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2004年10月29日
Crazy Day
I am really having a crazy day!! I am in Amsterdam and doing nothing really. I guess I should be happy because at least I can rest.
I had a lovely birthday. In fact I had 2 wonderful birthdays! I was in Reykjavik in Iceland and on the 13th October I managed to persuade my wife that I should have a special dinner for my birthday. We went to a wonderful place called Galileo and had a lovely dinner. On the way home we say the Aurora Borealis. The next day because of a concert I thought that it would be impossible to celebrate my birthday. This is why the dinner was on the 13th.
However on the 14th we found ourselves to be free again with nothing to do. So I thought that it would be nice to have another Birthday Dinner!! So we went again to Galileo and had another birthday dinner! I was so lucky this year.
Anyway now I am in Amsterdam. After Shanghai I played 2 recitals in England, the Emperor 3 times and then Rachmaninov 3rd concerto with Andrew Litton in England. I am tired now but am looking forward to playing Schumann tomorrow and Saturday and Sunday.
Then on Sunday all the clocks change in Europe and suddenly the days will become dark very early.
I hope everyone still remembers me in Japan and I will come again very soon I promise.
投稿者 Freddy : 06:21 | コメント (24) | トラックバック
2004年10月14日
Happy Birthday Freddy !
ブログ管理者のtakeです。（すいません、本人じゃなくて）
Freddyさん、誕生日（たんじょうび）おめでとう！
日本は急に寒くなってきました。イギリスはどうですか？
よい27歳をおすごしください！
自分の誕生日（MyBirthday）が14-Apr.で、ちょうど半年前（Half-Year-Before）なので、Freddyさんの誕生日、覚えやすい（easy-to-remember）んです！
では。
投稿者 take : 16:27 | コメント (142) | トラックバック
2004年10月08日
England
I'm not really sure what we should write in a diary... I guess it's just normal things from every-day life? Well, I arrived back from Japan on Sunday night. I don't remember much about each day except that I was practising Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition like crazy because I played it in a concert last night! It was a 4-hour drive from my home so it was very nice to drive my car again.
The hall was near to Leeds (where they have the famous competition) and I passed near by to where I stayed during the competition back in 1996. I experienced crazy enlish weather again - heavy rain, heavy wind with sunshine and a rainbow... The concert was in a lovely old concert hall with about 500 seats. I really enjoy playing outside the big cities in England because you meet so many kinds of interesting people.
I arrived back at 1.30am last night feeling very tired. Tomorrow I have another recital at my old school. Should be really funny as I can now go to all the places in the school where we were not allowed to when we were students. I am looking forward to School "Fish and Chips" for lunch!