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Reporter: Eighteen-year-old Tudor Dominik Maican began composing when he was in kindergarten. By the age of 12 he’d completed his first 1)symphony.
I wasn’t sure what an 18-year- old genius composer was supposed to be wearing, but today Dominik is2)camouflaged in teenage regulation black T-shirt and baggy shorts. I ask him what style of composition best suits his voice.
Dominik: Well, I don’t have a strict style. I mean, I write very New Romantic music. But I also write modern music, Minimalist. It just depends on what I am doing at that very moment.
Reporter: But what do you think about that whole idea that a composer is developing a voice? Is that something that you think is an accurate description of what your style, your voice?
Dominik: I don’t think…I don’t think it’s finding your voice. I think you have your voice from when you start. All that you’re doing is you’re developing it, and I don’t think you ever finish with final voice, or whatever. I think even when you’re in your later years, we’ll say, that you’re still developing it and changing it as you write.
Reporter: How much time do you spend every day at the piano composing?
Dominik: It depends on the day. Sometimes I’ll sit at the piano for up to six, seven, eight hours. Sometimes I won’t even sit. I’ll just walk my dog and think about, you know, where I am, why I’m stuck and what I have to do to get past that point.
Reporter: But most of your day is spent thinking about or actually composing music?
Dominik: Yeah.
Reporter: When your friends, say, are listening to pop music, and they try to get you to hear something, say a piece of hip-hop, or a new punk band, or something. How do you react? What do you think about?
Dominik: I love pop music. I listen to a lot of it, actually. And I listen to a lot of, you know, other styles. I listen to 3)Nickleback, Maroon 5, Aerosmith, you know.
Reporter: Aerosmith?
Dominik: I listen to ’em quite a bit. I think there’s something that I can take from everything. Not that, you know, I sit there listening to a pop song, “What can I take from this song?” But if I’ll hear, you know, this idea, that this guy has this technique, this way of doing something, and I like it, I go, “How can I use that to my advantage?”
Reporter: Let’s talk about when you first started to write music. Do you remember the first thing you did?
Dominik: Yeah. I wrote a lot of little songs, you know, not even songs, like a melody, just full of phrases. But the first real songs that I wrote was in a cycle. There were five of them, I believe. And I wrote “The Kangaroo,” “The Bear,” “The Monkey,” you know, zoo animals.
Reporter: When was this?
Dominik: I was five. And I wrote seven Romanian dances, kind of like4)Bartok.
Reporter: And when was this?
Dominik: That was when I was seven, eight.
Reporter: Do you wanna conduct?
Dominik: I do conduct. I just, you know, I have 5)stage fright.
Reporter: You do?
Dominik: Actually, my foot, when I’m playing the piano, it gets so bad, my foot starts hitting the thing and you can hear this in the middle of the performance. So it’s not very good. That’s why I try not to perform if I don’t have to.
Reporter: Let’s talk a little bit about your future.
Dominik: OK.
Reporter: You have finished high school. You’ve finished 6)Juilliard, and now you are entering college in the fall? You are going to Indiana University?
Dominik: I’m going to Indiana.
Reporter: Will you study only music?
Dominik: No, I will not study only music, and that’s why I did not apply to a 7)conservatory, because I want to have, you know, a well-rounded education. I don’t want to just learn music. Maybe for graduate school I would go to a conservatory, but not for 8)undergrad.
Reporter: What else do you wanna study?
Dominik: Everything. I feel like I need a little break from all this intense music study.
记者：现年18岁的图德·多米尼克·麦康早在上幼儿园的时候就开始作曲了。他在12岁时，就已经完成了他的第一部交响曲。
我原来不太肯定这位18岁的天才作曲家会穿成什么样子。今天，我见到的多米尼克是一身青少年的寻常打扮：黑色T恤和宽松的短裤。我问他什么样的作品风格最适合他的曲风。
多米尼克：嗯，我并没有一个特定的风格。我是说，我创作的是新浪漫风格的作品，但我也创作现代音乐，简约音乐。曲风取决于我当时在创作的东西。
记者：有一种说法是作曲家要形成自己的一种曲风。你怎么看？难道就没有一种什么可以准确地描述你的风格，你的曲风吗？
多米尼克：我不认为……我觉得不是如何去寻找自己曲风的问题。我认为，一个人从一开始就已经有了自己的曲风。你只不过是在不断使其发展，而且我也不认为一个人会形成一个最终的风格之类的东西。我觉得，一个人即使到了他的创作后期，他也在不断地发展其风格，不断地在创作的过程中有所变化。
记者：你每天花多少时间坐在钢琴前创作？
多米尼克：说不定。有的时候，我会在钢琴前坐六七小时，甚至八个小时。有的时候，我连坐也不坐。你知道吧，我索性去遛遛狗，想想自己当时的创作状态，想想自己为什么会卡住了，怎么样才能过这一关。
记者：不过，你一天的大部分时间都在想着如何作曲，或者说实实在在地创作音乐？
多米尼克：是的。
记者：如果你的朋友在听流行音乐，他们想让你听些什么，比如说一首嘻哈歌，或者一支新的朋克乐队，或者其它什么东西。你会如何反应？你会怎么想？
多米尼克：我很喜欢流行音乐。事实上，我自己也听很多的流行音乐。你知道吧，我会听许多其它风格的音乐，比如说：五分钱合唱团、魔力红乐队、空中铁匠乐队等等。
记者：空中铁匠乐队？
多米尼克：他们的作品我还听得不少呢。我觉得我可以从所有风格的音乐中吸取点什么。你知道，那当然不是说，我在听着流行歌曲时，脑子里想着“我能从这首歌里偷学点什么？”但如果我听到某种东西，比如说这个人有这种技巧，这种创作方式，而我自己又喜欢的话，就会想，“我怎样才能利用它。”
记者：我们来说说你刚开始音乐创作时的事吧。你还记得你一开始写了些什么吗？
多米尼克：当然。我写了不少短歌。你知道，那甚至都算不上歌，只是一段旋律，只不过是许多短乐句凑在一起。不过，我写的第一批真正的歌是组歌，我记得一共有五首。内容是“袋鼠”、“熊”、“猴子”，你也知道，就是些动物园里的动物。
记者：那是什么时候？
多米尼克：我那时五岁。然后我写了七首罗马尼亚舞曲，类似巴托克那种。
记者：这又是在什么时候？
多米尼克：那时我七、八岁。
记者：你想不想自己去指挥？
多米尼克：我有指挥的。只不过，你知道吧，我会怯场。
记者：真的吗？
多米尼克：事实是，我的脚，我在弹钢琴的时候，动得可厉害了，我的脚会发抖，碰到钢琴竖板，在演奏的过程中，你都可以听到这种响声。那可不是什么好事，所以没必要的时候我会尽量避免演奏。
记者：我们来谈谈你的未来吧。
多米尼克：好。
记者：你已经中学毕业了，你也完成了在茱莉亚的学业。今秋就要上大学了，对吗？你是准备去印第安纳大学？
多米尼克：对。
记者：你会只学习音乐吗？
多米尼克：不会，我不仅仅是学习音乐，这也是我没有申请去读音乐学院的原因，因为我想获得全面的教育。我不想只学音乐。可能到了研究生阶段我会去音乐学院，但本科阶段我并不想这么做。
记者：你还想学些什么？
多米尼克：什么都想学。我想我需要暂时远离那种高强度的音乐学习。
翻译：旭文
I wasn’t sure what an 18-year- old genius composer was supposed to be wearing, but today Dominik is2)camouflaged in teenage regulation black T-shirt and baggy shorts. I ask him what style of composition best suits his voice.
Dominik: Well, I don’t have a strict style. I mean, I write very New Romantic music. But I also write modern music, Minimalist. It just depends on what I am doing at that very moment.
Reporter: But what do you think about that whole idea that a composer is developing a voice? Is that something that you think is an accurate description of what your style, your voice?
Dominik: I don’t think…I don’t think it’s finding your voice. I think you have your voice from when you start. All that you’re doing is you’re developing it, and I don’t think you ever finish with final voice, or whatever. I think even when you’re in your later years, we’ll say, that you’re still developing it and changing it as you write.
Reporter: How much time do you spend every day at the piano composing?
Dominik: It depends on the day. Sometimes I’ll sit at the piano for up to six, seven, eight hours. Sometimes I won’t even sit. I’ll just walk my dog and think about, you know, where I am, why I’m stuck and what I have to do to get past that point.
Reporter: But most of your day is spent thinking about or actually composing music?
Dominik: Yeah.
Reporter: When your friends, say, are listening to pop music, and they try to get you to hear something, say a piece of hip-hop, or a new punk band, or something. How do you react? What do you think about?
Dominik: I love pop music. I listen to a lot of it, actually. And I listen to a lot of, you know, other styles. I listen to 3)Nickleback, Maroon 5, Aerosmith, you know.
Reporter: Aerosmith?
Dominik: I listen to ’em quite a bit. I think there’s something that I can take from everything. Not that, you know, I sit there listening to a pop song, “What can I take from this song?” But if I’ll hear, you know, this idea, that this guy has this technique, this way of doing something, and I like it, I go, “How can I use that to my advantage?”
Reporter: Let’s talk about when you first started to write music. Do you remember the first thing you did?
Dominik: Yeah. I wrote a lot of little songs, you know, not even songs, like a melody, just full of phrases. But the first real songs that I wrote was in a cycle. There were five of them, I believe. And I wrote “The Kangaroo,” “The Bear,” “The Monkey,” you know, zoo animals.
Reporter: When was this?
Dominik: I was five. And I wrote seven Romanian dances, kind of like4)Bartok.
Reporter: And when was this?
Dominik: That was when I was seven, eight.
Reporter: Do you wanna conduct?
Dominik: I do conduct. I just, you know, I have 5)stage fright.
Reporter: You do?
Dominik: Actually, my foot, when I’m playing the piano, it gets so bad, my foot starts hitting the thing and you can hear this in the middle of the performance. So it’s not very good. That’s why I try not to perform if I don’t have to.
Reporter: Let’s talk a little bit about your future.
Dominik: OK.
Reporter: You have finished high school. You’ve finished 6)Juilliard, and now you are entering college in the fall? You are going to Indiana University?
Dominik: I’m going to Indiana.
Reporter: Will you study only music?
Dominik: No, I will not study only music, and that’s why I did not apply to a 7)conservatory, because I want to have, you know, a well-rounded education. I don’t want to just learn music. Maybe for graduate school I would go to a conservatory, but not for 8)undergrad.
Reporter: What else do you wanna study?
Dominik: Everything. I feel like I need a little break from all this intense music study.
记者：现年18岁的图德·多米尼克·麦康早在上幼儿园的时候就开始作曲了。他在12岁时，就已经完成了他的第一部交响曲。
我原来不太肯定这位18岁的天才作曲家会穿成什么样子。今天，我见到的多米尼克是一身青少年的寻常打扮：黑色T恤和宽松的短裤。我问他什么样的作品风格最适合他的曲风。
多米尼克：嗯，我并没有一个特定的风格。我是说，我创作的是新浪漫风格的作品，但我也创作现代音乐，简约音乐。曲风取决于我当时在创作的东西。
记者：有一种说法是作曲家要形成自己的一种曲风。你怎么看？难道就没有一种什么可以准确地描述你的风格，你的曲风吗？
多米尼克：我不认为……我觉得不是如何去寻找自己曲风的问题。我认为，一个人从一开始就已经有了自己的曲风。你只不过是在不断使其发展，而且我也不认为一个人会形成一个最终的风格之类的东西。我觉得，一个人即使到了他的创作后期，他也在不断地发展其风格，不断地在创作的过程中有所变化。
记者：你每天花多少时间坐在钢琴前创作？
多米尼克：说不定。有的时候，我会在钢琴前坐六七小时，甚至八个小时。有的时候，我连坐也不坐。你知道吧，我索性去遛遛狗，想想自己当时的创作状态，想想自己为什么会卡住了，怎么样才能过这一关。
记者：不过，你一天的大部分时间都在想着如何作曲，或者说实实在在地创作音乐？
多米尼克：是的。
记者：如果你的朋友在听流行音乐，他们想让你听些什么，比如说一首嘻哈歌，或者一支新的朋克乐队，或者其它什么东西。你会如何反应？你会怎么想？
多米尼克：我很喜欢流行音乐。事实上，我自己也听很多的流行音乐。你知道吧，我会听许多其它风格的音乐，比如说：五分钱合唱团、魔力红乐队、空中铁匠乐队等等。
记者：空中铁匠乐队？
多米尼克：他们的作品我还听得不少呢。我觉得我可以从所有风格的音乐中吸取点什么。你知道，那当然不是说，我在听着流行歌曲时，脑子里想着“我能从这首歌里偷学点什么？”但如果我听到某种东西，比如说这个人有这种技巧，这种创作方式，而我自己又喜欢的话，就会想，“我怎样才能利用它。”
记者：我们来说说你刚开始音乐创作时的事吧。你还记得你一开始写了些什么吗？
多米尼克：当然。我写了不少短歌。你知道，那甚至都算不上歌，只是一段旋律，只不过是许多短乐句凑在一起。不过，我写的第一批真正的歌是组歌，我记得一共有五首。内容是“袋鼠”、“熊”、“猴子”，你也知道，就是些动物园里的动物。
记者：那是什么时候？
多米尼克：我那时五岁。然后我写了七首罗马尼亚舞曲，类似巴托克那种。
记者：这又是在什么时候？
多米尼克：那时我七、八岁。
记者：你想不想自己去指挥？
多米尼克：我有指挥的。只不过，你知道吧，我会怯场。
记者：真的吗？
多米尼克：事实是，我的脚，我在弹钢琴的时候，动得可厉害了，我的脚会发抖，碰到钢琴竖板，在演奏的过程中，你都可以听到这种响声。那可不是什么好事，所以没必要的时候我会尽量避免演奏。
记者：我们来谈谈你的未来吧。
多米尼克：好。
记者：你已经中学毕业了，你也完成了在茱莉亚的学业。今秋就要上大学了，对吗？你是准备去印第安纳大学？
多米尼克：对。
记者：你会只学习音乐吗？
多米尼克：不会，我不仅仅是学习音乐，这也是我没有申请去读音乐学院的原因，因为我想获得全面的教育。我不想只学音乐。可能到了研究生阶段我会去音乐学院，但本科阶段我并不想这么做。
记者：你还想学些什么？
多米尼克：什么都想学。我想我需要暂时远离那种高强度的音乐学习。
翻译：旭文