Tuesday
Anime of the week- la corda d'oro
ABOUT LA CORDA D'ORO (information provided by wikipedia)
Kin'iro no Corda (金色のコルダ, Kin'iro no Koruda?), is a role-playing game from Koei's Neoromance series. The title is also sometimes written La Corda d'oro, Italian for The Golden String.
The story has been adapted into a
shōjo manga series by
Yuki Kure serialized in the Japanese shōjo manga magazine
LaLa.
Summary Kahoko Hino is a student at a Seisou Academy, one with an ordinary life. One day, Lili - the mischievous musical fairy who had blessed the original founder of the school - finds Kahoko running late to class. Delighted that she is able to see him, Lili grants Kahoko a magical violin, and a place in the school's annual musical competition, which many students in the music department vie to partake in.
Kahoko refuses, only to be pressed on by the fairy, who constantly nags her until she finally gives way to his pleads. She reluctantly accepts the instrument. As she practices her pieces, Kahoko is amazed that she can play any piece on the violin as long as she knows the tune.
The school's annual musical competition (concurs) is a prestigious one...competing using classical music. At that time, 5 boys and 2 girls including the main female character were involved in this. The boys involved in the concours have obvious crushes on her, though Kahoko is unable to figure that out. Oooo..a love pentagon..haha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiniro_no_Corda
One of the songs played was "jupiter", a composition from 'the planets' by holst
g. holst,op 32 no 4.
It was one of the sg youth festival songs years ago...sg copied the classical music exactly as it was...but they just add words on their own...the whole thing was written as though it was the original work of a particular sg composer (i didn't recall the music sheets mentioning that it was actually a copy of the classical music-Jupiter)
i dun like it when people copy other people's work and claimed it as their own.
watching this anime inspired/encouraged me to learn classical music..haha classical music is so beautiful...okee i shall know more about classical music next holidays.
