孫の初舞台 Our grand-son's first showing up on stage

千葉の蘇我まで孫No2（７歳）の初めてのピアノ発表会にこの暑さの中、夫と共に応援に駆けつけました。彼も初めてとあっていささか神妙な様子。でも本番に強いのはさすが我が孫。立派にやって見せました。ドボルザークの新世界第二楽章よりとハイケンスのセレナーデよりの２曲。発表する子供達はみんなしっかり暗譜出来てました。これは私の子コーラス活動で見習うべきところ！

発表会は夕方からだったので、午前中はみんなで避暑がてらに映画を見に。男性軍はゴジラの映画（夫は先日既に姉達を連れて宇都宮で観賞済）、女性軍は「アナと雪の女王」を。孫娘（２歳）はまばたきもせず大きく目を見開いて、２時間の映画をしっかり見たのには驚きました。エルサ（松たか子）の歌うあの「ありのままで・・・」の歌のメロディーを掴んで鼻歌的に歌いだしたのにはびっくり。映画の後、近くの本屋で子供向けに編集された同じ題名の小さな本を見つけて即、買い求めました。ママに読んで貰っている様子は真剣そのもの。小さな体が真剣さの固まりになっているのを見ていると光る宝を見る思いになります。それにしても、アナとエルサの吹き替えをやった神田沙耶加と松たか子さんの力強い歌唱力には感動しました。

We didn't mind at all under such a strong heat our going to encourage our grandson(No2)'s first piano performance in Chiba. He looked rather serious before his performance but he was cool enough to be concentrated on the stage. He did very well! All the children performed without their music books. We should follow them in this point when we perform our chorus.Before the concert which started in the evening, we went to see the movies. Men's group saw "Godzilla"while we women's group saw "Anne and the snow queen". Our grand-daughter (2years old) was so serious without getting tired of it and kept seeing every scene entirely with her eyes wide open. She enjoyed very much just like us. After the movie, she even tried to copy that popular song "Be just natural・・" by Elsa. After the movie, I found a small book of that movie in the nearby book shop, and I bought one for her. She was very happy to see it on her mother's lap. Her whole body concentrated in reading(listening to her mommy reading) that story looked  like a twinkling stone and gave me an extra energy. Yes, also was I very much impressed with the powerful and attractive voices of those two Japanese singers.