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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 […]
It has been already a week past since 2010 started! Happy New Year! It is a tiger year in our Japanese calender. How is your new year going?? I spent for 5days in Indiana visiting my husband’s family in December (We came back just in time to celebrate New Years’ Eve. Huh– there was a bottle of […]
We had a piano studio recital at Occidental College last night, and I was so happy to hear everyone playing wonderfully! I have 16 students this semester, and I enjoy working with each student, and seeing their progress. Occidental College is a liberal arts college, not a conservatory. So music study is not competitive. It is […]
I had a wonderful day yesterday, writing an article for Japanese Newspaper, practicing piano, doing chores around our house, seeing a good movie, and working out at the gym. But the evening was the best part. On the way to play for a cello recital in Long Beach, my ears caught a familiar name on KUSC, […]