「手づくり」といえばきれいだけど大慌ての会場整備、2スクリーンの映写もいまいち、でも大勢の参加者で私としては大成功だったと思う。混声合唱団の演奏がイベントを引き立てたし、展示も6社（団体）となり、多くの高校生や大学生の来訪があった。働く若い人の手際よさにも感動、と同時に自分の「老い」も自覚した日だった。
Simonがおとなしく見てたあと「あ～ぁ、長かった、やっと終わった！」と叫ぶハプニングもあったけど、みんなで私を助けてくれた，ありがと！
私の最後の仕事として残る（ハズ
の）記念のアルバム； 
混声合唱団の23人：麗しい歌声を響かせた。定期演奏会ではoperaに再挑戦！
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米国では大統領選が最終盤。Trump候補がまだ生き残っている。どうしてあんな人が・・・と多くの人が思っても、言わないでいるととんでもないことになることもある、だけど、必要な時に必要なことをいう人が現れる米国はまだましなのだろうか？Sacebookに私の友人から頻繁にポスティングされたミシェルさんのスピーチを追った。Guardianの女性記者のコメントは、「こんな公平な主張ができる人がわが国にいるだろうか？」と。あちらの記者さんも嘆く。
それにしてもオバマさんとの何という資質の差。これを多くの人が支持する・・・・。本当に恐怖、脅威だ。
Michelle Obama has dragged this US election out of the gutter
| Anne Perkins The Guardian
Donald Trump has sunk US politics in a grotesque mire of populism. But the first lady’s speech on respect for women captured the best of her country |
| Michelle Obama’s powerful rebuke to Trump’s ‘predatory behavior’ Michelle Obama may have done the seemingly impossible. She may just have rescued the US elections from the grotesque and demeaning mire into which they have descended. She did something even more remarkable, and just as badly needed.With the touch of a poet, her speech last night shamed the tat and the tawdry of populism and held out the possibility of something better. She lent her extraordinary ability to say what people are feeling to every English-speaking woman in the world.Nominally, she spoke for Hillary Clinton at a run-of-the-mill political rally. In fact she made a passionate and clear-eyed appeal for decency and respect in public life. Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump did not get a single mention, but he was in every word of every sentence. It was one of the most sustained put-downs in modern democratic politics.There have been many protests this week as Trump’s lewd bragging about sexually assaulting women finally registered in the Republican scale of shame. His campaign is floundering, at last. Obama’s contribution was not to add to the direct attacks on him. Instead, on behalf of American voters – women and girls, of course, but men and boys too – she gave a victim’s statement.The Trump tape, she said, had shaken her to her core.“I feel it so personally – and I’m sure you do too – particularly the women. (I love that “particularly”).“The shameful comments about our bodies.“The disrespect of our ambitions and our intellect.“The belief that you can do anything you want to a woman. “It’s cruel – it’s frightening – and the truth is it hurts.” This hits home in a way that a direct attack on the insolent, impervious figure of Trump himself does not. It appeals to people of every political persuasion. She pitches this attack as defence. A defence of humanity. She brings to it her extraordinary mix of talents. She can find words that make pictures. She brings passion and intellectual clarity. She has an actor’s sense of timing. This morning she seems the world’s most complete leader. On Monday, in the second debate between the presidential candidates, Clinton quoted Obama: “When they go low, we go high.” Great advice – a nightmare to follow. The first lady has found a way of doing it that avoids the elephant traps and the little snares. She has a graceful humanity. She looks normal. Glamorous, but in a normal kind of way. She sounds like a normal person, she uses the language of normal people and she expresses normal hopes and fears. As a wife and a mother, an American, a black woman – all these parts that make her who she is – she has a fine capacity to say what millions of women and men have been thinking since the Trump tape first came to light last weekend. It was hardly a surprise to hear her speak so well. Her speech introducing Clinton as the Democrat nominee to theparty’s convention in July revealed the exceptional talent that she has been nurturing over these past eight years. That was the speech where she reminded her listeners what could be done by collective effort. She talked of the “lash of bondage” and the “sting of servitude” and then described waking up every morning in the White House, “a house built by slaves” and watching her daughters, “two beautiful intelligent young black women” playing with their dogs: “and because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States”. Last night she talked of women doing what women have always done “just trying to get through it … trying to pretend this doesn’t really bother us”. She ended: “This is not normal, this is not politics as usual … this has got to stop right now.” When she speaks, Michelle Obama doesn’t stop being the wife of the president, but she transcends it. She becomes the personification of the best of her country. Perhaps there is something in the first lady status, in politics but not of it, that uniquely privileges the holder of the office. Who in Britain can make that nonpartisan appeal to ordinary human decency? Last night she spoke for everyone who thinks politics can be better than this. ＜Facebookより＞Sarah Prunier-Duparge liked this. Sara Dean like thisFelipe Camargo Yesterday at 07:43 ·“Nowhere this behavior and ruthlessness should be allowed! When you hear that soldiers in Sudan or Congo raped foreign women and their own, you simply wonder why there is such impunity… when you hear that the candidate for President to a nation like the US has done and said what he has to and about women, you wonder why over 40% of potential voters are still supporting him! Please put him in jail before he gets elected!”
2015年3月のポスト： 「春の夢 安倍とメルケル 替えてみる」 |
Michelle Obama’s Speech On Donald Trump’s Alleged Treatment Of Women
My goodness! You guys are fired up!
Well, let me just say hello everyone. I am so thrilled to be here with you all today in New Hampshire. This is like home to me, and this day — thank you for a beautiful fall day. You just ordered this day up for me, didn’t you? It’s great to be here.
Let me start by thanking your fabulous governor, your next U.S. senator, Maggie Hassan. I want to thank her for that lovely introduction. I also want to recognize your Congresswoman Annie McKlane Kuster, who’s a dear, dear friend. Your soon-to-be congresswoman once again, Carol Shea Porter — all of whom have been just terrific friends to us. And your Executive Council and candidate for governor, Colin Van Ostern.
And, of course, thanks to all of you for taking the time to be here today.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you!
Thanks so much. That’s very sweet of you. I love you guys too. I can’t believe it’s just a few weeks before Election Day, as we come together to support the next President and Vice President of the United States, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine! And New Hampshire is going to be important, as always.
So I’m going to get a little serious here, because I think we can all agree that this has been a rough week in an already rough election. This week has been particularly interesting for me personally because it has been a week of profound contrast.
See, on Tuesday, at the White House, we celebrated the International Day of the Girl and Let Girls Learn, and it was a wonderful celebration. It was the last event that I’m going to be doing as First Lady for Let Girls Learn. And I had the pleasure of spending hours talking to some of the most amazing young women you will ever meet, young girls here in the U.S. and all around the world. And we talked about their hopes and their dreams. We talked about their aspirations. See, because many of these girls have faced unthinkable obstacles just to attend school, jeopardizing their personal safety, their freedom, risking the rejection of their families and communities.
So I thought it would be important to remind these young women how valuable and precious they are. I wanted them to understand that the measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls. And I told them that they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and I told them that they should disregard anyone who demeans or devalues them, and that they should make their voices heard in the world. And I walked away feeling so inspired, just like I’m inspired by all the young people here — and I was so uplifted by these girls. That was Tuesday.
And now, here I am, out on the campaign trail in an election where we have consistently been hearing hurtful, hateful language about women — language that has been painful for so many of us, not just as women, but as parents trying to protect our children and raise them to be caring, respectful adults, and as citizens who think that our nation’s leaders should meet basic standards of human decency.
The fact is that in this election, we have a candidate for President of the United States who, over the course of his lifetime and the course of this campaign, has said things about women that are so shocking, so demeaning that I simply will not repeat anything here today. And last week, we saw this candidate actually bragging about sexually assaulting women. And I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for President of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women.
And I have to tell you that I can’t stop thinking about this. It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted. So while I’d love nothing more than to pretend like this isn’t happening, and to come out here and do my normal campaign speech, it would be dishonest and disingenuous to me to just move on to the next thing like this was all just a bad dream.
This is not something that we can ignore. It’s not something we can just sweep under the rug as just another disturbing footnote in a sad election season. Because this was not just a “lewd conversation.” This wasn’t just locker-room banter. This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior, and actually bragging about kissing and groping women, using language so obscene that many of us were worried about our children hearing it when we turn on the TV.
And to make matters worse, it now seems very clear that this isn’t an isolated incident. It’s one of countless examples of how he has treated women his whole life. And I have to tell you that I listen to all of this and I feel it so personally, and I’m sure that many of you do too, particularly the women. The shameful comments about our bodies. The disrespect of our ambitions and intellect. The belief that you can do anything you want to a woman.
It is cruel. It’s frightening. And the truth is, it hurts. It hurts. It’s like that sick, sinking feeling you get when you’re walking down the street minding your own business and some guy yells out vulgar words about your body. Or when you see that guy at work that stands just a little too close, stares a little too long, and makes you feel uncomfortable in your own skin.
It’s that feeling of terror and violation that too many women have felt when someone has grabbed them, or forced himself on them and they’ve said no but he didn’t listen — something that we know happens on college campuses and countless other places every single day. It reminds us of stories we heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how, back in their day, the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office, and even though they worked so hard, jumped over every hurdle to prove themselves, it was never enough.
We thought all of that was ancient history, didn’t we? And so many have worked for so many years to end this kind of violence and abuse and disrespect, but here we are in 2016 and we’re hearing these exact same things every day on the campaign trail. We are drowning in it. And all of us are doing what women have always done: We’re trying to keep our heads above water, just trying to get through it, trying to pretend like this doesn’t really bother us maybe because we think that admitting how much it hurts makes us as women look weak.
Maybe we’re afraid to be that vulnerable. Maybe we’ve grown accustomed to swallowing these emotions and staying quiet, because we’ve seen that people often won’t take our word over his. Or maybe we don’t want to believe that there are still people out there who think so little of us as women. Too many are treating this as just another day’s headline, as if our outrage is overblown or unwarranted, as if this is normal, just politics as usual.
But, New Hampshire, be clear: This is not normal. This is not politics as usual. This is disgraceful. It is intolerable. And it doesn’t matter what party you belong to — Democrat, Republican, independent — no woman deserves to be treated this way. None of us deserves this kind of abuse.
And I know it’s a campaign, but this isn’t about politics. It’s about basic human decency. It’s about right and wrong. And we simply cannot endure this, or expose our children to this any longer — not for another minute, and let alone for four years. Now is the time for all of us to stand up and say enough is enough. This has got to stop right now.
Because consider this: If all of this is painful to us as grown women, what do you think this is doing to our children? What message are our little girls hearing about who they should look like, how they should act? What lessons are they learning about their value as professionals, as human beings, about their dreams and aspirations? And how is this affecting men and boys in this country? Because I can tell you that the men in my life do not talk about women like this. And I know that my family is not unusual. And to dismiss this as everyday locker-room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere.
The men that you and I know don’t treat women this way. They are loving fathers who are sickened by the thought of their daughters being exposed to this kind of vicious language about women. They are husbands and brothers and sons who don’t tolerate women being treated and demeaned and disrespected. And like us, these men are worried about the impact this election is having on our boys who are looking for role models of what it means to be a man.
In fact, someone recently told me a story about their six-year-old son who one day was watching the news — they were watching the news together. And the little boy, out of the blue, said, “I think Hillary Clinton will be President.” And his mom said, “Well, why do you say that?” And this little six-year-old said, “Because the other guy called someone a piggy, and,” he said, “you cannot be President if you call someone a piggy.”
So even a six-year-old knows better. A six-year-old knows that this is not how adults behave. This is not how decent human beings behave. And this is certainly not how someone who wants to be President of the United States behaves.
Because let’s be very clear: Strong men — men who are truly role models — don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together. And that is what we need in our next President. We need someone who is a uniting force in this country. We need someone who will heal the wounds that divide us, someone who truly cares about us and our children, someone with strength and compassion to lead this country forward.
And let me tell you, I’m here today because I believe with all of my heart that Hillary Clinton will be that President.
See, we know that Hillary is the right person for the job because we’ve seen her character and commitment not just in this campaign, but over the course of her entire life. The fact is that Hillary embodies so many of the values that we try so hard to teach our young people. We tell our young people “Work hard in school, get a good education.” We encourage them to use that education to help others — which is exactly what Hillary did with her college and law degrees, advocating for kids with disabilities, fighting for children’s health care as First Lady, affordable child care in the Senate.
We teach our kids the value of being a team player, which is what Hillary exemplified when she lost the 2008 election and actually agreed to work for her opponent as our Secretary of State — earning sky-high approval ratings serving her country once again.
We also teach our kids that you don’t take shortcuts in life, and you strive for meaningful success in whatever job you do. Well, Hillary has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. senator, Secretary of State. And she has been successful in every role, gaining more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime — more than Barack, more than Bill. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.
And finally, we teach our kids that when you hit challenges in life, you don’t give up, you stick with it. Well, during her four years as Secretary of State alone, Hillary has faced her share of challenges. She’s traveled to 112 countries, negotiated a ceasefire, a peace agreement, a release of dissidents. She spent 11 hours testifying before a congressional committee. We know that when things get tough, Hillary doesn’t complain. She doesn’t blame others. She doesn’t abandon ship for something easier. No, Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.
So in Hillary, we have a candidate who has dedicated her life to public service, someone who has waited her turn and helped out while waiting. She is an outstanding mother. She has raised a phenomenal young woman. She is a loving, loyal wife. She’s a devoted daughter who cared for her mother until her final days. And if any of us had raised a daughter like Hillary Clinton, we would be so proud. We would be proud.
And regardless of who her opponent might be, no one could be more qualified for this job than Hillary — no one. And in this election, if we turn away from her, if we just stand by and allow her opponent to be elected, then what are we teaching our children about the values they should hold, about the kind of life they should lead? What are we saying?
In our hearts, we all know that if we let Hillary’s opponent win this election, then we are sending a clear message to our kids that everything they’re seeing and hearing is perfectly okay. We are validating it. We are endorsing it. We’re telling our sons that it’s okay to humiliate women. We’re telling our daughters that this is how they deserve to be treated. We’re telling all our kids that bigotry and bullying are perfectly acceptable in the leader of their country. Is that what we want for our children?
And remember, we won’t just be setting a bad example for our kids, but for our entire world. Because for so long, America has been a model for countries across the globe, pushing them to educate their girls, insisting that they give more rights to their women. But if we have a President who routinely degrades women, who brags about sexually assaulting women, then how can we maintain our moral authority in the world? How can we continue to be a beacon of freedom and justice and human dignity?
Well, fortunately, New Hampshire, here’s the beauty: We have everything we need to stop this madness. You see, while our mothers and grandmothers were often powerless to change their circumstances, today, we as women have all the power we need to determine the outcome of this election.
We have knowledge. We have a voice. We have a vote. And on November the 8th, we as women, we as Americans, we as decent human beings can come together and declare that enough is enough, and we do not tolerate this kind of behavior in this country.
Remember this: In 2012, women’s votes were the difference between Barack winning and losing in key swing states, including right here in New Hampshire. So for anyone who might be thinking that your one vote doesn’t really matter, or that one person can’t really make a difference, consider this: Back in 2012, Barack won New Hampshire by about 40,000 votes, which sounds like a lot. But when you break that number down, the difference between winning and losing this state was only 66 votes per precinct. Just take that in. If 66 people each precinct had gone the other way, Barack would have lost.
So each of you right here today could help swing an entire precinct and win this election for Hillary just by getting yourselves, your families, and your friends and neighbors out to vote. You can do it right here. But you could also help swing an entire precinct for Hillary’s opponent with a protest vote or by staying home out of frustration.
Because here’s the truth: Either Hillary Clinton or her opponent will be elected president this year. And if you vote for someone other than Hillary, or if you don’t vote at all, then you are helping to elect her opponent. And just think about how you will feel if that happens. Imagine waking up on November the 9th and looking into the eyes of your daughter or son, or looking into your own eyes as you stare into the mirror. Imagine how you’ll feel if you stayed home, or if you didn’t do everything possible to elect Hillary.
We simply cannot let that happen. We cannot allow ourselves to be so disgusted that we just shut off the TV and walk away. And we can’t just sit around wringing our hands. Now, we need to recover from our shock and depression and do what women have always done in this country. We need you to roll up your sleeves. We need to get to work. Because remember this: When they go low, we go …
AUDIENCE: High!
Yes, we do.
And voting ourselves is a great start, but we also have to step up and start organizing. So we need you to make calls and knock on doors and get folks to the polls on Election Day and sign up to volunteer with one of the Hillary campaign folks who are here today just waiting for you to step up.
And, young people and not-so-young people, get on social media. Share your own story of why this election matters, why it should matter for all people of conscience in this country. There is so much at stake in this election.
See, the choice you make Nov. 8 could determine whether we have a President who treats people with respect — or not. A President who will fight for kids, for good schools, for good jobs for our families — or not. A President who thinks that women deserve the right to make our own choices about our bodies and our health — or not. That’s just a little bit of what’s at stake.
So we cannot afford to be tired or turned off. And we cannot afford to stay home on Election Day. Because on November the 8th, we have the power to show our children that America’s greatness comes from recognizing the innate dignity and worth of all our people. On November the 8th, we can show our children that this country is big enough to have a place for us all — men and women, folks of every background and walk of life — and that each of us is a precious part of this great American story, and we are always stronger together.
On Nov. 8, we can show our children that here in America, we reject hatred and fear and in difficult times, we don’t discard our highest ideals. No, we rise up to meet them. We rise up to perfect our union. We rise up to defend our blessings of liberty. We rise up to embody the values of equality and opportunity and sacrifice that have always made this country the greatest nation on Earth.
That is who we are. And don’t ever let anyone tell you differently. Hope is important. Hope is important for our young people. And we deserve a President who can see those truths in us — a President who can bring us together and bring out the very best in us. Hillary Clinton will be that President.
So for the next 26 days, we need to do everything we can to help her and Tim Kaine win this election. I know I’m going to be doing it. Are you with me? Are you all with me? You ready to roll up your sleeves? Get to work knocking on doors?
All right, let’s get to work. Thank you all. God bless.
This transcript was released by the White House Office of the First Lady
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糸井重里事務所の方の日本語（部分）訳がありました。
篠田真貴子 2016/10/15 00:11
ミシェル・オバマ大統領夫人のスピーチ （太字は私）
2016年10月13日ニューハンプシャーで、ヒラリー・クリントン候補の応援演説を、ミシェル・オバマ大統領夫人が行いました。30分のスピーチの前半15分ほどを費やして、トランプ候補の女性蔑視発言を機に強いメッセージを発信。
スピーチの動画ではFacebook live の5:40くらいから14:50くらいまで、原文の文字起こしはNPRの11段落目の中盤、”And last week,…” から始まる部分です。
（ここから、訳です）
先週、あの候補は、女性に乱暴するんだと自慢してました。実際に、私たちの目の前で、自慢したんです。合衆国大統領の候補者が、女性に乱暴するんだと自慢しただなんて、自分がこんな話をしていること自体、信じられません。
もう、このことが頭から離れないんです。自分がこんなに芯から動揺してしまうなんて、思いもしませんでした。こんなことはなかったことにして、いつもの応援演説ができればいいんですけれど。あんなの悪い夢みたいなものじゃない、はい次、っていければいいんですけれど、それじゃあ不正直だし不誠実すぎます。
これは、とうてい無視できません。悲しい大統領選の中の情けない一コマだったね、という話じゃないんです。だって、あれは単なる「下品な会話」ではないから。単なる更衣室での軽口ではないから。あれは、影響力のある人間が、性的に乱暴をはたらくことを、女性にキスをし迫ることを、 おおっぴらに語ってるんです。子どもにはとても聞かせられないような言葉づかいで。
しかも、あれが単発の事象ではなさそうであることがはっきりしてきました。彼は、これまでずっと、女性をそのようにしか扱ってこなかった。私たちが知ったのは、数えきれないそうした事例のひとつに過ぎないんです。私はこの話を、ほんとうに我がことのように感じています。みなさんもきっとそうですよね。特に女性のみなさん。私たちの体つきについて、恥ずかしいことを言われたこと。私たちの大志、私たちの知性を認めない態度。女には何をしてもいいんだ、という思い込み。
残酷ですよ。恐怖ですよ。正直言って、傷つきます。傷つくんです。ただ道を歩いていて、おかしなことは何もしてないのに、通りすがりの男が体つきがどうのこうのって大声でひどい言葉を投げつけてきたときの、気持ち悪さ、落ち込む気分のように。職場でいつも妙に距離をつめて近くに立っていたり、いつもじっとこちらを見ている男性に、会社で会っちゃったときのいやーな感じのように。
誰かにつかまれる。無理に迫られていやだと言っても聞いてくれない。そのときの蹂躙される恐怖を知っている女性が大勢います。多すぎます。大学のキャンパスで、ほかのいろんな場所で、毎日そういうことが起きている。私たちの祖母の世代、母の世代では、男性上司は職場の女性に何を言っても、何をしても構わなかった。女性たちがどんなに一生懸命仕事をし、どんなに厳しい壁を乗り越えて成果を示しても、だめだった。
そんなの、過去の歴史だと思ってましたよね。どれだけ多くの人々が、どれだけの年月をかけて、そんな暴力や虐待や、女性の尊厳を無視するような態度をやめるよう、努力してきたことか。それなのに、2016年にもなったいま、昔とまったく変わらない話を、選挙戦で毎日聞かされています。そんな話で、おぼれそうです。それに対して私たちは、これまでずっと女性がしてきたように、とにかく水面から頭を出して、この状況をしのごうとしています。気にしてないふりをしようとしています。もしかしたら、こんなに傷ついていることを認めたら、女性である私たちが弱くみられると思ってるのかもしれません。
もしかしたら私たちは、弱い立場に置かれるのが怖いのかもしれない。もしかしたら私たちは、感情を飲み込んで黙っていることに慣れてしまったのかもしれない。だって、言ってもどうせ聞いてもらえないから。もしかしたら私たちは、女性をこんなにバカにするひとがまだいるなんて信じたくないのかもしれない。でも、これはたくさんのニュースの中のひとつでしかないんでしょうか。私たちは怒りすぎでしょうか。怒る根拠がないんでしょうか。これが普通なんでしょうか。これが政治というものなんでしょうか。
ニューハンプシャーの皆さん、はっきり申し上げたいことがあります。これは、普通ではありません。これは、政治ではありません。これは、失礼すぎます。これは、看過できないことです。民主党、共和党、独立勢力、どの党に属していようと、こんな扱いを受けていい女性なんて、ひとりもいません。こんな虐待を受けていい女性なんて、ひとりもいません。
この選挙戦の焦点は、政治ではありません。基本的な人間性の問題です。正しいか間違っているかの問題です。こんなこと、これ以上我慢できません。こんなことにこれ以上、子供たちをさらすわけにいきません。１分たりとも耐えられません。ましてや、４年なんて。今こそ立ち上がり、もういい加減にして、と言うときです。今すぐ、止めなければ。
考えてもみてください。私たち大人の女性がこれだけ傷つくんだとしたら、子どもたちにはどれほどの影響があるでしょうか？小さな女の子たちは、自分の見た目、自分の態度がどうだったらいいというメッセージを受け取っているでしょうか。職業人として、人間としての自分の価値、自分の夢や希望にどんな価値があると理解するでしょうか。そして、この国の男性、この国の男の子たちにはどんな影響があるでしょう？だって、私の周りの男性は、女性についてあんなこと言いませんから。私の家族が特殊だということもないですし。あれが更衣室での日頃の会話だからと受け流すなんて、世の中のまともな男性への侮辱です。
私たちの知ってる男性は、女性にあんな態度をとりません。彼らは、娘にあんな野蛮な言葉をなげつけられたらと思うだけで気分が悪くなるような、愛情深い父親です。彼らは、女性がバカにされ軽んじられることを許さない、よき夫であり、兄弟です。彼らは、私たちと同じように、この選挙が男の子たちにどんな影響があるか、心配しています。男の子たちは、大人の男になるとはどういうことか、ロールモデルを探しているんですから。
最近きいた話ですが、あるかたが６歳の息子さんと一緒にニュースを見ていたそうなんです。そうしたら、その男の子がいきなり「ぼくは、ヒラリー・クリントンが大統領になると思う」って言ったと。で、お母さんが「なんでそう思うの？」ときいたそうなんですね。そうしたら、その小さな６歳の子が「だって、もう一人のひとは、誰かのことをブタって言ったんでしょ。誰かのことをブタっていうひとは、大統領になれないんだよ」って。
６歳児のほうが、分かってるんです。６歳児ですら、あんなの大人の取る態度じゃないって分かるんです。あれは、まともな人間の取る態度ではありません。ましてや、合衆国の大統領になりたいという人が取る態度ではありません。
ここではっきりさせておきましょう。強い男性、真のロールモデルとなる男性は、自分の力を確かめるのに女性を貶めることを必要としません。本当に強い人は、周りの人を高めるんです。本当に力のある人は、周りの人たちをつなぐんです。次期大統領には、そういう資質が必要です。
Internetの威力をまざまざと見せつけられる瞬間があり、この記事もそのひとつ。York大学でクラスメイトだった、南スダーンから来たでっかい、優しい男Anthonyが、未だに紛争まっただ中の南スダーンで元気に笑っている（少なくとも今年の7月は！）
英国北部の寒さに震えながら、愛する祖国の平和のためと、その博識を武器に明るくクラスのみんなを勇気づけていた。
教室での発言ではいつも、どんな短い発言でも必ず「In my country South Sudan」と枕詞のように、しかも話題を変えるたびにこのフレーズを入れるので、クラスメイトは、「わかったよ、そンだけ南スダーンを愛してるんだね」と、みんな笑いながら受けいれ（我慢し?）たものだ。Anthonyには、皆にそれを受け入れさせるほどの根拠、情熱と祖国への愛があった。
July 27, 2016 (JUBA) – South Sudan ruling SPLM party has nominated former transport minister Anthony Lino Makana as speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA), breaking an impasse that has delayed reconstituting the oversight監視, 監督body of the government.
The meeting at SPLM House in Juba on Wednesday was chaired by President Salva Kiir who also chairs the ruling party, and comes a day after the replacement of the former First Vice President Riek Machar by Taban Deng Gai
President Kiir, who made the announcement, said today decision is a new page for the fractured party.
“You now voted and four candidates from Equatoria were brought to the SPLM leadership. The leadership of the SPLM has selected honorable Anthony Lino Makana,” said Kiir, referring to his SPLM faction.
The party split into three factions at the onset of December 2013 conflict: SPLM In Government led by Kiir, SPLM In Opposition of Riek Machar and SPLM former detainees led by former Secretary General Pagan Amum.
Kiir said the SPLM factions has no choice but to remain united.
“If you are not united in this (SPLM) house, you will not be united in the (parliament) bigger house,” he further said, warning that “measures will be taken against dissent members of parliament” who vote against SPLM policies.
Sources in the meeting said the First Vice President Taban Deng Gai has accepted to nominate deputy speaker.
Oliver Benjamin, the head of information in the national parliament, said a special session to formally select the speaker in parliament will be convened on Monday.
“All members of parliament have been recalled to Juba to be able to attend on Monday August 1, 2016,” he said by phone on Wednesday.
According to the August 2015 Agreement for Resolution of Conflict in the Republic, the current parliament with 332 MPs will be expanded to 400. The SPLM IO nominated new 50 legislators, 1 from former detainees and 17 from other political parties.
Disagreement over which party to nominate the speaker stalled expansion of the parliament and commencing始める the TNLA.
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AnthonyはKirr政府の議会議長だ。
10/14現在、マーケットも開いたらしい。
FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2016
South Sudan markets in Juba reopen after abrupt closure
October 13, 2016 (JUBA) – Shop owners in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, have resumed work following an abrupt closure on Wednesday, following false reports of Salva Kiir’s death on the social media.
People walk through a market in the southern Sudanese city of Juba January 7, 2011 in Juba – (File photo AFP/Getty)
Interior Minister Michael Chienyjiek issued a statement dismissing the allegation, describing them as rumours circulated by “criminals to use it as the opportunity to loot.
“Stay calm, and carry on normally. There should no fear. The president had already come out yesterday and you saw him touring the whole town yesterday. This was to confirm to the public that he is alive. What happened was another social media hoax”, said Chienyjiek
He commended various markets in Juba which resumed activities on Wednesday evening after few hours of abrupt closure. Traders and hawkers who had run away from custom market have resumed since 5.00 PM local time yesterday and were selling their goods normally.
Several markets such as Konyokonyo, Jebel and Juba markets have also resumed operation according to sources. Many residents claimed the run from market on Wednesday after some running without asking the cause. Others attributed the cause to a crackdown on money exchangers by the police.
“I have resumed work normally today. Yesterday my shop was closed because there was confusion allover. Some people were running unnecessarily. If you ask, no one would give a definite answer, Deng Mawien, a trader in Malakia market told Sudan Tribune on Thursday.
But while others were running due to fear stemming from rumours about the death of the president, others were running away from police measures banning money changers on the street in fulfillment of municipality order.
Police force launched an operation to crack down on U.S. dollar hawkers, causing them to flee the market. No gun shot was fired by the police when the police carried out the operation.
Earlier this year, Mayor of Juba City banned selling of U.S. dollars on the street of Juba, and ordered the police to crackdown on those selling dollars. Armed robbers attacked Konyokonyo market
SPLA Spokesperson Brig. Gen Lul Ruai Koang told journalists that people in Konyokonyo market fled when armed robbers attacked and robbed at gun point leading to the closure of the market yesterday,
He said that 3 robbers entered the market and started terrorizing people using pistols. Two of the robbers were apprehended and 1 is still at large. The two robbers, he said were later found to be foreign nationals.
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The Guardianの10/7記事には私の好きなSchubert, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore, Ian Bostridge, David Bowie, Winterreise, Die Schöne Müllerinなどの言葉がちりばめられている。読むしかない！
A new English version of Die Schöne Müllerin offers a reminder as to why it’s Sinatra – not his classical contemporaries – that matches Schubert in ambition
Romantic journeys … Franz Schubert (1820). Photograph: Rischgitz/Getty Images
Christopher Fox
Friday 7 October 201615.00 BSTLast modified on Saturday 8 October 201600.00 BST
It’s an everyday story of country folk. You’re walking beside a stream when you come across a water mill. It’s a family-run business and the miller’s daughter is a lovely girl. You fall in love with her, and perhaps she does with you. But a huntsman turns up, steals her heart and breaks yours. The End.
With an update or two – the mill becomes an organic farm perhaps, the huntsman a gamekeeper – it could almost be an Archers plot, but in 1823 the Viennese composer Franz Schubert made it the subject of a set of 20 songs, Die Schöne Müllerin (The Lovely Miller-Girl). Schubert had found the poems the previous year, part of a newly published volume of poetry by his near-contemporaryWilhelm Müller, and he immediately started to compose settings for them; they were published in 1824. Three years later, Schubert wrote a second set of songs to Müller’s poetry, Winterreise (Winter Journey), and with these two works he launched a new genre, the song cycle.
Ian Bostridge on singing Schubert’s Winterreise – an indispensable work of art
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Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise quickly found admirers. In 1829, the year after Schubert’s untimely death (he was only 31), Josef von Spaun wrote that “whatever filled the poet’s breast Schubert faithfully represented and transfigured in each of his songs, as none has done before him”. For nearly 200 years, these song cycles have fascinated musicians and audiences alike, inspiring countless performances and hundreds of recordings, as well as a vast repertoire of songs that try to match the clarity of Schubert’s word setting. Like Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Lyrical Ballads, Schubert was on a Romantic quest in search of a more informal mode of expression; instead of the elaborate diction of 18th‑century verse and music, this new voice could speak directly to the heart. The short stanzas and simple rhyme-schemes of Müller’s poems have this folk-like quality, and Schubert’s settings allow us to hear every word.
Or rather, they allow German-speaking audiences to hear every word. One of the problems confronting any singer of this music is a decision about how to communicate it: if your listeners don’t understand the language, how can you share the meaning of the words? You might print them on a screen or in a programme book, but then you lose part of your audience’s attention. Or you might sing a version of the music in which the words have been translated. This used to be the way it was done in England. Foreign music, whether Bach cantatas, Mozart operas or Schubert songs, was sung to words that the locals could understand.
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German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with pianist Gerald Moore. Photograph: Erich Auerbach/Getty Images |
But in Die Schöne Müllerin the songs are born out of a uniquely intimate connection between language and music: to translate them is surely to lose an essential part of the work’s identity. To hear Schubert properly, convention dictates, we must hear it in German. Why then is the Wigmore Hall – the London headquarters of classical song – presenting the song cycle in English, as The Beautiful Maid of the Mill? The pianist Christopher Glynn, who commissioned this new translation from Jeremy Sams for the Ryedale festival, explains: “There were three motivations. First, I think the songs are stories and should be experienced as such – and a foreign language can be a barrier to singers and audience alike. t saddens me that song is on the margins of even the classical music world – a niche within a niche – and I wanted to do something to bring these cycles to a wider audience.Thirdly, I came across the wonderful YouTube clip of Harry Plunkett Greene singing “Der Leiermann”, the last song from Winterreise. It’s a haunting performance – all the more so for being in English. I was interested to look back to a time where the importance of communicating directly and clearly with your audience was more important for a singer than the notion of being absolutely faithful to the original version of a work (authenticity instead of Authenticity)”.
Fischer-Dieskau’s 1951 recording of Die Schöne Müllerin with Moore remains one of the finest ever made of this cycle
Sams is the ideal choice. Not only is he a composer and writer, he is also the son of Eric Sams, the great scholar of the German lieder tradition that grew out of Schubert’s work. As he told the Ryedale festival audience, his father had warned him, “Never translate lieder. Opera is fine – those are stories. But lieder are poetry and should not be touched.” Perhaps with this parental guidance in mind, Sams’ translations are freer than any of their predecessors. Rather than making a word for word substitution, he has created a new poetry that matches idiomatic English to the sense of Müller’s words and the rhythms of Schubert’s music.
Listeners familiar with Die Schöne Müllerin will notice this from the very beginning. In the first poem Müller repeats a key word in each of the five stanzas: “wandern” (wandering) in the first and last, other words in the intervening stanzas. But in Sams, just one word, “somewhere”, recurs in each stanza, pulling the song together even more tightly. It’s bold – more Sondheim than Müller perhaps – but that’s how Sams sees Müller anyway. For him, these poems are “bold, intense, driven. Very modern in their depictions of mental disturbance. InDie Schöne Müllerin the protagonist is a restless dreamer, maybe a fantasist (how real is his relationship with the Miller’s daughter?). He veers between self-doubt and excessive outbursts of self-justification.”
That modernity is there throughout Die Schöne Müllerin. An everyday story may gradually emerge as song follows song, but it’s a peculiar kind of story-telling. Because the narrator is also a protagonist, we see everything through his eyes, aPeep Show view of the world. It’s also because of this intensely subjective perspective that it’s impossible to dramatise Schubert’s song cycles – there’s not enough action to fill a stage or screen. Instead the cues provided by the shifts in tone and mood in his music enable our imaginations to jump the gaps from scene to scene.
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Frank Sinatra at the new Capitol Records studio B, in Hollywood, 1956. Photograph: Frank Sinatra Enterprises |
Perhaps it’s because of these peculiarities – a tale told in a series of fleeting vignettes by a narrator who, as Sams suggests, may be a fantasist – that there are so few successors to Die Schöne Müllerin. The other great song cycle composer of the 19th century was Robert Schumann, whose Dichterliebe and Frauenliebe und Leben follow the Schubertian model, but after Schumann most composers have been less ambitious. There are wonderful sets of songs by Brahms, Mendelssohn and Wolf, but none is bound to a single narrative. Their ambition may also have been tempered by their publishers’ sense of the market: singers want to be able to make their own selections, programming songs to show off their particular vocal qualities, and even Die Schöne Müllerin had to wait until 1856 for a first complete public performance.
In the 1950s the invention of the long-playing record format created new possibilities. Die Schöne Müllerin fits perfectly on the two sides of an LP and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s 1951 recording with the pianist Gerald Moore remains one of the finest ever made. But the new medium inspired few song cycles from classical composers that have anything like the ambition of Schubert; instead it is the series of LPs that Frank Sinatra made for Capitol Records in the 1950s that comes closest. Nelson Riddle’s arrangements give each album a composerly coherence and the selection of songs allows Sinatra to inhabit a different character for each record: the upbeat charmer of Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!, the world-weary romantic of Only the Lonely.
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David Bowie on his Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane tour in London, 1973. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images
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In 1967 the Times music critic William Mann wrote of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band that it had “a certain shape and integrity new to pop song LPs, which are usually unconnected anthologies. Sooner or later some group will take the next logical step and produce an LP that is a pop song cycle, a Tin Pan Alley Dichterliebe.” Five decades later, Mann’s prediction is still unfulfilled. In pop songs the singer may, like the singer of Die Schöne Müllerin, be cast as the principal character in a brief drama, but it’s their drama. Pop musicians rarely inhabit other personae – why should they when it’s their own persona that fascinates their fans? – and even the extraordinary David Bowie was only briefly able to sustain the alter egos who observe the dystopian landscapes of Aladdin Sane and Diamond Dogs.
So perhaps the legacy of Die Schöne Müllerin, composed when Schubert had been diagnosed with syphilis, lies only in the songs themselves and the fragmentary story they tell. In 1824 he wrote to a friend: “imagine a man whose health will never be right again; Imagine a man, I say, whose most brilliant hopes have come to nothing, to whom the joy of love and friendship have nothing to offer but pain. I may well sing every day now, for each night, I go to bed hoping never to wake again, and each morning only tells me of yesterday’s grief.” As Sams says, Müller’s poetry “spoke directly to a great composer’s broken heart and became his voice”; it’s a voice that speaks as directly as ever.
英語の発音の勉強のため、この美しい発音の新しい英国首相のメッセージをふたつ。
Rosh Hashanah 2016: Theresa May’s message
From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Theresa May MP 2 October 2016
The Prime Minister sends her best wishes to everyone in Britain and around the world to mark this Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Prime Minister Theresa May said:
It gives me great pleasure to wish the Jewish community in Britain and around the world a very happy and peaceful New Year.
This is a special time, when Jewish families join together in celebration and prayer. It is also a time of remembrance and renewal.
We remember the tremendous contribution made by Britain’s Jewish community to this country, from those who have served in our armed forces to those leading in fields such as business, science and the arts. You have given so much over the years, while at the same time maintaining a sense of identity, religion and culture.
And in the spirit of renewal we think of the opportunities ahead not only for ourselves, but for our country: opportunities to forge a bold and positive new role for Britain in the world, to build a better, fairer society, and to bring people closer together.
I have seen for myself the inspirational work carried out by many Jewish charities and organisations in Britain: helping and supporting others and reaching out to people of different backgrounds and faiths.
I want to ensure that Britain is a place where all our communities can flourish, and that means stamping out sickening and shameful hatred, including anti-Semitism the like of which I never thought we would see again.
I am clear that such hatred has absolutely no place in our society. So,as the Jewish New Year begins, I want to renew my unshakeable vow to stand by our Jewish community now and for the years to come. And as Prime Minister, and working in partnership with you, I will do everything in my power to protect your community, and indeed all communities in Britain.
I am also proud to support the new National Holocaust Memorial which will be built at the heart of our democracy, next to Parliament, along with an associated learning centre. We owe it to everyone who endured the horrors of the Holocaust to remind future generations of the depths into which humanity can sink, so it is never repeated again.
So once again I want to wish the Jewish community all the very best this Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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Eid al-Adha 2016: Theresa May’s message
12 September 2016
“To all Muslims, in this country and around the world, I want to say Eid Mubarak. I wish you a happy and peaceful Eid.” Prime Minister Theresa May.
Prime Minister Theresa May said:
To all Muslims in Britain and around the world I wish you a blessed Eid al-Adha. I know this festival means a great deal to communities, a time when families and friends are brought together to pray and feast, and Muslims across different continents are brought together in faith.
And as you share in that spirit of togetherness, I think proudly of the many ways people in this country connect with each other and enrich our nation’s life.
I see this in politics where British Muslims are making a real difference, in enterprise and the running of multi-million pound businesses, and in the courage and dedication of those who safeguard our streets and serve in our armed forces.
I see this in the charity and compassion of our Muslim communities, whose members give so generously to those less fortunate.
And I also see this in the way people are brought together with those around the world through the strong bonds of shared history, family relationships, and concern for those suffering and in pain. I think particularly of the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq. Our more than £2 billion contribution, our largest ever response to a single humanitarian crisis, is helping people caught up in that appalling conflict and I am pleased that we will be continuing to provide support to those in need.
As Prime Minister, I want to see our communities go from strength to strength. Bringing people together and ensuring that everyone is able to make the most of the opportunities Britain has to offer, no matter what their background, and no matter where they are from, is central to my government’s mission. As I said when I stood on the steps of Downing Street, I want to make this a country that works for everyone.
I am proud of the contribution British Muslims make to this country, and proud that Britain is home to people from vibrant and diverse backgrounds.
So to all Muslims, in this country and around the world, I want to say Eid Mubarak. I wish you a happy and peaceful Eid.
フランスのコントラルト、ナタリー・シュトッツマンさん。豊かな美声、そう美声としか言いようがない。CD, YouTubeでしか、まだ聞いていない。一度横須賀芸術劇場で小沢征爾さんの演奏会でベートーベン弦楽四重奏曲（だったかな？）の指揮をされるのを聴いた。
次回来日の時は絶対コンサートに行きたい人のNO.!の人です。今はほかの媒体で楽しんでいる。
FaceBookにアップされたこの曲はご自分の指揮のあとのアンコール曲だったとか。
Nathalie Stutzmann added a new video.
Yesterday morning at Sala São Paulo ! Right after she finished to conduct the all morning concert, Nathalie jumped from the podium to offer a very surprising “encore” singing with Arthur Nestrovski at the guitar, Caldara’s aria “Sebben Crudele” 😉
私が長く
あなたに仕えていれば、
あなたのつてなさも
和らげることができるだろう。
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Japan’s emperor wants to retire. Is he allowed to?
By Anna Fifield August 6 NYT
TOKYO — For 28 years, Emperor Akihito has been a steady and reassuring presence in Japan, a fact that many people here are reminded of on a daily basis. After all, 2016 is officially known as “Heisei 28,” marking Akihito’s time on the Chrysanthemum Throne.
But now, the 82-year-old “emperor for life” is laying the groundwork to relinquish his role and pass it on to his oldest son, Naruhito. That will be tricky. Not only is there no legal provision for him to abdicate, but even raising the prospect could be unconstitutional.
“Under the current law, he can’t abdicate, even if he wants to. There is no option but to carry on,” said Yasushi Kuno, a veteran journalist who for years covered the imperial family for the Nippon television network.
Akihito is scheduled to make a pre-recorded video statement to the Japanese people Monday afternoon, during which he probably will say that he is having difficulty carrying out his official duties.
He has had health issues — prostate cancer and heart problems — and, marking his birthday in December, he said there had been times when he had felt his age.
“Even if he tries really hard, he can’t deny that his body is deteriorating,” which means he can no longer carry out all his official duties, Kuno said.
[Sporting silver heels, Michelle Obama greets Japanese emperor]
Surviving through samurais and shoguns and wars, an unbroken male line of emperors has endured in Japan for almost 3,000 years. They are said to be direct descendants of Amaterasu, the Shinto goddess of the sun.
Abdication was relatively common until 1817, when Kokaku became the last emperor to resign his post.
But the imperial system underwent a huge upheaval at the end of World War II, when the U.S. occupying forces allowed Hirohito, the current emperor’s father, to remain in his position but stripped him of his powers.
The emperor was reduced to being a ceremonial figurehead who would serve as a “symbol of the state and of the unity of the people,” according to the U.S.-written constitution. As such, he does “not have powers related to government,” meaning that he cannot say anything even remotely political.
That will cause some issues for Akihito, the only emperor to have begun his reign under the postwar constitution. Because there is no provision in the Imperial House Law for him to abdicate, even raising the idea would be considered political because it would require a parliamentary amendment.
“So he will be ambiguous, unclear,” said Takeshi Hara, a professor of politics who has written several books on the imperial system. “I think he will just express his feelings.”
[With WWII statement, Japan’s Abe tried to offer something for everyone]
Signs of the emperor’s wish to step down emerged last month when NHK, the public broadcaster, which has close ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government, reported that it was under discussion.
The public has been supportive of the idea, with polls showing that between 77 percent and 90 percent of respondents say the government should create a system to allow the emperor to abdicate.
“If he feels old and tired, it’s okay for him to retire,” said Yukiko Sakurai, one of a group of four gray-haired women sitting in a Tokyo cafe last week. “He’s old. Maybe they should set an age limit on being emperor?”
Hirohito died at age 87; Akihito was 55 when he succeeded his father. His oldest son, Naruhito, is 56.
The Japanese public has warm feelings toward the current emperor. His father was considered to be “above the clouds,” so revered that Japanese people weren’t even allowed to look straight at him during the war.
“But the current emperor has a different style and talks directly to the people,” said Kuno, the journalist. This was particularly evident after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, when Akihito for the first time recorded a video message to the Japanese people, and then visited the disaster zone.
Any legal changes will take time, probably years, to usher through. But in the meantime, the emperor’s intentions probably will create headaches for Abe, whose top — and controversial — priority is revising the constitution to loosen the pacifism imposed on Japan after the war.
Abe’s government last month succeeded in winning the two-thirds majorityneeded in the upper house to try to make changes to the constitution.
[Japan’s emperor appears to part ways with Abe on pacifism debate]
The emperor has obliquely signaled that he disagrees with attempts to revise the constitution and has made efforts to atone for Japan’s wartime brutality.
“I hear the emperor feels a sense of crisis over the current political situation,” said Jiro Yamaguchi, a political scientist at Hosei University. “Abe’s position on constitutional revision is completely different from the emperor’s position of protecting the constitution.”
Akihito’s coming statement, he said, could trigger a drive among the public to keep the constitution as it is.
Talk of legal changes could put the brakes on efforts to revise the constitution, said Mari Miura, a political scientist at Sophia University. But it also could inject momentum into the efforts. “This could give a push to those on the revision side if all the changes could be reviewed together,” she said.
Abe has other reasons to be resistant to change in the royal status. He lobbied against efforts a decade ago, when the emperor had only granddaughters, to allow women to inherit the title.
Thorny legal questions aside, there are lots of logistical considerations, much like the Vatican had to grapple with when Pope Benedict XVI wanted to step aside. Where would Akihito live? What would he be called? “Retired emperor?”
Yuki Oda contributed to this report.
