Hands

 Guess who?

Right side is L.v.Beethoven.

Left side is F.Chopin.

Different opinion?

Short review-my homepage

It was helpful making homepage through Dreamweaver. The color concept is grey.  This homepage is  personal interest.  There are my bio, gallery, ATA projucts, links, movie pages.. It was hard but especially,  enjoyed making these of pages, gallery and links. I posted about Jeju Do(Island) in Korea for my gallery page, including my personal photos which took a picture in Jeju do with my high school friends. Made a table and links some useful site to every photos.  MoMa is one of my favorite museum that I posted my links page.  Used photoshop to links button. I had to try it several time to use make rollover buttons because  it didn't catch the difference of color first time.

Making homepage

It's painful, to start something new. I can say that I am the person who lives still 20th century somehow.
But, but, starting is the only the half way of procedure.  It took several days to understand and get used to how Dreamweaver works.  Still having trouble to use it yet, feels more better than the first time that I download and open it. I can't imagine how people manage web site such as google, facebook, ect..  Make a plan, created new pages, it is so much funnier than I expected.  It's not good looking though..

All dressed up, but no party pieces

Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang plays it straight - apart from his shoes - while the National Youth Orchestra have fun on the South Bank

• Fiona Maddocks
• The Observer, Sunday 26 April 2009
• Article history

Lang Lang/LSO, Barbican, London EC2 
NYO/Daniel, Royal Festival Hall, London SE1

Virtuosity has many faces. The great Paganini would often end his recitals with farmyard impressions of pigs, chickens and cows all emanating from his Stradivarius to wild applause. The painter Ingres, an admirer and himself an amateur violinist who had once portrayed his hero, was so dismayed at this waste of genius that he rose weeping from his seat and shouted "A betrayal! The pity of it..."

Today the opposite is more likely. Show an audience a musical celebrity and they crave party pieces. To his credit, Lang Lang - adored by millions and so famous he has a panda named after him - was having none of this for his two concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, part of his week-long Barbican residency which ends today with a solo recital.

On Monday the Chinese phenomenon played Bartók's Piano Concerto No 2, notable not least for its technical difficulties. I heard the second concert, on Tuesday, which included the UK premiere of Tan Dun's "The Fire" concerto, written specially for him. Lang Lang played it straight, with unshowy dedication which may have baffled his slightly muted but attentive fans.

Conducted by the composer, the piece swerves from floating world artistry - tinkling vibraphones and simple one-line piano melodies - to urgent, rhythmically lurching fortissimos, when the soloist explores the piano's percussive qualities with much banging and martial gesture. These outbursts, coloured by gongs, drums, woodblocks, thundered past like horses galloping round a circuit, the music receding in interest until they came round again. In the interim there was ample time to admire Lang Lang's wondrous shoes.

But this 26-year-old, whose lightly told but often shocking autobiography Journey of a Thousand Miles is out this week, has extraordinary gifts, as a musician and as a showman. His heroes are Mozart, Liszt, Tom and Jerry, Elvis and Tiger Woods, not necessarily in that order. He is over-the-top and ambitious, with more new hairstyles than Victoria Beckham. Classical music needs its megastar entertainers. It's easy to deride, but why not encourage instead?

The LSO concert opened with Tan Dun's Internet Symphony: Eroica, premiered by the YouTube Orchestra in New York earlier this month and more fun to play than to hear, despite two elegiac trumpet solos, performed wistfully by Roderick Franks. The meat of the concert was Mahler's Symphony No 1, conducted by Daniel Harding who took the opening daringly slow, letting rip at the first grand climax. It paid off, with the LSO rising both to the work's challenges, and in the case of eight horns, trombone and trumpet, to their feet for the blazing finale.

A more manageable variety of gilded youth was in evidence at theNational Youth Orchestra's concert at the Festival Hall last weekend, just after the Simón Bolívar Venezuelans had mamboed their way out of town. Did the NYO, in their mid-teens and nearly a decade younger, pick up any of their Latin swagger? Conductor Paul Daniel did his fiery best to inspire them.

This concert was themed around dance and included two contemporary works. George Benjamin's exquisite Dance Figures, in which all sections had solos, was the evening's triumph. But would a grand symphonic masterpiece, burning into the souls of these young players, have worked better than Rachmaninov's patchy Symphonic Dances? For teenagers new to the classical canon, not yet jaded by familiarity, perhaps the old overture, concerto, symphony format, with imaginative variations, still works best.

These talented players were obviously enjoying themselves. Now they need to be tickled into communicating that to an audience. For all performers, it's the hardest lesson. A few more grins would have lifted this fine concert from good to excellent.

articale: guardian.co.uk

I used to read this web site. And I had Langlang's piano concert a couple months ago, it was fun!  Reading this article, remind me how important plan to own program. 

Oscar peterson

"HYMN TO FREEDOM" TO BE SUNG AT BARACK OBAMA'S INAUGURATION

OscarPeterson.com is very proud to announce that on Januarary 20th, 2009, Oscar Peterson's "Hymn To Freedom" will be one of the six songs to be performed jointly by The San Francisco Boys Chorus and San Francisco Girls Chorus as part of the inaugural ceremonies for President Barack Obama.

We are thrilled that this song, which with Harriette Hamilton's very moving lyrics played a significant part in the Civil Rights Movement, will now have a part in this significant, historic occasion. This is a tremendous honour for Oscar Peterson and we are very thankful and proud.

"Hymn To Freedom"

 

                        Music by: Oscar Peterson 

Words by: Harriette Hamilton

When every heart joins every heart

And together yearns for liberty

That's when we'll be free

When every hand joins every hand

And together molds our destiny

That's when we'll be free

Any hour any day

The time soon will come

When men will live in dignity

That's when we'll be free

When every man joins in our song

And together singing harmony

That's when we'll be free

Ginastera

I am studying Ginaster Argentina Dances.

(Most things which are making homepage, blog, study spanish music are the first time to me.)

So not easy but exciting. 

Back to the Ginastera.  

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (Buenos Aires, April 11, 1916 – June 25, 1983 Geneva) was anArgentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.   Argentina Dances written in 1937.

The first piece, Danza del viejo boyero (“Dance of the Old Herdsman”), immediately strikes the ear as being odd. The reason is as simple as it is strange: the left hand plays only black notes, while the right plays only white notes. This means it is composed of two modes, the prominent one being E phrygian. Despite the seemingly unavoidable cacophony of that arrangement, Ginastera manages to frame a simple and charming melody through the use of rhythm and texture. The piece ends with a chord (E-A-D-G-B-E) the notes of the open guitar strings in standard tuning. Perhaps as a result of his Spanish background, this was one of Ginastera’s favourite chords.

Danza de la moza donosa (“Dance of the Beautiful Maiden”) is a gentle dance in 6/8 time. A piquant melody meanders its way through the first section, constantly creating and releasing tension through the use of chromatic inflections. The second section introduces a new melody, more assured of itself than the first. The harmonisation of this section is based on the intervals of the fourth and fifth, which give the music a feeling of expansiveness. This sound, which Ginastera uses frequently, reflects the vastness of the Argentinepampas (grasslands). The final section returns to the opening melody, but with a richer harmonisation based on thirds.

With directions such as furiosamente (“furiously”), violente (“violent”), and salvaggio (“wild”), Ginastera left no doubt as to how the third dance, Danza del gaucho matrero (“Dance of the Arrogant Cowboy”), should be performed. Ginastera makes use of gratuitousdissonance in this piece, often using minor seconds to harmonise otherwise simple melodies. The structure is an approximate rondo(ABACDACD), and the thematic material alternates between chromatic passages (sections A and B) and highly tonal, melodic passages (C and D). The jubilant sound of the C section is achieved by harmonising every single melody note with a major chord, even if they are totally foreign to the tonic key. The D section, by contrast, does not use a single accidental; here, jubilance is expressed through the use of brisk tempo, strong rhythm, fortissimo, and a simple, majestic chord progression. As might be expected from the savageness of the rest of the piece, the coda is anything but subtle: ffff dynamics and a tremendous glissando bring the dance to a close.

When I research about a this work I could understand about composer. I feel like sometimes we live same under the sky. These kind of thought help me when I get tired and can not practice well.

Andras Schiff, piano

Andras Shiff Piano Concert -Carnegie hall

Played Beethoven Sonatas op.54 op.57  op.78  op.79 op.81a

Andras Schiff was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1953 and started piano lessons at the age of five with Elisabeth Vadasz.

In 2004 he began a series of performance in Europe explring the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas . The project in its entirely continue 2008 season at Carnegie hall, Washington D.C and so on.

It was really fabulous. The seat was not comfortable and I could barely see the pianist. However the music is different. Never get boring during playing.

Thanks for staying in NY!!