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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Music History
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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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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An Afternoon of Music and Literature: Please Join!
On Saturday May 6th, at the Little Tokyo Library Branch in Downtown Los Angeles, I will be giving a presentation on works by the various members of the Koda family as a way to reconsider the very beginning of Westernization of Japan. Please come and join me!
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The Cooperation as a Beautiful Necessity
One note alone is not music. But there are music that would not exist without that singular tone. Similarly, an individual cannot change this society, or its system. But many individuals combined have created this society and its trends, and now many individuals, including you and I, are creating our future.
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