Highlights from my past week+
I am so grateful for all the opportunities to perform and to present as Dr. Pianist, promoting the power of music to heal and unite us.
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An Afternoon of Music and Literature: Please Join!
On Saturday May 6th, at the Little Tokyo Library Branch in Downtown Los Angeles, I will be giving a presentation on works by the various members of the Koda family as a way to reconsider the very beginning of Westernization of Japan. Please come and join me!
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Practice in Honesty
Perhaps we, as artists, are to embody our human potentials that can come from wholehearted pursuits of things beyond our immediate biological and social needs.
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I am in the LA Times！
Quoted from the LA Times article “Hirata also sees the collective experience of music as a possible antidote to the short-sighted – and often selfish – tendencies that prevents from seeing the bigger climate picture.”
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What Stillness Nurtures.
This moment, our here and now together is a coincidence to be cherished, miracle to be appreciated, fate to be celebrated. And isn’t music the embodiment of our cherishing, appreciation and celebration?
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