智慧背囊 品味人生-05-斷弦的小提琴

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:-1.57]Playing a Violin with Three Strings斷弦的小提琴 [00:02.70]On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. [00:10.00]If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, [00:12.93]you know that getting on stage is no small achievement for him. [00:17.08]He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he walks with the aid of two crutches. [00:22.88]The audience sit quietly while he makes his way across the stage to his chair and begins his play. [00:29.54]But this time, something went wrong. [00:32.26]Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. [00:38.07]We thought that he would have to stop the concert. [00:41.10]But he didn’t. [00:42.55]Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. [00:49.02]The orchestra began and he played with such passion and such power and such purity [00:55.57]as they had never heard before. [00:58.07]Of course, anyone knows that it is impossible to play a harmonious work with just three strings. [01:05.08]I know that, and you know that, but that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. [01:12.52]When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. [01:16.78]And then people rose and cheered. [01:19.41]There was an extraordinary outburst of applause from every corner of the auditorium. [01:24.88]He smiled, wiped the sweat from this brow and then he said [01:29.03]——not boastfully, but in a quiet, sacred tone—— [01:32.64]"You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out [01:36.91]how much music you can still make with what you have left." [01:40.63]This powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. [01:45.11]And who knows? Perhaps that is the definition of life——not just for artists but for all of us. [01:52.66]He has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, [01:57.91]but all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, he finds himself with only three strings; [02:04.04]so he makes music with three strings, [02:06.88]and the music he made that night with just three strings was more beautiful, [02:12.45]more sacred, more memorable, than any that he had ever made before, when he had four strings. [02:20.22]So, perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, [02:24.61]bewildering world in which we live is to make music, [02:28.25]at first with all that we have, [02:30.63]and then, when that is no longer possible, [02:33.69]to make music with what we have left.

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