记得是今年5月初的一个下午,我喜出望外地接获了台湾青年音乐学家连宪升先生寄来的两部新近的译著。其中一本,是由他编撰的《梅西安——早年生平及其音乐与人格特质》,另一部,则是梅西安的名著《我的音乐语言的技巧》的中译本。谁料,就在这同一天的傍晚,始获新书的欣悦尚未褪尽,却又突兀地从友人处获悉 I remember that this afternoon in early May this year. I am pleased to receive two newly translated works by Taiwan’s young musicologist, Mr. Lian Xian-sheng. One of them is “Messiaen - Early Life and His Musical and Personality Traits” compiled by him, and the other is a Chinese translation of Messian’s masterpiece My Skill in the Language of Music. Unexpectedly, on the same evening of the same day, the joy of getting a new book has not yet faded away, but it is abruptly learned from friends