Blog - Page 43 of 48 - "Dr. Pianist" Makiko Hirata DMA

A Panel Discussion at ArtsAhimsa “Healing the World through Music and Art”

Last week, I was here: Belvoir Terrace in Lenox, MA. It is exactly the type of castle where I imagined my favorite princesses to live in, when I was a child. It is also the home to ArtsAhimsa Chamber Music Festival. (http://www.artsahimsa.org/events/fest/index.htm) It was my third year returning there as a faculty member. Each year, I […]

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US-Japan Leadership Program

USJLP / Makiko Hirata

I left home on July 28th to Seattle to participate in the US-Japan Leadership Porgram as a second-year delegate. http://usjlp.org/ I came home on Aug. 4th as a Scott M. Johnson Fellow – a lifelong member to the community of graduates from the program. The community consists of leaders from various areas such as media, academia, politics,

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The Importance of #MeToo to me.

stage fright / Makiko Hirata

What I want is a society where everyone can fulfill his/her potential. By sharing my own stories of #MeToo, I wish to contribute one small step toward that ideal. Judgements based on gender, sexual orientation, the way we look, and our sexual desirability often make us undermine our confidence and abilities. I suffered from debilitating

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Musical Doctor’s Helpful Practice: Survey Results Announced!

My musical mission / Makiko Hirata

As many of you know, I am on a mission to promote music as a healing agent in this world. I want to use my music to promote empathy and harmony in this divisive world through offering experiences of communal appreciation music. Music helps us realize how we share our time and space, and what

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Book Review: My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel (2013)

Reading / Makiko Hirata

I have read another book on anxiety and was completely absorbed by it. The history, literature and science of anxiety is absolutely fascinating. <br /> The author, Scott Stossel does a great job of navigating the readers through these web of information, threading them with his own personal history of anxiety that can be traced

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