《Lecture 17耶鲁大学开放课程《聆听音乐》讲稿 》.pdfVIP

Yale University Listening to Music Lecture 17 Professor Craig Wright: So--good morning. I bring you news from Nashville--very interesting, Nashville. I had such an interesting weekend. Friday night, went to this spectacular concert of Mozart, doing the Mozart Requiem in this one hundred thirty-five million-dollar concert hall that they have put--built for music in the city of Nashville. The next afternoon, Saturday afternoon, I walked across the street. I could have gone two blocks to watch a hockey game--they have a hockey team in Nashville--or three blocks in the other direction to watch the Titans play in the football stadium, but I went just one block to the Country Music Hall of Fame. So I spent three hours in the Country Music Hall of Fame and--absolutely fascinating--but it got even better, because Sunday morning, there I was at the airport about to fly out of Nashville. And Im sitting there and you know how youre queuing up to get--go out your gate to get on your airplane and CNN is playing on the television there. It was wonderful. What did I hear? [plays piano] Ah, Mozart! Mozart right here in the airport in Nashville. And then it went on from that. There was another commercial and they used [plays piano [more Mozart]] and so on. So what a strange, wonderful world, what a strange, wonderful country to have such diversity ethnically, politically and musically. And at the same time to have a sense that this little person who was only about five feet three inches tall--probably weighed about one hundred ten pounds--sitting in a room in Vienna, Austria, more than two hundred years ago could create this beauty that we still engage today, whether consciously or subconsciously, when were sitting in an airport in Nashville, Tennessee. Right? Astonishing what the brain sometimes experiences. Well, today were going to talk about Mozart. Now