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.
Nikkan San “The Way of the Pianist”
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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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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Cinema Kabuki “Yugen”
Yugen means “deep and subtle mysteries of life and universe,” “fleeting yet significant meaning of everything,” and “thoughts/feelings/sentiments beyond words.”
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