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The Sun Always Rises

2 Comments / Nikkan San "The Way of the Pianist" / Makiko Hirata

I can keep myself in an optimal shape to be for when I am called to help.

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The Idealized, and Idolized, “Maestro”

Music History, Writing a book / Makiko Hirata

If we were to think of “Maestro” as a cost-benefit analysis of the pedestals we so eagerly kept occupied with generations of cultural icons, Felicia’s marriage to the “Maestro” becomes symbolic of the price to those in the supporting roles.

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Human Rights Day

Musical Activism, My musical mission, Nikkan San "The Way of the Pianist" / Makiko Hirata

“Treat others the way you want to be treated,” didn’t our teachers tell us? The first mention of the Golden Rule we know of today apparently is in hieroglyphics from around 2,000BC from ancient Egypt. We have records of the same idea uttered by philosophers and moralists and spiritual leaders from all over the world across time, space and cultures.

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If you want to go far, go together.

1 Comment / Life of a Pianist, Nikkan San "The Way of the Pianist", Writing a book / Makiko Hirata

There are days now, where I write like I used to practice.

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Playing the Piano is a One-Woman Play

1 Comment / Healing Power of Music, Life of a Pianist, Nikkan San "The Way of the Pianist", Writing a book / Makiko Hirata

Whether it be writing or piano-playing, my responsibility as the content generator is not to each and every character or the melody, but to the overall story-telling and the music, to the readers and the listeners, and ultimately to myself, and my perspective.

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