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I have always wanted to learn this Schumann’s monumental work. I have been figuring out, studying, reading, practicing, but finally, I have more time to really focus on Kreisleriana for the last few weeks. Now I can’t stop playing it. The tunes are constantly playing in my head. The images of Clara and Robert are starting […]

２冊目の島本理生作品。割と身近に、精神性ほぼゼロ、現実性満開という人物を知っているので、この本の観点はどう映るのかなあ、と思ってしまった。人間って、とてつもなく強くなれるけど、その反対にちょっとした経験でどん底に行き着くこともある。私も、解決策のない辛い時期を過ごしたので、その「どん底にはまってしまって、出てこれない」感が、多少は分かる。どんなに、一つ事に執着せずに緩やかに物事考えようと思っても、無理なのだ。とにかく無理。そして自分で終わりのない穴倉に向かって、突き進んでいる。そういう危うい精神を、とてもポジテイブに描いていると思う。そして誇示していないところが、とても気に入った！

In 2005 Stephen Paulus, an American composer, and Michael Dennis Browne teamed up together to create the oratorio “To be Certain of the Dawn” commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of death camps in Europe. “Hymn to the Eternal Flame” is drawn from this work. The music gave me tear.. Every face is in you, every voice, […]

First and Most importantly it is a bad movie… It is an insult to French people!! This movie goes through a very shallow surface of France and portraits a French man as a “desire only, no brain” type. I have very good French friends living in a country side near Limoges, and have stayed at […]

Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, Whose trust, ever child-like, no cares can destroy, Be there at our walking, and give us, we pray, Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.   Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane […]

I like Emily Dickinson’s poems. The movie is about her. She basically lived in isolation with close relationship of family members and few friends. She created so many beautiful poems, but she almost did not leave her home. She lived in her room, upstairs of her family home. She never gotten married, but she wrote […]

I am very excited to perform this program including my favorite music! Pease see attached flyer. Also I had a video recording session recently for Schubert: Impromptu Op. 142 No. 3, 2 Chopin Nocturnes and Handel: Chaconne from this program. Those will be uploaded to YouTube soon . I hope you can join me at […]

This movie has been in my “must see” list, and finally I went to Laemmle to see it. Unfortunately it was an English version instead of Japanese with English subtitle. I liked it so much, but I have to go back to see the real version! I felt strange to hear English speaking from Japanese […]

This movie is showing at Laemmle now. Hirokazu Kore-eda, a famous Japanese movie director and writer, did it again! I really enjoyed “Like Father, Like Son” (original Japanese title そして父になる）and I like this new one more than the last one. This movie depicts Japanese gentle mind and soul. During the movie I wanted to scream […]

Lord may Lent be a time of inward searching that makes me more able to look with compassion at the needs of the world. May we know your presence is always with us, that the power of your love is within us, and that your grace surrounds us. Guide us throughout these forty days as […]