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http://www.scalachoir.com/en/biography.htm 原文： The story of Scala & Kolacny Brothers Perhaps you saw Scala on the telly or watched a video clip of this successful girl choir. Maybe you heard Scala's version of "With or Without You" on your favorite radio station. You could of course also know the Scala girls from one of their live concerts. It is a success story, a real dream for all the people involved in it. Today, more than 200 girls (16 - 26 years) are on the member list of Scala, but the choir started 10 years ago on a very small scale. The very first rehearsal took place on 2nd April 1996, with just 18 singers. The brothers-pianists' purpose was to work with "voices" in their free time. Obviously, a choir is ideal for this kind of experiment! Scala spent its first years within a classical choir environment. The many rehearsals and perseverance very soon lead to winning prizes at classical choir festivals and contests. So, in Belgium (their home country) Scala became "Choir of The Year 1999-2000" and won top prizes at national festivals (European Youth Music Festival in Neerpelt) as well as at festivals abroad: Florilège Vocal de Tours (France), Hamamatsu World Youth Choir Festival (Japan), International Choral Kathaumixw Contest (Canada), International Choir Competition Budapest (Hungary), International Fleishmann Trophee Competition Cork (Ireland). Yet, the Kolacny Brothers very soon turned aside from the beaten track. In hissearch for "another repertoire", Steven started writing his own arrangements of some well-known pop and rock songs. Stijn rehearsed this new repertoire with the same enthusiasm in between the classical songs. So, on 1st December 2002 the first "Scala On The Rocks" CD was born. The concept is simple but daring: to transpose a rock song into the sound world of 40 female voices and 1 piano. The success of this first CD and the reactions in the press and with the public was unexpected! The CD got the support of nearly all Flemish radio stations, TMF (TMF awards) and JimTV, papers and magazines, of well-known guests from the Belgian rock scene (Zornik, Arid, Hooverphonic, K’s Choice, Noordkaap…), of StuBru-DJ's who pushed Scala to the 1st place of the StuBru hit-parade. Scala performed at several summer festivals (Lowlands in the Netherlands, Gentse Feesten, Nekka Nights, Dranouter Folk Festival ...). All this lead to a "golden On-The-Rocks" CD in Belgium. At the end of 2003 the second CD "Dream On" (named to Depeche Mode's song) was released and Scala made its first great "On The Rocks" tour in Flanders. It did not last long before Scala's CD's were picked up in the neighboring countries. In Paris, RTL2 and M6 rolled out the red carpet for the Scala girls and NikolaSirkis (the lead singer of Indochine) openly loves the Scala concept. This resulted in radio shows with RTL2, a fantastic collaboration with Indochine (X-Festival), a great duet (Le Grand Secret), two concerts (Brussels-Paris) in one day, and singing on the latest CD of Indochine (“Starlight” on Alice & June). So, Scala releasing "Respire" (French rock songs) in 2004 was an obvious step. In Germany, Scala was discovered by Radio Fritz, a radio station in Berlin. The play lists of the Scala version of "Engel" (a song of Rammstein) and a live Fritz-concert in August 2004, got the recognition of Rammstein themselves, but also resulted in a lot of concerts in Germany (Berlin, Köln, Bielefeld, Munster, Hamburg, Kiel…), radio and TV-programmes (Eins Live, Radio Eins, Delta Radio, Radio Bremen 4, the German Radio Awards, Viva, MTV) and the collaboration with the German band "Mia". In 2005 Scala released the German CD “Grenzenlos”. From 2005 on, the whole ‘Scala choir & rock’ concept stands out more clearly. Steven writes more and more songs and works very closely with Koen Buyse, the frontman of the Belgian rock band Zornik. This collaboration has resulted in a new Scala sound.Koen Buyse gets increasingly involved by co-producing StevenKolacny’s arrangements for Scala, but also his own songs. The effects of this collaboration can be listened to with the album ‘It All Leads To This’ (released only in Belgium in September 2006). The release was followed by the ‘It All Leads To This’ tour which lead Scala in theatres and cultural centres throughout Belgium. This tour showed how much sound, light, the set and projected backgrounds have become essential elements of Scala’s live performances. All this has artistically culminated in the release of One-Winged Angel. This international release was thought of and worked out by EMI/Virgin Germany and is an important step for Scala & Kolacny Brothers. This album was also presented on 24th March 2007 at the ‘Stars of Europe’ show in Brussels celebrating the 50th anniversary of the European Union. This show was broadcast by 35 TV stations for about half a milliard TV watchers. The same day, One-Winged Angel has been released in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Belgium. To be continued ... 我译的初稿： 也许你在电视上看到过这个成功的少女合唱团或者看过一段关于她们的录像。也许你在最喜欢的电台中听到过Scala翻唱的“With or without you”.当然，你更有可能从她们的一场演出中了解这些Scala合唱团的女孩们。 这是一个成功的故事，对于所有参与其中的人来说是一个真实的梦。今天，有超过两百位女孩（16-26岁）的名字载入了Scala的花名册，但在十年前这个合唱团起步时还仅仅是很小的规模。1996年4月2日，在仅有18名歌手的情况下他们进行了最初的排演。这对钢琴家兄弟的目的是在闲暇时间从事与声乐有关的工作。显然，一个合唱团对于这种想法来说再理想不过了。 Scala的第一年仍处于传统的古典乐合唱的环境中。坚持不懈的努力与众多的排演使他们迅速地在各个比赛和古典合唱音乐节中获得了奖项。于是，在比利时（他们的祖国）Scala成为了“1999-2000年度合唱团”并且在国内外的音乐节上赢得了顶尖奖项：Neerpelt的欧洲青年音乐节，法国Florilège的声乐巡演，日本的滨松世界青年合唱音乐节，加拿大Kathaumixw的国际合唱大赛，匈牙利布达佩斯的国际合唱比赛，爱尔兰的Fleishmann Trophee国际大赛。 然而,Kolacny兄弟迅速地将他们的目标从之前的成名曲中转移出来。从对“另一个曲目单”的研究中，Steven开始将许多知名的流行和摇滚曲目重新编曲。Stijn则用演奏古典乐的热情对这一新曲目单进行了演绎。因此，在2002的12月1号第一张Scala翻唱摇滚的专辑诞生了。这个概念既简单又大胆：将一首摇滚歌曲改编后用四十个女声和一架钢琴来表现。 由第一张CD引起的媒体和公众的反响超出预期。这张CD几乎得到了所有佛拉芒语电台的支持，TMF（TMF奖）和JimTV（译者按：JimTV和TMF,The Music Factory是比利时类似于MTV的音乐电视），报纸与杂志，那些比利时摇滚现场的著名常客（Zornik, Arid, Hooverphonic, K’s Choice, Noordkaap…译者按：都是比利时的摇滚乐队），还有将Scala推向StuBru hit-parade排行榜第一名的DJ.Scala在诸多夏季音乐节（Lowlands in the Netherlands, Gentse Feesten, Nekka Nights, Dranouter Folk Festival ...译者按：都是欧洲的音乐节）的表演。所有的一切都促使了“黄金摇滚翻唱”CD在比利时的发行。2003年年底随着第二张专辑“梦想继续（由Depeche Mode的同名歌曲而来）的发行，Scala开始了在佛兰德地区（译者按：包括比利时、荷兰和法国北部）“On the Rocks”巡演。 Scala的CD很快在邻国得到注意。在巴黎，RTL2和M6（皆为法国电视频道）对Scala表示热烈欢迎，而Indochine的主唱Nikola Sirkis则公开表示了对Scala这种理念的喜爱之情。于是便有了在RTL2的电台秀（广播现场表演）、与Indochine的精彩合作（X节日，Indochine的巡演）、一场宏大的二重唱（大秘密，Indochine的一首歌曲）、同一天的两场音乐会（布鲁塞尔和巴黎）以及翻唱他们最新专辑（Alice and June，意为“六月与爱丽丝”）里的歌曲（Starlight，即“星光”）。因此，Scala发行了新专辑“Respire（呼吸）”（其内容为翻唱法国摇滚歌曲）是显而易见的举措。 在德国柏林，Scala被弗里茨电台所发掘。The play lists of the Scala version of "Engel" (a song of Rammstein) 和2004年8月在弗里茨电台的现场演出不仅取得了战车乐队的肯定，而且还在德国各地（柏林，科隆，比勒费尔德，明斯特，汉堡，基尔...）巡回演出，在各个电台与电视台现场表演，还同德国乐队Mia进行了合作。2005年Scala发行了德语专辑“Grenzenlos”. 从2005年开始，Scala摇滚合唱的概念开始更清晰的全面呈现。Steven谢了越来越多的歌曲并且同比利时摇滚乐队Zornik的灵魂人物Koen Buyce密切合作。这一组合产生了新的Scala之声。Koen Buyse愈来愈广泛地参与Steven对Scala的编排，这同样也是他自己的作品。这对组合所产生的效果便是专辑《It All Leads To This（2006年9月，仅在比利时发行）。这张专辑的发行之后，Scala开始了在比利时全国各个文化中心和剧院的巡演。此次巡演显示出了精心设置的声光效果和舞台背景已成为Scala的现场表演的基本要素。 由这个艺术的顶峰产生了新专辑《独翼天使》。这张由EMI/Virgin（德国）制作的全球发行的专辑，也被视为Scala和Kolacny兄弟迈出的重要一步。2007年3月24日，在布鲁塞尔举办的庆祝欧洲联盟成立50周年的活动“欧洲之星”上，Scala还表演了这张专辑中的歌曲。由35个电视台播出、大约半十亿电视观众观看了这次演出。同在此日，《独翼天使》在德国，奥地利，瑞士，法国和比利时发行。未完待续...