Meditation in Greece
I am realizing the things you start to see only when you pause, and hearing the sounds you can hear only when you are silent.
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Healing Power of Music
Why Music？
I want my audience members to know how powerful their presence is, how they effect my playing; how it is not a one-way presentation, but such an exchange.
Emotions and Memory
Amygdala, the part of our brain that deals with pleasures/displeasure, emotions and survival instinct is next to hippocampus, another part of our brain that processes input into memories. One of the factors that hippocampus uses to decide whether to retain or discard an input by is signals from amygdala.
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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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Playing the Piano is a One-Woman Play
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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