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My Book “Why Piano Now?” Overview

“Why Piano Now” re-introduces piano playing as a practice to explore one’s mind, senses and context. The book surveys history, and the latest scientific findings on the benefit of music, while putting the search in the context of the author’s personal journey for her authenticity and authority as a Japanese classical pianist, grappling with its historical cultural imperialism. The prescriptive nonfiction, with supplemental audio/visual recordings, calls for a revolution in the way music is taught, used and practiced, today.

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Can I Afford to Publish my Book?

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The working title of my book is “Why Piano Now?: How it Hurts, and How it Heals.” Loosely based on my dissertation, “To See Music in Your Mind’s Eye: The Genesis of Memorization as a Piano Performance Practice” (2017), the book sheds light on some of the dark side of the history of Western classical

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Writing a Book on Stage Fright

Writing a book / Makiko Hirata

So, in the midst of my practising, and uploading my daily 100-day Practice Challenge videos, and tidying up the details for my Feb. 3 concert coming up at the Asia Society Texas Center, writing tons of emails, and going to concerts, and networking, and thinking about my future, and sometimes getting nervous, I am writing

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