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DATE=3-11-01
TITLE=PEOPLE IN AMERICA #1812 - ELLA FITZGERALD
BYLINE=NANCY STEINBACH
Anncr:
Now, the voa special english program, people in america. Today, shirley griffith and steve ember tell about jazz singer, ella fitzgerald. She was known 1 as America's first lady of song.
((cut 1: how high the moon))
Voice one:
The year was nineteen-thirty-three. The place was new york city. Ella fitzgerald was sixteen years old. She had entered a (1)competition at the apollo theater in (2)harlem. She was going to dance. But she had just watched two dancers perform. They were better dancers than she.
So, instead of dancing, she sang a song called "judy." people watching the competition urged 2 her to sing another song. She did. She won first prize - twenty-five dollars.
That competition at the apollo theater changed ella fitzgerald's life forever. Band leader chick webb was watching the competition. He hired ella to sing with his band. He taught her about singing in public. He even showed her what kind of clothes to wear. In three years, she had her first hit (3)record, "a-tisket-a-tasket":
((cut 2: a-tisket-a-tasket))
Voice two:
Ella fitzgerald was born in the southern city of newport news, virginia in nineteen-seventeen. Her father left soon after her birth. Her mother took ella and moved to new york city. Ella's mother died when ella was fifteen years old. The next year, ella started singing with chick webb's band. She stayed with chick webb until he died in nineteen-thirty-nine. Ella kept his band together after he died until world war two started. Then most of the band (4)members joined the armed forces. While she was with the band, ella recorded almost one-hundred-fifty songs.
Voice one:
Ella fitzgerald was greatly influenced by the (5)experimental music of charlie (6)parker and (7)dizzy gillespie. It was called be-bop. She used be-bop (8)rhythms in her singing. In nineteen-forty-five, she recorded the song "flying home," using the be-bop method known as 'scat'. In scat, the singer's voice sounds like another (9)instrument in the (10)orchestra. (11)critics 3 say it was the most (12)influential jazz record of the time.
((cut 3: flying home))
Voice two:
In nineteen-forty-nine, jazz musician (13)norman granz invited her to join his band. It was with his band in berlin, germany in nineteen-sixty that ella sang a famous song in a very different way. A man asked her if she knew the song "mack the knife." ella said she had heard it a few times but the band did not have the music for it. She said she would try to sing it anyway. This recording 4 shows how she continued to sing "mack the knife" when she did not remember the words. The people listening loved it.
((cut 4: mack the knife))
Voice one:
Norman granz later became her (14)manager. He started a new recording company just for her. It was his idea for ella to record the now famous (15)series of record albums 5 called the 'songbooks'. On each record, she sang works 6 of a different songwriter. She recorded songbooks of the music of cole porter 7, irving berlin, duke 8 ellington, jerome kern, johnny mercer and harold arlen. Critics say the best songbook is ella singing the songs of george and ira gershwin. Ira gershwin reportedly said, "i never knew how good our songs were until i heard ella fitzgerald sing them. Here, she sings the gershwin song, "i got rhythm":
((cut 5: i got rhythm))
Voice two:
Ella fitzgerald also appeared in movies and on (16)television. She became popular internationally. She performed in concerts around the world sometimes forty weeks a year. She also recorded for different record companies. In the nineteen-sixties, she began to sing more modern songs such as those written by the (17)beatles and burt bacharach. But she was not very successful with that kind of (18)popular music. She returned to jazz in nineteen-seventy-three, again with norman granz. She also began (19)performing with (20)symphony (21)orchestras.
Voice one:
Ella fitzgerald was married two times. Both marriages ended in divorce 9. She raised three children who were not her own.
Ella lived quietly in beverly hills, california 10. Throughout 11 her life she was a very (22)private person. She wanted to be known only for her music. Her friends included members of the duke ellington band, count basie's band, and singers like sarah vaughn and peggy lee.
Ella fitzgerald began to have health problems during the nineteen-seventies. She had the disease 12 (23)diabetes 13 which caused problems with her eyes. She had a heart operation in nineteen-eighty-six. In nineteen-ninety-three, the effects of diabetes led to operations to remove both her legs. She died june fifteenth, nineteen-ninety-six.
Voice two:
People around the world loved ella fitgerald's joyful 14 singing. Critics said she had raised the american popular song to the level of art. She won a great many awards. She received the national medal of the arts and a kennedy center honor 15 for lifetime 16 work. The university of maryland named a performing arts center for her.
Ella fitzgerald's wonderful voice lives on in her two-hundred-fifty (24)albums. Thirteen times she won grammy awards given each year for the best recordings 17. Her last (25)grammy was for the nineteen-ninety record: "all that jazz":
((cut 6: something from all that jazz))
Anncr:
This special english program was written by nancy steinbach. The announcers 18 were shirley griffith and steve ember. I'm sarah long. Listen again next week for another people in america program on the voice of america.
(1) competition[ kCmpi5tiFEn ]n.竞争, 竞赛
(2) harle[hB:l]n.麻的纤维, 羽上的细毛
(3) record[ 5rekC:d ]n.履历, 档案, 诉状, 最高纪录, 唱片vt.记录, 标明, 将...录音vi.录音,
(4) member[ 5membE ]n.成员, 会员, 议员, (人或动, 植物的)一部分, [语]子句, 成分,
(5) experimental[ eks7peri5mentl ]adj.实验的, 根据实验的
(6) parker停放车辆的人
(7) dizzy[ 5dizi ]adj.(指人)晕眩的, 昏乱的, (指地点, 情况)使人晕眩的
(8) rhythm[ 5riTEm, 5riWEm ]n.节奏, 韵律
(9) instrument[ 5instrumEnt ]n.工具, 手段, 器械, 器具, 手段
(10) orchestra[ 5C:kistrE, -kes- ]n.管弦乐队, 乐队演奏处
(11) critic[ 5kritik ]n.批评家, 评论家, 吹毛求疵者
(12) influential[ 7influ5enFEl ]adj.有影响的, 有势力的
(13) Norman[ 5nC:mEn ]n.法国诺曼第人adj.诺曼第的, 诺曼第人[语]的
(14) manager[ 5mAnidVE ]n.经理, 管理人员, 管理器
(15) series[ 5siEri:z ]n.连续, 系列, 丛书, 级数
(16) [ 5teliviVEn ]n.电视, 电视机, 电机学, 电视广播事业television
(17) Beatles[ 5bi:tlz ]n.披头士(甲壳虫)合唱队
(18) popular[ 5pCpjulE ]adj.通俗的, 流行的, 受欢迎的
(19) perform[ pE5fC:m ]vt.履行, 执行, 表演, 演出v.完成任务
(20) symphony[ 5simfEni ]n.交响乐, 交响曲
(21) orchestra[ 5C:kistrE, -kes- ]n.管弦乐队, 乐队演奏处
(22) private[ 5praivit ]adj.私人的, 私有的, 私营的, 秘密的n.士兵
(23) diabetes[ 7daiE5bi:ti:z, -ti:s ]n.[医] 糖尿病, 多尿症
(24) album[ 5AlbEm ]n.集邮本, 照相簿, 签名纪念册
(25) Grammy[`^rAmI]n.格莱美奖(美国镀金唱片奖,一年一度地奖励录音工业中有特别 成就的奖,如奖给灌制唱片方面成绩卓著者的奖)
- He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
- He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。
- She urged him to stay. 她力劝他留下。
- Urged on by the PM the police tried to end the strike. 在首相的敦促下,警方力图终止罢工。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He felt no animosity towards his critics. 他对批评他的人并不心怀怨恨。
- The move was widely seen as an attempt to appease critics of the regime. 普遍认为,这一举措是试图安抚批评政权的人。
- How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
- I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
- His albums are available on tape and CD. 他的歌曲专辑有磁带和光盘出售。
- My dad had to buy CDs of all the albums he already owned on vinyl. 我爸爸就是要买他已有的所有黑胶唱片的CD版。
- We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
- The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
- The hotel porter will help you.旅馆的门童可以帮你的忙。
- The porter and I looked at each other and smiled.我和脚夫微笑着你看着我,我看着你。
- His grandfather was a royal duke.他的祖父是王室公爵。
- The duke was the king's most trusted adviser.公爵是国王最信赖的顾问。
- Did he divorce his wife or did she divorce him?是他要和妻子离婚,还是妻子要和他离婚?
- None of us like the divorce of word and deed.我们都不喜欢言行不一。
- He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
- We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。
- These magazines are sold at bookstores throughout the country.这些杂志在全国各地书店均有发售。
- Guilin is known throughout the world for its scenery.桂林以山水著称于世。
- The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
- He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。
- In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者,医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
- Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。
- She was joyful of her good result of the scientific experiments.她为自己的科学实验取得好成果而高兴。
- They were singing and dancing to celebrate this joyful occasion.他们唱着、跳着庆祝这令人欢乐的时刻。
- I take your visit as a great honor.您的来访是我莫大的光荣。
- It is a great honor to receive that prize.能拿到那个奖是无上的光荣。
- He wrote many books during his lifetime.他一生著作甚多。
- During his lifetime his work was never published.他的作品在他的有生之年从未出版过。
- a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
- old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
- There are two announcers of this concert, a female and a male. 这场音乐会有两个报幕员,一位女士和一位男士。 来自互联网
- Some persons objected that announcers' articulation was too meticulous to be natural. 有人反对播音员的发音过于规范,这样就显得很不自然。 来自互联网