今日はカフェはお休みにして、午前は多賀小学校の運動会、午後は彦根文化プラザでの「日色ともゑとマリオネットによる朗読と音楽」を楽しんできました。
小学校の運動会は去年に続き二度目です。まず子供たちの体つきが私の頃と比べて格段に大きくなっていることに驚かされます。５、６年生になると男女とも背が高い子が多くリレーなど成人顔負けのフォームとスピードで走るので立派だなぁと思いました。低学年の団体演技はテンポの速い難しい振りを皆よく覚えてやっていて、指導なさった先生がたのご苦労は如何ばかりかと思いました。
午後の文プラでは８５歳?になられた日色ともゑさんのお元気でチャーミングなお話と朗読、それに合わせたポルトガルギターとマンドリン演奏が素敵でした。日色さんが何編か読まれた茨木のり子の詩を私は初めて聞きましたが、芯のあるそれでいて時折ユーモラスな表現の詩に感銘を受けました。日色さんの柔らかな声と確信のある朗読も勉強になりました。ポルトガルギターを聴いたのも初めて。どこかチターの音色と共通したものがあると最初に感じました。音色が抒情的でマンドリンとも似ている感じです。そのマンドリン、生で聴くのは何十年振りです。実はこの楽器を私も手にしたことがあり、思いがけず当時のことを思い出していました。
秋も本番。甘い香りで足が止まり、どこかしらと探したら見事な金木犀がすぐそばにありました。
Today, I closed my cafe and went to Taga Elementary School to watch the sports day in the morning, and enjoyed a performance of reading and music by Tomoe Hiiro and duo music players at the Hikone Cultural Plaza in the afternoon.
This was the second experience for me to watch elementary school sports day following last year's. First of all, I was surprised by how much larger children's physical sizes are compared to when I was young. Many of the fifth and sixth graders are tall and I was impressed by their running form and speed which was like an adult. Then I looked around, and there was a magnificent sweet olive tree right nearby.
For the group performance by lower graders, everyone did a great job memorizing and executing the fast paced, challenging choreography, so I could imagine the teacher's immense effort to teach kids the movement.
In the afternoon, we enjoyed lively, charming talk and poem reading by the actress, Tomoe Hiiro, who has turned 85 accompanied with Portuguese guitar and mandolin. It was the first time for me to listen to the poem of Noriko Ibaragi by Hiiro. I was impressed by the poetry which were occasionally humorous but possessing a core of substance. I liked Hiiro's calm and gentle voice and learned a lot about her way of reading. It was also my first time hearing the Portuguese guitar. When I heard the sound, it reminded me of the sound of zither.
Autumn is in full swing. On the way home, I stopped my feet drawing by the sweet aroma. Then I looked around, there was a magnificent sweet olive tree near by me.
