The group of artists performing in the gardens weren’t the only one. This was the biggest event of the year and thousands of people had traveled from long away countries just to be part of it. Thus, as the announcement came, several figures arrived and soon the young artists found themselves surrounded by the excited crowd.
In front of them an astonishing sight revealed. The Palace shaped like a theater, but not a common one. It was so big that the seats in the gallery descended over and over creating endless rows and the bottom could not be seen, and as if it were to be sustained by simply magic, a large circle of polished wood and marble separated from the thousands seats that surrounded it, stood in the middle of ot suspended in midair by seemingly nothing. The position was such that from any corner, any seat within the gallery, there would be no problem to attend the performance.
On her own, Nadia took a seat in her own private balcony, interrupting several of the rows of seats in the gallery, placed in the best of all positions. A balcony of beautiful wood ornamented by intricate gold patterns and crimson lines. Even with that, the expression of the noble girl was a mix of boredom and anxiety, she didn’t seem to be interested in the event that also promised a commemoration for her dead grandfather, in fact she would rather be anywhere but there.
After half hour, the public waited anxious in their seats for the spectacle to begin. The lights went out as a signal of it and this was soon followed by people’s claps.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, with great pleasure I’ll announce our first spectacle. Here with us I present you a new recently born philharmonic born from young new talented artists and famous members of the Anheldrim’s Symphony group once lead by Lord Jeremiah Eisendin himself, the brilliant artist, the most important man of this century who sadly left us four years ago as time claimed him to perform his beautiful compositions in the afterlife.
They will perform for us revisions of Anheldrim’s Symphony most famous compositions and promised them to entertain us with new material.
With claps give your warm welcome to the Crimson Carnation Philharmonic lead by Elean Valent".
As soon as the voice said this more claps filled the room accompanying the rising red curtains revealing a group of at least fifty people, men and women, dressed in black holding each one a particular instrument, in front of them a man with short black hair that matched the suit, received the claps with a solemn reverence.
“I thank all of you for your greeting, ladies, gentlemen, and overall Lady Nadia Eisendin. I offer to you the memories of our loved Lord Eisendin with our humble performance.”
At the mention of her name, Nadia’s face revealed a slight grimace of disgust that no one ever saw. She looked with the same bored expression at the group as she waved a golden fan against her face.
The man turned to the group and with a signature of his hand holding a black baton, the magic begun.
It was an unique spectacle of lights and sounds, and the eyes of the young Nadia shone as soon as a dragon made of light crossed flying over her. This wasn’t just a marvelous mix of sounds, but also a show of the “Expression” of each artist, manifested in a spectacle of light, bubbles, smokes, and other wonders mixed with a perfect harmony.
At the same time that the violins and trumpets mixed, red smoke flied toward the ceiling to be stopped by a wall of blue water, mixing both colors creating an beautiful purple steam, and this was the pure essence coming from the artists.
Such was a concert inside of Anheldrim, a wonder that it was worth to enjoy.
Half an hour… half an hour they continued playing their wonders, however this was a time that felt eternal… as this was the effect created by the art of the philharmonic of Eisendin…. To simulate the eternity, an eternity that delighted those in front of the spectacle.
Yet also no one noticed the true flow of time. By this point all were entranced for at least three hours. However when regarding to art, time has little to no importance for people. They simply attended not smiling, not moving, simply enjoying.
The music continued and continued, entrancing all the audience with a mix of sounds and expressions that resembled magic. The acts of several performers enhance the fantasy within the concert hall.
However when people were trapped into the illusion, it was suddenly cut; not by someone or something, but because the philharmonic finished. The marvelous time that lasted both a extensively long time and a very short moment had finally ended, and the audience was pushed back to reality.
People clapped and the philharmonic received gladly those claps tired as they were but with pride not showing a sign of it.
Elean bowed in front of the public and said.
“The flow of time is really incredible isn’t it? Hours had passed but for all of us it had felt like a peaceful eternity, even if a limited one. Now, as promised, we also have a new material that we would like to present to you.”
People tensed and for a moment whispers could be heard, however soon they were interrupted by Elean’s words.
“Perhaps you’ll find this a bit controversial, some would even label it as a blasphemy, others nonsense, a few as fantasy, but the clever ones would sit and enjoy it for this is a sole unique moment that will be carved within your memories. I present to all of you, the melody of legend. The Scarlet Nocturne!”
As he pronounced the name, the tension increased accompanied by the whispers which became louder. The song wasn’t listed in the program, but that was not the issue. It was the absurdity of the claim, that it was the song of legend.
It is said that thousands of years ago, when the primitive men composed rudimentary music for the first time they felt grateful, so grateful that they wanted to honor the planet which gave them the capacity to create this marvel. And thus, with all their effort, they created a particular melody of great complexity and offered it as a tribute to their god, the planet.
The legend says that the planet was so grateful that it returned to them the melody imbued with magical properties, a challenge for the men to sculpt their fate. It carried the planet’s expression itself and if it were to be completely played again it would let people to mold the new path that humanity, that the entire world would take to their shape, it would literally make existence their material to create art.
However, due to the risks it meant, the planet also made the men to forgot how to play it, thus for them it was something completely new, and due to its complexity, no one was able to play it.
Eventually people would began to greed for the tablet that contained the melody and thus men begun to kill each other to gain its magnificent powers. Hundreds of years ago, people grew tired of this senseless killing and thus the king of the nation that currently held the tablet decided to split it into pieces and hid them in different corners of the world, a task he would fail to succeed and was completed by his descendants.
As scriptures claim, the song was written in such way that an organized group of at least fifty person would be required to play it, and although, crafted with primitive instruments, the composition was such that it would easily adapt to any modern method to create music.
Eventually the legend slowly fade apart and became a popular tale that mothers told to their kids in the form of a nursery rhyme.
And now, this man claimed that the tale was real and that he was going to perform it right here, right now.
Even if some thought of it as foolishness, their bodies still felt the anxiety and nervousness. Simply because…. What if that nursery rhyme were to be a truth? What if they indeed perform the song of legend?
What is this man…. claiming?... Thought Nadia astonished in her balcony