1992 "S.T.2 Energy and Enthusiasm for "Love and Peace" to the World from Okinawa" Tadamitsu Saito concert

"S.T.2 Energy and Enthusiasm for "Love and Peace" to the World from Okinawa" Statement of purpose

History, without ever being completed or resolved for thousands of years, determines our course of life, and continues to live in the life of each individual today. All of the accumulated events of the past, through today, determine our future. Painfully, the history of mankind can be called the "History of Wars," since mankind has repeatedly torn at itself with wars.

Mr. Tadamitsu Saito, a Sociology and Social Welfare major, who continued his study and practiced welfare in society, suddenly unearthed an extraordinary ability and desire to play the piano improvisationally, at the age of 36, as a manifestation of his sensitivity to the world around him. This happened because history, etched in human life so deeply as not to be erased, responds to and communicates with Mr. Saito in his body. By expressing the state where this communication occurs through sound, he has found himself able to spontaneously create and then naturally lead people to restore dynamic energy in themselves. This, in turn, has led people to restore sensitivity to their environment, resolve the past histories and build an integrated and harmonious future for themselves.

The history and climate of each region greatly affects the sensitivity of the people who live there. We are sincerely convinced that "Hearts and Souls of Okinawa", continuously seeking and strenuously acting for Peace at all times whatever difficulties may lie ahead, will prove to be a motivating force to create a new peaceful era with no more war. The origin of this new movement will emanate from Okinawa.

It is our goal that "Hearts and Souls of Okinawa" will communicate and unite with "Hearts and Souls" all over the world, as we seek to act for global peace.

In this event, Mr. Saito will express the history dwelling in Okinawa and its inhabitants through 12 hours of organ and synthesizer improvisation. We, the members of the executive committee, intend to send our message "Energy and Enthusiasm for Love and Peace" to the world from Okinawa! We are motivated to make this concert not only an international, but a historic event that will change the emerging histories of people all over the world.

Following is the message from Captain Eugine A. Cernan, Commander, Apollo XVII to the S.T.2 Concert.

Greetings to everyone in Okinawa.

It is a privilege to share with you my feelings for “Peace”, as I saw it, in our universe on my flight to the moon, Apollo XVII.

Looking back at Earth from the moon was truly a memorable moment. Our star was like a jewel surrounded by infinite blackness. As many brilliant jewels are small, so looked the Earth as I stood staring in awe from a quarter million miles away.

Watching everything working together in harmony with such precise timing would be impossible without the help of a Supreme Being--the Creator of the universe. Should I have had the opportunity to stand on the moon beside each human being in the world today, I am sure they would quickly come to the same conclusion.

With a single glance, one can see from pole to pole and across the entirety of continents--from the deep blues of the Pacific, across the continents dominated by the white of snow and the clouds to the turquoise blues of the Caribbean. As Australia, Asia, then all of Europe came into view, you can’t tell where one country starts and the other one ends. “I saw the world without any borders, without any fighting, without any fear”--a world at peace with itself.

On this 20th Anniversary of Apollo XVII, man’s final footprints on the moon in our century, I send you all my very best wishes for “Peace.”