Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Music and Literature Yaji on Skype (with video links)


Time: April 19, 2020 - 2 pm to 4pm (extended to 5pm)
Location: on Skype

The program was as the following, with links to some videos recorded by Skype, or pages for more information.  Sound quality might not be perfect, but worth to keep the records.

以下為節目內容 可點擊連結,看或讀取相關影音或文章

1, Andre Ribeiro from Brazil talked about contemporary Brazilian poetry by Haroldo de Campos (and the concept of transcreation in translation work) 
來自巴西的安德里談到了哈羅多·德·坎波斯(Haroldo de Campos)創作的當代巴西詩歌(以及翻譯工作中的轉譯概念)

2, Erhu playing, The Pleasant Night  -- Alan Yip from San Francisco
葉沛霖二胡演奏-- 良宵

3, Dramatically reading  of the dramatic " Finnegans Wake, the book by James Joyce" -- Yves Seban from NYC
極具戲劇性的文學朗讀最後三篇與第一篇開頭的芬尼根的守靈夜
See the text of Finnegans Wake
Yves started to read from the last three pages: type 1049 in the page box
text reads: “For I feel I could near to faint away…until end :” A way, a lone ,a last ...”,
which then links to Page 4 (beginning)
starts with: riverrun, past Eve’s and Adam’s…, until” "devlinsfirst loved live"

4, Guqin playing, Wuo Long Yin  - Song of Crouching Dragon -- Esmeralda Herrero  from Ireland 來自愛爾蘭的Esmi 彈奏古琴曲臥龍吟

5, Li Bo's poetry reading and qin playing with singing of the Qiu Feng Ci 秋風辭 (Song of Autumn Wind) -- Joe Berendt from Seattle 李白的詩, 與琴歌彈唱

Due to the sound of Joe’s playing and singing was too soft to hear, I am putting the link of the question Joe brought up regarding why Chinese songs are more sad songs. 為什麼中國傳統樂曲很多都是悲情的?

6, Cello playing of  Hong Dou Ci ( Song of Red Love-beans ) -- Peiyou rearranged the music on the cello with adding her improvisation of the beginning and the ending phrases.
培幼嘗試用大提琴演奏傳統中國歌曲紅豆詞

7, Jo Bai from Germany shared his craft of forged works.
來自德國的喬分享了他的鍛造工藝

8, Guitar playing with singing - a ghazal song in Urdu by Jagit Singh -- Yves
烏爾督語吉他彈唱

9, Ralph Knag talked about Chinese music on wax cylinders collected by Berthold Laufer
老圓筒留聲機中的中國樂曲

10, Erhu (Alan) and Qin (Jim) duet on Moon Over Guan Mountain 關山月
二胡與古琴重奏 (嘗試在網上重奏但聲音傳送有阻礙)

11,  Jim Binkley from Portland, talked about guqin wood choices top & bottom
老琴友Jim談琴木的選擇 (部分影音可點擊以下兩個連結)

Part 1
Part 2

We had friends from:
Budapest Hungary, Brazil, Austria, Ireland, the UK, Germany, and west coast and east coast of the US. Thank you for everyone's participation.

Since more and more friends have show interests to join the on-line yaji, we plan to run the next yaji by using Zoom. We also plan to do two different kinds of yaji. For the odd months (Jan, Mar, May, July, Sep, and Nov), we will have Guqin yaji, which mainly focus on the Guqin. For the even months (Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct, and Dec) we will have music and literature yaji for multi cultures. The next yaji will be on May 24, for the Guqin then.

我們有來自世界各地的朋友:
布達佩斯匈牙利,巴西,奧地利,愛爾蘭,英國,德國以及美國的西海岸和東海岸。謝謝大家的參與。

由於越來越多的朋友對加入在線雅集表現出濃厚的興趣,我們計劃使用Zoom運行下一個雅集。我們還計劃做兩種不同的雅集。在奇數月份(1月,3月,5月,7月,9月和11月),我們將有古琴雅集,主要關注古琴。在偶數月份(2月,4月,6月,8月,10月和12月),我們將提供針對多種文化的音樂和文學雅集。下一場雅集將在5月24日舉行,屆時將是以古琴為主。