An Email to My Daughter

Dear Lily,

Thanks for the addresses!

We spent the day yesterday with Rosa family and had a wonderful time.

Rosa took Mom and me to a Salon Concert hosted by Frederic Chopin Foundation Taipei. The founder of this Foundation is Professor Azusa Anna Fujita - a famous pianist most people in Taiwan know (In Chinese known as 藤田梓.)

This is a very special and relaxed concert of another kind, with full mood of a regular concert but without the "serious" atmosphere at all, the 50 to 60 attendants were comfortably sitting in a well designed small hall of a hotel room with soft lightening, enjoying tea, coffee, and refreshments while listening to the wonderful music from a lovely 6-grade girl, one of Azusa's outstanding students.

Except us three, most of the participants were famous guests in music field or Government officials and their families.

Program of the day was:

1. F. Chopin : Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31
2. F. Liszt : Rigoletto Paraphrase
3. Shooting Star for Soprano, Double Bass and Piano by this little musician Jessica Chang

Tea Break

4. Improvisations for piano and double bass

Rosa also turned in a melody (theme) and she composted into a 5-minute long beautiful piano music immediately without a moment of hesitating. This little girl is really a genius.

The concert was in the afternoon and it lasted one and a half hours. This is one of their monthly activities for March. Next one will be on 4/6 and, as a member of this Foundation, Rosa will go again.

In the evening we went to the Taipei International Lantern Festival after we enjoyed beef noodle at a famous noodle house.

There were tens of hundred lanterns of every kind, everywhere inside and outside of the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall Area. In addition to the spectacular main lantern there were also a beautiful "lantern tunnel", a student lantern section full of creativity, an international lantern section representing diverse world cultures, a folk art street festival, a riddle contest, and authentic local foods.

Though this was the last second day of the festival, it attacked thousands of people, shoulders rubbed against each other in the crowds.

Please click here(salon concert) and here(lantern) to view the pictures!

dad,