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I have been performing Tango music for a while, and I am always very fascinated by the culture behind the music. I have gone to Buenos Aires for 3 times, and I love that city too. This movie is a documentary film featuring Tango legends, Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, and following their […]
This piece has been my favorite since my youth. I know it is Classic Music 101 kind, but whenever I hear this piece, my heart trembles. As a professional musician myself, it is almost weird to admit this kind of favoritism! And again I enjoyed it at LA Phil concert on Thursday April 14th. I […]
It is an inspiring movie for LA people! I am reminded how diverse our culture is in LA. Jonathan Gold talks about culture, arts, food, and people. When he reviews the restaurant he goes to the same restaurant at least 7 -8 times. One time he went 17 times! He put everything into his review. […]
“Marguerite” is a movie directed by Xavier Giannoli and written by Giannoli and Marcia Romano. It is inspired by the life of Florence Foster Jenkins. In Paris, set in the golden twenties, Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with passion in music, especially in opera. She has been studying and practicing singing for all of her life, […]
“City of Light” is the project Esa-Pekka Salonen, a conductor laureate of LA Phil, curated, and Debussy’s opera (oratorio style) and chamber music were a part of the project. First of all, we don’t hear “Pelleas et Melisande” often in the US, and especially with the great cast and orchestra, it was a “must” concert to listen. […]
I would like to invite you for the up-coming concert “Piano Spectacular : Four Hands on One Piano” at First United Methodist Church of Pasadena(http://fumcpasadena.org/…/upcoming-concerts-at-fumc-pasadena) on Saturday February 20 at 4pm. I will be performing with my friend James Lent and the program will include works by Mozart, Poulenc, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Debussy, and Ravel. It […]
It is nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film Category for this year’s Oscar. So I went. First of all and most importantly the scenes from the Auschwitz-Birkenauare are very intense. At the beginning of the movie I started to feel ill and I thought I may not be able to see the movie to the […]
It is my first movie of 2016! I chose well. In 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was Hollywood’s top screenwriter, but he and other Hollywood artists (Hollywood Ten) were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. This movie keeps a good dynamic, not too loud and not too soft. That is why we feel as […]
The Bolshoi Theater, Symbol of Russia, is a national treasure and one of the most famous institutions in the world. We remember the recent acid-attack on the director and that news shook the world. There were so many wrong reasons, not only the personal attacks but also a management change. For the first time Bolshoi have allowed […]
A Movie “Spotlight” tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions, Roman Catholic Church. In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists, a section of the […]