World Masterpiece Theater
Silver Zero Subs
Kikoeru kashira
Do you hear? Hooves beating
Original story by Lucy Maud Montgomery
AKAGE NO ANNE
Hizume no oto
A carriage goes through the gentle hills
Yuruyakana oka wo nutte
Kaketekuru basha
Someone comes to pick me up
Mukae ni kuru no mukae ni kuru no ne
And takes me
Dare ka ga
Watashi wo tsureteyuku no ne
Shiroi hana no michi he
To the avenue with white flowers
To the home of wind
Kaze no furusato he
He takes me
Tsureteyuku no ne
I'm sure
Tsureteyuku no ne
The Christmas Concert
Christmas!
Concert!
Christmas morning in Green Gables broke on a beautiful white world.
Merry Christmas, Snow Queen!
Merry Christmas, birdies!
Merry Christmas, Marilla!
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Matthew!
Merry Christmas, Anne.
Actually, I...
Isn't it a lovely Christmas?
I'm so glad it's white.
The weather has been very mild so I feared we would have a green Christmas.
But a green Christmas doesn't seem real, does it?
I don't like green Christmases.
They're not green.
They're just nasty faded browns and grays.
What makes people call them green?
A-actually...
Oh...?
Matthew...!
T-this is... for you.
Is that... for me?
This is... a Christmas present for you.
Oh, Matthew!
Why... why Anne...
Don't you like it?
Well now--well now.
Like it!
Oh, Matthew!
It's perfectly exquisite.
Oh, I can never thank you enough.
Look at those sleeves!
Oh, it seems to me this must be a happy dream.
If this goes on the new clothes shall be dampened with tears.
Since Matthew has got it for you, see that you take good care of it.
There's a hair ribbon Mrs. Lynde left for you.
Mrs. Lynde?
Oh, it's brown, to match the dress.
Matthew, can I go try them on?
Well now, I would like to see you in them too.
I feel like I'm in heaven!
Matthew, I'll get changed quickly!
Anne, shouldn't you have breakfast first?
The tea is getting cold.
You sit down too, Matthew.
You're right...
I'm all right, Marilla. I don't see how I'm going to eat breakfast.
The dress won't sprout wings and fly away.
Breakfast seems so commonplace at such an exciting moment.
I'd rather feast my eyes on this dress.
You may feast your eyes,
but you have a concert today.
If you don't eat anything,
you won't have the strength to perform.
When that happens, don't mourn to me if your noises fail to impress the others.
Oh, It did seem to me that I'd never get over it if puffed sleeves went out
before I had a dress with them.
I'd never have felt quite satisfied, you see.
I'm so glad that puffed sleeves are still fashionable.
It was lovely of Mrs. Lynde to give me the ribbon too.
It's at times like this I'm sorry I'm not a model little girl.
And I always resolve that I will be in future.
But somehow it's hard to carry out your resolutions when irresistible temptations come.
Still, I really will make an extra effort after this.
Oh, this will be a day I'll never forget,
the day I wore puffed sleeves.
I will always remember it.
And it is as if had snow just for me!
It's Diana!
It's Diana! Diana is coming!
Really...
Diana!
Anne!
Merry Christmas, Diana!
Merry Christmas, Anne!
Diana, it's a wonderful Christmas!
I've something splendid to show you.
Can you guess what it is?
Matthew has given me the loveliest dress,
with SUCH sleeves.
I couldn't even imagine any nicer.
I've got something more for you.
What?
Here, this box.
Aunt Josephine sent us out a big box with ever so many things in it.
And this is for you.
Miss Josephine sent it for me?
Yes, open it up.
Oh!
Diana, this is too much. I must be dreaming.
I call it providential.
Now you won't have to borrow Ruby's slippers and stuff a handkerchief into them.
Oh, Diana, did you tell Miss Josephine?
Anne, I'm sure Josie Pye will be delighted to see you moving like a fairy.
Thank you, Diana!
But it looks like I'm dreaming!
Diana, could you pinch me?
All right.
Here goes.
What will I do, Diana?
What's wrong?
It didn't hurt!
It really must be a dream!
Of course. I only pretended to pinch you.
Diana, really!
Well? How do I look?
What do you think, Matthew?
W-well now,
I think it fits snugly.
For this dress, I shall work hard tonight.
Thank you, Matthew!
N-no... I just...
Oh no!
Diana is waiting for me. I have to run!
We have to go early to decorate the hall.
I know! When I return I won't just tell you about the concert.
I will also recite for Matthew while wearing this dress.
No... Well... I...
Would you like to hear it too, Marilla?
I'm sorry, but I will have to refuse.
Why?
Does your head hurt?
Because it will be enough to listen to your groans in the concert tonight.
Marilla, you...
My, why are you two so surprised?
Because you were so against the concert,
I thought you weren't interested to go.
Really, of course I will support a concert organized by the school.
Marilla...
Well, if you keep wasting time, you will keep Diana waiting.
I can't do that! I have to hurry!
Well...
Marilla, the concert starts at...
At 6 pm, I know.
Anne, actually I...
Don't worry, Matthew.
If my ankle begins to hurt during the performance,
I'll just think about this dress and I'm sure I'll get better.
Matthew, Marilla, I'm going.
I-I'll...
I will go too.
What? What did you just say, Matthew?
Well... I will go too.
You are going?
I definitely will.
What is going on? You are going for a concert?
I just... well... I just decided to go now.
All the Avonlea scholars were in a fever of excitement that day.
The hall had to be decorated and a last grand rehearsal held.
The little hall was crowded.
At 6 pm, the Christmas concert held by the Avonlea scholars, began.
After 2 months of practice, the performances were exciting.
For first timers all have done very well.
The Christmas performances of the students gained the warm reception of the audience.
But, Diana's solo was the best one of the first part of the program.
Diana's solo captured the audience's heart and they kept calling for an encore.
And of course, Anne was happier than any other for that.
Matthew?
Anne, it's your turn.
This life and corpse has no difference, Its eyes see and sees not,
Wretched soul which strives to survive,
The remorseful self keeps on like this,
Borrowed into death's representation,
Now I...
When she saw that the person she most wished to be there was present,
Anne gave her whole heart and soul into her act.
My accursed destiny!
Oh, please give me a gravestone. Give me a dark dwelling.
Then keep my bones there, thus letting my body lie in peace...
Anne's sad recital...
...brought down the house with applause.
In the heated performances, Christmas night slowly descended.
That night, each group did different plays.
Although Anne and Josie Pye didn't have a fairylike appearance,
the Fairy Queen was the best one of them.
Oh! Your face is full of splendor.
You brighten the earth like rays of sunlight.
And you gentle heart...
...is loved and respected by everyone. Fairy Queen...
...today is your birthday.
Your servants will hold a grand banquet to celebrate this day.
Fairy Queen, I have a request for you.
Then speak out your request.
Lately in our village of Avonlea...
Under peals of tremendous laughter,
Anne and the other girls finished the Fairy Queen play,
and while leaving the stage, something minute happened.
Of course, not too many knew about it.
Farewell to the deep valleys covered with beautiful snow.
Farewell to the lush green slopes.
Farewell to the forest of no dwellers.
Farewell to the fast streams of water.
My heart belongs to the mountains,
my heart doesn't belong here.
My heart is hunting deers in the high peaks.
Pursuing wild deers.
No matter where I go, my heart will always be in the mountains.
The first Christmas concert held by the Avonlea school students
was a success thanks to their hard work and passion.
Oh, hasn't it been a brilliant evening?
Everything went off very well. I think we made at least ten dollars.
Then it should be enough for the flag.
Yes. Mr. Allan is going to send an account of it to the Charlottetown papers.
Really?
Will we really see our names in print? It makes me thrill to think of it.
Your solo was perfectly elegant. I felt prouder than you did when it was encored.
I just said to myself, 'It is my dear bosom friend who is so honored'.
Well, your recitations just brought down the house, Anne.
Oh, I was so nervous.
My voice seemed to be coming from ever so far away.
Did I groan all right?
You groaned lovely.
I saw old Mrs. Sloane wiping away tears.
Oh, I'll never forget the splendid emotion I felt today.
Gilbert Blythe was just splendid.
I do think it's awful mean the way you treat Gil.
Please don't say that to me, Diana.
That night...
Marilla and Matthew, who had been out to a concert for the first time in twenty years,
sat for a while by the kitchen fire after Anne had gone to bed.
Well now, I guess our Anne did as well as any of them.
Yes, she did.
She's a bright child, Matthew.
And she looked real nice too.
I've been kind of opposed to this concert scheme, but...
Anyhow, I was proud of Anne tonight,
although I'm not going to tell her so.
Well now, I was proud of her and I did tell her so 'fore she went upstairs.
We must see what we can do for her some of these days, Marilla.
What do you mean by that?
I guess she'll need something more than Avonlea school by and by.
There's time enough to think of that.
She's only thirteen in March.
Though tonight it struck me she was growing quite a big girl.
Right.
Girls need to dress up a little.
That's right. She's quick to learn.
I guess the best thing we can do for her will be to send her to Queen's.
Queen's Academy. You're right.
But nothing need be said about that for a year or two yet.
Well now, it'll do no harm to be thinking it over off and on.
Things like that are all the better for lots of thinking over.
She's been here for only two years
and yet we already have to be thinking about parting with her.
Yes.
After the concert, Avonlea goes back to normal
and Anne and Diana start a new club.
Next episode of Anne of Green Gables:
Anne's Story Club Is Formed
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Owaranai hana no nami
Mizuumi ha tooku
Moeru kumo ha motto tooku
Hana no naka de ichinichiha owaru
Samenai yume mitai ni