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I really enjoyed this movie, almost reflecting myself when I was their age, struggling to find my destination. Thousands of aspiring young dancers enter one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. There are several age categories, and each category offers wonderful opportunities for selected young […]
The Deep Blue Sea is an exquisite, nuanced and romantic tragedy, adapted from a 1950’s play by Terence Rattigan. The director is Terence Davies, and Rachel Weisz is Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a free and creative mind trapped in a passionless marriage. She met with Freddie Page (Tom […]
I love lieder, especially Schubert and Schumann. I was lucky to be introduced those great songs when I was in the Performing Arts High School in Japan. As a piano major, we needed to take Accompaniment Class, and we played many different songs and our teacher sang with us. Last 20 years, I have collaborated […]
I had a wonderful performance with Michele Zukovsky, clarinet, and David Garrett, cello (my husband) on Tuesday 4/3. We played Brahms Clarinet Trio, Op. 114 which is a great example of lyricism in Brahms late works. After this trio, Brahms wrote my favorite piano works, Op. 116 (Phantasien – a set of 7 pieces, Capriccios […]
It is an amazing movie! It was again one of Laemmle’s Sneak Preview at Playhouse 7 in Pasadena. This theater is my FAVORITE. The director/co-writer/a lead actor is Christopher Guest, and he does very creative, imaginative, funny, charming, and skillful work on this movie. I don’t know why this movie has not been popular…. All […]
I had never heard clarinet like Martin Frost plays, technically and artistically. He is a real genius. Frost makes clarinet a big universe. His beautiful, singing and smooth line, powerful forte without harshly, amazing fingers, imagination and artistry. I heard he practices 8 hours/day with great focus, and plays about 150 concerts a year. Frost received a […]
Chico and Rita was nominated for Best Animated Film at Oscar this year, but did not win. I was very curious to see this film because the story is based in Cuba where I visited in 2010 as a part of my concert tour. I have a great memory from Cuba. It was beautiful…. This film […]
“A Separation” is the winner for Best Foreign Film at Oscar this year. It is a very dark and sad story with deep cultural/religeous back ground. The story is set with a modern family in Iran. The wife, Simin, wants to leave Iran with her husband, Nader, and daughter, Termeh, for freedom (I think), but her husband […]
My spring break “music fest” continues. Now I crossed over 1st street to go to Dorothy Chandler for Opera, Benjamin Britten’s very witty “Albert Herring”. It was really fun and cute. I enjoyed Britten’s amazing skill with words and all of singers acted and sang in perfect style in a super high level. It is a story […]
Los Angeles is very lucky to have this amazing cello festival this week (Ralph Kirshbaum, the festival’s artistic director). It is 10-day festival inviting first class cellists from all over the world. I could not attend the first night of this festival, but I listened the opening concert of 5 concertos on KUSC. Living in LA, we […]