時代的呼喚
Jennie Litvack, high mistress of the shofar, died on June 27th, aged 55
羊角號女能人珍妮·利特瓦克于6月27日去世，享年55歲
The call came, appropriately enough, while she was walking through the Old City of Jerusalem, her husband said. They had stopped at a small shop near the Roman Cardo. By the door stood a barrel of shofars. Not regular ram's horn shofars, but the long curved Yemeni instruments made from the horn of the greaterkudu, an African antelope. She blew each one in turn. What emerged was a deep throaty musical summons that almost quivered, casting those who heard it back to one of the most significant moments in Judaism when God stopped Abraham from sacrificinghis own son and ordered him to kill a ram instead. In the street a crowd began to gather.
她的丈夫說，呼喚到來的時候，她正在耶路撒冷老城散步。他們在羅馬卡多附近的一家小商店停了下來。門口放著很多羊角號。不是普通的公羊的羊角號，但是這個長而彎曲的也門樂器是由大旋角羚的角做成的，大旋角羚是一種非洲羚羊。她依次吹了每個羊角號。出現(xiàn)的是一種幾乎顫抖的深沉的喉音般的音樂召喚，把聽到這聲音的人帶回猶太教中最重要的時刻之一，當時上帝阻止亞伯拉罕犧牲自己的兒子，而是命令他殺死一只公羊。在街道上人群開始聚集。
They had never heard such a sound before. And then, somewhere in the barrel, she found it—the shofar that produced the perfect deep baritone, the primal call she'd long dreamed of but never made. When she blew it, the crowd fell silent. Shopkeepers, tourists, old men pushing carts: they all stopped. They knew this one was different. And so was born a new ba'alat tokeah, a high mistress of the horn. It helped, of course, that she had played the trumpet since she was a child. At 14 she went up to Dizzy Gillespie after a concert at the Rising Sun jazz club in her native Montreal, and asked if she could have a go on his instrument—and a lesson. The next morning her mother dropped her at his hotel and waited patiently in the car outside.
他們以前從沒聽到過這樣的聲音。然后，在這堆羊角號里面，她發(fā)現(xiàn)了它-這個羊角號產(chǎn)生完美的深男中音的聲音，這是她長久以來夢寐以求但從未發(fā)出的最原始的呼喚。當她吹這個羊角號的時，人群陷入了寂靜。店主、游客、推著手推車的老人都停了下來。他們知道這個是不同的。就這樣誕生了一位新的巴阿拉特·托克亞，吹羊角號的女能手。她從兩歲起就開始吹這個樂器，這當然幫助了她。14歲時，她在家鄉(xiāng)蒙特利爾的旭日爵士俱樂部參加完一場音樂會后，去了迪茲·吉萊斯皮那里，問她是否可以演奏一下他的樂器——上一節(jié)課。第二天早上，她媽媽把她送到他住的旅館，在外面的車里耐心地等著。
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