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Helen と1回だけ歌った曲はヘンデルのオラトリオSAULだった！懐かしい。お誕生日のお祝いにその思い出を書いたら「覚えてるわ」と。なんて素敵、私が一番好きだった、北ロンドンから来たお嬢様だった。

Thanks Ak***! I remember the singing, I wish I could do that again! Maybe when this covid business is all over, I’d like to start doing music again. I hope you’re very well. He*** xxx

Saul: An oratorio for Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass Soli, SATB & Orchestra (英語) ペーパーバック – 2004/1/1
Handel / Saul, HWV 53 (Jacobs)
Ruby Hughes, soprano
Händel – March from the Oratorio “Saul” HWV 53

『サウル』はヘンデルが大きな成功を収めた作品の一つ。ゴリアテに勝利した英雄ダビデと、彼に嫉妬し殺意を募らせ、魔女の力を得ようとするサウル。聖書に基づく劇的な台本を手掛けたのは、のちに『メサイア』の台本も書くことになるチャールズ・ジェネンズ。ヘンデルならではの魅力的な合唱をはじめ音楽も大規模なもので、本格オペラとしても上演される名作です。

登場人物

『サウル』（Saul）HWV 53は、ゲオルク・フリードリヒ・ヘンデルが1738年に作曲し、翌年上演されたオラトリオ。聖書の「サムエル記」に見られるサウルとダビデの逸話にもとづく。

  • サウル：バス – イスラエルの王。
  • ダビデ：アルト[14] – ペリシテ人に勝った英雄。ベツレヘムのエッサイの子。
  • メラブ：ソプラノ – サウルの長女。
  • ミカル：ソプラノ – サウルの次女。
  • ヨナタン：テノール – サウルの息子。
  • アブネル：テノール – イスラエルの将軍。
  • 司祭：テノール
サウル：初代のイスラエル王 神を信頼しきれず窮地に陥る

サウルは、「美しい若者で、イスラエル人の中で彼より美しい者はいなかった」（Ⅰサムエル記９・２）と聖書に記されています。サムエルは彼の頭に油を注ぎ（１３４頁の囲み記事参照）、王に任命しましたが、「よこしまな者たちは、『こいつがどうしてわれわれを救えるのか』と言って軽蔑し、彼に贈り物を持って来なかった。しかし彼は黙っていた」（同10・27）という聖書の記述から、当初は無名の若者が突然王にされたことへの民の戸惑いがあったこと、また、本人も自信をもてずにいたことがうかがえます。（つづく）

2003年のコーラスクラスでdeposit払ってもらい受けた楽譜！

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久しぶりの「実」外出。BE の3㎞ Curfew とかで外に出られなかったから。CBが4人しか参加できなかったのが残念だったけど私のPresentationは Zoomでのお試し、Johnの助言、私の“やる気”が功を奏し（あくまでも自分の判断だけど）90％ぐらいの出来だった。12,000歩しか歩かなかったけど今の私にはちょうどよかった。

本堂
  • 仁王門へ
  • 板碑（板のような石碑）
  • 座禅石
  • 瑠璃門
  • 三門
  • 護国殿
  • 三門
  • 鐘楼の彫刻
多宝塔。方形層上円形木造二重の塔。南足柄市重要文化財
  • 不動堂？
  • 洗心の滝
  • 結界門
小天狗
別名を烏天狗
  • 道了尊 天狗化身像
  • 高下駄
  • 御真殿内部
  • 御真殿内部
  • 僧堂を望む
ニシキギの実（？）
  • 秋海棠
  • 秋海棠
  • 秋海棠
  • ホトトギス
  • サルビア・リラータ（アキギリ科）
  • ヤマハギ

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秋に連休4日、直前まで知らなかった。在宅勤務や振替休日などがあり、曜日をあまり意識してなかった。それに東京の人たちには会いたくても会えないので・・・。でも、鎌倉に来てくれる人がいて、久しぶりのギャラリー・ネストで楽しいランチ！たぶん２年ぶりぐらいで行ったので、ちょっとだけレストランの人に”年月”を感じた。（それは、こちらも年を取っているということ。）

でも近所の小袋谷川淵のYさんはアトリエの２Fに新しい階段をつけて元気いっぱいだった。私のことを誰だったかはすぐには思い出してもらえなかったけど。。。

話題は、歌のこと、日本語学習のこと、ビットコインとブロックチェーン技術のこと、コーヒー談義！

一番右は me, breakfast

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It’s so sad that I needed to say sudden forever good-bye to my dear friend. She passed away a week ago. She was such a wonderful woman with golden heart, always kind to EVERYBODY. It is just amazing. We had so much good time, not only among friends but also in person. I’ll never forget her tenderness, friendly smile and generous goodwill. Thank you Pyrrah. You were so precious and significant in presence. I loved the word “mellow” you said when you talked about one of your daughter. I want to see her. I want to know who she is!

  • Sept 2014
  • Nov 2014

Pyrrah became more concentrated to her own project.

  • Oct 2018
  • Oct 2018

I’ve never imagined that it was the last outing with Pyrrah. She was with Tanya. She looked a bit weaker than before, but looked fit and OK. They bought a big Miura radish at the farm and asked me how to cook. We had such a intimate good time together, then said good-bye when they changed the train to Yokosuka. I did not want to say forever “sayonara” to her that day!!!

The last photo with Pyrrah, March this year.

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June 30th was David Joly’s birthday, I don’t know how old he is. I sent a birthday message to him via FB with a phrase of “I miss you!” David quickly reacted and said “I miss you, too.” We met about 12 to 15 years ago in Kamakura/ He stayed at our then Kamakura house in Hase for three days. It was such a fond memory, as he and other guy from XX were young, smart and funny. They were so nice in nature.

I found a photo taken at Kosokuji!!
https://www.facebook.com/djoly7/posts/10157805065973303
He is talking about how to plant squash in soft sweet voice, though I cannot understand any words in French, except “plastic!” and Gabriella’s “Merci beaucoup.”
I don’t know why he wore this on his birthday, but maybe protect himself from bugs in the field and from Covid 19!

The funniest conversation I remember was that he said his Japanese was MINUS 10 to 20, when I said my English was not good (or poor).

Latest photo of David: July 17,2020

昔の写真がでてきました・・・2008年でした。

長谷寺です。

2021/July

2021年の写真、美しい小鳥たち　from FB　音楽ビデオを作るとき（無断で）使っている。

同じ日に５か国の友人と会った日(１)

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<2020/6/30のできごと>

なんと慌ただしく楽しく疲れる1日だったことか！

朝 🌹 Jo**からメール
午前 🌷 Co**先生とメールでお話<日本語で＞
昼　🌹 Gh*****先生とランチ
午後 🌹 Sa***とイタリアからの帰国便についてメールで話
夜 🌹David Joly に誕生日メッセージ、Squash談義

1日置いて、今度は南スダーンのAnt****から！

Covid-19 cases in South Sudan is alarming.

(2020.7.3) Covid-19 cases in South Sudan is alarming. People refuse to adhere to the rules laid down by the Ministry of Health. It stands at around 2007 confirmed positive cases, 38 deaths, 332 recovery, 1 in critical situation. 
The Government of Japan is building a bridge for us across the river Nile. We thank the kindness of the people and government of Japan towards us in South Sudan.

South Sudan speaker steps down

Makana resigns under pressure from fellow MPs for blocking efforts to fight corruption and mismanagement.Monday 09/12/2019

Anthony Lino Makana

Corruption is rampant in South Sudan

JUBA – South Sudan’s parliamentary speaker has resigned after lawmakers threatened to impeach him for blocking efforts to fight corruption and mismanagement, local media reported Monday.

Anthony Lino Makana was accused by fellow MPs of failing to present auditor-general and anti-corruption reports to parliament and blocking lawmakers from summing ministers for questioning. He was also accused of approving a loan of $400 million (361 million euros) from Afrexim Bank without bringing it first to the house as recommended by law, in a motion tabled by lawmakers who demanded he resign. “The reason for tendering my resignation is an act of deep and sincere respect to your leadership (of the ruling SPLM party) for you requested me to do so,” Makana said in comments carried by South Sudan Broadcasting Radio on Monday. Corruption is rampant in South Sudan, which achieved independence in 2011 and plunged into civil war two years later.


World Cannot Choose Between Economy and Saving Lives, Fauci Says

1日で５か国の友人と・・(2)　 a friend from Canada

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10日ぐらい前に「Skypeで話そう！」と相談して1週間後に実現。MontpelierのJohnと1時間ほど情報交換、おしゃべり。超楽しかった。2週間後にまた。

I felt fresh green air of Montpelier behind you.

English words I have learnt at the session were: “landscaper” and busser”(給仕助手）.

Before the session Marie waned to say hello to you and did practice once. I hope she could join next time. And our “talkative” Simon (he wants to show his knowledge to somebody, Akky says) also practiced, like “My name is Simon,” we should not force or say, but it would be fun to see it.  

  • Coronaの事前勉強1
  • Coronaの事前勉強２
  • 家で咲いたテッポウユリ（芳香）
YCUの薔薇 2020/5/25

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Twin Farms Event Venue Barnard, Vermont, United States | Venuelust
Spring in Vermont

The sun was warm but the wind was chill 　You know how it is with an April day 　When the sun is out and the wind is still 　You are one month on in the middle of  May. 　But if you so much as dare to speak, 　A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, 　A wind comes off a frozen peak, 　And you are two months back in the middle of March. (Robert Frost, cited by John)

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Robert Frost

Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put me off my aim By hailing cheerily “Hit them hard!” I knew pretty well why he dropped behind And let the other go on a way. I knew pretty well what he had in mind: He wanted to take my job for pay.

Good blocks of beech it was I split, As large around as the chopping block; And every piece I squarely hit Fell splinterless as a cloven rock. The blows that a life of self-control Spares to strike for the common good That day, giving a loose to my soul, I spent on the unimportant wood.

A bluebird comes tenderly up to alight And fronts the wind to unruffle a plume His song so pitched as not to excite A single flower as yet to bloom. It is snowing a flake: and he half knew Winter was only playing possum. Except in color he isn’t blue, But he wouldn’t advise a thing to blossom.

The water for which we may have to look In summertime with a witching wand, In every wheel rut’s now a brook, In every print of a hoof a pond. Be glad of water, but don’t forget The lurking frost in the earth beneath That will steal forth after the sun is set And show on the water its crystal teeth.

The time when most I loved my task These two must make me love it more By coming with what they came to ask. You’d think I never had felt before The weight of an axhead poised aloft, The grip on earth of outspread feet. The life of muscles rocking soft And smooth and moist in vernal heat.

Out of the woods two hulking tramps (From sleeping God knows where last night, But not long since in the lumber camps.) They thought all chopping was theirs of right. Men of the woods and lumberjacks, They judged me by their appropriate tool. Except as a fellow handled an ax, They had no way of knowing a fool.

Nothing on either side was said. They knew they had but to stay their stay And all their logic would fill my head: As that I had no right to play With what was another man’s work for gain. My right might be love but theirs was need. And where the two exist in twain Theirs was the better right — agreed.

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For heaven and the future’s sakes.

Scenic View On Of The French Spring Countryside With Rever And ...
The road not taken 「歩む者のない道」
　　　　　　　　　　
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both　
And be one traveler, long I stood　
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;


Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay　
In leaves no step had trodden black.　
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,　
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.　

　　　　　　　　(Robert Frost, 1916) 		黄色い森の中で道が二つに分か
れていた　残念だが両方の道を
進むわけにはいかない　一人で
旅する私は、長い間そこにたた
ずみ一方の道の先を見透かそう
とした　その先は折れ、草むら
の中に消えている　
それから、もう一方の道を歩み
始めた　一見同じようだがこち
らの方がよさそうだ　なぜなら
こちらは草ぼうぼうで　誰かが
通るのを待っていたから　 本当
は二つとも同じようなものだっ
たけれど
あの朝、二つの道は同じように
見えた　枯葉の上には足跡一つ
見えなかった　あっちの道はま
たの機会にしよう　でも、道が
先へ先へとつながることを知る
私は　再び同じ道に戻ってくる
ことはないだろうと思っていた　

いま深いためいきとともに私は
これを告げる　ずっとずっと昔　
森の中で道が二つに分かれてい
た。そして私は…そして私は人
があまり通っていない道を選ん
だ　そのためにどんなに大きな
違いができたことか　
(ロバート・フロスト,1916)

「黄色に染まった森のなかで、道が二手に分かれていた」 日常の言葉でニューイングランドの農村や自然、人生を語り、20世紀アメリカの「国民詩人」として愛されるロバート・フロスト(1874―1963)。素朴で大らかな描写の下に、不気味な暗さをたたえるその詩から、36篇を精選。多様な「意味の音」を伝える原文とともに味わう。

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