虛幻的人生,實在的生活
人生到處知何似？應似飛鴻踏雪泥。泥上偶然留指爪，鴻飛那複計東西
到紐約大我20多歲的友人家,她全家都是opera的愛好者,她的大姐姐是音樂係畢業的.她自己本身是opera俱樂部的會員.
雖然這次是因為她病了,去看她的,但是,因為相同的愛好,那天晚上,點燃了蠟燭,就開始聽Jessye Norman 的CD.
豎琴聲仿佛是從宇宙的邊緣,如海邊悄悄到來的海潮, 漫漫的, 歌聲,輕輕的就這樣漾過來了,......42街的高層樓上,樓下車水馬龍的流動的燈河,樓上燭火搖曳,白色的窗簾微舞,襯著遠方微微泛瀾的河海,和高樓上五彩的霓虹燈.......美麗的歌聲中,仿佛看到天使的翅膀在黑色的蒼穹上飛翔,天堂的光亮從翅膀後麵偷射過來....光亮中多少受傷的心的傷痕在歌聲中被撫平, 祈望在歌聲中上升,心中的煩躁在歌聲中變的寧靜........是從心裏出來的歌嗎,無須言語, 何須言語, 就這樣,似乎身心在歌聲中被清洗的聖潔和透明.......
這是天堂來的歌聲嗎,好的音樂是會讓心和它一起共鳴,讓眼淚和它一起流淌, 無論在那裏聽到它,因為這樣的音樂,就讓所在的地方成了似乎是最靠近上帝的地方,這樣的歌聲,在這樣的夜裏,是我友人醫病最好的藥,是我心最好的處方, 就這一刻, 幾乎讓我愛上這一刻嘈雜中的寧靜的紐約........
聽過很多版本的Ave Maria, 但是覺得還是Jessye Norman 唱的這個古諾的版本最好, Jessye Norman也唱過green sleeve, 也是我聽過的覺得最能表現這個歌曲精髓的版本.
當然這隻是個人之見而已,但是因為喜歡就放在這上麵, 希望有緣聽到的人也喜歡.嗬嗬,喜歡opera 的人都知道Jessye Norman不是一般的有名,雖然這個錄像的效果沒辦法象在音響中的效果那麽好,但是沒辦法,找不到其他的版本,隻能用這個錄像來一瞡她美麗的歌聲了.
Ave Maria 的原歌詞
The full Latin prayer when spoken, as well as the Dutch version of the prayer, read as follows , The full Latin prayer when spoken, as well as the Dutch version of the prayer, read as follows
Ave Maria | Wees gegroet Maria |
翻譯成英文 : 意思如下 :
Hail Maria
Full of grace
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou among women
And blessed is Jesus
The fruit of thy womb
Holy Maria
Mother of God
Pray for us sinners
Now and in the hour of our death
Amen.
演唱者介紹:
當代最受尊敬的歌劇演唱家之一 --Jessye Norman( 介紹部分摘自 Wikipedia )
Jessye Norman (born September 15, 1945) is an American soprano opera singer. Norman is one of the most admired contemporary opera singers and recitalists, and one of the highest paid performers in classical music. A true dramatic soprano with a majestic stage presence, Norman is associated in particular with the roles of Aïda, Cassandre, Alceste, and Leonora in Fidelio. Norman has been given the nickname 'Just Enormous' for her powerful voice.
Norman was born in Augusta, Georgia in a family of amateur musicians; her mother a pianist, her father a singer in a local choir.
Norman received a scholarship to Howard University, graduating in 1967 with a degree in music, and from the University of Michigan with a Masters Degree in 1968. The following year, she won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She made her operatic debut in 1969 as Elisabeth in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Berlin State Opera, and in subsequent years performed with various German and Italian opera companies. She returned to the US to make her professional concert debut at Lincoln Center in 1973.
Norman made her debut in 1983 at the Metropolitan Opera in Berlioz's Les Troyens in a production which marked the company's 100th anniversary season.
Norman is frequently called on to perform at public events and ceremonies. These have included the 1985 and 1997 U.S. presidential inaugurations, the sixtieth birthday celebration of Queen Elizabeth II, and, perhaps most memorably, the observation of the bicentennial of the French Revolution in Paris's Place de la Concorde, at which she sang La Marseillaise as part of an elaborate pageant orchestrated by avant-garde designer Jean-Paul Goude.
In December 1997, Jessye Norman was invested with the USA's highest award in the performing arts, the Kennedy Center Honor, making history as the youngest recipient in the Honors’ 20-year existence. Her many other prestigious awards and distinctions include honorary doctorates at the some thirty colleges, universities and conservatories around the world. In 1984 the French Government bestowed upon her the title "Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris named an orchid for her. In October 1989 she was awarded the "Legion d’Honneur" by French President Mitterand, and in June 1990 she was named Honorary Ambassador to the United Nations by U.N. Secretary Xavier Perez de Cueller.
Jessye Norman’s distinguished catalogue of recordings has won numerous awards, including France’s "Grand Prix National du Disque" for albums of lieder by Wagner, Schumann, Mahler and Schubert; London’s prestigious Gramophone Award for her outstanding interpretation of Strauss’ Four Last Songs; Amsterdam’s Edison Prize; and recording honors in Belgium, Spain, and Germany. In the USA, her Grammy Award winning recording includes "Songs of Maurice Ravel," and Wagner’s Lohengrin and Die Walküre. She was winner of an "Ace" Award from the National Academy of Cable Programming for "Jessye Norman at Notre Dame." Recordings released recently are Das Lied von der Erde, with James Levine and Berliner Philharmoniker, and Bluebeard’s Bastle, with Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which has received four Grammy nominations. In addition to her operatic performances, Norman gives regular recitals, singing arias, Lieder, and spirituals, and collaborates with other artists: Norman premiered the song cycle woman.life.song by composer Judith Weir, a work commissioned for her by Carnegie Hall, with texts by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Clarissa Pinkola Estés; performed a selection of sacred music of Duke Ellington; recorded a jazz album, Jessye Norman Sings Michel Legrand; and was the soprano co-lead in Vangelis' project Mythodea.
The singer's public manner combines an apparent hauteur with flashes of disarming humor, putting her squarely in the venerable operatic tradition of the Diva, to the extent that many credit her as the inspiration for the title character in the 1981 French film Diva.
Her hometown, Augusta, Georgia, dedicated a riverfront amphitheater named in her honor in the early 1990s. Since the early 1990s Norman has lived in Croton on Hudson, NY in a secluded estate known as The White Gates which she purchased from television personality Allen Funt.
On September 22nd, in Pasadena, California, after giving a performance at Blair IB Magnet High School, Pasadena's mayor declared that day "Jessye Norman Day" in Pasadena.
悠遠聖潔，很喜歡，相信那一刻一定非常的非人間，這就是音樂的力量。
去電驢上搜了搜，好多。不過，有時，一刹那便是永遠，牢牢盤住在心裏了。