April 29, 2010

The first tea of the season

I went to Hamamatsu yesterday.
My grand mother who lives there bought green tea for me.

Tea shop 'Maruien' which we always buy green tea shows tea leaves. It's interesting.

They made tea for us while we were waiting.

This muddiness is the proof of the first tea of the season.


I look forward to enjoying these fresh tastes every year!






April 26, 2010

Flute Concerto

She is Ayako Maeda. A member of TKWO.

She played Concerto for Flute and Orchestra by L. Liebermann in TKWO regular concert.

It was wonderful piece but veryyyyyyy difficult!!

She was amazing! I was so impressed.

Actually, I was more nervous than her....

There were many solos and we had to play always [pppppp] even though [f].

Though the trumpet part was hard, I was happy to play this beautiful piece with Ayako san!





April 11, 2010

Orchestra pit in Fumon Hall

Hi friends!

It was warm today♪

We played on the pit today.
The pit go up and down leave we sit on there.

It's a little thrilling.

April 8, 2010

Kurosawa

When I was in NY, I was always told

"Why haven't you seen Kurosawa movies though you are Japanese??? He is great!!"

from many of my friends.

And also I was said same thing from my English teacher in Tokyo after I came back.

Foreigners admire him even though they are young.

Luckily TOHO Cinemas Chanter has been showing
30 Kurosawa movies for hundredth anniversary of his birth
since March 27th.

Once I saw [The Quiet Duel] in the theater, I was really into his movies!!

I've seen 6 of his movies so far.

I'll go to see his movie as many as possible.

Beginning of this event, most of the audience are elderly.
Recently I've seen some young people.

I saw [Seven Samurai] today.
The seats were sold out, and it was fantastic!!





April 4, 2010

SAKURA


Though we can see sakura only for 1-2weeks, the weather always change a lot while the sakura's best time...

Luckily, it was clear yesterday in Tokyo and cherry blossoms were at their best!
flowers withstood the rainstorm the previous day.

I thought the flowers are gone.

So it was impressive.

We saw cute and beautiful sakura in Nippori and Ueno.