(一年一度在McEwan Hall的新生入學蘇格舞晚會)
雖然NANA已經不當學生很久了 最近還是跟著我新室友混水摸魚進去學校參加活動
算是彌補了一點當時我的新生週都還在拘無定所 外加捨不得多花錢參加活動的遺憾!
這個廳 除了入學典禮跟這個新生舞會之外 平時是不開放的
下次想進來 就得等畢業典禮花大錢了!
打算來愛丁堡大學唸書的學生 可得把握機會明年請早喔!!! :)
按這邊有一小段給大家看看~ 大部分人都是第一次跳 所以一團亂很正常囉~
If you can walk, you can dance 本次活動的廣告詞!
本來還以為我室友是害羞才不肯下場 沒想到手長腳長的他還真的.........>不會跳! :P
相信跟我住一起耳濡目染之下 他會速速進步的 :)
接下來給大家看專業版:
這是 Highland Dancing 裡的tap dance
這個是專業版的Scottish country dancing (Celidh)
今天從一早就有工作人員為了王子街封街做準備
靠花園的那邊早早就架起超大音響
從中午開始就開始播送古典音樂培養今晚的氣氛
所以一整天走在王子街上逛街都忽然感覺有氣質了起來
走在熱鬧摩登的王子街商店還一邊聽到古典音樂真是一種奇妙的結合啊~
RBS的煙火音樂會通常在每年八月的最後一個星期天舉行
(Royal Bank of Scotland firework concert 2008)
有點像是整個Edinburgh international藝術節的最高潮
也是夏天的完美句點
這個在王子街花園的煙火音樂會 雖然有賣門票
但是大多數人都寧願在王子街找個好位子 跟群眾一起享用免費站票
因為從王子街上才能看到城堡的全景 而且街上也聽得到音樂轉播!
音樂會是等天黑了九點才正式開始
不過大約八點就已經開始擠滿人
順便告訴大家.... 視野最佳的位置之一就是在施華洛水晶門口喔!
音樂會還沒開始就已經擠滿人啦! 這還只是一邊而已
另一邊也是滿滿滿....不過....離跨年晚會的寸步難行還是有差!
煙火瀑布....
*三年前我是在我舊公寓的門口看 因為我很不喜歡跟群眾擠來擠去
所以這次也是我第一次從正面看到"煙火與城堡"的全景喔!
順便試拍新相機的煙火功能 :P
看吧 另一邊也是滿滿滿....
還好我這次乖乖提早到佔到個好位子!
整個音樂會剛好一小時!
如果有計畫夏天來愛丁堡的....可以考慮明年的八月最後一周聽完這音樂會再走喔!:)
我覺得他今年的選曲比我上次聽的好多多
今年選的曲目原本是節慶用舞曲 真的很適合配煙火 感覺高潮迭起 看的很爽!
(其實在現場不覺得後面PUB那群酒醉年輕人有那麼吵 因為很專心看煙火聽音樂...不過重新看錄影畫面就一直會被環境雜音干擾.... :( )
總之 還是請大家欣賞一下片段吧!
曲目介紹:
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances (excerpts)
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (excerpts)
The music being performed alongside the fireworks on this occasion is two sets of six dances - Hungarian Dances by Brahms and Slavonic Dances by Dvořák. Brahms actually produced twenty-one in total and Dvořák sixteen. Both composers originally wrote their dances for piano duet.
The title Bohemian Rhapsodies should not be taken too seriously. Bohemia, a bit like Silesia or Galicia, is one of those places that you’ve vaguely heard of but couldn’t begin to identify on a map. That’s partly because, these days, they don’t appear on maps as distinct countries although, they have done in the past. They straddle borders – in the case of Bohemia, between south-eastern Germany and north-west Czech Republic, a larger area than the province of the Czech republic which also bears the name. (Silesia is a bit further east and Galicia today straddles the border between Poland and Ukraine). In any case, they’re nowhere near Hungary.
That kind of shifting frontier is exactly what underpins this year’s Edinburgh Festival programme of artist without frontiers, examining the edges of Europe, both inside its borders and outside. The implication is that those boundaries, however fixed they look now, can easily change Just ask the Bohemians – or, come to that, the Georgians.
But however geo-politically unstable they may be, they often live on culturally. Much of Dvořák’s music is based on folk melodies and dance tunes from his native Bohemia, part of a renewed interest in ethnic culture during the 19th century when much of Europe was dominated by the vast imperial spread of the Hapsburgs. Chopin in Poland, Lizst in Hungary, are part of the same story. Scotland couldn’t manage a world-beating composer though Hamish MacCunn’s much loved overture from 1877, “The Land of the Mountain and the Flood” comes close. But writers such as Walter Scott created a national literature so potent that composers all over Europe borrowed his stories.
Dvořák did not confine himself to Bohemia; his Slavonic dances draw on dance tunes from Slovakia, Poland and Serbia as well They are warm, spontaneous, colourful pieces with a broad range of moods and atmosphere. They make for highly approachable music and as such made a significant contribution to Dvořák’s subsequent fame and fortune.
Similarly, the Brahms Hungarian dances are exuberant and full of life, with nothing of the Romantic turmoil of Brahms’s larger orchestral works. Brahms fell in love with gypsy music after being introduced to it by fellow composer Remenyi. He improvised piano accompaniments when they went on tour together and the intoxicating czardas rhythms held a life-long fascination for him, leading to the Hungarian Dances which he composed over a period of 18 years.
It was in fact Brahms who suggested to his publisher that he might like to commission the younger Dvořák to write a Slavonic counterpart to his Hungarian dances, so Dvořák took them as his model and the result was an overnight success, with the two composers becoming firm friends. Brahms himself wrote scintillating orchestral arrangements of two of Dvorak’s and there have been many more. The most famous, No 5, has been used for everything from Lemony Snicket, Tom Clancy and Charlie Chaplin films, to a video game, the Sims, a rock instrumental, cartoons and Korean theatre.
PS:這張照片是 Trams for Edinburgh 官方網站上的＂完成之後想像圖＂
http://www.tramtime.com/imagegallery.html
話說 ....
從2008年3月1日起 平常熱鬧非凡 車流超大的王子街
處處都可看到工程進行中的痕跡
看了佈告才知道 原來愛丁堡要蓋TRAM啦 (有軌電車)
平常我下了愛丁堡國際機場之後 都會坐Airlink (單程3磅 OPEN RETURN 5磅, 單程需時約25分鐘)
對我最方便的下車處是WEST END (有超多號巴士停靠 想叫taxi就在對面也很方便)
沒想到這次回來
整個WEST END都被欄杆圍住． 公車都被繞到替代道路 只有特定幾號能直奔王子街
聽說蓋好之後 可以從王子街直通機場 更方便觀光客進出
(按照進度說是2010完工 不知道是不是又要順便發奧運財!?!?)
可惜的就是 這段期間來愛丁堡玩的旅客
可能看到的風景會被影響囉 而且要忍耐道路施工的各種不便.... ><~
甚至連看愛丁堡市景最棒的CALTON HILL 目前也只有開放一個入口 而且也有多處施工中 :(
預定今年夏天要來愛丁堡玩的人
可得把這因素考慮進去囉....
參考資料:
http://www.tramtime.com/index.html
http://www.flybybus.com/index.php
滿地的落葉
與綠色的草地
交錯成詩意的景色
夏天飽滿翠綠的大樹
現在只剩下落葉後的枝幹
我的回家路
草原旁的小路
凋零的落葉 讓樹木看來有種蕭瑟的感覺
春走了
夏也去
秋意濃.....
我的回家小徑
總有一天
塵歸塵
土歸土
秋天的草原
Meadows中央的走道變成 櫻花大道
走道兩側都是粉紅色的花瓣
一整片嬌豔盛開的粉紅! 只要看過一次 保證此生難忘!
管院對面 Bristol Square的白櫻花
賞櫻跟享受陽光的人群
今天是 愛丁堡卜媽的 "公休日"
貼心的卜爸 自願在家帶小孩 讓老婆可以有機會享受難得的FREE TIME....
所以 我們兩個女人就在愛丁堡吃吃喝喝
假冒觀光客
可惜 Meadows 到處在施工 一點都不美.... 
爲了要證明 我最愛的Meadows到底有多美
趕快上來把我今年3月時拍的舊照好好整理一番囉~
Meadows 的林間小道 變成積雪的走道
一側的長椅見證了路人的足跡...
紅葉 枯枝 白雪
Meadows 隨處可見的小花! 蓋上白雪更加動人!
連鄰居平凡無奇的小樹叢 加了雪都別有風味!
被白雪覆蓋住的大地!
舖了白雪地毯的草原!
雖然是同樣的場景 但是每天都可以經歷到不同的美!
時時改變的天氣 帶給愛丁堡多變的美....
(像女人? )
不知道自己是否還有機會再看到愛丁堡的雪了....
