Musical Relay: RIP Seiji Ozawa (1935-2024)
Maestro Seiji Ozawa, who signed the program for me that day in 1991, passed on last week, on February 6th.
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Cinema Kabuki “Yugen”
Yugen means “deep and subtle mysteries of life and universe,” “fleeting yet significant meaning of everything,” and “thoughts/feelings/sentiments beyond words.”
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The Sun Always Rises
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”
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
“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.