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13才のときにグレン・グールドのピアノに 出会う。以来抱き続けたグールドに会うという夢を追って28才でカナダへ。後追い日記はその記録である。
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☆ミクシに習って、ぬさんからの紹介状
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1981-21:The Church

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#The Church

One day the landlady Mrs. Liang said, “Considering your love of the piano, you don’t really play often?”
“I haven’t been able to play properly since I was a child. Practicing the piano is not good for my body.”
“You do want to play, though, right?
We have a piano teacher living in our street. She lives in a house across from the church. Go and ask her if she would land you her piano to practice."

When Mako looked for the house of the piano teacher her landlady told her about, she found there was a signboard hanging in front of it.
When the teacher realised Mako hadn’t come to learn the piano but to borrow it for her practice she said,
“I don’t lend my piano, but maybe people from the church across the street will lend it to you. I will give you their phone number.”

On the phone the priest of that church said to her, “You should talk to the Bowdens about that,” and he gave me the phone number of some other church members.
“I will tell them you called, but please come to our church service next Sunday.”

Mako found it magnificent that he didn’t say, “Come to the service to hear my own preaching.”

When she went to the church on Sunday a beautiful woman approached her as soon as she saw her, “Mako? I am Martha. This is the key to the church entrance. You can come and practice the piano any weekday during the daytime. I live in a street on the east side of Cowan Avenue. If you want we can walk together on our way back.”

Martha too had a big belly.
Since Mako came to Toronto she’d met 3 women who’d later become mothers of boy babies.

“My baby is due in August. What are you doing in Toronto?”
“Have you heard about Gould?”
“Of course.”
There Mako went into her usual talk.

Mako managed to find the piano, now she needed musical scores.
She started going through a phonebook, but with her pathetic office skills Mako always found it difficult to mange lists and indexes. Thinking she was probably calling a wrong department, Mako dialled some phone number of Toronto University. The woman who answered the phone was ultimately kind. While saying, “This is not a sheet music store…,” she gave Mako the information about a specialist supplier of sheet music.

People can broadly dividede in two types – the kind and the bad-tempered ones.
Mako can compare the lady from Toronto University with another experience she had. A few weeks ago when Mako was going to Montreal she needed a contact number of the YMCA, but she couldn’t find it so Mako dialled the YWCA number she found on a pamphlet.
The woman who answered the phone got angry saying, “We are not information desk for YMCA.”
She then continued bad-temperedly, “Imagine, calling the YWCA to ask the phone number of the YMCA!”

Mako went to buy the scores of Debussy’s “Suite Bergamasque”, she had repeatedly listened on Kiyoko Tanaka’s record. Tall narrow shops on Yonge Street reminded her of Kadoya sheet music shop in Japan.

So, on a very stormy day Mako went to that somewhat gloomy church.
She started her piano practice on July 28th, precisely one year after her mum’s death.
 
The following day, July 29th, Mako watched live coverage of the royal wedding in London.



Japanese version of this page・後追い日記81年21・教 会




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