蕭邦:最像貓的作曲家 The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer

The New York Times, August 04, 2017     

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/arts/music/jeremy-denk-chopin.html?_r=0

accessed August 7, 2017

●哥倫比亞大學漢學研究是美國第一所。它的來源竟是一位華人文盲捐出一生忠心作僕人所的...。感人而真實的故事。誠摯推薦。

林中斌 2017.7.23

●為什麼蕭邦像貓？他敏感而優雅。
●為什麼李斯特像狗？ 他熱情、友善、太急於討好。
●美國當今名鋼琴家和音樂散文家 Jeremy Denk 如是說。

林中斌 2017.8.7

●Chopin was sensitive like a cat.

● Liszt …had many virtues but was never as subtle or tasteful as Chopin: He was an enthusiastic, friendly dog, often too eager to please.

●The quintessential Chopin gesture is to mark a bass note staccato while instructing you to put down the pedal. Why would you play short and then let the sound linger?...It creates a different timbre, and a different meaning：a release that remains. The foundation, the deepest note, is left as light, pillowy：a perfect analogue to cat’s paw, the sense of grace that lifts from below.                                                                                                                                       

Excerpted by Chong-Pin Lin August 7, 2017

Cubana by Len Williams

2010/05/24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Disa18lfP08&feature=share

accessed Apr 8, 2017

●古巴民族靈魂深處留出的舞曲，活潑中帶了一絲的憂傷。第二部分是鉤起回憶的歌謠，。
推薦個人已聽了數十年的音樂。                            

林中斌 2017.4.8

●This lively yet sentimental music is inspired by the Cuban folk melody composed in the form of a dance which I have listened to over decades. Each time, it touches me and echoes in me for hours.

 Chong-Pin Lin April 8, 2017

2017.2.17 心靈復興與聲音美學

中華整合醫學與健康促進協會 

http://www.cimpha.com

● 這是樓宇偉博士的通知邀請函。

● 2017年2月17日周五徬晚有在下與陳宏遠先生對音樂、音響、心靈經驗的請益和對話。

● 陳先生自美國University of Pennsylvania 畢業後從事企業多年，但一生欣賞古典音樂、學製提琴古箏、鑽研acoustics、親身體驗世界各大音樂廳、學佛、隻身入西藏求道、著有英文小說The Hutong Boy(見圖)。

● 樓宇偉博士MIT太空博士、曾任GE manager、回國後在漢翔服務數十年、內觀修行(遠赴緬甸)數十年、讀遍英文靈學書籍資料。是在下之"善知識"老師。

● 以下是在下部落格音樂部份的項目，敬請賜教。

1.For Alice

http://chongpinlin.pixnet.net/blog/post/65346681

2.林中斌-古典音樂台愛樂陣線2004/03/14

http://chongpinlin.pixnet.net/blog/post/65346681

林中斌 2017.2.10

11-Year-Old Composes First Opera

TIME, NOV 26, 2016

http://ti.me/2gymTv2

This 11-year-old composer is about to debut her first opera.

喬治亞魯斯塔維合唱團安可曲

2016/11/17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=bJYEzYSP20o&app=desktop

• 喬治亞是宗教清唱(Gregorian chant)的發源地。這團男聲合唱的合音和獨唱的輕聲頭腔共鳴遠超過預期，也超過華人唱自己歌謠的水準。令人感動又佩服。
• 感謝賈將軍兆坤提供。

林中斌 2016.11.16

Narciso Yepes - Romance - Jeux interdits – Guitare

Youtube, Feb 14, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBgDq5N6lCs&app=desktop

accessed Feb 14, 2016

l  The most popular piece of music in Spain, the land of chivalry, magic and passion. Yet far from being ribald, and rowdy, it is elegant, and elevating. It's composer is anonymous, its source unknown, and its name, previously lacking, now borrowed from the 1952 French film "Jeux Interdits" that used it as the theme song. The player, grand master Narciso Yepes, reportedly composed the guitar music at age 9. But he himself denied it. Another theory was that Fernando Sor composed it in the early 19th century, which later was overhtrown. It origin has remained a mystery to this day. Yepes' playing, with sensitive handling of each sentence, is superb, and worthy of repeated listening and savoring.

l  Chong-Pin Lin Feb. 14, 2016

l  這是西班亞最常聽到的旋律，大街小巷，從早到晚，都會飄來。此音樂雖普受歡迎，卻毫不低俗。高雅、含蓄、清純。是最美而持久的情操。來源不詳，作曲者無名。表演者是西班牙古典吉他大師。他的琴藝我從1960年代後期便開始欣賞嚮往，如今將近半世紀。

l  林中斌 2016年2月14日

Dmitri Shostakovich: Jazz Suite, Waltz No. 2

Youtube, Feb 10, 2016

accessed Feb 10, 2016

 l  This piece of music, hauntingly beautiful to me, seems to convey a short-lived happiness to be indulged with abandon as the large condition is that of despair and desparation. Only a composer who lived in the shadow of persecution and condemnation by Stalin could have written it.

l  Chong-Pin Lin Feb.10, 2016

l  在絕望中把握短暫快樂的時光盡情歡笑。只有一生受史大林迫害的偉大作曲家蕭士達考衛奇寫的出來。許多電影用它作配樂，情節早已淡去，此旋律在心中恆久不散。

l  林中斌 2016年2月10日