Happy Birthday to You ( arrangement for rock band by Himoyuki Sanada )

Novenber 4 in 1814, French Painter Jean-François Millet was born. " The Angelus " is one of his masterpieces. And College Football season have started. I am a big fan of Football. So I arranged " Notre Dame Victory March " for piano solo.

Shea bros. - Notre Dame Victory March ( 耳ｺﾋﾟ arrangement for piano solo by Himoyuki Sanada )

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Lermontov.
Aram Khachaturian composed the incidental music after Lermontov's play " Masquerade ". 


Khachaturian - Masquerade - Waltz ( arrangement for piano solo by Himoyuki Sanada )

259	 years ago, on January 27 Mozart was born. I arranged his 'Lick my ass' K.231 (382c) for piano. In the middle of the piece I change the key from B dur to As dur.


Mozart - Leck Mich im Arsch ( Lick My Ass ) K.231 (382c ) ( piano arrngement by Himoyuki Sanada )

Ukraine crisis is taking place. 10 February is Pushkin's deathday. Opera 'Mazeppa' is loosely based on his 'Poltava'. ( Russian name Пушкин means a cannon or a man of hoaxer. ) Hopak is a Ukrainian Cossack dance. Tchaikovsky also inherits from the Ukraine Cossack.

Tchaikovsky - Mazeppa - Hopak / Гопак / Gopak ( piano solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678.

Vivaldi - La Primavera ( Spring ) - 1st Movement ( piano arrangement by Himoyuki Sanada )

Momoko Tani, a Japanese ballet dancer, died the day before yesterday aged 94.  " Giselle " was her favorite piece.


Adam - Giselle - Grand Pas de Deux - Variation de Giselle ( piano solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Tchaikovsky - The Swan Lake No.11 Odette Appears ( piano solo ver. based on Kashkin's arr. H. S. )

The day after tomorrow ( May 17 ) Erik Satie's birthday. 

Satie - Je te veux ( piano solo arrangement by Himoyuki Sanada )

Kiyoshi Nobutoki , a Japanese composer, died on Augst 1 in 1965. (信時潔没後50年に)

Nobutoki - Umi Yukaba ( arrangement for strings by Himoyuki Sanada ) 信時潔 海ゆかば

Minkus - Don Quixote Act I Kitri's Variation ( piano solo arrangement by Himoyuki Sanada )

On 5 October 1880 Jacques Offenbach died.

Offenbach -  Can Can ( piano solo arrangement by Himoyuki Sanada )

October 25 is the birthday for Johann Strauss II ( 1825 ) and　Georges Bizet ( 1838 ).  I slightly arranged it.

Bizet - Carmen - Seguedille ( piano solo arrangement by Himoyuki Sanada )

On 13 November 1868 Gioachino Rossini died..

Rossini - William Tell Overture - March of The Swiss Soldiers ( piano solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Tchaikovsky's  'Slavonic March ' was premiered on 17 November 1876.. http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Slavonic_March


Tchaikovsky - Slavonic March - ending ( piano solo arrangement by Himoyuki Sanada )

Minkus - Don Quixote - Gypsy's Dance ( piano version based on the composer's arrangement )

Shizuka Arakawa won the Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating on February 23 in the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy..  She used the Aria for the free program skating.. The 10th Anniversary!!  Ina-Bauer!!

Puccini - Turandot - Nessun Dorma ( piano solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Bizet - Carmen - Toreador Song ( pf solo arr. by the composer, slightly re-arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Koume Akasaka was born on April 20, 1906..
Otemoyan is a Japanese folk song (min'yo) from Kumamoto Prefecture, magnitude-7.3-scale earthquakes occurring..

おてもやん あんたこの頃嫁入りしたではないかいな
嫁入りしたこつぁしたばってん ご亭どんが ぐじゃっぺだるけんまあだ杯はせんだった
村役 鳶役 肝煎りどん あん人たちのおらすけんで あとはどうなときゃあなろたい
川端町っつあん きゃあめぐろぃ 春日ぼうぶらどんたちゃ 尻ひっぴゃあて 花盛り 花盛り
ピーチクパーチク雲雀の子 げんぱく茄子にいがいがどん

一つ山越え も一つ山超え あの山越えて
私やあんたに惚れとるばい 惚れとるばってん いわれんたい
追々彼岸も近まれば 若者衆も寄らすけん
くまんどんのよじょもん詣りにゆるゆる話をきゃあしゅうたい
男振りには惚れんばな 煙草入れの銀金具が それもそもそも因縁たい
アカチャカベッチャカ チャカチャカチャー

Otemoyan おてもやん ( in memory of 赤坂小梅, arr. for instruments by Himoyuki Sanada )

Momoko Tani, a Japanese ballet dancer, died on April 26 2015 at the age of 94..
She performed Swanilda in Japan premiere of Coppelia, 1947..

Delibes - Coppelia - No. 02 Valse de Swanilda ( piano arrangement by Himoyuki Sanada )

Tomita, Isao - Katsu Kaishuu 勝海舟, In Memory of 冨田勲 ( 耳ｺﾋﾟ arr. for synthesizer by Himoyuki Sanada )

Freddie Mercury was born on Sep. 05, 1946..

Freddie Mercury ( Queen ) - We are the Champions ( piano solo version, Himoyuki Sanada )

Yoshiko Yamaguchi, called Li Xianglan ( Ri Koran, as Japanese pronunciation ) died on Sep. 7, 2014..

Hattori, Ryouichi - Soochow ( Suzhou ) Serenade / 蘇州夜曲 ( arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

The day before yesterday..
She died on Dec. 28 the day after her daughter Carrie Fisher's death..

Deckers - "Dominique" from "The Singing Nun" ( 耳ｺﾋﾟ arr. for piano solo by Himoyuki Sanada )

Toukichi Setoguchi was born on 29 June, 1868..

Setoguchi - Warship March / 軍艦行進曲 ( piano solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Russia, Czar Nicholas II ,his family and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment are executed by the Bolsheviks on 17 July, 1918..

Tchaikovsky - Overture 1812 - ending / Боже, Царя Храни! ( piano solo arr. by H. Sanada )

Wolfgang Mozart completed his Symphony in G minor, KV. 550 on 25 July, 1788..

Mozart - Symphony 40 - 1st movement - exposition ( piano solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Rott, Hans - Symphony 1 in E Major - 3rd mvt, Scherzo - beginning ( piano solo arr. by H. Sanada )

Franz Peter Schubert died on 19 November, 1828..

Schubert - Ave Maria / Ellens dritter Gesang ( pf solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker - Waltz of the Flowers ( piano solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Zita von Bourbon-Parma, letzte Kaiserin von Österreich / the last Empress of Austria, died on 14 March 1989, at the age of 96.. 

Haydn - Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, sung at the funeral of Zita at Stephansdom, #Wien..

Haydn - Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ( piano solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

Verdi's Rigoletto, La donna è mobile, motif was inspired by Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Andante ( romanze )..mi→mi→mi↑so↓fa↓re..

Verdi - La donna è mobile & Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik ( pf. Himoyuki Sanada )

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on 5 December ( 1791 )..

Mozart - Symphony 40 & 41 - Swapping Motifs   ( arranged for piano solo by Himoyuki Sanada )

Mozart's Symphony 39 & 41, Beethoven's Symphony 5 & 6 - Identical Motif

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker - No.14 Pas de Deux - Adagio ( piano solo arr. by Himoyuki Sanada )

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