托福阅读机经背景：古典音乐—音乐魔术.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读机经背景：古典音乐—音乐的魔术 Books and Arts;Book Review;Classical music;Conjurors; 文艺;书评;古典音乐;音乐的魔术; Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras. 音乐就像点石成金——一段与伟大的指挥家和乐团的奇妙旅程。 IN “FANTASIA”, Walt Disneys 1940 film of musically inspired animations, each piece begins and ends in the same way, with the silhouetted figure of Leopold Stokowski, a British conductor who died in 1977. He stands alone against a dark red background while the mysterious movements of his hands conjure the music in and out of being. “Fantasia” was hugely popular, and made a notable contribution to cultivating a wider appreciation of classical music. But it also unwittingly peddled the still pervasive myth that conductors are, in effect, magicians—sorcerers who single-handedly extract waves of finely variegated sound out of thin air. 1940年沃特·迪士尼拍摄了音乐动画“幻想曲”，每一段的开始和结束都是利奥波德·斯托科夫斯基的剪影。而这位英国指挥家于1977年去世。他独站在深红色背景前，手上的动作充满了神秘色彩，音乐便随着动作此起彼伏。“幻想曲”获得了巨大的成功，并且它对古典音乐新诠释所做出的贡献也非同一般。但它也无意中增加了指挥家的神秘色彩，时至今日人们仍然觉得不可思议，好像他们就是魔术师——独自一人就凭空变出变幻莫测的美妙声音。 Tom Service, a British radio presenter and writer on classical music, has taken the mysterious business of what conductors actually do as the subject of his first book, “Music as Alchemy”. Conductors, including the ones studied in this book, have been scrutinised before, often in considerable detail. What sets Mr Services book apart, in addition to its breezy tone and infectious, easily worn enthusiasm, is his focus on the relationship between the conductor and his or her orchestral musicians. Many hours have been spent not just in concerts given by the six conductor-orchestra pairs taken as his subject, but in observing them in the rehearsals beforehand and quizzing members of the orchestra about their side of the experience. 汤姆·瑟维斯是英国一位与古典音乐相关的电台主持人和作家，他的第一本书《点石成金的音乐》主题就是揭开指挥家的神秘面纱。包括书中提到的每一位指挥家，都曾被详细介绍过，而且可谓到了事无巨细的地步。但瑟维斯先生的书的特别之处不仅在于他活泼的文笔和极具感染力的热情，还在于书中对指挥家与他们乐队关系的解读。作者花了大量时间，不仅探索了作为书中主人公的六位指挥家和他们乐队的音乐会，还深入了解了他