April 1
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Italian pianist and composer
"Take it for granted from the beginning that everything is possible on the piano, even when it seems impossible to you, or really is so." -- Ferruccio Busoni
马慧元< 悲情恰空> / 阿姗
http://www.mayacafe.com/forum/topic1sp.php3?tkey=1216788629
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Russian-born American composer and pianist
On Rachmaninoff's performing:
"Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed." -- Neville Cardus
他们演奏拉赫玛尼诺夫第琴三钢协奏曲 / zili
http://www.mayacafe.com/forum/topic1sp.php3?tkey=1052106485
- Re: Happy Birthday Busoni and Rachmaninoffposted on 04/02/2010
i really want my BD on April fool's day....that would make my life a lot more happier. - Re: Happy Birthday, Karajan and Previn!posted on 04/07/2010
April 5
Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989)
Austrian conductor
看过一段卡拉扬在 1940-41 的时候,为纳粹演奏 Die Meistersinger 的录像。当年他非常盛气凌人,跟后来的指挥风格截然不同。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrLFTW--Mr4
April 6
Andre Prévin (1929) German-born American pianist, composer, and conductor - Re: Happy Birthday Karajan and Previnposted on 04/07/2010
这卡拉扬是闭着眼睛指挥的?精力活现,有点阿姗迷的伯恩斯坦的风味:)
阿姗 wrote:
April 5
Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989)
Austrian conductor
那一线讨论巴赫的Chaconne,我听巴洛可歌剧,恰空是最常见的一种风格舞曲,我举
拉摩的名歌剧Castor et Pollux,中有几段恰空。 - posted on 04/09/2010
April 7
Billie Holiday (1915-1959) American jazz singer
Billy Holiday 的爵士乐(Jazz) / July
http://www.mayacafe.com/forum/topic1sp.php3?tkey=1188687254
Ravi Shankar (1920) Indian sitarist and composer
April 8
Franco Corelli (1921-2003) Italian tenor
Franco Corelli sings Nessun Dorma in a 1958 production of Puccini's Turandot. It is considered to be one of his greatest roles with the tenor at his technical and artistic peak.
第一次听别人说 Corelli 是在 Ann Arbor 的一个音响器材商店里。推销高级音响的是一个大胖子。他以前是在纽约大都会歌剧院唱歌剧的,唱 choir,可是后来他健康出了问题,不能再继续唱了。他对歌剧很狂热,好像觉得在音响店里卖器材有些大材小用了。他耐心的给我听了各种音响的组合,解释器材发烧友是发烧什么。我第一次听出不同音响带来的不同音色。他说他家里的 CD player 就5千多元。我们聊了很多关于音乐的,歌剧的,器材发烧的,很开心。他给我试听的音乐碟子里,就有 Corelli 唱的歌剧。他说回头给我翻录一盘。我本来是想买一个一百多块钱的小音响,结果硬是被说服,花了近两千元,买了一整套音响。后来他打电话来说,那个 Corelli 的 CD 录好了,我可以去取。我去了两三次,他都不在。我早已经搬走了,但他的 business card 我一直还留着呢。不知那盘 Corelli 是不是给了别人。
- Re: Happy Birthday Corelliposted on 04/09/2010
阿姗 wrote:记得theBeatles里的吉他高手George Harrison就是跟他学的Sitar:
Ravi Shankar (1920) Indian sitarist and composer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3l9awv1yhA
- posted on 04/09/2010
第一次听别人说 Corelli 是在 Ann Arbor 的一个音响器材商店里。推销高级音响的是一个大胖子。他以前是在纽约大都会歌剧院唱歌剧的,唱 choir,可是后来他健康出了问题,不能再继续唱了。他对歌剧很狂热,好像觉得在音响店里卖器材有些大材小用了。他耐心的给我听了各种音响的组合,解释器材发烧友是发烧什么。我第一次听出不同音响带来的不同音色。他说他家里的 CD player 就5千多元。我们聊了很多关于音乐的,歌剧的,器材发烧的,很开心。他给我试听的音乐碟子里,就有 Corelli 唱的歌剧。他说回头给我翻录一盘。我本来是想买一个一百多块钱的小音响,结果硬是被说服,花了近两千元,买了一整套音响。后来他打电话来说,那个 Corelli 的 CD 录好了,我可以去取。我去了两三次,他都不在。我早已经搬走了,但他的 business card 我一直还留着呢。不知那盘 Corelli 是不是给了别人。
......
阿姗这段写得好,实实在在,有感有情。实在的文字就有力度,不浪费字句。 - posted on 04/10/2010
Billie Holiday做过妓女,没上过学,说真的我觉得她才不在乎听她歌的人心酸还是心醉呢。BH说过唱歌对她来说就象吃烤鸭一样(她喜欢吃北京烤鸭)。她学会唱歌也是妓寨的留声机里学来的,一切就像风吹水流一样自然。那些灵魂深处的东西,是学不来的;灵魂若无相遇,感触不到的话,再怎么摸也是隔。
有次我坐出租,司机是个黑人,话痨,口水多过茶。碰巧那天我不高兴,头疼,实在有点受不了,最后我打定主意再不礼貌也要冷着他。结果他倒很关心的问我是不是不开心,我说我头疼。然后他说了一段话我一辈子也忘不了,他说咱们听爵士。我说哦你听爵士,他说:
“我小的时候,我爸爸病得快死了。有天下午,他很难受,他打开收音机,调到一个频道,让后招手让我过去。你听,他说,这是爵士。以后你长大了,如果难受得受不了,你就听爵士。”
老实说我从未听过任何一个受过高等教育的人把音乐和灵魂的关系描述的这么动人。
- Re: Happy Birthday Corelliposted on 04/10/2010
忘了说蓝调。我听过的最精辟的关于蓝调的总结是个胖大美国工程师对我说的。他说,蓝调的中心思想就是反复哀叹三件美国人心中最悲哀的事:
工作丢了
老婆跑了
狗死了 - Re: Happy Birthday Corelliposted on 04/10/2010
小麦 wrote:
忘了说蓝调。我听过的最精辟的关于蓝调的总结是个胖大美国工程师对我说的。他说,蓝调的中心思想就是反复哀叹三件美国人心中最悲哀的事:
工作丢了
老婆跑了
狗死了
No No, he got this all wrong. It should go like this:
If you play country music BACKWARDS, then your job comes back, your wife comes back, and your dog comes back. - Re: Happy Birthday Corelliposted on 04/10/2010
I think 胖大美国工程师 and gz both right! That is exactly the beauty of it. :-) - Re: Happy Birthday Corelliposted on 04/11/2010
小麦说得好!!
老实说我从未听过任何一个受过高等教育的人把音乐和灵魂的关系描述的这么动人。
- Re: Happy Birthday Corelliposted on 04/11/2010
“我小的时候,我爸爸病得快死了。有天下午,他很难受,他打开收音机,调到一个频道,让后招手让我过去。你听,他说,这是爵士。以后你长大了,如果难受得受不了,你就听爵士。”
说的好。我以前难受的时候,听斯特拉文斯基。 - posted on 04/15/2010
April 14
Julian Lloyd Webber (1951) British cellist
第一次见到 Julian Lloyd Webber 的名字,是在我买的一盒 CD 上。CD 封面写着:
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Variations
Julian Lloyd Webber
Cello
William Lloyd Webber
Aurora
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Lorin Maazel
怎么有这么多 Lloyd Webbers,一定是亲戚。音乐剧作曲家 Andrew Lloyd Webber 是家喻户晓的。另外两个呢?原来 William 是父亲(1914-1982),管风琴家、作曲家,Andrew 是哥哥(b.1948),Julian 是弟弟,大提琴家。母亲 Jean Hermione Johnstone 是钢琴家、小提琴家。真是音乐世家。
Variations 是 Andrew Lloyd Webber 1977 年的创作,以 Paganini 的 24th Caprice 为主题的变奏曲。CD liners 里这样写的:
On 17th May 1977 Andrew Lloyd Webber lost a bet to his brother Julian. His "forfeit" was to write a piece for "cello and rock band" for Julian. Thus it was that he began composing Variations on the theme of Paganini's A minor Caprice for Violin. This theme has been "varied" by an astonishing number of musicians from Liszt, Brahms and Rchmaninov to Benny Goodman and John Dankworth. Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Variations" were first performed by Julian Lloyd Webber and others at the Sydmonton Festival in August 1977.
Since then Variations has become one of his most popular and successful works both in live performance where it has also reserved as the music for the "Dance" half of Song and Dance (which alone played over 750 perormances at the Palace theatre, London before its transfer to Broadway in September 1985) and on recording achieving a gold record and becoming an international hit.
Variations shows the composer's sense of humour and fun more than any of his works other than perhaps Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968). It is full of musical jokes and has been described as one of his freshest compositions.
我很喜欢这个作品,听起来很来劲。下面这个录像是 Variations 的一部分 Lento misterioso / Theme / Variations 1-4,后面还有很长很长,一共 15 个变奏:
- posted on 04/16/2010
古典音乐我不能说什么,听的少,全然不懂。不过有人是听的,而且还有学音乐的朋友,常年下来别的没受教育,8卦倒都记住了。前面你说卡拉扬前后指挥风格的变化(前期盛气凌人),我一直忘了说,卡拉扬是圈里公认的暴君,盛气凌人这些到晚年都没有变的。我自己是看不出名堂来,这个是学音乐的人解释给我听,他的某些手势,通常行规是如何,而他的是如何(在行内人那就是非常粗暴),我才明白。搞音乐的人跟搞文学的人一样,私生活很不堪,他和穆特不清不楚的时候,穆特才14岁。
另外ALW的那个变奏曲,我听到的议论是初听好听,细听太花哨,太油滑。
弟弟朱力安的8卦倒是我自己看来的。他现在的太太是中国人。他和第三任太太离婚时,两个人大打出手,而且打得都很高调,伤不在下三路,全在脸上。搞得记者想装看不见不写这个都办不到。要知道一般情况下媒体对他们这些人是很客气的,不像对娱乐明星那样。比如annie leibovitz女儿的事,就只有谣言,报纸不会写的。
最后说到8卦,再跑一下题。全世界我最喜欢的老女人,GG同志,前几天放出一颗天雷,说她当年和费里尼有一腿。一个70岁的老女人,某天早上睡醒,不晓得那根筋动了,把这个写专栏里了(这是严肃专栏)。费里尼是如何勾搭她的,当初勾搭她时带的“brown silk pyjamas with cream piping”,期间不断打电话让太太查岗。。。简直让人骇笑不已。有兴趣的朋友可以移步观赏我的偶像年轻时的英姿(为这篇专栏,她特地把年轻时的小照片放上来了),以及现在的小朋友们对老女人当年情的热烈讨论。讨论范围广泛,涉及:英文文法,文艺8卦学,如何总结中心思想,女性主义,论8卦小报里娱乐明星绯闻和两颗伟大头脑相遇之不同,论60,70年代的美好,论为什么著名文艺男需要避免与著名文艺女发生关系。。。。
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/apr/11/germaine-greer-federico-fellini?showallcomments=true#comment-51 - posted on 04/16/2010
谢小麦。谢小麦的8卦。我的8卦知识贫乏至极,所以对人对事对物的理解都是只知其一,不知其二。卡拉扬我根本没研究过,小时候听母亲说他指挥好像要睡着的样子,又没人跟我讲他做暴君的八卦,就一直先入为主的以为他是沉稳的,后来我看到他盛气凌人的片子,觉得蛮 interesting。
ALW 的变奏曲你说的对。当初我买来的时候,感到很新奇,尤其是那些花里胡哨的东西,听过几次。后来一直没机会再听,大概10年了。这次因为要写我的 "blogging this month for birthday musicians",把 CD 找出来听了开头。这样的音乐当然不能一直听,就好像 ALW 的音乐剧,偶尔听听很有劲头,要是听上 750 遍,肯定要被烦死了。
小麦应该负责写 blogging this month for 8卦。今天是 Bessie Smith。
April 15
Bessie Smith (1894-1937) American blues, jazz, and vaudeville singer - posted on 04/16/2010
他恃才傲物,盛气凌人也是正常的。
阿姗太谦虚了,“弹”音乐和“谈”音乐是不一样的。更何况我连“谈”都不是。花边而已。其实是疑心这么8下去就要真应了台湾去年红透网络那位宅女小红的名言:“每个人的心中,都有一座垃圾山。”
这个系列挺好的,泛起很多许久未念及的人事,许久未听的音乐。比如Bessie Smith,要去翻她的CD出来,估计还要找一阵。
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对了,一直忘了说去年你推荐的Flannery O'Connor真的好。虽然没时间,看得慢,一天一点。她真的是我读过的最好的美国短篇小说家,天份极高。前两天看到《The Displaced Person》里的一句话,“The devil you know is better than the devil you don't." 很惊讶,因为这其实就是统计学基础里proportional-reduction-in-error (PRE)的Rule 1 和Rule 2:
Rule 1: random guessing in the absence of prior information
Rule 2: predicting with the knowledge of the independent variable
整句话实际阐述了PRE的公式:PRE=(ERROR1-ERROR2)/ERROR1
可见这些天才,文学也好科学也好,真的都是通的。不通之余还要彼此深沟高垒的只是我们这些俗子。 - posted on 04/19/2010
April 18
Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) British-born American conductor
前几天收拾书架,发现一本破旧的乐谱,是 Bach-Stokowski Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, symphonic transcription,不知是哪年在哪个 book sale 上花几毛钱买的。有一段时间我很疯狂的收集总谱,后来也没时间读。这本我就从来没翻过。我也没有这个作品的录音。想到以后可能也没有时间再学习总谱了,就打算在网上转让这本谱子。顺便到 youtube 上看了看,居然看到 Stokowski 1969 年亲自指挥的表演:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyF4YyFXIfc&NR=1 (part 2)
我对 Stokowski 没有什么了解,只大约知道他是个指挥。翻看他的生平。他在伦敦出生的 Polish-Irish 音乐家,在美国成的名。他把 Philadelphia Orchestra 变成世界一流的乐队,向美国听众介绍了很多当代的作曲家,录制了大量的唱片,还建立了我以前常去听的 Hollywood Bowl Orchestra。他也是乐曲改写的高手,把很多 Bach 的独奏音乐都改写成交响乐,包括以前我讨论过的 Chaconne。我和孩子们喜欢看的 Fantasia 里面的指挥也是他。原来我对他一直还都有接触。
赶快查看他的生日,正好就是这两天。真巧。
跟着总谱看 Stokowski 指挥,真棒。这本乐谱我留下来了。他在谱子里写的前言是这样的:
Bach's passacaglia is in music, what a great Gothic cathedral is in architecture--the same vast conception--the same soaring mysticism given eternal form. He left us no orchestral compositions of this grandeur, probably because the orchestra was too little developed in his time. His Brandenburg Concerti and the Orchestral suites are more intimate works written for the salon. The most free and sublime instrumental expressions of Bach are his greater organ works, and one of the greatest of the these is the Passacaglia in C Minor. Many do not often enough have the opportunity to hear it, and so to bring it nearer to those who love Bach's music, I have made this symphonic transcription.
借此机会,也给雪妹妹祝贺,生日快乐!
This passacaglia is one of those musical conceptions whose content is so full and significant, that its medium of expression is of relative unimportance. Wether played on the organ, or by the greatest of all instruments--the orchestra--it is one of the most divinely inspired creations ever conceived. - Re: Happy Birthday Bessie Smithposted on 04/19/2010
最喜欢听小麦8卦。你是8卦高手,连诸葛亮都敢8。你帮我们8回来,我就不用自己去了。
关于 Flannery O'Connor,你能看通,真好。我现在是看什么都不通,不但不通,还自己把通的东西给断开,给堵上。也不知这是人生的什么阶段。 - posted on 04/19/2010
阿姗,Emily Dickinson (ED)有一首很有名的诗,"The Soul has Bandaged moments" (No.360)。也许你读了会喜欢。人生无论什么阶段,最重要的不是希望,而是勇气。这首诗相当绝望,却有令人震惊的高贵的勇气。
The Soul has Bandaged moments --
When too appalled to stir --
She feels some ghastly Fright come up
And stop to look at her --
Salute her -- with long fingers --
Caress her freezing hair --
Sip, Goblin, from the very lips
The Lover -- hovered -- o'er --
Unworthy, that a thought so mean
Accost a Theme -- so -- fair --
The soul has moments of Escape --
When bursting all the doors --
She dances like a Bomb, abroad,
And swings upon the Hours,
As do the Bee -- delirious borne --
Long Dungeoned from his Rose --
Touch Liberty -- then know no more,
But Noon, and Paradise --
The Soul's retaken moments --
When, Felon led along,
With shackles on the plumed feet,
And staples, in the Song,
The Horror welcomes her, again,
These, are not brayed of Tongue --
- Re: Happy Birthday Bessie Smithposted on 04/19/2010
我觉得,如果大家不是准备当职业芭蕾舞演员或举重选手的话,我真觉不出年龄大小或老幼能改变或决定什么。如果能改变,也不过是跳出了自己鞋子的幻觉。
每种年龄都有它独特的美和吸引力。最美的时候,应该在六十左右。性功能还好,成熟,深厚,敏锐,智慧,也不躁。
当然,目前还不容易被六十岁左右的人turn on, 再等等吧。 - posted on 04/20/2010
喜欢这条线,和小麦贴的这首诗,灵魂的挣扎!
小麦 wrote:
阿姗,Emily Dickinson (ED)有一首很有名的诗,"The Soul has Bandaged moments" (No.360)。也许你读了会喜欢。人生无论什么阶段,最重要的不是希望,而是勇气。这首诗相当绝望,却有令人震惊的高贵的勇气。
The Soul has Bandaged moments --
When too appalled to stir --
She feels some ghastly Fright come up
And stop to look at her --
Salute her -- with long fingers --
Caress her freezing hair --
Sip, Goblin, from the very lips
The Lover -- hovered -- o'er --
Unworthy, that a thought so mean
Accost a Theme -- so -- fair --
The soul has moments of Escape --
When bursting all the doors --
She dances like a Bomb, abroad,
And swings upon the Hours,
As do the Bee -- delirious borne --
Long Dungeoned from his Rose --
Touch Liberty -- then know no more,
But Noon, and Paradise --
The Soul's retaken moments --
When, Felon led along,
With shackles on the plumed feet,
And staples, in the Song,
The Horror welcomes her, again,
These, are not brayed of Tongue --
- Re: Happy Birthday Bessie Smithposted on 04/20/2010
谢谢小麦, 有时小麦的帖子有点"调侃", 但这句话说得太好了:
"人生无论什么阶段,最重要的不是希望,而是勇气。" - Re: Happy Birthday Bessie Smithposted on 04/21/2010
小米 wrote:
天打雷劈,小麦和小米井冈山会师了。lol
不过这个季节现在那边正是杜鹃花开。 - Re: Happy Birthday Bessie Smithposted on 04/21/2010
哈,冬天过了,春天来了,杜鹃花在这也开得争先恐后的,在花丛中忙得是啥呀?;-)
你还欠我bishop的8卦:-)
小麦 wrote:
天打雷劈,小麦和小米井冈山会师了。lol
不过这个季节现在那边正是杜鹃花开。 - posted on 04/21/2010
小米 wrote:
哈,冬天过了,春天来了,杜鹃花在这也开得争先恐后的,在花丛中忙得是啥呀?;-)
你还欠我bishop的8卦:-)
井冈山我没去过。听去过的朋友说春天满山都是杜鹃,应了映山红这个名字,很美。国共当年真是煞风景啊。至于这边的杜鹃,老实说我不但五谷不分,花也大部分不分的。左右都是花。
春天到了,难道大伙不是都一样,忙着春心荡漾吗?春心荡漾麦小米,米小麦,嘻嘻。
毕晓普这旧年的陈账,你还记着哪?我争取夏天给你哈。
(阿姗不好意思把你正经贴搞成水贴了。我不说了哈) - Re: Happy Birthday Bessie Smithposted on 04/22/2010
谢谢小麦贴的 Dickinson 的诗,我非常喜欢。I wonder if anyone has attempted to set it to music.
小米小麦小凯小秋子等小朋友们继续聊。欢迎你们到我的线里来玩。招呼不周,不好意思。
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