KEIKO KOMA net

9 Apr. 2010

The Idaki Shin concert, a flower blooming in my heart

I have organized many concerts at today’s music hall since the early days of our activities over twenty five years and I had many memories. In today’s message by Mr. Idaki Shin he wrote about Hiroshima. I recalled that Hiroshima was the very first Idaki Shin concert I organized outside Tokyo. It was in spring like today and I went there carrying many tickets. While I walked all over the city, spontaneously I shed tears many times. As I listened to today’s sound of piano and pipe organ, I felt like listening to a requiem and sadness within my heart was nursed. My life was again liberated. People have been unconsciously obsessed with a fear of destructive nuclear powers as there were bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So today’s concert has indeed opened up a way to welcome a true spring in human history. At its internality, my soul trembled and screamed. Cherry blossom always made me sorrowful and my eyes tearful as it was beautiful but its petals too easily surrendered to winds. So when I read his message referring to cherry blossoms, I acknowledged a blooming of flowers in my mind. But this time with joy. I was grateful to Mr. Idaki Shin as I realized that he has always been fully receiving the sadness of humankind and opening up a new direction to overcome it and create a future of human beings.