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Today, Da Camera of Houston Young Artists Program hosted a workshop for us. It was about how non-profit art organizations are managed, how they raise funds, etc. They had the workshop at a very nice restaurants, and treated us to very nice cheese, dried fruits and pizza with wine. The subject itself was interesting, and…
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I am here at the library, about to start my analysis of Bartok’s "Concerto for Orchestra", and another doctorate students, a composer, who is always friendly comes up to me and asks what I am working on. He always smiles at me, and gives me a nice feeling, but we have never had a conversation.…
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My school until this May, The Colburn School in LA, is organizing a charity concert for Japan on Apr. 8, and I was invited. I do know a lot of people in the Japanese/Japanese-American community there, and my going there might mean a lot to them. And as long as I am there, I may…
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There are so many flowers blooming in Houston. TSUTSUJI, SAKURA, UME, everything is blooming all at once, and some of them smell shockingly good. I say "shockingly", and I mean it. Sometimes, I am working on a deadline, leaving the library after midnight, completely sleep-deprived. And then I pass these flowers, and the smell is…
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Everyone is worried. I am watching the news everyday. All of my teachers, even the ones I have never taken classes from, stop me in the hall way, and ask me if everyone I know in Japan is OK, and how sorry they are about what happened, and what is happening. I am talking to…
