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PASSAGE SEVENTY-SEVEN

International Jazz Day

1.Some of the world’s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day.  

2.UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying voice across cultures.

3.Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

4.It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture.

5.“Jazz seems like it’s not really a part of the American appetite,” Moran tells National Public Radio’s reporter Neal Conan.  

6.“What I’m hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore.  

7.It’s actually color, and it’s actually digital.” Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost.  

8.“The music can’t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958.  It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,” says Moran.

9.Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller’s music for a dance party, “just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,” says Moran.  

10.“For me, it’s the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion lie?

11.Are we, as humans, gaining any insight on how talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts?  

12.Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,” says Moran, “so I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.”

第七十七篇

国际爵士乐日

1.一些世界上最著名的音乐家最近聚集在巴黎和新奥尔良，庆祝第一个年度国际爵士乐日。

2.联合国教科文组织(UNESCO)最近将4月30日定为提高人们对爵士乐的认识、爵士乐的重要性以及爵士乐作为跨文化统一声音的潜力的一天。

3.尽管有庆祝活动，但在美国，爵士乐的听众在不断萎缩，年龄也在不断增长，这种音乐也未能与年轻一代建立联系。

4.杰森·莫兰的工作就是帮助改变这种状况。作为肯尼迪中心的爵士艺术顾问，莫兰希望拓宽爵士乐的听众，让爵士乐更容易被接受，并保留它的历史和文化。

5.莫兰对美国国家公共广播电台的记者尼尔·柯南说:“美国人似乎并不喜欢爵士乐。”

6.“我希望完成的是，我们这一代和更年轻的一代开始重新考虑并理解爵士乐不再是黑人和写作。

7.它实际上是彩色的，而且是数字的。”莫兰说，今天爵士乐的一个问题是，这种音乐的娱乐方面已经消失了。

8.“今天的音乐不能以1908年或1958年的方式呈现。它必须继续前进，因为世界的运作方式已经不一样了，”莫兰说。

9.去年，莫兰参与了一个项目，为一个舞会编排了菲茨沃勒的音乐，“只是为了让人们重新认识到，沃勒既是舞曲，也是音乐会音乐，”莫兰说。

10.“对我来说，这是一种重新情境化。在音乐中，情感在哪里?

11.作为人类，我们是否对如何谈论自己，以及像查理·帕克的唱片这样抽象的东西如何让我们进入一场关于情感和思想的对话有所了解?

12.有时我们忽略了音乐有更广泛的背景，”莫兰说，“所以我想继续这些对话。这些都是我想培养的东西。”