山田維史の遊卵画廊

　私がイラストレーターとして各出版社からの執筆依頼に応じて忙しく駆けずり回るようになり、たしかどこかの出版社へ出向いたときだと憶えているが、タクシーの中でラジオから流れて来た音楽に「はっ！」となった。まぎれもなくクライスラーがヴァイオリン演奏するファリャ作曲『ホタ』だった。
　３分ほどの短い曲だ。しかし私は一瞬のうちに子どもの頃に還っていた。生亀先生を思い出した。

　きょうYouTubeで聴いていたのはその曲である。古いSPレコードの針音も懐かしく・・・

　ついでに述べれば、この曲におけるクライスラーのヴァイオリン奏法は複雑であると私は思う。まるでボンゴを叩いているかのような音のピチカート。あるいはギターのようなピチカート奏法。また弦と弓との接触のさせか方も2,3の異なった方法である。ピアノ伴奏だけなのだが、いくつかの楽器と共演しているかのようだ。単純な旋律の短い曲が興趣ある楽しい曲になって聴こえる。

​クライスラーが演奏するホタ​


   Today, I was listening the violin performance of Fritz
Kreisler (1875-1962).
   A long time ago on the record that my father had,
there was Falla's composition "7 Canciones populares
Espanolas: IV. Jota (Seven Folk Songs of Spain No.4
Jota)" played by Kreisler. That's why I used to listen to it
when I was a kid.
   When I was in the 5th grade of elementary school,
Mr. Iki, who was my homeroom teacher when I was the
4th grade, transfered to another school far away, but
one day he came to visit my house. The teacher was a
graduate of music college and often ordered me to the
accompaniment the piano, and had a background as a
judoka too, and I was training judo by him after school.
My father took pictures of me and my teacher who
came to my house, and listened to records together,
but he saw the label of "Jota" played by Kreisler, the
teacher said, "This is a rare trcord of monument to
Fritz Kreisler. You should be keeping it with care."

   After this, when I entered junior high school, i left my
parents and became a single person who occasionally
returned home until was 25 years old. My parents and
family also moved from Fukushima prefecture to
Hokkaido during this time, and Kreisler's record was
lost due to the rush. It also fell out of my memory.

   As an illustrator, I became busy running around in
response to work request from each piblisher, and I
remember when I went to a publisher somewhere, but
I was struck by music that came from the radio in a
taxi. Became "Huh!" Undoubtedly, it was Fall's compo-
sition "Jota" played by Fritz Kreisler on violin.
   It's a short music of about 3 minutes. But I was back
in my childhood in an instant. I remembered Mr. Iki.

   It was that music that I was listening to on YouTube
today. I miss the needle sound of old SP record ...

   Incidentally, I suppose that Fritz Kreisler's violin
playing in this music is complicated. A pizzicato that
sound as if you were hitting a bongo. Or pizzicato
playing like a guitar. There are also a few different ways
to make the strings and boes come into contact. It's
only piano accompaniment. but it seems to be co-
starring with some instruments. A short music with a s
imple melody can be heard as an interesting and fun
music.

Tadami Yamada