Author, Researcher and Lecturer with a Passion for History, Music and Japan
As described in my previous blog, The Suzuki String Quartet and Kate I. Hansen’s Slesvig, the first performance of the entire quartet, Slesvig (or “Schlesvig”, as Hansen spells the title), took place on 11 June 1932, at Miyagi College in Sendai. Hansen had taught at the college since 1907 and…
The other day, during a discussion of my teaching, a colleague in religious studies said to me, ‘well a course on music in Japan is too specialized’, or something to that effect. WHY, I ask, should music ‘specialized’ than, for example, religion? I would contend that, on the whole, most…
My research often leads me in unexpected directions My interest in Kate Ingeborg Hansen (1879-1968) was aroused when I started researching musical life in 19th– and early 20th century Sendai. Hansen, a native of Kansas, came to Sendai in September 1907 as a missionary, together with Lydia Almira Lindsey (1880-1971)….