My favorite teacher in my school

Hi guys! Today, I would like to explain about my two favorite teachers in my school, because this is my ESL homework.

First, I would explain about Mr. G. His real name is Mr. Michael Greenslade

He is a very tall nice man who can speak many languages (English, Japanese, French, and Spanish.) He is teaching Math, English, and Math. (Not every grades.) He is very kind, and interesting, if I don't understand something about school work, he teaches me every time, and he always gives me an advice.

He taught Math and English when I was Grade 7. His class is very easy to understand, because his examples are very funny.

He is a very popular teacher and famous for loving himself. There is a funny story about him. Last December to January, his friends and he went to Okinawa. He loved the food so much he kept eating until he weighs 125kg. He thought this is a problem, so he started the diet. January to February he lost 10kg because he wanted to get chocolate on Valentine’s Day. However, he didn't get any chocolate

The second, I would like to introduce Ms. Moeka Shima

She is a JFL teacher at CIS. She came to CIS this year. She can only speak Japanese, so I think she is only known to among Japanese speakers. She said “I have a big voice.” Because she did Kendo in middle school and high school. She like travelling, so she travels round the Africa last year. She is teaching Japanese to every grade. I wonder CIS is the first international school for her. We like her interesting quiz, but sometimes she gives the answer out by accident. I also like her way of teaching how to remember Kanji.

These are my two of my favorite teachers at school. I hope these two teacher stay next year!

I will have a competition in Oct 20th

Hello everyone. Today, I would explain about history of music competition that I am currently participating in and why I join in this competition.

First, I would explain about competition's history. The competition is called "Student concourse of Japan". It is started in 1947, held by Mainichi newspaper. This competition has five categories of instruments; violin, piano, cello, vocal music, and flute.

Violin, and piano has three categories, elementary school (Grade 4 to Grade 6), middle school(Grade 7 to Grade 9), and high school (Grade 9 to Grade 12). You have to win two rounds of smaller competition held in five cities (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyushu, and Hokkaido) competition in order to compete in the national concourse. I won the first round in Tokyo already this year, and will be playing for final round to be Tokyo representative on October 20th.

Jury members are different in every city. There are nine judges in each city.

The judges are famous teachers or famous players of each city. However, judging member is every year different.

I have to play three pieces of music. They are

Wieniawski: ecole moderne No. 6

Mendelssohn; violin concert No. 1(Only one movement)

Prokofiev: violin concert No.2 (Only one movement)

Wieniawski is a solo music, so if I make any mistakes, it is easily to know mistake.

Mendelssohn’s violin concert No.1 is really similar to his piano concert, op. 40. This is because someone asked Mendelssohn to write concert for piano and violin. He wrote them separately but these both have same pitches and melody sounds very similar.

Prokofiev wrote this concert in Paris. This is kind of ballet music, and it is very similar to the scores of Romeo and Juliet. The characteristic of this music is that it changes in many way pitch, mood, and rhythm.

I want to win, because if I get a first prize, that means number one of Japan, and concert opportunities might come.
I WILL DO MY BEST

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                 Picture of Wieniawski

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Tokyo strings quartet broke up!

Tokyo string quartet broke up

The biggest news for me is that Tokyo string quartet was broke up. So today, I would explain about history about Tokyo string quartet.

The Tokyo string quartet were start in 1969.  My teacher’s Koichiro Harada was one of the original members.

After the one years of starting, they won Munich international competition 1970 that is first time for Japanese winner. However, members changed 2 to 3 times.

Tokyo strings quartet was based in New York city, started by four Japanese member, but There were non-Japanese members.

They were using Paganini quartet that is which is a set of string instruments (two violins one viola one cello.) made by the most famous violin maker Stradivarius.

Quartet is a group of four musicians it is most difficult genre of Chamber music. String quartet means four string musicians.

The members got old and realized that it is getting too difficult to tour around the world. I was so sad when I heard this news, because I like to play the quartet, so I was respected this quartet, because this quartet is really high level and had world recognition. I will miss the beautiful harmony.