This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on March 19, 2020, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. We promise our partners to love and cherish each other “in sickness and in health” when we get married. Weddings, funerals, graduations…at all of these ceremonies that mark the the […]
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on March 5, 2020, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. The threat of Coronavirus has been disruptive. Around the globe, schools have been closed, stock market has plummeted, and events are being cancelled. In the meantime, a letter from a
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on Feb 6, 2020, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. I bet at some point you secretly wondered why there were so many different pianists playing the same piece. If the piece is the same, aren’t the end results the
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on December 19, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. Did you know that an anagram of the word “listen” is “silent”? The discovery made me ponder on the fact how, we cannot generate and receive information through sound at
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on December 5, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. Have you ever heard of a concept called “Music of the Spheres,” a.k.a. ”Harmony of the Spheres”？              In ancient Greece, they thought that everything that moves generates sound. Planets move,
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