愛爾蘭音樂名人介紹課件

1、Irish Coat of ArmsA harpSong from a secret garden My love You raise me up Tell me whyWhat makes you beautifulDream catcherElevation Never grow oldRiver DanceMay it beGreen SleevesSecret GardenDeclan GalbraithEnya Brennan Joanie Madden Down by the salley gardens漫步莎莉花園 (愛爾蘭畫眉)Irish stepdance Riverdanc

2、elRiverdance is a musical and dancing interval act which originally starred Michael Flatley and Jean Butler and featuring the choir Anna. It was performed during the Eurovision Song Contest 1994. Popular reaction to the act was so immense that an entire musical revue was built around the act. Scene

3、by Scene Scene by ScenelAct OneAct OneReel Around the Sun / The Hearts Cry / The Countess Cathleen / Caoineadh Ch Chulainn (Lament) / Thunderstorm / Firedance / Shivna /Slip into SpringThe Harvest / RiverdancelAct TwoAct Two American Wake / Lift the Wings / Heal Their Hearts Freedom / Trading Taps /

4、 Macedonian Morning / Andaluca / Oscail an Doras (Open the Door) / Slow Air & Tunes / Heartland / FinalAct One In a primitive and powerful world, our ancestors knew fear and joy and fire, worked wood and stone and water to make a place they could call home. The first peoples knew the world as a

5、place of power, their songs and dances and stories are negotiations with elemental powers. The first half of this performance shows them coming to terms with the world and with themselves.Reel Around The SunlThe sun brings life and light and fire, the opening dance sequence celebrates this benevolen

6、t masculine power. The sun is the light of morning, exuberant and clear.ThunderstormlThe brute power of elemental forces, beyond human control, beyond human understanding. FiredancelIn ancient Ireland fire and pride and beauty come out of the south, from the land of the sun. The power of the sun inv

7、ests itself in the passion of the dancer.RiverdancelOur story begins in the evocation of the Riverwoman, it moves through the dawn of history as the river moves through the land. As the power of the river grows, as the barren earth becomes fertile, as men and women grow in their sense of themselves,

8、 our story rises until it floods the world in a vital, joyous riot of celebration.Act TwolWar, famine and slavery shattered the ancient bonds between people and place. Forced dislocations marked and altered the histories of the native peoples. As we came into history we learned to guard what we valu

9、ed, to accommodate ourselves to others, to learn new ways of being ourselves, to embrace new kinds of courage. Cast out and momentarily orphaned, we learned to belong to the world.American WakelFrom the mid-19th century, hunger and famine and ambition drove the Irish out of their home island, across the Atlantic to a New World. Lover parted from lover, families and communities were torn apart.Harbour of the New World FinallWe