“I got a call in the middle of your practicing. After the call, the passage I’d been working on is suddenly playable…does that happen to you, too?” “Yes! Yes, often!!!” I remember my conversation from my student days from decades ago.
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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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I posit that you can put as much feelings into the words you pronounce as the feelings you put into the fingers on your instrument. That may be the key to transcending our barriers and gaps, lingual and others.
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Led by a disaster scientist, three groups of experts will cooperate on this project: physical scientists – who understand what actions are needed to mitigate the crisis; social scientists – who know which emotions encourage action; and musicians/creatives – who know how to invoke emotions. Our goal is to guide and mobilize the critical mass of world citizens to the right actions to mitigate and combat damages from climate change.
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2020-9 God: A Human History (2017) by Reza Aslan I listened to this book as an audio book in the car I picked this book up because I vaguely remembered hearing about it on NPR. I am not religious, nor is my native country. Although I did have casual association with Catholicism (my mom was
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