Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

  • -- William Bolcom 威廉博尔科姆

现在最大的问题是,如果你要花大力气去设置一个歌剧,制作所有的音乐等等,你必须在歌剧中做一些事情,让它真正有价值。

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Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

我在你们那里所听见的,比这更美。我与你们所擘开的,比这更美。我既没有你,一切都是荒凉的。曾经那么美丽的一切都已不复存在。

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

于是,一个最近变得越来越紧迫的问题开始了:美学与政治的关系是什么?

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

在沉默之后,最接近表达无法表达的是音乐。

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken.

质疑一切。每条条纹,每颗星星,每句话。