I encountered this book in the midst of my soul searching. What are the contributions I can make to this world as a musician? What is the role of art in the world? What is the meaning, and the historical background, behind a Japanese woman like me specializing in Western classical instrument? One of the […]
This is a review of a Japanese book co-authored by Mariko Yoshihara-Yang, Ph.D. and Rie Kijima, Ph,D., titled “世界を変えるSTEAM人材：シリコンバレー「デザイン思考」の核心,” published by Asahi Shinsho on January 30, 2019. It is a simple, and an important book, committed to getting right to the heart of its subject: STEAM educations and personalities. What makes it a page-turner is
This is a memoir by the oldest daughter of Leonard Bernstein, a legendary conductor/composer/music lecturer/pianist. It is his centennial this year. Just about every major orchestra and concert series throughout the world is celebrating his legacy with programs featuring his works. Appropriately, the memoir also came out this summer, along with many books and articles
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I have read another book on anxiety and was completely absorbed by it. The history, literature and science of anxiety is absolutely fascinating. <br /> The author, Scott Stossel does a great job of navigating the readers through these web of information, threading them with his own personal history of anxiety that can be traced
What can I do for the world, and its problems and sufferings, as a classical musician? I’ve been reading many books in my quest. I just finished “Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land” by Sandy Tolan (https://www.amazon.com/Children-Stone-Power-Mu…/…/1608198138). It is a nonfiction about a Palestinian violist, Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, and
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