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Tony and Grammy Award winner Duncan Sheik, the composer of "Spring Awakening" and pop singer, has passed away at the age of 56.

Tony and Grammy Award winner Duncan Sheik, the composer of "Spring Awakening" and pop singer, has passed away at the age of 56.

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September 18th, 2026

Tony and Grammy Award winner Duncan Sheik, the composer of "Spring Awakening" and pop singer, has passed away at the age of 56.

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Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who won both a Tony Award and a Grammy Award and composed the music for Spring Awakening, has passed away at the age of 56.

曾獲東尼獎與葛萊美獎的創作歌手鄧肯·謝克(Duncan Sheik),為《春醒》(Spring Awakening)譜寫音樂,已辭世,享年56歲。

According to a post on his Instagram page, Sheik passed away on Thursday evening.

根據他Instagram頁面上的貼文謝克已於週四晚間辭世

The post read: "The world has lost a singular talent and a profoundly influential voice in music and theatre.

貼文寫道:「世界痛失一位獨一無二的人才以及音樂與劇場界極具影響力的聲音

His musical legacy will continue to inspire future generations."

他的音樂遺產將持續啟迪後世。」

Before Sheik turned to Broadway and launched Spring Awakening, he was best known for that enduring radio hit, "Barely Breathing."

在謝克轉向百老匯並推出《春醒》之前,他最為人所知的,是那首歷久不衰的電台熱門歌曲《Barely Breathing》

This convention-defying musical transformed adolescent angst into music.

這部突破常規的音樂劇青少年的焦慮化為音樂。

"Apart from our director, we were all, to some extent, outsiders on Broadway.

除了我們的導演之外,我們在某種程度上都算是百老匯的局外人

We wanted to shake up the status quo a little.

我們稍微撼動一下現狀

We simply set out to create this really cool piece of theatre," Sheik said in 2007, when the show swept the Tony Award nominations.

我們只是著手打造這部真的很酷的劇場作品,」謝克在2007年該劇橫掃東尼獎提名時如此表示

Sheik also worked on musical adaptations of American Psycho and Alice in Wonderland, while "Barely Breathing" spent 55 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 16.

謝克亦投身於改編自《美國殺人魔》(American Psycho)《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》(Alice in Wonderland)的音樂劇《Barely Breathing》在告示牌百大單曲榜上停留了55週最高排名第16

However, he is perhaps still best known for Spring Awakening, which has played more than 860 performances on Broadway since 2006.

然而,他最為人所知的,或許仍是《春醒》該劇自2006年起在百老匯上演超過860場

"His profound emotions and his joy have brought us so much beauty," wrote the playwright and actress Eisa Davis.

他深刻的情感與他的喜悅為我們帶來如此多的,」劇作家兼演員艾莎·戴維斯(Eisa Davis)寫道

"Duncan, thank you for your friendship, and thank you for that sublime music."

鄧肯謝謝你的友誼也謝謝那些崇高的音樂。」

This musical is based on a play by the 19th-century German playwright Frank Wedekind, with music composed by Sheik and lyrics written by the playwright Steven Sater; it depicts incest, abortion, and suicide without any reticence.

這部音樂劇取材自19世紀德國劇作家法蘭克·魏德金(Frank Wedekind)的戲劇由謝克譜曲、劇作家史蒂芬·薩特(Steven Sater)填詞;它毫不諱言地刻畫了亂倫墮胎與自殺

Part of its intention is to serve as a warning: only when adolescents receive accurate information about sex can they avoid tragic mistakes.

其部分用意在於提出警示青少年唯有獲得關於性的正確資訊方能避免悲劇性的錯誤

"I don't mean to show disrespect toward more traditional theater composers," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2015.

我無意對更傳統的劇場作曲家不敬,」他在2015年告訴《洛杉磯時報》

"I love Stephen Sondheim.

我愛史蒂芬·桑坦(Stephen Sondheim)。

But my mission is to make sure the theater pays attention to what the rest of the world is listening to."

但我的使命是確保劇場關注世界上其他人正在聽什麼。」

Sheik and Sater are both practicing Buddhists, and the two met while chanting.

謝克薩特皆為修行中的佛教徒兩人是在誦念時結識的。

At the time, they were collaborating on Sheik's third album, Phantom Moon, and Sater mentioned that he was preparing a new work.

當時他們正合作謝克的第三張專輯《Phantom Moon》薩特提到自己正在籌備一部新作品

Neither of them had ever written a musical before.

兩人此前都未曾寫過音樂劇

"I told Steven: 'I'd be happy to do this musical, but only on the condition that the music in it is the kind that I and my contemporaries can identify with stylistically, resonate with, and enjoy,'" Sheik said in 2006.

「我對史蒂芬說:『我很樂意做這部音樂劇,但前提是劇中的音樂必須是那種我和我的同代人能在風格上認同、產生共鳴並享受的,』」謝克在2006年表示。

They reached a consensus: to keep the setting of a 19th-century German province, yet, as Sater put it, "the moment a character starts to sing, it switches to contemporary pop music."

他們達成共識保留19世紀德國外省背景設定然而正如薩特所言,「角色一開口唱歌,就切換成當代流行樂」。

Spring Awakening won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and also took home the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

《春醒》榮獲八項東尼獎,其中包括最佳音樂劇獎,並奪得葛萊美獎最佳音樂劇專輯殊榮。

"Sheik's music seems restrained in its spare orchestration, yet it becomes lush in the wave-like layering of its seductive choruses, embodying the dark undercurrent of longing that pervades the whole showexcitement tinged with fear, joy followed closely by despair," The New York Times wrote in its review.

謝克的音樂在簡樸的配器中顯得克制在誘人副歌層層拍岸般的延伸中顯得繁茂體現了瀰漫全劇的幽暗渴望之氣——興奮中帶著恐懼喜悅之後緊跟著絕望,」《紐約時報》在劇評中如此寫道

This musical is much loved in the theatre world, because it broke new ground in both its staging and its content, placing it alongside works such as Rent and Hamilton.

這部音樂劇在劇場界備受喜愛因為它在舞台呈現與內容上都開創新局,與《吉屋出租》(Rent)《漢密爾頓》(Hamilton)等作品並列

In 2015, it returned to Broadway in a production by Deaf West Theatre and received widespread acclaim.

2015年由聾人西部劇院(Deaf West Theatre)製作重返百老匯廣受好評

An Off-Broadway version is scheduled to open this autumn; his musical Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, adapted from Moyoco Anno's manga of the same name, is also set to be launched this autumn.

外百老匯版本預定於今年秋天開演;他根據安野夢洋子同名漫畫改編的音樂劇《Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen》也預定於今年秋天推出

The original cast brought together a number of actors who would go on to achieve breakthrough success, including Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Lilli Cooper, Jennifer Damiano, Gideon Glick, John Gallagher Jr., Lauren Pritchard, and Krysta Rodriguez, all of whom subsequently made their names in television, film, and theatre.

原版演出卡司陣容匯聚了多位一舉成名的演員包括強納森·葛羅夫(Jonathan Groff)、麗婭·米雪兒(Lea Michele)、莉莉·庫柏(Lilli Cooper)、珍妮佛·達米亞諾(Jennifer Damiano)、吉迪恩·格利克(Gideon Glick)、小約翰·加拉赫(John Gallagher Jr.)、蘿倫·普里查德(Lauren Pritchard)以及克莉絲塔·羅德里格斯(Krysta Rodriguez),他們其後分別在電視電影與舞台領域成名。

Groff later won a Tony Award for "Merrily We Roll Along," while Michele became a major star thanks to "Glee."

葛羅夫後來憑藉《Merrily We Roll Along》贏得東尼獎米雪兒《歡樂合唱團》(Glee)成為巨星

Sheik subsequently incorporated the music he had heard while navigating Manhattan's fashionable clubs and slipping past velvet ropes in the late 1980s into the Broadway adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho.

謝克隨後將他於1980年代末在曼哈頓時髦俱樂部穿梭、越過天鵝絨圍欄時所聽到的音樂,融入百老匯改編的布雷特·伊斯頓·艾利斯(Bret Easton Ellis)小說《美國殺人魔》。

This 1991 novellater adapted into a 2000 film starring Christian Balechronicles a bloodthirsty New York yuppie, Patrick Bateman, who is obsessed with high-end clothing and grooming products while cutting a murderous swath through Manhattan.

這部1991年的小說——後來改編成2000年由克里斯汀·貝爾(Christian Bale)主演的電影——記述一名嗜血的紐約雅痞派屈克·貝特曼(Patrick Bateman)他痴迷於高檔服飾與美妝產品,同時在曼哈頓一路砍殺

Sheik, who also wrote the lyrics, recalls that when he was still a student at Brown University, he threw the book across the room halfway through reading it.

謝克也負責歌詞他回憶自己還是布朗大學學生時只讀到一半就把書扔到房間另一頭

For one particularly notable song, "You Are What You Wear," he reached out to his ex-girlfriends and posed a question to them: what did you really like to wear in the late '80s?

其中一首格外突出的歌曲《You Are What You Wear》聯繫了舊女友們向她們提出一個問題妳們在80年代末真正喜歡穿什麼?

He wove their answers into this song about high fashion: "Chanel, Gaultier, or Giorgio Armani / Moschino, Alaïa, or Norma Kamali / Should I wear Betsey Johnson / Or stick with classic Comme des Garçons?"

將答案寫進這首關於高級時尚的歌裡:「ChanelGaultier還是 Giorgio ArmaniMoschinoAlaïa,還是 Norma Kamali我該穿 Betsey Johnson/還是堅守經典 Comme des Garçons?」

"Duncan was undoubtedly a genius, and an intellectual as well; what he brought to the stage was not only a unique quality, but more importantly, something that belonged precisely to this era," producer Jesse Singer said at the time.

鄧肯無疑是一位天才,亦是一位知識分子他所帶給舞台的不僅是獨一無二的特質更重要的是那恰恰屬於這個時代,」製作人傑西·辛格(Jesse Singer)當時如此表示

Because in the stage version, Bateman, played by Benjamin Walker, fancies himself something of a music critiche frequently holds forth on Phil Collins and Huey Lewis and the News, often with little of substance to saySheik likewise wove adaptations of "In the Air Tonight" and "Hip to Be Square" into his score.

由於在舞台版中班傑明·沃克(Benjamin Walker)飾演的貝特曼自認帶有幾分樂評人的色彩——他經常滔滔不絕地談論菲爾·柯林斯(Phil Collins)以及休伊·路易斯與新聞樂團(Huey Lewis and the News),內容往往流於空洞——謝克於其配樂中亦巧妙穿插了《In the Air Tonight》《Hip to Be Square》的改編

"Writing a song that on the one hand has the qualities of a pop song, and on the other hand has to tell a story and keep the audience engaged through a larger narrative arc, is undoubtedly an art," Sheik said in 2013.

寫出一首歌一方面要具備流行歌曲的特質另一方面又必須講述故事並藉由更宏大的敘事弧線讓觀眾持續投入這無疑是一門藝術,」謝克在2013年表示

"When you write a song for the theater, it has to fulfill all these other tasks.

當你為劇場寫歌時它必須完成所有這些其他任務

It has to work in concert with all these other goals and creative impulses."

它必須與所有這些其他目標與創作衝動協同運作。」

Directed by Rupert Goold, with a script by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the play premiered in London in 2013.

這部劇由魯伯特·古爾德(Rupert Goold)執導劇本則出自羅貝托·阿吉雷-薩卡薩(Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa)之手於2013年在倫敦首演

However, when it transferred to Broadway in 2016, it suffered a disastrous failure, running for fewer than 90 performances.

然而2016年移師百老匯上演時卻遭遇慘敗演出場次不足90場

"We were all somewhat worried that this piece might be too violent for audiences, or that it might come across as excessively misogynistic," Sheik said on the eve of the opening.

我們都有些擔心這部作品對觀眾來說可能太暴力也可能顯得過於仇女,」謝克在開演前夕說。

"But in fact, this work is really a critique of a certain way of thinking.

但事實上這部作品其實是對某種思考方式的批判

So honestly, the best thing is just to go all out."

所以說真的最好就是全力以赴。」

Shek grew up between South Carolina and New Jersey, learned to play the guitar as a child, and received his first synthesizer at the age of twelve.

謝克在南卡羅來納州與紐澤西州之間長大幼時學習吉他十二歲時獲得第一台合成器

He was deeply influenced by Talk Talk, David Sylvian, and Nick Drake.

深受Talk Talk大衛·席維安(David Sylvian)尼克·德雷克(Nick Drake)的影響。

His self-titled debut album was released in 1996, and Rolling Stone magazine gave it a four-star review, calling it "a defiant debutbeautiful and well-meaning."

他的同名首張專輯於1996年發行《滾石》雜誌給予四星評價稱其「是一張桀驁不馴的出道作——美麗心懷善意」。

The song "Barely Breathing" from the album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance in 1998, and it has continued to circulate on television shows such as Glee and Girls.

該專輯中的《Barely Breathing》於1998年獲提名最佳流行演唱,並在《歡樂合唱團》和《女孩我最大》(Girls)等電視節目中持續流傳。

Other works include "Whisper House"which is both an album and a musical that tells a ghost story and was staged in 2010 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diegoas well as "Legerdemain", an album that explores the tension between art and commerce.

其他作品包括《Whisper House》——這既是一張專輯也是一部音樂劇講述一個鬼故事並於2010年在聖地牙哥的老環球劇院(Old Globe Theatre)上演——以及《Legerdemain》,這張專輯探索藝術與商業之間的張力

His most recent album is "Claptrap", released in 2022.

他最新的一張專輯2022年的《Claptrap》

However, for someone who had once been a complete stranger to Broadway, he told the Associated Press in 2016 that he felt a sense of mission.

然而,對於一個曾經與百老匯全然陌生的人而言,他在2016年向美聯社表示,自己懷有一種使命感。

"I think this has become my mission: to some extent, to lead into the theatre those people who perhaps wouldn't normally seek out musicals on their own, and let them watch a musical production," he said.

我認為這已然成為我的使命在某種程度上將那些平日裡或許不會主動接觸音樂劇的群眾引領進劇場讓他們觀賞一部音樂劇作品,」他表示

He is survived by his parents, his wife Nora Ariffin, and his daughter Ines.

他的遺族涵蓋父母、妻子諾拉·阿里芬(Nora Ariffin),以及女兒伊內絲(Ines)。

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