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It is about Benito Mussolini and his first wife (or mistress), Ida Dalser and her son, Benito Jr. Both Ida and Benito Jr. died in the mental institutions. The movie depicts the relationship between Mussolini and Ida, and the insanity grew in Ida and Benito Jr. In the background of the movie, the fascism was […]
My birthday is in March. The school system in Japan is different than the U. S. system, and Japanese new school year starts at the beginning of April. So I was often the youngest in the class. On the first day at the high school, I was late for the school because of the traffic […]
My dear friend, Andy Malloy, had a faculty recital at California State University-Northridge, CSUN, and I was a collaborative pianist on this recital. We have collaborated for many occasions for the last few years, and recorded together for his first CD, including his commissioned works. The new commissioned work on this recital was Steven Williams’ […]
Occidental College is on spring break this week, and I wanted to do something different. I don’t have time to go out of town, but I have more free hours than usual. So I decided to do some field trips in LA by myself. LA is so huge that there are so many places I […]
It is Roman Polansky’s new suspense movie. It is pretty good. The actors and actresses have done a great job. I like Ewan McGregor’s slightly nervous, but brave character, a writer, in this movie. He was excellent in the movie “The Men Who Stare At Goats”, and his character was similar to this movie. The […]
I had my annual faculty recital on Tuesday February 23 at Occidental College. I repeated the program from January’s performance at Clarke Library. It is always so nice to perform at our own institution. And I was so glad to see students and friends in the audience. I enjoy playing my current repertoire a lot, […]
Congratulations to all of trombone players at “Trombone Day” at CSU-Fullerton on Saturday 2/6. It was a great day. And Big Congratulations to Prof. Bob Sanders. He is the one who has worked hard to organize this wonderful event. I believe I was only non-trombone player that day. Piano is not usually an ensemble instrument (we […]
This movie is an opposite of the movie I saw a little bit ago. “Avator” is a fantasy with a real world concept. I enjoyed this movie more than I thought. The picture is impressive and beautiful with 3D effect, but the story is pretty simple. I suppose they made it simple purposely to feature […]
The title is telling us what kind of movie it might be! It is a colorful, psychological, Monty-Python-like, imaginative–movie. It is sometime like “Wizard of Oz”, sometime “Alice the Wonderland”. If you like cartoon “Lio” on paper you would like it! The character acted by Heath Ledger is again a very difficult role. The music is […]
Committee of Professional Women for Los Angeles Philharmonic had a 45th Anniversary Celebration yesterday, Saturday 1/9, and I was invited to play my piano recital at William Andrew Clark Library at UCLA (please see photos in Photo Section on this homepage). Los Angeles is a very big city, and there are so many wonderful venues […]