Rated: R Staring: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn Frances McDormand plays a woman named Fern who is recently widowed and has lost her...

I have been participating in a book club in the suburb of San Francisco since 2004. At a monthly meeting of 6 or 7 Japanese we share our...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YVd5efkUnw The performance is by Borodin Quartet recorded in1973. The quartet members at that time were...

This time, I would like to introduce WCPE (https://theclassicalstation.org/), a radio station that provides only classical music 24 hours...

Winter’s grasp has held tight to February with prodigious amounts of freezing rain and two ice storms. When not frozen, the grass is...

(a holy mythological‐beast, Kirin) The airing of the “Taiga drama” (series of NHK history drama) 「Kirin ga Kuru 」“Qilin is coming*” (see...

“Alternation of three cold and four warm days（三寒四温)” Here in the western part of Tokyo, the temperature on warm days is higher than usual...

Anyone who is a lover of food or Italy, will find this six-part series on CNN a delight. Each of the one-hour episodes focuses on six of...

It has been more than ten plus some years since I heard the first “live” Schumann’s piano quartet in E flat major, op 47, with my late...

The "Bach Double" concerto is a pure musical dialogue with "two soloists passing back and forth melodic ideas," said Burton-Hill. Bach...

Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James Rated PG-13 This film is based on a true story that took place in 1939 just before...

For the first time, I had a chance to listen to an online concert on live stream. The performance of virtual "Live Time" was done by a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDJZgQPK8E Barton-Hill’s selection is “Consolations” by Franz Liszt. It is also called in the original...

Staring: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Gore, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr. Rated: R The film is set in February of 1964 on the night a young...

It is a beautiful, crisp morning and Igor and I are about to commence our daily routine of rousing him out of his crate, and after a...