如果有幸去过澳大利亚墨尔本,你可能会在街头偶遇这样一位老人:她披散着银色的长发,衣衫单薄,弱不禁风......
但只要是她出现的地方,都会引来人们驻足围观,因为他们都被老人的琴声所吸引。
老奶奶的名字叫做娜塔莉·崔玲(Natalie Trayling),是墨尔本的街头艺术家。几十年来,她一直在这座城市的街头演奏钢琴。
听过她演奏的人们无一不被老人乐声所折服,也被乐曲所表现出的情感深深触动了:
It's very touching, very sad, like maybe she's lonely when she's playing the song.
非常动人,也非常伤感。当她弹奏这首曲子时,心里应该是很孤独的吧。
It makes you think about calmness, about the good things in life, never giving up.
她的乐声让你沉静下来,思考生命中那些美好的事物,让你觉得永远都不要放弃。
I thought it must be someone famous playing on a CD.
我当时想,这一定是在播放哪位著名音乐家的CD。
娜塔莉在很小的时候就表现出了音乐天赋。她不仅演奏拉赫曼尼诺夫(Rachmaninov)、肖邦(Chopin)的作品,还演奏自已原创的乐曲。
When she first saw a piano on a stage as a child she was fascinated by it. "It was my first music lesson. And the nun, Sister Mercy, said to me 'this is middle C', and I put my finger on it."
当她小时候第一次在舞台上看见一架钢琴时,就深深为之着迷。“那是我的第一堂音乐课,摩西修女告诉我,‘这是中央C音’,于是我把手指放了上去。”
娜塔莉15岁的时候就考上了伦敦皇家音乐学院(Royal College of Music),视频中的那段钢琴曲,就是她的原创。
Those who happened to pass by her and spare some change didn't even realize what a musical genius is playing for them. The emotional tune was not only masterfully played but also composed by Natalie herself when she was only 14.
那些碰巧经过,给她放了些零钱的路人都没意识到,这是一个音乐天才在为他们演奏。这段感情充沛的乐曲不仅被老人用高超的琴技展现了出来,更是她在14岁时就创作出来了。