tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post2050743340171034508..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: The toast of national leadersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-82180548597411040372010-01-21T19:58:29.801+00:002010-01-21T19:58:29.801+00:00Garth has sent through a better link to the Kronos...Garth has sent through a better link to the Kronos, Tan Dun, Wu Man/David Harrington/Chen Shi-Zheng works -<br /><br />http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2009/c/engage09/e10-kronos2<br /><br />I would also point out that I am out on a limb in questioning the efficacy of compromise with China. H.H. the Dalai Lama himself advocates compromise with the Chinese over Tibet, something that has increasingly frustrated some of his followers.<br /><br />http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2191382.htmPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-77354000716848953122010-01-21T19:18:15.231+00:002010-01-21T19:18:15.231+00:00Garth, compromise seems to be the mantra for anyth...Garth, compromise seems to be the mantra for anything connected with China and the performing arts. <br /><br />Tibet alone is enough to prove that compromise is playing into the hands of a Chinese government that has made little progress in human rights, but there are so many other examples.<br /><br />Things must be bad, even Google has got the message -<br /><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8455712.stm <br /><br />Surely there is an alternative to the so-called cultural diplomacy practiced so zealously by the creative community inside and outside China?Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-73527208919637825662010-01-21T18:49:56.146+00:002010-01-21T18:49:56.146+00:00“And talking of human rights, where is the Chinese...“And talking of human rights, where is the Chinese Shostakovich?”<br /><br />I could be wrong, but I don’t believe that the strictly Western orchestral sociologies were comparable in pre-Cultural Revolution China (and pre- and post - WWII Japan, for that matter). (Shostakovich died in 1975 at about the time of the height of the Chinese 'Cultural Revolution' terror.)<br /><br />Also note (you may have already done so) the lastest project of one of several U.S.- based younger Chinese composers:<br /><br />http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2009/c/engage09/e10-kronos2?utm_source=washington%2Bpost&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=doug%2Bvarone%20%26%20kronos&utm_campaign=Spring%2B2010%20Digital%20AdsGarth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com