格什温的位置格什温的作品,就《蓝色狂想曲》、《一个美国人在巴黎》或《节奏十足·变奏曲》来看,只能归结到小型音乐作品一类中去。伯恩斯坦曾在一个咖啡馆中像剥葱皮一样地把《蓝色狂想曲》说成是可以任意削减,甚至可以任意调换段落位置的,优美的旋律而已。拜会了他的这段宏论之后,我非常用心地又将格什温的几支曲子听了一遍。我的感觉是:这是美国人的东 Gershwin’s position Gershwin’s work, with “Blue Rhapsody,” “An American in Paris,” or “Rhythmic Variations,” can only be grouped into the category of small musical works. Bernstein once described the Blue Rhapsody in a cafe like a peeled onion skin, a beautiful melody that can be cut arbitrarily and even the passage of passages can be arbitrarily changed. After he met this macro theory, I listened very carefully to several songs of Gershwin again. My feeling is: This is the American East