Writing a book

Can I Afford to Publish my Book?

2 Comments / Writing a book / Makiko Hirata

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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