一點資訊（中國國際新聞雜志社社長郝江華推薦）

作者：高芳菡(Bella)

歐洲中國文化藝術(shù)交流與合作研究會榮譽會長，中國的洋女婿 —— 歐洲(愛爾蘭籍)傳奇音樂家Jimmy MacCarthy 事跡一二。

Annie和Jimmy先生的故事

The story of Annie and Jimmy

Annie曾經(jīng)這樣形容愛人Jimmy：

活得通透而純粹，詩意而睿智。

愛爾蘭傳奇音樂家Jimmy MacCarthy

是歐洲中國文化藝術(shù)交流與合作研究會

和中外國際家庭聯(lián)誼會會長陳秋梅(安妮)

的愛人。

要了解Jimmy MacCarthy ，

我們先從他的靈魂伴侶陳秋梅(安妮)

寫給他的一首詩歌開始吧。

Irish legendary musician Jimmy MacCarthy

is the lover of Chen Qiumei (Annie),

Chen Qiumei (Annie) is the president of

Europe-China culture&art exchange

and Chinese and Foreign family association

If you want to know more about Jimmy MacCarthy,

Let’s start with a poem written to him by his soul mate Chen

Qiumei (Annie).

寫給我的親密愛人Jimmy MacCarthy

陳秋梅(安妮)

 

你的臉上布滿初老的皺紋

眼神卻仍是男孩般的清澈

就像初生嬰兒般的干凈

容不下半點塵埃

在你的身上讓人看到

一半是海水一半是火焰

對音樂

你有著癡迷的瘋狂和炙熱

對生活

卻追求流年似水般的的靜好

當(dāng)你踏進波濤洶涌的娛樂圈

在名利場轉(zhuǎn)了一圈后發(fā)現(xiàn)

所處的環(huán)境喧囂嘈雜 紙醉金迷

那種浮華波動和深不見底

讓你感到漫無邊際的荒涼

和深入骨髓的孤寂

名利對你不重要

拋頭露面更沒必要

你毅然決然地掙脫物質(zhì)的束縛

擺脫名利的枷鎖

遵從本心 遠(yuǎn)離人群

長年隱居 深處避世

看似孤獨卻從未缺失過

活得通透而純粹 詩意而睿智

多少英雄遲暮

多少傳奇正在落幕

可你退出江湖很多年

江湖卻一直有你的傳說

你創(chuàng)作的上千首歌曲

從不間斷地唱響在英語樂壇

隔三差五電視和電臺音樂節(jié)目

就會播放你創(chuàng)作的歌曲

提到你的的名字

你創(chuàng)作的音樂

曾經(jīng)讓一些歌手一舉成名

他們的音樂生涯

幾乎都是在演繹著你的歌曲

包括世界民歌皇后Mary Black

和著名歌唱家Christ Moore 等巨星

江湖迭代變幻

但那些曾經(jīng)被你的音樂所震撼過的歲月

依然閃閃發(fā)光

曾經(jīng)綻放過的無與倫比的激動和幸福

一直溫暖和美麗著這個世界

 

To the love of my life Jimmy MacCarthy

Qiumei Chen (Annie)

A few visible lines may show you age

but those eyes of yours take decades away

eyes as clear as those of a new born

not to endure even the tiniest dust

Serendipity and passion live side in you

enchanted and passionate about music

while as calm as a lake about life

You stepped into the even changing realm of music

only to discover its uncertainty and illusions which throw you into a desert

one of I fathomable lifelessness and loneliness

Money and fame find no place in you

the spotlight loses its dazzle before you

so you left the raucous world behind

to hide away in the woods li a hermit

Peace and quiet resumes

You are alone but never lonely

little do you ask for never with any regret

Life is uneventful but rich in colours

Glories fade away heroes pass their heyday

your legend however carries on

despite your departure from the center stage

The thousand songs you wrote are played everywhere

your name is heard in TV and rad music programmes

your songs may have even changed the trajectory of many singers

from being unknown to becoming shinning stars

from the famous queen of folk music Mary Black

to the celebrated musician Christ Moore

Your songs follo the course of their careers

The music scene changes like a kaleidoscope

however those chords that your music strikes

dazzle our heart

the incomparable thril and joy that hop out of your music will always make this world a warmer and nicer place

 

Jimmy MacCarthy 先生個人簡介

About Mr. Jimmy MacCarthy：

陳秋梅(安妮)女士的愛人，是愛爾蘭著名音樂家Jimmy MacCarthy 先生。Jimmy MacCarthy 是一位全方面的音樂家，他不僅自己寫詞自己作曲，而且自己演唱自己彈吉他或者彈鋼琴。

The lover of Ms. Chen Qiumei (Annie) is Mr. Jimmy MacCarthy, a famous Irish musician. Jimmy MacCarthy is an all-round musician. He not only writes his own lyrics and composes his own music, but also sings and plays the guitar or piano by himself.

他的歌輕易不讓別人演唱，但所有演唱他歌的人都出名。

照片里面都是唱他的歌出名的音樂家，現(xiàn)在散落在世界各地。

In the photo, musicians who are famous for singing his songs are scattered all over the world.

年輕時候的他，曾經(jīng)在英國BEATLES樂隊，與世界最著名的音樂制作人(指揮家George Martin)同臺演出。

When he was young, he used to perform in the British Beatles band with the world's most famous music producer (conductor George Martin).

當(dāng)時愛爾蘭總統(tǒng)Mary Mcaleese 夫婦曾邀請他到總統(tǒng)府做客，并且在一起留影的照片上親筆題詞。

At that time, the Irish President Mary Mcaleese and her husband invited him to the presidential palace and wrote an inscription on the photos taken together.

中國網(wǎng)易云音樂對Jimmy的介紹，他創(chuàng)作的Ride on由Christy Moore演唱。

This is China NetEase Cloud Music's introduction to Jimmy. His Ride on is sung by Christy Moore.

《愛爾蘭音樂》雜志曾經(jīng)的宣傳和報道：

The previous publicity and reports of "Irish Music" magazine：

這些都是網(wǎng)絡(luò)上搜索到的一些有關(guān)他個人演唱會的照片。

These are some photos of his personal concert searched on the Internet.

愛爾蘭詩人Theo Dorgan 眼中的他是這樣的：

Jimmy MacCarthy is an alchemist of words, a sorcerer of melodies, a deeply thoughtful and gifted man. A large claim, to be sure - but the evidence is there in the songs. There's a story that has W. B. Yeats spending the morning putting in a comma, the afternoon taking it out - and the same story, which may be as old as time, could well be told of Jimmy. He is a meticulous craftsman, weighing every syllable in a line, considering the resonance of every word he employs, and weaving those words into intricate, captivating melodies until it seems that the entire song was born in a single instant froma flash of lightning. He's an alchemist and a sorcerer because the songs always add up to more than the sum of their parts - they flash into places of the soul and the psyche, into places in the heart, that only the real work can reach. This happens because Jimmy has the courage to trust and respect his gift. True poets say that the poem writes the poet - and the same thing can be said of the real songs, the songs that go deep, the songs that speak of mystery and justice, of love's yearning and lives lived for better or worse but always with passion. These are the songs Jimmy MacCarthy writes. The songs so many of us know by heart.

There is alchemy and sorcery, too, in the extraordinary way that Mary Black has found her path into Jimmy's songs ability to inhabit the songs, to sense their interior dimensions, to explore and to open out their deepest mysteries, is uncanny, heartening, a kind of active magic. She brings a lifetime of study, a profound and wise mix of craft and intuition, to every her song she sings, but when it comes to her versions of MacCarthy's work she seems to move into another dimension. Her respect for the songs shows in every phrase, in every inflection of the words and notes, and so, too, does her gift of empathy - so that at times  it seems that a single sensibility is there in the background of the song, a composite of the maker and the interpreter, a blended, soaring spirit. If the song is a gift to the maker, then the singer is a gift to the song.

In these days of darkness, how lucky we are to have our hearts lifted, soothed and delighted by these incomparable shining songs, these gifted artists.

Theo Dorgan

翻譯如下：

Jimmy MacCarthy堪稱語言的煉金術(shù)士，旋律的魔法師，更是一個思維縝密而充滿天賦的音樂家。這樣說你或許覺得有些夸張，但毫無疑問，只要你聽過他的歌曲，看過他的作詞就會明白。

和愛爾蘭偉大詩人威廉·巴特勒·葉芝(W.B. Yeats)花費一整天的時間推敲一個“逗號”的去留一樣，Jimmy MacCarthy經(jīng)常反復(fù)權(quán)衡樂章中的每個音節(jié)、每個詞語之間的共鳴，細(xì)致處理復(fù)雜文字與迷人音樂的和諧共奏!他猶如孕育美妙樂章的大魔法師，每一個旋律都直擊人們的內(nèi)心深處，充滿激情的向人們述說著世界上那些令人著迷傳奇、正義和愛恨情仇。這就是屬于Jimmy MacCarthy的音樂，我們始終都銘記于心的音樂。

歐洲中國文化藝術(shù)交流與合作研究會

Europe-China culture&art exchange

歐洲中國文化藝術(shù)交流與合作研究會和中外國際家庭聯(lián)誼會

是在愛爾蘭政府正式注冊的中立性公益機構(gòu)，

旨在為歐洲和中國之間文化藝術(shù)交流搭建一座多維度多元化的橋梁。

是歐洲著名音樂家Jimmy MacCarthy 和愛爾蘭華僑陳秋梅Annie(夫婦)創(chuàng)建，

由歐洲和中國的一些文化名人，知名藝術(shù)家及相關(guān)文化藝術(shù)單位組成。

歐洲中國文化藝術(shù)研究會總部在愛爾蘭，

歐洲和中國多地均設(shè)有分部。

Europe-China culture&art exchange and Chinese and Foreign family association are neutral public welfare organizations officially registered with the Irish government.

They aim to build a multi-dimensional and diversified bridge for cultural and artistic exchanges between Europe and China.

They were founded by the famous European musician Jimmy MacCarthy and the Irish compatriot Chen Qiumei (couple),

They are composed of artists and related cultural and art institutions from Europe and China.

The headquarters of Europe-China culture&art exchange is in Ireland.

Branches are established in Europe and many places in China.