable to us.

To be honest, this "100 Singers Concert" may not be noticed by outsiders, it is more about cheering yourself up and not letting others fall behind~
Then there are the participants. With such a tight schedule, we can only look for people near Yanjing. We also have to explain to them clearly that this is purely for charity and there is no money involved.

Nowadays, people don’t care so much about money. Many singers simply like to sing. If there is such an opportunity, they will still come. Besides, isn’t there an official platform here?
Since it is semi-official and informal, many mainstream singers cannot be invited. What Auntie Wang meant was - "Push some pop singers?"

When Xia Tian heard this, he nodded!

Nowadays, singing pop songs is just a way to make a living, and the mainstream doesn't look down on it.

Usually he can't go on stage - he may be the only one who is as capable and willful as Xia Tian! He has a good foundation!

This is an opportunity - an opportunity for pop music to be recognized by society.

There used to be an implicit convention that “three pop singers cannot perform on the same stage”!

Oh yeah, there has to be a whole song to suit the occasion!

"Auntie Wang, is the theme song ready?"

“Um, the preparatory team said they are already writing it…” Aunt Wang was embarrassed to say that the creator was an amateur music enthusiast.

Come to think of it, he is an electrician from Shougang...

The next day, Xia Tian went to the preparation team for the concert of 100 singers and saw a newly released song called "Let the World Be Filled with Love"!
I haven’t been feeling well in the last few days, maybe it’s because I haven’t consumed enough carbohydrates!

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