Robert well, take a critically acclaimed pianist who raised a child prodigy, then they decided to combine their talents to entertain and save the world, and youve got the motherson duo, two piano journey. With me right now is the mom, michelle kuo, and son, christopher kuo, who will be playing a benefit concert in San Francisco, april 13, to help wu yee Childrens Services. Welcome to the show. We were talking a little bit earlier. It was so enjoyable talking to you guys, musicians. Give me an idea though, first of all, in terms of this benefit concert tour, what youre doing and why youre doing it. Michelle kuo we are doing this because we love the music, and music is our whole life, and we are so happy and blessed to be able to use our talent of music to help trobert oh, wow. P the nonproi tell you what. We have a little bit of a clip to see a show, so lets go ahead and play that, and then well talk after that, okay. [audience applauding] robert wonderful, i thought i was watching a ho
community, including growing up asian in america, we wrap up our show with wu yee children s services celebrating its 40th year as it helps chinese immigrants, especially in china town. all that on our show today. well, we have prided ourselves in presenting the contributions of japanese-americans during world war ii, and today we get to talk about an effort to make their history a part of the literary landscape in a big way. joining me to talk about the coffee book, the go for broke spirit: portraits of courage are robert horsting, the oral historian and co-author, and photographer and co-author shane sato. welcome to the show. robert horsting: thank you for having us. robert handa: great to have both of you here. well, give me an idea. first of all, we were talking a little bit earlier about, you know, the idea of this, and how it got started, and your collaboration. give us an idea in terms of the origins of this book, and how you guys ended up collaborating. go ahead, r