This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on December 5, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. Have you ever heard of a concept called “Music of the Spheres,” a.k.a. ”Harmony of the Spheres”？              In ancient Greece, they thought that everything that moves generates sound. Planets move, […]
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on November 21, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. I attended two wonderful conferences earlier this month: On Nov 4th, US-Japan Council Tenth Annual Conference in Hollywood, and then on Nov. 7th, the sixth annual “Women’s Leadership Counts” conference
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on November 7, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. I visited the Kingdom of Bhutan, a Tibetan Buddhist country in South Asia. I’ve been curious about the country whose government’s guiding philosophy policy is GNH, Gross National Happiness: not
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on October 17, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. As a Japanese-born US resident, and a Japanese classical musician, I always saw a part of my role as a that of a cultural ambassador. It was not until 2011,
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on October 3, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. 「Change happens by listening…」said Jane Goodall, famous for her groundbreaking studies of primates by having lived among them since the 1950’s. Goodall stood alongside Greta Thunberg (16) of Sweden and