我有幾盤巴洛克音樂的光碟,是十幾年前在商店清倉甩賣的時候買的,買回來之後多半時間都放在車上的光碟機中。到現在車已經換了一部,那幾盤光碟卻是舊酒被請入新瓶,依舊是我的座上高朋。在夜裏驅車,地平線深處的最後一縷紫色終於走遠,太太與孩子都在車內沉沉睡去,相伴的隻有遠遠的幾對車燈和螢火蟲時而撞在擋風玻璃上的滴答聲。我便伸手打開那裝著舊酒的新瓶蓋,巴赫的 Air on the G
String, Sheep May Safely Graze 和 Sleepers Awake 就徐徐散發出陳年的醇香。
上大學的時候最喜歡的音樂家是莫紮特。在莫紮特的絕代天才麵前,別人的旋律都似乎笨重無比。看到有人說年輕人喜歡莫紮特,老年人喜歡貝多芬,我很是為老年人悲哀。那時對巴赫一無所知,但從多年後偶然聽到巴赫開始,他的音樂就成了我最好的朋友。每次打開youtube, 最經常搜索的就是巴赫音樂的各種版本。從那時起也發現莫紮特的音樂成了兒童小說,無論情節如何精彩都抓不住我的注意力了。可能是因為我的年紀長了,我的音樂朋友的年紀也該長一點吧。我一直聽不太進去貝多芬的音樂。推崇巴赫最力的當代鋼琴家Glenn
Gould 說: “The grandeur of Beethoven resides in the struggle, rather than in the
occasional transcendence that he achieves… It might never again be
possible for us to own more than a glimpse of that inordinate state of ecstasy
which Sebastian Bach never thought to question.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQ8YEUkUjg)我覺得這個評價頗為精辟,盡管後半句有點誇張。巴赫是人不是神,是人就會有人的掙紮 (struggle)。神的沒有掙紮的超越(transcendence)隻是人的臆想,人的掙紮之後的超越才是真實的。
"A Patronus is a kind of positive force, and for the wizard who can conjure one, it works something like a shield, with the Dementor feeding on it, rather than him. In order for it to work, you need to think of a memory. Not just any memory, a very happy memory, a very powerful memory… Allow it to fill you up... lose yourself in it... then speak the incantation "Expecto Patronum"."
—Remus Lupin teaching Harry Potter the Patronus Charm
胡渙 發表評論於
我覺得Harry Potter 風靡世界的一個重要原因就是那裏麵的spiritual journey. 同樣是神怪奇幻,跟《西遊記》和《封神演義》比一下就知道。
我喜歡的一個情節是The Mirror of Erised:
Albus Dumbledore: "Let me explain. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?"
Harry Potter: "It shows us what we want… whatever we want…"
Albus Dumbledore: "Yes and no. It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts."
這段話來自wikipedia:
According to Rowling, a major theme in the series is death: "My books are largely about death. They open with the death of Harry's parents. There is Voldemort's obsession with conquering death and his quest for immortality at any price, the goal of anyone with magic. I so understand why Voldemort wants to conquer death. We're all frightened of it."
我覺得Harry Potter 的故事不隻奇幻冒險,也挺深刻,是一個 spiritual journey. 最喜歡Jim Dale誦讀的有聲書,繪聲繪影,栩栩如生,看電影反而覺得沒有意思了。
Very interesting comment by Glenn Gould. I guess all the great artists follow their inner voices, not the trend. All the great men do the same.
胡渙 發表評論於
莫紮特和巴赫的不同的一個原因可能是莫紮特成名太早。在聚光燈下長大可能剝奪了他發展獨立思想的機會。
想起Harry Potter一開始兩位托孤者的對話:
McGonagall: This boy will be famous. There won't be a child in our world that doesn't know his name.
Dumbledore: Exactly. He's better off growing up away from all that... until he is ready.
Glenn Gould 那段評論還有很多有意思的話,比如(大意):
Bach had absolutely no effect on the public or the musicians of his time... it was not because he was ahead of his time... but because he was generations behind his time.
By the time Sebastian Bach died, it was his sons who were considered the masters of music.
我有幾盤巴洛克音樂的光碟,是十幾年前在商店清倉甩賣的時候買的,買回來之後多半時間都放在車上的光碟機中。到現在車已經換了一部,那幾盤光碟卻是舊酒被請入新瓶,依舊是我的座上高朋。在夜裏驅車,地平線深處的最後一縷紫色終於走遠,太太與孩子都在車內沉沉睡去,相伴的隻有遠遠的幾對車燈和螢火蟲時而撞在擋風玻璃上的滴答聲。我便伸手打開那裝著舊酒的新瓶蓋,巴赫的 Air on the G
String, Sheep May Safely Graze 和 Sleepers Awake 就徐徐散發出陳年的醇香。
上大學的時候最喜歡的音樂家是莫紮特。在莫紮特的絕代天才麵前,別人的旋律都似乎笨重無比。看到有人說年輕人喜歡莫紮特,老年人喜歡貝多芬,我很是為老年人悲哀。那時對巴赫一無所知,但從多年後偶然聽到巴赫開始,他的音樂就成了我最好的朋友。每次打開youtube, 最經常搜索的就是巴赫音樂的各種版本。從那時起也發現莫紮特的音樂成了兒童小說,無論情節如何精彩都抓不住我的注意力了。可能是因為我的年紀長了,我的音樂朋友的年紀也該長一點吧。我一直聽不太進去貝多芬的音樂。推崇巴赫最力的當代鋼琴家Glenn
Gould 說: “The grandeur of Beethoven resides in the struggle, rather than in the
occasional transcendence that he achieves… It might never again be
possible for us to own more than a glimpse of that inordinate state of ecstasy
which Sebastian Bach never thought to question.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQ8YEUkUjg)我覺得這個評價頗為精辟,盡管後半句有點誇張。巴赫是人不是神,是人就會有人的掙紮 (struggle)。神的沒有掙紮的超越(transcendence)隻是人的臆想,人的掙紮之後的超越才是真實的。