Author, Researcher and Lecturer with a Passion for History, Music and Japan
The December 2013 issue (Vol.10.2) of Nineteenth-Century Music Review is devoted to music in Japan. I guest edited it and wrote the introduction (pp. 211-22). It contains four articles (pp. 223-321), published for the first time: Yasuko Tsukahara (Professor of Japanese Music History at Tokyo University of the Arts): “State…
Today is the third anniversary of the North-Eastern Japan earthquake and tsunami. Last year in Tokyo one could get the impression that it is past history, but along the Sanriku coast recovery is slow and the disaster is still very much present. 3/11 sparked off what I suspect was a…
Towards the end of my stay in Tokyo last year, I visited the Café Le Violon in Asagaya. I learnt about the Café Le Violon through a youtube video. The description said that the recording from the original SP had been made at the Violon. It may have been this…