2022年上海高级口译练习题:铜管乐队的衰落

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2022年上海高级口译练习题:铜管乐队的衰落

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  Saving Britain’s proud brass band legacy

  Practice night for Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band, one of the oldest

  brass bands in Britain. History lines the walls of the Yorkshire band’s practice

  room: gleaming trophies of past victories, a banner for Best of Brass Champions

  1983 and, on one wall, a poster: “The Yorkshire Coalfield — Memories.” It shows

  a miner, face blackened from the pit, and names every closed Yorkshire

  colliery.

  Only three former miners play for Carlton Main these days; the band has

  survived without the pit, its ranks swelled by young male and female

  professionals and five members under 20. This is the typical, new, middle-class

  face of brass bands. Yet their links to a bygone mining tradition persist.

  Twenty-five years after brass bands marched during the miners’ strike, this

  underground music is in the spotlight again. A new compilation, The Music Lives

  on Now the Mines Have Gone, brings 11 colliery bands together, including Carlton

  Main. They will line up against another colliery brass album, by the Dinnington

  Colliery Band, from Sheffield, the stars of the BBC show A Band for Britain,

  which follows Sue Perkins’s efforts to save Dinnington. And next month, the

  Leeds-based Opera North commemorates the year-long miners’ strike with Songs at

  the Year’s End, a song cycle for brass band.

  But what future do these historic groups have? Most brass bands today have

  outlived their mining communities, and the effects are profound. When collieries

  and their bands were the heart of a close-knit, thriving village, bands played

  for pleasure and pride.

  The Yorkshire-born Stan Lippeatt, 60, is a former Grimethorpe bandsman who

  started playing when he was 10 years old. His father played, so did his

  grandfathers, his uncles and his two brothers. “Bands became the pillars of the

  village; they turned out to march on Armistice Sunday, they would play the

  Christmas carols. They were something for villagers to go to when there wasn’t

  much TV about,” he says. Lippeatt founded the annual Butlins Mineworkers Open

  Brass Band Championships. “A guy would be on his holidays in Torquay and he’d be

  proud to boast he came from the home town of a band.”

  The Barnsley poet Ian McMillan, who has written the words for Opera North’s

  Songs at the Year’s End, believes that brass bands still play a role in their

  communities. “They are an image for how collectivism can survive. And when you

  have an area that’s had the collectivism knocked out of it [such as Grimethorpe]

  any image of that collectivism and community activity is a good thing.”

  Last week, a brass band played outside the Corus steelworks on Teesside as

  it was closed down. With the strike of 1984-85, collectivism took on a political

  edge. Brass bands led marches to London. They led rallies in villages across the

  mining heartlands, North and South, and they played at the funerals of miners

  killed on picket lines. A sense of lost camaraderie remains. “Margaret Thatcher

  didn’t just decimate the pits, she decimated our community spirit,” says the

  former miner Ray Sykes, the 63-year-old chairman of Carlton Main. “With the

  closure of the collieries, she’s hurt my band.”

  Today, bands are no longer the “glue” of their communities. The

  infrastructure they relied on — miners’ social clubs, bandstands and so on — has

  largely disappeared. And though they struggle on, the bands are disappearing,

  too. From about 20,000 brass bands at the turn of the 19th century, numbers are

  down to an estimated 1,000 bands. Anecdotally, bandsmen will tell you of ten

  bands a year folding. Banding’s grassroots are dying.

  Why the crisis? The problem is money: both too much and too little. In

  recent years a footballing analogy has become more potent as sponsorship money

  has flooded the top echelons of brass banding, leaving the lower bands fighting

  for survival.

  The top bands, such as Grimethorpe Colliery (famously the one playing in

  the 1996 movie Brassed Off), Black Dyke and Brighouse and Rastrick — all in

  Yorkshire — and the Wales-based Cory, can afford to pay their players

  five-figure retainers in addition to concert fees and travel expenses to

  contests and rehearsals.

  Most players today own their instruments (though brass doesn’t come cheap;

  a tuba can cost £7,000). The catch is that the better you get, the more it

  costs. Carlton Main compete in the championship, pushing running costs to about

  £30,000 a year. Attending one contest can cost £3,000, for coach hire, the

  conductor’s fee and the sheet music (at least £100 a pop). Carlton Main’s

  players pay their own hotel costs and for travel to rehearsals. Self-sufficiency

  has replaced collectivism; how very Thatcherite.

  词句笔记:

  outlive:经受住,比……活得长,渡过

  knock out:赶出去

  echelon:等级,阶层

  tuba:低音大喇叭

  conductor:乐队指挥

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