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Sweet Sounds from Rulan Chao Pian honors the life and work of Rulan Chao Pian (April 20, 1922 - November 30, 2013), professor, scholar, and ethnomusicologist.
2022年4月20日是前哈佛大學榮休教授、民族音樂學家趙如蘭教授的百年誕辰，值此之际，哈佛大學音樂圖書館举办了“芳音如蘭” 紀念展覧。
Born into a family of Chinese scholars and musicians, Rulan Chao Pian studied both in China and in the United States. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Western music history from Radcliffe College in the 1940s, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960 in East Asian Languages and Music. She taught both Chinese language and music at Harvard, and in 1974 she was named tenured Professor, one of the first women to attain this rank and the very first Chinese American woman professor at the university. Rulan Chao Pian is "fondly remembered by all who knew her for having offered both scholarly guidance as well as exceptional hospitality" (FAS Memorial Minute), as demonstrated by this celebratory poem written for her 80th birthday.
卞趙如蘭（1922.4.20—2013.11.30）出身于一个中國學者和音樂家的家庭，曾在中國和美國两地求學，先後獲得歐洲音樂史學士、碩士、中國音樂史博士等學位。1947年起在哈佛大學教授中文，1962年開始在音樂系開设中國音樂課程，1974年獲聘東亞、音樂两系終身教授，成为哈佛大學首位華裔女教授。趙教授熱情好客、慷慨大方，其劍橋寓所曾是不少中國學生學者的溫暖之家。
趙如蘭教授嚴謹的治學態度和熱情慷慨的待人接物令所有人欽佩，從這首爲她80嵗生日略見一斑。
"十八如蘭的年華：賀如蘭八十壽慶。Forever young as an orchid at Ten-Eight (18)— For Rulan at her Eight-Ten (80th) birthday"
Loh Wai Fong, 4.19.2002. English translation by Bell Yung. 榮鴻曾英譯。 2002年4月詩作 陸惠風。
| 你的家是大家的家 / 牆壁上有詩有畫 桌子上有餅有茶 / 沙發里的客人好談話 常辜負院子裡的月和花 你的家是大家的家 這家裡的事 / 有點像神話 / 這才叫大家 是寬廣的心靈 容得下許多人吵架 我的話左沖右突 / 他的論飛揚上下 有時候連笑帶罵 / 來不及喝粥喫茶 這時候學鐄雄辯的沉默里 / 常有你精彩的插話 都像是無舵的船 / 總在你溫厚的笑容中蕩漾 許我在你長春的微笑裡 / 掬一杯消失中的舊式的溫厚 感謝你，百季如春的友情 / 祝賀你，十八如蘭的年華。 |
Your home is a Great Home—everyone’s home On the walls are calligraphy and painting On the tables are tea and snacks On the sofas are guests so fond of conversing That they often ignore the flowers and moonlight in the yard Your home is everyone’s Great Home and a Home of Experts What occurs in this Great Home Is a bit like fairy tales That’s why it is Everyone’s Home With a heart so wide and deep It can accommodate many arguing voices This one’s words strike to the left and the right That one’s discourses fly up and down Laughing and cussing in great abandon No time for tea and congee Then Ted’s eloquent and commanding silence asserts itself And you butt in with a wise word here and there We are all like rudderless boats Floating in the capacious warmth of your smile Permit me in the midst of your forever-young smile To toast your old-style kindness and gentleness now so rare We thank you for a friendship that has always retained its vigor We wish you forever young as an Orchid at Ten-Eight |
This exhibit, curated by Lingwei Qiu (裘陵維), Peter Laurence and Patricia O'Brien, is available in both English and Chinese. It features material she collected throughout her life and donated to the Loeb Music Library after her retirement in 1992, including rare books and recordings, original ethnographic field recordings, and other material from her life, research and teaching.
展覧将展出趙教授的一生精彩瞬間，古籍善本、書籍、樂谱等捐贈，以及她積累的部分田野采風錄音錄像
Design Note
Among family and friends Rulan Chao Pian was known as "Iris," a name inspired by her parents' appreciation for the iris blossoms in the Botanical Garden near the Harvard campus. The color palette of this exhibit reflects both her name and the purple and yellow iris theme that was used in the original physical exhibit, mounted at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library in 2022.
Images (Left to Right)
Rulan Chao Pian on her induction to Academia Sinica in Taiwan, 1991 / 1991年卞趙如蘭教授入選臺灣中央研究院院士
Professor Rulan Chao Pian (Apr.20, 1922 – Nov.30, 2013) / 卞趙如蘭教授 (1922.4.20 - 2013.11.30). (Radcliffe College Archives, PC 393-1-1)