为拯救拉赫玛尼诺夫与时间赛跑.doc

/A Round-the-Clock Race to Save the Rach Dazzvid Stabler The Oregonian牋 October 6, 2004 William Ryberg, the Oregon Symphony’s president, was looking across a linen tablecloth at Seldy Cramer, manager of the prize-winning international pianist Louis Lortie. The night before the Canadian musician had delivered on one of the most difficult pieces in the repertoire, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. The notorious Rach 3. Around them dinner guests filled Portland’s South Park restaurant with preconcert buzz. In 90 minutes Lortie was scheduled to do it again—the second of his three Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall performances of the diabolical concerto. Cramer got the news first as she raised her cell phone to her ear. Then, without explanation, she got up and left the restaurant. Ryberg picked at his salad. Then his phone rang. Cramer, at the Heathman Hotel with her client, sounded grim. Lortie was in tears. Crippling pain in his right hand made it impossible for him to play. 俄勒冈交响乐团的主席威廉赖伯格，正望着与他隔着一张铺着亚麻桌布的桌子距离远的国际钢琴家奖得主路易斯洛蒂谢尔盖拉赫曼尼诺夫的第三钢琴协奏曲臭名昭著的“瑞秋3”波特兰南方公园餐厅洛蒂Schnitzer音乐厅协奏曲赖伯格希斯曼酒店克与客户听残酷。洛蒂泪流满面右手的疼痛让他无法。So began a race to save not one, but two, concerts. With an hour to go before the concert, finding a replacement was out of the question. The Rach 3 is the ogre of the music world. It drove David Helfgott, the Australian prodigy portrayed in the movie “Shine,” to a nervous breakdown. Its enormous chords and explosive octaves create a rolling thunder of sound as the pianist competes against 90 instrumentalists for supremacy. Few of the world’s pianists have large enough hands or strong enough nerves to take it on. 于是，为了拯救音乐会，与时间的赛跑开始了，不是一场而是两场。 在音乐会开始之前，用一个小时赶到，并找到能替代洛蒂的演奏者这是根本不可能的事。瑞秋3被视为“音乐世界的怪物戴维Helfgott巨大的和弦和音阶雷鸣爆炸声音钢琴家演奏家90个鼓手一争高下似的。Their only choice that night was to substitute something to fill Lortie’s portion of the concert. Carlos Kalmar, the symphony’s conductor, heard about the crisis when he wrapped up his preconcert talk 30 minutes before curta