One evening in autumn four years ago, I took a borrowed flashlight and walked up the stone steps of Shiping Mountain. The sky was getting darker and darker, and halfway up the mountain, the lights of Zhenyuan City at the bottom of the mountain suddenly lit up, as if believers walking in the darkness suddenly heard God say there should be light, so there is light. I stopped, pushed aside the branches in front of me, and stared at the bright and somewhat unreal lights in front of me. The world in my eyes was as beautiful and unreal as the out-of-focus light after taking off my myopia glasses; I was a little choked up, not knowing what to do. Retain that moment, let alone how to tell and share.
All the way I cranked up my phone to ward off the darkness and the loneliness of one person, looping through Calandro's "Waltz by the River" and "By the Sea." The violin, accordion, harp, and piano are intertwined, and the soothing, euphemistic, charming, slightly sad piano sound is like a river flowing slowly by the side, just like Angelopoulos in "Eternal Day". The old man walking alone, walking in the ashes of time. No, maybe a child. I seem to hear the familiar narration: "Why can't I hear my own footsteps echoing in my home again when I retrieve those lost and forgotten words from the silence? Why? Tell me, Mom, why... We don't know how to love?" I seem to see the past experiences and the missed things, which simultaneously emerge at that moment and freeze into the scene in front of me. At that moment with the stars, with your own soul, you are not alone; at that moment you will understand what is "both day and eternity."
Without Calandro's music, I probably wouldn't have so many feelings, but no matter how moving music is, it can't impress everyone. It needs to fit the mood at the time and the listener needs to have a sensitive heart, otherwise what you hear is only "The sound of the piano" does not see "such as a complaint". Probably the same between people! Calandro was born in a remote mountain village in Greece. When she was a child, her family moved to Athens, where she lived right next to the amphitheatre. She was fascinated by the piano and often played the corresponding notes while watching movies on the screen outside the window. She received many years of music education, and later entered the University of Athens to study history and archaeology, and composed music for some films until she met Angelopoulos, the greatest director of Greece. They became the most sincere partners in each other's creations, just like Hisaishi Yoshimura to Kitano Takeshi and Hayao Miyazaki, the music became the most moving part of the film, and the film gave the music new life and a sense of picture. After years of cooperation, the two have achieved fruitful results, and those works have comforted the restless hearts. Read a description of "Waltz by the River", "The accordion is the one who leaves, the violin is the one who stays, and the harp is the river", and what do you hear?
Many nights, lying in a dark room, walking alone in the moonlight or on a neon street, these two pieces of music will always sound suddenly. I listened silently, the sound of the piano was like a complaint. Later, I was no longer in a hurry to share it, because I gradually realized that what I said, others might not understand. When I finished writing this, I happened to see a friend's circle of friends wrote "Suddenly I understand that the story does not have to be told, everyone should have their own life that does not need to be explained to the world."
Isidora wrote on the night of 2018.8.15
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