Our Freedom of Expression and Humanity
Project 2025 blurs the line that separates church and state, making social participation difficult for anyone outside of this belief system.
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Music History
Piano and the Age of Revolution
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
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Butterfly’s Choice
Behind the popularity of this opera must be the universal acknowledgement of age-old inequality between the colonialists and their local wives, and the countless tragedies they bore. In addition, there is the colonialist association of masculinity to the West and femininity to the East that suited perfectly to Madam Butterfly’s story.
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Texts to be Heard, Music to be Read.
Literacy shifted our priorities from our own senses and experiences to our intellect and understanding, and from our nature as social animals to individualism.
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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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