喚醒靈魂的力量－音樂
Never did music more sink into and soothe and fill me - never so prove its soul - rousing power, its impossibility of statement.
Especially in the rendering of one of Beethoven's master septets……
I was carried away, seeing, absorbing many wonders. Dainty abandon, sometimes as if Nature laughing on a hillside in the sunshine; serious and firm monotonies, as of winds; a horn sounding through the tangle of the forest, and the dying echoes; soothing floating of waves, but presently rising in surges, angrily lashing, muttering, heavy; piercing peals of laughter, for interstices; now and then weird, as Nature herself is in certain moods - but mainly spontaneous, easy, careless- often the sentiment of the postures of naked children playing or sleeping.
It did me good even to watch the violinists drawing their bows so masterly - every motion a study.
I allowed myself, as I sometimes do, to wander out of myself. The conceit came to me of a copious grove of singing birds, and in their midst a simple harmonic duo, two human souls, steadily asserting their own pensiveness, joyousness.
音樂從未如此滲透我的心靈，撫慰和充實我的心靈――從未如此顯示它喚醒靈魂的力量，它的不可言傳。
尤其在演奏貝多芬的一首杰出的七重奏時… …
我神魂顛倒，目睹吸收了多少神妙之處。奔放而不失優雅，有時恍如造化在陽光照耀下的山腰傲笑；蕭然執著的單調重復，恍如風聲颯然；號聲響徹縱橫交錯的森林，繼而是漸漸消失的回聲；波浪平緩流淌，可是一會兒又洶涌澎湃，怒濤沖擊，隆隆作響，沉重有力；間隙傳來尖利洪亮的笑聲；偶爾怪誕，如同造化有時喜怒無常――不過大體上還是自然而然，從容自在，無憂無慮――往往宛如赤身露體的孩童在玩耍或沉睡時神態可掬。
小提琴手弓弦舞動嫻熟自如，即使就是看看也能讓我受益――每一個動作都有講究。
我聽任自己忘我神游，有時我就是如此。我突發奇想，有一個百靈鳥歡唱的富饒園林，啁啾嘀囀之間有一對簡單和諧的靈魂，堅定地道出了他們自己的憂思和歡樂。
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