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#演奏會回顧 

#本週六來美術館聽演奏會

演奏會曲目為 #何德來親自以日文譜曲 為主，內含 #日本箏 及 #尺八 兩種樂器，為還原此曲目，特別提供家屬收藏的譜曲《日は照れど》、《春の夜の雨》、《初秋》、《この母の子守唄》、《或る夜の夢》等等，邀請國內知名邦樂演奏家劉穎蓉（尺八）及徐宿玶（日本箏演奏）重新整理，重現歌唱旋律於展覽期間演出。並加碼演出秀子的老師宮城道雄先生代表曲目《泉》、《春之海》。

#看完展覽再聽演奏會更有感覺

《#背影》描繪何德來的妻子生前最後一個夏日，面對庭院專心地彈奏，平淡雋永的圖像傳達了無限的思念。秀子女士自六歲起學習三味線與日本箏，年輕時投入日本邦樂大師 #宮城道雄 門下，何德來也因此學習日本箏，與妻子無論是音樂愛好還是感情上皆琴瑟和鳴。

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09/09（六）14：30-15：30

演出地點 | 二樓展覽室209

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Is the rue des Martyrs in Paris the perfect street?









Shopping on the rue des Martyrs CREDIT: ALAMY











Sinclair McKay 16 JANUARY 2016 • 3:00PM





Sinclair McKay is charmed by a seductive history of the undying soul of Paris


"So Paris, the Paris I love, the Paris for real people," declares the bistro owner Sebastian Guenard. He is describing the atmosphere of the scruffy property he turned into a restaurant - but his declaration raises philosophical questions about history, authenticity and the modern city that hang over this book. Wouldn't we all love to live in a romantic Paris street "for real people"? But surely there can't be any such thing any more? Isn't the centre of Paris - just like London's Notting Hill or Manhattan's Chelsea - just a tarted-up, hollowed-out pastiche, a Disneyland stage-set for oligarchs?


Elaine Sciolino says not. She writes for The New York Times and has lived on the rue des Martyrs - a long street with a lively past that tendrils up from the centre of the city towards Montmartre - for many years. She argues with seductive force that here is where you will find the undying soul of the city; real Parisians from all walks of life - the "intimate, human side of Paris", somewhere with "the feel of a small village". You might feel inclined towards scepticism about this, but you will enjoy her sumptuous eye for detail.





In Zola's time, there was a whiff of scandal to the rue des Martyrs CREDIT: ALAMY




The novelist Emile Zola gave the rue des Martyrs a thrilling tang of scandal in Nana, making the street a backdrop to prostitution and lesbianism. In Sciolino's account, the past and the present entwine promiscuously. Here are Debussy and Satie living it up at "a rowdy cabaret"; and, a little further back, Ravel as a small boy in the street. Toulouse-Lautrec and Pissarro are to be found picking up supplies of paint from a celebrated fin de siècle art shop. Honoré de Balzac is glimpsed visiting his sister who lives at number 47.


The many famous ghosts of the rue des Martyrs are benign; the martyr St Denis is said, after his decapitation, to have walked some distance with his head in his hands. The darker shadows of recent history - the city's Jews in the Forties, persecuted, rounded up and sent by train to their deaths - are acknowledged, but Sciolino tells of the Jewish residents of the rue today who cohabit with an ease that can't be dispelled by the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack.


This is a sensuous book in terms of tastes, textures, colours, feelings; Sciolino swaps rare Hermès scarves with a neighbouring antique dealer, and each silken pattern and shade of pink and mauve is recorded. She talks to the owner of a business that gilts wood. Shopping for fruit and vegetables from her garrulous grocer friend Ezzidine involves being dazzled not only by freshness, but the way that the vivid purples and yellows of the produce are heightened by background green paper. Every café crème, every platter of charcuterie pulls one into a world of the senses. And there are the secret spaces too; behind the houses on this street lie an array of exquisite private courtyards. The houses themselves, divided into apartments, sometimes conceal ornate staircases.





Restaurants on the rue des Martyrs CREDIT: ALAMY




However, this world is so ruthlessly charming that we also find occasional outbreaks of gushing. There is, for instance, the state visit of Sciolino's friend Arianna Huffington, "one of the world's most successful online news aggregators". The women and their daughters go shopping at a chichi second-hand boutique near the top of the rue and the swooning raptures at Arianna's bargain-spotting may cause stomachs to turn violent somersaults.


That said, Sciolino is an assiduous and friendly neighbour. Although intensely conscious of her Americanness (and, though she is not rude enough to say it, her Parisian hauteur), she flies up and down the street over the years, getting to know everyone and their foibles, including naughty Michou, the blue-clad octogenarian cabaret owner, whose drag queens have entertained visitors across the decades. Sciolino also organises events and parties for this community. Over the matter of the street's local Catholic church, she even writes to the Pope, inviting him to visit.


No multinational chain stores are permitted to move in









But the more she lovingly records every detail, every conversation, you are left with a sense of the fragility of everything she so desperately wants to preserve. Now, on the face of it, this particular district should have an unusual advantage: the rue des Martyrs - together with 60 other Paris streets - enjoys "local zoning" protection provided by the city authorities. No multinational chain stores are permitted to move in.


If one artisan business moves out, it can only be replaced with another. Only the French would dare to try and hold back the ineluctable corporatist forces that have conquered the rest of us. Yet around the corner, in neighbouring streets, those forces none the less seep in. Where did that branch of Le Pain Quotidien spring from? Sciolino is all too sharply aware of the economic tornado heading towards her "small village".


Like many creative middle-class people, she wants sophistication and an authentic community with deep roots. You will currently find similar processes at work in London's Hackney. It is romantic and well-intentioned but unsustainable. The creative people make these areas so attractive that the unthinking rich rush in, and the powerless poor are unintentionally hustled out.


None the less, Sciolino has captured the bouquet of her dream street, and even the most cynical reader will find moments of beguilement.










THE ONLY STREET IN PARIS by Elaine Sciolino


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