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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Healing Power of Music
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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Global Music Diplomacy
Especially now, when the news about conflicts and disasters add to our anxiety about our future uncertainties, we need to harness the power of music, and deploy musicians at reenforcing our human bond.
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Listening to “Oppenheimer”
As a Japanese diaspora and a granddaughter of a hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor), I went to the theater with a certain sense of obligation.
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The Sound of Silence
Perhaps the sounds that give us the most satisfying sense of peace is the sounds of music, I’ve come to think these days. No matter what is going on in the outside world, in the time and space we cherish music together, we belong, at peace.
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