Where the Glacier Meets the Sky

商品描述:
Where the Glacier Meets the Sky is a moving and sentimental choral piece that draws its musical inspiration from a famous poetic line found in the literary epic, Heimsljós (World Light), written by the Nobel Prize laureate of Iceland, Halldór Laxness. This once controversial novel tells the story of Ólafur Kárason, an orphan boy who longed to read all the books in the world, and aspire to write his own poetry amidst an atmosphere of socialism and communism, while plodding through his personal struggles and forging his creativity in the ruggedly beautiful landscape and indomitable culture of Iceland. While visiting Iceland I came upon this profoundly moving poem by Halldór Laxness, and I realized how symbolic it was of Iceland’s people and culture, and how the words of the poem possessed music within it, and this led me to compose this work in the hope of capturing some aspects of the wonder that is Iceland.

冰川與天空交匯的地方》是一首感人至深的合唱曲，音樂靈感來自冰島諾貝爾文學獎得主哈爾多爾-拉克斯內斯（Halldór Laxness）的文學史詩《世界之光》（Heimsljós）中的一句著名詩句。這部曾經備受爭議的小說講述了一個孤兒奧拉維爾-卡拉松（Ólafur Kárason）的故事，他渴望閱讀世界上所有的書籍，渴望在社會主義和共產主義的氛圍中寫出自己的詩歌，同時在冰島崎嶇美麗的風景和不屈不撓的文化中經歷著個人奮鬥和創造力的鍛造。

在訪問冰島時，我看到了哈爾多爾-拉克斯內斯（Halldór Laxness）創作的這首感人至深的詩歌，我意識到這首詩歌對冰島人民和文化的象徵意義，以及詩歌的字裡行間所蘊含的音樂，這促使我創作了這部作品，希望從某些方面捕捉冰島的奇妙之處。