Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!! 2017 was an important year of milestones, and new beginnings for me. With the love, help, and support of many people, I finished my Doctoral Thesis “To See Music in your Mind’s Eye: The Genesis of Memorization as a Piano Performance Practice” and graduated Rice University with my Doctorate […]
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What can I do for the world, and its problems and sufferings, as a classical musician? I’ve been reading many books in my quest. I just finished “Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land” by Sandy Tolan (https://www.amazon.com/Children-Stone-Power-Mu…/…/1608198138). It is a nonfiction about a Palestinian violist, Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, and
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It’s been around for a while. Most famously, Hilary Hahn took on the challenge. You commit yourself to making a video of yourself practicing for 100 days, and sending it out to the internet world. I decided to do this, partially because I met (virtually) a piano-lover, who’s been teaching himself how to play by
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I have amazing gift givers around me. They give me such thoughtful gifts that the thoughts behind the gift makes me tear up, as much as the usually-much-needed-gifts themselves. One such friend, my duo-partner, clarinetist Maiko Sasaki (with whom I co-founded ensemble MATIMA: http://matima.org/), gave me a page-turning pedal one year for my birthday. If
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The book was published twenty years ago, and I can see how it remained a best seller for seven years: it is easy to read, convincing, and effective in communicating its points. My father was the first one to recommend it to me many years ago. Then an old friend recommended it to me, recently.
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