As many of you know, I am on a mission to promote music as a healing agent in this world. I want to use my music to promote empathy and harmony in this divisive world through offering experiences of communal appreciation music. Music helps us realize how we share our time and space, and what […]
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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
Now that I am working on a book of my own, I read books very differently. When I first learned of this book, I was alarmed that there was already a book out there I was going to write. I was relieved to find out that Sara Solovitch decided not to pursue the piano as
What made Makiko stick to the piano? Why did she never quit? I have been writing a book, “Finding MY Music: A Pianist’s Journey,” about my fifteen-year battle with stage fright, sterotypes and sexual harassment as a young Japanese professional pianist, navigating through the American classical music industry. Because I am writing about the difficulties I
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