Word: mitsuko
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...returned to start a newspaper-distribution business in Soma, about four hours north of Tokyo. He retired in 1980, and lives in a comfortable house on a small pension in Iwaki, a pleasant seaside town that used to bustle with small electronics factories. Otake and his wife Mitsuko used to make an extra $900 a month by working a few hours a day at home assembling small parts for CD changers...
...great pleasures of this year's Mozart bicentennial will be Mitsuko Uchida's performances of the composer's 18 piano sonatas in a series of five recitals at New York City's Alice Tully Hall between now and April 21. She will also perform some of the sonatas in other cities, including Philadelphia, Toronto, Washington and Pittsburgh. Uchida, 42, plays her specialty with a remarkable combination of energy and tenderness, a considerable rhythmic freedom and a lovely tone. This spring Philips Classics is rereleasing her recordings of these sonatas, along with a splendid new recording of Mozart's piano concerti...
...instead of the familiar Kochel list of 626. The complete presentation will enable a sufficiently dogged listener to sample such obscure efforts as the unfinished opera L'Oca del Cairo. And the quality of performances should be extremely high -- Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim playing violin sonatas, for example; Mitsuko Uchida all the piano sonatas; both the Juilliard and Tokyo quartets on hand for chamber music...