音乐剧[悲惨世界] 5 爱泼妮为爱献身

爱泼妮是郭赛特前养父的女儿。维克多雨果在这里开了一个玩笑：这位冷酷贪财的家伙竟然有位为崇高理想牺牲的孩子。爱泼妮深深地爱上了她邻居马里忧斯，她也痛苦地知道马里忧斯爱着郭赛特。于是她埋藏了自己的爱为他俩传递情书；于是她为了保护马里忧斯挡住射向他的子弹。

她满腔的爱换来的是：安然地躺在自己心爱的人的怀抱里，靠别这个世界。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptdGPt9wt4&feature=related


EPONINE
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, that's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.

MARIUS
But you will live, 'Ponine - dear God above,
If I could heal your wounds with words of love.

EPONINE
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me

MARIUS
You would live a hundred years
If I could show you how
I won't desert you now...

EPONINE
The rain can't hurt me now
This rain will wash away what's past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
I'll sleep in your embrace at last.

The rain that brings you here
Is Heaven-blessed!
The skies begin to clear
And I'm at rest
A breath away from where you are
I've come home from so far
So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius

I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now

That's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close

MARIUS(in counterpoint)
Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine,
You won't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now
I'm here

I will stay with you
Till you are sleeping

EPONINE
And rain...

MARIUS
And rain...

EPONINE
Will make the flowers...

MARIUS
Will make the flowers... grow...

(She dies. Marius kisses her, then lays her on the ground)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuS1cCnG8xc
为了能更深地了解爱泼妮为爱献身的动机，还是应该先听听她一段独白。请注意，那个爱的主题在一段挣扎求索中呈现出来
....
On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone, I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me

In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me for ever and forever

And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us

I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone, the river's just a river
Without him the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers

I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life I've only been pretending
Without me his world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!

I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own.



汪大叔 提供

音乐剧[悲惨世界] 4 方婷弥留之中的托付+让瓦让的承诺

为了心爱的女儿的成长，方婷曾经卖掉了美丽闪亮的金发、整齐洁白的牙齿，后来又不得不卖身，乃至生命。在弥留之际他庆幸自己遇到了善良的“市长”冉瓦让。她把自己的最爱教托给他。
这首对唱还是重复使用本歌剧的两个主题：
1 陈述（很简短）
2 爱


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqDv4FHBw3A


[FANTINE, 陈述主题]
Cosette, it's turned so cold
Cosette, it's past your bedtime
You've played the day away
And soon it will be night.

[爱主题开始，贯穿全曲，由方婷冉瓦让分别唱出-同样的旋律，不同的内容象征着不同背景的两个人面对不同生活，但是爱是他们共同的基础]
Come to me, Cosette, the light is fading
Don't you see the evening star appearing?
Come to me, and rest against my shoulder
How fast the minutes fly away and every minute colder.

Hurry near, another day is dying
Don't you hear, the winter wind is crying?
There's a darkness which comes without a warning
But I will sing you lullabies and wake you in the morning.

[Valjean enters]

[VALJEAN]拉维警长的脚步声声逼近
Oh, Fantine, our time is running out
But Fantine, I swear this on my life

[FANTINE]
Look, M'sieur, where all the children play

[VALJEAN]
Be at peace, be at peace evermore.

这段对白太感人的：虽然拉维警长的脚步声声逼近，冉瓦让还是耐心地听着方婷。而且他所承诺的比方婷要求得更多！

[FANTINE]
My Cosette...

[VALJEAN]
Shall live in my protection

[FANTINE]
Take her now

[VALJEAN]
Your child will want for nothing

[FANTINE]
Good M'sieur, you come from God in Heaven.

[VALJEAN]
And none shall ever harm Cosette
As long as I am living.

[FANTINE]
Take my hand. The night grows ever colder.

[VALJEAN]
Then I will keep you warm.

[FANTINE]
Take my child. I give her to your keeping.

[VALJEAN]
Take shelter from the storm

[FANTINE]
For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping
And tell Cosette I love her
And I'll see her when I wake...

[She dies with a smile. Javert arrives]

汪大叔

联合团契－教会维修

２月２８号Mayfield教会和咱们教会一起在Lower Hall联合团契：表演＋爱宴。


Mayfield教会预算£500,000. 目前他们已经自筹款163, 000镑，其中包括馈赠，认捐。另外他们组织各类活动例如我带孩子参加的圆号音乐会，来集资。我们２８号的晚会也是其中一项这类的活动。我们自己教会已经有不少弟兄姐妹通过各样的方法来支持：例如陈弟兄会提供食物，国语夫妻团契将献舞：中国秧歌．．．我们的参与也是支持－门票的收入将用于教堂建筑的维修。

这座教堂真是很美。同时符合圣经的教导，不说别的，我请大家注意我们教堂里的十字架：
１木头的！注意许多其他地方的十字架多部是木头的。
２十字架被隐藏的大光照耀，大光是全教堂最亮的。但你看不见灯，那是天父上帝，你看不见他的本体，但是可以看见光。他是大光，它照亮十字架。
３十字架是中轴线的低端，所有人一进门就看到，最容易看到，保罗说“我不传别的，只传耶稣和他的十字架”，十字架是我们信仰的核心。
．．．．．
龙飘飘来时，她没有面光，她的经纪人问我，我说这就是我们教堂的设计，只有十字架有大光照耀，只有讲道读经台有光。这样的设计要人们“不见一人，只见耶稣”（马可福音，登山变相）。她特别赞同。她真是十分谦卑！！感谢主！，这是基督徒的馨香！你们去了解一下：没有大歌星不要面光的！！
．．．．．
还有许许多多，神是丰富的，他的圣殿是丰富的，我们可以细细品味的。

亲爱的弟兄姐妹，相信你也赞同我说我们来听道，我们也看“道”，维望弟兄姊妹跟我一起品味“道”！

现在这座美丽合付圣经教导的建筑学要维修。神家的儿女理当尽力！
盼望我们美丽的教堂早日恢复它应有的荣耀，让所有到它里面的人“只见耶稣和他的十字架”

－大汪分享

龙飘飘<唯一>诗歌见证布道会

时间 １０月17日19点
地点：爱丁堡华人福音教会

歌坛常青树的龙飘飘，最近中国几次重大事件中用自己那不老的歌声为中国各唱：
汶川-你的名字叫坚强
情牵四川 心系缅甸 祈祷灾区
祝福奥运，北京加油
她的最受欢迎曲目有我们大家都熟悉的. 昨夜星辰, 美酒加咖啡，今宵多珍重，女人花，往事只能回味，夜来香，舞女, 多少柔情多少泪,


一下资料来自伴读书童

70年代紅極一時的歌手龍飄飄，去年(2005年)9月從新加坡舉家遷往北京定居，篤信基督教的她，常隨著教會佈道世界各地傳福音，多年來東南亞的演出更是沒斷過，足見她在當地受歡迎程度。
擁有87張專輯、豐富閱歷的龍飄飄，歌唱特色鏗鏘有力獨樹一格，令歌迷懷念不已，唱紅的歌曲不計其數，像「風說你要來」、「怎能回頭」，以及其他歌手的歌「萍水相逢的人」、「晚風」、「夜歸人」，只要她開口唱的歌無不受歡迎，她還出了一系列的創作輯和「龍腔雅韻」，星馬華人每年過年都要放她唱的「過年歌」，在東南亞人氣非常旺。

雖然婚後較少在國內(台灣)曝光，不過，龍飄飄當年從東南亞紅回台灣，在東南亞的根基打得很穩，因此在星馬的演出邀約沒有間斷，很多友人以為她定居新加坡。她說：「這幾年老公在東筦經商穩定，我們全家就搬到北京，兩個小孩一起念小六雙語學校。」龍飄飄在北京的家還不時蒔花，並自己種蔬菜，生活過得悠然自在，多年來篤信基督教讓她身心靈安定、時時感恩。

「這幾年我跟著教會到過以色列耶路撒冷去朝聖，4月要到澳洲有佈道。」龍飄飄和同時期嫁作人婦後的歌手多半退隱不同，依舊保有自己愛唱歌的樂趣，常接秀演出，5月她也將上麗星郵輪開唱，本月21日她則受八大電視邀約回台錄影。

龍飄飄為了和在台灣的家人及世界各地的親友保持互動，利用視訊聯繫感情，常常藉視訊向母親問安，並讓子女和外婆也建立情感，非常重視親情的維繫。

汪大哥

音乐剧[悲惨世界] 3

不知有多少人对我贴的音乐剧[悲惨世界] 有兴趣。据我对人性的了解（不会有太多的人对这些“不切合实际”“没有多少使用价值”的东西有兴趣。）
但是既然项目开了工，还是完成它吧！
恰巧，向暖开始了一个非常挑战性的问题：婚前性行为；而我的介绍正好也进入了芳婷(柯塞特的媽媽)的一段景点独唱（我曾梦想），在这段唱段中，芳婷罗列了她少女时种种梦想，这些梦想并不奢华，我想每个女孩都会有这样的愿望。而这些愿望并非“hope was high”
然而她的“真爱”竟是位被纨绔子弟，她的爱情始乱终弃，不仅同居、海怀了孩子、海竟然把孩子生了下了。
（在现代中国的环境里（我对其他的国情不甚了解）也许有不少人认为：芳婷错不是错在“还没得到那男子的保证，就以身相许”。而是错在第一：没避孕；第二没打胎；第三没将孩子送人了事。）
她在面对带孩子和工作赚钱的两难中，庆幸自己找到一家“蛮有爱心”德纳第诶；确没想到德纳第诶这位奸诈的小酒店老板不断地借芳婷钟爱的女儿柯塞特向她敲诈勒索。
为此芳婷先是卖掉了她美丽的金发；接着又卖掉了她美丽的牙齿.....
又遭到了工厂的开除，被同事讥笑，被男人侮辱。走投无路的芳婷唱出这一经典唱段。
在这里有温情的回顾；
又满怀憧憬的叙述；
更有撕声裂肺的控诉。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOipTn0tQEk

There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came

And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

音乐剧[悲惨世界] ２ 决定脱胎换骨冉瓦问让自己“我到底是谁？”

主教的饶恕、宽宏让冉瓦让大大震动。雨果在小说里大段地描写他的心情：其中“比大海浩瀚的是天空；比天空更浩瀚的人的内心世界；此时此刻冉瓦让呆坐在海边的一块大石头上：心潮澎拜．．．”　　

在周边所有的人都看他是罪犯。警长拉威一再地提醒他你是罪犯你是“２５６０１”
他自己认为是个有名有姓的“冉瓦让”
主教称他为“朋友”“兄弟”　
他到底是谁？

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqYVdBcFwDc&feature=related

Valjean - What Have I Done? Lyrics
[VALJEAN]
What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done? 人在内心的独白常常需要对象！述说需要对象、祷告需要对象。这时让冉瓦开始对耶稣说话。耶稣自己清楚地宣称：“我是道路、真理、生命，若不借着我，每人能到父那里去！”　　
Become a thief in the night,
Become a dog on the run
And have I fallen so far,
And is the hour so late
That nothing remains but the cry of my hate,
The cries in the dark that nobody hears,
Here where I stand at the turning of the years?
If there's another way to go
I missed it twenty long years ago
My life was a war that could never be won
They gave me a number and murdered Valjean 这是对冉瓦让的人格最大的侮辱！姓名在每个民族里都有很深的内涵：取名字是长辈对孩子的期望，等等。在圣经里，名字太重要了，例如雅各改名为以色列，等等。
When they chained me and left me for dead
Just for stealing a mouthful of bread
Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me love?
He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me brother
My life he claims for God above
Can such things be?
For I had come to hate the world
This world that always hated me
Take an eye for an eye! 　　　　　在这段唱段里让冉瓦在声嘶力竭地呐喊！**那些他从这个世界学到的生存的手段！　
Turn your heart into stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!
One word from him and I'd be back
Beneath the lash, upon the rack
Instead he offers me my freedom
I feel my shame inside me like a knife 在“使徒行传”第二章，“众人听了扎心”问彼得该怎么办？彼得答：悔改！信耶稣！
He told me that I have a soul,
How does he know?
What spirit comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?
I am reaching, but I fall
And the night is closing in
And I stare into the void
To the whirlpool of my sin
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean is nothing now
Another story must begin! 　
[He tears up his yellow ticket-of-leave]

音乐剧[悲惨世界] 1 饥寒交迫无家可归心中满了怨恨的冉瓦让遇到了“善”

周二晚上瓦特团契的音乐剧[悲惨世界] “管窥”似乎没能让大家尽兴。我将陆续在我自己的博客里与大家分享自己的体验。

开场 Prologue
在苦役场；
假释；
遇见主教大人；
主教饶恕以怨报德又偷窃银灯台的冉瓦让


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwhLZkc8YQ

假释后冉瓦让遭到冷遇：警长拉威提醒他还是坏人，他是25601(犯人代码) ；农场老板克扣他工钱；连与他一同劳苦的农工也说他是坏人怎能得跟别人一样的待遇；小客栈老板拒绝他下榻；

这时候天时已晚，饥寒交迫、无家可归、心中满了怨恨的冉瓦让遇到主教大人（注意在当时法国，主教又极高的地位声望）的主动邀请

朋友，请注意：是主动的邀请！别以是你在寻找神，是神在寻找你！许多年前在台湾有一次校园福音复兴的口号是：“我找到了”，后来才发现更正确的应该是“我被找到了”。证据就在圣经的创世纪里面：上帝呼唤亚当“你在哪里?”. 全能全知的上帝然道不知道亚当在哪吗？朋友，请你想象一下“你在哪里?” 神的心情与口气。

[BISHOP]
Come in, Sir, for you are weary, 请注意主教尊称罪犯冉瓦让 “Sir”
And the night is cold out there.
Though our lives are very humble 小说里面有许多对主教俭朴生活的细腻描述
What we have, we have to share.
There is wine here to revive you.
There is bread to make you strong, 注意这两种食物。wind and bread（和合本翻译：饼与杯）
There's a bed to rest till morning,
Rest from pain, and rest from wrong. 这一句台意味深长了。

[VALJEAN]
He let me eat my fill
I had the lion's share 这时的冉瓦让因为内心还被怨恨所充满，他不能感恩。也尚未感到爱
The silver in my hand
Cost twice what I had earned
In all those nineteen years -
That lifetime of despair
And yet he trusted me.
The old fool trusted me - 冉瓦让称这位主教old fool 但是他感到了人间一种美好的感情：信任！
He'd done his bit of good
I played the grateful serf
And thanked him like I should
But when the house was still,
I got up in the night.
Took the silver
Took my flight!

偷窃了的冉瓦让没跑多远；就被巡警抓获，带到主教面前：

[BISHOP]
That is right.
But my friend you left so early
Surely something slipped your mind

[The bishop gives Valjean two silver candlesticks]

(主教对冉瓦让) You forgot I gave these also （主教曾说过：What we have, we have to share. ）
Would you leave the best behind?
(主教对巡警)
So, Messieurs, you may release him
For this man has spoken true
I commend you for your duty
And God's blessing go with you.


(巡警离去，主教对冉瓦让)
And remember this, my brother,
See in this some high plan.
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man.
By the witness of the martyrs,
By the passion and the blood,
God has raised you out of darkness:
I have bought your soul for God. （保罗说：我们是耶稣重价买回的；在小说里，提到说这套银餐具银灯台是主教家传对珍贵的传家宝）

我的分享：

这里主教所做的先是主动的邀请，热情的接纳、后来又饶恕，以德报怨，
作为神的代表，他让冉瓦让体会到了神的大爱中的一个方面，是这种爱使冉瓦让冰冷钢硬的心被摸着、开始发现这世界在众人的冷漠里、有一群不一样的人，决定脱胎换骨，重新做人。

叫人悔改的不是刑法、惩罚、苦役。而是接纳和饶恕。
造物主上帝耶稣基督就是这样：他公义使他恨恶罪、要惩罚罪人！他的慈爱使他爱犯罪的人并要饶恕愿意悔改的罪人。

耶稣对那位行淫时被捉的女人说：“我也不定你的罪，去吧！从此不要再犯罪了。” 他没说“没事了，你平安地走吧，以后别犯罪”。他用了一个“再”字。说明“你的确犯了罪，但以后别再犯！”　
再看主教大人的嘱咐：“And remember this, my brother,
See in this some high plan.
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man.”
这里十分清楚：You were no honest. But from now you MUST and to Become...
这两个字在歌剧中一语带过；但在冉瓦让心中激起了千层波浪。这些在他以后的两个唱段里可以看到它的久远深刻的影响。　

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