How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE May 31, 2000

Musical festivals

by Jean Pearce

It's time again for the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto. The first was held nine years ago when many outstanding Japanese musicians gathered together, as they have every year since, to honor their teacher, Hideo Saito, with a combined musical performance. This year's program will ...

How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE May 28, 2000

Only yesterday

by Jean Pearce

Sometimes this column is credited with far more than it can do. It cannot turn back the calendar to long gone days and bring back the past, except to present it in the form that whatever-it-was has now assumed. Take, for example, traditional Japanese ...