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Kính mời quý Thầy cô và các bạn nghe một bài hát ĐQ phổ từ thơ của thi sĩ Maya Angelou. Bài hát này viết và thu âm đã lâu nhưng chưa có dịp giới thiệu vì cũng kén người ca và hòa âm hoài cũng chưa thấy đạt vì nhạc Rock Mỹ không dễ hòa âm cho lắm. Nhưng nhốt bài nhạc trong tủ hoài cũng thấy khó chịu nên mạo muội giới thiệu lên đây. Hy vọng với sự dễ tính của thầy trò đồng môn sẽ cùng nghe để enjoy chút Rock & Roll trong tuần lễ Motherday này.:thank3:
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Thơ: Maya Angelou, Nhạc: Đỗ Quân
Hòa âm: DQ Studio
Ca sĩ: Camli NT Mỹ Thanh
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Link for Ipad/Iphone.
Sau đây là bài thơ nguyên thủy mà ĐQ giữ gần như nguyên bản.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill for the caged bird
sings of freedom
The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
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ĐQ Xin tạm dịch thoát bài thơ trên đây để các bạn có thể hiểu rõ thêm vì thơ có khi dùng chữ hơi khó hiểu. Hy vọng ý chính không trật :cuoilan:
Tôi Biết Tại Sao Con Chim Lồng Hót
Những con chim tự do nhảy tung tăng
và thả trôi theo cánh gió tận ngút ngàn
đôi cánh của chúng rực rỡ dưới các tia nắng mặt trời màu cam
và như thử thách làm chủ bầu trời.
Nhưng một con chim bị nhốt trong chiếc lồng hẹp của nó
hiếm khi có thể nhìn xuyên qua những thanh của lồng chắn.
đôi cánh bị cắt và
đôi chân bị trói nên nó cất giọng của mình để hót.
Những con chim trong lồng hót
với những xúc cảm đầy sợ hãi của
những điều không ai hiểu
nhưng mong mỏi âm điệu của nó được nghe
trên ngọn đồi xa
cho hình ảnh con chim lồng hót vì tự do
Những con chim tự do nghĩ tới những cơn gió mạnh khác xen kẻ với những con gió mềm mại xuyên qua những nhành cây. Những con giun béo đang chờ chúng từ những thảm cỏ bình minh. Chúng đặt tên cho bầu trời của riêng mình.
Nhưng một con chim trong lồng đứng trên ngôi mộ của những giấc mơ
cái bóng của nó hét trên một tiếng thét cơn ác mộng
đôi cánh của mình được cắt bớt và chân bị trói
nên nó cất họng để hót
Những con chim trong lồng hót
với những xúc cảm đầy sợ hãi của
những điều không ai hiểu
nhưng mong mỏi âm điệu của nó được nghe
trên ngọn đồi xa
cho hình ảnh con chim lồng hót vì tự do
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Maya Angelou
1928-2014
Ranked #1 in the top 500 poets
Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She was a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. She lectured throughout the US and abroad and was Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina since 1981. She published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration.
Dr. Angelou, who spoke French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. She married a South African freedom fighter and lived in Cairo where she was editor of The Arab Observer, the only English-language news weekly in the Middle East. In Ghana, she was feature editor of The African Review and taught at the University of Ghana. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ms. Angelou became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She was appointed by President Gerald Ford to the Bicentennial Commission and by President Jimmy Carter to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year.
Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African-American women to hit the bestsellers lists with her "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," held the Great Hall audience spellbound with stories of her own childhood. She ranged from story to poem to song and back again, and her theme was love and the universality of all lives. "The honorary duty of a human being is to love," Angelou said. She spoke of her early love for William Shakespeare's works, and offered her audience excerpts from the poems of several African-Americans, including James Weldon Johnson and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. But always, she came back to love - and humanity. "I am human," Angelou said, quoting from her own work, "and nothing human can be alien to me."
In the sixties, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., she became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and in 1975 she received the Ladies Home Journal Woman of the Year Award in communications. She received numerous honorary degrees and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the National Commission on the Observance of International Woman's Year and by President Ford to the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Advisory Council. She is on the board of the American Film Institute and is one of the few female members of the Director's Guild.
In the film industry, through her work in script writing and directing, Maya Angelou has been a groundbreaker for black women. In television, she has made hundreds of appearances. Her best-selling autobiographical account of her youth, "I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings," won critical acclaim in 1970 and was a two hour TV special on CBS. She has written and produced several prize winning documentaries, including "Afro-Americans in the Arts," a PBS special for which she received the Golden Eagle Award. She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her acting in Roots, and her screenplay Georgia, Georgia was the first by a black woman to be filmed. In theatre, she produced, directed and starred in "Cabaret for Freedom" in collaboration with Godfrey Cambridge at New York's Village Gate; starred in Genet's "The Blacks" at St Mark's Playhouse; and adapted Sophocles "Ajax" which premiered in Los Angeles in 1974. She wrote the original screenplay for "Georgia, Georgia" and wrote and produced a ten-part TV series on African traditions in American life. Maya Angelou was Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She died at her home in Winston-Salem on May 28, 2014.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Thơ: Maya Angelou, Nhạc: Đỗ Quân
Hòa âm: DQ Studio
Ca sĩ: Camli NT Mỹ Thanh
[hr]
Link for Ipad/Iphone.
Sau đây là bài thơ nguyên thủy mà ĐQ giữ gần như nguyên bản.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill for the caged bird
sings of freedom
The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
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ĐQ Xin tạm dịch thoát bài thơ trên đây để các bạn có thể hiểu rõ thêm vì thơ có khi dùng chữ hơi khó hiểu. Hy vọng ý chính không trật :cuoilan:
Tôi Biết Tại Sao Con Chim Lồng Hót
Những con chim tự do nhảy tung tăng
và thả trôi theo cánh gió tận ngút ngàn
đôi cánh của chúng rực rỡ dưới các tia nắng mặt trời màu cam
và như thử thách làm chủ bầu trời.
Nhưng một con chim bị nhốt trong chiếc lồng hẹp của nó
hiếm khi có thể nhìn xuyên qua những thanh của lồng chắn.
đôi cánh bị cắt và
đôi chân bị trói nên nó cất giọng của mình để hót.
Những con chim trong lồng hót
với những xúc cảm đầy sợ hãi của
những điều không ai hiểu
nhưng mong mỏi âm điệu của nó được nghe
trên ngọn đồi xa
cho hình ảnh con chim lồng hót vì tự do
Những con chim tự do nghĩ tới những cơn gió mạnh khác xen kẻ với những con gió mềm mại xuyên qua những nhành cây. Những con giun béo đang chờ chúng từ những thảm cỏ bình minh. Chúng đặt tên cho bầu trời của riêng mình.
Nhưng một con chim trong lồng đứng trên ngôi mộ của những giấc mơ
cái bóng của nó hét trên một tiếng thét cơn ác mộng
đôi cánh của mình được cắt bớt và chân bị trói
nên nó cất họng để hót
Những con chim trong lồng hót
với những xúc cảm đầy sợ hãi của
những điều không ai hiểu
nhưng mong mỏi âm điệu của nó được nghe
trên ngọn đồi xa
cho hình ảnh con chim lồng hót vì tự do
[hr]
Maya Angelou
1928-2014
Ranked #1 in the top 500 poets
Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She was a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. She lectured throughout the US and abroad and was Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina since 1981. She published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration.
Dr. Angelou, who spoke French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. She married a South African freedom fighter and lived in Cairo where she was editor of The Arab Observer, the only English-language news weekly in the Middle East. In Ghana, she was feature editor of The African Review and taught at the University of Ghana. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ms. Angelou became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She was appointed by President Gerald Ford to the Bicentennial Commission and by President Jimmy Carter to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year.
Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African-American women to hit the bestsellers lists with her "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," held the Great Hall audience spellbound with stories of her own childhood. She ranged from story to poem to song and back again, and her theme was love and the universality of all lives. "The honorary duty of a human being is to love," Angelou said. She spoke of her early love for William Shakespeare's works, and offered her audience excerpts from the poems of several African-Americans, including James Weldon Johnson and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. But always, she came back to love - and humanity. "I am human," Angelou said, quoting from her own work, "and nothing human can be alien to me."
In the sixties, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., she became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and in 1975 she received the Ladies Home Journal Woman of the Year Award in communications. She received numerous honorary degrees and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the National Commission on the Observance of International Woman's Year and by President Ford to the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Advisory Council. She is on the board of the American Film Institute and is one of the few female members of the Director's Guild.
In the film industry, through her work in script writing and directing, Maya Angelou has been a groundbreaker for black women. In television, she has made hundreds of appearances. Her best-selling autobiographical account of her youth, "I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings," won critical acclaim in 1970 and was a two hour TV special on CBS. She has written and produced several prize winning documentaries, including "Afro-Americans in the Arts," a PBS special for which she received the Golden Eagle Award. She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her acting in Roots, and her screenplay Georgia, Georgia was the first by a black woman to be filmed. In theatre, she produced, directed and starred in "Cabaret for Freedom" in collaboration with Godfrey Cambridge at New York's Village Gate; starred in Genet's "The Blacks" at St Mark's Playhouse; and adapted Sophocles "Ajax" which premiered in Los Angeles in 1974. She wrote the original screenplay for "Georgia, Georgia" and wrote and produced a ten-part TV series on African traditions in American life. Maya Angelou was Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She died at her home in Winston-Salem on May 28, 2014.
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