Hi, I want to share my story tonight.:yay:
Do your remember pianist Fukuma Kotaro, a musician at FaOI Kanazawa and Kobe? At Kobe, he played the ballade in the accident of the ice, which led to the collaboration with yuzu the next day. @Newbie introduced his episode making translation and posting his facebook in English. Some of you were impressed by him.
Tonight, I went to his piano concert. It was a salon type concert in a small room. He didn’t use a mike.
I was fascinated with his piano at FaOI Kanazawa. Tonight, he planned to play Chopin, so I was expecting he would play ballade No.1 or talk about figure skate.
To my sunrise, he looked a lot like yuzu! I was in the first row, and he was right in front of me. His every gesture, the way he bows… Just like yuzu. Most of all, the way he spoke! The tone of voice, accent, pose, the Japanese language he uses.. All of them, just like yuzu. I’ve never seen a person who is similar to yuzu to such a great degree. I was only astounded.
Then, about the program,,, Yeeees! He played the ballade No.1 as encore together with a talk about FaOI and the corroboration with yuzu.
Listening to the melody, I couldn’t stop tears and covered my face not to make a sound. I thought that I’d listened to it many many times during the last tough season. The tune reminded me of thousands of things, this yuzu, that yuzu...
But the story didn’t end there. Next, he played “Firebird” accompanied by the episode that a firebird is said to bring happiness. It was arranged for piano on his own, and was a just amazing piece.
We knew yesterday that he’d said goodbye to ballade. Ballade has gone with unfadable memories… And then, firebird came and flew high up in the sky! Isn’t it wonderful? I was so excited!
(And another thing… After concert, I had him sign on my CD. At that time, I said to him that overseas yuzu fans spoke well of him and I was proud of him as Japanese. He smiled shyly. He was reserved, and just humble.

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Now, my wish is “The broadcast tommorow will include that miracle collaboration!”