2008-Apr 11Friday

圣维金日音乐会

2008年4月11日9:51　 吟诗作赋, 泉志咨文　评论/Comment.

　　一年之中除去新年音乐会和生日音乐会以外，我甚少举行其他音乐会；不过今天除外—— 为了欢度“个人节日”—— 圣维金日，我打破惯例。不过，相比较前二者的大排场，圣维金日音乐会只选择了7首曲目，而且均为西方古典乐派的杰作，没有自己创作的作品。演奏曲目依次是莫扎特著名的《G大调第3小提琴协奏曲》、德国小提琴家舒伯特的《蜜蜂》（注—— 请注意和奥地利著名作曲家舒伯特的区分，两人同名同姓）、埃尔加的《爱的致意》、圣-桑的《引子与随想回旋曲》以及卡尔·齐雷尔的《我们走！》。

泉志20年4月11日19:30（北京时间） 新州·凤凰城·圣维金广场
小提琴/小 龙
1992爱乐乐团 (PO’92)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Concerto No.3 in G major (Strassburg), K. 216
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Rondeau

Franz Schubert (1808-1878)
4. Abeilles (Bees), Op. 13-9

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
5. Salut d’Amour (Love’s greetings), Op.12

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
6. Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso (Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso), Op. 28

Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843-1922)
7. Loslassen! (Release!) Op. 386

2008-Feb 25Monday

The day at Siding Spring

2008年2月25日21:40　 English island, 泉志咨文, 鸡毛蒜皮　评论/Comment.

Although I sleep at 2 a.m. last night, I woke up at 8 a.m. in the morning. It’s already pretty sunshine outside. At 10 a.m. Rob came and guided me to the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). I’m very lucky because today they are going to remove the 16-t mirrow for maintanence, which occurs only once a year. The procedure will take a whole day to complete so we only checks at some important time. By the way — the 3.9-m AAT is also the largest telescope I have ever seen.

After short checks on the AAT, we went to see the 1.2-m UK Schmidt, visit the observatory shops and have lunch, have a great chat with the assistance (she’s not a professional but an astronomer — it’s still pretty nice to me the way she works, although not a professional one). After that we went back to the AAT, and the 16-t, 3.9-m giant had just been removed, and we watch it was put onto the ground floor. After that we still visit the 1.0-m and the 2.3-m AAT telescope (it marked the second biggest I had ever seen), and see the in-built Sky Mapper dome in distance.

The weather became very clear today (last night it wasn’t, but Rob still show me the software and facility of Siding Spring Survey). At sunset, quite a number of kangeroos went out and ate grass, and we observed a nice sunset at just outside the dome of the 3.9-m.

In the 3.9-m AAT dome -- the telescope is too large to be include in this photo

2008-Feb 24Sunday

Siding Spring, here I come!

2008年2月24日23:00　 English island, 泉志咨文, 鸡毛蒜皮　评论/Comment.

I’ve began my last expedition in Australia today — visit one of the Holy Lands for astronomer, the Siding Spring Observatory.

I board the train to Gunnedah on Strathfield at a quarter past ten, but the train was not quite convenient, it produced much noise and was late for one hour (yep the reasons are broken trains ahead, cow acrossing ahead and held for signal to give way).

Rob and Donna were waiting me on the platform, then I have dinner with them. After that, exactly at sunset time, we departed from Gunnedah for Coonabarabran, “the astronomical capital of Australia”, and then for Siding Spring.

Extraodinary is the only word to describe the scenery along the way.

We took about two hours to arrive Coonabarabran and then Siding Spring. The observatory is surround by kangeroos. I spot at least a dozen around the observatory. Rob showed me around the Uppsala Dome and then guide me to the lodge. I found an female astronomer sitting there enjoying Harry Potter DVD, and Rob and I have a great chat with her on the wizard story.

Scientist still prefer things like Harry Poter should you know.

2008-Feb 23Saturday

Olympic Park and the Sydney Habour with Queen Elizebeth II

2008年2月23日23:39　 English island, 泉志咨文, 鸡毛蒜皮　评论/Comment.

Today the mission is visiting the Olympic Parks for Sydney 2000 Olympics, but Uncle Bob brought me to the Sydney Market and observed another side of the Australian life.

Then at night Uncle John and auntie brought me to the Sydney Habour again (the forth or fifth time I visit there), because the giant ship Queen Elizebeth II had just arrived. Take great many photos there, stay tuned for updates…

Tomorrow I’ll go to Strathfield railway station before 10 a.m. and take the train to Gunnedah, Rob and Donna will pick me up from there and drive to Siding Spring Observatory, and I’ll stay there until Feburary 26.

2008-Feb 22Friday

Kiama: place to see THE SEA

2008年2月22日21:01　 English island, 泉志咨文, 鸡毛蒜皮　评论/Comment.

We plan to go to Kiama today but due to other occasions we made the departure at 5 p.m. Kiama is a seaside town about 100 kilometers south from Sydney, it’s close to the big town Wollongong.

We arrived Kiama town at a few minutes past 6 p.m. but note that the sunset is due to around 8 p.m. at this season, so we have plenty of time. Uncle Bob drop me for good at the entry (the kids might have no interest and the place might be too dangrous for them), but I enjoy myself very much. I had expect to see a plain beach with (mostly) naked men and women, similar to the beaches I had just visit, however it proved me wrong. Kiama coast is rocky and there are nearly no place to swim there, the best and most fantastic thing there is high wave, which can went up to a height of six adults or above. After safety checks, I climb pass the “Warning” sign (yes, that’s permitted if you have make sure it’s safe) and tried to get to the sea as close as possible. After a quater’s climbing I arrived at a small flat area, enough for a solo sofa, and about a few meters up from the terrified high wave, then I stood and observe the wave.

The wind was terrible as well, it blow and made the sea more crazy. Sometimes the wave went out to the sky, salt waters were blow overland and made my body very salty. Nothing other than the sea was rowing with a terrified sound, while sea birds seems were enjoying themselves, they just stood a few meters from me, up the rocks, went up and fly with the wind when they like. Several crosses down on the rocks which are very close to the sea, show that unfortunate accidents often happened even on this famous tourist site. I was terrified by the scene but did not want to leave, because I was deeply strike and move by the power of nature — until the dusk came, then I went around and left that place.

Back to the beauty grassland and modern road, there is another kind of scene. Lovers sat on the grass and spoke quitely, children played around, it seems peace and safe, you can never link them to the horrible image describe above, if you do not go and see for your own.

2008-Feb 21Thursday

Welcome to the capital city!

2008年2月21日20:54　 English island, 泉志咨文, 鸡毛蒜皮　评论/Comment.

Hi handsome, do you know which city is the capital of Australia? –No, that’s not Sydney, and that’s even not Melbourne (although it had been), the capital city is called Canbarra — a small city with about 300,000 population, about 300 kilometers southwest of Sydney.
On Feburary 21th, Uncle Bob drove his family and me for three hours for Canberra. I visit the capital mainly because one of the top astronomical research schools — the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) of the Australian National University (ANU) is located there. And may you be familiar with Mount Stromlo Observatory, it had even been a top research facility but was burn down by bushfire in 2003.

After reach Canberra at 2 p.m. we drove for another half an hour to reach Mt.Stromlo. Thankfully I have able to contact some executives there and they arranged me to meet some professors and show me around. Mt.Stromlo was once covered by tall trees but now there are only grass on the hill, and there are no working telescopes for astronomical researches any more, however RSAA still locates there.

I stay at Mt.Stromlo for two hours, and then we drove back to Canberra and took a look of the Parliament House and the ANU campus. Unfortunately the city was hit by a heavy rain and hail in the afternoon and we couldn’t enjoy ourselves so much, but the Parliament House and the ANU campus look nice. We spotted rainbows on the beautiful extending farmlands while driving back to Sydney, too.

2008-Feb 20Wednesday

To the beaches!

2008年2月20日20:51　 English island, 泉志咨文, 鸡毛蒜皮　评论/Comment.

Just sleep for four hours — from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and then I woke up, mainly because Grandpa came. “I may bring you to the Manly Coast if you wish — interest?” I could not say no, although I can hardly open my eyes. They said that Manly Coast is one of the most famous beaches in Sydney region. Uncle John drove grandpa and I to the garden next to the Opera House and then went to work. Grandpa and I had a long walk to the Sydney Central Habour, extraodinary view of the Opera House and Sydney Grand Bridge!

Then we board the ship to Manly, it took us half an hour. Beautiful beaches and clean sea there, I’ll write of it in detail later. Then we had a 2-hour long walk and explored the North Head territory. Grandpa is eighty but he keeps a good health, he just look excited about the beautiful scenery during the walk and told me that he moved out for travel nearly every week. Then we board the ship which back to Sydney Central, another extraodinary view of Sydney Habour, nice photo later when I back to China. By the way, I was hit by the bird waste at Manly Beach which is quoted by my grandpa as the “bigest prize”.

The next day, or Feburary 20th, it was Uncle Bob who drove me around, we visited several very famous beaches on the south (of Sydney) — Watson, Lady’s Bay, Bondi and so that forth, it’s said that Bondi Beach is the most famous one. We visited the University of New South Wales and the bigest park of Sydney downtown (I’ll check the name later) too. Lady’s Bay is the one which you can get completely naked and swim, you may expect the people there will get shy but — not them, that’s me who get shy, because I look like an alien there — with all the cloths, shoes, hat, sunglasses on, to protect that poisonense sunlight. If you are not at the “naked bay”, you will still find the females on other beaches still prefer to take their bras off, however I’ve get used to it now. Anyway, the Australian beaches are very beautiful and interesting — stay tuned for photoes and details.

2008-Feb 20Wednesday

The overland tour (3)

2008年2月20日20:40　 English island, 泉志咨文, 鸡毛蒜皮　评论/Comment.

I passed the best wishes to the Mattiazzo couple (they would be married soon and have their honey moon in China at August) and then left Castlemaine by train at 12:01 p.m. Around 1:30 p.m. I arrived the Southern Cross Station — the second time in 24 hours.

Okay, I arrived. Now the first thing is to look for an information center. In Australia, the towns and cities would have information center to provide free maps, information of places of interest, and other services for tourists. Quite convenient, but this time I took about an hour to reach one. A friendly lady (seems called “City Embassy”?) of there gave me maps and a lot of instructions that I have no places to put them in. According to the map, I complete nearly the whole Bourke Street and arrived the Parliament House on east.

Ashley had mentioned that there is a free tram service of Melbourne, called the “City Circle”, which is operate for the tourists. After I arrived the Parliament House, I walk down-right to the Federation Square and caught a City Circle, and thus I visit nearly all the places of interest in the downtown area, include Treasury Gardens, Calton Gardens, Melbourne Library, Central, Flagstaff Gardens, Victoria Habour, and so on, but still too early to go to the railway station, so I walked for about an hour to reach a Tourist Shuttle stop (free as well) and visit the Southbank, old Melbourne Observatory, Park, Goverment, and MCG (a famous and large stadium). The shuttle terminated the Victoria Art Museum and I wish to have a rest (it was clear and the temperature went up to 35C that day and I carried ~15kg baggage you know), so I went inside and had a brief look.

Then I felt much better, so I went mad again and travel by tram to look at the University of Melbourne (a few kilometers north from downtown) and walk in the campus for about one hour. Still one hour from the Sydney train departure so I travel back to the downtown and visit the Observation Deck — little bit similar to the Sydney Tower which offer you a nice bird view from 250 meters above the ground — then time was up and I walk to the Southern Cross Station.

Train departed on time, many people there, included a very naughty boy, he kept walking around the cars and made his mother very annoyed and tired. I turned on my laptop and started writing something, but soon found I’m not fit at the moment. Sleep? No, that was too noisy outside and you cannot sleep. So I closed my eyes and thought about some dull things. At last I was too tired and lied my head on my bag.

Around 1 a.m. I woke up and found the train arrived somewhere. I look out of the window — it was Wagga Wagga. The sign reminded me the moment when Ashley was on platform and shaking hands and saying goodbye to me, although I’m too tired to think about anything. The train started again in no time and I stared at the street lights and saw them off. Mobile phone rang and it was Ashley, “Just heard the train passed, are you in it? …” Sorrow feeling flooded. Dunno when would we meet again. A face-to-face chat can never ever been completely replaced by Internet chats.

Junee, Gilbone, Cambelltown, and finally Strathfield at twilight. The overland tour ended here, I tidied my bag and walk towards Uncle John’s car.

2008-Feb 7Thursday

新春乐

2008年2月7日23:02　 "十年少"仙丹, 一图胜千言, 泉志咨文, 鸡毛蒜皮　评论/Comment.

我只去了一个花市—— 天河花市。先在大门口自拍一张先~

天河花市内人头涌涌摩肩接踵~

短信类

• 灵鼠跳跳跳，新年到到到，祝您好好好，福星照照照，前程妙妙妙，收入高高高，烦恼少少少，喜讯报报报，圆梦早早早，全家笑笑笑。——monkey（对得还是很整齐的哈，就是第一句，我怎么一开始念的时候感觉到马铃薯在跳跳跳呢）
• 祝你在新的一年里快乐像假货越来越多，烦恼像利息越来越少，收入像油价越涨越高，友情像股市越套越牢，厄运像拉登哪儿也找不着！——陈威（很有意思哈，不过有点像两年前写的吧…… 凭着第4句瞎猜的）
• 小小意思，新春如意！近200亿条短信中最简单的1条，近200亿句祝福中最平凡的1句。花言巧语不是我的专长，普普通通能显心意最在行。——林炯（林炯的贺年短信极具可读性，不过最简单的那条应该是四个字的：“新。春。快。乐。”哈哈）
• 自己的贺年短信：绝对原创贺年短信：新春快乐数年大吉加感叹号X3！

花絮类

• 年三十去表姐母系家族那里蹭饭，酒足饭饱之后刚出酒店大门，看到两只笔记本一样大的老鼠正昂首阔步，路人甲乙视而不见，一开始颇为疑惑，而后豁然开朗：鼠年嘛！老鼠出来庆祝庆祝自然是登大雅之堂而不会人人喊打的。
• 去逛花市，摩肩接踵。一会儿听到广播说：“XXX小朋友，XXX小朋友，听到广播后请到南海渔村门口，你的爸爸在那里等你。”又一会儿，听到广播说：“YYY先生，YYY先生，听到广播后请到网球学校门口，你的孩子在那里等你。”于是我们议论说，怎么这么多人走失呢。过了一会儿，广播又说：“ZZZ，ZZZ，听到广播后……”我们就猜广播要说他们要在哪个地点会面。结果广播顿了顿，说：“听到广播后请你自己回家去，你的朋友已经走了。”众人顿晕。

音乐类

公历新年我都有举办新年音乐会的习惯，农历新年虽然没有，但也有一个不成文的惯例：大年初一拉琴只选择中国曲目演奏，以下便是这个非正式的“新春音乐会”的曲目单：

01. 随想曲（叶泉志）
02. 新春乐（茅 沅）
03. 抒情曲（汪立三）
04. 夏夜（杨善乐）
05. 良宵（刘天华）
06. 新疆之春（马耀先、李中汉）
07. 舞曲（靳延平）
08. 海滨音诗（秦咏诚）
09. 山丹丹开花红艳艳（刘 奇）
10. 四季调（王家阳）

2007-Dec 30Sunday

泉志20年新年音乐会

2007年12月30日20:33　 泉志咨文　评论/Comment.

　　惯例上我每年要开两次音乐会：一次是新年音乐会，以选择小提琴独奏、协奏曲为主；一次是生日音乐会，以交响、管弦乐作品为主。2008年又要到了，除了四处欣赏音乐会以外，个人的新年音乐会也在紧锣密鼓的准备当中。相比往届，这次的新年音乐会有一些改动：为了避免和1月1日傍晚欣赏维也纳新年音乐会冲突，我把时间调整到了12月31日20时。这样改有两个用意：第一，北京时间12月31日20时，东十二区的居民已经迈入了2008年的门槛，不缺“新年”意涵；第二，选择旧年日落以后、新年日出以前的夜晚进行，也可有“辞旧迎新”的意味。另外，正如孟子所说：“独乐乐不如众乐乐”，这一次新年音乐会还会首次对几个好友进行网络直播。
　　音乐会的开场曲是我为这次新年音乐会特别创作的：《序曲 ——为2008年新年音乐会而作》。紧随其后是埃尔加的《爱的致意》，仅以此曲向音乐会举办前日刚刚度过20岁生日的Grace同学致以祝贺。2007年12月25日是卓别林30周年忌辰，为了向这位电影大师表示敬意，我还选入了他创作的电影《淘金记》序曲。其他选入的作品包括巴洛克风格的巴赫第三号大提琴无伴奏舞曲、秦咏诚创作于1962年的《海滨音诗》等。终场曲依然是王家阳的《四季调》，以彰对来年的希望和期盼。

2007年12月31日20:00（北京时间） 西京蓝色大厅

12:00(UTC), December, 31, 2007, The Blue Hall

• 小提琴/小 龙 Violin/Tomy
• 钢琴/格雷斯小姐 Piano/Miss. Grace
• 国家爱乐乐团 The National Philharmonic

Ye Quanzhi / 叶泉志
01. Overture, composed for New Year’s Concert of 2008, op.123
序曲，为2008年新年音乐会而作

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
02. Salut d’Amour (Love’s greetings), op.12
爱的致意

Josef Strauss (1827-1870)
03. Die Nasswalderin, op.267
纳斯瓦尔德的女孩

Charles Chaplin (1889-1977)
04. Overture, from “The Gold Rush”
《淘金记》序曲

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for Solo Cello, No.3, BWV 1009
第三号大提琴无伴奏舞曲
05. Prelude 前奏曲
06. Allemande 阿勒曼德舞曲
07. Courante 库兰特舞曲
08. Sarabande 萨拉班德舞曲
09. Bouree I & II 布列舞曲
10. Gique 吉格舞曲

Qin Yongcheng / 秦咏诚
11. Tune of the seaside
海滨音诗

Johann Strauss (1825-1899)
12. Bauern-Polka (Peasant Polka), op.276
农民波尔卡

New Year’s Address 新年致辞

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
13. Concerto for violin and orchestra No.5 in A major: Rondeau, Tempo di Menuetto, K.219-3
第五号A大调小提琴协奏曲：回旋曲

Wang Jiayang / 王家阳
14. Melody of the four seasons
四季调