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Emi Igarashi / Editor
2/28/2022 MONATS-Trio Concert on Saturday, February 26, ― Joy of being amateur
After two years of not performing in public, amid the Corona, MONATS-Trio concert at a nearby church was satisfactorily completed on...
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Takeaki Iida
1/18/2022 Midway through Musical Performance and Cinema Club ～ The World of Hobbies ～ (part 1 of 2)
Encounter with Saxophone About 20 years ago, when I retired from the life as a businessman, I started playing saxophone. Soon after, I...
Takeaki Iida
1/18/2022 Midway through Musical Performance ～ My “Classic Film Theory” ～ Part 2 of 2
My "Classic Film Theory" Many old movies are masterpieces, but with the generations change, it is usually difficult to convey it. I...
Emi Igarashi / Editor
1/12/2022 Mendelssohn Octet E flat major, op. 20
On October 15, 1825 Mendelssohn finished his first indisputable masterpiece, the Octet in E flat Major op.20, when Mendelssohn was...
Emi Igarashi / Editor
12/17/2021 It has been another challenging year
It has been another challenging year for many people. I hope you and yours are safe and well, and settling in for a happy holiday season!...
Takeaki Iida
11/8/2021 Personal Thoughts about Composers and Their Works - Mendelssohn
Chapter 3 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdi (1809-1847, died at 38 years old) Although various literature states that Mendelssohn was born in...
Takeaki Iida
9/13/2021 Personal Thoughts about Composers and Their Works - Tchaikovsky
Chapter 2 Peter Tschaikowsky (1840-1893, died at 53 years old) Tchaikovsky had a strong interest in music from an early age, but his...
Takeaki Iida
8/7/2021 At Exhibition; "A Painter's Works and Me
Received an invitation to the "35th Anniversary Japan-Western Exhibition (2021)" at the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts. On July 21st, I...
Takeaki Iida
8/2/2021 Midsummer Recital in Takarazuka
It is August in midsummer from today. Tokyo Olympic Games are on, and Japan is in the gold-medal rush. There is only one week left for...
Takeaki Iida
6/5/2021 Personal Thoughts about Composers and Their Works - Introduction
Well over 80 years old, for more than a decade after retiring from my corporate life, I have been listening to classical music mainly on...
Emi Igarashi / Editor
5/12/2021 Piano-Trio, "Monats-Trio" Resumed
I resumed rehearsal with my piano trio group “Monats-Trio” at home for the first time in a year after we began “stay-at-home” (due to...
Emi Igarashi / Editor
5/5/2021 First Ensemble after COVID-19 "Self-Restrained" Life
On Sunday afternoon, I hosted my first ensemble at home after a yearlong COVID-19 "self-restrained" life. An ensemble of face-to-face is...
Makiko Border
4/10/2021 Golden Age of American Animation, Looney Tunes
Many of you may be familiar with Looney Tunes’ animations produced from the late 1930s to the 1960s during the Golden Age of American...
Motoko K
4/9/2021 Baroque Reverberations Concert by Karén Hakobyan Kicks off Today
Karén Hakobyan, a young American pianist, sent me information about his concert. I thought your blog readers of “Music and Friends” might...
Makiko Border
3/24/2021 Stabat Mater
Holy Week is starting this Sunday, ahead of Easter on April 4th. In the meantime, you may have the opportunity to hear Stabat Mater. Our...
Emi Igarashi / Editor
3/15/2021 "Beware the Ides of March!" "Giulio Cesare" by Handel
On the Ides of March, March 15, in 44 B.C. (the 74th day in the Roman calendar) Julius Caesar was assassinated as he was warned by a...
Kotaro Yasuda
3/13/2021 Audio "Its Music and Sound"
Although I am not an audio maniac, I have more opportunities lately to listen to music and to watch movies at home due to the CORONA...
Takeaki Iida
3/9/2021 Treasures from the Prince Liechtenstein Collections, Osaka, Japan
Today, I went to the "Abeno Harukas" art museum, next to the Kintetsu Department Store in Tennoji, Osaka, to see the "treasures from the...
Emi Igarashi / Editor
3/8/2021 Beethoven Piano Trio D Major, op. 70 no. 1 "Ghost"
"It was not an enjoyable experience. First of all the piano was dreadfully out of tune, which did not trouble Beethoven in the least,...
Emi Igarashi / Editor
3/3/2021 "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKrxPTePXEQ Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is an American composer. “Adagio” was composed in 1935 as a string...
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