Our two week family trip to Japan was awesome! My brother David, who owns a business arranging tours to and from Japan, arranged everything for us. Part of the time we were travelling with him and his family – it was great to spend time with them since we are usually 1000s of miles apart. I’m glad I made an effort to learn basic Japanese [more]
Last night Ben played the first movement of the Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto no. 1 with the Oak Park River Forest High School Symphony Orchestra (his high school orchestra). Ben played with them because he was one of the winners of this year’s High School Concerto Competition. This is the same piece he played two days ago, but it was fun to hear it with an [more]
Ben played the first movement of the Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto no. 1 in Angela Wright’s annual concerto recital today. Angela accompanied him. Click image below to watch the video. Download Tchaikowsky
Ben flew to Boston last weekend with seven other math students from various high schools in the Chicago area to participate in the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament. My mother helped out as a proctor and was delighted to be involved. Ben did very well on one of his two individual tests: he placed 2nd out of 180 students in Calculus (scroll down to Calculus Test to [more]
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