二胡小姐

新聲國樂團中一位二胡小妹妹提醒了我一件事：

若干年前，我是一個二胡教師。上課時，甫踏進課室，得見當中的小學生全都用盡全身氣力在死命的拉拉拉，拉得像宰豬殺鴨。他們是用心練習的，只因我是一個惡巴巴的二胡老師 (這是我唯一自豪的地方)，為免遭到我的破口大罵，所以於我尚未出現之前，他們都拼了命的練習。可實在拉得太「有力」了，嘰嘰喳喳的，不像拉二胡卻像鋸樹。通常發生這情況，大概是他們學了一至兩個月的時間。

到了這時候，我就會跟他們說：「各位同學，你們知道嗎？二胡其實是一位女孩子，你們拉二胡的時候，就像是拖著女孩子的手那般，不能太用力的喲。你們拖著媽媽的手時，不會用力的握著她的手要弄傷你們親愛的媽媽吧。二胡是一位小姐，你們要牢記呀。」

大概是這些說話吧，記不得 exact wording了。

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二胡小妹妹不是我從前的學生。某年前的一個星期六下午，我到她的母校教二胡，當時中一的她剛巧回母校玩，跑到我的課室當旁聽生。當時她說我的比喻很搞笑 (我不用「有趣」這個詞語)，會永遠記著。現在她是新聲國樂團拉弦聲部的一員，好幾次練習前/後碰面，都對我說：「我會記得二胡小姐的。」

p.s.
音樂伴我多年，只有「她」沒有離開我，只有「她」對我忠誠。其他的...

p.p.s
母親大人與朋友們是對我不離不棄的，可我是個非常難相處的人，多謝。

休息一天 (1)

同事說︰blog不是要生活化一點的嗎？今天試著寫點生活的東西。

今天新聲放假，一整天都在家裡，一整天都睡，睡死了，享受了一天懶慵慵的生活。老實說，有空就本當要練習練習，下雨了，提不起勁。今天改姓賴，「賴得就賴」。難得一天懶洋洋，什麼都不用想不用做，是上天的恩賜。

天堂天堂…

THE SENCES OF THE RITE OF SPRING

Part I: Adoration of the Earth
1.Introduction
2.The Augurs of Spring (Dances of the Young Girls)
3.Ritual of Abduction
4.Spring Rounds (Round Dance)
5.Ritual of the Rival Tribes
6.Procession of the Sage
7.The Sage (Adoration of the Earth)
8.Dance of the Earth

Part II: The Sacrifice
1.Introduction
2.Mystic Circles of the Young Girls
3.The Glorification of the Chosen One
4.Evocation of the Ancestors
5.Ritual Action of the Ancestors
6.Sacrificial Dance (the Chosen One;L'Elue)

p.s.
If we don't have Igor Stravinsky, we don't have twenthith century music. Pls remember thi brilliant name and remember The Rite of Spring.

reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring

THE PREMIERE OF THE RITE OF SPRING

The first performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring on May 29, 1913, was greeted by a riot. As he told the story almost half a century later, he was as shocked by the audience's reaction as some listeners were by the spectacle. Apparently it was the choreography, more than the music, that provoked the audience, and ever since the piece has usually been performed in concert rather than as ballet.

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That the first performance of Le Sacre du Printemps was attened by a scandal must be known to everybody. Strange as it may seem, however, I was unprepared for the explosion myself. The reactions of the musicians who came to the orchestra rehearsals were without intimation of it and the stage spectacle did not appear likely to precipitate a riot...

Mild protests against the music could be heard from the very beginning of the performance. Then, when the curtain opened on the group of knock-kneed and long-braided Lolitas jumping up and down [Danses des adolescentes], the storm broke. Cries of "Ta gueule" ["Shut up!"] came from behind me. I heard Florent Schmitt shout "Taisez-vous garces du seizieme" ["Be quite, you bitches of the sixteenth"]; the "grace" of the sixteenth arrondissement [the most fashionable residential district of Paris] were, of course, the most elegant ladies in Paris. The uproar continued, however, and a few minutes later I left the hall in a rage; I was sitting on the right near the orchestra, and I remember slamming the door. I have never again been that angry. The music was so familiar to me; I loved it, and I could not understand why people who had not yet heard it wanted to protest in advance. I arrived in a fury backstage, where I saw Diaghilev flicking the house lights in a last effort to quiet the hall. For the rest of the performance I stood in the wings behind Nijinsky holding the tails of his frac, while the he stood on a chair shouting number to the dancers, like a coxswain.

From Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, Expositions and Development (New York: Doubleday, 1962) 159-64.

Reference:
J. Peter Burkholder, Donald J. Grout and Cladue V. Palisca - A History of Western Music (Seventh Edition 2006) p.824

p.s.
今天終於購得卡拉揚 (Herbert von Karajan) 指揮柏林管弦樂團 (Berliner Philharmoniker)的「春之祭」CD。同碟更有穆索斯基 (Modest Mussorgsky) 的「圖畫展覽會」(Picture at an Exhibition)。本來只打算於旺角四處漫無目的逛逛走走，最後竟於無心插柳的情況下，以68元購得此二手CD，實在喜出望外，最重要是︰「又平又靚又正」。

p.p.s.
我一直想買的是「春之祭」CD，誰指揮都無所謂。有大師卡拉揚的演出，當然是最好的。

汨羅江幻想曲 - 五月廿四日於屯門大會堂

苦練音樂後得到的禮物就是別人的讚賞。

我可是每一天都練習音樂的，未必是中胡，但現在差不多每天都會練一下二胡。先是用調音器練音準，再將某個特定的換把動作重重複複做上三、四十遍，以求每次都準確到位。加上我的學生現在倒反多起來了，每天都有機會接觸我的最愛，那怕是五分鐘、十分鐘的空檔時間，都會是一個練音準的好機會。

只想做好自己，快快樂樂練 /學 /演奏音樂。其他的，都管不了了。

p.s.
我日日都噤得閒
唔練琴做得d乜呀
哈哈

懸崖邊的樹 - 曾卓(1922-2002)

不知道是什麼奇異的風
將一棵樹吹到那邊 ---
平原的盡頭
臨近深谷的懸崖上

它傾聽遠處森林的喧嘩
和深谷中小溪的歌唱
它孤獨地站在那裡
顯得寂寞而又倔強

它的彎曲的身體
留下了風的形狀
它似乎即將傾跌進深谷裡
却又像是要展翅飛翔......