English Blog
I attended the lecture and the exhibition at Norton Simon Museum. This museum is 15 minutes from my house by car, and it is so nice to enjoy their beautiful garden as well as the museum. LA offers a lot to do, including a famous traffic war!, and museums are ones of great assets in […]
It is a fantastic movie. Human being is vulnerable and precious. How wonderful we are! It is a biographic (not a true story) movie of a celebrated director, Pedro Almodóvar. He wrote and directed this movie. Every so often in “Pain and Glory, ”Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline, closes his […]
I have been practicing and polishing Mozart’s concerto No. 9, which is one of the first master works by Mozart, for the opening concert of 2019-2020 3rd@1st concert series. I have been trying to play with perky and transparent sound, and with true finger legato. It is not easy. It requires a great care for […]
2019-2020 season will make our concert series for 6th season! This year’s offerings run the gamut: from Mozart to Jazz, from Paris to Broadway. Featuring my musician friends and visiting artists from the community and beyond, the concerts are presented in the inspiring surroundings of the beautiful First United Methodist Church of Pasadena’s historic building. […]
It is a sad and heartbreaking documentary movie, but shows a dignity, sublimity, and tenderness in human’s life. Hatidze Muratova is apparently the last of Macedonia’s nomadic beekeepers, who uses an ancient method. This movie does not tell us too much. It gives us moment to imagine, feel and think. We hear constantly bees’ buzzing […]
4-year-old boy, named Kun, feels forgotten by his parents when his little sister Mirai (It means “future” in Japanese) arrives. Kun-chan (Little Kun) thought his little sister is stealing all of attention from his family. He feels neglected. His world is different.. Mirai is cute and everybody pays attention to her. As his mother returns […]
THE WHITE CROW was inspired by the book “Rudolf Nureyev.” The drama focuses on the iconic dancer’s famed defection from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite KGB efforts to stop him. Rudolf Nureyev was a superstar/sacred monster who changed the very nature of ballet, especially the roles of the male dancers. Acclaimed dancer […]
My life flows on in endless song; Above earth’s lamentation, I hear the sweet, though far off hymn That hails a new creation; Through all the tumult and the strife I hear the music ringing; It finds an echo in my soul— How can I keep from singing? What though my joys and comforts die? […]
This book was first published in 1985, when the woman’s studies were not common, and Ms.Reich became an advocate of the woman’s studies throughout her life. This biography depicts Clara Schumann’s life in many aspects, as a child prodigy, composer, pianist, artist, teacher, wife, mother of 8 children, business woman, music promoter, social figure, and […]
This is one of my favorite nights at the movie theater, ‘The Exhibition on Screen”. This exhibition focuses on the highlights from the final years of Rembrandt’s life, commonly thought to be his finest years. The masterpieces he produced during this final period could be called his defining works, with each piece so soulful, sincere, […]