Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and Japanese-Chinese meal for dinner.
To wait, or not to wait for the future release of the high-definition version of the BBC Shakespeare Tragedies, Tragedies II, Comedies and Histories DVD gift boxes: that is the question.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
"This is an interesting topic found in the Nature online news three days ago". The following are my comments on it:
If any superpartner of the fundamental particles, the behaviors of which are described in the standard theory and have been experimentally proven, can't be found within the next few years and then SUSY may be denied, superstring theory will also strike a big snag. It's a divergence of opinion whether the theoretical physics has been too ahead of the experimental physics in this field for the last three decades or not. In either case, how to deal with gravitation in the unified field theory is still an open question, though there exist other proposed and unproven theories such as Loop Quantum Gravity.
It goes without saying that any political issue shouldn't affect a scientific truth itself, though it sometimes affects its financial aspect, unfortunately.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
My favorite popular songs including Rock, Pop, Latin, and Reggae are David Bowie's "Heroes", Bob Marley and The Wailers' "Is This Love", The Doors' "Touch Me", Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing", Derek & The Dominos' "Layla", The Beatles' "Hello Goodbye", U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name", Gipsy King's "Bem, Bem, Maria", The Police's "Bring On The Night" and many other songs.
The most difficult of the sounds that a computer can mimic without marring its attractiveness is probably the voice of a singing person. It seems that attempting to have a machine do the operations that are unsuited to it is quite nonsense. Needless to say, there is no necessity to replace the existing musical instruments and the vocal with a computer, though it may be possible for it to mimic them to some extent.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
The element of music, the importance of which has never been and will never be impaired in the music world, is the compositional talent. In the case of orchestral music, the conducting is of secondary importance.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Got up at ten-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
The musicians including composers, conductors, directors, and players who have some primary parts in the productions of the CDs and DVDs that were listed in my diary on February 20 are put together as follows:
[Composers/Conductors/Others]
1. Claudio Monteverdi (Italian, Renaissance/Baroque, 1567-1643)
2. Antonio Vivaldi (Italian, Baroque, 1675-1741)
3. Jean-Philippe Rameau (French, Baroque, 1683-1764)
4. Johann Sebastian Bach (German, Baroque, 1685-1750)
5. George Frideric Handel (German, Baroque, 1685-1759)
6. Christoph Willibald Gluck (German, Classical, 1714-1787)
7. Franz Jeseph Haydn (Austrian, Classical, 1732-1809)
8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian, Classical, 1755-1791)
9. Ludwig van Beethoven (German, Classical, 1770-1827)
10. Niccolo Paganini (Italian, Romantic, 1782-1840)
11. Franz Schubert (German, Romantic, 1797-1828)
12. Hector Berlioz (French, Romantic, 1803-1869)
13. Felix Mendelssohn (German, Romantic, 1809-1847)
14. Frederic Chopin (Polish, Romantic, Nationalist, 1810-1849)
15. Robert Schumann (German, Romantic, 1810-1856)
16. Franz Liszt (Hungarian, Romantic, 1811-1886)
17. Giuseppe Verdi (Italian, Romantic 1813-1901)
18. Johann Strauss (Austrian, Romantic, 1825-1899)
19. Johanness Brahms (German, Romantic, 1833-1897)
20. Alexander Borodin (Russian, Romantic/Nationalist, 1833-1887)
21. Camille Saint-Saens (French, Neoromanticism, 1835-1921)
22. Georges Bizet (French, Romantic, 1838-1875)
23. Modest Mussorgsky (Russian, 1839-1881)
24. Petr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Russian, Romantic, 1840-1893)
25. Richard Wagner (Austrian, Romantic, 1841-1918)
26. Antonin Dvorak (Czech, Romantic, 1841-1904)
27. Edvard Hagerup Grieg (Norwegian, Romantic, 1843-1907)
28. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian, Romantic/Nationalist, 1844-1908)
29. Gabriel Faure (French, Neoromanticism, 1845-1924)
30. Giacomo Puccini (Italian, Neoromanticism, 1858-1924)
31. Gustav Mahler (Austrian, Neoromanticism, 1860-1911)
32. Claude Debussy (French, Neoromantic/Impressionistic, 1862-1918)
33. Richard Strauss (German, Neoromanticism, 1864-1949)
34. Erik Satie (French, Neoclassicism, 1866-1925)
35. Ferruccio Busoni (Italian, Neoclassicism, 1866-1924)
36. Sergey Rachmaninoff (Russian, Neoromanticism, 1873-1943)
37. Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian, Neoromanticism/Atonalism/Serialism, 1874-1951)
38. Maurice Ravel (French, Neoclassicism/Impressionistic, 1875-1937)
39. Igor Stravinsky (Russian, Neoclassicism/Serialism, 1882-1971)
40. Anton von Webern (Austrian, Neoromanticism/Atonalism/Serialism, 1883-1945)
41. Alban Berg (Austrian, Neoromanticism/Atonalism/Serialism, 1885-1935)
42. Sergey Prokofiev (Russian, Neoromanticism, 1891-1953)
43. Paul Hindemith (German, Neoclassicism, 1895-1963)
44. Aaron Copland (American, Neoclassicism, 1900-1990)
45. Dmitry Shostakovich (Russian, Neoclassicism, 1906-1975)
46. Olivier Messiaen (French, Mysticism/Serialism, 1908-1992)
47. Leonard Bernstein (American, Neoclassicism/Pops, 1918-1990)
48. Pierre Boulez (French, Total Serialism, 1925-Present)
49. John Williams (American, Pops, 1932-Present)
[Conductors/Others]
1. Karl Böhm (Austrian, 1984-1981)
2. Otto Klemperer (German, 1885-1973)
3. Wilhelm Furtwängler (German, 1886-1954)
4. Fritz Reiner (American, 1888-1963)
5. George Szell (Hungarian-born American, 1897-1970)
6. Eugen Jochum (German, 1902-1987)
7. Herbert von Karajan (Austrian, 1908-1989)
8. Rafael Kubelik (Swiss, 1914-1996)
9. Robert Craft (American, 1923-Present)
10. Bernard Haitink (Dutch, 1929-Present)
11. Claudio Abbado (Italian, 1933-Present)
12. Seiji Ozawa (Japanese, 1935-Present)
13. Charles Dutoit (Swiss, 1936-Present)
14. Christoph Eschenbach (German, 1940-Present)
15. Christopher Hogwood (British, 1941-Present)
16. Daniel Barenboim (Israeli, 1942-Present)
17. Antoni Wit (Polish, 1944-Present)
18. Trevor Pinnock (British, 1946-Present)
19. Paavo Järvi (Estonian, 1962-Present)
[Opera Directors]
1. Lorin Maazel (American, 1930-Present)
2. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (French, 1932-1988)
3. Liliana Cavani (Italian, 1936-Present)
4. Brian Large (British, 1939-Present)
5. Riccardo Muti (Italian, 1941-Present)
6. James Levine (American, 1943-Present)
7. Pierre Audi (French-Lebanese, 1957-Present)
[Pianists]
1. Edwin Fischer (Swiss, 1886-1960)
2. Arthur Rubinstein (Polish, 1886-1982)
3. Wilhelm Kempff (German, 1895-1991)
4. Walter Gieseking (French, 1895-1956)
5. Claudio Arrau (Chilean, 1903-1991)
6. Vladimir Horowitz (Russian, 1904-1989)
7. Jorge Bolet (Cuban-born American, 1914-1990)
8. Sviatoslav Richter (Russian, 1915-1997)
9. Emil Gilels (Russian, 1916-1985)
10. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Italian, 1920-1995)
11. Julius Katchen (American, 1926-1969)
12. Alexis Weissenberg (Bulgarian-born French, 1929-Present)
13. Van Cliburn (American, 1934-Present)
14. Vladimir Ashkenazy (Russian-born Icelander, 1937-Present)
15. Hamish Milne (British, 1939-Present)
16. Maurizio Pollini (Italian, 1942-Present, Active)
17. Hakon Austbo (Norwegian, 1948-Present, Active)
18. Pascal Roge (French, 1951-Present, Active)
19. Krystian Zimerman (Polish, 1956-Present, Active)
[Violinists]
1. Isaac Stern (American, 1888-1969)
2. Leonard Rose (American, 1918-1984)
3. Borodin Quartet (Russian, Formed in 1945)
4. Amadeus Quartet (British, Formed in 1947)
5. I Musici (Italian, Formed in 1952)
6. Salvatore Accardo (Italian, 1941-Present)
7. Itzhak Perlman (American, 1945-Present)
8. Alban Berg Quartet (Austrian, Formed in 1970)
9. Emerson String Quartet (American, Formed in 1976)
Monday, March 7, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese-Western meal for dinner.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
I was born in the central inland districts and brought up in the central districts along the Sea of Japan of the main island of Japan. Out of a sense of social obligation, I have only once set off on a skiing trip in my life though it was very popular in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. Although my wife was born and brought up in the central mountainous districts of the main island of Japan, she has been on skis only twice, as yet.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
--- "Japan awoke to fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami". "The full extent of the death and damage from Friday's 8.9 (9.0) magnitude earthquake tsunami was becoming clear in the first full day after the quake". "One scientist said the energy radiated was nearly equal to a month's worth of energy consumption in the United States," the online news of the Chicago Tribune reported today. ---
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Got up at nine-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Got up at ten o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Learning is seen as a life-long process for every modern individual.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
An imbalance has been developing hostilities for quite a long period of time. Various interests of older industries have always been at work behind. Some betrayal acts and careless trades have put it in greater jeopardy. Some prominent guardians (?) for it have passed away. Furthermore, when some immoral are revealed abroad, the possibility of triggering an unexpected incident may be increased because of the further secessions of guardians. Finally, some cornered rats might bite the optimistic cat, by allowing triggering it. The final phase may be too stage-minded.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Let two gallons of milk that we bought three days ago drain off without drinking at all, relying on my intuition that milk might contain an undesirable chemical substance. The key inauspicious words are " a test designed for a failure".
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
As long as only the regularly safe products with proper supportive equipment have been sold to only the unimpeachable purchasers and been used at only the appropriate places, there should be no trouble.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Bought some items of food including two gallons of fresh milk because it seemed that no nasty trick influenced them this time. Ate pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 87 degrees F (30.6 degrees C).
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Got up at nine-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch. Completed the 1040 forms and sent them to a local IRS center by certified mail today. Troublesomely, an unfamiliar Asian kid clung to my right leg several times while I was filling in the form of the certified mail at a local USPS branch.
"This is an interesting topic found in the Reuters online news today".
Today's maximum temperature is 85 degrees F (29.4 degrees C).
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Got up at nine-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese-Western meal for dinner.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
It seems that, instead of the progress of international peacemaking, things in the world have recently been getting more and more serious, as if the same mistakes in the past would have been intentionally repeated.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Ms. Elizabeth Taylor passed away from congestive heart failure at the age of 79.
Today's maximum temperature is 89 degrees F (31.7 degrees C).
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 86 degrees F (30.0 degrees C).
Friday, March 25, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 86 degrees F (30.0 degrees C).
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Got up at nine-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Today's maximum temperature is 86 degrees F (30.0 degrees C).
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Got up at eight-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese one-pot meal for dinner.
"This is an interesting topic found in the BBC online news today". The following is my comment on it:
Wow!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature is 81 degrees F (27.2 degrees C). The hot weather lasted in Texas for the latter half of March. New leaves of Texas live oak trees around have already replaced the old ones earlier than the normal year by about one month.
