Nikkan San “The Way of the Pianist”

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“But I feel like I have been with you all throughout these months, because I was always listening to your CDs!” My friend’s words said struck me. To me, my CDs had been recorded years ago. But maybe recorded music can be like Mom’s cooking in the freezer. Defrosting and eating it brings back not just memories, but her love. That realization really moved me. It also renewed my resolved to be the best musician that I can be at all times.

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Embracing Challenges

Nikkan San "The Way of the Pianist", On-Call Musical Doctor: Music Heals /

I have been practicing all twenty-four Chopin Etudes, as well as the twenty-four Preludes and Fugues in J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book I. Simply put, Chopin is a physical challenge, and Bach mental. Working on technical and mental difficulties at the piano everyday, I gain perspective and insights into the challenges we are facing in this world.

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Pat Yourselves on the Back!

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In the Middle Ages, when few people were literate, they still needed to record events, such as marriage and negotiations between powerful families, etc. According to neurobiologist Dr. James L. McGrough, they would take a child of about seven years of age to such events. They would have these children observe the event, and then throw the child into a river. This becomes a trauma, cementing the memory of events leading up to the trauma.

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