乔布斯追悼会上的音乐……
乔布斯很喜欢音乐,在他的iPod中,收藏了15张以上鲍勃•迪伦的专辑以及3张马友友的专辑。马友友虽然错过了乔布斯的婚礼,不过数年后他亲自登门拜访,并为乔布斯演奏巴赫大提琴组曲。乔布斯目光含泪深受感动。《乔布斯传记》第21章记载了他对马友友的赞赏:“Your playing is the best argument I’ve ever heard for the existence of God, because I don’t really believe a human alone can do this.”当时已患癌的他要求马友友一定要在他的丧礼上演奏。
10月16日傍晚于加州斯坦福大学纪念教堂召开的乔布斯追悼会,是以马友友演奏的巴赫大提琴组曲拉开序幕。
琼•贝兹在追悼会上演唱了一首关于黑人奴隶的灵魂歌曲:
Joan Baez :Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxf2X4zP5k
U2 乐队成员Buno (Paul David Hewson) 选唱Bob Dylan的Every Grain Of Sand。
Every Grain Of Sand
In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There's a dying voice within me reaching out somewhere
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.
Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break
In the fury of the moment I can see the master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.
Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.
I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other time it's only me
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
Bob Dylan:Every Grain Of Sand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi_1S46GNAY