2020-1 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg (2012), Random House Trade. I am reading not only for the content, but to deepen my awareness of the art of writing. This book was on the best seller list for The New York Times, Amazon.com, and […]
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Happy New Year to my readers! To celebrate the arrival of this new year in my own way, let me announce the recital program I will be touring with this year. Entitled “Musical Bridge: The Old World & The New World // Beethoven & Gershwin.” Please contact me if you are interested in booking this
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2019 was a year of transformation for me. I even look a bit different. I am now claiming my authority on my own story and music, taking charge of my life. As “Dr. Pianist” promoting music as a healing agent… My workshop “Team-building and Leadership with Music” launched this year. I started giving lecture presentations
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With a suggestion from a brilliant editor to consider re-framing my book as a prescriptive nonfiction, I started reading many that seemed informative in the process. I remembered the controversy around Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (2011), but it was only one of the seven books I picked up from the
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on December 19, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. 「All’s well that ends well」is a title to Shakespeare’s play, but it’s used like an idiom especially around this time of the year. One of the special things about being
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