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  The Pigeon of  Peace in flight from the Cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park In its quest for historic 'drama' and despite numerous prestigious cinema awards, the film inexplicably (and for me unforgivably), even arrogantly, entirely neglects the horrifying and continuing effects of the nuclear bomb on the hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.   The 'Music for Peace'  Project arose from this cataclysm  and also my essay:  Hiroshima, Warsaw and Chopin - The glorious rebirth of two cities   Below is my reminiscence of my visit to Hiroshima I suggest you read this and come to a more balanced and universally human view of the brutal continuing effects of the bomb This evening I have just arrived in Hiroshima in Japan from Warsaw on  this is my first visit to the country . Such a long and tiring journey from Poland but worth every minute given the humanist aim. I intend to keep a daily internet...

The young Maurizio Pollini The indiscriminate power of Nature has now claimed the soul of Maurizio Pollini, one of the greatest of legendary pianists. He accompanied me in sublime Chopin all my adult life in London and through Bach and innumerable piano compositions leading ultimately to the more inaccessible end of the music spectrum, the piano compositions of Arnold Schoenberg, Boulez, Nono, Stockhausen ….. Glorious, uplifting musical memories overwhelm me at this fraught time in world history  Sublime creation lies here, not destruction At such moments as these, one is forced to think of the fragility yet ungovernable strength of life and musical art. So much forces one to listen to music overshadowed by the constant news of brutal  deaths and human suffering, particularly of children, that we receive each and every day Such a rocky spiritual Everest we are forced to climb just now  More emotion than I can express in mere words…. Thank God Pollini left us ineradi...