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"Ballerina" is the second to last song on ''Astral Weeks'', the 1968 album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. ==Recording and composition== "Ballerina" was recorded during the last ''Astral Weeks'' session on October 15, 1968 at Century Sound Studios in New York City. Lewis Merenstein was the producer.〔Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p. 518〕 Morrison wrote "Ballerina" upon first meeting his future wife, Janet (an actress and model), when touring the U.S. with his band Them in June 1966. Them guitarist Jim Armstrong remembers rehearsing and playing the song for the first time at the Waikiki Shell in Hawaii.〔Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p.127〕 Morrison commented to Ritchie Yorke about his inspiration for the song: "I was in San Francisco one time in 1966 and I was attracted to the city. It was the first time I had been there, and I was sitting in this hotel and all these things were going through my head, and I had a flash about an actress in an opera house appearing in a ballet, and I think that's where the song came from."〔Yorke, Into the Music, pp.62-63〕 (Them played The Fillmore in San Francisco on June 23, 1966.)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rock Art Rock Issue 1.49 )〕 The song has a simple chord pattern, but Morrison was able to make it sound like a mini-drama by altering the dynamics of his voice in the seven-minute song.〔Turner, Too Late to Stop Now, pp.71-72〕 Writer Brian Hinton says of the recording: "If anyone ever argues that Morrison cannot sing — an unlikely scenario anyway — then simply play them this. All human emotion is crystallised here, and subtly vocalised: desire, joy, hope, world weariness, consolation, awe and anticipation."〔Hinton, Celtic Crossroads, p.98〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ballerina (Van Morrison song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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