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　６年ぶりにキュリー研で公開セミナーをさせてもらいました。ここに来るとなぜか我が家に戻ったような居心地の良さを感じます。やはり聖地です。 https://ads.curie.fr/msql/seminaires/affiche.html?uniqueid=20120127162425.15290&preview=F

Nanosonatas      In the summer of 2006 a young Japanese – actually Okinawan – friend of mine, Hideyuki Arata, a scientist and amateur pianist, sent me an article he had published in the American Journal of Applied Physics , at the end of which he gives me credit for ‘our valuable discussions on nanomolecular motors,’ together with a letter in which he informed me that my name would ‘now live forever in the annals of science.’       I thought I should send him something in exchange, so the idea of a ‘nanosonata,’ about two minutes long, technically somewhat demanding but not requiring a lot of practice, seemed right. I had a commission to write a new piece for Milton Schlosser in Edmonton, Alberta, and I liked the first nanosonata, so I thought that if I strung together, say, seven of them, it would fill the bill.       Then a second commission came along, from the Hanover Society for New Music, for the young pianist Igor Levit. By that time the first se

幼少期を沖縄で過ごしたピアニストAnne Kuさんのブログから。嬉しいの一言しかでない Rzewski was in Amsterdam for the premiere of his work “REEDS” for the Calefax reed quintet. He was also enthusiastic to share his nanosonatas. When asked about it, he told the story of his gift to the Okinawan scientist and amateur pianist Hideyuki Arata. As I spent 11 years of my childhood in Okinawa, I was naturally interested in anything remoted related to the island . This was just one of many stories and anecdotes he told — all very interesting and inspiring. https://concertblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/rzewski-calefax/

私は20代の一時期、キュリー研究所で働いていました。