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

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

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September 18th, 2026

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

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Singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik has died at the age of 56; he won a Tony Award and a Grammy Award, and composed the music for Spring Awakening.

创作歌手邓肯·谢克去世,享年56岁;他曾获得托尼奖和格莱美奖,并为《春之觉醒》创作了音乐。

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

据其Instagram页面所发布的消息谢克已于周四晚间辞世

The post read: "The world has lost a one-of-a-kind genius, a voice of profound influence in both music and theatre.

帖文中写道:“世界失去了一位独一无二的天才,一位在音乐与戏剧领域具有深远影响力的声音

His musical legacy will continue to inspire future generations."

他的音乐遗产将持续激励后世。”

Before Sheik turned his attention to Broadway and created Spring Awakening, he was best known for the enduring radio hit "Barely Breathing."

在谢克将注意力转向百老汇并创作《春之觉醒》之前,他最为人熟知的是那首经久不衰的电台热门歌曲《Barely Breathing》

This convention-defying musical set teenage angst to music.

这部打破常规的音乐剧青少年的焦虑谱成了音乐

In 2007, as the show swept the Tony Award nominations, Sheik remarked, "Apart from our director, all of us were outsiders to Broadway. We wanted to shake up the status quo a little. We simply set out to create this really cool piece of theatre."

2007年,当该剧横扫托尼奖提名之际,谢克说道:“除了我们的导演,我们所有人都是百老汇的局外人。我们想稍微撼动一下现状。我们只是着手制作这部非常酷的戏剧作品。”

Sheik also created musicals adapted from American Psycho and Alice in Wonderland, and his song "Barely Breathing" spent 55 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 16.

谢克还创作了改编自《美国精神病人》《爱丽丝梦游仙境》音乐剧《Barely Breathing》在公告牌百强单曲榜上停留了55周最高排名第16位

But he is perhaps best known for Spring Awakening, which ran for more than 860 performances on Broadway starting in 2006.

但他最出名的可能还是《春之觉醒》该剧从2006年开始在百老汇上演了超过860场

The playwright and actress Aisha Davis wrote: "His tenderness and joy have given us such abundant beauty.

剧作家兼演员艾莎·戴维斯写道:“他的深情与喜悦赋予了我们如此丰厚的美。

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

邓肯,感谢你的友谊和崇高的音乐。”

This musical is adapted from a 19th-century play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind, with music composed by Sheik and lyrics written by the playwright Steven Sater.

这部音乐剧改编自德国剧作家弗兰克·韦德金德19世纪的戏剧由谢克作曲,剧作家史蒂文·萨特作词

The show frankly depicts incest, abortion, and suicide.

该剧直白地描绘了乱伦堕胎自杀

Part of its intention is to remind teenagers that they need accurate information about sex in order to avoid tragic mistakes.

其部分意图在于提醒青少年他们需要关于性的正确信息以避免悲剧性错误

In 2015, he told the Los Angeles Times: "I don't mean any disrespect to more traditional musical theatre composers.

2015年他告诉《洛杉矶时报》:“我无意更传统的戏剧作曲家不敬

I like Stephen Sondheim.

我喜欢斯蒂芬·桑德海姆

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

我的使命确保戏剧关注世界其他地方正在听什么。”

Sheik and Sater are both practicing Buddhists, and the two bonded over chanting.

谢克萨特均为修行中的佛教徒二人因诵经而结缘

While collaborating on Sheik's third album, Phantom Moon, Sater mentioned that he was in the process of writing a new work.

在携手打造谢克的第三张专辑《Phantom Moon》期间,萨特提及自己正着手创作一部新作

Before that, however, neither of them had any experience writing musicals.

而在此之前两人均无任何音乐剧创作经验

In 2006, Sheik said, "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 peers can accept stylistically, resonate with, and enjoyonly then would I be willing to do it.'"

谢克在2006年:“我对史蒂文说,‘我很乐意做这部音乐剧但前提是剧中的音乐必须是我和我的同龄人能在风格上接受产生共鸣并享受那种我才愿意做。’”

They reached an agreement: to keep the 19th-century German provincial setting, but, as Sartre put it, "the characters suddenly shift into a popular contemporary style when they sing."

他们达成了一项协议保留19世纪德国外省背景正如萨特所说,“角色们演唱时突然进入流行当代风格。”

Spring Awakening not only won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, but also took home the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

《春之觉醒》不仅斩获了包括最佳音乐剧在内的八项托尼奖,还将格莱美最佳音乐剧专辑奖收入囊中。

In its review, The New York Times wrote: "Sheik's music, though sparely orchestrated, comes across as ethereal; the rhythmic pulse of its alluring choruses, by contrast, is lavish, capturing the shadowy atmosphere of longing that pervades the entire showexcitement mingled with fear, joy accompanied by despair."

《纽约时报》在评论中写道:“谢克的音乐,配器虽简单,却显得空灵;诱人副歌的节拍叩击,则显得华丽,体现了弥漫全剧的渴望的阴影氛围,兴奋中夹杂着恐惧,欢乐伴随着绝望。”

Thanks to its groundbreaking staging and subject matter, the musical is held in high regard within the musical theatre world, standing alongside works such as Rent and Hamilton.

该剧在舞台呈现与内容上的突破深受音乐剧界喜爱,与《吉屋出租》《汉密尔顿》等作品齐名

In 2015, it was produced by Deaf West Theatre and returned to Broadway to widespread acclaim.

2015年由聋西剧院制作广受好评地重返百老汇

An Off-Broadway production is scheduled to open this autumn, and his musical Memoires of Amorous Gentlemen, adapted from Moyoco Anno's manga of the same name, is also set to open.

一部外百老汇版本计划于今年秋季开幕他的音乐剧《Memoires of Amorous Gentlemen》也计划开幕,该剧改编自安野梦洋子的同名漫画

The original cast was remarkably talented, featuring a number of groundbreaking performers such as Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Lilli Cooper, Jennifer Damiano, Gideon Glick, John Gallagher Jr., Lauren Pritchard, and Krista Rodriguez, all of whom later rose to prominence in television, film, and theater.

原版剧组的演员阵容可谓人才济济囊括了多位具有突破性的表演者乔纳森·格罗夫丽娅·米雪儿莉莉·库珀詹妮弗·达米亚诺吉迪恩·格利克小约翰·加拉赫劳伦·普里查德克里斯塔·罗德里格斯他们后来在电视、电影和舞台领域均声名鹊起

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

格罗夫凭借《欢乐岁月》荣获托尼奖米雪儿因《欢乐合唱团》成为超级明星

Sheik then incorporated the music he heard after slipping past the velvet ropes of late-1980s Manhattan fashion clubs into the Broadway adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho.

谢克随后将他在20世纪80年代末曼哈顿时尚俱乐部中越过天鹅绒绳索所听到的音乐,融入百老汇改编的布雷特·伊斯顿·埃利斯小说《美国精神病人》中。

This 1991 novel was later adapted into a 2000 film starring Christian Bale, and it chronicles a murderous New York yuppie named Patrick Bateman, who is obsessed with high-end clothing and beauty products while going on a killing spree in Manhattan.

这部1991年的小说后来被改编成2000年由克里斯蒂安·贝尔主演的电影它记录了名为帕特里克·贝特曼的杀人狂纽约雅皮士此人痴迷于高端服装和美容产品,同时在曼哈顿大开杀戒

Sheik also provided the lyrics, and he recalls that while at Brown University, he threw the book across the room before he had even finished half of it.

谢克也提供了歌词他回忆说在布朗大学时他还没读完一半就把书扔到了房间另一头

For a striking song titled "You Are What You Wear," he contacted his former girlfriends one by one and posed the following question to them: what exactly were you keen on wearing in the late 1980s?

为了一首引人注目的歌曲《You Are What You Wear》,逐一联系了昔日女友们向她们抛出了这样一个问题在80年代末你们究竟热衷于穿些什么

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

随后他将她们的回答融入这首聚焦高级时尚的歌曲之中:“Chanel, Gaultier, or Giorgio Armani/Moschino, Alaïa, or Norma Kamali/Should I rock/The Betsey Johnson/Or stick with classic/Comme des Garçons?”

The producer Jesse Singer said at the time: "Duncan was truly a genius and an intellectual who brought something both unique and important to the stagesomething that belonged to this era."

制片人杰西·辛格当时表示:“邓肯确实是一位天才和知识分子,他为舞台带来了既独特又重要的、属于这个时代的东西。”

Because Bateman, played on stage by Benjamin Walker, fancies himself something of a music criticoffering mostly fatuous musings on Phil Collins and Huey Lewis and the NewsSheik also wove sly adaptations of "In the Air Tonight" and "Hip to Be Square" into his score.

由于舞台上由本杰明·沃克饰演的贝特曼自认为有点音乐评论家的味道——对菲尔·柯林斯休伊·刘易斯与新闻乐队发表的大多是愚蠢的沉思——谢克还在他的配乐中巧妙地改编了《In the Air Tonight》《Hip to Be Square》

In 2013, Sheik said, "Being able to write a song that on one level is a pop song, and at the same time tells a story and engages the audience in a larger narrative arc, is absolutely an art.

谢克在2013年:“能写出一首在某个层面上属于流行歌曲同时又要讲述故事让观众参与更大叙事弧线的歌曲,这绝对是一门艺术

When you write a song for a play, it has to do all these other things.

当你为戏剧写歌时,它必须完成所有这些其他事情

It has to work in concert with all the other agendas and creative impulses."

必须所有其他议程创作冲动协同工作。”

Directed by Rupert Goold, with the story written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, this work premiered in London in 2013.

这部作品由鲁珀特·古尔德执导罗伯托·阿吉雷-萨卡萨负责故事创作于2013年在伦敦首演

However, when it was staged on Broadway in 2016, the play suffered a disastrous failure, running for fewer than 90 performances.

然而2016年在百老汇上演时该剧遭遇惨败仅持续了不到90场

On the eve of the opening, Sheik admitted candidly: "We can't help but feel somewhat apprehensiveit might come across as too violent to the audience, or it might seem too misogynistic.

谢克在开幕前夕坦言:“我们都不免有些担心它对观众来说可能太暴力也可能显得太厌女

But in reality, this work is actually critiquing a certain way of thinking.

但事实上这部作品其实是在批判某种思考方式

So in fact, it's best to just go all out."

所以实际上最好还是全力以赴。”

Sheik spent his formative years in South Carolina and New Jersey, began studying the guitar in early childhood, and acquired his first synthesizer at the age of just 12.

谢克在南卡罗来纳州和新泽西州度过了成长岁月幼年时便开始研习吉他年仅12岁便获得了他的第一台合成器

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

深受Talk Talk大卫·西尔维安以及尼克·德雷克的熏陶。

His self-titled debut album came out in 1996, and Rolling Stone awarded it four stars, hailing it as "a provocative debutbeautiful and benevolent in spirit."

他的首张同名专辑于1996年面世《滚石》杂志为其打出了四星评价盛赞其为一张挑衅性的处女作——美丽而仁慈的精神。”

"Barely Breathing," included on the album, was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance in 1998 and gained wider exposure through television shows such as Glee and Girls.

收录于该专辑的《Barely Breathing》于1998年获得最佳流行声乐表演提名,并经由《欢乐合唱团》与《都市女孩》等电视节目得以流传。

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

其他项目包括《Whisper House》——一张专辑兼音乐剧讲述一个鬼故事于2010年在圣地亚哥老环球剧院上演——以及《Legerdemain》,一张探讨艺术与商业之间张力的专辑。

His most recent album is "Claptrap" from 2022.

他最新的专辑2022年的《Claptrap》

Yet, for someone who was once completely unfamiliar with Broadway, he admitted to the Associated Press in 2016 that he felt a sense of mission.

然而,对于一个曾经对百老汇全然陌生的人而言,他在2016年向美联社坦言,自己怀有一种使命感。

He said, "I think it has evolved into a personal project of mineone aimed at drawing in people who wouldn't normally venture into musical theatre to come and see a musical production."

他说:“我认为这已然演变为我个人的项目——旨在吸引那些通常不会涉足音乐剧的人前来观赏一部音乐剧作品。”

His surviving family includes his parents, his wife Nora Ariffin, and his daughter Ines.

他的遗属涵盖其父母、妻子诺拉·阿里芬以及女儿伊内斯。

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