2017英语四六级备考小憩:美文鉴赏之Eric Whitacre在TED演讲(2)

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　　2017年6月英语四六级考试报名已接近尾声，文都小编希望各位考生在报名备考的同时，也不要忘记英语自身的魅力。现下就为大家奉上美文鉴赏之Eric Whitacre在TED演讲：一个2000人的虚拟唱诗班高声歌唱(第二篇)。【2017英语四六级报名时间】

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　　(Video) Britlin Losee: Hi Mr. Eric Whitacre. My name is Britlin Losee, and this is a video that I'd like to make for you. Here's me singing "Sleep." I'm a little nervous, just to let you know. ♫ If there are noises ♫ ♫ in the night ♫
　　（视频）布瑞林·洛西：你好，埃里克·惠特克先生。 我的名字叫布瑞林·洛西， 这个视频我想献给你。 由我演唱的“睡眠”。 我只想告诉你，我有点紧张。 ♫如果在夜晚♫ ♫出现噪音♫
　　Eric Whitacre: I was thunderstruck. Britlin was so innocent and so sweet, and her voice was so pure. And I even loved seeing behind her; I could see the little teddy bear sitting on the piano behind her in her room. Such an intimate video.
　　埃里克·惠特克：我震惊了。 布瑞林是如此的单纯，如此的甜美， 她的声音是如此的纯净。 我甚至爱上了在她后面看到的东西。 我能看到在她房间中在她身后一只小泰迪熊坐在钢琴上。 多么亲切的一个视频啊。
　　And I had this idea: if I could get 50 people to all do this same thing, sing their parts -- soprano, alto, tenor and bass -- wherever they were in the world, post their videos to YouTube, we could cut it all together and create a virtual choir. So I wrote on my blog, "OMG OMG." I actually wrote, "OMG," hopefully for the last time in public ever. (Laughter) And I sent out this call to singers. And I made free the download of the music to a piece that I had written in the year 2000 called "Lux Aurumque," which means "light and gold." And lo and behold, people started uploading their videos.
　　我有了这样的想法：如果我能让50个人 都做这同一件事， 演唱自己的声部 -- 女高音、女低音、男高音和男低音 -- 无论他们身处何方，再把他们的视频放到YouTube上， 我们能把这些视频剪辑在一起，变成一个虚拟的唱诗班。 我在我的博客上写道，“OMG OMG”（天呐！天呐！） 我真的写了，“OMG”（天呐！） 希望这是我最后一次在公众面前这么做。 （笑声） 我开始招募演唱者。 我提供了我在2000年创作的 作品的免费下载， 作品名为“金色之光”，它表示“光芒和金子。” 慢慢引起了注意，人们开始上传他们的视频。
　　Now I should say, before that, what I did is I posted a conductor track of myself conducting. And it's in complete silence when I filmed it, because I was only hearing the music in my head, imagining the choir that would one day come to be. Afterwards, I played a piano track underneath so that the singers would have something to listen to. And then as the videos started to come in ...
　　我得说，在此之前， 我所做的就是贴出了我自己 指挥的一段音频。 在我录制它的时候，完全沉浸其中， 因为我在脑海里仅有听到的音乐， 想象着某天能够成真的唱诗班。 然后，我在后面演奏了一段钢琴曲， 这样演唱者就能够有伴奏可以边听边唱了。 接着视频开始进入时...
　　(Singing) This is Cheryl Ang from Singapore.
　　（歌声） 这是来自新加坡的谢丽尔·昂。
　　(Singing) This is Evangelina Etienne
　　（歌声） 这是伊万杰里纳·艾蒂安
　　(Singing) from Massachusetts.
　　（歌声） 来自马萨诸塞州。
　　(Singing) Stephen Hanson from Sweden.
　　（歌声） 来自瑞典的斯蒂芬·汉森。
　　(Singing) This is Jamal Walker from Dallas, Texas.
　　（歌声） 来自德克萨斯州达拉斯市的贾马尔·沃克。
　　(Singing)
　　（歌声）
　　There was even a little soprano solo in the piece, and so I had auditions. And a number of sopranos uploaded their parts. I was told later, and also by lots of singers who were involved in this, that they sometimes recorded 50 or 60 different takes until they got just the right take -- they uploaded it. Here's our winner of the soprano solo. This is Melody Myers from Tennessee. (Singing) I love the little smile she does right over the top of the note -- like, "No problem, everything's fine."
　　这一作品中甚至还有一小段女高音独唱， 因此我有试镜的程序。 不少女高音歌手上传了她们演唱的部分。 后来有人告诉我， 许多参与这个项目的歌唱者也告诉过我， 他们有时会录制50或60个不同的镜头， 直到他们满意 -- 然后再上传。 这是我们女高音独唱的优胜者。 来自田纳西州的梅勒妮·梅尔斯。 （歌声） 我喜欢她在上面露出的小笑脸 -- 就像是在说，“没问题，一切都很好。”
　　(Laughter)
　　（笑声）