萧宽志音乐心情故事 野雁飞扬

[美]萧宽志(Edward Shaw)著

Ann Shaw 翻译

【前言】

秋日斜阳，风拂芦苇荡。一声鸣叫，无数野雁离地而起。年年岁岁它们逆风而动，为了生命的延续，飞舞自由的翅膀。

【自序】

艺术源于生活，最美的创作，最好的作品也是从生活而来的。

我的生活充满了故事，我用生命故事，创作我的音乐作品；也用我的生命挣扎来表现我的阳光艺术。我的画就是用色彩来诠释自己的生命故事：自由、开放、热情、充满生命力，展现最真实的生命故事。

我画画并不是为了要成为一名画家，而是因为想画。

我用各种色彩来表现画面的丰富多彩，像孩子一样想画什么就画什么，想怎么画就怎么画，想加什么就加什么……无拘无束的畅想，用尽我喜欢的颜色，体会音乐所带给我的感受，把心里最真实的情感表现在画面上……我爱我的画，因为那是我心灵的表达。

我的音乐作品，不是为了讨好听众，而是按照我当时的心情去创作音乐，一气呵成，没有经过修改、也没有按照布局考量来创作。我只是在记录当时的心情，用音乐来表达而已。

钢琴是我用来表达音乐的原始工具，我的音乐作品没有商业的气息，更多的是钢琴作为乐器之王的干净和甜美。我希望用阳光的、富有生命力的情绪来感染听众，开心时，有欢乐的心情音乐；难过时，有悲伤的情绪表现。音乐令人充满想象力，我的音乐，有阳光，有温暖，有力量，感染每一位用心来倾听的朋友。

音乐故事，心情人生，就是我写这系列音乐故事的内心表达。希望有更多人被激励、被感动；用生命来感染生命，引导更多的人走出阴霾，进入阳光的音乐世界。人生本来就是充满各种挑战、考验、病痛、生离死别……无法靠自己走出伤痛。来吧，听听我的阳光音乐，读读我的心情故事，看看我的油画，回到童年时代的单纯热情。让这本书带你笑看人生，祝大家福杯满溢，愿上天的眷顾随时临到你！

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Edward Shaw 萧宽志

2015-02-04 写于美国•洛杉矶

【和谐的美】

这首曲子在音乐起头的时候，并不是那么和谐，但是我越弹就越把和谐展现出来，这个过程就是和谐、不和谐、不和谐、和谐，在这个中间去取得和谐和平衡。如果都是和谐的，你怎么展现？一定要有不和谐来做底做衬，互相对比出来，才会有“和谐”这两个字。

一天去朋友家做客，他的小孩放学回来无精打采的，我问他怎么了，他说：“我考试成绩发布了”，我就问他考得怎么样，他说：“我考了99分”，我说“很好很棒啊！Uncle从来很难得考99分的”，他说：“对不起，我们班上有60个同学，50个考100分！”

一个班上每一个都是天才，那就没有天才了，因为人人都是天才。国外的天才班不是在培养谁比较天才，它是从你的天才个性里去培养你这个专业的发展，让你的天才在某一个领域达到最高峰。天才不可能什么都做，再天才也不可能每件事都做得那么完美。把音乐的天才，像莫扎特那样培养出来，把科学家的天才培养出来，像爱因斯坦，那就不得了了。不要把每一个人都当作天才来培养，那就没有天才。当一个班级上，考了99分可能是最后一名，其他人都100分，这个99分就变得很可怕。

和谐与不和谐其实是在一个边缘，有时候在不和谐当中产生了和谐，那就特别珍贵，感觉特别好，如果大家一群都是放牛班，里面有个第一名，全科一百分，但是你如果在优秀的班级里，老是最后一名，孩子再厉害也没有自信心了。所以有时候到底什么是好什么是坏，没有不和谐怎么显现和谐，那个放牛班考了第一名的孩子，正是由于其他放牛的孩子的存在，才显得更优秀。如果在一个班，50个人都是考100分的，不郁闷都难，因为你不是唯一的。

这就是很多和谐与不和谐的东西，我认为，人生就像这曲《和谐之美》一样，平安就好，开开心心就好，不是绝对的和谐，不需要绝对的完美，我们需要的是一种相对的和谐，那就够了。

我常常告诉我的孩子，我们不是说什么东西都要满足、满意，都要达到标准，没有标准，自己能够对自己交代，把自己展现出来，我认为这就是最好。我并不要求我的孩子们在学校的功课，全部都是A。我告诉他们，有B没关系，人生ABC都会有，这才是人生，全是A那就很郁闷，一点都不精彩，最起码数字上不精彩。人生是一个长期的接力赛，它是一段一段长跑的，没有跑到最后谁都不知道，你前面跑A但到半途死掉了也没用。要练习承受挫折的能力，挫折就是那个不和谐，我跟我的孩子说，挫折没有关系，挫折是让你变得更好。

我经常举个例子：很多人不喜欢被人家泼冷水，但偏偏都是在被泼冷水中长大的，你看看路边的树是泼冷水还是热水长大的，你给它一盆热水，我保准它死掉，人也一样不要老是泼热水，火上浇油两下就把你烧起来，就把你破坏掉了，适当泼点冷水是好事，和谐不和谐，人生命的对错好坏，没有差那么多，有时只是一种对比和需要，人生需要一些不平的不和谐的东西来对称，看你的本事如何能调整的和谐。我在做这首《和谐的美》的时候，用了很多的合声对比，很多不和谐与和谐的对比。

萧宽志的原创油画作品【和谐的美】

【Beautiful Harmony】

In this piece's beginning it was not so harmonious. However, the more I played it, the more harmony and consonance was introduced. As I began to develop the piece, my composition began to alternate between consonance and dissonance, all in order to achieve the end result of balance and harmony. If it was all consonant, how would I be able to demonstrate what consonance is? We must have dissonance in order to show contrast and to create this character called “harmony”.

One day, I visited my friend's house, and while I was there noticed that his child came back from school in a rather lifeless state. I asked him why he seemed so down, and he replied, “The test scores were released.” I asked how well he scored, and he said “I got a 99.” I was awed, “Very good! When I was in school, achieving that was hard.” “I'm sorry”, he replied, “There are 60 students in our class and 50 of them got 100!”

No one can be considered genius if everyone in the class scores top marks, because then performance which would normally be considered genius is simply the standard. Overseas, I see that it is not the goal to train the greatest genius, but to bring professional development out of your natural genius and allow it to peak in one area. Even a true genius cannot do everything and be absolutely perfect. As incredible as it is that people such as Mozart and Einstein were able to make such massive leaps in their fields, they could not do everything either. If those on the exam with a 99 are overshadowed by the majority with a score of 100, even a 99 will be seen as mediocre.

Harmony and disharmony are actually at an edge, sometimes harmony occurred from disharmony, it is particularly valuable, feeling is particularly good, if the crowd group was in a bad class, which has a No.1 student, all subjects got 100 scores, but if you were in a good class, always ranked the last one, the child would not have self-confidence. So sometimes in the end what is good what is bad, how to show harmony without disharmony , that child in the bad class got No.1 score in exam, precisely because of the presence of other worse children, he seemed better. If in a class, 50 students got 100 scores in exam, it was depressed, because you are not the only one.

My thoughts are such: just as in life, in music there exists both harmony and dissonance. My piece “Beautiful Harmony” seeks to show that it is good to be safe and happy, but that absolute harmony and perfection is impossible. We are bound to go through rough patches, and from these we can find a sort of comparative harmony.

I often tell my children that they don't need to try to satisfy me by trying to surpass every standard. There are no real standards, and the ones that we believe exist are simply ones which we perceive to be real. I don't require that my children receive straight A's, and that it doesn't matter if you happen to get a B. In life, you are bound to receive different grades, whether for work, school, or in friendship. If a person who is used to perfection suddenly experiences failure, they will feel disproportionally bad. Life is a long term relay race, a period of going over long distances section by section. Nobody knows that will happen until you reach the final stretch. It is useless to be able to run fast in the beginning, but falter halfway through. One should practice the ability to withstand setbacks. Although misfortune and setbacks will seem completely negative at the time, in the end they can bring improvement to you.

I give this example: many people do not like to have their spirits dampened by others, but everyone has at one point experienced it. Although people are like this, it is even worse to be angered by someone. In fact, when fuel is added to people's spirits there is the chance that they will burn up and be destroyed. Dampened spirits are more natural, and whether it is harmonious or dissonant, right or wrong, good or bad, life needs contrast in order to make itself symmetrical. We must use our own abilities in order to adjust to life and stay in harmony. Thus, when I created this piece I used many different chords for contrast, whether or not they were harmonious.