Use the following links if streaming of the above video is slow

若視頻卡慢可用以下鏈接看

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/ohLxRZydLXc

  Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/447108557

"Thank you for a few minutes of quiet reflection with beautiful scenes to enjoy."

— Reverend Sue Wise

“感謝這音樂視頻給予的寧靜反思和美景欣賞。” — 蘇懷斯牧師

More comments after "Introduction". 介紹之後有更多評語

INTRODUCTION 介紹

The music is a combination of five melodic ideas ‒ each centres on a certain pitch: E, G, A, D and B respectively, i.e., the guitar strings but not following their order (EBGDAE). The words indicate the moods, and each mode centred on a pitch has its own flavour. To me, E is philosophical; G, glow; A, warmth; D, liveliness and B is mysterious.

音樂靈感源自吉他的定弦和歌詞，由五個旋律組成，每個旋律各圍繞着一個定音：E、G、A、D、B。歌唱哲理，既光亮、溫暖、有活力 ，又有點神秘感。

I studied Western Classical music at the Royal Academy of Music. At the time, the ultimate was to learn Bach chorales (for harmony) and the sonata form (for compositional structure). Yet unbeknown to me, I was influenced by my childhood memory of Cantonese opera in Hong Kong, which is a collection of different tunes to express the sound and the drama of words, as demonstrated in this piece.

我在英國皇家音樂學院學西方古典音樂，和聲典範是巴赫的四聲合唱冩法，作曲結構學奏鳴曲。但我卻受到小時候對香港粵劇記憶的影響，那就是組合不同的小曲來表達曲詞的聲和意，不知不覺地會寫出類似這種型式的作品。

The video: I met Juliet Chenery-Robson at an international conference for Arts PhD students held at the Royal College of Art in London. Juliet's PhD is a photographic expression of ME sufferers ‒ she's deeply affected by her daughter's long years suffering of ME (see BIBAC my chapter PDF, and my PhD thesis PDF Chapter 2, 2.3.5).  I find her photos beautiful.  My practice-led creative autobiographical PhD is a combined arts creation for multi-venue performance as an artistic expression of my 3-time cancer survival. I thought, wouldn't it be great if she and I would collaborate in realizing at least part of my PhD which is still a prototype due to no funding.  

視頻：在皇家藝術學院舉行的藝術博士研究生國際會議上，我遇到朱麗葉·陳奈尼-羅布森（很長的名字，簡稱朱麗葉）。朱麗葉的藝術創作博士學位，是以攝影藝術寫照ME患者(慢性疲勞綜合症)，她女兒長期深受ME之苦。我見到她的攝影，很美麗。而我的博士學位，是以我三次癌症存活下來的經歷，創作一個綜藝曲本《歌舞慶重生》，可以用多種形式來演出，因至今仍未得到足夠的贊助，仍停留在曲本原型。我想，如果我能和朱麗葉合作，用音樂和攝影演出曲本的部分，那有多好，不過沒錢，得個想字。

Juliet kindly allows me to modify her existing photos to combine with my music. The late American soprano Judith Nelson had performed this work with the guitarist William Waters but I am not aware of any recording.  However, I have an old recording performed by Peter Crowe and William Waters that I can use to make this music video.  As Juliet's photos were not taken for this purpose, and a photo is a fixed moment while music is in motion, I looked at the large quantity of Juliet's old photos for a long time to get inspiration.  I also thought hard on how to animate chosen images to move with the music and to express the words.

朱麗葉給了我很多她舊照片的複製，任我隨意修改來配合我的音樂。我用一個舊錄音來製作這個音樂視頻。我花了很多時間看朱麗葉的大量舊照片以獲取靈感及揀選，及思考如何隨著音樂動化一張又一 張靜止的相和表達歌詞。

MORE COMMENTS 更多評語

" I’ve just listened to and watched your Wisdom and Love piece of music. It was very relaxing both musically and visually. The singer had a fantastic voice. Well done, you are very talented. I hope you are well and staying clear of the virus. Maybe your next composition should reflect the times we are all going through and show there’s light at the end of the tunnel. "

— Stuart Fleming, Wickford Wildlife Society

HWO: "No problem to create such, except without a commission, even if I write the music for love, where's the money to pay for a professional recording of the music?＂

"剛看了您的《智慧與愛》音樂视頻。音樂和形象都令我感到非常舒𣈱。歌手聲音美妙。幹得好，你很有才華。希望您一切都好，不受病毒感染。也許您下一個作品應該反映我們在新冠毒期的經歷，和隧道盡頭展現光明。" —史超域.弗來明，威克福德野生動植物學會

何蕙安：創作這個不是問題，只是沒人給委托費，就算我免費作曲，寫好後那來錢付音樂的專業錄音呢？

" It is a while since you sent the mail and recording but I had not forgotten it! I have just been waiting for the right time, feeling relaxed and not in a hurry, as well as having my laptop out. As I am now in a week's self-isolation, the time has been granted me and I have just been enjoying Wisdom and Love but after reading the notes, I think I will need to listen again! Lovely photos and you are so clever at making these videos! I loved the rippling water under the bough of leaves, and the guitar accompaniment, although (perhaps due to not very good sound on my laptop) the guitar has a different tone, sounding more like an oriental stringed instrument; it is a sharper, cleaner sound than a normal guitar, not as warm and "fuzzy" ! "  

— Margaret Morley, RAM alumna and sister of David Morley

HWO: " I applied instructions of certain guitar playing techniques to achieve those effects. "

＂您發來音樂視頻已有一段時候了，我並沒有忘記！我在等一個適當的，感到放鬆和空閒的時間才看。我現正需要一週的自我隔離，正好用來看這個，我很享受《智慧與愛》，但在閱讀了你寫的介紹後，我覺得需要再聽聽！圖片漂亮，您的視頻製作巧妙！我很喜歡枝葉下蕩漾的水，和吉他伴奏，儘管（也許電腦擴音器不太好）吉他聽起來更像東方弦樂器，似比一般吉他的音高尖銳些和更清晰，而不是溫暖和“模糊”！＂

— 瑪嘉烈.摩利，皇家音樂學院校友，大偉的姊姊

何蕙安：那是因為我在樂譜注明使用某些演奏技巧。

" A really amazing collaboration... very compelling. The images, the melodic ideas and the vocals all worked so well to create a haunting whole. What a great piece — and Juliet's images are so well platformed by your arrangement. Great that your paths crossed. Peter Crowe's haunting tenor caught my dog's attention — and she came to sit under my desk as I was listening to it. "  

— Vivien Finch, Suffolk and Essex coastal dweller, music amateur, teacher, memoir writer and London JP... charities: Canine Partners, Medical Detection Dogs (making huge strides in cancer detection) and Dogs Trust (biggest rescue and re-home charity in UK)

＂很了不起的合作…非常引人注目。圖像，旋律構思和歌聲的組合令人難忘，了不起的作品，你為朱麗葉的攝影安排美好平台。彼得·卡魯的縈繞歌聲引起了我狗狗的注意，牠走來坐在我書枱下與我一齊聽。＂

—維維安·芬奇，薩福克和埃塞克斯郡海岸居民，音樂愛好者，教師，回憶錄的作家和倫敦地方執法官...慈善機構工作包括：以犬幫助癌症醫療檢察，和英國最大的狗救援和安置的慈善機構。

" Thank you for the link to Wisdom and Love. It was good to listen to and watch with some very lovely images, and very interesting to hear about the ME connection." — Paul Haines, peace activist and architect/designer

“謝謝《智慧與愛》的鏈接，很好聽和看到非常可愛的圖像，這個與慢性疲勞綜合症 (ME) 有關連令我很感興趣。”  — 保羅·海恩斯，和平主義者和建築師/設計師"

"I really enjoyed the piece they performed. The singer has a beautiful tenor voice, and congratulations for writing so well for the guitar! The images were very evocative."  — Philip Edwards, clarinetist

“我真的很喜歡他們的演奏，歌手是優美的男高音，恭喜您把吉他寫得如此出色！這些圖像令人回味無窮。”  — 單簧管演奏家菲臘·愛德華斯

Music Videos 音樂視频

Miscellaneous 1 其他之一

A Festive Puzzle – Can you get all 9 carols within one minute?

MINUTE-CAROLS《聖誕歌什錦》

你能在一分鐘內認出這九首聖誕歌嗎？

The following video was taken at Hyde Hall

– one of the four Royal Horticultural gardens

Another video that includes footages of Hyde Hall is SAKURA VARIATIONS

Essex page 2 also has images/mini videos of Hyde Hall.

以下視頻在英國皇家園藝花園拍攝

  另一視頻包括有皇家園藝花園景色的是《櫻花變奏》

英國艾蕯斯郡之二有我在皇家園藝花園拍攝的照片和迷你視頻

Use the following links if streaming of the above video is slow

若視頻卡慢可用以下鏈接看

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/WKUgXqmOJ-Y

  Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/248588302

I mingled fragments from the following nine Christmas carols that I have sung – some more obvious but some more subtly hidden in the middle part – resulting in this synthesized Minute-Carol. Spot them all while enjoying Essex's Hyde Hall with occasional mini Christmas Trees!

我把以下九首我和很多人都曾唱過的聖誕歌的片段合成為一首長約一分鐘的

《聖誕歌什錦》，想邊看這英國名園和其中應節的迷你聖誕樹，邊聽這些若隱若現的旋律也頗有樂趣的。

1. Ding Dong Merrily on High 叮噹！來自天上的喜悅

2. God Rest You Merry Gentlemen 天賜喜樂

3. Silent Night and its alto part 平安夜

4. Joy to the World 普世歡騰

5. O Little Town of Bethlehem by L H Redner 小伯利恆

    – I include the opening lyrics as there is another carol with similar name

     O little town of Bethlehem

     How still we see thee lie

     Above thy deep and dreamless sleep

     The silent stars go by…

6. O Come All Ye Faithful 齊來崇拜

7. A Great and Mighty Wonder 救主降生

8. Hark the Herald Angels Sing 聽啊！天使高聲歌唱

9. Good Christian Men Rejoice 信徒歡唱

CONTENTS 本頁包括

WISDOM & LOVE  the music video, info/stories and comments

《智慧与愛》音樂視頻，相關資料/故事和評語

WAVES the music video & info

《浪》音樂視頻，相關資料

MINUTE-CAROLS the music video, festive puzzle & answers

《聖誕歌什錦》音樂視頻，猜曲遊戲和答案