Just wanted to stop in again, and say hi. Before going to play practice, yet again. We've been having a lot of late nights, and tonight we are running through the whole show. And tomorrow we'll be painting--directing painting set again.
I've spent over a month learning a song called the misty rain, or evening, on the koto. The Japanese name is Ko, Ame, No, Yoru.
It sounds so beautiful, and I've really enjoyed playing it. It's a little melancholy. Maybe I'll record it sometime.
So to change it up a bit. My teacher gave me a new song. Though I sort of just came to me. A few weeks ago, my mom found a video on youtube called the last rose of summer, on Koto. She liked it, and showed it to me. And I showed it to my teacher. Who said, that it was funny because she learned to play that song, from the video, because a lady asked her to play it, for next year for her wedding.
And my teacher wanted to know if I wanted to learn it too.
So that's what I'm learning now.
That song. And I looked up the lyrics, and think they are beautiful.
It's a bit sad, sounding. But it's the kind of sad, that is beautiful.
Have a wonderful day.
Steph
The Last Rose of Summer
‘Tis the last rose of Summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower of her kindred,
No rose-bud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes
Or give sigh for sigh!
I’ll not leave thee, thou lone one,
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go sleep thou with them.
Thus kindly I scatter
Thy leaves o’er the bed
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.
So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
And from Love’s shining circle
The gems drop away!
When true hearts lie withered,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?
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