Global Peace Festival, August 9, 2008

My family and I attended the August 9, Global Peace Festival in Washington DC. I'm over-dressed because I was on the job working with part of the program on stage. Frone is off and about with friends somewhere. Missed a shot with him.

Here are a few shots of our brief time when most of us were all in one place:

Marissa's graduation

Marissa graduated from the Academy of American Studies yesterday (June 27). It was a delightful ceremony. Very creative, energetic, dignified, well timed, populated with interesting speakers, presentations, and sprinkled with art and entertainment. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it moved and held my interest.


After the ceremony, we came out to the court and had some pictures together. The final couple are with two of Marissa's teachers (economics and history).

Yungchen Lhamo at Joe's Pub

Hello Friends and old Friends,

Hope you are in good health and spirit.

On July 1st, I have a show at Joe's Pub

featuring

Will Calhoun and Jamshied Sharifi

Looking forward to seeing you.

Please visit web sites below for more information:

Details_____Tickets = $ 20

Yungchen Lhamo

yungchenlhamo@gmail.com

917 557 3645

Hiroko dances at the Sakura Matsuri

May 3 - May 4, 2008

Sakura Matsuri, New York City's "Rite of Spring," marks its 27th year with over 60 events and performances celebrating Japanese culture and the blossoming of BBG's 220 cherry trees. Visitors to the weekend-long Cherry Blossom Festival can enjoy J-pop concerts, traditional Japanese music and dance, taiko drumming, martial arts, bonsai pruning workshops, Japanese Manga art, tea ceremonies, and workshops for all ages. New this year is the Sakura J-Lounge, featuring some of the country's hippest DJ's spinning Japanese pop sounds. Free with Garden admission.

Marissa went along to help, and ended up conscripted to lead the parade!

Here are few pictures of our time together to cheer Hiroko on:

The beautiful gate

On the weekend of April 18 - 20, I traveled to San Francisco to attend the 5th National Witnessing Summit.

I had the good fortune to spend the day prior with the Hagen family.

By God's grace the day was glorious, and the meteorology blessed my efforts to take in the beauty of this eternal gateway.

Here are a few pictures of those couple of hours before the weekend's work.

Double Feature: A ballet in two acts

On Thursday, January 31 my sister Lois generously offered me the wonderful opportunity to attend Susan Stroman's silent movie-inspired Double Feature.

Though somewhat of a lout when it comes to haute couture, I had the time of my life.








The performance consisted of two separate acts. The first act, titled The Blue Necklace, is a about a distressed mother who gives up her baby but always longs for her. In the end they are reunited in a Cinderella like scene in the midst of grand choreography in a society ball.

The second part, Makin' Whoopee, is a comedy (a David Belasco play and then a Buster Keaton film) Seven Chances about a man who needs to marry to collect his inheritance. By the end of the show the stage is riddled with ballerinas in bridal gowns (including a couple of male dancers stomping around, equally after the star's 7 million inheritance) great dancing, yet genuinely funny.




























In all it was tremendous fun. And my sister survived dragging a lout to Lincoln Center.

Concert for One Korea

On Saturday evening February 2, I had the great joy of hearing probably my favorite classical performer, Ms. Elizabeth Woo.

The occasion was a symphony performance to benefit Korean Unification at Merkin Hall of the Kaufman theatre.

Elizabeth played two masterful pieces supported by the Ureuk Symphony under the leadership of conductor Christopher Lee, Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Fantasy on Russian Theme for Violin and Orchestra.

Other soloists for the evening included Soprano Kyong-Jin Lim, and cellist Jacques Lee Wood.

Special gratitude to Elizabeth and all the Happy Tao family together with Sabonim, Khan Bada.