2月 - 2021

Kathy Price

2/28/2021 Film Review "Nomadland"

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

Yuki T.

2/27/2021 Book Review "Every day is a good day"「日日是好日」by Noriko Morishita

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...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

2/27/2021 One of Russian Five, Alexander Borodin, String Quartet No. 2

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

Makiko Border

2/24/2021 WCPE Classical Station from North Carolina

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

Susan Ayala

2/23/2021 In Gold Lacquer

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

Kyo Nakatsukasa

2/23/2021 The last episode of 「Kirin ga Kuru 」 “Qilin is coming*”

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

Yasuko Kanafuji

2/20/2021 YouTube in the Nest (“stay-at-home”) with Movies and Music

“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...

Kathy Price

2/21/2021 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy

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...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

2/16/2021 Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E flat major, op 47,Third Movement; Andante Cantabile

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...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

2/15/2021 J.S. Bach "Concerto for two violines" in D minor, BDV 1043

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

Kathy Price

2/14/2021 Movie review "The Dig"

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...

Makiko Border

2/14/2021 "Virtual Concert" Live Stream from North Carolina

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...

Emi Igarashi / Editor

2/11/2021 Is is mid-February. Be consoled by Liszt "Six Consolations"

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

Kathy Price

2/6/2021 Movie Review "One Night in Miami"

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...

Susan Ayala

2/5/2021 "Morning Walk with Igor" By Susan Ayala

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...