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Piano Recital “Romance on Piano” in Bird Studio, Occidental College on Wednesday 3/26, at 12:50pm March 22, 2014

Romance, Romance, Romance…! Composers tell love stories in their music. I will perform some of most beautiful music from Romantic and Impressionistic periods and talk about anecdotes on composers and pieces. Please join me!  

A Movie “Gloria” 3/1/14 March 1, 2014

I saw this movie a little while ago. Gloria (Poulina Garcia) is a “woman of a certain age” with 2 grown up children and has an office job, but still wants to feel young. The story is based in the life of Santiago, Chile. Though lonely after the divorce, she makes the best of her situation and fills […]

Debussy: L’Isle joyeuse and Rain… 3/1/14 March 1, 2014

Los Angeles has been having a big rain. The city is not made for rain so anytime we have some rain it causes some troubles. Anyway, I was practicing Debussy’s L’Isle joyouse in my piano studio at Occidental College yesterday. I love my studio there. The building is historic (I discovered many century old sheet […]

A Movie – Dallas Buyers Club 2/10/14 February 10, 2014

It is just an amazing movie, one of the strongest movies I ever seen. This movie portraits every single side of human being, ugliness, beauty, irrational mind, courageous, love, hate, sex, addiction, bias, humanity, yes, everything. Of course Matthew McConaughey is doing, to me, more than any human can do as an actor, and a […]

Michel van der Aa “Up-close” at Green Umbrella Concert 2/1/14 February 1, 2014

LA Phil’s Green Umbrella Concert on Tuesday January 28 included a wonderful program of Boulez, Carter, and van der Aa. I mostly went to listen Michel van der Aa’s “Up-close”, but I enjoyed all of the pieces. First of all, the conductor, Grad Lubman, is amazing, technically and musically. His hands were very musical and […]

A Movie – Inside Llewyn Davis 2/1/14 February 1, 2014

‎I saw this movie a little while ago, but I have been extremely busy.. The story depicts a life of this young folk song singer, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), in the scene of the Greenwich Village in 1960′. Isaac’s singing is remarkable. Llewyn is struggling to make it as a musician, but he misses so […]

A Movie – American Hustle 1/10/2014 January 10, 2014

Last week I had few hours to spend before the flight to take so I chose to watch a movie! I usually avoid real (!) Hollywood movies, except Woody Allen and Ben Stiller, but I did not have much to choose in this circumstance. Actually I enjoyed this movie more than I expected 🙂  Great […]

A Movie – A Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1/9/2014 January 9, 2014

I am a great fan of Ben Stiller! I can’t miss any Stiller movie! Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) often lives in a day-dream which makes him escape from his real life into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance, and action. We all do, right?? Stiller is an amazing artist creating a fantasy world with his […]

My Many Years by Arthur Rubinstein Alfred A . Knopf 1/9/2014 January 9, 2014

First of all, this book is the size of an encyclopedia, and I won’t be able to finish reading it for a long time. I have been reading since Christmas, but I still on page. 173… But it is entertaining. Rubinstein was another piano giant from the 20th century, and often compared with Horowitz. They […]

Remembering Horowitz: 125 Pianists Recall a Legend by David Dubal Schirmer Book 1/9/2014 January 9, 2014

This book has been in my list to read for several years and finally I had a chance to read during this past Christmas break. He is HOROWITZ! Of course, all of us grew up listening Horowitz, and have explored his special sound. I was curious to know how the first class pianists think about Horowitz, and […]