Haven’t closed my eyes since walking home from my 4th time to ABT’s performance of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at the Met late last night (smooches to Linda for the most fabulous seats 
). The final scene hunts me for — don’t know how many years now. Really should write a transcription of it for myself…
The morning sun outside is hurting my eyes… what glorious music…
Stumbled upon takoyaki making videos on YouTube, couldn’t help myself but ordered an electric takoyaki grill from Japan!
Takoyaki & Okonomiyaki, and Moto’s Guinness
bff Celine’s baby girl is due next month! HAPPY
Moto, a fab composer, Celine’s hubby Robert’s bff since college!
Fun night making lots of Japanese food on the pre-4th of July weekend
The very very first bike of my life — hard to imagine, me + a bike, or me “on” a bike, since I made such a big deal over dressing down, wearing flats, and won’t be caught again hiking all that stuff… Guess one DOES change, well, a little bit at a time at least… this is after all, a very very very PINK bike 
ps nope, haven’t taken it outdoor yet, waiting for bff Derek’s back to get better so I can have a guide… I am too scared to go out with it… LOL well, eventually I will need to ride it everyday going up and down the bike route in the Riverside Park
I am the one at the left piano with my very goth black loooong dress…
Played our New York premiere of Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato in Make Music New York today ON THE STREET under a tent, after 2 hour sleep and 4 hour teaching =P
But, FUN!!! Rain came in and out, lots of people stayed for the whole thing, was told by two enthusiastic audience afterward that they drove in from DC just to hear us!
A whole recording and filming crew was there, during the performance, the wind even blew a heavy high def video camera down, smashed into my arm and landed on my piano keyboard making a big BANG to say the least… LOL quite a scare but I had a few chuckles…
We did many many hours of rehearsals the whole week, my very first time playing a minimalistic work, the kind of focus needed to perform it was something I’ve never experienced before… quite glad I did this.
Check out the mentions of us on New York Times & The New Yorker
If you want to catch us doing this again, I will be playing it with Jed on Aug 14th, 2009, 6 pm at the Cornelia Street Cafe
raw agave rum raisin & raw honey white wine fresh strawberry 6 hour “pickle”
made yummy Okonomiyaki (aka Japanese pizza) for Miya, you can see my fav food — raw broccoli on the bottom of the photo
Strawberry honey pickle in bubbly
YUMMY COCKTAIL POPSICLES!!!
Blue Lagoon Pops ~ maraschino cherries, vodka, blue curaçao, raw agave, lemon juice
Tequila Sunrise Pops ~ orange juice, tequila, campari
home made Red Bean Soy Milk Ice Cream ~ love my soy milk machine )
beautiful night in my roof garden…
Making the famed Taiwanese snack 茶葉蛋 (tea stewed eggs) at this odd hour — caught a cooking bug lately
Wondering who I am able to feed this to after it is done in an hour…? LOL
Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis. A suggestion functions, which commands me to swoon without killing myself. Whence, perhaps, the gentleness of the abyss: I have no responsibility here, the act (of dying) is not up to me: I entrust myself, I transmit myself (to whom? to God, to Nature, to everything, except to the other).
– A Lover’s Discourse Roland Barthes
For no reason at all, I baked some heart shaped raisin scones for the first time (they were fabulous btw!!), a fresh loaf of 12 grain bread, and cooked up a big pot of vege soup this afternoon. Facebooked bff Linda over and she just came — after her busy day treating patients! — she makes me happy We had the loveliest time on my roof garden, the day was beautiful…
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This Quintet was Franck’s very last composition. The story says, Franck was madly in love with his pupil, a very talented young woman composer who was, unfortunately, happily married. The poor old Franck could only bury his passion in this work.
Saïnt-Saëns, a student at the conservatory at the time, was the pianist who premiered the composition. At the end of the performance, Franck, extremely happy with it, in front of the audience, gave the manuscript to Saïnt-Saëns as a token of appreciation. A genitor later found it left on the stage — Saïnt-Saëns didn’t take the score, for that he was in love with the same woman…
hah, I am a sucker (excuse my language) for this kind of stories… 
I heard the music was not published until after Franck’s wife passed away — she wouldn’t allow it… sigh…
Allegro non troppo, ma con fucco
Jascha Heifetz, Leonard Pennario, Israel Baker, William Primrose, Gregor Piatigorsky performing.
This recording always gets me boiled up… I could hear the impassioned and saddened heart beats restlessly in this gorgeous performance…
A preview for you, FrankenBob, until I record my own (probably will never be as good…) — it suits your mood and all our moods… hope the weather in England gets better…
