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Experiencing Art
According to sugar of Drifting Island: I will say it plainly. If that listening time still exists, school education is diligently manufacturing people who hate classical music.Oh,…
Music for Children
In Japan and abroad alike, music played for children is generally assumed to mean nursery songs, anime music, or other so-called “children’s music.” I have long wondered whet…
Pitch in Brass Ensembles
Watching yesterday’s sports day, one thing occurred to me. The children’s brass band was playing Sousa marches and the like, but their pitch was not in tune, creating b…
A Call from Kálmán Balogh
This morning, just as I was about to leave for my daughter’s sports day, I received a call from Kálmán Balogh. He said that a tax bill would arrive later for the cimbalom I b…
A New Cimbalom Has Arrived
Today, I went with Junko to the Yokohama Royal Park Hotel to pick up a cimbalom. It was the one that Mr. Sándor Kuti’s band was playing at Café Flora on B1 (the white cimbalo…
Yomiuri Symphony: Stravinsky’s Renard and Others
At a subscription concert by the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, I heard Stravinsky’s Renard. The previous time was in 91, in August, again at Suntory Hall, though in the…
Impulse Purchase of a Cimbalom
Last night, an English-language call suddenly came to our home. It is extremely rare for us to receive a call like that at home. It was from Sandor Kuti, a Hungarian cimbalom playe…
Maryna Mazhukhova @ Carnegie Hall (2004-05-02)
Maryna Mazhukhova is a pianist from Belarus. Belarus brings to mind the Chernobyl disaster, and indeed, her biography includes such events as a United Nations concert commemorating…
Australian Chamber Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall (2004-05-02)
It was a concert featuring Dawn Upshaw as soloist, but perhaps the best performance was actually by Georges Lentz (b.1965): Te Deum laudamus (1999), which received its New York pre…
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall (2004-05-01)
I attended a concert at Isaac Stern Auditorium in New York’s Carnegie Hall. As expected, the sound in this hall is excellent. The highlight of this concert was Ralph Vaughan…
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