独具匠心的音乐喜剧大师-Victor Borge
2010-03-26
独具匠心的音乐喜剧大师-Victor Borge
前阵子,读了昭君关于来自中国的黄西在美国讲脱口相声的介绍。留意黄西有段日子了,很为这个生化博士敢于站在舞台上,操着浓重中式口音的英语,一句接一句的美式笑话而喝彩。正当自己对这个“华裔奇才”搜寻更多资料的时候,一晚的PBS电视台助捐活动吸引了我。而当晚的主题是丹裔钢琴大师Victor Borge的作品回顾,让我真正了解了这种“跨行艺术”的鼻祖。以下关于Victor Borge的介绍,也许会让喜欢古典音乐, 叹为观止,而不懂得这门艺术的人(比如像我),也被大师幽默的表演所征服,真是做到了雅俗共赏。
Victor Borge的生平介绍:
Victor Borge 原名Borge Rosenbaum,出生于1909年的丹麦哥本哈根(Copenhagen,Denmark),一个犹太音乐世家。父亲是丹麦皇家乐团的小提琴手,母亲则是钢琴家。家庭的熏陶下,Victor Borge 两岁学钢琴,8岁进行首场个人钢琴独奏会(first piano recital),不到10岁以少年天才身份进入丹麦皇家音乐学院(Danish Royal Academy of Music).二战初期,Borge逃往美国并留了下来,开始了他把喜剧加入古典音乐的表演生涯。2000年的12月,病逝于美国Greenwich,Connecticut,享年91岁。

Victor Borge的成就
Victor Borge被美国The Washington Post 评为“生活在地球上最有趣的钢琴家”(The funniest pianist on Earth).他在每次的古典钢琴巡回演出中,总会加一些俏皮话(quips), 诙谐的双关语(wordplay)和自我嘲讽(pratfalls),独具匠心,别具一格,征服了全世界的观众,历久不衰。以下是Borge的经典之作:
v Comedy in Music-1953-56年期间,在Broadway举行了849场演出。
v Phonetic punctuation(Borge自己原创的“口语化标点”)
v Inflationary Language(比如把tomorrow改成treemorrow, what for?说成what five?,etc.)
v Muppet show(Borge 和Sesames的Muppet合奏“Moonlight Sonata".)
v Dance of The Comedians (Borge当指挥,故意自造假象,让整个乐团”不知所措“)
.....
Victor Borge的作品远远不止这些,由于篇幅关系,我就不一一列举了。
Borge语录:
Ø I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
Ø Laughter is the shortest distance between two people。
Ø Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.
Ø The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Ø When you go home, please drive home extremely carefully. Extremely carefully. Because I walk in my sleep!
Ø One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace。
Ø [After making a usage, grammar error, etc.] Hey, it's your language; I'm just trying to use it."
Ø I'm Lou Borg.
Ø Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Ø After I was knighted five times, I became a weekend.
而最让人敬佩的是,Victor Borge到美国的时候,是一句英语都不会说的。
(以上介绍资料来自不同的英文网址,由Beaubien粗略翻译,如有出入之处,提供宝贵意见。)
