Jun 21, 20100
這是什麼道理
我們在天上的父：
就是要謝謝你，
作我們，在天上，的，父。
Feb 5, 20100
Jackie and her E Minor
Don’t know why, but I thought of her today. She would have been 65 years old on January 26 of this year.
Jacqueline du Pre, and her Elgar’s E Minor… who can forget?
Dec 22, 20090
In the bleak midwinter / 嚴冬懷主
One of my favorite Christmas hymns — In the bleak midwinter:
Yes, just what are you going to give to this new born King?
—-
In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan,
earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
in the bleak midwinter, long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold him, nor earth sustain;
heaven and earth shall flee away when he comes to reign.
In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
the Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.
Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
but his mother only, in her maiden bliss,
worshiped the beloved with a kiss.
What can I give him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
if I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
yet what I can I give him: give my heart.
在寒冷嚴冬裏，凜風如怨訴，
大地堅如鐵鑄，凝冰像石鋪；
雪花紛紜雪上雪，蓋地又蔽天，
在寒冷嚴冬裏，遠遠在當年。
蒼天何能容祂，大地更卑微，
當祂降世統治，天地都迴避；
在寒冷的嚴冬裏，馬槽棲身地，
反容道成肉身，基督主上帝。
天使與眾天軍，排列在上方，
基路伯撒拉弗，環立在身旁；
惟有主貞潔母親，喜樂滿胸襟，
她用慈祥輕吻，來崇拜聖嬰。
像我如此貧乏，無物可獻上，
我若是個牧人，我願獻小羊；
我若是東方博士，本分我當盡，
但我所能獻呈，祇有我的心。
Dec 14, 20091
覓知音
幾個值得一聽的音樂會：
- Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 @2pm: RC 的 Mazzoleni Hall — 全 Bach 曲目，包括小弟摯愛的 Goldberg Variations。RCM老師 David Louie on Harpsichord [Video]
- Thursday, Apr 08, 2010 @noon – 1pm: COC Four Seasons 的Free Concert!! 溫哥華的 Trio Accord。奏的是… 唉唷，乜咁啱？ 又是 Goldberg Variations！不過這次是 Dmitri Sitkovetsky’s 編的弦樂三重奏版 [Video]
- Saturday, Aug 07, 2010 @8pm: CBC Glenn Gould Studio — 本地的 Kindred Spirits Orchestra。曲目包括 Ives 的 The Unanswered Question [Video]，Beethoven 的 Symphony No. 4 in B flat [Video]，及小弟另一摯愛：Mozart 的 Requiem, K. 626 [Video]。
唔知在多倫多，有冇知音人？
Oct 18, 20090
上帝早已預備
謝謝YuenLin的好介紹：
上帝早已預備
曲：陸偉峰/PHAT@24herbs
詞：陸偉峰
就算我可得到世間的財寶
但你卻說要我知道是永生的道路
是我在罪人時你賜我中保
就算我可得到今生的自豪
但你卻說要我知道
別為因此而煩惱在絕望裡投訴
只要仰望主哪怕會迷路
上帝早已預備我不相信運氣
即使風光明媚但卻不是你預期
上帝早已預備只少我不被遺棄
難得你為我死
就算我可得到今生的自豪
但你卻說要我知道
別為因而煩惱在絕望裡投訴
只要仰望主哪怕會迷路
上帝早已預備我不相信運氣
即使風光明媚但卻不是你預期
上帝早已預備只少我不被遺棄
難得你為我死
感謝你你會為我打氣
感謝你從谷底將我救起
感謝你縱使失去我的真理
但我沒有忘記
上帝早已預備我不相信運氣
即使風光明媚但卻不是你預期
上帝早已預備只少我不被遺棄
難得你為我死
難得你為我死
Aug 22, 20090
Timeout
A lot to do in the coming few weeks, thus blogging will be sparse in the next little while.
And let me leave you with Jocelyn’s new found favorite, and my long-time singing inspiration since high-school — Bobdy McFerrin:
And of course, his Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria:
Which he once recorded with Yo Yo Ma.
Aug 5, 20090
2 newly discovered Mozart pieces played
Hear two newly discovered Mozart pieces here.
Discovered compositions were played for public using Mozart’s own piano forte in Salzburg, his hometown.
[link: Spero News]
Apr 24, 20090
Free public-domain music score
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library:
…Our goal is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores and/or sheet music, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.
Check it out. Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach & Mozart… and lots more!
[wow, it's been a while since my last music post...]