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11/25/2000 3pm
the world premiere performance of Taiwan Chorus
@ Shady Grove Adventist Nursing & Rehabilitation Center


Ladies and Gentlemen,


On behalf of our president Mr. Lee, our conductor and all members of

The Greater Washington Taiwanese American Chorus, I am thrilled to

announce to you that today's performance would be the world premiere

of our Chorus, and I'm sure you all can feel our excitement.




The first song we'll be singing for you is such a classic that if you ask

any Taiwanese to sing you a typical Taiwanese song, more than nine

times out of ten, this'll be the one you'd probably hear. It's called

"Bang Cun Hong", or literally, "Hope", Spring", "Wind", meaning

"Hoping for (or Looking Forward to) Spring Breezes".


The song is about a teenage girl who, in being lovesick for, and

yearning to learn the name of, the handsome boy she had bumped

into earlier during the daytime but had been too shy to ask, mistook

the sound of the night wind for a visitor and thus hastened to answer

the door, yet only to be laughed at by the Moon.


Please do remember also that the song was written in 1933, when

the Taiwan society was still quite a conservative one. Women had

no voice in the matters of their own marriage, and hence can only wait

and hope for the right man to show up at her house and ask her parents

for their daughter's hand.





In 1938, five years after they wrote "Hoping for Spring Breezes"

("Bang Cun Hong"), the same composer and lyricist collaborated

again on another highly successful love song. Only this time in a

much lighter note, and with a much happier ending. We thought

it might be interesting to compare the two songs in one program.


The song is called "Su Gui Ang", and will be the second song

we are going to sing for you this afternoon. Literally, the title

translates to "Four", "Season", "Red", meaning of course

"Four Season Red". It vividly portrays a couple passionately

in love, and painted all four paragraphs of the song in color red:



Spring is for blooming, my love;

Isn't your cheek like a pink blossom that is blushing?


Summer is for boating, my love;

We could stand the heat when the sun in the water is like a ruby falling.


The moon glows best in the Fall, my love;

Your lipstick tastes like cherry and you the apple of my eye will always be shining.


The wind blows worst in the Winter, my love;

I'm not a bit cold because our passion for each other is red-hot and burning.




And now, please enjoy "Bang Cun Hong" ga "Su Gui Ang",

"Hoping for Spring Breezes" and "Four Season Red".


Thank you.
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2001/01/30

對絕大多數我的台灣鄉親來講，
[望春風]是他們從小唱到大、
再熟悉不過的歌。

對我來說呢，
卻是要到高中時期，
才第一次真正聽完全曲、
並第一次大略明瞭歌詞內容。

當時只是個傻小子，
並無法領會歌詞背後婉轉委曲的少女情懷；
反倒甚為喜愛另一首[安平追想曲]----
學會以後，
天天在宿舍浴室[啊啊~~啊]，
害得和我同一層寢室的那些少男同學們，
想必也頗有被強迫當聽眾的委屈吧！

隨著年歲漸長，
人世閱歷漸增，
台語詞彙的理解程度也略有進步，
我才愈來愈豁悟，
為什麼當年那兩位熱心的同窗好友，
第一首就選[望春風]來教我。
隨著爾後演唱次數的增加，
每次指揮不同的詮釋，
以及自己對歌詞反覆吟詠用心體會的努力，
我也益發喜愛這件雋永、耐人尋味的藝術小品，
更深深地佩服原作者鄧雨賢、李臨秋兩位的完美搭配。


前天晚上，
終於有幸在此間[台灣同鄉會]的新春年會上，
於數十年來首度成立的[台灣合唱團]首度正式獻唱的歌聲中，
和數十位從不把我當外人的鄉親團員們，
一同悠悠回到二十世紀初葉，
那位渴望掌握自身命運、
卻無從自作主張的可憐少女的內心裡。
隨著詞曲的高低起伏、幽怨激昂，
似要將咱們台灣人上個世紀末以前的滿腔孤弱悲憤
盡情傾瀉、一吐為快！


自[孤夜無伴守燈下]，
到[給風騙不知]，
短短兩分鐘身處[望春風]如此深具國族象徵意義與個人人身意義的和聲之海之中，
我心神的激盪，
言語難說；
這篇小文，
也不過略微描畫些輪廓，
兼且懷念我[台灣意識]啟蒙的那段少男歲月。




一位[外省]台灣人

廿一世紀初

記於

美東、華府郊區


2001/01/30(11:58:37)
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泡茶開講2001/04/27(06:59:20)

茶　友 : 文武功生 所泡的好茶


忙了許久沒能來飲茶，
想聊點兒輕鬆的。

小弟最近又參加了一個新成立的合唱團：[客家合唱團]。

和參加[台灣合唱團]的經驗類似，
當鄉親們得知我係[外省人]時，
那種又驚又喜的表情，
總是令我又高興又難過。


我愛台灣，
所以我愛台灣的每一個族群和他們的文化。
如果此間繼續成立[阿美合唱團]、[卑南合唱團]......
我一定會每團都參加！


說到[愛台灣]，
一般來說很容易[否證]，
但如何[檢證]，
卻非常困難。

這幾天整理我手上有的客語歌曲CD，
倒讓我找到了一個有效的[自我檢測]的方法：

一個人關在房間裡或車子裡，
一面讀著他們CD的說明小冊，
一面專心聆聽[交工樂隊]的[美濃反水庫運動音樂紀實]。

從[山歌唱來解心煩]的
[邀串來到立法院、
山歌唱來就解心煩，
山山相連美濃山、
手手相牽萬丈山，
腳有千雙路一條、
人生百樣心共調，
眾口一聲反水庫、
衙門恁惡是照樣屌]！

到[水庫係築得屎嘛食得]的
鍾鐵民說：[嗯（我們）不期望任何介回饋]和
鍾平妹（鍾理和之妻）說：[如果硬築，拿死命拼]！

再到[好男好女反水庫]的
[好男好女反水庫、
好山好水留子孫，
好男好女反水庫、
好山好水留子孫]的最後......

當嗩吶聲一出來的時候，
如果您的淚水自然奪眶泉湧而出（像偶一樣），
呃，
我想大概也找不到啥子別的理由了吧----
只能說您也滿愛咱台灣啦！
呵呵！ ^_^

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2004 May 08 華府台灣合唱團:
演唱中配上戲劇 讓觀眾有活潑的感覺
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