Aug 26 2008
He is a composer and director, best known for his works with the animator Hayao Miyazaki. My family enjoys his animated films (with Hisaishi’s music) very much. They’re whimscal. King and his friends have been listening to his music lately, he forwards me few .. check them out.
Aug 16 2008
Looking at the moon and the ground, listening to Beethoven’s Pastoral, I thought about the centuries old vineyards in France. The shepherds herd the sheep through the rolling hills and meadows. I’d love to go there again. France is a great country in term of producing wines and Chanel No. 5, period.
Aug 11 2008
Cross marketing or what? Pianoman wears Adidas. I bet Lang has a lucrative contract than Yuan Meng. Where is Yundi Li?
Aug 08 2008
King’s summer camp’s over. They performed on their last day. Six pieces:
Get it On
Soul Man
Sentimental Journey
Gospel John
Brick House
No Problema!
He operated the piano this year.
Jul 30 2008
Michelle Wie has just skipped a Ladies major in order to play with the boys. She has never won a title with the girls. Many people, pros or fans feel the PGA - men’s tour should have a rule to require girls have to win five Ladies’ title before she could qualify for the boy’s [...]
Jul 28 2008
Piano. Golfer looked very pleased tonight, smiling ear to ear, said, “I think they’re delivering it tomorrow.” The It is his new toy/concubine piano - although I don’t know the sequence of his concubines ranking, the fish, chess, clubs .. .. .. I knew for sure the Lionel trains are out. It’s odd for a man [...]
Jul 15 2008
We took in two performances this past weekend, The Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic Theatre and a piano recital at Mannes College the New School of Music on 150 W 85th Street. John Cudia was the Phantom. This was my third time. His voice (acting was great too) blew me away. (I saw Les Miserables [...]
Jul 09 2008
I was dragged to the Rush concert at Saratoga NY - SPAC.. A close mind person like me, of course I couldn’t wait for it to finish. One thing I was impressed with was their punctuality. Eight o’clock on the ticket, 8 o’clock they showed up on stage.
It’s their intercontinental tour promoting their latest album, [...]
May 29 2008
I wished that Golfer speaks Chinese, so do my children. But they don’t. And I’m pretty exasperated, especially over my children’s refusal. From time to time, some Chinese friends invited us and they’d assure me that ‘don’t worry’ that they speak English (for the sake of Golfer). I really appreciated their consideration and hospitality, I meant it.
But [...]
May 28 2008
The tallest girl I’ve seen
One of the BBQs over the weekend was cancelled, so when someone offered free tickets (Bachiana Chamber Orchestra, conducted/piano by João Carlos Martins. It cost only $2 in the box office anyway; corp sponsors picked up the bulk of it), we ended up going to a concert at Carnegie Hall [...]
May 12 2008
Beijing is calling! Susan Rapp, the former Olympic silver medalist in 1984 is now Susan von der Lippe, mother of 2, at age 42 is trying to qualify for her fourth Olympic! WOW !! You go girl!! Refreshing and romantic.
A little sad note that she had to sit out in 1980 when she’s 15 (who’s to dispute [...]
May 05 2008
Our school’s web provides many info that used to reach us va snail mails or phone calls, now in a timely manner. Sounds great, but do we parents need to know all of those, and have they implemented those in a timely manner?
Many years ago, I was more involved with school and the community, joined few committees. One of [...]
Apr 08 2008
After years of procrastinating, I finally made it to our high school’s opera this past weekend, Mozart’s melodic The Marriage of Figaro. OOOMMMGGG .. OHMYGOSH! It’s so professional that for a moment I thought we were at the New York City Opera (don’t kill me, ok? with the Met’s around, I’ve never attended NYC Opera.), the vocals and [...]
Mar 28 2008
Lou sent this Swan Lake and wondered how can she keep her balance on her toe on the head of the male dancer? Really amazing. She’s graceful with really nice figure and endless pretty long legs. The gu lei is handsome too. Wondering what Tchaikovsky would think of it when he sees the froggies - you’ll have to wait out the [...]
Mar 17 2008
The Beatleslive on forever .. .. for certain their influence/music is very profound. We went to see Rain last night. It’sok, they were 10 minutes late, :). “I could have come all by myself and still enjoyed it ..” Golfer observed afterward, :) sorrrrrri … one of the kids had iPod, .. at least [...]
Mar 08 2008
Van Cliburn was honored at Fort Worth Texas, commerating his winning the first Tchaikovsky International in Moscow in April 1958, the height of cold war between those two countries. I have always wondered why did he cut his career short. One look at his plays at Moscow you’ll fall under his spell: aristocrat (America’s answer to Karajan? [...]
Mar 07 2008
The dance is nothing special, but the music she danced to is one of two my most favored concertos out of China. I bought this CD in Wangfujing - I was just thinking how nice would it be to find a CD with both concertos: Sheng Zhongguo playing the Butterfly Lovers violin concerto and Yin Chengzong on the piano for [...]
Mar 02 2008
Tai Shan is one of Rush’s, written by Neil Peart in the 1980s as he toured the holy mountain in Shandong. ..
High on the sacred mountain
Up the seven thousand stairs
In the golden light of autumn
There was magic in the air
The clouds surrounded the summit
The wind blew strong and cold
Among the silent temples
And the writing carved in [...]