梅岡寄情

『Something Stupid』是一首相當經典的二重唱歌曲。我被銘印的版本是羅比威廉斯（Robbie Williams）和妮可基嫚（Nicole Kidman）合唱的六年級生版。

妮可在『紅磨坊』（Moulin Rouge）唱作俱佳的表現令我直呼上帝怎麼可以這麼不公平，賦予沈魚落雁的的她如此甜美的歌聲。而其大作『時時刻刻』（The Hours）更是讓我拜服其精讚的演技。

在『Something Stupid』MV裡的妮可更是嫵媚動人又可人，喜歡她的影迷絕不可錯過這個精彩的小品喔！

這次的表演有首相當特別的歌曲：『Supermassive Black Hole』(by Muse)。

一開始聽到這首歌，只覺得聽起來有點吵雜，音符很紛亂，詭譎的吉他顫音處處點綴。聽久了以後，越覺得這首曲子有種特殊的魅力，對我而言好似伍佰的『樹枝孤鳥』般地令聽覺神經亢奮，奇特的合音與調性彷彿烙印在杏仁核裡，不斷地在腦中放送主唱（兼吉他手）狂放的假音。

我特別在YouTube搜尋它的MTV，好一窺樂手真面目，沒想到……。（按按下方的連結吧～）

Oh baby dont you know I suffer?
Oh baby can you hear me moan?
You caught me under false pretences
How long before you let me go?

You set my soul alight
You set my soul alight

(You set my soul alight)
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive

(You set my soul alight)
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the 'supermassive'

I thought I was a fool for no-one
Oh baby I'm a fool for you
You're the queen of the superficial
And how long before you tell the truth

You set my soul alight
You set my soul alight

(You set my soul alight)
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive

早上花了兩三個小時才把『靜止』裡的一個吉他聲部整理出來，小練了幾回決定轉戰『Last Christmas』，但我的小兔耳怎麼聽就是只凹得出十二個小節的單音。無奈整首歌曲鍵盤的合音比重非常高，再怎麼豎起耳朵只是增加挫折感指數而已。掙扎了十五分鐘後我只好舉白旗，直接在網路上收尋套譜。

拜GOOGLE大神之賜，我順利地在一家線上販賣套譜的公司找到還算完整的樂譜，還一併找出一段超精彩的吉他表演。

如果說，George Michael（喬治麥可）的版本熱血地表達出對過去戀人的狂愛，那麼Kotaro Oshio押尾光太郎的獨奏則是深邃地引出心上一陣刺麻的痛，流露出與逝去的愛告別之無奈與感傷。聽到George Michael的歌聲，會想要大聲地和他一起唱和，跟著節奏一起舞動；但，聽著Kotaro Oshio的演奏，與舊愛的甜蜜記憶會不自主地浮現出來，讓人低迴那無盡的繾綣。

喜歡『Last Christmas』的看倌們，肯定也像我一樣會愛上這個版本的！

I can’t believe it! I saw John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma and Steven Spielberg tonight.

Some friends and I went west to enjoy the BSO POPs at Tanglewood. Tonight’s show is film music. John William conducted the BSO along with Yo-Yo Ma’s “incomparable” cello performance. I was moved to tears as I heard the music from “Memoirs of a Geisha”. On the top of the great music, some sections of the movie were projected on a huge screen.

Not just that, after the intermission came the classic: “Star War.” I was literally jumping and dancing as the overture began. The movie was narrated by James Earl Jones (the owner of Darth Vader’s voices.) With the movie at the site, the entire show was awesomely pleasant.

What a night!

I went to Bon Jovi’s concert tonight! Needless to say, his performance is awesome! The crowds were crazy for him, dancing and singing all the way. However, it’s a pity for me that he did not review many old songs but sang lots of new songs. Still, I got to hear one of my favorite songs, “I’ll be there for you.”

This song reminds me of you. I remember that you used to be fascinated by my performance on stage. You used to enjoy hearing me singing the love songs by Bon Jovi. Yet, the precious memories I had are now bitter and sorrows.

Until now, I still sing songs for you, only in the depth of my heart though.

I'll be there for you, these five words I swear to you
When you breathe I wanna be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
I'd steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what love can do
I'll be there for you ...

本來是想自己針對『Send in the Clowns』寫一篇很認真的心得感想的。沒想到Google到一篇超級無敵的文章，我決定放棄啦！直接轉貼連結如下：

http://william.cswiz.org/blog/archives/2005-11-05/send_in_the_clowns/

I went to College of Fine Arts Concert Hall for a flute recital tonight.

The performance was awesome. One of the repertoires “The Great Train Race”, by Ian Clarke, was superb! The speed of the solo was incredibly fast. The flautist played so fluently and fleetingly that the audience found breathing a difficult task, almost suffocated.

I am so envying the performer. I wish I could also be a professional artist like her!

I went to the Sanders Theatre this afternoon to see The Dudley House Orchestra.

One of the repertoires is “The Year 1917” composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, a Russian composer of the Soviet period. The symphony is quite grandiose and unique. The reason D. Shostakovich composed this piece was because that the in 1960, the Communist Party directed him to write a symphony celebrating Lenin and the October Revolution of 1917.

The first movement is a grand opening. Then, the music develops even more expressive. (It sounds kind of like Gustav Mahler’s to me, but more elegant and not that deeper.) As for the fourth movement, it even sounds as dramatic as film music t, perhaps a little bit overblown. Some critics assert that the arrangement of the first movement’s inversion in fourth movement is probably ironic sarcasm. They wonder whether this means that “the people’s suffering has been turned around, or their new situation isn’t very different from the old one.”

Over all, the performance is quite professional. The Harvard graduates really did a great job interpreting this master piece.