Never have I had  such a strong feeling for typhoon. It is a weather phenomenon some people dread or become terrified at. I used to be one of them. I detested vilolent weather condition,like storm, heavy rain,etc.But thanks to my friends' space, they update it frequently and keep me informed with the change of weather, I get to know typhoon lands in and it rains a lot recently.

  Maybe it is rare to see heavy rain here. It rains a lot indeed in Britain,only too little in amount every time, and often rains in midnight. I can not help missing the days when there is heavy rain in nb. It is the days when you can enjoy a lot from indoor activities like listening to music or watching tv on bed no matter what huge sound the raindrops have made on the windows of your room.And to some extent, you will become more concentrated on domestic things in such weather. Reading a book with a cup of tea at night in those days is also easiy acquired. It is a fact that the quiet type of people can appreciate those dyas better .

    My memory has blurred at what I was busy with in May last year, perhaps internship as well as dissertation due at the end of May. Things might have varied from what you did previous year and what you do currently.People you are around with have also changed, more fresher faces and more sophisticated types, but what remains the same is the weather .There is still typhoon every year in nb whether you like it or not. You may be picked up by it or may be more moody for whatever reasons. Besides, what remains unchanged is a group of old friends who keep missing you and waiting for you  thousands of miles away. In spite of less contact than previous days,  the intimate feeling one has for another is never tarnished, deeper instead. I miss them too.

   When I am back to my house with the company of my classmate and her boyfriend last night, it rained hard too, though unusual here as my classmate said. She and I shared an umbrella,her boyfriend by her side with raincoat on.I turned back into a quiet girl again when walking in the rain rather than the sometimes-voluble one , somehow lost in thought too.

    People become sentimental in rainy days

今天晚上去bonar hall看了magical mozart的歌剧表演,用magical来形容mozart实在是一个很好的词眼.因为周四在市中心box office提前订的票,就一直期盼着周末的到来.

 

 一进会场,觉得自己似乎来错地方了,基本没年轻人,前排齐刷刷的都是上了年纪的.随便在后排挑了个位置坐了下来,不久表演开始了.因为是由当地的剧团组织的,不算是很大规模的歌曲表演,没有背景和戏服.合唱队大约20个人组成,男女基本各一半.男中间,女两侧. 刚开始都是合唱队挑大梁,直到表演第5个项目don giovanni时,有了几个歌手对唱的形式.主歌手是一个女的，不愧是唱歌剧的缘故,体形也很丰满.

 

会场休息时,与我旁边一个老太太攀谈起来,了解到,她原来是个歌手,是另一个合唱队里的,虽然60多了,但一直在唱.而且11月份她会有个演出.意识到自己原来是坐在一个专家旁边,但她一直很谦虚地跟我强调她是choir singer,而不是solo singer,并且家里钢琴还保留着,兴致起来的时候,爱弹奏几首.

 

为了显示东方人对此有同样情趣.我也跟她侃了一番,先捧了下自己,谈到自己小时侯也接受过正规美声训练,在市艺术团呆过2年,聚集的都是一批唱得最好的孩子.然后跟她提到了梁祝,但她显然不接头,只跟我提到了蝴蝶夫人.看来西方人对东方的艺术了解和认识还需要一段过程.

 

休息完毕后,mozart很负盛名的nozze de figaro立即开始了,nozze在英语里有个单词与之对应,叫nuptial,不及marriage常用,但还在使用,所以老外即使不认识nozze,但通过nuptial去猜,然后又看到后面的figaro一词,也猜出这个就是费加罗的婚礼.因为时间有限,只演出了5幕,又问了我旁边的老太太,了解到完整版演下来要2小时半呢.场下的对费的期望值很高,表演下来,的确是所有里面最精彩的.其中两幕不知为什么不用意大利语,而用英语来演唱.听起来亲切多了,

 

最后是die zauberflote(魔笛),结束了全场的演出,也许是小型音乐会吧,演出结束,观众没有给予持久而热烈的掌声,而是立起身,离位,立刻向出口走去,而合唱队也很快退到了幕后.这点到和国内很不同.象国内的演出,即使场下观看过程中不用心的,但最后演出结束的那刻,还是会给予最热烈的肯定,不知情的要么以为台上的演出水准是顶尖级别的,要么认为台下的看者很有素质.我们在乎的更多的是种形式的东西.

 

看完后感觉英国虽然没出过如mozart级的音乐家,这方面远不及奥地利,德国,意大利等,但他们对音乐艺术的真诚和喜欢,还是让我觉得这是个很有底蕴的国家.

 

     好晴朗的一天,有了春夏之交的感觉,冬天应该是彻底远去了.