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

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

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September 18th, 2026

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

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Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who garnered both a Tony Award and a Grammy Awardand who composed the score for Spring Awakeninghas passed away at the age of 56.

曾榮膺東尼獎與葛萊美獎雙重桂冠的創作歌手鄧肯·謝克(Duncan Sheik),亦即《春醒》(Spring Awakening)之譜曲者,已然辭世,享年56歲。

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

根據其Instagram頁面上所發布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.

該貼文寫道:「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 generations to come."

他的音樂遺產將持續啟迪後世。」

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

在將目光轉向百老匯推出春醒》之前,謝克最為人所知的,莫過於他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 are in a sense all outsiders to Broadway.

除了我們的導演之外,我們在某種意義上皆可謂百老匯的局外人

We intended to shake up the established order just a little.

我們意欲稍稍撼動既有格局

We were simply setting about constructing this truly astonishing piece of theatre," Sheik remarked in 2007, when the show swept the Tony Award nominations.

我們不過是著手構築這部著實令人驚豔的劇場作品,」謝克於2007年該劇橫掃東尼獎提名之際如此表述

Sheik also ventured into musical theatre composition, adapting works such as American Psycho and Alice in Wonderland, while his single "Barely Breathing" lingered on the Billboard Hot 100 for a remarkable 55 weeks, peaking at No. 16.

謝克涉足改編自《美國殺人魔》(American Psycho)《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》(Alice in Wonderland)之音樂劇創作而其單曲《Barely Breathing》告示牌百大單曲榜上盤踞55週之久最高名次第16位

Yet his most widely recognized achievement is arguably Spring Awakening, which has been performed on Broadway for over 860 shows since 2006.

最廣為人知者或當屬《春醒》該劇自2006年起於百老匯搬演逾860場

"His profound emotions and his joys have brought us such abundant beauty," wrote the playwright and actress Eisa Davis.

他深邃的情感與他的歡愉為我們帶來了如此豐盈的美,」劇作家兼演員艾莎·戴維斯(Eisa Davis)寫道

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

鄧肯感謝你的友誼也感謝那些崇高的音樂。」

This musical is adapted from a play by the nineteenth-century German dramatist Frank Wedekind, with music composed by Sheik and lyrics written by the playwright Steven Sater; its candid depiction of subjects such as incest, abortion, and suicide serves, in part, as a cautionary warning: only by obtaining accurate information about sex can adolescents avert tragic errors.

這部音樂劇係改編自十九世紀德國劇作家法蘭克·魏德金(Frank Wedekind)之戲劇由謝克譜曲、劇作家史蒂芬·薩特(Steven Sater)填詞其直白描摹亂倫墮胎與自殺等題材部分用意在於示警青少年唯有獲取關於性的正確資訊,方能避免悲劇性的謬誤

"I have absolutely no desire to show disrespect toward those more conventionally minded theater composers," he said in a 2015 interview with the Los Angeles Times.

絕無意對那些更為因循傳統的劇場作曲家有所不敬,」他在2015年接受《洛杉磯時報》採訪時如此表示。

"I have a heartfelt love for Stephen Sondheim.

對史蒂芬·桑坦(Stephen Sondheim)懷有由衷的熱愛

However, my mission is to ensure that the theater pays attention to what the rest of the world is listening to."

然而我的使命在於確保劇場能夠關注世界上其他人正在聆聽什麼。」

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

謝克與薩特皆為修行中的佛教徒二人於誦念之際相識

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

彼時他們正協力製作謝克的第三張專輯《Phantom Moon》薩特提及自己正籌備一部新作

Until then, neither of them had ever ventured into writing musical theatre.

而在此之前兩人皆未曾涉足音樂劇的創作

"I told Steven: 'I'd be delighted to do this musical, but only on the condition that the music in it is of the kind that my contemporaries and I can stylistically identify with, resonate with, and enjoy,'" Sheik remarked 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我和我的同代人能在風格上認同產生共鳴並享受那種,』」謝克在2006年表示

They reached an agreement: to retain the setting of a 19th-century German province, except that, as Sater put it, "the moment a character opens their mouth to sing, it switches to contemporary pop music."

他們立下約定保留19世紀德國外省背景設定誠如薩特所言,「角色一開口唱歌就切換成當代流行樂」。

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

《春醒》囊括八項東尼獎殊榮,含最佳音樂劇在內,並奪得葛萊美獎最佳音樂劇專輯。

"Sheik's music, restrained in its spare orchestration and lush again in the swelling, wave-like build of its seductive choruses, embodies the dark longing that pervades the showexcitement tinged with dread, joy followed hard upon by despair," The New York Times wrote in its review.

「謝克的音樂,於簡樸配器間盡顯克制,於誘人副歌層層拍岸般的延展中則復歸繁茂,體現了瀰漫全劇的那種幽暗渴望之氣,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 theatrical work is held in exceptionally high regard within the realm of musical theatre, precisely because it is ground-breaking in both its stagecraft and the profundity of its text, thereby enabling it to stand shoulder to shoulder with monumental works such as Rent and Hamilton.

這部劇作於音樂劇領域備受推崇實因其在舞台調度與文本內涵上皆具劃時代之開創性遂得以與《吉屋出租》(Rent)及《漢密爾頓》(Hamilton)等鉅作並駕齊驅

In 2015, the production was mounted with wholehearted dedication by Deaf West Theatre and returned to the Broadway stage, where it garnered a deluge of acclaim.

2015年該劇由聾人西部劇院(Deaf West Theatre)傾力製作重返百老匯舞台好評如潮

Its Off-Broadway iteration is scheduled to open this autumn; and his musical Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, adapted from Moyoco Anno's manga of the same name, is likewise slated for a grand unveiling this autumn.

其外百老匯版本定於今年秋季開演;而他根據安野夢洋子同名漫畫改編之音樂劇《Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen》,亦預定於今年秋天隆重推出

The original production's cast was nothing short of a constellation of stars, encompassing numerous individuals who first rose to prominence through a single defining rolefigures such as Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Lilli Cooper, Jennifer Damiano, Gideon Glick, John Gallagher Jr., Lauren Pritchard, and Krysta Rodriguezall of whom subsequently attained considerable renown across television, film, and the stage.

原版製作演員陣容可謂群星薈萃囊括了諸多憑藉一役嶄露頭角之輩諸如強納森·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)與克莉絲塔·羅德里格斯(Krysta Rodriguez),此等演員其後皆於電視電影舞台各領域聲名鵲起

Groff would later garner a Tony Award for his performance in Merrily We Roll Along, while Michele ascended to the ranks of superstardom on account of Glee.

葛羅夫日後憑藉《Merrily We Roll Along》榮膺東尼獎米雪兒因《歡樂合唱團》(Glee)而躍居巨星之列

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

謝克繼而將他於1980年代末穿梭曼哈頓時髦俱樂部、跨越天鵝絨圍欄之際所聆聞的音樂,傾注於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》之中。

This novel, which first appeared in 1991and was subsequently adapted in 2000 into a film starring Christian Balerecounts the tale of a bloodthirsty New York yuppie, Patrick Bateman, who is in thrall to an obsession with high-end clothing and grooming products while embarking on a killing spree across the streets of Manhattan.

這部問世於1991年的小說——其後於2000年被改編為由克里斯汀·貝爾(Christian Bale)領銜主演的電影——娓娓記述了一名嗜血成性的紐約雅痞派屈克·貝特曼(Patrick Bateman)此人沉溺於高檔服飾與美妝產品的執迷之中同時在曼哈頓街頭一路大開殺戒

Sheik, who also bore the responsibility of writing the lyrics, recalls that when he was still a student at Brown University, he hurled the book across the room halfway through reading it.

謝克亦肩負歌詞創作之責他憶及自己尚為布朗大學學子時僅讀至半途便將此書擲向房間另一頭

For one particularly distinctive song, "You Are What You Wear," he contacted his former girlfriends one by one, posing a single question: what did you truly gravitate toward wearing in the late '80s?

其中一首尤為卓犖不群的歌曲《You Are What You Wear》逐一聯繫舊女友們拋出一個問題妳們在80年代末真正傾心於穿著什麼

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

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

"Duncan was undoubtedly a rare genius, and an intellectual as well; what he brought to the stage was not only utterly unique but, more crucially, precisely what belonged to this era," the producer Jesse Singer remarked at the time.

「鄧肯無疑是位曠世奇才,亦是一位知識分子;他所賦予舞台的,不僅獨一無二,更關鍵的是,那恰恰是屬於這個時代的,」製作人傑西·辛格(Jesse Singer)當時如是表示。

Given that in the stage version Benjamin Walker's Bateman fancies himself something of a music criticholding forth at length, for the most part, on Phil Collins and Huey Lewis and the News, yet saying remarkably little of substanceSheik ingeniously wove adaptations of "In the Air Tonight" and "Hip to Be Square" into his score.

鑒於舞台版班傑明·沃克(Benjamin Walker)所詮釋的貝特曼自視略具樂評人之姿——多數時候口若懸河地暢談菲爾·柯林斯(Phil Collins)休伊·路易斯與新聞樂團(Huey Lewis and the News),所言往往流於空泛——謝克於其配樂中匠心獨運地穿插了《In the Air Tonight》《Hip to Be Square》的改編

"To write a song that has to function as a pop song, that has to serve a narrative purpose, and that has to keep the audience engaged along a broader narrative arcthat is truly an art," Sheik remarked in 2013.

譜寫一首歌既要使其具備流行歌曲之特質又須承載敘事功能並依循更宏闊的敘事弧線令觀眾持續投入此著實是一門藝術,」謝克於2013年如是表示

"When you write a song for the theater, it has to shoulder all these additional responsibilities.

當你為劇場創作歌曲時它必須肩負起所有這些額外的職責

It has to operate in concert with a great many other objectives and creative impulses."

它必須與諸多其他目標及創作衝動協同運作。」

Directed by Rupert Goold, with a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the show premiered in London in 2013; by the time it reached Broadway in 2016, it met with a resounding failure, running for fewer than 90 performances.

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;及至2016年登上百老匯舞台卻遭遇慘敗演出場次不足90場

"We were all beset by doubts, fearing it would prove too gory and brutal for audiences, or else betray an excessive misogynistic bent," Sheik remarked on the eve of the opening.

我們無不心存疑慮,深恐對觀眾而言過於血腥殘暴抑或流露出過度的仇女傾向,」謝克於開演前夕如是說道

"The truth of the matter, however, is that this work constitutes a critique of a certain cast of mind.

然而,實情在於,這部作品乃是對某種思維模式的批判

Thus, when all is said and done, the wisest course is simply to give it everything we have."

是以說到底最佳之策莫過於傾盡全力。」

Sheck grew up shuttling between South Carolina and New Jersey, took up the guitar in childhood, and at the age of twelve was given his first synthesizer.

謝克成長於南卡羅來納州紐澤西州兩地之間自幼習吉他十二歲時獲贈其生平第一台合成器

He was profoundly 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)之薰陶。

His eponymous debut album appeared in 1996, earning a four-star review from Rolling Stone, which hailed it as "a defiant debutbeautiful and well-intentioned."

同名首張專輯於1996年問世《滾石》雜誌給予四星評價盛讚其「是一張桀驁不馴的出道作——美麗心懷善意」。

"Barely Breathing", a track featured on that album, received a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance in 1998, and has since enjoyed enduring, seemingly inexhaustible airplay on television programmes such as Glee and Girls.

收錄於該專輯的《Barely Breathing》於1998年獲提名最佳流行演唱,其後更在《歡樂合唱團》與《女孩我最大》(Girls)等電視節目中歷久傳唱、綿延不絕。

His remaining oeuvre encompasses Whisper Housean album and musical that is in fact a ghost story, staged in 2010 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diegoas well as Legerdemain, an album that probes the tension between art and commerce.

其餘作品涵蓋《Whisper House》——此乃一張專輯兼音樂劇實為一則鬼故事於2010年在聖地牙哥老環球劇院(Old Globe Theatre)搬演——以及探賾藝術與商業之間張力的專輯《Legerdemain》

His most recent album is Claptrap, released in 2022.

其最新專輯2022年的《Claptrap》

Nevertheless, for someone who had once been entirely unacquainted with Broadway, he candidly admitted to the Associated Press in 2016 that he harboured a certain sense of mission.

然而,對於一個曾與百老匯全然素昧平生的人而言,他在2016年向美聯社坦言,自己懷抱某種使命感。

"I have come to regard it as my mission: to draw in, to some degree, those who would not ordinarily set foot in a musical, and bring them into the theatre to see a musical work," he said.

「我已然視此為己任:將那些素常未必會涉足音樂劇的人,在某種程度上引領入劇場,來觀賞一部音樂劇作品,」他表示。

His surviving family comprises his parents, his spouse, Nora Ariffin, and his daughter, Ines.

其遺族涵蓋雙親、配偶諾拉·阿里芬(Nora Ariffin),以及女兒伊內絲(Ines)。

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