memoirs of a geisha
January 12th, 2006
A very good friend of mine sent me an “early” birthday present… The Music from Memoirs of a Geisha. Ah, thank you so very much!
I do love Itzak Perlman’s violin work on “memoirs”, and have other past recordings of his work. Yo-Yo Ma is the ultimate cellist, and his playing is so expressive and has so much emotion. I could listen to the music from “memoirs” for days!
And John Williams’ score… he simply amazes me how prolific he has been over the decades, and having been the composer of such important films of our generation. His music in “memoirs” is brilliant as usual.
The actual movie, “Memoirs of a Geisha”, I thought was very well done. Great performances by Ziyi Zhang and Gong Li, and of course Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The cinematography was colourful and picturesque, especially the one scene where the Geisha throws the handkerchief into the wind high atop a mountain overlooking the ocean… beautiful.
January 13th, 2006 at 8:06 am
i haven’t heard all of the music from moag but i can’t wait. yes, perlman is so so so talented… he’s on faculty at my school did you know that? hehe and yo-yo ma is wonderful… he’s as talented as he is nice. :)
happy early birthday carlos! i didnt’ realize it was coming up… when is it?
January 13th, 2006 at 9:18 am
so… you’ve met both perlmand and yo-yo ma? wow, you’re a goddess!
yes, birthday coming up… jan 26. are you aquarian too, or gemini?
January 14th, 2006 at 8:09 am
hehe i’m neither ;) i’m a cancer.
carlos i don’t think i’ll be able to make it to europe anymore. i did the math and i simply don’t have enough. sad huh? so i’m thinking about trying something in cali again so i can go see you at one of the shows!!! :-D
January 16th, 2006 at 5:23 am
okay. i do have cancer rising as my ascendent, hehe…
sorry to hear you can’t go to europe. but that would be cool if you can go to cali, and hopefully there will be a good show that you could see me in… instead of the bistro gigs where i perform mostly as background music… ambience.