Brown Bag Biography: Mari Yoshihara

October 24, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410

鈥淒earest Lenny: Letters from Japan and the Making of the World Maestro.鈥 Mari Yoshihara, Dept. of American Studies, 91精品黑料吃瓜 Manoa Cosponsored by the Departments of American Studies and Music at 91精品黑料吃瓜 Manoa.

Dearest Lenny聽interweaves the account of Leonard Bernstein鈥檚 transformation from an American celebrity to a world maestro with an intimate story of his relationships with two little-known Japanese individuals through personal correspondence. Mari will trace the contours of the book鈥檚 narrative, and discuss her research and writing process, from the discovery of the letters in the archives, to meeting the subjects in person, and negotiating their input and her objectives as a scholar and a writer.聽

Mari Yoshihara is Professor and Chair of American Studies at 91精品黑料吃瓜M and the editor of聽American Quarterly,聽the journal of the American Studies Association. Her publications include聽Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism聽(Oxford, 2003),聽Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music聽(Temple, 2007),聽Dearest Lenny: Letters from Japan and the Making of the World Maestro聽(Oxford, 2019), as well as a number of books and essays in Japanese for both academic and general audiences. She is an avid amateur pianist and performs and competes regularly.


Ticket Information
Free and Open to the Public

Event Sponsor
The Center for Biographical Research, the Department of American Studies, and the Department of Music, Mānoa Campus

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Janet Graham, (808) 956-3774, gabiog@hawaii.edu,

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