Highlights from my past week+
I am so grateful for all the opportunities to perform and to present as Dr. Pianist, promoting the power of music to heal and unite us.
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My musical mission
I am in the LA TimesïŒ
Quoted from the LA Times article “Hirata also sees the collective experience of music as a possible antidote to the short-sighted – and often selfish – tendencies that prevents from seeing the bigger climate picture.”
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The Power of Music and Gershwin
Music gives voice to the voiceless, efficacy to the marginalized and a sense of belonging to the isolated and divided. Music is contagious. It propagates ideas and disseminates information. Music is vital. It shows us what we live for, and fight for. And perhaps most importantly, music creates resonance out of our diversity, empowering us in our interconnectedness. Â
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To Cast A Light as a Pianist
Perhaps the role of arts is to shed light onto these small, dark rooms. The light may be dim. It may only last for a split second. It may shine from strange angles creating shadows that obscure the objects. But it can trigger our imagination, renew our perspectives, making us feel feelings we would not have known otherwise.
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The Precious Things you can’t Count.
Some say music is the art of time. Maybe that’s why I often think it futile to try to measure time.
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